Forest Fire is a 9-player Open Setup that won the Micro category in the 2015 Open Setup Design contest.

Setup

• 2 Arsonists
• 6 Tree
• 1 Firefighter

Notes

• Arsonists have a single factional night action. They may choose to prime a single target, or to ignite all previously primed targets.
• Firefighter blocks the priming of a target ONLY on the night in which they are being primed.
• Trees become Tree-stumps upon being lynched, allowing them to continue posting in the thread.
• Firefighter, Trees, Tree-stumps, and Arsonists are all vulnerable to being primed and ignited.
• Players are not told when they are primed, Arsonists are not told if the priming was successful.
• Tree-stumps cannot vote, and do not count as a vote for endgame purposes.

Alive:

Electric Mango, Arsonist

 Dead:

Road2Victory, Tree
Duderonomy, Tree 
Lyner, Arsonist
iSocialism, Tree
Commander Shepard Firefighter 
Duke Nukem Pretzimus the Great, Tree 
Rafay, Tree 
Robert2424, Tree

 
The Rules

• The game is comprised of Arsonists and the Forest (Trees and Firefighter).
• The game is won when only one faction remains in the game, or nothing can prevent the same.
• During the Day phase, each player may speak and vote inthread.
• If a player receives the majority of the available votes during the Day, they are lynched.
• At deadline, a player with half-majority will be lynched.
• You may vote No Lynch.
• After the Day, the game goes to Night.
• The game thread is closed during the Night. The Arsonists may speak to each other at Night. All Active Roles may submit actions via PM at Night.
• The Arsonists can, as a faction, prime or ignite at Night.
• After the Night, the game goes to Day.
• Basic rules for maintaining the integrity of the game thread are in effect (i.e. players may not quote their Role PMs, nor may they discuss the game outside the game thread unless otherwise permitted, etc.)
• Mass role-claiming is allowed. (Good luck with that!)

Game Days will last as many real-life days as there are players alive.
Game Nights will last 48 hours but will include at least one weekday.
 
Addendum to rules: "If a day reaches the deadline without a lynch, the player with the most votes over a half-majority will be lynched. In the event of a tie, the first player to the most votes will be lynched."

Its already Sunday. What's the time?

2 more hours, I believe

Now 1 more hour.

Uh oh here comes the suspense

Uh Kevin where's the lynch?

Deadline is reached.

Vote Count:

iSocialism (3): Rafay, Commander Shepard, Electric Mango
Rafay (1): iSocialism
Pretzimus the Great (0):
Robert2424 (0):
Commander Shepard (0):
Electric Mango (0):
No lynch (0):

 
Not voting: Robert2424, Pretzimus the Great
 
Tree Stumps:

Road2Victory, Duderonomy 

 
Dead Arsonist:

Lyner

 
iSocialism, Tree, has been lynched and becomes a Tree Stump.

It is now Night 5.
 
Send all actions to me by 08:00 EST Wednesday, November 4.

It's still the middle of the night in the forest when a match is lit and intentionally tossed...
 
Poof! iSocialism the Tree Stump catches fire because he was primed on Night 1.

Bam! Commander Shepard the Firefighter is consumed in the fire because he was primed on Night 2.

Whoosh! Robert2424 the Tree goes up in flames because he was primed on Night 3.

Boom! Pretzimus the Great Tree spontaneously combusts because he was primed on Night 4.

With the forest ablaze, Rafay looks at Electric Mango only to see a flame-thrower pointed at him.

Electric Mango quotes George Carlin, "“The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.'”

Game over.

Electric Mango and Lyner, Arsonists, win!

Not a big deal, I mean if I did choose a player to douse with water each night it would have being EM. 

Hmmmm EM looked suspicious as well. His short words made it seem obvious. 

Fun game every one! I really enjoyed our talking tree stumps, they added a lot of flavor to the game. You guys had me pretty nervous Day 1 when it seemed like Lyner and I were the two most suspicious ones. I thought Lyner did a good job defending himself that day and saved us the game.

I knew Lyner was suspicious when he threw in the last vote on me. But I wasn't sure about EM at the time. But EM was somewhere in the radar but didn't seem suspicious enough till like the last minute...

Phew!

 

Good game boys, shout out to Duderonomy for sniffing us out so early in the game

How to win in Mafia:

- Lynch Lyner 

Yea after i was lynched.....

Well played, Electric Mango. And a (ig)noble sacrifice, Lyner! EM voting for you second is what threw me off, and it was a brilliant ploy. If I'd known more about Electric Mango's skills, I would've stuck with him instead of moving to iSocialism, who appeared to be in support mode for Lyner. Ultimately, I was pretty uncertain about the identity of trees, because everyone was so adamant about a suboptimal voting strategy for trees. I was unsure who was an arsonist throwing chaff, and who was a tree that didn't quite understand the methodology I was using. In fact if we'd had another vote, it's likely I would've gone for Rafay rather than EM because of that vote.

 

Commander Shepard was the only clear tree/firefighter out there. iSocialism's last minute vote switch on Lyner did him in for me. I misunderstood his intentions, but now we know a lot more about him.

 

Ultimately, we got to talk smack about each other and faff on about strategy. And that's all I really wanted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScuVQVRYK0