Mafia X [Concluded]

**Crazed Rabbit** · 07-09-2011, 22:39

Pizza, wouldn't you have gone after Angelo again if you didn't want to show Earthling that he was wrong?

And don't be sure I was scum and won the game just because I posted weirdly before the lynch. Can't someone have fun with a mafioso who's about to get lynched?

Think of the frustration; getting lynched even though the townie is acting waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more suspicious than you, just because you made a silly post and then the other townie had to leave before the lynch?

Trust me, it's more satisfying to see a mafioso go down that way.

CR

**Earthling** · 07-09-2011, 22:45

I don't see why people were missing that I was only was trying to get Luigi and Luigi alone the whole time, the rest of it is minor preferences if two townies had to die, which one was better, so I did oppose some poor lynches but I think it's obvious I was focused on Luigi, right or wrong. As was widely discussed I certainly never said it was a sure thing pizza was scum, though I did say he wasn't likely to get nightkilled if he was a townie (and, well, he didn't).

This isn't going to be over until we see the quicktopic regardless of the update, I'm thinking.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 07-09-2011, 22:57

What was your beef with Luigi?

CR

**GeneralHankerchief** · 07-10-2011, 02:53

Okay, that took a bit longer than expected. I'll start the writeup momentarily.

**GeneralHankerchief** · 07-10-2011, 04:12

The scene was almost picturesque. In a rather large town square flanked by buildings, its size magnified by its emptiness, Chief of Police JuJuBee stood on an execution platform elevated about two feet off the ground, taking the sight in. In the background, the usual buildings. The power had been restored, finally, but they still seemed empty as there was nobody inside to use them. There was nobody in the Frontroom, period. These three were it. In the foreground, the emptiness. In the more immediate foreground, the final two villagers, Crazed Rabbit and Kagemusha, staring each other down. They were not only equidistant from each other but also from the edges of JuJuBee's vision. An artist would have been proud.

The song in JuJu's head changed. While still Springsteen (and early Springsteen at that), the lyrical content couldn't have been more different. The last song was about teenagers having one last good time down by Greasy Lake before the summer ended. This one spoke of being caught up in the flood. Of madness. Of blood running through the streets. JuJu tried to get it out of his head, afraid of the implications, but, like any song you did not want in your head, trying to get it out only further ingrained it.

The two men drew their weapons, Emilio/Kagemusha a large axe that looked a lot like the old Chief of Police's, and Fat Tony/Crazed Rabbit an assault rifle. For one horrible moment JuJuBee was afraid that they would each cut each other down and he would be the only person alive in this godforsaken place that was once known as the Kingdom of Peace and Love. But the two men showed more restraint than that, only continuing to hold up their weapons of choice and slowly walk towards each other.

"Nice axe," CR said, a completely flat tone to his voice. "Where'd you get it? Beirut's old office?"

"I picked it up from Angelo's old house, scum," Kage replied in an equally flat tone. "I was going to present it to the Chief of Police as it now belongs to him, but then you had to go and shove an assault rifle in my face. An assault rifle which is most definitely in violation of the Frontroom's Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which makes you a mafioso."

"And how would you know?" CR asked. "You seem to be pretty well-versed about what is and isn't illegal in these parts."

Finally, someone showed some emotion. Kage laughed. "My friend, I've been here since 2006. I'm as old as this axe here." And with CR's weapon still trained upon him, Kagemusha walked over to the baffled JuJuBee (who had drawn his own gun at this point), and returned the axe to the new Chief of Police.

"Well, what do you know?" CR said, now also showing emotion. "So have I!"

The two men walked right up to each other, but did not open fire or do anything else that would be considered hostile to each other.

Instead they embraced.

Oh, *#%!.

JuJuBee's mind was running a mile a minute, trying to process the implications - all the ominous, horrible, implications - of this latest move when he noticed another pair of eyes staring at him: a rabbit, emerging through one of the buildings. Then there was another one, coming from the side. JuJuBee noticed rabbits coming out from behind cars, staring at him through windows, standing on all sides of the Frontroom square, every single one staring at him, unblinkingly. The artist's picture from before had turned into a nightmare.

Through all of this, there was one thing that the Chief of Police did not see: Kagemusha had drawn a katana.

