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Blank Canvas Mafia Game Thread
- Thread starter Ephemera
- Start date
Ephemera
little imperfections
- Pronoun
- they/them
Mafia Roles:
[picture goes here]
You are my fear of failure. You are a Mental Block Backup Doodler (Mafia).
I gotta succeed, I gotta succeed...
Passive: Backup Doodler
Should the Mental Block Doodler ever perish, you will inherit their role.
You win when the Mental Blocks have achieved parity with the Ideas, or nothing can stop this from happening.
Your fake town flavor is:
You are the view from under a wedding veil except the veil is much thicker than you'd planned, shit. You are an Idea (Town).
This was a better idea in my head.
You are my fear of failure. You are a Mental Block Backup Doodler (Mafia).
I gotta succeed, I gotta succeed...
Passive: Backup Doodler
Should the Mental Block Doodler ever perish, you will inherit their role.
You win when the Mental Blocks have achieved parity with the Ideas, or nothing can stop this from happening.
Your fake town flavor is:
You are the view from under a wedding veil except the veil is much thicker than you'd planned, shit. You are an Idea (Town).
This was a better idea in my head.
[picture goes here]
You are Perfectionism. You are a Mental Block Doodler (Mafia).
I need to get this completely right or it's worthless...
Day Action: Doodle
Each day, you are given a canvas to draw an artistic rendition of a night action you would like performed (X does Y action on Z).
(I will provide the png canvas/ses each day)
You may not attempt to draw any killing actions.
Passive: Shared Doodle
You are, however, aware that this is a shared canvas with multiple other doodlers, and at the end of the day all doodlers' canvasses will be merged.
The merged canvas will be interpreted by the host to create the final night action.
You win when the Mental Blocks have achieved parity with the Ideas, or nothing can stop this from happening.
Your fake town flavor is:
You are really zoomed in on your eyes. You are an Idea (Town).
It's supposed to be a photo of someone but they got really close to the camera.
Oh yeah? Then why's there no pupil or iris?
Uh. They got really close to the camera.
You are Perfectionism. You are a Mental Block Doodler (Mafia).
I need to get this completely right or it's worthless...
Day Action: Doodle
Each day, you are given a canvas to draw an artistic rendition of a night action you would like performed (X does Y action on Z).
(I will provide the png canvas/ses each day)
You may not attempt to draw any killing actions.
Passive: Shared Doodle
You are, however, aware that this is a shared canvas with multiple other doodlers, and at the end of the day all doodlers' canvasses will be merged.
The merged canvas will be interpreted by the host to create the final night action.
You win when the Mental Blocks have achieved parity with the Ideas, or nothing can stop this from happening.
Your fake town flavor is:
You are really zoomed in on your eyes. You are an Idea (Town).
It's supposed to be a photo of someone but they got really close to the camera.
Oh yeah? Then why's there no pupil or iris?
Uh. They got really close to the camera.
[picture goes here]
You are Fatigue. You are a Mental Block Charging JOAT (Mafia).
God, I'm so tired...
Passive: Charges
You start with 0 charges.
Night Action: Guess the Doodle!
Each night, you may guess, based on the combined canvas, what night action is going to be performed.
You must guess 3 things:
I will not tell you which guesses were right, only how many were right.
This night action needs to be submitted early during the night so that you can use your second night action, sorry about that!
Night Action: Spend Charges
Each night, you may spend up to 3 charges to interfere with the canvas' night action.
Your fake town flavor is:
You are clouds, viewed from the inside. You are an Idea (Town).
The view of clouds from the inside!
I'm pretty sure this isn't how they look...
You are Fatigue. You are a Mental Block Charging JOAT (Mafia).
God, I'm so tired...
Passive: Charges
You start with 0 charges.
Night Action: Guess the Doodle!
Each night, you may guess, based on the combined canvas, what night action is going to be performed.
You must guess 3 things:
- The performer of the night action
- The type of night action (Protection, Investigative, Manipulation, or Other)
- The target of the night action
I will not tell you which guesses were right, only how many were right.
