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Mafia 87.5: The Numbers Game When Transcendentals Attack!

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Posted 16 May 2012 - 10:16 PM

In a conclave in far-off Numeria, a high urgency session of council of the Naturals was in session. All of the senior dignitaries were there - the hero 0, the fantastic 5, the magnificent 7, the 1 (for he needs no epithet) and of course, wise 42, along with several other primes of note.

"Grave news from our fraction brethren!" exclaimed 23. "Their spies report an imminent attack by the Irrationals!" At this, frightened murmurs broke out around the room. The Irrationals were a large nation whose domain was worryingly close to Natural territory. Led by their fearless leader √2, they had been posturing for some time about expanding outwards into neighbouring territory. And the Naturals were a juicy target - their lands were the most fertile, their landmarks the most well known and coveted throughout the Continuum of Numeria.

"Do we know what they are planning?" asked 2, anxiously. 2 and his family owned the most Natural real estate of any of the Prime factions, and he was keen to hold onto it.

"My contact with the fractions is 22/7." responded 23. "He has a strong interest in Transcendental affairs, so much so that he is regarded as something of an expert on the subject. And he told me that the signs were clear - the Irrationals have managed to convince the greatest warriors of the Transcendental elite to join their cause!". Everybody in the room was stunned. They know that could only mean one thing...

π and e were coming!
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Posted 19 May 2012 - 10:42 PM

The standard rules of Mafia:

Game Mechanics

1 - General Structure
Players may begin posting as soon as the mods announce that the game has started on the thread. The game begins during the day. The day ends when when a sufficient number of people have voted to lynch a player (remove that player from the game) or voted to end the day without a lynch. Many games also have time limits on the days, and if no consensus is reached when the time expires, the day ends with no lynch (35 hours is the time limit for the present game). When the day phase has ended, night begins. The mods will then post a scene reporting the outcome of the day. Players may continue posting in the thread (unless they've been voted out) but no voting is allowed. Night ends when the mods post the morning scene reporting the outcome of the night actions. Day and night phases continue to alternate until the game ends.

2 - Day Phase
During the day, players may post in the thread and vote. Some roles may have special powers which can be used during the day.

2.1 - Voting Mechanics
To vote for a player: bold "vote" and that player's name.
To vote to end the day without a lynch: bold the phrase "vote night".
To remove your vote without casting a new vote: bold the phrase "remove vote".
To change your vote for a player: First bold remove vote then vote for the new player.

The vote should be positioned at the end of a post, and be clearly seperated from the rest of the post. Example:


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your text, many quotes, brilliant arguments and a clever and convincing conclusion. Alternatively, a lame joke.

remove vote

vote Killer




2.2 - Voting Restrictions
You may only vote during the day phase. You can only have one vote outstanding at any time. You may not edit a vote into a post. You may not edit a vote out of a post.

2.3 - Bold Restrictions
The use of bold should be limited to voting. If you want to emphasize a players name or another word, you can underline the word or post using a different color

2.4 - Majority Defined
A majority means either more than half of the active players voting for one player's lynch or half or more of the active players voting to go to night without a lynch.
If a player is modkilled during the day, the majorities will not adjust.
If a player dies during the day due to a player's ability, majorities will adjust.

2.5 - Ending the Day
The day ends as soon as a majority is reached (or, if the game has a day time limit and the players fail to achieve a majority, once the time limit has elapsed). Anyone lynched is no longer an active player and must not post in the thread. Votes can no longer be withdrawn and new votes cannot be cast until the night phase ends.

2.6 - Evening Scene
The mods will post a scene shortly after the day ends to report the results of the day actions. If the day ended with a player's lynch, the mods might also reveal information about the lynched player, such as the player's alt or alignment. This is the mods' choice, and they'll explain what, if any, information will be revealed in the game rules. There are no hidden clues in the evening scenes.

3 - Night Phase
During the night, players may post in the thread but may not vote. Some players will have the ability to perform special actions. Once again, the mods decide which roles will be included for their game, so be sure to fully read the game rules and any role descriptions which may be included.

