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ASB Halloween Mafia

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ASB Halloween Mafia​

ASB Central was decked out for the event, ariados-webs draped from streetlamps and skyscrapers and glowing jack-o'-lanterns grinning from windows up and down the broad streets. The party was ready, too, the cavernous lobby of the Pokémon Registration Office packed with ASB members, all in costume and chatting with one another and sampling the hors d'oeuvres. The place was dim, lit only by flickering candles that the administration had decided were appropriate "mood lighting," and as time wore on, the guests began to get a bit impatient. The punch was almost gone, the cake had long since been devoured by an unwisely-released salamence, and there was still no sign of Negrek, who was expected to give some corny speech or other to announce the Halloween Festival's beginning.

At last, a runner was dispatched to find the head referee and discover just what she was playing at. The alakazam charged with the task, though, teleported in upon an awful sight: Negrek, lying slumped over her desk, blood gumming her keyboard and puddling viscously on the floor. Her throat had been viciously slashed, no doubt the handiwork of one of ASB's most notorious villains, Kusarigamaitachi.

Upon hearing the news, the ASB populace was thrown into a panic. With the head referee dead, the league was without a leader, and now there was no one to protect them from further attacks. To make matters worse, by tradition no member could appear without costume for the entire month of October, when the festival would conclude. How could they know if, behind that furry ursaring mask, the smile of a killer was lurking? Was that member who had decided to dress up like a muk just a harmless prankster or someone whose soul was as foul as the scent they gave off?

With nowhere to turn and new casualties coming to light each morning, the members of ASB banded together, settling upon a totally logical and non-extremist solution. Once per day, they would convene in ASB central and decide, by vote, one amongst their number to kill. In this way they hoped to eliminate the evil members circulating in their midst, who were now preying upon innocent battlers with the top executive out of the way. Even better, the league decided to offer a prize to those who could survive the ordeal--15 festival points, enough in and of itself to buy a rare candy if the lucky member so chose, to those oh-so-lucky survivors who helped bring the Mafia to justice.

The Basics
(This and other large portions of this post and the next were created by Butterfree)

This is a game based on the game Mafia or Werewolf with an ASB theme to it. To quote Wikipedia, it is a clash between the informed minority, the mafia, and the uninformed majority, the citizens or innocents. Each person in the game has a randomly assigned role which may permit the person to do something special during either of the game's two phases, day and night.

This will all become clearer as you read on.

The Mafia

Kusarigamaitachi - The ringleader, known for taking pleasure in eliminating its victims in the most gruesome way possible, usually with slashing or rending weapons. It has teamed up with Byrus to purge the ASB of weaklings, but at this point acts as the leader and is responsible for the actual killing. It may discuss who to kill next with Byrus during the night, but if the two disagree Kusarigamaitachi's choice will win out in the end.

Byrus - Kusarigamaitachi's teammate. He can discuss whom to kill with Kusarigamaitachi each night, but if he disagrees with Kusari, it has the final say. While Kusarigamaitachi is alive, he won't actively participate in murders, but that doesn't mean he'll hesitate to take on the job if his "teammate" is eliminated. His preferred method of killing is unknown, but one thing is for certain: you don't want learn the answer firsthand.

rock-ground - Who apparently also considers himself good at being the explody guy. Unfortunately, he ended up getting drafted into the real Mafia, which is a considerably more dangerous position to be in, though he doesn't take part in any actual killings until both of his superiors have been picked off.

Kratos Aurion - Not cool enough to be in the actual Mafia, but wishes he was anyway. Neither Byrus nor Kusarigamaitachi knows who he is, nor does he know their true identities, and he doesn't participate in their discussions. Instead, he hangs out on the sidelines, quietly cheering them on. If the mafia manage to kill every innocent member, he also wins. If, however, he is pressed, he's "good at being the explody guy," and can choose to employ this talent if the other members vote to kill him during the day. Before they can carry out the sentence, he will run up to any other member and blow himself up, killing himself but also taking out the member of his choice. If surskitty checks his IP, she won't realize his true alignment and will consider him innocent.

The Innocents

surskitty - Using her modly powers, surskitty is capable of running an IP check on any member she chooses, enabling her to identify whether or not they are a known mafia member. Unfortunately, because the IP search function in the mod CP is ridiculously slow, she may only use this ability once per night.

