The Godfather, Part 1 (or yet another Mafia game) by Silver Rusher [Concluded]

[Dutch_guy]

No...I didn't say it was likely me, I said I probably missed out on something everybody around me was thinking. However, that didn't / doesn't seem to be the case.

Speculaas is lekker

[doc_bean]

whispers from the death: is there really nobody who does some thinking? At least when you voted me you guys were doing some thinking, no start thinking, communicating instead of just one guy who votes for someone without a good reason and everybody following him.

(snip)-Sasaki

Good point, bad timing, this was pretty much the first time someone used deductive reasoning here, of course, it was wrong, because I'm just not consistent

[Silver Rusher]

Day breaks in the Gameroom. All is quiet.

After Masy gets home from the latest execution, he falls into a deep slumber. His dreams are haunted by nightmares full of death, destruction, and tyranny. He wakes up the next morning in a cold sweat, and stumbles to the kitchen. Masy is startled to see someone there.

"Hello Masy. I thought I'd do you a favor this morning by making some fresh, hot coffee for you."

"I appreciate the show of good will, but you do realize you are breaking and entering, don't you?"

"Oh, come off it Masy. Here, your coffee is ready. Careful, it is scalding hot."

As Masy walks forward to receive his coffee, suddenly the coffee pot tips over and its contents spill all over Masy, instantly causing severe burns. Before Masy can react further the mafioso smashes a frying pan into his victim's head, knocking him out cold. The killer then proceeds to dig up a large grave and dumps the body into it. Masy is buried alive.

The villagers gathered, as usual, in the centre of town to be addressed by Chief of Police GeneralHankerchief. So few of them were left, it was already feeling like a disturbing alien world.

"This round of voting is very important. It is crucial that we find the culprit now, or else it may be too late." GH began, "Get voting." He turned and walked off.

At that moment, a villager asked, "Err... what about the method of execution?"

"You will find out."

Status List:

Killed by Mafia:
Masy
evil_maniac from mars
Destroyer_of_Hope
Orb
Reenk Roink
Ignoramus
Hiji
Leet Eriksson
Krazilec

Wrath of Silver Rusher:
Kagemusha
littlelostboy
Bombasticus Maximus
Upxl
SSNeoperestroika
IrishArmenian
Tiberius
AggonyDuck

Lynched:
doc_bean
discovery1
Divine Wind
Crazed Rabbit
Gertgregoor
The_Spartan
B_Ray
Sigurd Fafnesbane

PM:
UltraWar

Still alive:
GeneralHankerchief
Dutch_guy
Sasaki Kojiro
Cowhead418
Drisos
Big King Sanctaphrax
GoreBag
7 players remain.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Uff, and I thought my reasoning was pretty good. Guess I was wrong. Or else doc_bean was a mafioso and CR wasn't. No way of telling.

[Masy]

Aw nuts... Who would want to kill me...

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

You know, I'm getting a kind of 'clever mafia' vibe from Sasaki. He's playing the dutiful villager part to a tee-almost too well. It's just a hunch, and not enough to merit a vote, but...well, I'll see what ideas other people have.

[GeneralHankerchief]

BKS. I am absolutely certain. People have targeted him for several rounds now and yet he continues to slip by, and the killing continues. He has done the bare minimum to really stay unnoticed, but yet not be suspicious. Even now he waits to commit until somebody else presents a solid argument.

This time, you're finished.

Suggested vote: Big King Sanctaphrax

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Heh, I've been offline for the past few days-moving into uni halls-so there's absolutely no way I could be in the mafia. You could probably see by looking at my post history, if you were so inclined.

I think your zealousness is decidedly dodgy, though. Vote: GeneralHankerchief.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

You know, I'm getting a kind of 'clever mafia' vibe from Sasaki. He's playing the dutiful villager part to a tee-almost too well. It's just a hunch, and not enough to merit a vote, but...well, I'll see what ideas other people have.

Heh, I've been offline for the past few days-moving into uni halls-so there's absolutely no way I could be in the mafia. You could probably see by looking at my post history, if you were so inclined.

I think your zealousness is decidedly dodgy, though. Vote: GeneralHankerchief.

HAH, you sure changed your mind quickly.

