Pick Your Power X/Y Mafia

 

Mechanics

 

At the beginning of the game, there is a draft to determine the order for the bidding on roles.

 

Once this has happened, each player will send in the role they'd like to be. Only one role from each "slot" will be awarded.

As such, in the event multiple players select the same role (or the same "slot"), the player highest in the draft order wins the role, whilst the others remain Vanilla.

 

Roles are then distributed and Day 1 begins.

Throughout the bidding phases, the thread is locked, however, mafia may collude privately during this time and then again throughout the day.

 

 

Step 1: The Draft

 

Once alignments have been dealt out, each player must send a (whole) number back to the mod, with the lowest unique number winning the draft. Second place is awarded to the second lowest unique number and so on, until all unique numbers have been exhausted. Next placed on the list is the lowest doubled numbers, followed by the next lowest doubled numbers, and so on. Continue this same process for triples and quadruples.

In cases of multiple players selecting the same number, the higher placed between these players is chosen randomly.

 

Step 2: Bidding for Roles

 

Once the draft order has been determined, each player PM's the moderator of the game with the role they'd like to be. Roles are unisex, in the sense, that they can be selected by Mafia or Town. So, it's possible to have a Mafia 1-Shot Vig or a Town 1-Shot Vig, and so on.

 

Here are the list of roles players select from:

 

1)Night 3 Vigilante OR Vengeful

2)1-Shot Vigilante OR 1-Shot PGO

3)Cop OR 1-Shot Redirector

4)1-Shot Commuter OR 1-Shot Watcher

5)Doctor OR Roleblocker

6)Universal Backup OR Role Cop

7)Neighborizer OR Fruit Vendor

8)Jailkeeper OR Tracker

 

Players

 

1. SeaBeeGipson

2. Lachiton

3. Brewersalliance

4. Canik, Town Tracker, was killed in cold blood on Night 3.

5. KevinH, Mafia Universal Backup, was arrested on Day 3.

6. Vgmmaster, Mafia goon, committed suicide on Day 4.

7. KitKat16, Vanilla Townie, disappeared during Night 1

8. The Warrior, Vanilla Townie, was stabbed on Day 2.

9. Rafay, Mafia Goon, was assassinated on Night 3.

10. legoboyvdlp

11. Robert2424

12. GoldIron,1-Shot Watcher, was lynched on Day 1

13. iSocialism

14. FrigidInferno, Townie Cop, was shot on Night 2.

 

Rules

• During the Day phase each player may speak and vote in-thread.
• 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.
• If two players have reached half-majority and have the same number of votes, the player who reached that number of votes first 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 Mafia can talk to each other at Night as well as during Day.
• All Active Roles may submit actions via PM at Night.
• The Mafia can, as a faction, kill one player at Night.
• After the Night, the game goes to Day.
• All dead players (lynched or killed) can no longer participate in the game.
• 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.)
• The game is won when only one faction remains in the game.
• You may pm me questions or ask them in the game thread.
• When voting, please enter your vote on a separate line of your post so that it isn't easily missed.

Game Days will last as many real-life days as there are players alive, though the day lasts for a minimum of 7 days at all times.Game Nights will last 48 hours but will include at least one weekday.

 

 

The Draft has Begun.

You're twisting my words to lable me as suspicious. With KitKat I said IF he is lynched and is scum, it would clear Robert and TW, since it would be against the rules for him to out them. And then when I posted that you said you agreed with me and was going to post it yourself but I beat you to it. And now you're saying you don't agree with me and I'm suspicious? It seems to me like you jumped right after my vote hoping it would start a wagon on KitKat and now you are realizing the Lynch wagon isnt gonna materialize so you're trying to cover your tracks and lable me as the suspicious one by twisting my words.

 

FoS on Lego.

You are only answering one half of what I said about you, also seemingly twisting my argument about GoldIron and you unvoting back onto me. Furthermore, every one of those votes I placed was part of my game. Only my FoS on Robert was really true.

 

So as of now, Brewers / Frigid / Robert is looking possible, look closely at them if any of them hammer me, or if I am NKd.

I'm not twisting anything. I was just stating you clearly misrepresented what I said. I don't think there is any disputing that you misrepresented what I said. I'm not sure how me saying that the more I think about it the more goldiron is probably just new and was mistaken about the rules rather than acting scummy is a bad thing. Would you rather me just ignore logic and common sense and stick with an initial reaction to a post? Would that be less suspicious for you?

