ROLE PMs AND COMMENTS
Alright, thanks for playing everybody. This turned out to be the fastest 13 player game EVER and I hoped this quickie was fun enough for you to play. It was the first mafia game I hosted and it was well worth the effort even though I wished the game would've gotten the time to unfold because I think the set-up was really well balanced. I learned a lot about hosting games and how much I dislike flavour.
One thing I'm sorry about is how easy it was for Macman and Marshy to outguess me - I have talked too much about my view on mafia as a game in AIM conversations it seems.
Here are the role PMs:
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, SwordsRbroken. You are
Angus MacGyver, from "MacGyver" played by Richard Dean Anderson.
You are the
Jack of all Trades. There are 3 devices in your possesion. Each night you may choose to use one of them:
Device A: Investigates a player of your choosing - you will get either "Innocent" or "Guilty" as a result.
Device B: Protects a player of your choosing from nightkills.
Device C: Makes you immune against all night actions.
To use a device send me a PM during the night phase and write the name of the device you want to use that night and its target in it. After using it the device will break apart and you may not use it again.
You are
Town Alligned and you win when all threats to the town have been eliminated
Poor Swords
The quicklynch was one of the biggest mistakes and also a huge reason why town lost this game. With him being quickhammered by another townie (who got vigged right afterwards) town has already lost two players and got no info at all in exchange. I really which that it wouldn't have happened because the game's true balance would've had a chance to unfold.
The main point of this JoaT was to give an alternate investigation result to the Comparision Cop - to support him with an "absolute" investigation result. An additional protection and immunizing against Stalking / Roleblocking would've also been immensly useful.
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, Ronike. You are
Walker, from "Walker Texas Ranger" played by Chuck Norris.
You are the
Vigilante. Each night you may send me a PM titled "Vigilante Night Action" to kill a player of your choosing by posting "
Kill: [player]" in that PM. Unless any interferences occur that player will be killed.
You are
Town Alligned and you win when all threats to the town have been eliminated
When I randomized the roles I was happy to see a veteran player getting his hands on such an awesome and important power role. In this setup however it backfired more than it helped because Ronike is an obvious target for the stalker. Marshy - having the utmost respect for Ronike as a player - stalked him in the very first night. This is unfortunate but since I wanted the roles to be random there was nothing I could do about it.
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, KevinM. You are
Horatio Caine, from "CSI: Miami" played by David Caruso.
You are the
Comparision Cop. Each night you may send me a PM titled "Cop Night Action". Send me the name of two players in that PM. Depending on the allignment of these players you will receive either "Same allignment" or "Different allignment" as a response. You are not allowed to send your own name in the PM to compare another players allignment with your own.
You are
Town Alligned and you win when all threats to the town have been eliminated
The Comparision Cop is my favourite unused role and was one of my favourtie parts of the setup. 2 siblings and 3 mafiosi gave plenty of possible results. Backed up with the investigation of the JoaT and the deduction skills of a player like Kevin this would've been one the most interesting aspects of the game. But of course Kevin is also a major target for night actions - so much that he never even got the chance to investigate anybody: Roleblocked in the first night, killed in the second. I really wanted to change that when I randomized the roles because I felt two obvious night targedt with MAJOR power roles would be unfair to town but I didn't do it in the end and I still think it was the right decision (even though the game didn't get the chance to fullyunfol in the end).
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, Nicholas1024. You are
Dr. Gregory House, from "Dr. House" played by Hugh Laurie.
You are the
Doctor. Each night you may send me a PM titled "Doctor Night Action". Send me the name of a player in that PM. Unless any interferences occur this player will be safe from nightkills that night.
You are
Town Alligned and you win when all threats to the town have been eliminated
Nick seems to be a good choice for a doc - not a huge target for night actions but still good enough a player to not get lynched. Ideal attributes for a doctor. I don't know why he did it but he protected Ronike all 3 nights. Ironically Ronike was never targeted for a kill so even though he protected the vigilante THREE consecutive nights it never helped. A reliable Doc nonetheless.
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, Blue Yoshi. You are
Spongebob, from "Spongebob Square Pants".
You are a
Vanilla Townie.
You are
Town Alligned and you win when all threats to the town have been eliminated
BY didn't get to see a lot of action. The anti-town fractions forced him to claim D2 then he got vigged N2.
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, Scumfever. You are
Charlie Harper, from "Two and a half Men" played by Charlie Sheen.
You are a
Vanilla Townie.
You are
Town Alligned and you win when all threats to the town have been eliminated
Believe it or not but Scumfever actually was in this game! He just was V/LA for about 5 days - turned out that this was almost half of the game he missed. I wonder what he'll think when he reads through this XD
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, Macman. You are
Will Smith, from "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" played by Will Smith.
You are a
Vanilla Townie.
You are
Town Alligned and you win when all threats to the town have been eliminated
I don't know how but he pretty much called all the mafia with almost no info at all! One of the most reliably active and thus one of my favourite players. Thanks for joining. Good **** outguessing me
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, Nox2100. You are
Hannah Montana, from "Hannah Montana" played by Miley Cyrus.
You are a
Vanilla Townie.
You are
Town Alligned and you win when all threats to the town have been eliminated
I don't know what to say but I don't think there's anything positive I can say about Nix' performance. Quickhammering one of the most important townie PRs as a townie 3 days after the game started was a massive blow for the town - losing a PR, getting vigged and leaving the town with now info for D2 was fatal. When D2 started it was literally D1 again except that town lost 2 players and one of them was an important PR. Blame it on Epic Mafia
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, §teel. You are
The Shredder, from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".