Chiropter - One of only two Elite Referees not killed or turned to the side of evil, Chiropter can use his arcane referee powers to prevent loss of life by casting Wish on a member of his choice once per night. If that member would be killed through any means, they will not die. However, if Keta and Chiropter both choose to target the same member using Wish, the clash of their intense powers will destroy that member instead of saving them.

Keta - One of only two Elite Referees not killed or turned to the side of evil, Keta can use her arcane referee powers to prevent loss of life by casting Wish on a member of her choice once per night. If that member would be killed through any means, they will not die. However, if Keta and Chiropter both choose to target the same member using Wish, the clash of their intense powers will destroy that member instead of saving them.

Full Metal Cookies - moon-panther's rival. The two are close friends and are always battling one another to grow stronger. If moon-panther is killed and Full Metal Cookies is still alive, she will go mad with grief and use her next night action to hunt down and kill the member she most suspects to be responsible. Full Metal Cookies knows who moon-panther is, but the two cannot communicate.

moon-panther - Full Metal Cookie's rival. The two are close friends and are always battling one another to grow stronger. If Full Metal Cookies is killed and moon-panther is still alive, she will go mad with grief and track down one of the members she suspects to be mafia and kill them out of revenge. moon-panther knows who Full Metal Cookies is, but the two cannot communicate.

Icalasari - Determined not to go down without a fight, Icalasari keeps his bases covered. Using his referee powers, he can cast destiny bond on himself once per night, such that if he is killed by vote in the following day, he will drag one member of his choice to the grave with him.

Grass King - A long-time member and common contest participant, Grass King is well known and easy to recognize. Using his reputation to his advantage, Grass King can attract the attention of any one of the other ASB members, causing them to ignore their initial target and use their powers against him instead. Grass King is told all attacks that are target him, but not whether they came from the member he distracted or someone else entirely. If he distracts Byrus before Kusarigamaitachi has been killed, he will not die, as Byrus does not take an active role in the murders until Kusarigamaitachi is dead.

Normal Members - Of course, a variety of normal members also populate the ASB forum and are just as worried as anyone else about the killings. They may not have any special powers to lend to the fight against the mafia, but it is up to them to use their numerical advantage and voting powers to find the traitors in their midst.

Variable Alignment

Walker or Light Mightyena - Novice referees who, while not as powerful as their Elite counterparts, have powers of their own. At this point, they haven't decided whether they wish to side with good or evil; they are also able to decide which, among many, strategies they would like to employ to help them win. During the first night, Walker and Light Mightyena can choose to activate one of their referee powers and choose either the Innocents or the Mafia to side with. After that they will function exactly like this role. If Walker or Light Mightyena chooses to align with the Mafia, he or she is informed of who the Mafia members are and they of who he or she is, but not until the end of the first night. When killed, Walker and Light Mightyena appear to be innocent no matter what their true alignment was.

Randomizer - If Walker or Light Mightyena selects this power, one night during the course of the game, they may choose to use Randomizer. This power will cause the targets of all night actions to be randomized as anything not the user's chosen target. When the trainers wake up, they will see the haze and realize that their targets were scrambled, but they will not know who they really targeted. Night actions without a specific target will go through as normal.

Terrain Master - If Walker or Light Mightyena selects this power, every night, he or she chooses a player to use be struck by a random lightning bolt, as per ASB Central's arena description, causing the target to become paralyzed. That player's night action, if any, will then not happen.

DQ - If Walker or Light Mightyena selects this power, one night during the course of the game, they may choose to end the night early at whatever point they choose during the Midnight stage. Any night actions that happen after this point (see the order of night actions below; this is not a question of when the night actions are sent in) will be skipped, and instead the dead are simply rounded up and the next day starts.

Target Determination - If Walker or Light Mightyena selects this power, every night, they pick a player to use Psych Up on. Instead of being targeted by whatever targeted them that night (excluding surskitty’s IP check and Grass King's distraction), they will be targeted by whatever was used on the player he or she targeted during that night.

Direct Healing - If Walker or Light Mightyena selects this power, every night they may choose use Moonlight. This protects them from nighttime assaults of any kind - and better yet, it does not clash with the healers' Wishes if they are used on them. However, if they use Moonlight any one night, they can not use it again the next night, and they are of course always vulnerable to execution during the day.