How did I twist goldiron back onto you? All I was talking about in the previous post was about KitKat. Again you are changing my words on me...

Well, I said that you seemed to unvote on goldiron after it didn't result in a lynch, you said that " now you are realizing the Lynch wagon isnt gonna materialize so you're trying to cover your tracks and lable me as the suspicious one by twisting my words."

 

So that seems pretty close to you doing unto me as I do unto you.

 

But you make a valid point about goldiron, nevertheless, I'll keep my FoS on you as I don't intend to allow you to convince me to forget about you if you truly are scum, I will decide if I want to do that myself based on what you have posted now AND in the past, not just in your reactive posting

i switched to kitkat because i figured it was a decent strategy to possibly prove two people are town.  i didnt switch cause the goldiron wave wasnt going anywhere.  i still feel its a viable solution, but if i find out that MK would not have informed us or reset the game if the rules violation happened, i have no issue with admitting my strategy would not work.  it ONLY works if the rules violation would have triggered a game reset like SeaBee mentioned.  So until I get a definitive answer from MK on this, im leaving my vote on kitkat.  

 

and i wouldnt want you to forget about me.  I would be a hypocrite and very scummy if i felt that I should be able to fully scrutinize you (or anyone), but not expect the same treatment back

It's Day 1. Nobody knows nothin'.

I promised it, and here it comes!

 

I've been doing all this in order to get information. You could call me a Slytherin, I suppose. Cunning and all that? Except it would appear to have backfired somewhat.

 

My strategy was to pressure when I saw something, then repeat as I saw more evidence. For instance, take my post in reply to Kitkat. I didn't know then that it was in the rules to not reveal your partners, but that didn't matter as my ultimate aim was to see who responded to me, and in what way. Then when GoldIron made his solitary post, I made some noise to see what the reactions were.

 

So without further ado, I'll present what I think, and respond to some posts along the way:

 

Rafay isn't very active, but he is always like that from the games I've looked at.

 

Kitkat, is suspicious, but possibly not scum. Call him a grey person. He's possibly lying about him being scum and almost certainly about the other two being scum. Ok, that is really vague. He could be joking... or could be gambiting. Gets pretty defensive in #110.

 

FrigidInferno immediately agreed that kitkat should be left to day two, which IMO is suspicious. A claimed scum... shouldn't he be lynched immediately? Also, he contradicted himself, saying first that kitkat should be investigated, then saying that Kitkat's reveals should be investigated in post 43. Also, he voted no lynch which is a scummy move as I have stated before. Especially given the fact that mafia could have very high powered roles. Another point, he was quick to follow my lead in both kitkat and GoldIron which makes me think SCUMMY due to the buddy theory. Reading doown he says he knows he isn't scum. Claiming to "know" is suspicious in itself, also, it is a given that few mafia will caim they are mafia , so why the need to say you are town? Show, don't tell! 

 

KevinH said "scum will never vote for one of their own". I don't think that is correct. For instance, should GoldIron indeed be scum, the person who also voted on him is high on my s--t list / scum list, since it would "prove" said person to be "town". I agree with what brewers said: if Kevin votes on a scum, this may well be a post to fall back on to prove his town status. Also, he has added nothing of value so far. RVS still, on page 5, really? 

 

Vgnmaster, tosnie points for recognizing that leaving Kitkat alone was a bad idea. But that could be interpreted as a scum move to earn those townie points; nevertheless, I feel he is town following my instincts. 

 

SBG, I have no ideas. Going by my gut feeling, probaboy town, based on his response to my kitkat post, but I couldn't be certain. Voted no lynch, nevertheless. I like that he is voting for me. After all, I always wanted to be president of IRO... wait, aren't these the first democratic elections in IRON? No? It's a mafia game? But seriously, his vote on me suggests that after a week of fluff he is finally producing valuable info, and also he sees my behaviour as suspicious, making me less suspicious of him. 

 

Canik: Composed entirely of three random votes. But getting three random votes is interesting, and I wouldn't be surprised if either GoldIron or Frigid is scum, which bears investigating. 

 

Robert, I find very suspicious indeed. That was one place where I was telling the truth --> in post 46 he tried to draw attention to my posts, which is an excellent maneouvre for scum, but a really stupid maneouvre for town, unless you are doing it to yourself, like me. I really drew attention to myself today, and he bit starting a wagon on me. He claims that I rub him the wrong way. FYI I don't rub him. He also gives no reason apart from this vague claim. This also sets off another vote on me by SBG. See my first point regarding robert in post 46. 

