The Thing Mafia [Concluded]

[[MAFIA] Vito]

Stop f'ing with us. Gh hasn't been active in 7.5 hours.

If you close your browser with your anonymous account, you open up with it.

[Arjos]

Bwahahahahahahah tough life for the henchmen :D

[Reenk Roink]

Thank you so much for hosting TinCow, great mechanic and excellent execution of it with the accounts and timer.

Now, the only thing I don't understand, what is up with CR and Kage here? Anything I'm missing?

[Montmorency]

Setting up for the sequel Large Game, probably.

[Arjos]

Also gratz Reenk, you played it extremely well, in all honesty I wouldn't have minded losing due to some superb acting, but losing it to confused votes: never! :D

[Montmorency]

GG, all. :)

Aright, sure Tincow, invisible for all.Make it more difficult for the town.

However, I think you should keep the one-Thing setup. Let it take its victims' powers, but 3 Things makes it more of a typical Mafia game. A rose by any other name, after all.

[TinCow]

However, I think you should keep the one-Thing setup. Let it take its victims' powers, but 3 Things makes it more of a typical Mafia game. A rose by any other name, after all.

Well, I was planning on having pro-town roles that would have some kind of detective ability, consistent with The Thing games. You know, the blood-testing thing. The movie conveniently provides a counter ability to this, where the Thing can plant his own blood on someone else to provide a false-positive. I'm just afraid that with 30+ players and pro-town roles, that will be way too hard for a single Thing.

[Arjos]

Maybe something like the Thing can choose to "seed" one of his victims? I'm just brainstorming...

[Askthepizzaguy]

*bows worshipfully toward the mighty Reenk*

Best scum performance besides a winning one ever, and this one was far more entertaining.

Townies suck by comparison.

Being Reenk was more fun than anything I've done in a long while, and watching Reenk be me was more fun than that.

[Montmorency]

Perhaps the Thing has a get-out-of-lynch-free card for the first half of the game?

From the QT: "If I were him, I would take Nick because he would be incredibly easy to impersonate (all you have to do is rhyme)."

Nuh-uhhhhh!

[Arjos]

With my seeding idea, I was thinking that maybe if the Thing actually dies, it will make the egg hatch and a new Thing born...
Obviously this would be limited (one timer) and needs to be set by the previous Thing...
No idea if it could be a nice feature...

BTW Reenk, beside GH and Monty (I kinda have an idea), why did you keep me and classical alive?

[Reenk Roink]

Reading the QT now. Thanks for the support. TinCow if I had continued access to this it would be quite unfair, good call.

I didn't want to off you so fast either Tratorix. Two biggest regrets killing john and Tratorix so fast.

Ishmael actually got the Berkeley reference. Nice.

Thanks Atpg, it was very fun being you, and it was definitely something I wanted to do. It was hard though, I was initally worried about what you called GH, but later just did it based on my impressions of you. It wasn't the best impression, but it was a start. Maybe I can do it again. Didn't even know I had once said Reentution. I have seen you use the wink smileys a couple of times though.

I think the dead players should have a collective ability. Maybe it doesn't even have to be protown, they can vote which side they want to help and then do it. It would be a good way to have the Thing cater to his audience.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Thanks Atpg, it was very fun being you, and it was definitely something I wanted to do.

I suspected as much. If anyone could get away with being Askthepizzaguy for a day, I think they'd take it just to try on my big floppy clown shoes.

I wanted to put some icing on the cake, in that me pretending to be you as closely as possible would make it a tiny bit easier for you to mimic me, because if you did anything obviously Reenk-y, it could be interpreted as just a good impression of you I was doing.

And finally, being able to act like Reenk Roink after declaring that Reenk Roink was the Thing, means you were literally able to be yourself, after outing yourself as scum, right underneath everyone's nose, the round after I said you'd be able to talk to GH without him knowing it was you.

I lolled HARD at that.

It was hard though, I was initally worried about what you called GH, but later just did it based on my impressions of you. It wasn't the best impression, but it was a start. Maybe I can do it again. Didn't even know I had once said Reentution. I have seen you use the wink smileys a couple of times though.

Tip: Watch out for word choice. My vocabulary is not as precise or sophisticated as yours, as I mention in the QT, and gave examples. You used words I would never use, like "abstentions". But the townies weren't actually looking for you that round it seemed, they were setting up for the endgame. Their loss, I suppose. Careful reading of Rocco would have outed you.


I think the dead players who have been taken over by The Thing should do everything in their power not to make things harder for the Thing player. My gameroom post slip made me feel like poo because this role was fun and in any way ruining it for you would have been as horrible for me as my accidental outing of my own partner in Council of Villains II as a cultist who just plain forgot who his teammates were.

Some things aren't cool in mafia games, and nearly losing the game for you by being careless wouldn't have been fun for me.

[TinCow]

I think the dead players should have a collective ability. Maybe it doesn't even have to be protown, they can vote which side they want to help and then do it. It would be a good way to have the Thing cater to his audience.

One option might simply be to give the people confined to the Dead Thread a reason to help the Thing. Perhaps all Dead Thread players are allowed to choose whether they want to back town or mafia. It is a one-off, irreversible choice that must be made before the end of the next game phase after they die. Players who back town will win with the town as per usual. Players who back mafia will... what? It seems unfair to the mafia to give those players full 'mafia' victories, but is some kind of 'minor victory' really an incentive?

[TinCow]

Now, the only thing I don't understand, what is up with CR and Kage here? Anything I'm missing?

The game's plot is a sequel to GH's Mafia X. GH wrote part of the initial background story and gave permission to do it. It seemed proper to use that setting because this was, essentially, a vanilla mafia game with only a single rule change (albeit a significant one). Plus, using that setting gave me an excuse to be absurd, which I find far more fun to write (and read) than ultra-serious horror movie stuff. I think it would have gotten dreadfully dull if I had tried to write this entire thing as an actual conversion of the movie itself.

Plus, Kage and CR deserve to be immortalized in the Gameroom for their Mafia series victories.

[Arjos]

I'm curious about deadville, quick first comment: mandatory for people to avoid tracking down when and where ppl posted, it just spoils the investigation...

[Reenk Roink]

Plus, Kage and CR deserve to be immortalized in the Gameroom for their Mafia series victories.

Ah, I know Kage won Mafia I, and just saw that both Kage and CR won Mafia X. I'll have you know I wasn't in both of those games, taking advantage of the lack of my presence obviously.