3.1 - Performing a Night Action
If your role includes the ability to perform a special action at night, you need to PM the mods to indicate the action you wish to take. Most, if not all, roles have the ability to "withhold" their powers (i.e. take no action). This will be made clear to the roled players, and, usually, to all other players as well. If you chose to not perform your allowed action, you must PM "no action" to the mods. Most games have a time limit on nights (12 hours is the time limit for the present game). All players must PM their night actions to the mods within this timeframe. Players are strongly encouraged to send their night actions as soon as possible. You may also send in a PM for your special action during the day phase, this is very strongly encouraged.

3.2 - Contingent PM
If you send in a PM during the day phase, you may choose to list alternative actions contingent on the manner in which the day ended. If none of the contingencies you list actually occur, your PM will be disregarded, and you must send a new PM to the mods (example: if Meanas is lynched I kill Kaschan, otherwise I kill Hood's Path).

3.3 - Provisional PM
You may choose to send a provisional PM if you want to further consider your night action but do not want to extend the night if all other roled players have decided upon their actions. Provisional PMs must be clearly marked as such. A provisional PM will not be acted upon by the mods until it becomes a 'definite PM.' A provisional PM becomes definite as soon as ( a ) you confirm your choice with another PM, ( b ) all other roled players that need to send night actions have done so, or ( c ) the time limit for the night has expired.

As a courtesy to other players we ask that you confirm your provisional PM as soon as you are able.

3.4 - Last Resort PM
In extraordinary circumstances you may be allowed to send in a last resort PM. A last resort PM will not be acted upon by the mods until ( a ) you confirm your choice with another PM or ( b ) the time limit for the night has expired. Should you need to send a last resort PM, you must first seek the mods approval by explaining the circumstances that necessitate such a PM. Last resort PMs are accepted only at the discretion of the mods.

3.5 - Failure to PM
If not all PMs are received within the time limit, everyone who has failed to send in a PM will be considered to have taken no action. In addition, those who failed to send in a PM will be warned by the mods or may risk further penalties.

3.6 - Changing a Night Action
PMs to the mod can be changed at any point before the new day is announced. A PM is considered to be changed only after the mod receives and has read the PM. The player bears the risk that the mod will post the morning scene after the player has sent in a new PM but before the mod has actually read it.

3.7 - Abusing the Time Limit
If the mods have included a night time limit, it begins as soon as the previous day ended, regardless of when the mods posted the evening scene. However, this time limit is a maximum limit, and all players should send in PMs as soon as they feel comfortable doing so. Players (and mods) prefer shorter nights, as people are anxious to see who may have died and to begin voting again. If the mods feel that a player is abusing the time limit by unreasonably stalling, they may force the player to take no night action or take other appropriate action.

3.8 Preventing Night Actions
Except where expressly noted, no night actions prevent any other night actions sent in from taking effect.

3.9 - Morning Scene
The night phase ends when the mods post the morning scene. The mods will post the scene shortly after all night action PMs have been received. The scene will report any player deaths that occurred during the night, and might also reveal information about the lynched player, such as the player's alt or alignment. There are no hidden clues in the morning scenes. As soon as the scene is posted any players who have been killed at night will no longer be active players and can no longer post in the thread. The time limit for the new day will begin with the morning scene.

Section 4 - Endgame
The game will continue to alternate between day and night phases until the game ends. The game can end after either a day or night phase.

4.1 - Winning Conditions
The game ends once one faction has reached its winning conditions, which the mods will state in a later post.

Mafia is a team game. Once one faction achieves its winning conditions, all members of that faction have won whether or not they are active players when the winning conditions are achieved.

4.2 - Ending Scene
The mods will post an ending scene and declare the game over shortly after one faction achieves its winning conditions. If for any reason it becomes impossible for either faction to achieve its winning conditions, the mods will declare the game a draw.

The game is only over when a mod posts the ending scene. Even if you know (or believe you know) the result of the game before then, you may not post in the thread unless you are an active player.