This night action needs to be submitted early during the night so that you can use your second night action, sorry about that!
Night Action: Spend Charges
Each night, you may spend up to 3 charges to interfere with the canvas' night action.
- Spending 3 charges allows you to completely negate the canvas' night action for this night.
- Spending 2 charges allows you to change the target of the night action.
- Spending 1 charge allows you to change the type of night action (it will be randomized to another type).
Your fake town flavor is:
You are clouds, viewed from the inside. You are an Idea (Town).
The view of clouds from the inside!
I'm pretty sure this isn't how they look...
Ephemera
little imperfections
- Pronoun
- they/them
Living Town Roles:
[picture goes here]
You are an artistic rendition of staring at the sun. You are an Idea Doodler (Town).
Uhhhh, it's all white because the viewer blinded themselves by looking into the sun too hard. Yep.
Day Action: Doodle
Each day, you are given a canvas to draw an artistic rendition of a night action you would like performed (X does Y action on Z).
(I will provide the png canvas/ses each day)
Passive: Shared Doodle
You are, however, aware that this is a shared canvas with multiple other doodlers, and at the end of the day all doodlers' canvasses will be merged.
The merged canvas will be interpreted by the host to create the final night action.
You win when all members of the Mental Blocks are eliminated.
You are an artistic rendition of staring at the sun. You are an Idea Doodler (Town).
Uhhhh, it's all white because the viewer blinded themselves by looking into the sun too hard. Yep.
Day Action: Doodle
Each day, you are given a canvas to draw an artistic rendition of a night action you would like performed (X does Y action on Z).
(I will provide the png canvas/ses each day)
Passive: Shared Doodle
You are, however, aware that this is a shared canvas with multiple other doodlers, and at the end of the day all doodlers' canvasses will be merged.
The merged canvas will be interpreted by the host to create the final night action.
You win when all members of the Mental Blocks are eliminated.
[picture goes here]
You are a picture of my dog. You are an Idea Crier (Town).
Yes, my dog has white fur. Yes, I took the picture while buried in her fur. No, I don't care that you can't see the texture of said fur.
Night Action: Messager
Every night, you may send a message of up to 50 words to be posted at the start of the day, which must contain a title for an artwork (made-up or real).
You win when all members of the Mental Blocks are eliminated.
You are a picture of my dog. You are an Idea Crier (Town).
Yes, my dog has white fur. Yes, I took the picture while buried in her fur. No, I don't care that you can't see the texture of said fur.
Night Action: Messager
Every night, you may send a message of up to 50 words to be posted at the start of the day, which must contain a title for an artwork (made-up or real).
You win when all members of the Mental Blocks are eliminated.
[picture goes here]
You are infinite potential. You are an Idea Curator (Town).
It's a blank canvas because it represents anything it could become! All of the potential artworks that could be on the canvas!
And none of those artworks are on the canvas.
Don't worry about it!
Passive: Doodle Curator
You are aware that an artwork will be posted each night, which represents some night action that will occur that night.
Day Action: Research
Each day, you may ask privately (in this thread) about the night action.
You may ask about one of the following categories, and will receive an accurate answer:
You are infinite potential. You are an Idea Curator (Town).
It's a blank canvas because it represents anything it could become! All of the potential artworks that could be on the canvas!
And none of those artworks are on the canvas.
Don't worry about it!
Passive: Doodle Curator
You are aware that an artwork will be posted each night, which represents some night action that will occur that night.
Day Action: Research
Each day, you may ask privately (in this thread) about the night action.
You may ask about one of the following categories, and will receive an accurate answer:
- Who performed the night action
- Who was the target of the night action
- What type of action was performed
[picture goes here]
You are my muse. You are an Idea (Town).
It's a portrait of my artistic muse!
What muse?
Exactly.
Role Action - Vanilla!
I don't have an artistic muse. Likewise, you don't have any role actions.
