Mafia FAQ and synopsis of previous games

[Askthepizzaguy]

To be honest, whichever is more convenient for you. It's such a small matter that it doesn't matter.

I like the title of the game itself being the link.

[Quintus.JC]

Here is some of my take on a few of the small games I've played in the past, I didn't have much time so I might do a few more when I get back.

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Giraffe Conspiracy:
Notable happenings: Relative low activity from the town during the early and mid game certainly didn’t help much and the mafia went further in quite easily. However some fierce debates were triggered in the final round, with the four living players each hurling accusations at each other. Woad&Fangs did very well to get an extension but eventually the experience of Andres and the resilience of Sarathos did him in. Game is notable for Beefy’s hilarious final write-up.

Soviet Mafia:
Notable happenings: The aspiring dictators played very little part in the course of the game, with the town having even less idea about the identity of the mafia. Pever figured it out in the final round, but he was dead and his effort was wasted, further inactivity from the final townies meant that the mafia was able to secure an easy victory.

Mini Simpsons Mafia:
Notable happenings: The first of the Simpsons franchise, ATPG did very well bring America’s favourite family to the big screens. Role playing and lots of Simpsons reference was used in the game, plus lots of early enthusiasm. On the first day EliteFerret staggeringly blindly/intuitively guessed that Burns and Smithers were the mafia, although this came to no avail as everyone dismissed it as any other guess on Day 1. The Day 1 lynchee was the unfortunate Beefy (Hans Moleman), who had the ability of lynch immunity; the majority of the town however didn’t believe him and lynched him a second time just to make sure, which wasted the town 2 votes. Mafia Ferning (Burns) faced some early pressure, but faked his own assassination, his daring attempt paid off when the heat gradually begin to cool off. The game gradually descended into confusion as every character alive had either an alibi, evidence or ability that puts them in the clear. Eventually the fate of the town rested in the heavenly hands of religious vigilante Quintus. JC (Flanders), who despite killing Burns in the final round, the town lost to the resurgent turn-coat Craterus (Smithers) who turned mafia after the death of its master, Monty Burns. Very memorable game for all who played.

The Proscription:
Notable happenings: Set in the era of the late Roman Republic, the town effort was cut short when AP (detective) was lynched on Day 1. FactionHeir later built up a nice case by using the logon times of each player to dramatically narrow down the suspects, but this was rebuffed by the fact that there were two mafias in the game. Town was furthered puzzled by the odd choices the mafia were making, the mafia were eliminating inactive players who posed no threat. Eventually the town came on the verge of winning after collectively discovering the power of the host’s PM, mafia Quintus was lynched unanimously after failing the PM test. However due to unfortunate events EF was able to snatch victory for mafia against the brilliant leadership of FH on the last day.

Starship Exodus:
Notable happenings: Experimental game hosted by the great selfless townie Shlin. There were plenty of fun and confusion, with some underground alliances and pacts between players. The game became a murderless mafia victory, with the town lynching a innocent player and then the captain elect, which was required to remain alive in order for town to win.

The Lunar Whale – A final fantasy mafia
Notable happening: An all time classic small game, notable for its thriving activities with almost 500 posts for a small game, which was unpreceded for a small game before. This game featured Chaotix as a first time host and ATPG and Aries as first time players. The game immediately took pace as QJC’s very controversial reveal of his role and ability, which triggered a huge debate in the place, while at first the town decided to unanimously lynch him, with stubborn defence he miraculously held on past Day 1 with town divided for and against him, but was cleared after detective investigation. After the early dramas on Day 1 APTG took over the investigation and started his attempted purges of the mafia, without getting any result in life ATPG was able to reach the right conclusion in death but was unable to turn the fortune of the town. Brilliant play from fellow mafia WH and El Diablo secured a very exciting last day victory for them, so ends one of the great small games of its time.

Noble Sons and Two filths:
Notable Happenings: Absolutely crazy cult mafia game, deserves to be better summarised by somebody else.

If you feel that if any of the description is too long then feel free to shorten it Beefy, also you can change the summuries if you wish.

[Beefy187]

Thank you QJC. I may take a while as I got school today but I'll edit those in.