Terrain Master 2 - If Walker or Light Mightyena selects this power, every night, they may choose a player to be struck by a random Grasswhistle, as per the ASB Central terrain description. That player will then sleep through the next day and be unable to participate in discussion and voting. That a player is sleeping through the day will be noted in the morning. If Walker or Light Mightyena choose nothing, they will simply not perform a night action.

Vanished - If Walker or Light Mightyena selects this power, they drop out of sight entirely, flying beneath the radar and leaving confused, bereft battlers in this wake. While in this stealth form, they are very difficult to see during the night. If any lethal attack targets them, it has a 50% chance of missing her altogether.

The Alien

Music Dragon - An enigmatic and whimsical soul, but not one without sinister elements. Ordinarily good-natured and unassuming, he is protected by an aura of good cheer such that even the most powerful of mafia members will be repulsed and unable to kill him. However, after an attempt on his life by the mafia is made, he is transformed into a bitter, raging pillar of barely-concealed hatred and resentment. If it is voted that he be killed while in this state, he will instead snap and unleash his true power upon all of ASB, leveling the place in a wave of over-9,000 strength that will leave none standing but him. In such an instance, he wins, and this is the only way that he can win. If it is voted that he be killed or if he is killed by another means before transforming, he still loses as usual. If the mafia attack him again after his transformation, or if he is killed by some means other than the vote at this time, he again dies as normal. After his transformation, surskitty will identify him as mafia, and he will be posthumously identified as Mafia if he somehow dies in this state.

The Game

This is a game of Mafia like any other, except that the roles are based upon forum members rather than pokémon or HP characters or whatever. Sign-ups will take place in this thread and are open until Friday, October 10th. Currently, I plan to take all members who sign up, adding more mafia members if necessary, but if it gets really crazy I'll cut signups off before Friday. Next Friday, the thread will be locked and a new one shortly created for discussion and the actual progression of the game.

If you have played this form of Mafia in the past, I have stuck all the rules in the next post so that you can conveniently ignore them. If, however, you've never played before, please read them carefully and make sure that you understand them. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask them.

Participants
Catch-22
Kusarigamaitachi
o_0
Kratos Aurion
Byrus
Grass King
MurrMurr
Walker
Prettzel
Flareth
shadow_lugia
Blaziking 175
PichuK
Full Metal Cookies
Chiropter
Bobino
Worst Username Ever
Involuntary Twitch
Animorph
Flora and Ashes
EvilCrazyMonkey
Keta
Crowned Clown
Capitain Jay
Ruieko
turbler
Seretinajii
thor165
MidnightSaboteur
NWT
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The Game

When a game is about to start, the Game Master will use any random generator to assign each role randomly to one player (although if there are more players than roles, the rest can all be normal members or variable-alignment roles can be added), letting it be known in advance which roles will be used. Note that although the roles are named after members of the ASB, you WILL NOT be the role corresponding to your name, most likely. If the RNG wants to give it to you, whatever. Please try not to confuse actual players with the roles; if Kusarigamaitachi chooses to participate, it is not necessarily evil except that it always is, one way or another.

After each player has received a role, the game will start and the first night phase, which lasts 48 hours, will begin. The Game Master PM's each participant with their role and the deadline for sending in night actions.

The Night Phase

During this phase of the game, each player with a night action will send the Game Master a PM containing the username of the player they wish to use their night action on (their REAL username, not the username of the role you want to try and eliminate!) or, if it is an action with no specific target, whether they will use it or not, at any point before the deadline.

If a player (other than Kusarigamaitachi if Byrus is alive) foresees not being able to send in a night action, he may PM the Game Master beforehand with an advance choice. The advance choice may use conditionals, but only concerning things that would be public to the player if he were active during that night, e.g. "I will heal X if Y claims to be Kratos in the thread," but not something like, "I will heal X if X is not Mafia," because that is something the player would not know.

When the deadline comes along, the Game Master will randomly generate any night actions he has not received so that a Mafia attack will target any non-Mafia player and all other attacks will target any player excluding the user, and then execute the night actions in the following order (eliminating, of course, any steps pertaining to players not currently in the game):

Game Preparation (these night actions occur with a shorter deadline on the first night, and then never again.)
1) Grass King picks a player to distract.