BKS: "I'll see what ideas other people have"
Translation: "I'll wait and see if anyone else jumps on the wagon"

BKS: "I think your zealousness is decidedly dogdy, though"
Translation: "you voted me so I'm voting you"

BKS: "you could probably see this by looking at my post history"
Translation: "I deliberately didn't post for a few days to give myself an alibi"

You've bandwagoned throughout the game without giving reasoning, usually just "I agree with so and so's reasoning". GH has for several days remarked that he finds you suspicious and yet suddenly he's overzealous now?

Vote:Big King Sanctaphrax

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

BKS: "you could probably see this by looking at my post history"
Translation: "I deliberately didn't post for a few days to give myself an alibi"

Doesn't this seem rather far-fetched to you?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Doesn't this seem rather far-fetched to you?

No. Several people have gotten off in the past few games because their "last visited" date showed they hadn't been online. You obviously thought you'd give it a try. Too cute, sorry.

[GeneralHankerchief]

NOTE: If somebody leaves for up to a week and tells me why in a PM they will still be in the game and will be able to participate again when they return, unless they die during the period in which they are away. If anybody in the mafia, except for the Godfather, has to leave while they are still alive, it will be handled in the same way. Their Godfather will be responsible for PMing me with the kill stories. If the Godfather goes away while he is the active murderer, the dead Mafiosi will be contacted and asked to PM with the kill stories. If they cannot do this, I (God) will simply kill the appropriate number of people and make it seem like the mafia were responsible. If the Godfather and another Mafioso are both away, the remaining Mafioso, regardless of whether he/she is dead or alive will be asked to PM me with the kills. In the extremely unlikely event that everyone in the mafia is away, I will kill people myself as explained above. If anybody tells me they are going for more than 1 week they will have to commit suicide. And finally, if the detective goes away there will be no investigations.

Your absence would not matter.

[GoreBag]

I've had my suspicions, but figured I'd get whacked if I spoke up before now. If we don't lynch BKS, it might be over.

Vote: BKS.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

All right, but you're all going to be disapointed.

[Cowhead418]

Vote: BKS. You not being on the past few days just makes me more certain that you are doing the bare minimum to get by. Also, you waiting to see how other people are going to vote is certainly suspicious. I knew the Kingdom of Peace and Love was a sham...

[Drisos]

Vote: GeneralHankerChief

It just doesnt feel right to me, executing BKS, he seems in some way innocent. I'm going with GeneralHankerChief.. he seems to be going with other people's reasoning and enpowers other people even more to vote with someone. (this time BKS, but anyhow he makes sure he is not voted on (too much))

[Silver Rusher]

Evening in the Gameroom.

Chief of Police GeneralHankerchief, Dutch_guy, Cowhead418, Drisos, Big King Sanctaphrax and GoreBag lined up in the cold village square. Something didn't feel... right. Anxiety filled the air, and not a single person was speaking. It was an incredibly awkward experience. They were all waiting for GH to begin the execution.

But for the first time that evening, a mouth was opened. "Hey, where's..." BKS knew he was going to die anyway, but before he could say any more, a short, sharp sound was heard and BKS fell to the ground, a bloodstain appearing on his back.

Dutch_guy turned his head sharply towards BKS' corpse, before his head was pierced, leaving a dark red liquid oozing out of the side. A few seconds later, Drisos succumbed to the same fate.

At that exact moment, Godfather GeneralHankerchief and his cronies Cowhead418 and GoreBag readied themselves. Someone else was muscling in on their beat. Cowhead pulled up his trouser leg and pulled a pistol out of each of his socks. GB opened the buttons on his shirt and took out the two pistols strapped to his chest. GH took off his chief-of-police had where he had concealed a tommy gun, which he armed himself with.

Creak. A door opened in roughly the same direction that the shots had come from and Sasaki Kojiro stepped out wearing a pinstripe suit and a bowler hat. The Mafia pointed their weapons at him, but he stood there calmly, smoking a cigarette as if he hadn't even noticed.

"Heheheh..." Sasaki began, "You fellas have no sense of gratitude." He dropped his finished cigarette on the ground and stubbed it with his foot, "I have been helping you guys wipe out this town the whole time, and now I have 5 guns in my face!"

