What The Game Is:
The Mafia Game takes place in a small town where a small group of mafia members are secretly posing as innocent town citizens. During the night, this ban of mafias guns down a poor innocent town citizen. During the day, the town citizens are horror ridden with what has happened and quickly become suspicious of one another. Each citizen is allowed to vote who they think who is a mafia member. Whoever has the highest number of votes against them is then "lynched" and killed off by the town citizens. The kicker is, because mafia members are blending as innocent town citizens in the day, they too are allowed to vote. Watching how town citizens vote could offer clues as to their identities! Day and Night phases continue to alternate in this manner until all the mafia members are killed by the villagers, or the mafia members either outnumber or have the same number of members as the town citizens in a way which is obvious that the town citizens cannot win. Depending on special roles used, a tie can occur.
Rules & How To Play:
- There is 1 Mafia member per 4 Town Citizens. That means if there are 8 Players 2 are mafia members and 6 are town citizens.
- Mafia members will know who one another are and thus communicate via PM or Skype which (1) Town Citizen they chose to murder in the night phase.
- Once the Mafia Members decide, they will PM the Game Host their chosen victim, which will be revealed in the game by the host.
- Town Citizens will not know who the mafia members are. Town Citizens must vote in the game thread ONLY. Outside collaboration is not allowed.
- Once an innocent Town Citizen or a Mafia member is killed they can no longer vote in the game, but they are allowed to interact as "ghosts".
- Insta-Lynched: In a day phase, if a Town Citizen receives at least 51% of the votes (eg: there's 11 players and 6 vote against the same person) Insta-lynch is invoked and that person is automatically lynched.
- You may change your vote as many times as you like until day phase concludes or insta-lynch is invoked.
- If a player misses/does not vote in 2 consecutive day phases, he/she is insta-lynched for inactivity by the game host. This is in addition to votes made.
- Each game phase will end in 48 hours whether the mafia member picks a victim or not, or the town citizens fail to vote to lynch someone. Failure means the mafia did not murder anyone or town citizens chose not to lynch anyone.
- As long as at least (1) Mafia member communicates the kill to the game host, the mafia members will not forfeit their night phase if not all the mafia members are present to agree on the victim within the time allotted (eg: if only 2 of the 3 mafia members have agreed and time is almost up, those 2 can go ahead and PM the game host the mafia's murder..or which ever mafia members are active at the time).
Game Players:
Every person who signs up to play is PM'd a role by the game host. The roles are assigned randomly. Those roles are as follows:
Town Citizens:
Every new "day" in the game, the Town Citizens vote to hang the person they think is a mafia member. The mafia members also participate in the voting process of the game, and are treated as Town Citizens during the day. The person who is lynched may not participate in any further voting.
Mafia Members:
Every "night" in the game, the Mafia Members choose someone to murder in secret by PM’ing the victim’s name to the game host. There are usually more than one mafia member in a game so it is the job of the team to come to a consensus and choose one town citizen to murder per night phase.
God Father
Head of the Mafia and a mafia member. Whenever investigated always appears to be innocent.
Traitor
Town Citizen. The traitor is not so innocent. Every night PM Game Host the player you wish to investigate. Game host will respond they are a mafia member or not a mafia member. A traitor's goal is to get town citizens to vote in the favor of the mafia. The traitor does not know who mafia members are and mafia members do not know who the traitor is. A traitor is immune to being murdered by the mafia. If the mafia wins, the traitor wins, otherwise the traitor loses. Mafia will only be notified someone is traitor when they target the traitor. The Traitor will not be notified they were targeted though. The traitor and mafia is not allowed to communicate outside the game thread with each other.
Undercover Detective
Every night the undercover detective may try to investigate whether another player is a mafia member or not by sending the game host a PM with the players name. The game host will confirm or deny the investigation. The undercover detective may reveal his/her role to the town citizens in hopes of lynching a mafia member, but it turn risks their own life as the mafia members are sure to murder the detective the next night phase. If the detective wishes to remain anonymous, he or she may try to get other town citizens to go along with who they are voting for. This too can be deceptive as anyone can try this trick. If the mafia members murder the detective, the decretive can no longer investigate members.
Doctor
Every night the doctor may PM the game host a member’s name to save from the clutches of the mafia. Only will a doctor successfully save a town citizen if the member chosen to save was also targeted that same night by the mafia members. The doctor does not know who the mafia members are. The doctor cannot choose to save himself.
Vigilante
Town Citizen. PM Game Host the player you believe is a mafia member during the night phase. That player will be shot and will be undistinguishable from the Mafia's choice to murder.
Nurse
Town Citizen. Takes on the doctor's role if he or she dies, otherwise she or he is a normal town citizen.
Retired Detective
Town Citizen. Takes on the undercover detective's role if he or she dies, otherwise she or he is a normal town citizen.
HOW TO VOTE:
- For a vote to count, town citizens must put their vote in the following tag: [ vote ] Name Here [ /vote ] (do not include the spaces).
- The name will appear like this: Name Here and will be counted by the game host.
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