Spoiler warning for anyone from MotK!(Originally I was going to wait until the game was over, but after today's events I just can't hold it back anymore.)
I am pleased to announce that I no longer hold the title of worst Touhou Mafia ever.
Recently, someone on MotK decided it might be a good idea to hold a game of Mafia. Several of us on IRC have been following the game since it began (Alex, Hal, Laggy, Rat, myself and maybe Yakko, with Snow recently joining in) and it has been nothing but comedy platinum, so I figured I would present it to the rest of you.
WARNING: Reading the topics linked to in this topic without a sense of humor may cause your brain to eat your tongue.
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=1050.0 - Original signups topic + "dead thread"
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=1051.0 - Official game topic
For those of you who don't wish to read the topics, here is a brief summary of the goings-on so far (the game is currently in Day 3), along with selected quotes and/or posts that particularly stood out.
Note: I tried my best not to spotlight basic bad play, like the doc screaming "I AM THE DOC PLEASE RAPE MY FACE" in every post they made, or Day 2 votes made via coinflips, or the cop getting lynched without roleclaiming.
Pregame:
- Open setup.
- Private communication allowed. (This is key, so don't forget it.)
- Thread for dead players to talk amongst themselves.
- Insanely overpowered scum roles (Sakuya/Remilia). Thankfully, this one was remedied before the game started.
Day 1:
- Post editing allowed. This was the one thing I actually contacted the host about: his reasoning was that he wanted to avoid getting TSO mad over the game because of a whole bunch of double-posts.
- No formal voting syntax.
- Roleplaying. (Fortunately, this is mostly limited to pesco.)
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http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=1051.msg30291#msg30291- Host actively suggests people start PMing each other to form alliances.
- KennyMan666: "I may or may not vote."
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http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=1051.msg30318#msg30318- A disturbing number of people use the events in a doujin where the Touhoes play a game of Mafia as "evidence".
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http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=1051.msg30392#msg30392Night 1:
- Night posting allowed.
Day 2:
- pesco47: "Since we now have an active dead, can we still communicate with them ([the cop] should be allowed to) ?"
- The Hangman mini-game that was played at night is resumed during the day. Many players pay more attention to it than the actual game.
- A post from the Day 1 lynchee.
- pesco47 again: "[Hangman] is just there so that we don't go taking this too seriously."
- I know I said I wouldn't post basic bad play, but this series of WIFOMs is too great to pass up:
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=1051.msg30695#msg30695- Jan-san: "Lurking is suspicious, huh?"
Night 2:
- Day 2 lynchee posts multiple times in the official game topic.
- Day 2 lynchee posts in the dead players' thread with their suspicions and investigations. All of this is neatly spoiler-tagged, of course, to avoid living players reading it.
Day 3:
- First post sees the player vote for themselves and ask the mod to refuse acceptance of any changes away from said vote.
- Single scum takes pity on town and posts his identity, along with the identities of his three fellow scum.
- Host and Day 2 lynchee react to traitor scum's actions in the dead thread (again, with spoiler tags).
- Ramus (traitor scum): "Okay, before I get started, you're taking the position that I'm Mafian but you're not."
- Scum traitor posts screenshots of his PM inbox to prove what he posted before. (They were later removed.) (Note: we on IRC are
still not sure town will win the game.)
- Day does not end immediately after a majority decision is reached.