"Wha..." GH was obviously shocked and confused, but gripping his tommy gun tightly, "What are you talking about? I run this town, not you, Sasaki."

"That's no way to talk to your superiors." SK replied, maintaining his calm, "You're only here now because of me. I was the one who chose you to come here and wipe out the town. After the failed attempts at slaughtering the Frontroom, Vincenzo thought we needed to do a better job. So he sent me down here."

"Vincenzo sent you here?" GH couldn't take all this in.

"Damn right. My first job was to choose that fool of a detective, Ignoramus. I'm most proud of that part of my job. The guy revealed himself under confidence that B_Ray was in the mafia, but he never even investigated 'im! And that was only in the second round. There is no uncorrupt police force around here, so all I needed to do was pretend to be in the OSP (Orgah Secret Police) and approach him, he led all those people off track. All these times you came close to death, I defended you, General. If it weren't for me, you fools would be done in with your own execution methods."

"So lemme get this straight." Cowhead butted in, "You've been runnin' this operation all this time and none of us, the people you employed, ever knew about it?"

"Yeah, and why are we supposed to believe you anyway?" GB added.

"Well," Sasaki answered, "I didn't really run it. GH did that. All I did was make sure you didn't screw up. And you can believe me, 'cos if you don't, the mafia will come down on you so hard that you and your entire family will be dead within a week."

"What can I say then?" GH had experienced a revelation, "You have my thanks, Sasaki. We couldn't have done it without you." GoreBag and Cowhead nodded.

"Now, I think our work here is done, so who wants to go to the Elephant and Cannon, have a bit of a celebration?" SK smiled, "I think the bartender is the only guy in this sorry town we haven't killed."

RESULT: TOTAL MAFIA VICTORY!

Survivors:
GeneralHankerchief - Mafia Godfather
Sasaki Kojiro - Mafia Mastermind
Cowhead418 - Mafia Grunt
GoreBag - Mafia Grunt

Runners Up:
Dutch_guy
Drisos
Big King Sanctaphrax

Dead:
Masy
evil_maniac from mars
Destroyer_of_Hope
Orb
Reenk Roink
Ignoramus - Detective
Hiji
Leet Eriksson
Krazilec
Kagemusha
littlelostboy
Bombasticus Maximus
Upxl
SSNeoperestroika
IrishArmenian
Tiberius
AggonyDuck
doc_bean
discovery1
Divine Wind
Crazed Rabbit
Gertgregoor
The_Spartan
B_Ray
Sigurd Fafnesbane
UltraWar

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Kommodus said a while ago that he would be hosting his own mafia game, and GeneralHankerchief is going to start Mafia IV very soon. To both of those people, I would appreciate if you would let me post my very long write-up (uh-huh) first. If I ever do another one of these games, it will be at the very earliest after one or the other of these two games is finished.

I would also appreciate even more if anybody else wishing to start their own Mafia/Mafia related game would wait until Kommodus and GH had finished their own ones first.

[Dutch_guy]

What can I say, good job...

Four mobsters is a lot though, that said, we were wiped out.

Gotta put more time in future mafia games, posted a considerably less amount of investigative posts in this one. Needless to say, that was pretty stupid.

EDIT: Also, Nice story telling Silver Rusher

[Silver Rusher]

Four mobsters is a lot though, that said, we were wiped out.

You gotta remember that it only takes 1 of them to be killed for them all to lose, and only 2 can kill to begin with (the other taking it up when all others have died.

[GoreBag]

And to think I considered having Sasaki whacked last round.

[Masy]

Well, balls. New Game anyone?

Also:

Yes indeed. I doubt someone with such vast experience as GeneralHankerChief would draw suspicion upon himself by immediately killing off someone who voted for him. Unless, of course, he wants us to think this way; pehaps using some sort of twisted psychology only a criminal mastermind could devise...

I must contemplate.

So close...well played chaps.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Wow, thanks for the help, Sasaki. You had me totally fooled.

I had this grand finale planned where we would finally kill off two a round and leave you as the only innocent, and laugh in your face as you realized that we were playing you the whole time.

But I guess that wasn't necessary.

Good game, everyone. I'll have a commentary coming shortly, as well as Mafia IV.

