Futurama Mafia [SIGN-UP THREAD]

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This game is based on Futurama, a sci-fi cartoon created by the same guys who made that one show with yellow people¹. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.

Knowledge of the series or characters is by no means required to play the game, but you should watch the show because it's awesome and hilarious and award-winning.

¹Which sounds oddly racist when taken out of context.

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Professor Farnsworth: "Who else has a question for the What-If Machine? Scruffy? Fry?"

Fry: "Um, I have a question. What if Bender was really giant?"

Leela: "You idiot, we already saw that."

Fry: "I know. I liked it. I wanna see it again."

Professor Farnsworth: "We're not seeing it again! Ask something less stupid."

Fry: "Oh, alright, how about this? What if some people gathered together for a mafia jiggy?"

Professor Farnsworth: "That question is less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way."

The Professor turns towards the What-If Machine.

Professor Farnsworth: "What if a moderately large number of people gathered together in a manner conducive to a mafia game?"

Now that's a clear-cut situation with the promise of a good time! Tell your friends.

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You must read these rules before playing.

Even if your ass is shiny and metal.

Setup

~ The Town fights to keep the status quo in New New York. They seek to eliminate the mafia and any hostile third-parties. (Note - there may or may not be more than one town-aligned faction, though there will only be one main "Town" faction.) A sample townie Role PM is shown below:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

character quote


[img]character picture[/img]


character name

Player: name

Role: name (http://theinfosphere.org/name)

Faction: TOWN


Team Victory Conditions:

The Town achieves victory based on its ability to achieve the goals listed below.

- The Mafia are eliminated.

- All hostile Third-Parties are eliminated.

- At least one member of the Town survives the game.


Abilities:

Vanilla. You may continue to post in the game thread after your death. More details will come if/when you die.


Rule Reminders:

- No private communication of any kind!

- Do not edit your posts!

- You ARE allowed to publicly quote your Role PM. If you choose to do so, remove the quote tags and instead post it inside spoiler tags (for ease of reading).

- However, you cannot quote any other private communications with me. Anything else I communicate to you in private must be paraphrased and not directly quoted.

Have fun! :2thumbsup:

~ The Mafia are mustache-twirling villains who seek to rule New New York. They must eliminate the town and any hostile third-parties.

~ There may or may not be Third-Party factions in the game. This may take the form of additional mafia teams, serial killers, or something else. They win by eliminating the town, mafia, and any other hostile third-parties.

~ There may or may not be Neutral factions in the game. Neutral parties have their own goals. They are not a threat to mafia, town, or third-party victories.

~ There may or may not be factions which do not exactly fit into any of the above categories.

~ This game features special abilities and unique characters. Most players will be vanilla. There are no jesters, cults, or lynch-resistant roles.

~ You cannot brute force the game using a spreadsheet, mass role reveal, or your knowledge of the universe. Roles have solid cover PMs where appropriate.

~ Character name and faction will be immediately revealed when a player dies.


Posting and Communication

~ Posting is allowed during both the Day and Night phases.

~ You are allowed to post your Role PM in the thread. Mafia have good cover roles, so these prove nothing. Please spoiler it and remove the quote tags if you choose to do so.

~ Private communication with other players is forbidden, unless I explicitly tell you otherwise. You cannot privately talk about the game to living players, dead players, or people who are not in the game. This includes private messages, QuickTopics, instant messaging, and so on. The only person you can talk to about the game privately is me, or your fellow players in a host-created QuickTopic I give you access to.

~ Do not edit your posts for any reason. If you edit a post containing a vote, that vote will be rendered invalid.

~ Do not quote any private communications or post any QuickTopic links in the public game thread. Do not directly quote anything I say to you in private (with the exception of your Role PM). This also applies to screenshots.

~ Dead vanilla townies can keep posting in the thread. Any other dead players cannot.

~ You are expected to vote each day, and post at least once - more is preferred, but that is the absolute minimum. If you fail to meet those requirements, I reserve the right to remove you from the game (via substitution or modkill). Do not talk about substitutions or modkills in the thread.


Day and Night

~ Day is typically around 48 hours (always at least 40), and Night is usually about 24 hours (always at least 20).

~ There are no abilities which affect deadlines.

~ Phases may be extended for whatever reason, but they will never end prematurely.

~ A timer showing the exact amount of time remaining in the phase will be provided at each phase update and with each posted tally.

