A Game of Cold-Blooded Murder [Game Over]

[Chaotix]

Thanks for playing, all.

I had fun scaring you with my red text.

I'll post the role PMs soon.

[B-Wing]

Aw, I'm sad to see it end so soon, especially since ICFFoF is also nearing completion, but it was very fun while it lasted. I liked the setting and the sense of urgency created by the rules. I don't personally care for the gory, graphic death scenes, but I appreciated the serious tone they set. Much like watching Saw the first time, I figured there was an important twist coming, but I don't think I would have ever figured it out. While I first played mafia here at the .Org years ago, I haven't been very active since then, and up until now I hadn't participated in any games with "tricky" elements like voting for the host. But I'm starting to learn how cleverly you guys think.

Thanks for hosting, ATPG! Sorry it didn't go quite as intended, but I suppose that's a necessary risk with such an elaborate design. Chaotix was a real wildcard, gotta give him credit for playing his part well (and of course for helping host).

[Chaotix]

Special role PMs:

Chaotix:

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ROLE PM-

You're dead. [Neutral, no victory condition]





You will assist with the moderator duties that I cannot have while playing.

I require no assistance with the tally, although an extra set of eyes to make sure it is correct is welcome. I'll administer the lynches, but I won't know if the person being lynched is town, mafia, or what. You'll have to shoot me a PM if the person being lynched is anything besides a vanilla townie, so that it can be reflected in the list of the dead.

At night, any players with night actions will send them directly to you, which will be made abundantly clear in the role PMs they get. If they accidentally send them to me, I don't have any powers which can take advantage of this fact anyway, and it's their own fault for not reading the rules properly. I would then forward such a PM to you.

You will send me the results of the night only, I just need to know who needs to be added to the list of the dead. I won't know the origin of the action or anything else that happened. You'll send out result PMs to those who need them.

Ground rules, please follow:

1) Randomize the other roles besides my own, send out the role PMs I designed.

2) Add a surprise role of your own design- non-killing, non-investigatory please

3) Do not ever post a list of the living players, only the dead.

4) If 24 hours have passed without a vote, and no voting majority has been reached, a warning from the moderator is issued, that the round will end 24 hours thereafter. The round will end at the end of those 24 hours, regardless of what happens, to keep the game moving and not stagnant.

5) In the unlikely event the vote is tied at the end of a round that has ended by 24 hour warning, the player with the least number of posts in the game, and who has failed to vote that round, will be removed from play. [lynched instead of the tied candidates]


This is the secret, official list of players:

• Askthepizzaguy
• LazyMcCrow
• Gaius Scribonius Curio
• Darth Feather
• BSmith
• rickinator9
• Visorslash
• B_Ray
• Caius
• Jarema
• Makrell
• Elite Ferret
• Diana Abnoba
• townhughthom
• Autolycus
• Edse
• Montmorency
• robbiecon
• Major Robert Dump
• classical_hero
• Zack
• Seon
• Andres

I will send the other PMs to you shortly.

Elite Ferret

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Elite Ferret

You are a ruthless cold-blooded murderer.

You are a sick, demented freak who enjoys killing. And you have an admirer, who really enjoys your handiwork. You get love letters all the time, and contained within these love letters are depictions of violent, horrific murder, for the purposes of entertainment and gratification.

You both have set up a game which will allow you to slaughter as many victims as possible, in just the way that you both enjoy. Your partner loves to be as close to the action as possible, and also likes to remain anonymous. You've never actually met.

He or she has helped you assemble this group of victims in an abandoned warehouse, through acts of kidnapping. But he or she has also decided to pose as one of the victims, to get the full enjoyment of watching the victims squirm, and die horribly.

Your partner will not be killing. You are not even allowed to know who they are. But, they count toward your victory condition, as if they were your full partner.

In this abandoned warehouse, rebuilt into a giant sadistic prison and torture chamber, you will execute the innocents one per night, until they are all dead, or until they figure out that they were supposed to kill you.

If your partner is killed, you will begin killing twice per night, enraged at the loss of your secret admirer. It will become obvious after the fact who your partner was, because the love letters will stop.

If you are killed, your partner will have to go on and try to torment your victims without you.


Victory condition- Your team must be equal to or greater in number than the remainder of the living players.

Night actions: Send your murder choice to Chaotix every night phase.

classical_hero

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classical_hero

You are a newly-possessed servant of chaos.

You were once destined to be a victim of this sick little game you are trapped in, but the fates have seen fit to grant you power beyond your greatest imagination. You will punish those responsible for trapping you here. The hunters shall become the hunted.

The rules of the game were broken when the Chaotic God was removed from play. As such, the Chaotic God has decided to break the rules in his own way to repay the debt. You are his secret rulebreaker, and you have been granted three boons to assist you in the destruction of this game.

FIRE – THE WRATH OF CHAOTIX

The Chaotic God has granted you the power to induce chaos amongst your foes. You have the ability to cause every action during the night to be sent to a random target instead of its original intended target. The flames of chaos are difficult for mortals to wield, however, and upon using this action, you cannot do anything the following night and you must wait 5 nights before you can use it again.

THUNDER – THE WARD OF CHAOTIX

The Chaotic God has granted you the power to protect those who your foes would harm. You have the ability to guard any other living player from attack at night, provided you successfully predict they are going to be attacked. The noise and chaos you create will be so great that the player under assault will be able to escape. There are no restrictions on this action.

WIND – THE VOICE OF CHAOTIX

The Chaotic God cannot grant you immortality, so he has granted you the next best thing. The barrier to the realm of the dead has been weakened in this place, and the voices of their spirits can be heard. Should you die before you have exerted the vengeance of Chaotix on your foes, your vote will still have influence over the congregation.

Victory condition- Bring glory to the Chaotic God, and make yourself instrumental in the downfall of his foes.