You are the
Mafia Boss (Goon). As such you have the responsibility of sending the night-kill PM to me each night. In this PM you will confirm to me who the target of your night action is and who of the mafia will execute the kill. If you die Dr. Evil (Cacti) will be in charge.
Furthermore you are allowed to communicate with your fellow Mafia members Marshy (The Ghostfaced Killer, Stalker) and Cacti (Dr. Evil, Roleblocker) at any time. Instant messaging is recommended and you are required to send me all transcripts.
You are
Mafia Alligned and you win when you have an undeniable majority over everybody else (or nothing can prevent this).
Safeclaim: Neo from "The Matrix" played by Keanu Reeves is not in this game.
The mafia had a rather easy time this game after N1. Knowing Ronike's identity as the vig and being in a good position overall made things pretty easy. Steel was more or less the mafia hitman (even though I call him Boss / Goon in the PM) and it seems he was mafia with marshy before (in tourney sleepover) so he probably knew how to play alongside him. The result is a pretty much flawless performance.
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, Cacti. You are
Dr. Evil, from "Austin Powers" played by Mike Meyers.
You are the
Roleblocker. Each night you may choose to roleblock a player by sending me a PM titled "RB Night Action". You have to post "
Roleblock: [player]" in the PM to execute this command. By doing so the targeted player will be unable to perform his night action in case he has any. Furthermore you are allowed to communicate with your fellow Mafia members Marshy (The Ghostfaced Killer, Stalker) and §teel (The Shredder, Goon) at any time. Instant messaging is recommended and you are required to send me all transcripts.
You are
Mafia Alligned and you win when you have an undeniable majority over everybody else (or nothing can prevent thisble )
Safeclaim: Captain Jean-Luc Picard from "Star Treck: The Next generation" played by Patrick Steward is not in this game.
Cacti was V/LA during most of the games like Scumfever. The quickness of this game made it possible for him to "coast" through 2 days straight - some way to win! XD
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, Marshy. You are
The Ghostfaced Killer, from "Scream I - III".
You are the
Stalker. Each night you may choose to stalk a player by sending me a PM titled "Stalker Night Action". You have to post "
Stalk: [player]" in the PM to execute this command. By doing so you will learn about the role of that player. Furthermore you are allowed to communicate with your fellow Mafia members Cacti (Dr. Evil, Roleblocker) and §teel (The Shredder, Goon) at any time. Instant messaging is recommended and you are required to send me all transcripts.
You are
Mafia Alligned and you win when you have an undeniable majority over everybody else (or nothing can prevent this).
Safeclaim: Jack Sparrow from "Pirates of the Carribean" played by Johnny Depp is not in this game.
The stalker is one of the most powerful mafia roles and marshy is one of the most powerful mafia players. The result was a really mafia sided result in a relatively balanced setup - with Ronike as obvious target he found the vig the very first night already, which allowed mafia too much control over the game. If I wanted this game to be played out perfectly I probably would've changed that but I felt obligated to randomize all roles.
I feared that the Stalker could be overpowered (especially in a closed setup) but keep in mind that mafia had 2 bulletproof independent players, a vigilante, a JoaT, a Cop and a Doc to deal with so I thought it'd be fair to allow to give mafia some control.
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, Xiivi. You are
The Brain, from "Pinky and the Brain".
You are in Mason with Handorin (Pinky). You are free to communicate with him at any time during the game. Instant messaging is recommended and you have to send me all transcripts.
You are one time Bulletproof. You are able to survive one lynch or nightkill during the game. Afterwards you can be killed or lynched like every other player.
You are
Independently alligned and you win when both you and Pinky are the last men standing. If one of you dies the other will die too.
Safeclaim: Ash Ketchum from "Pokémon" is not in this game.
Xiivi has to be the most unluckiest player in this game. After the quicklynch D1 he got (pretty much randomly) shot at N1, which was already a massive blow to the indy masonry. As if it wasn't enough Marshy decided to stalk him the next night considering Xiivi survived the kill. That and the fact that I made a mistake with the flavour pretty much screwed their chances to win. I really wanted the indymasonry to last until late in the game but it never got that far
Gheb_01 said:
Welcome to TV-Allstar Mafia, Handorin. You are
Pinky, from "Pinky and the Brain".
You are in Mason with Xiivi (The Brain). You are free to communicate with him at any time during the game. Instant messaging is recommended and you have to send me all transcripts.
You are one time Bulletproof. You are able to survive one lynch or nightkill during the game. Afterwards you can be killed or lynched like every other player.
You are
Independently alligned and you win when both you and the Brain are the last men standing. If one of you dies, the other will die too.
Safeclaim: Pikachu from "Pokémon" is not in this game. Your partner's safeclaim is
Ash Ketchum allowing you to claim
Town Mason.
It seems like I made a mistake (Ronike pointed it out) - I used the work "bulletproof" when both Xiivi and Hando were more than that. It is stated in their role PM but nobody else was aware of this: Both of them could survive one kill attempt, lynch OR night kill. Hando got (pretty much) rule #1 lynched D2 which revealed his ability. Marshy - after stalking Xiivi - immediately figured out that there's a sibling team and - after shooting Xiivi N1 - got Xiivi lynched which put an end to the indymasonry.
I feel that the independent fraction was a major part of the game's balance. Having 2 Bulletproofs made a Vigilante and a Stalker plausible and at the same time it would allow for a vast amount of options in regards to the comparision cop. Deep in my heart I wanted Pinky and The Brain to take the whole world!