Evening (These are night actions in which the player must choose something in advance which may affect things that happen afterwards.)
1) First night only: Walker and Light Mightyena inform the Game Master of their chosen power and alignment. This is their only night action for the first night, but on all successive nights, they will have the night action associated with the power they chose. Walker and Light Mightyena immediately become endowed with their chosen power and are considered to have their chosen alignment, however.
2) Grass King chooses a player to distract if he has not done so already.
3) Walker or Light Mightyena in DQ mode choose whether to end the night early and, if they do, when in the night it should be used, by specifying any one of the Midnight steps to end the night immediately after. They may also choose to terminate it at the beginning of the Midnight. For example, they may choose to end the night after step one of the Midnight, which will cause the Game Master to skip right to Dawnbreak after Midnight step one so that the Mafia will have acted, but the healers will not have gotten the chance to do so. They need only PM the Game Master if they do wish to use DQ; the default is not to use it.
4) Walker or Light Mightyena in Terrain Master mode choose a player to use Thunder Wave on. If that player has a night action executed after this point, it will be ignored.
5) Walker or Light Mightyena in Randomizer mode choose whether to use Haze or not and need only PM the Game Master if they do wish to do it, as by default they will not. If this is done, all succeeding night actions will be randomized to pick any target excluding the user and the user's actual chosen target.

Midnight (These steps determine who will die in this night. At this point, you should create a Death Queue list which players will be added to and removed from during these steps.)
1) The Mafia picks a player to kill. If Kusarigamaitachi is targeted by Grass King's Follow Me, or if Kusari is dead and Byrus is targeted by Grass King’s distraction, the killing will be redirected upon Grass King, but the Mafia will not be informed of this. The player killed is put on the Death Queue.
2) Chiropter and Keta each choose the player they wish to heal. If either of them is targeted by Grass King’s distraction, his/her Wish will be redirected upon Grass King, but s/he will not be notified. If one of them is on the Death Queue, s/he will not use his/her healing. If a player on the Death Queue is targeted with Wish, he or she is now removed from the Death Queue. If a player not on the Death Queue is targeted with two Wishes, he or she will be put on the Death Queue. If the target is Walker or Light Mightyena in Vanished mode, flip a coin and add either to the Death Queue only if it shows tails.
3) If Music Dragon is in his normal form, is on the Death Queue at this point and was targeted to kill, he will now become his enraged form and be removed from the Death Queue.
4) Full Metal Cookies and moon-panther each choose the player they wish to target if the other is currently on the Death Queue or was killed the previous day. They do not know whether the other is on the Death Queue, so this action is ignored if the other is not dead the previous day or on the Death Queue. Full Metal Cookies and moon-panther also cannot retaliate if they themselves are on the Death Queue. If Full Metal Cookies or moon-panther is targeted by Grass King’s distraction, and the other one is dead the previous day or on the Death Queue, their attack will be redirected upon Grass King instead and Full Metal Cookies and moon-panther will not be informed of the change. If Full Metal Cookies or moon-panther successfully targets a normal form Music Dragon, Music Dragon will now become his monster form. If the target is Walker or Light Mightyena in Vanished mode, flip a coin and add either to the Death Queue only if it shows tails.
5) Walker and Light Mightyena in Target Determination Mode choose a player to use Psych Up on. Whatever attacks may have targeted that player in the night so far will also target Walker or Light Mightyena, and whatever attacks may have originally targeted them (except for Grass King’s distraction) will be ignored.
6) Walker or Light Mightyena in Direct Healing mode choose whether to use Moonlight. If they do and are on the Death Queue, they are now taken off it, but may not use Moonlight again the next night.

Twilight (These night actions prepare for the day.)
1) Icalasari picks a player to use Destiny Bond on. If Icalasari is executed the following day, the player he used Destiny Bond will die as well.
3) surskitty chooses a living player that she wishes to use IP Check on. The Game Master PMs him with the current alignment of said player in accordance with the role descriptions, even if that player or surskitty herself is on the Death Queue. If surskitty was targeted with surskitty's distraction this night, surskitty will inspect Grass King instead but will not be notified of the change.