~ Vote tallies will be posted frequently throughout the Day. Players are free to make and post their own tallies, but I will not use them and they should be taken with a grain of salt.

~ During the Day, players vote for each other (e.g. Vote: Zack). Vote tags are mandatory, a simple bolding will not suffice. Unvoting is not required - simply make a new vote. Voting for No Lynch is allowed. Abstaining is not allowed at any time.

~ There may or may not be abilities which can be used during the Day phase.

~ During the Night phase, players send in night actions if they have an ability which requires one. Night action feedback will be minimal, and you may not always receive a PM from me.

I think that covers it. If you have any questions, CTRL+F the rules first, then ask me.

RESERVES NEEDED!


Meatbags

1. El Barto
2. Choxorn
3. Al Sipsclar
4. atheotes
5. Winston Hughes
6. BSmith
7. GeneralHankerchief
8. Montmorency
9. johnhughthom
10. seireikhaan
11. Riedquat
12. Cuthillius
13. novice
14. Pelican
15. CrimsonFox
16. Newyn
17. Murska
18. Askthepizzaguy
19. Visor
20. spaceman98
21. Stork
22. Dp101

@GeneralHankerchief @Visor @seireikhaan

you guys indicated interest in the gah thread from february :tongue:

Good news, everyone! I am phirst in this thread!

Bite my shiny daffodil a- (planet explodes)

This is it. The moment we should have trained for.

Wait, I'm having one of those things...a headache, with pictures!

Limited availability, but I can't resist. Count me in.

count me in

Scruffy volunteers.

Ok.

https://67.media.tumblr.com/b7d612e7...fuuio1_400.gif

Indeed.

:charge:

:yes: In!

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Originally Posted by Zack

If there's an overwhelming amount of interest, I can adjust the game to go above 30.

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:laugh4:

I'll probably just change this to be a fairly basic 13er or something. I'll keep the Futurama theme of course.

If you do such a thing I'll never forgive you.

In as Doctor.

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Originally Posted by Zack

I'll probably just change this to be a fairly basic 13er or something. I'll keep the Futurama theme of course.

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Needs moar advertising.

Advertising works. I'm in, if you'll accept forum newbies.

Welcome, novice. :bow:

Are you intending to keep up the pretence that you've never played before and have no idea what you're doing? If so, I'll happily play along.

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Originally Posted by Winston Hughes

Welcome, novice. :bow:

Are you intending to keep up the pretence that you've never played before and have no idea what you're doing? If so, I'll happily play along.

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It's just the first part that's a pretence, I expect the meta here to differ from what I'm used to. :)

I'll join because apparently I really want to fall behind in my classes this semester.:2thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Winston Hughes

Needs moar advertising.

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Thanks for the help. I've posted ads at pretty much every site I'm registered to by this point. :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by novice

It's just the first part that's a pretence, I expect the meta here to differ from what I'm used to. :)

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The meta here is...

Hmm...

Anyone help me on this? :sweatdrop:

I am always mafia, Winston and johnhughthom are usually masons, Visorslash is always targetted on N1, Atpg is best lynched on D1 so that you can later claim credit for an atpg-less win, Riedquat has always wanted to change his username to kumquat, Zack is always neutral survivor and claims by D1.

yeah get me in this shit meatbag!

I love stealin I love takin things!

incidently when i registered it made me click a button that read "I am not a robot."

My mind read it in fry's voice

WURNSTROM!

hey redd! why you cowerin'? I just hafta practice my stabbin motion.

WAHAAAAAAAA! AAAAYAHHHH!

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Originally Posted by Winston Hughes

The meta here is...

Hmm...

Anyone help me on this? :sweatdrop:

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"In transition" might work well here.

Hi, it's my first game. Please go easy one me.

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Originally Posted by Newyn

Hi, it's my first game. Please go easy one me.

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Likewise.

So many new and inexperienced players joining. :yes:

Yeah, it's good to educate them, we've never played with them before.

Oh, nice. Finally, I can pull rank on somebody here.

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Originally Posted by Cuthillius

So many new and inexperienced players joining. :yes:

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I am guessing they are just new here and not really inexperienced. :bow:

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Originally Posted by atheotes

I am guessing they are just new here and not really inexperienced. :bow:

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Dear God, man... You mean to say that they're lying?

I demand that the authorities conduct at once a full investigation of this shocking claim, lest it begin to erode confidence in the spirit of trust and honesty upon which our noble enterprise here is founded.