I'll do Noble Sons

[Askthepizzaguy]

You guys were sooooo close, too. You had votes on El Diablo... why did you change them??? (Lunar Whales)



Hindsight, I know... but man... would have been nice to win that one.

[White_eyes:D]

Thank you QJC. I may take a while as I got school today but I'll edit those in.

I'll do Noble Sons

Don't forget...."White_eyes:D like-Rampage"

and I lost

[Quintus.JC]

You guys were sooooo close, too. You had votes on El Diablo... why did you change them??? (Lunar Whales)

That was me, me, Aries and Glyphz had it on Ed, but somehow I screwed it all up by switching my vote to Glphyz, therefore giving them the win. I can't even remember why I done it, but it was a great game.

[Askthepizzaguy]

That was me, me, Aries and Glyphz had it on Ed, but somehow I screwed it all up by switching my vote to Glphyz, therefore giving them the win. I can't even remember why I done it, but it was a great game.

That's ok. Someday I will actually be responsible for a victory, instead of a near-victory, for the town. I think it's wildly amusing that in every game that I've played as town, no matter how hard I try, either myself or someone else bungles it. I think it was only Fillet Royale where I didn't mess up THAT bad, but then again I didn't really play after I died.

Can anyone name a game that town won where I was actually useful?

[Quintus.JC]

Capitalist commie , one of the rare total victory for town.

[Askthepizzaguy]

But the only thing I did was unvote Taka. I can't really claim any credit on that one.

From my history of games posted here:

I see I was useful to town because I eliminated the final threat to the town in Resident Evil... but I was neutral, so that doesn't count. I personally bungled the Family Guy mafia after an otherwise good performance, so that doesn't count. I got Tevash in Godfather, but after that I was useless and if people listened to me post round 6, town would have lost. I don't even want to think about Ephesus, Chicago, and Whispers, though I nailed glyphz in the last one.

So, in spite of everything I've tried, I've failed to be a good townie in 100% of my games. Awesome.

[Beefy187]

But the only thing I did was unvote Taka. I can't really claim any credit on that one.

From my history of games posted here:

I see I was useful to town because I eliminated the final threat to the town in Resident Evil... but I was neutral, so that doesn't count. I personally bungled the Family Guy mafia after an otherwise good performance, so that doesn't count. I got Tevash in Godfather, but after that I was useless and if people listened to me post round 6, town would have lost. I don't even want to think about Ephesus, Chicago, and Whispers, though I nailed glyphz in the last one.

So, in spite of everything I've tried, I've failed to be a good townie in 100% of my games. Awesome.

What does that make me?

I played 53 games in total, and I was either lynched or used in most of it.

I managed to become the one to deliver the fatal blow to the townie in about three games, when I was actually townie...

Least you promoted discussion. Or stayed active after your death. Something I don't do...

[Askthepizzaguy]

Okay, it's time to form a new group:

The Committee Council Commission for the Chamber Of Consultants who represent the Task Force of the Agency Board Division for the Office Of Appointment of the Service Department of the Tribunal Bureau for the Confederation of Ineffective and Failed Townies Association Alliance Affiliation Partnership Anonymous.

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or CCCCOCTFABDOOASDTBCIFTAAAPA for short.

We will hold meetings down at Pizzaguy's corner, to discuss just how lame we are at being townies, and plot to destroy the mafia together using uber uber oober umlaut uber super secret townie strategies which everyone can read, except the mafia, unless they promise to never use the knowledge of our strategies against us, unless they really really want to, don't hurt me mister mafia murderer man with the beating and the stabbing and the piano wire and the brass knuckles and the sleeping with the fishes and the cement shoes and the ow ow ow it hurts me.

As the founding member of the Failed Townie Association (commission committee thingy), I hereby invite Beefy to join in the commiseration, as well as all failed townies who wish to anonymously sob uncontrollably over their many, many defeats at the hands of the Big Meanies, the Mafia mafioso-so-si-soes.


edit: I opened up the first meeting of the Failed Townie Association. It should be "interesting" reading.... just go ahead and say "aye" to indicate you're present and ready for duty, and also, make up a ridiculous fake title for yourself.