Send all night actions (and questions) to Chaotix.

Askthepizzaguy

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Askthepizzaguy

You are a ruthless sadistic sociopath.

You are a sick, demented freak who enjoys watching people die. You have been following the work of a serial killer, and become a great admirer of this person. You've been sending this person love letters for some time now, sharing fantasies and asking the killer to act them out in real life.

You both have set up a game which will allow you to slaughter as many victims as possible, in just the way that you both enjoy. You love to be as close to the action as possible, and like to remain anonymous.

You've helped assemble this group of victims in an abandoned warehouse, through acts of kidnapping. You are posing as one of the victims, to get the full enjoyment of watching the victims squirm, and die horribly.

Here are the rules:

You enjoy watching the act of murder, but prefer only to watch. You don't like performing the act yourself. Although a certain "chaotic" victim did almost escape, and you were forced to beat him to death with a hammer. You swore that you would save the rest of the victims for your love to destroy personally.

1) You cannot murder.

Your partner is blending in with the other victims as well, and is a master of disguises.

2) You are not allowed to know who your partner is.

You are a valid target for murder, and also, for lynching. To ensure a fair "game", you must at least make your presence known.

3) At least once per game, you absolutely must place a legal vote. This must happen before there are only six remaining players, or you lose outright.

You are extremely anti-social. You don't handle being accused very well.

4) You must vote for anyone who votes for you, before that round ends.


Victory condition- Your team must be equal to or greater in number than the remainder of the living players.

Night actions: None.

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With that, all role PMs have been sent. You may begin the game.

A note: remember to be careful about what you do. There are some parts of this game that you didn't write the rules for.

[El Barto]

So, a game with one SK, another SK, one of the SK's unknown partner, and… hey, this was an interesting setup. It's sitll a bit creepy that you can write those things out of your arse just like that, Pizzamandudeboy.

[Chaotix]

classical_hero was not a Serial Killer.

He was a town-aligned power role.

Additionally, a mechanic unknown to all but myself - classical_hero was not the only player able to vote after death.

In fact - ALL players had this power. Even people who were not in the game could drop in spontaneously and make a valid vote. I was the only user on this site not allowed to vote in this game.

This was payback for ATPG's ability to influence the vote without other people knowing he was playing - in fact, everybody was a player, and if they figured it out via induction, they could turn his trick back on him.

[Visor]

classical_hero was not a Serial Killer.

He was a town-aligned power role.

Additionally, a mechanic unknown to all but myself - classical_hero was not the only player able to vote after death.

In fact - ALL players had this power. Even people who were not in the game could drop in spontaneously and make a valid vote. I was the only user on this site not allowed to vote in this game.

This was payback for ATPG's ability to influence the vote without other people knowing he was playing - in fact, everybody was a player, and if they figured it out via induction, they could turn his trick back on him.

I mentioned something similar that in one of threads about an idea I would like to see. Awesome to see someone actually doing something like that.

Thanks for the game Pizzaguy and Chaotix. I didn't think majority would be reached so early in this day phase, not that it mattered in the end.

[Diana Abnoba]

Thanks Chaotix for hosting, and Pizza for messing again with our minds. Interesting concept. To bad it ended so soon, I was just starting to get into it.

[Ferret]

Additionally, a mechanic unknown to all but myself - classical_hero was not the only player able to vote after death.

In fact - ALL players had this power. Even people who were not in the game could drop in spontaneously and make a valid vote. I was the only user on this site not allowed to vote in this game.

This was payback for ATPG's ability to influence the vote without other people knowing he was playing - in fact, everybody was a player, and if they figured it out via induction, they could turn his trick back on him.

So does that mean a majority could have been reached without anyone actually in the game posting?

Certainly some interesting mechanics here, which I'd like to see used in future games. Thanks for hosting guys.

The torture of the toys has come to an end, for now.

[LazyMcCrow]

My head melted. At least it could have done, quite explicitly in the text, if the game had carried on. Thanks for hosting Pizzaguy. I'll try to be more savvy in the next one.

[Chaotix]

So does that mean a majority could have been reached without anyone actually in the game from posting?

Certainly some interesting mechanics here, which I'd like to see used in future games. Thanks for hosting guys.

The torture of the toys has come to an end, for now.

That's correct - the "majority" was based on the number of living players in the list, but could be caused by anyone.

Although I deemed the actual chances of anybody but classical_hero making use of this ability pretty low.

And the chances of people not even in the game, even lower.

There's a small hint in classical's role PM, but I didn't tell him - this was more of a secret ability to be unlocked if the town chanced upon it by a random dead townie voting as a joke and then causing a lynch with it.

[Askthepizzaguy]

So, a game with one SK, another SK, one of the SK's unknown partner, and… hey, this was an interesting setup. It's sitll a bit creepy that you can write those things out of your arse just like that, Pizzamandudeboy.

I believe I joined mafia in the first place because I wanted to write elaborate death scenes involving characters you'd identify with.

From the very first Simpsons game to the murder manor games to this one- if you're going to die in a mafia game, I prefer it to be more memorable than:

El Barto was found dead in the morning.

Apologies to those who don't like gory writeups. I tend to stay away from the genuinely disturbing, but I feel at least once a year, I need to do a Murder Manor or a Psycho Mafia or a Dinner Party where the writeups are dead serious and not laugh out loud funny. The harsh, dangerous tone helps set the mood.

Thanks to all for playing- sorry I chose to end it early, those of you who wanted to fight on: There are other game hosts waiting and unfortunately due to the number of people left and how far away you were from guessing me, it would have taken too long for the payoff.

You did well, there was no way I'd survive to the final round and vote you guys dead. As such, tipping the king over is the choice I made not just for myself but those waiting to host a game.