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Originally Posted by Winston Hughes

Dear God, man... You mean to say that they're lying?

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In a game of mafia? Never. Unthinkable.

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Originally Posted by Winston Hughes

I demand that the authorities conduct at once a full investigation of this shocking claim, lest it begin to erode confidence in the spirit of trust and honesty upon which our noble enterprise here is founded.

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Your winnings, sir.

I'm willing to be a worthless meatbag in this game.

@TheFlax

are you in visor?

in...

aight.

...clamps...clamps...clamps...

lookit all the migrants from the great big elsewhere.

Dem's takin' er jerbs!

Game has been in signups for a little over a week now. Sign-ups are probably about dried up, and I've re-designed the game for 21 players, but I can still take new sign-ups. Subs would also be nice.

Going to start putting all the Role PMs together, game might start this weekend.

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Originally Posted by Zack

Game has been in signups for a little over a week now. Sign-ups are probably about dried up, and I've re-designed the game for 21 players, but I can still take new sign-ups. Subs would also be nice.

Going to start putting all the Role PMs together, game might start this weekend.

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Needs moar advertising.

Don't let me down, Dp101...

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Originally Posted by Winston Hughes

Don't let me down, Dp101...

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Don't worry, I'm right here. I will play in this.

I thought we'd agreed each not to let our issue join games until they were old enough…?

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Originally Posted by Dp101

Don't worry, I'm right here. I will play in this.

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:bow:

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Originally Posted by El Barto

I thought we'd agreed each not to let our issue join games until they were old enough…?

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The idea that you might have issue keeps me awake at night.

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Originally Posted by El Barto

I thought we'd agreed each not to let our issue join games until they were old enough…?

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Sorry, I don't understand what you wrote at all. Is the issue the account age?

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Originally Posted by Dp101

Sorry, I don't understand what you wrote at all. Is the issue the account age?

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Just ignore him.

Stopping sign-ups there. Would rather the next few, if any, be subs.

Will rand and send out Role PMs sometime tomorrow, then start the game on Sunday.

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Originally Posted by Winston Hughes

The idea that you might have issue keeps me awake at night.

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Hope is quite the anti-sleep, isn't it?

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Originally Posted by Zack

Stopping sign-ups there. Would rather the next few, if any, be subs.

Will rand and send out Role PMs sometime tomorrow, then start the game on Sunday.

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And on Saturday…?

We can start Saturday if everyone (or nearly everyone) has read their Role PM by that point.

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Originally Posted by Dp101

Sorry, I don't understand what you wrote at all.

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This is entirely natural.

They broke the mould when they invented El Barto (then threw what remained down a mineshaft, covered it in a thousand tons of concrete, and murdered everyone who knew the location).

We mainly just keep him around as a reminder that however bad things gets, it could always be worse.

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Originally Posted by Zack

We can start Saturday if everyone (or nearly everyone) has read their Role PM by that point.

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I'd prefer Sunday. Going to be out of town for the weekend until Sunday evening (US time).

Sending out Role PMs now. Do not discuss whether or not you have received one, when you received one, etc.

Game will start Sunday.

Role PMs have all been sent out. PM me with any questions you might have.

I included read receipts that let me know when you've seen your Role PM, so no need to message me to confirm or anything.

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Originally Posted by Zack

We can start Saturday if everyone (or nearly everyone) has read their Role PM by that point.

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I am part of this everyone you mention but haven't read everyone's Rôle PM by this point.

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Originally Posted by Winston Hughes

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Originally Posted by Dp101

Sorry, I don't understand what you wrote at all.

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This is entirely natural.

They broke the mould when they invented El Barto (then threw what remained down a mineshaft, covered it in a thousand tons of concrete, and murdered everyone who knew the location).

We mainly just keep him around as a reminder that however bad things gets, it could always be worse.

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Yep. You could get to Double A level.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

I'd prefer Sunday. Going to be out of town for the weekend until Sunday evening (US time).

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Which US time?

its sunday soab

Aye. Where's our game, meatbag?

Edit: vote: Visorslash for posting from a cellphone.

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Originally Posted by El Barto

Aye. Where's our game, meatbag?

Edit: vote: Visorslash for posting from a cellphone.

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Vote: El Barto for editing a post without editing it at all, that is suspicious, and also for being here at 3 am our time :P