Here's a link to the Failed Townie Association.

[shlin28]

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" by Myrd.

Good: ‘Khaan
Bad: Sarathos
Ugly: shlin28
Rival Captains: W&F and pever
Sheriff: Glenn
Bounty Hunters: Caius and Ichigo
Doctor: Andres
Cowardly Store Owner: Mithrandir

Notable Happenings
On the first night, both the Bad and the Ugly targeted the Cowardly Store Owner, thus allowing them to control whatever he did. Unfortunately, Sarathos did not know he controlled Mithrandir, and allowed the Ugly (serial killer) to essentially control two votes in the entire game.

Later, the doctor made contact with the Ugly and created a strategy to win the game- by creating a list of those the Ugly could kill The Ugly and the Bad killed their way through the town/other roles, until it came to endgame. The Ugly convinced the two rival captains to vote with him in return fro the Ugly to kill the other rival captain, and combined with the Cowardly Store Owner’s vote, was enough to bandwagon any of the people still alive – hence the dramatic lynch of Sarathos, the Bad. (This lynch was a fluke as there were several other people remaining on the List that the Ugly could have chosen to kill)

After a tension-filled finale, the town/Ugly won the game!


Someone needs to cut this down a bit...

[Quintus.JC]

Further Updates:

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Family Guy Mafia:
Notable happenings: Aries’ all time high scoring small mafia, notable for its thriving activities and seemingly combination of the Mini Simpsons and Lunar Whale – everybody had a role. There were huge amount of confusion early on; anybody was talking about everybody else. However one man worked effortlessly to unite the town against the teddy snatcher – ATPG, who took charge of leading the confused town. Noted for the formation of the circle of trust by ATPG, which worked to initially rattle anti-towners, but ultimately flawed as both Rythmic (Elmer) and Quintus (Ernie) was able to successfully infiltrate it with cover and forged PMs. Town met early success by lynching Khann (neutral aligned mafia), however the other two seemed safely away from town attention. Midway through the game a mutual pact was formed between the SK (Quintus) and mafia (Rythmic) which soon ended abruptly with the lynching of Quintus. Coming towards the end game even with the noose gradually tightening Rythmic managed to evaded attention and managed to secure a very smooth mafia win.

By the way Beefy in Family Guy Rythmic was the only teddy snatcher (mafia), Quintus was the potential mass-murdering SK and Khaan was the neutral aligned character who chose to followed the mafia path.

You can’t win:
Notable happenings: Good old West show, featuring a vast array of mafia and neutral characters at the start. With five out of thirteen characters to be anti-town, it looked like town was in big trouble. However due to the effort of the town super vigilante YLC who correctly murdered several prominent mafia members, who balance of power was gradually restored in seemingly town’s favour. With the action reaching the last day YLC was lynched due to good mafia play and a lack of coordinated town effort, ending in a mafia victory.

Whisper in the Night:

Mafia Kingpin: Reenk, Glyphz
Dead mafia recruits: aplenty
Would be serial killer: Sigurd

Result:Serial Killer victory

Notable happenings: Superb game, I feel this summery is better left for YLC to write, but I’d gladly do it if no one else would do it.

The abused potatoes:
Notable happenings: Andres’ fried mafia which ended in a relatively easy town victory. The town had a extremely swift start which ended with the death of a mafia member on Night 2, inactive Tratorix was WOGed due to inactivity and since then Shlin had to do it all alone. A combination of good intuitions from townies and sheer luck would ensure a comfortable victory for town in the mid-game period.

[Thermal]

could you please put neverwinter mafia in the small game queue for now and label it 'still in progress'

And I guess I should write a summary of the family guy game, but I won't

edit: no need, thanks quintus!

[Beefy187]

could you please put neverwinter mafia in the small game queue for now and label it 'still in progress'

And I guess I should write a summary of the family guy game, but I won't

edit: no need, thanks quintus!

Will be done.

[woad&fangs]

Thank you for putting in all this effort. It is greatly appreciated.

I did notice two things. First, In "Curse of Fenric" I noticed that Waldinger was listed as one of the players. I was Waldinger. Are you using people's names at the time of the game or their current names?