 

Brewers, it is hard to tell given I agree with many of his points. Unvoted GoldIron when it  isn't going anywhere, suggesting a failed attempt to pynch GoldIron, also, he doesn't reall post much of value, while having lots of fpuff. Finally, I don't like how he says that lynching Kitkat will provide "100%" security that two people are town, given we are not sure if kitkat is town or not yet, or if he is lying or gambiting. 

 

GoldIron, don't have any idea on whether he is scum or town right now. He may be either, but I'm leaning more towards noob town.  Hard to tell with two posts, which makes me want him lynched anyway! Brewers unvoting and my suspicions of brewers make me more confident he is town. 

 

Lachiton got it the wrong way round, IMO, it is more that brewers buddied up with me, except on my final kitkat vote, which is the first time I remember that I supported him in any way. And of course I'm vote hopping... it was part of my strategy! No strong feelings either way.

 

iSoc has been inactive, come on and post, man. 

 

 

Finally, I'll leave you with two factoids, back in TW1 I was draco malfoy, made a n00b mistake, and got lynched D3, see GoldIron. I still am leaning towards town but won't say he can't be scum.

 

In the second place, I have been sitting for 1 hour and 12 minutes writing this. 

 

tl;dr

FOS brewers frigid and robert2424

Stop the fluff and behave like adults, also don't be inactive

SBG, VGN, and GOI are probably town

I'm tired.

 

In loving memory

S. Spelling

The invention of spelling to the invention of the 7 inch touchscreen

RIP

 

+1 townie points for the lengthy analysis in this post. In my experience, scum don't tend to bother with time consuming analysis.

if there was a violation, it would have been handled privately.

 

but, there is another clause to that rule, if all the scum members agree to it, a scum can out fellow scum, as a tactic.

 

so i can't confirm nor deny whether all the 3 are scum as they could be using a tactic or it could be a rule violation.

 

a rule violation may result in a reset, but sometimes it will be dealt with by giving out a warning privately.

depending on the mod's discretion.

 

I made this post as i feel that my post after KitKat's became a major argument in the successive posts.

I now feel that the wording of my post there is not accurate.

 

My post was just a clarifier for all the new players, as some of them will soon ask me if what KitKat did is permissible.

 

So keep hunting scum and don't drag me into all your posts.

when i see my name in a post as i fly through the post, i am thinking there is a question in it for me.

jesus christ this snowballed overnight.

 

 

FrigidInferno immediately agreed that kitkat should be left to day two, which IMO is suspicious. A claimed scum... shouldn't he be lynched immediately? Also, he contradicted himself, saying first that kitkat should be investigated, then saying that Kitkat's reveals should be investigated in post 43. Also, he voted no lynch which is a scummy move as I have stated before. Especially given the fact that mafia could have very high powered roles. Another point, he was quick to follow my lead in both kitkat and GoldIron which makes me think SCUMMY due to the buddy theory. Reading doown he says he knows he isn't scum. Claiming to "know" is suspicious in itself, also, it is a given that few mafia will caim they are mafia , so why the need to say you are town? Show, don't tell!

Well shit i have the biggest paragraph , i guess i gotta go down the list.

 

 

FrigidInferno immediately agreed that kitkat should be left to day two, which IMO is suspicious. A claimed scum... shouldn't he be lynched immediately?

I agreed to leave kitkat till day 2 for INVESTIGATION, not lynching, stop twisting my words around. I liked you until now, dont mess that up.

 

 

Also, he contradicted himself, saying first that kitkat should be investigated, then saying that Kitkat's reveals should be investigated in post 43.

I agree with the fact that i contradicted myself, but have you ever heard of this wonderful WONDERFUL thing called "Changing your mind"? I noticed that investigating either the warrior or robert had more merit rather than investigating kitkat, finding out mafia, and so stir town into a frenzy to get rid of robert and the warrior, who most likely are town. of course, the invest role will have to find out for sure.

 

 

Also, he voted no lynch which is a scummy move as I have stated before. Especially given the fact that mafia could have very high powered roles.

I always vote "No-Lynch" Because i dont understand how a random/Guesstimated lynch benefits Town. True, you might get lucky and get rid of a mafia. OR you could get rid of a powerful town role, like "Cop" or "Doctor". No-Lynch would benefit Town way more in d1, i feel.

of course, i am a newbie to this type of mafia so i could just be spouting bullshit of my own misinformed opinion.