You win when all members of the Mental Blocks are eliminated.
You are my muse. You are an Idea (Town).
It's a portrait of my artistic muse!
What muse?
Exactly.
Role Action - Vanilla!
I don't have an artistic muse. Likewise, you don't have any role actions.
You win when all members of the Mental Blocks are eliminated.
Ephemera
little imperfections
- Pronoun
- they/them
Postgame thoughts pt. 1:
I hope y'all enjoyed the game! It was based on a silly premise of just - what if I had zero ideas for roles and made up stuff you could feasibly (or not-so-feasibly) explain a completely blank white canvas as? And if the town are the ideas, mafia must be the creative blocks to those ideas.
Obviously, if I was going about the art theme, there had to be some art/writing stuff involved. I had the idea of linking a public canvas to 2 roles - 1 town 1 mafia - and having the mafia be able to interfere with the canvas by scribbling over it, but I figured let's make it less "counterpart" roles and more just a chaotic mess for uh. funsies, so I added multiple town doodlers!
My idea for that was initially to have all 3 town doodlers draw on the same canvas and have the mafia doodler draw last to manipulate the action, but it ended up being a little hard (superimposing 3 images over each other is a little more work than I'd like to do for hosting a mafia game LOL).
If I were to run this game again, I might make it a sort-of neighborhood instead, with all doodlers being given a link to a shared canvas website or something.
And then if there's a canvas, there had to be some kind of label to it! So there went kyeugh's role, the crier.
If the canvas was going to be public, I wanted town to have some way of knowing what it did, but also mafia to have some way of working around it - so xrunner had a role that allowed town info on the night action, and Eifie had the opposing role of being able to change the night action!
And then I threw in a vig for good measure (who was mercilessly killed D1, which was amazing lmao).
I'm not sure if the game was super balanced properly - in hindsight, Eifie's manipulation of the canvas mechanic was really good - but I think it was okay, and I hope it was fun!
I hope y'all enjoyed the game! It was based on a silly premise of just - what if I had zero ideas for roles and made up stuff you could feasibly (or not-so-feasibly) explain a completely blank white canvas as? And if the town are the ideas, mafia must be the creative blocks to those ideas.
Obviously, if I was going about the art theme, there had to be some art/writing stuff involved. I had the idea of linking a public canvas to 2 roles - 1 town 1 mafia - and having the mafia be able to interfere with the canvas by scribbling over it, but I figured let's make it less "counterpart" roles and more just a chaotic mess for uh. funsies, so I added multiple town doodlers!
My idea for that was initially to have all 3 town doodlers draw on the same canvas and have the mafia doodler draw last to manipulate the action, but it ended up being a little hard (superimposing 3 images over each other is a little more work than I'd like to do for hosting a mafia game LOL).
If I were to run this game again, I might make it a sort-of neighborhood instead, with all doodlers being given a link to a shared canvas website or something.
And then if there's a canvas, there had to be some kind of label to it! So there went kyeugh's role, the crier.
If the canvas was going to be public, I wanted town to have some way of knowing what it did, but also mafia to have some way of working around it - so xrunner had a role that allowed town info on the night action, and Eifie had the opposing role of being able to change the night action!
And then I threw in a vig for good measure (who was mercilessly killed D1, which was amazing lmao).
I'm not sure if the game was super balanced properly - in hindsight, Eifie's manipulation of the canvas mechanic was really good - but I think it was okay, and I hope it was fun!
Mawile
YOU'RE RIDING THE CAROUSEL
- Pronoun
- he/it/they
i was right btw. except for keldeo
but good game i had fun even though i died first and immediately messed up the balancing :D
Ephemera
little imperfections
- Pronoun
- they/them
Postgame thoughts pt. 2:
On the hosting end, I knew going in I wasn't gonna be perfect, and I think I held myself to a decent standard for most of the game (well, there was one day I overslept and day end got delayed by over an hour but uh. oops).
The delays on D2/N2 were unplanned and I'm sorry about that - life got really hectic and took a toll on my mental state, which made it hard to think about working on anything really. It's better now, but sorry about the delays!
On general mafia: y'all are really fun! I couldn't follow every single post but I loved reading what I could, and I'd love to host or play more games here in the future!
Hope the game was fun for y'all again, and see you again in the next game soon! Hopefully!
(I also run games every so often in my home community discord so there's that too)
On the hosting end, I knew going in I wasn't gonna be perfect, and I think I held myself to a decent standard for most of the game (well, there was one day I overslept and day end got delayed by over an hour but uh. oops).
The delays on D2/N2 were unplanned and I'm sorry about that - life got really hectic and took a toll on my mental state, which made it hard to think about working on anything really. It's better now, but sorry about the delays!
On general mafia: y'all are really fun! I couldn't follow every single post but I loved reading what I could, and I'd love to host or play more games here in the future!
Hope the game was fun for y'all again, and see you again in the next game soon! Hopefully!
(I also run games every so often in my home community discord so there's that too)
Eifie
oh man, good times.
- Pronoun
- she/her
I was in mafia chat desperately wishing you were a wagon bomb but alas the game went on
Ephemera
little imperfections
- Pronoun
- they/them
I initially meant to make it so that you couldn't save charges so you were only rewarded if you could guess it completely correctly...
...then I forgot the reasoning on that and let you save the charges ;-;
Keldeo
Resolute
- Pronoun
- he, they
Congratulations, mafia!! And thank you for hosting, Ephemera - the flavor was fun, the allowance of cow puns was (USDA) choice, and I really enjoyed how the game was built around the doodle roles! Hopefully the creative juices begin to flow again...
I hope everyone had a good time this game! Sorry to my fellow town for shielding Eifie, she absolutely had me fooled, and sorry to those whose deaths I contributed to
I dunno that I'll be able to play more in the near future because this game was pretty taxing, but based on what some people were saying, I do wonder if a 5 day/2 day Day/Night cycle would work well with folks' schedules, with deadlines on Friday night/Saturday morning :O
I hope everyone had a good time this game! Sorry to my fellow town for shielding Eifie, she absolutely had me fooled, and sorry to those whose deaths I contributed to
I dunno that I'll be able to play more in the near future because this game was pretty taxing, but based on what some people were saying, I do wonder if a 5 day/2 day Day/Night cycle would work well with folks' schedules, with deadlines on Friday night/Saturday morning :O
Eifie
oh man, good times.
- Pronoun
- she/her
fortunately that wouldn't have affected this game anyway since I would have just redirected the target n3 instead of negating the entire canvas (which I did for style points)
Eifie
oh man, good times.
- Pronoun
- she/her
lmao it is NOT Keldeo's fault because everything he and everyone said about me being completely and utterly incapable of posting as a wolf is 1000% true. but this game I was possessed by aliensCongratulations, mafia!! And thank you for hosting, Ephemera - the flavor was fun, the allowance of cow puns was (USDA) choice, and I really enjoyed how the game was built around the doodle roles! Hopefully the creative juices begin to flow again...
I hope everyone had a good time this game! Sorry to my fellow town for shielding Eifie, she absolutely had me fooled, and sorry to those whose deaths I contributed to
I dunno that I'll be able to play more in the near future because this game was pretty taxing, but based on what some people were saying, I do wonder if a 5 day/2 day Day/Night cycle would work well with folks' schedules, with deadlines on Friday night/Saturday morning :O
Ephemera
little imperfections
- Pronoun
- they/them
oh yeah the other thing i forgot about for hosting is the interpretation of the canvas - gosh that was harder than i thought that would be, n3's was really hard with four separate protect actions drawn LOL
if it had become necessary i would have randed which pair of actions was the real one, but you could just negate it entirely so thankfully game didn't come down to "hey can mafia win this rng"
Ephemera
little imperfections
- Pronoun
- they/them
i watched the entire mafia team stack on my darling role d1 and was like: welp