4.3 - Calling the Game Early
The mods reserve the right to end the game at any time before a faction achieves its winning conditions provided there are compelling reasons to do so. In general, the mods will end the game early as soon as one faction's victory becomes inevitable.

4.4 - Spoilers
When the game is over, the mods will reveal the alts and roles of everybody who played and also give everyone access to the spoiled spectator threads on the discussion board.

RULES

All players must:

A1) Have an account on malazanempire.com/forums

A2) Log in and view the thread and the discussion board anonymously at all times, unless they have informed the mods that this is not possible for technical reasons or if you are the all powerful tyrant Steve

A3) Post at least once every 36 hours. Any player who has not posted within the last 36 hours will be automatically modkilled, whether or not the mods announce this on the thread. Warnings will be issued after 24 hours and subsequently closer to the deadline.

The mods may grant extensions to this limit in some cases (if so, they will give details in a later post). However, if they have not posted on the thread to announce an extension before the 24 hour limit is reached, no extension will be granted, whatever may have been said elsewhere. Please contact the mods as early as possible if you wish to request an extension.

A4) Send in role prescribed night actions (including the desire to take no action) within the time limit

A5) Treat everybody else playing with courtesy and respect

A6) Make any edits the mods request of them as soon as possible, whether or not they believe that the posts need to be edited.

A7) Contact the game mods as soon as possible if they feel you are at risk of breaking a rule or fear they or another person may have already done so.

A8) You must not edit previous posts unless to change spelling or grammar.

Players must not:

B1) Act in any way intended to reduce the chance of their faction achieving its win conditions. (However, should all surviving members of a faction agree that they wish to resign and end the game early, they may do so by PMing the mods privately, without stating their intentions on-thread until the mods post to announce that the game is over.)

B2) Discuss the game with any other living players outside this game thread except when told they may do so in their role PMs.

B3) Reveal any information about the game at all in any other thread than this one, or in any other forum (including message boards and chat rooms) where it may be seen by a living player.

B4) Give anybody access to any of their accounts (including game alts, if the game is using them), either here or on the mafia discussion board.

B5) Attempt to obtain advice about the game from anybody not currently playing.

B6) Post information on the thread relating to another player's past or current activity on (or absence from) the board that would not otherwise be available to anybody reading the thread.

B7) Quote, in whole or part, PMs from (or other private conversations with) the mods on the thread, or discuss the timing of any PMs sent to the mods.

B8) Post on the thread at any time after they are dead until the mods themselves post on the thread to announce that the game is over. Any posts accidently made after death should be immediately edited blank.

B9) Make any bets about the game.

B10) Offer to break any of these rules or any other rules the mods have set in place for the game, encourage others to do so or help to conceal the fact that rules have been broken.

B11) Revealing the name of your character is expressly forbidden both in the living thread and in the beyond, doing so will result in a modkill and the removal of your player from both here and heaven.

AND JUST SO YOU KNOW

C1) Failure to comply with the rules may result in any punishment the mods deem appropriate, including, but not limited to: a request to edit posts; formal warnings on thread; "modkilling", lashing, spanking, paddling, the rack, thumbscrews, waterboarding, time-out, death and/or ending the game prematurely in favor of one faction or none. Except where clearly stated in the rules, the mods are free to respond to any rules violation in whatever manner they wish. In all cases the mods' decision on these matters is final.

C2) Feel free to PM your thoughts (or questions) to the mods. We love to hear them!

C3) The mods reserve the right to amend the rules during the game if we realize we've forgotten to cover something.

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As well as running the game on this thread, the mods are also responsible for administering the spoiler thread on the temporary forum and anybody not actively involved in the game (whether spectators or dead players who no longer wish to play) can request access to this thread by PMing the mods. Only dead players will have access to the Beyond. Please note that while in general the mods will be happy to let anybody have access to this thread, they do reserve the right to refuse access to anybody for any reason. Accordingly, please do not ask anybody other than the mods for access to the spoiler thread or give yourself access to it, even if you have the power to do so. Any posts found to contravene these rules will be deleted and the responsible players will be added to a blacklist for any future games run my this mod.