Dawnbreak (Finally, the Game Master PMs some users with necessary information and cleans up the night.)
1) If Music Dragon has become his enraged form, the Game Master should now PM him to notify him of this.
2) The Game Master PMs Grass King with the name of each attack that he was targeted with in the night, without specifying which player used what, even if Grass King is on the Death Queue.
3) All players on the Death Queue will now die, in the order the Death Queue specifies. If all the remaining players are on the Death Queue, the winner will be declared as if the last person on the Death Queue had not died at all.
4) If Walker or Light Mightyena are alive and have joined the Mafia, they are now PMed with the names of Kusarigamaitachi and Byrus and they informed who the new recruits are.


After this process has gone through, the Game Master will post a new post in the Mafia topic. In this post, the Game Master will explain who died in the night, if anyone, and specify what the body that the remaining members see is - is it Kusarigamaitachi or Byrus or is it an ordinary player (any Innocent, Kratos, or Music Dragon)? He will also name a day deadline, 48 hours from when the thread is started.

The Day Phase
During the day phase, all living players will be able to post in the Mafia topic and discuss who should be executed until that deadline comes. During this process, players should nominate the names of other players for execution, indicating this clearly by bolding the name of the player they intend to nominate. The nominated player may protest and defend him or herself. Players may lie about their identity as they please, although they may not copy and paste, screenshot or otherwise try to affirm the content of any PM they received from the Game Master. If a player who has nominated eventually becomes convinced that the player he nominated should not be killed, he may change his mind by saying, in bold, I withdraw my nomination (and may then, if he pleases, proceed to nominate another player). If you agree with a nomination that has already been posted, however, it is not necessary to renominate the same person unless you wish to reiterate it in case the other person withdraws theirs before you get the chance to repost it.


If Kratos Aurion wants to, he may post at any point during the day post, I will use Explosion on [Player name] in bold in the thread. Only Kratos may do this, and any player who is not Kratos and posts this will be immediately disqualified from the game. As soon as Kratos has posted this, he is officially dead, as well as the player he killed, and neither of them may post in the thread or communicate with living players at all from this point. When the Game Master sees this he will post in the thread to update about this and effectively restart the day by extending the nomination deadline. Any player may, of course, lie that he is Kratos or threaten to kill someone, but he may not post I use Explosion on [Player name].

When the nomination deadline comes along, the Game Master will post a poll with the names of the nominees, and each player can pick one (and ONLY one) of the nominees. You cannot change your vote. In the case of a tie, only the nominees involved in the tie will be allowed to be picked, and the tiebreaker will repeat as often as necessary until a clear winner is decided.

When the person with the most votes has been determined, the Game Master will post, announce the person who has been executed, and show their alignment as with those murdered in the night. If the player who is executed was Icalasari, the player he used Destiny Bond on the previous night will now also die. Their alignments are of course also shown.

The Game Master will then announce the next night phase and the deadline for submitting night actions and close the Day Discussion thread, and the cycle repeats itself until a winner is found. The game ends whenever:
- there are only Mafia left alive (Kratos included), in which case the Mafia wins.
- there are only Innocents (and possibly Kratos) left alive, in which case the Innocents win (Kratos loses, however).
- Music Dragon is the only player left alive, in which case everyone loses.
- Music Dragon, while in his monster form, is voted to be executed, in which case he wins.

When a player is dead and not the last one to die, he may ask the Game Master about who holds what role. It is, however, strictly forbidden for dead players to communicate with living players in any way, and for living players to communicate about the game elsewhere than in the game thread unless their roles are specifically denoted as being allowed to speak (does not apply to this game variant). However, living players may PM the Game Master with a message to be posted anonymously. If this PM is received during a day phase, it will be posted immediately; if it is received during a night phase, it will be posted the following in-game day.
 
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Horray! Mafia! Signing up for this. :3

EDIT: One idea that I've seen in a Mafia game was a notice board where people would PM the narrator with a message, and it'd be posted by the narrator so things could be said without any identification.

fakedit: Here's a game where this was done
 
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Peoples added. Looks like I'll probably be adding a variable alignment role or two if more people sign up.

PichuK

I dug through the thread a little, but didn't see what you were talking about in there ('twas a little confusing, to be honest). It sounds like a neat idea, though. Would things be PM'd during the day or during the night?

Edit: And Kratos is correct about that, yeah.
 
They'd be PM'd at any time but posted at either the next day (if posted at night) or the current day (if posted in the day)
 
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