EDIT: So would anything have happened if we whacked Sasaki early on?

[GoreBag]

Well, balls. New Game anyone?

Also:



So close...well played chaps.

That was actually my idea. I banked on the notion that people wouldn't vote for GH because it would be too obvious. Besides, Orb was irritatingly voting for my boss day in and day out. Two birds with one stone.

[Orb]

I said 'GH!' But does anyone listen to the poor sphere. No, they don't!

[Drisos]

I don't understand one bit of it.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Commentary. Not as long as when I'm running the game.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

As soon as I received Silver's PM saying I was the Godfather ("randomly, I swear") I knew that the job of picking two mafiosi would be very important. After a little bit of contemplation, I settled on Cowhead418. He was an established mafioso who both seemed to always for the mafia, and he did very well in Mafia II. In case people figured out my reasoning with Cowhead, GoreBag was my backup. This would be his first game and would be the wild card pick. He satisfied my expectations.

My first PM to the mafiosi was saying that I would give them a lot of free reign over who they killed. This was to distance themselves from me, and I think I only stepped in once or twice.

Amazingly, during the first kill session both Cowhead and GoreBag didn't get their kills in on time. So instead of an execution, there was an election. I figured that me being Chief of Police would be an excellent alibi so I entered and won by a large margin. In retrospect I think it would have been better had I not gotten the job.

Immediately Sigurd suggested that it would be terrible if I were a mafioso, yet alone the Godfather. I wanted this sentiment extinguished, so I attacked Sigurd full-throttle, totally ignoring what he said about my position and instead making some ridiculous logic about viking rites of passage. Luckily, everyone bought it and it seemed as if I had lots of influence.

GoreBag missed his kill for the second round. At first I was annoyed, and posted something along the lines of "a mafioso might not have gotten his kill in on time." Luckily nobody noticed. Eventually, after some discussion with the mafia, and judging by the number of people acting jubilantly, we decided to use this to our advantage and only kill one a round. Hopefully this would cement my alibi.

My main strategy in the game was to convince the influential people that I was innocent. The influentials, in turn, would speak in favor of me and convince everyone else that I was just an ordinary cop. Sasaki was on board, but now I realize that this wasn't due to our strategy.

This same round, Ignoramus, for whatever reason, revealed himself. Maybe Sasaki had something to do with it, I'm anxious to hear his thoughts. I couldn't believe it. I immediately publicly doubted him, in which he PM'd me saying he was the Detective. He said he trusted me, and pushing my luck, I asked who he had investigated (Sasaki and UltraWar, apparently). I then forwarded our conversation to GoreBag and Cowhead and told them that he needed to be gone. Ig was suspicious about my later PMing but I told him that it was for Will of the Senate. Who cares, he was as good as dead. But I was still suspicious about the real detective.

And so we settled in for the long haul. Several people suspected me, but there were always people advocating my innocence (namely Sasaki). Generally those suspecting me were either removed via execution or, in once case, by the mafia.

I was always confident that we would win, but the point where I was most in doubt was when Orb accused me and a couple of people voted for me. I had made a suspicious post and Ignoramus PM'd me flat-out asking if I was the Godfather. I dismissed him with a "no" and hoped that I would survive.

The next round, GoreBag chose to whack Orb. I was a little bit wary, but I saw his reasoning and didn't intervene. At this point my strategy now pretty much rested on keeping Sasaki, our greatest ally, on my good side. He had PM'd me earlier saying I couldn't be mafia because of the Sigurd thing and because I posted too much.

Meanwhile, endgame was approaching. In previous games the mafia had collapsed when victory was at hand. I wanted to make sure that this wouldn't happen. So I selected a scapegoat to suggest and eventually, go after full-throttle. This would be BKS (at one time it was Sasaki, another Drisos). My plan was keep killing one per turn, excluding Sasaki who seemed clueless. Once we had the numbers, we would kill off two people again and leave Sasaki realizing that he had been played the entire time. I had the final vote something along these lines in my head:

Sasaki: ... what? There's only one person who could have masterminded this. Vote: GH.

GH: Good reasoning, Sasaki, but you no longer have the numbers. Kill him.

In the end, it didn't matter.