 

 

Another point, he was quick to follow my lead in both kitkat and GoldIron which makes me think SCUMMY due to the buddy theory.

I followed your lead cause i thought that your theories had merit, not cause i wanted to "Buddy up". I followed your lead on kitkat only until thy glorious mod MK quickly reinforced the rule of "Mafia cant out the other mafia unless its a gambit(which was made in a hella later post lmao)" I followed your lead on GoldIron until brewers made a good point about it could be just a newbish mistake. I know i made plenty of those already.

 

 

Reading doown he says he knows he isn't scum. Claiming to "know" is suspicious in itself, also, it is a given that few mafia will caim they are mafia , so why the need to say you are town? Show, don't tell!

Alright, you make a fair point here. I'm not sure I'm able to control the currency here but i give you a townie point for this(And now your probably going to point this out as my way to look like town, so i'll save you the trouble by putting it here   )

All in all, very detailed, you forgot the fact that i joke-voted canik, but very detailed!

 

BTW @MK, Is there a "Whisper" Function like there is in tos, or is town completely out of secret messages?

I just realized it quotes kitkat, it's legos post?

You realize you can't investigate a lynched person, right? You said that you should investigate Kitkat on day 2 --> this implies he is still alive on day 2.

 

Obligatory that's your way to look like town . Jk.

 

 

But

 

"I'll keep my FoS on you as I don't intend to allow you to convince me to forget about you if you truly are scum, I will decide if I want to do that myself based on what you have posted now AND in the past, not just in your reactive posting

"

I also just realize i make it sound like i think kitkat is confirmed mafia, i was stating it as part of the gambit.

Also my point was you changed your mind within a single post

oh yeah true, but i figured nobody'd fall for kitkat, at least on D1. And you just copied and pasted brewers' FOS from you. hmpph i wanted to be special

Oh Really? i gotta check lmao

Can you point me to the post # where i originally said 'Kitkat needs to be investigated first' because unless im mistaken, i said 'Any of the three kitkat mentioned. juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust in case'

 

As far as i can tell, more twisting of wording

Lol i feel like the warrior needs to be scum, cause power corrupts.
Whomever is an invest role go for him I guess, or any of the 3 kit mentioned. Juuuuuust in case lol

 

 

but i figured nobody'd fall for kitkat, at least on D1.

 

 

so that's the reason you voted for him? 

 

just a minute, I'm talking on Discord.

(sorry tw lol)

aight

btw you might wanna include the other points i made

Tough to get much from those wall of texts with a skimming over. And I don't have time for doing much more than that. 

​From what I've absorded currently tho I'm not getting a bad vibe from Frigid.

​In any case, I don't like lynching active people D1. I don't mind lynching inactives tho if it seems they'll remain inactive. The main reason people say don't is because they can be replaced but.. those replacements are fairly often scum and it messes with town. I think SeeBeeGipson won it for Mafia last game that way if I'm not mistake.

​So, might change this to a different inactive later but for the moment:

​Unvote: SBG

​Vote: GoldIron

 

 

I also believe that kitkat should be investigated night 2, considering the fact that if kit IS mafia, kit might be making a bluff to get rid of two non-mafia. So if someone investigates the others and finds them inno, we can move on to other sus rather than lynching them. Not sure if what I said makes sense but imo the warrior and robert are now the last on my sus list. I'll try to sum it up: Kit comes out as mafia, it turns out kit IS actually mafia, so now we are desperate to lynch/kill tw and robert, who, for all we know, could be the more powerful townies or at the other end of the spectrucm, a fruit vendor and a neighborizer.

 

 

It is evident that for Kitkat to be investigated on night 2, he couldn't be lynched day 1 OR day 2. 

And yes, you seemingly believed that the other two should be investigated also, which I agree with. But to do that, you would have to leave Kitkat, a claimed scum (albeit in a joke) alive throughout day 1 and day 2. 

you never said that kitkat should be investigated first, but that's not the point

to be fair, you probably meant night 1, that is tonight?

oh fuck ive made a terrible mistake concerning the nights lmao, for some odd reason in my head i was thinking it went like this:

 

D1, N2, D3, N4, and so on

instead of

 

D1,N1,D2,N2.

wow i am super fucking stupid lmao

if there was a violation, it would have been handled privately.

 

but, there is another clause to that rule, if all the scum members agree to it, a scum can out fellow scum, as a tactic.

 

so i can't confirm nor deny whether all the 3 are scum as they could be using a tactic or it could be a rule violation.

