Blank Canvas Mafia Game Thread

[Mawile]

also if i still die in 15 minutes and turn out town (which i am) you should look harder at everyone who is suspicious of me. which is literally everyone basically

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

i watched the entire mafia team stack on my darling role d1 and was like: welp

it is an extremely funny combination to have what is probably one of the most important roles for balancing this specific game be on someone who is known to Pretty Much Always Be Suspicious (me)

 

[Dodge]

Conclusions:
Mafia is fun!
Being Mafia is kinda stressful!
I exude evil from every pore and with my every word (Black Mage pfp probably not doing me any favors tbh)
Eifie is the GOAT, by all accounts I should have died d1 but she went Ultra Instinct and saved me from the consequences of my actions
Thanks for hosting, Ephemera! This was a great time!

 

[Ephemera]

Artwork! So... BEAUTIFUL!!!!

also wow the size changing really crunched the beautiful individual artworks y'all did - darkaura's was really good and then i resized it for combination and fsr the lines got really pixelly whoops

 

[DarkAura]

ooo wait lemme pull up mine individually bc I was really chuffed to get to draw the bird also holding a shield

 

[Dodge]

Spoiler: Doodles I made but didn't submit

Moo Mage AKA Black Mooge

Juan

Cow Henry/Eifie

Juan (Remastered)

 

[Ephemera]

last note - i hope y'all enjoyed the flavour!

i had a lot of fun coming up with utter bs to call a blank canvas (sorry @missingno? there was no yin because yin would imply that i had put paint on the canvas to make it dark lol)

the most fun to write were probably the vanilla towns because they had stupid ways to say they had no actions:
-The snow got in your eyes so you don't have any role actions. (MF)
-Watching paint dry is boring. Your days and nights will be similarly boring with nothing better to do than watch the drying. (Keldeo)
-I don't have an artistic muse. Likewise, you don't have any role actions. (Ever)

 

[DarkAura]

the moral i'm taking out of this game is that i should forever and ever doubt perhaps otis for as long as i may live

 

[Eifie]

@DarkAura can me and Keldeoooo use that protection drawing of us for our server icon we love it so much.

 

[DarkAura]

Spoiler: Doodles I made but didn't submit

Moo Mage AKA Black Mooge

Juan

Cow Henry/Eifie

Juan (Remastered)

does juan remastered know i would die for them. dodge can you pass the message along to juan remastered please please please

 

[DarkAura]

@DarkAura can me and Keldeoooo use that protection drawing of us for our server icon we love it so much.

absolutely LMAO, here's the higher quality image of it

 

[Dodge]

Spoiler: Doodles I made but didn't submit

Moo Mage AKA Black Mooge

Juan

Cow Henry/Eifie

Juan (Remastered)

does juan remastered know i would die for them. dodge can you pass the message along to juan remastered please please please

Juan (Remastered) is very thankful but also requests that you take care of yourself. Juan (Remastered) will be sad if you die for anyone, including them.

 

[DarkAura]

Spoiler: Doodles I made but didn't submit

Moo Mage AKA Black Mooge

Juan

Cow Henry/Eifie

Juan (Remastered)

does juan remastered know i would die for them. dodge can you pass the message along to juan remastered please please please

Juan (Remastered) is very thankful but also requests that you take care of yourself. Juan (Remastered) will be sad if you die for anyone, including them.

juan (remastered) thank you thank you so much juan (remastered) ilu juan (remastered) i'll get eight cups of sleep and drink eight hours of water thank you juan (remastered)

 

[Ephemera]

Spoiler: Doodles I made but didn't submit

Moo Mage AKA Black Mooge

Juan

Cow Henry/Eifie

Juan (Remastered)

does juan remastered know i would die for them. dodge can you pass the message along to juan remastered please please please

Juan (Remastered) is very thankful but also requests that you take care of yourself. Juan (Remastered) will be sad if you die for anyone, including them.

juan (remastered) thank you thank you so much juan (remastered) ilu juan (remastered) i'll get eight cups of sleep and drink eight hours of water thank you juan (remastered)

eight cups of sleep sounds about right for the amount i usually get

 

[Eifie]

okay, so, first off: last EoD, the Mawile wagon kinda fizzled, then kinda got rekindled. considering the flip, it's not the best look on any of the four people who made it happen, but it is also very unsubtle; it'd only really be worth the while if the purpose were to prevent an outcome that's much worse for scum

Butterfree's initial vote on Mawile doesn't seem to fit the bill. at the time, there was a three-way tie between Dodge, myself, and abstaining; nothing that would give the wolves too little maneuvering room, short of the scumteam being exactly Dodge and myself and Butterfree (which is to me self-evidently wrong because I know I'm town, but for the rest of yall, either me and Butterfree being co-wolves is extremely unlikely, or I'm a goddamn genius, and I don't advise betting on the latter case all things considered)

closer to EoD, though, Eifie and Keldeo decisively steer the vote away from Butterfree and onto Mawile -- which, if either or both are wolves with Butterfree, would be unsubtle but necessary, and would also shed new light on the whole desperate search for an alternate wagon before parking on Mawile

so, going into toDay, I think the most concrete scumteam I have is Butterfree and one of Keldeo and Eifie; at least, that's what I get assuming that every member of the scumteam has been one of the more engaged players and not one of the ones that skated around doing not much and being generally illegible

Night passes, and Mewtini gets offed. which would admittedly be an odd move for the above scumteam, who would presumably not be trying to draw further attention to the Butterfree wagon by confirming one of the people that were on it. (I'm not too swayed by any arguments towards this likely being the work of a scumteam that didn't key onto how excited Mewtini was to play with kyeugh, though; sure, newer players wouldn't cotton onto it or necessarily care much, but older players could and would use that sort of thing as cover. plus, someone has to die and it's never a fun decision to make)

now, toDay, we're down two villas in a small game, so I think it's fair to assume that we're not too far from losing, and more importantly, that the scum have more of a finger on the scale toDay provided that they're all active; that way lies good reason to be extra worried about any wagon that moves along a little too smoothly -- which is exactly what that Dodge wagon strikes me as. it'd be extra unsubtle, but if mafia were poised to win on the next miselim + kill, no one has to worry about looking bad on toDay's flip. and what a coindink! everyone who yesterDay's flip indicts, hopped on that wagon toDay. and the reasoning that went with it feels iffy, too, considering that a) Dodge hopped onto Mawile at the moment that would've been least beneficial as a wolf (my wagon was right there and no one would've glanced sideways at him hopping on there) and b) odd reasoning is more or less to be expected from an inexperienced player, especially working with as thin of a day as yesterDay was.

fwiw, I do think Keldeo not silently allowing the hammer to come down is a mild positive indicator, and while I fully believe Dodge's claim, I also wouldn't be surprised if that role were given to both town and scum. there's little time for mechspec right now, though!

anyway, call it a tunnel if you must, but I will Vote: Butterfree as she's the centerpiece of any fully active scumteam yesterDay (which is far from a given, I'll grant, but hey, best to aim first at scum who are potentially actually playing the daygame, isn't it?).

did I miss anything?

they hated her because she told the truth. btw.

 

[Ephemera]

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 kind of feel like that’d work maybe!

 

[missingno?]

THIS WAS FUN I ENJOYED IT A LOT
i need to backread a bunch but im excited ehehe
CONGRATS MAFIA

 

[mewtini]

and, i have no clue if this is bad meta, but the kill made me a bit personally sad because of how pogged out mewt was to be in this game, so it kind of makes me wonder if the mafia might be composed of newer folks who didn’t pick up on that. is that a weird thought?

i was thinking about this too.. But thats because if someone who is my friend chose to kill me after my d1 i will feel a bit irl betrayed. sorry guys im sensitive :-(

@Eifie i'm never playing this stupid fucking game again

 

[mewtini]

jk. good game y'all. we will not let tcodfia die ... RIGHT???

 

[mewtini]

wait i'm screaming dodge was in fact mafia

was i gaslit FR..

 

[mewtini]

I'M SORRY MEWT WE'RE STILL FRIENDS RIGHT

no bitch