During the game, GoreBag, Cowhead, and I thoroughly ignored each other. This was unspoken, but nevertheless I think it might have helped. At that point I just wanted to stay alive long enough to have numbers, and if my mafia were gone then that couldn't happen. So kudos, guys. You did great.

Also kudos to Sasaki Kojiro. At first I thought I was just outsmarting you, but you went along with my plans splendidly. Don't know if my reasoning would have worked on anybody if you were innocent.

Finally, an excellent job to Silver Rusher for organizing this game. You did real well, mate. I look forward to these games in the future.

Oh, one last thing: I apologize to those I lied to/used as pawns during the game: Sigurd, Ignoramus, and BKS. Sorry guys, it was done purely for the game.

Coming tomorrow: MAFIA IV!!!

[Ignoramus]

You pest GH! You had me totally fooled. I really shouldn't have revealed myself, but I wanted to try and work together with people to find the mafia.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Bahahahaa! That was an amazingly fun game, thanks very much Silver Rusher.

About my role:

I chose the godfather and the detective and was informed of who the godfather chose to be mafia and who the detective investigated.

I could choose one person each turn to have false information, if the detective investigated them he would get an incorrect result.

If killed by mafia someone else would be randomly killed instead. I thought it would be cooler if they didn't even try so I professed my belief in his innocence to GH through private messages several times.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Pre-Game

So, shortly before the start of the game I was informed by SR that I had been randomly chosen as the mafia mastermind, and was told to choose a godfather and a detective.

I based my choice of General Hankerchief for godfather partly on my observations of my mafia game. People liked him and I thought it was unlikely that they would semi-randomly bandwagon him. I believe I was right, as several times people accused him but it never took off. I figured he would know what he was doing as well. I admit him being an obvious choice for godfather and therefore suspicious never occured from me, but in the end you can use that argument in your favor.

For the detective I was at first going to choose discover1 as he had been killed early last few games and I thought the mafia might go with tradition. But I eventually chose Ignoramus for odd behavior in the other mafia game.

The games starts

I chose Cowhead418 as the person for the detective to get an incorrect result on. An obvious choice really. Later on I anticipated making someone who hadn't been executed seem very suspicious so that Ignoramus would investigate him and get a wrong result. This never came to pass though.

Instead of murders the game started with an election which surprised me. In keeping with my character I decided to try and get GH elected and voted for him. To my delight the villagers selected him overwhelmingly. I thought this would be useful, as it meant he could post frequently and still have an ironclad excuse for why he hadn't been killed by the mafia in the endgame.

Kralizec and leet eriksonn killed

False investigation was Cowhead again.

Noticing the trend for previous mafia games where the first few people voted for were more likely to be executed even if the votes were random, I jumped right in and voted for Reenk Roink with a joky reason. Almost instantly 4 or so people jumped on the wagon. I was pleased. Also, I don't think the mafia were often the first to vote in the last games so I was trying to make myself look innocent.

GH started a wagon on Sigurd with some reasoning or other (I'm still not sure what lol) which soon proved very popular. I picked out what I thought could be seen as a suspicious post by AggonyDuck and voted for him to show I was trying to root out the mafia.

Hiji Killed

Forgot to send false investigation to SR.

I was surprised to see only one kill. I assumed that this was because of the AggonyDuck death (limit 2 deaths per night?). I lost no time in pointing out that this meant Sigurd must have been mafia as this would delude the town and make GH look innocent. I mentioned B_Ray as a possible candidate for mafia in passing. Immediately a wagon started on him. I was surprised, but was going to let it run its course. GH stepped in with a clever move, defending B_Ray. I agreed with him and stated that those who had been on the B_ray wagon were suspicious. Since gorebag was one of those I singled out doc_bean specifically.

Then Ignoramus drops the bomb and names GH as godfather. I immediately regretted choosing him as detective. I had to leave before I could think up a post so I just dropped a skeptical smiley and left it at that. I still don't know what convinced Ignoramus of B_Ray and GH's guilt.

Fortunately GH defended himself quite well and no one voted for him or even discussed Ignoramus's post. It was at this point that I realized we would win. The townspeople were too lazy and too eager to lynch.