 

a rule violation may result in a reset, but sometimes it will be dealt with by giving out a warning privately.

depending on the mod's discretion.

 

I made this post as i feel that my post after KitKat's became a major argument in the successive posts.

I now feel that the wording of my post there is not accurate.

 

My post was just a clarifier for all the new players, as some of them will soon ask me if what KitKat did is permissible.

 

So keep hunting scum and don't drag me into all your posts.

when i see my name in a post as i fly through the post, i am thinking there is a question in it for me.

alright im going to address this first:  MK saying this basically means my kitkat strategy now has absolutely zero merit, since nothing at all would be confirmed with a kitkat lynch, thus meaning its pointless to follow through on a strategy that holds zero merit.  So with that being said

 

unvote:  kitkat

All the wall of text, mostly quoting, is painful. Just say hey blank blank, I disagree. Not quote the quote of the person quoting a quote.

FrigidInferno immediately agreed that kitkat should be left to day two, which IMO is suspicious. A claimed scum... shouldn't he be lynched immediately? Also, he contradicted himself, saying first that kitkat should be investigated, then saying that Kitkat's reveals should be investigated in post 43. Also, he voted no lynch which is a scummy move as I have stated before. Especially given the fact that mafia could have very high powered roles. Another point, he was quick to follow my lead in both kitkat and GoldIron which makes me think SCUMMY due to the buddy theory. Reading doown he says he knows he isn't scum. Claiming to "know" is suspicious in itself, also, it is a given that few mafia will caim they are mafia , so why the need to say you are town? Show, don't tell!   

I did find the post to be odd in itself. Also funny. I mainly put that as KitKat way of a joke. I proceed to say if TW was in fact a scum partner, it be unfair to you guys. (And no, I'm not trying to kiss ass here) He's an Intelligent individual who understands mafia and I've talked to him many times meaning if I'm going to have chemistry with anybody here as a mafia partner, it be him. So I would say it would no way clear me as Town if Kit Kat is truly scum. Nor TW for that matter. 

KevinH said "scum will never vote for one of their own". I don't think that is correct. For instance, should GoldIron indeed be scum, the person who also voted on him is high on my s--t list / scum list, since it would "prove" said person to be "town". I agree with what brewers said: if Kevin votes on a scum, this may well be a post to fall back on to prove his town status. Also, he has added nothing of value so far. RVS still, on page 5, really? 

I agree with this. I will admit in past games I've done so myself. It creates distance and destroys links between scum teams. 

 

 

Robert, I find very suspicious indeed. That was one place where I was telling the truth --> in post 46 he tried to draw attention to my posts, which is an excellent maneouvre for scum, but a really stupid maneouvre for town, unless you are doing it to yourself, like me. I really drew attention to myself today, and he bit starting a wagon on me. He claims that I rub him the wrong way. FYI I don't rub him. He also gives no reason apart from this vague claim. This also sets off another vote on me by SBG. See my first point regarding robert in post 46. 

You misunderstand my motives. I shrugged off your vote as nothing more then Fluff. I felt it was unwise to involve me with your own problems. As I have no idea what your current experience in Mafia is, that was me, giving you a chance to rethink what you were doing. 

 

 

 

It's Day 1. Nobody knows nothin'.

The only way this has context is cause nobody has used there night actions yet. I agree that probably day 1 should end in a No Lynch, but I come from a different school of thought about it. Days can be used to collect information just as much as the night, while Kevin, (I could be wrong here), counts on info from Power roles to get a good lynch. I believe we should let the day continue for as much time as we can and gain the info we can then voting for a no lynch so early. Its almost like you've given up on gaining any info or reads. We all have one piece of information and motivation to work from. Our roles them self. Some know more then others. 

 

 

 

(sorry tw lol)

Why you apologizing to TW?

The brewers/frigid/lego love triangle is making my head spin. I read through the arguments but am at work and don't believe I've been able to give them enough thought yet to comment so I will re-visit them when I am less busy. Having said that, it has generally been my experience that big back and forth arguments like that are generally made between townies while the scum team is perfectly content sitting back and watching it occur. Does that mean that none of them are scum? No, I just don't like big arguments occurring between two or three people while everyone else sits back and watches.

 

Any thoughts on all that Rafay or iSoc or Kevin?

To much wall to overcome. Didn't read in to it.

Well, Kevin is Kevin. Isoc is mainly complaining about walls of text, and rafay I don't have a big mental not on him.