Secondly, in "Mexican Standoff" I was also on the winning team with FactionHeir.

[Beefy187]

Thank you for putting in all this effort. It is greatly appreciated.

I did notice two things. First, In "Curse of Fenric" I noticed that Waldinger was listed as one of the players. I was Waldinger. Are you using people's names at the time of the game or their current names?

Secondly, in "Mexican Standoff" I was also on the winning team with FactionHeir.

I was going to use the current names, however, ATPG suggested that its better to use the old name for easier reference when reading it through. I'm not sure yet but I think its better to use the current names as the thingy on the left uses the current names IIRC. I'll either change Waldinger to your current name or put (Woad & Fangs) next to it.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll make the change for Mexican Standoff

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Can anyone name a game that town won where I was actually useful?

Why do you think you weren't useful in the godfather 3?

[Thermal]

ATPG is useful in every game, its a hosts delight when someone keeps the players on there toes and keeps there thread active.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Why do you think you weren't useful in the godfather 3?

That was perhaps my most useful game (out of the ones town won) and I still totally missed the final two mafia, and if people had listened to me we would have lost.

The ones town lost, I have a couple of games where I named all the mafia and made a really dumb final decision not to go with my first choice. (Lunar Whale and Family Guy) so even in those I kinda stink. LOL

[Sasaki Kojiro]

That was perhaps my most useful game (out of the ones town won) and I still totally missed the final two mafia, and if people had listened to me we would have lost.

As a townie, you were one out of 24, and thus expected to contribute 1/24 of the winning effort.

Btw, your "townie failures anonymous" group lists the members for all to see

[TinCow]

Btw, your "townie failures anonymous" group lists the members for all to see

I suppose that's appropriate given the nature of the group.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I suppose that's appropriate given the nature of the group.

SEE???? TINCOW GETS IT!!!

You don't know EVERYTHING Sasaki. Sometimes, sometimes, I'm dumb for a REASON. So there.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

SEE???? TINCOW GETS IT!!!

You don't know EVERYTHING Sasaki. Sometimes, sometimes, I'm dumb for a REASON. So there.

Ah, but see pizza, you believed the statement I made about your townie group. This shows you have not learned rule #1

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[Askthepizzaguy]

We're anonymous for all to see. And I already told you, I'm a failure of a townie. I don't learn.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I believe you misinterpret me...I'm rarely serious when talking about the "rules".

[Askthepizzaguy]

I'm rarely serious at all!

[Beefy187]

I think we should seperate the synopsis by year as the list is quite long and its pretty hard to edit if it gets too long.

Also could someone gimme a quick heads up on what went on in the Settlement please? Bit of Inishmore would be good to.

Cheers

[pevergreen]

Inishmore:

Two mafia families, godfather at the head of each, mastermind to pick the godfathers. A few pro town roles that got upgraded later in the game.
English Mafia: GH(GF), Sasaki/Ituralde
IRA: Diana Abnoba(GF), ATPGuy/Andres
Mairead (Doctor): Polemists, changed to Reenk Roink when Polemists was WoG'd
Davey (Gossiper/rune carver): Gaelic Cowboy, changed to FactionHeir when GC was WoG'd
Donney (Detective): Seamus
Padraic (Serial Killer): A Very Super Market
Mastermind: Shinseikhaan
Townie who had control of Wee Thomas: taka

Someone else can give a proper summary

[Reenk Roink]

Here is Whispers of the Night:

(15) Whispers at Night (570)
Host: YLC
Demons (Mafia): glyphz, Reenk Roink
Little Boy: Quintus.JC
Big Sister/Avatar of Malice (Serial Killer): Sigurd
All Roles

Notable happenings: A well written, story driven small game with the dynamic that dead players would become ghosts and gain collective powers, the game saw glyphz and Reenk coast through most of the game undetected despite being investigated, blocked, and otherwise foiled numerous times. Near the end, suspicion began to mount on glyphz who was lynched after a tie vote which allowed the newly emerged serial killers to outnumber the Mafia. A significant amount of out of thread communication took place.

Will try to get You Can't Win done sometime too.