As the rabbits started to advance, their leader, Crazed Rabbit, started monologuing. Speaking at first seemingly to the wind, he began his tirade. "See?" he cried out. "I said I would do it again, didn't I? Even without The Truth, I am victorious! The Frontroom has been utterly depopulated by my hand, again! Where so many have failed, I have now succeeded twice! My rabbits and I shall forever build our new civilization - a perfect civilization, where we fix the town and the world, and lead man- and rabbit-kind to the stars and beyond - on the corpses of not just those who have fallen here over the past eleven days, but of all of the dead mafiosi who could not do what I have done, twice now!"

The monologuing continued as CR grew more maniacal and grandiose with his words and gestures and the rabbits continued their advance. JuJuBee, at this point paralyzed with fear, did notice that Kagemusha did not have a villainous speech of his own to make. Kagemusha did not need to make a villainous speech. He too had succeeded for a second time. What else needed to be said?

JuJuBee turned and ran, surrounded on all sides by rabbits but looking for the place where their numbers were thinnest. He got precisely three steps before he was cut down by Kagemusha's katana, the final victim of his and Crazed Rabbit's reign of terror and the first Chief of Police to die in the line of duty after ten mafia attacks.

As Kage stood stoically by the Chief of Police's corpse, the rabbits moved in for good, pouncing on JuJuBee and not letting up until nothing but his clothes and bones remained. There was not even any blood on the ground.

The two now-twice successful mafiosi walked off together as the rabbits, now in undisputed control over the former Frontroom, began their work.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Survived: (2)
Kagemusha (Emilio)
Crazed Rabbit (Fat Tony)

Wrath of God:
spL1tp3r50naL1ty (Frank)

Killed:
Winston Hughes (Chickenman)
robbiecon (Giuseppe)
Visorslash (Maria)
johnhughthom (Christopher)
issaikhaan (Furio)
Death is yonder (Carlo)
Seon (Fingers)
ELITEOFKINGWARMAN88 (Big George)
Earthling (Nick)
Csargo (Mickey)
Ashurnasirpal II (Salvatore)
B_Ray (Paulie)
White_eyes:D (Ralph)
Ignoramus (Luciano)
Romanic (Bobby)
Secura/a completely inoffensive name (Pete)
Believer/Greyblades (Fredo)
ArpeggiateTHIS (Giorgio)
Renata (Sonny)
Beefy187 (Richie)
Ibn-Khaldun (Bruno)
glyphz (Luigi)

Executed:
Jolt (Pedro)
Andres (Rocco)
Chaotix (Joe)
Sigurd (Claudia)
Centurion1 (Connie)
Diamondeye (Bugsy)
autolycus (Vincent)
Populus Romanus (Johnny)
Askthepizzaguy (Anne)
Captain Blackadder (Bertha)
TheLastDays (Angelo)

Player list:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Result:

TOTAL MAFIA VICTORY

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An enormous congratulations to Crazed Rabbit and Kagemusha, who not only won Mafia for the second time as Mafia, but did so in true style, achieving the first ever Total Mafia Victory not just in the Mafia series, but in any of my games I've ever hosted. Wow!

And with this, Mafia X draws to a close. There are no fake endings, no writeups yet to be revealed. The postgame starts now. My commentary will be up in a few days, but in the meantime you can start talking about your experiences with the game and the anonymous accounts. Thanks for playing, everybody!

**Centurion1** · 07-10-2011, 04:12

bam i told the town!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**GeneralHankerchief** · 07-10-2011, 04:18

A couple of immediate issues because I know people are going to ask:

No, the selections for the mafia were not random, for the first time ever. This was an anniversary game, celebrating the Gameroom's past and its future, and I wanted to bring the two together by picking the two winners as Mafia together for the most recent installment in the series. Let me reiterate exactly what they did, both now and in the past: they survived as mafia twice. To put that in perspective, of the other 16 people to play as mafiosi over the course of the series, nobody has survived once.

For this, the two of them deserve special recognition. I was going to wait until the commentary was up before posting this, but decided not to in the spur of the moment. And so, courtesy of Sigurd, for however you wish to use it:

Congratulations gentlemen, you've more than earned it.