As a bonus, the detective had named me innocent. Mwahahaha

Ignoramus killed (no surprises there)

I was delighted to see that GH and crew had decided to keep with the one kill per day. Making GH seem innocent was priority #1. I quickly stated that I believed it was Sigurd and not B_Ray who was a mafioso. I also posted some helpful looking analysis which coincidentaly put all three mafioso's in the "probably innocent" category. I wasn't worried by that fact that I was in the "more likely to be guilty" category, I could defend myself and had been named innocent. GH was the only one to even mention this.

The spartan made a careless point and I accused him --> bandwagon --> execution. All too easy. We were on a roll.

Reenk Roink killed

"If it ain't broke don't fix it"

Following the pattern that seemed to be working, I quickly jumped in and cast suspicion on Drisos and Gertgregoor. This was picked up on and Gertgregoor was lynched.

No one killed, but 4 wrath of god

I was pleased to see the wrath of god come into play, it made up for the fact that we were only killing one per turn, and anyway it's hard to start wagons on lurkers.

I noticed that Crazed Rabbit had voted no lynch, and decided to accuse him on that basis (it's bad for town). I posted without reading the second page where GH also voted no lynch *oops* it made me look innocent at least. Happily, people picked up on the Crazed Rabbit wagon (Cowhead gave a good boost to a lot of these wagons, well played m8).

CR posted his regrets which I thought could be made to look like a confession. I would use this later. Also, it's always good to have the townspeople think they are winning, and that at least some of the wagons I was starting had merit.

Orb is killed

...right after voting GH. I liked the boldness :)

Our numbers were slimming down. I decided Divine Wind would be an easy target. He was.

Destroyer of Hope is killed

A bandwagon quickly starts on discovery1. doc_bean calls GH on bandwagoning, this made me decide to get him lynched, using that very post against him. Aided by "I don't want another warning" sentiments which I was happy to buy into, the lynch is quick.

emfm is killed

With 9 remaining, we only had to lynch one more before ensuring our victory. I posted the argument against doc_bean which I'd been saving. It was popular.

Masy killed

With 7 left and 4 mafia the game is essentially over, though GH's lack of vote meant we couldn't force lynch anybody. Through PM discussion with GH I knew he was going after BKS. I did as well. BKS and Drisos seemed to realize something was up this round. I'm curious as to how Dutch_Guy would have voted. I wasn't taking particular pains to appear innocent now, hadn't for a while once I realized people were so eager to wagon. If had actually been innocent I would have been very hesitant about voting anyone.

Dutch_guy, Drisos, and BKS killed (by yours truly :D )

Loved the endstory Silver.

All in all a REALLY fun game for me. I was the only one who knew what was going on, and enjoyed pulling strings. In future games I do hope the town will be a little more pro-active. It certainly will be if I'm a townie.

[Kommodus]

Wow, I must say, that's some fantastic strategizing on the part of the mafia! You guys had the hapless townspeople dancing to your tune the entire way through! GH, I had thought my strategy was good, but yours had more depth. My tactics depended on totally avoiding suspicion, and once accused I couldn't defend myself effectively. You, on the other hand, seemed to laugh in the face of multiple accusations, and successfully defended yourself each time. Your idea of getting the influential people on your side (rather than killing them off) was also a clever move.

Sasaki, that was some masterful manipulation on your part - you made it look easy. The poor townspeople never knew what hit 'em; although in fairness, they didn't know there would be a mafia mastermind. I'd say that given the team of villains assembled for this game, your chances of success were good, and you certainly seized the opportunity!

Congratulations are also in order for the other two mafiosos, who thoroughly avoided suspicion, and for Silver Rusher on a game well-hosted.

I've noticed a bit of a trend here: as more people host Mafia and Mafia-like games, each individual game seems to get less attention, and some stagnate. That said, I'm not certain I'm going to host a game of my own just yet, as too many games going simultaneously can kill each one. GH, if you're starting yours up right away, I may wait a while. Sasaki's game will be over soon, as will UltraWar's. It would probably be better for me to wait until that point to begin.

[doc_bean]

I was pretty sure GeneralHankerChief was the Godfather, I voted for him several times, alas, no one followed and I couldn't prove a thing...

Well played !