Once given access to the thread, spoiled spectators should also take note of the following rules, and must not:

D1) Share any information from the spoiler thread with living players, or post such in a forum where it may be seen by living players.

D2) Offer any advice, hints or strategy to living players.

D3) Make personal attacks on players in the game or on posters in the spoiler thread itself

D4) Post on the game thread before the mods announce that the game is over.

D5) PM living or dead players with comments on the game.

This post has been edited by Path-Shaper: 22 May 2012 - 12:48 AM

Only someone with this much power could make this many frittatas without breaking any eggs.
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Posted 19 May 2012 - 10:55 PM

Game Specific Rules:

- Day is 35 hours long, Night is 1 hour long.
- This game will have a killer pair and a symp vs. a town devoid of any roles. Here are the PMs you will receive depending on your role:

Killer:

Quote

You are [one of e or π], the famed transcendental warrior. Working in tandem with your partner _________, you seek to bring the Naturals to their knees. You may communicate with him in the thread provided. You may decide between you to kill one player each night.

Coroner Result:
Upon death, you will be announced to the thread as a Transcendental.

Victory Condition:
The Transcendentals must achieve a majority.



Example Roleless Innocent PM:

Quote

You are 144, known as 'The Gross'. Your only hope of surviving the Transcendental onslaught is to work together with your Natural brethren to defeat them.

Coroner Result:
Upon death, you will be announced to the thread as a Natural.

Victory Condition::
Both Transcendentals must be defeated.



NOTE: The RI players are each distinct numbers. All of them have their own epithets to match - here is the full list:

1 - 'The One'
2 - 'The Company'
3 - 'The Crowd'
4 - 'The Fantastic'
5 - 'The Famous'
6 - 'The Perfect'
7 - 'The Magnificent'
8 - 'The Ocho'
12 - 'The Dirty'
42 - 'The Answer'

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 11:47 PM

It is Day 1. There are 35 hours remaining.

12 players remaining:

Ampelas, Anomandaris, D'riss, Fener, Galain, Karosis, Korbas, Rashan, Sheltatha Lore, Telas, Thyrllan, Tulas Shorn

No-one has voted.



Let the games begin!


EDIT: BOOO! At the someone who started early. BOOOO!

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 11:47 PM

First!

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 11:48 PM

Hello everyone!

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 11:59 PM

*grumbles*

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:02 AM

*waves* Here for a few moments.

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:03 AM

And who got themselves renamed "Blaspheming Peon of Fail"?

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:13 AM

That was Terry Goodkind.

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:16 AM

Hello everyone, it's really good to get this game going and I can't wait to see what shenanigans it will bring. I'm seeing a lot of starred gesticulations and such - is this signalling perhaps? Anyway, something for us to keep an eye on. Something else for us to keep an eye on is the order of the people who sign on becuase that could be important. And also posting which is also important to look at. But I'm of course already on the lookout for that and I've already spotted something, could be quite interesting, could be not interesting at all. We've had our fun so it's now time to play this game seriously, and talking of seriously what does everyone think of roles? Now I know Path-Shaper said all innos are roleless, but do we think that there might be roles anyway. I think Galain could be a healer. And I think Fener could be a symp because of his waving - but then why is he waving at Galain, who is a healer? Perhaps he thinks that Galain is a killer and is trying to signal to him, because he doesn't quite know how to play the role of symp, but perhaps by playing this game with us he can gain a few tips. He's got enthusiasm but he just doesn't have the head for this game yet. Because of this

Vote D'riss

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:17 AM

O_o

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:21 AM

View PostSheltatha Lore, on 22 May 2012 - 12:16 AM, said:

Hello everyone, it's really good to get this game going and I can't wait to see what shenanigans it will bring. I'm seeing a lot of starred gesticulations and such - is this signalling perhaps? Anyway, something for us to keep an eye on. Something else for us to keep an eye on is the order of the people who sign on becuase that could be important. And also posting which is also important to look at. But I'm of course already on the lookout for that and I've already spotted something, could be quite interesting, could be not interesting at all. We've had our fun so it's now time to play this game seriously, and talking of seriously what does everyone think of roles? Now I know Path-Shaper said all innos are roleless, but do we think that there might be roles anyway. I think Galain could be a healer. And I think Fener could be a symp because of his waving - but then why is he waving at Galain, who is a healer? Perhaps he thinks that Galain is a killer and is trying to signal to him, because he doesn't quite know how to play the role of symp, but perhaps by playing this game with us he can gain a few tips. He's got enthusiasm but he just doesn't have the head for this game yet. Because of this

Vote D'riss


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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:25 AM

Also, I think there's probably a code in the numbers - how does all that fit into the game. Perhaps certain number combination put together can get another power perhaps like a lover link like if two prime numbers like 1 and 3 or maybe 2 or perhaps 7 found each other then they could be bonded. I think that this is probably likely. Another thing that we should look out for which I reckon that I've sussed because you have to have a head for this game and I've got my head screwed on tightly, maybe a little too tightly, is that the killers might be just one person in two alts. I think this because ST is really intelligent because he was Anomandaris in the last game wasn't he and he made really good, clever intelligent posts and he was great and I loved him and I reckon he would do something really clever and intelligent like throw a twist in there like one killer in two alts. Only it's not that intelligent because I've already worked it out.

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:27 AM

sheteltha lore is reaching








vote galain





shet is clearly dumping him

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:28 AM

View PostGalain, on 22 May 2012 - 12:21 AM, said:

View PostSheltatha Lore, on 22 May 2012 - 12:16 AM, said:

Hello everyone, it's really good to get this game going and I can't wait to see what shenanigans it will bring. I'm seeing a lot of starred gesticulations and such - is this signalling perhaps? Anyway, something for us to keep an eye on. Something else for us to keep an eye on is the order of the people who sign on becuase that could be important. And also posting which is also important to look at. But I'm of course already on the lookout for that and I've already spotted something, could be quite interesting, could be not interesting at all. We've had our fun so it's now time to play this game seriously, and talking of seriously what does everyone think of roles? Now I know Path-Shaper said all innos are roleless, but do we think that there might be roles anyway. I think Galain could be a healer. And I think Fener could be a symp because of his waving - but then why is he waving at Galain, who is a healer? Perhaps he thinks that Galain is a killer and is trying to signal to him, because he doesn't quite know how to play the role of symp, but perhaps by playing this game with us he can gain a few tips. He's got enthusiasm but he just doesn't have the head for this game yet. Because of this

Vote D'riss




Just quoting my post without any comments is really strange. You're playing quite strangely, do you know that? Perhaps you haven't worked out how to play mafia yet but stick with me and I'll show you, because you have to have a head and talent for mafia and some people do and others just don't, but I'm sure you'll improve. But you've quoted my post so I have to reply though you didn't address me directly but I have to reply anyways.

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:41 AM

Well I can't play this game on my own although I probably could but you other guys need to be posting and I'm getting quite suspicious of those who haven't signed in yet because we've been going for a while now, at least half an hour, and they still haven't signed in, so that's suspicious. Also if you have no reply it means that you're hiding something because you've withered under my all-questioning gaze.

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:43 AM

View PostAnomandaris, on 22 May 2012 - 12:17 AM, said:

O_o


Are you silenced?

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:44 AM

Wait, what, i actually replied? I was going to say something but decided against it, yet i must've pressed post and accidentally just quoted Shelly.

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 12:44 AM

Anomandaris, if you are silenced then can you tell us who silenced you and why you think they silenced and who could have silenced you. And just because you are silenced doesn't mean you should stop posting. In fact it's really important for you to post because something you've done has drawn the attention of the silencer and so you now need to tell us what it is.

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