#HBC | Laundry
Grand Sage of Swag
I guess since I'm feeling sentimental and might have been talking with Ranmaru about potential hydra names for a Ran/Laundry hydra should it ever come to pass, I'll talk a bit about my wonderful mafia experience and how it's brought me some of the best friends I've ever met.
Not counting the random game I played on Gaia Online when I was around 13, my real mafia playing career began 8 years ago (sup Soup) on General Silliness when one Sprite, now Vult Redux, opened a thread for it as a fun sort of thing. Not realizing what it was until the game was on D2 I think, I volunteered to replace, somehow got replaced in, and then ended up winning the game for town because I figured out everyone's alignment thanks to private communication. We were extremely bad at mafia at the time, but that's okay, it was fun and I was immediately hooked, and so was the rest of GS. Sprite's second game started like 4 months later, filled almost immediately, and ran to completion in about two weeks.
From that point forward, we blew through 9 games that got progressively bigger and bigger, roping in nearly all of GS' active members and gaining more that were coming simply for mafia. I don't even remember them all from how quickly they passed. I remembered WW3 because I hosted it. It had some weird desert theme and it's the origin of my love for the Plant role as I added it on a whim and a single player triggered it 4 times in a 5 phase game (he's still referred to as Plant Bait to this day, though most people call him PB or Peebs now). I remember WW4 as that one was the one where we realized private communication was ****ing bonkers and said never again. I think I hosted WW5 but I honestly don't remember it. WW6-9 are a blur though I remember losing to a Jesus Christ role in WW8 as mafia.
So then comes WW10, which is by far and away the most ambitious set-up I have ever ****ing seen. Crafted by Dacidbro (same guy), it was a 31 man set-up that featured a ****ton of alignment-changing, wincon-changing, bull**** roles, and general insanity. I remember walking into that game as a third party group with two other guys with the win condition of "make the mod laugh". The alignment's name was "ForTehLulz" and we got points every time we managed to accomplsih our win condition. On gaining enough points, our real wincon was revealed though I don't remember what it was, something kinda weak like "kill x people and then survive" or something. That'd be ****ing stupid in current DGames, but that was mild in comparison to the rest of the game. The initial mafia was effectively a pseudo-mafia that got revealed because one of them killed herself D1 and revealed they were a scapegoat inadvertedly. The actual mafia was actually some weird infectatious thing where if you tried to target Sprite (specifically Sprite) to kill him, you got infected and changed alignment to the Sprite alignment. This quickly became the actual mafia after like a phase where he recruited 3 people at once.
Why this game matters, despite being one of my favorite games all time simply due to its sheer ridiculousness, is because it's the first game I remember ever playing with a guy by the name of Ryker. Before that, I should mention that by this point in time, the notion of a "Big 3" had popped up around GS surrounding what everyone believed were its 3 best players: Sprite, Dacid, and myself. Ryker replaced into WWX shortly before I was NKed, saw this notion being tossed around in thread, and said "**** that."
The next game was WW11, Sprite's Pokemafia. Like WWX, it was ****ing bonkers. Items were in the game, abilities were in the game, roles were basically just moves limited to a certain number of shots via PP, Pokemon could evolve, and the mafia was split into two teams. Either through RNG or Sprite trying to influence it via modding, Dacid and I were the most two important roles on Team Galactic and, as the game turned out, Ryker was one of them on the other team. We lost.
From that point forward was the first real rival I've ever had in mafia. Dacidbro and Sprite would push me to get better but neither were players I'd consider a rival, not in the sense that Drew was. We would fight in game, constantly pushing each other to beat the other. I definitely remember one pair of games where I drew Indy in both and Drew nailed me early D1 in both (**** both of those games by the way). This constant aggression from a guy refusing to accept the Big 3 was what truly drove me to be a better player for the first time in my mafia career.
Despite this, he was also one of the people I saw on a daily basis. Around this time was when the GS Skype Group popped up and we were having calls every day to hang out and build the community. Through that, I built what is probably my longest lasting and strongest bond I have ever gotten through the internet.
It should be no surprise to you that the very same Ryker is the reason I ended up here. Towards the end of my first year of college, I got a call from Ryker like I would get occasionally when he hadn't heard from me in awhile and in it, he told me how he had started playing mafia here and how he liked the people here (GS had started to go downhill by this point and games weren't really the same, though I can think of a few memorable ones from before its inevitable decline). He told me of a few games, in particular his absolute sorcery in pulling off the most bull**** dayvig claim to exist as Radical Fiction in Dissidia Mafia and asked me to check this place out. Not long after, I replaced into J's Resident Evil Mafia, experienced Chibo at his finest, and had found a new mafia playing home.
Let me be straight with you guys: I am for the most part retired, despite my itch to play. I love this game but it frustrates me too much and eats up too much of my time for me to consider playing it. I will gladly play as a hydra but with such a limited player count, I don't think that will happen. That said, despite the headaches you guys have given me and the higher blood pressure, I would not have stuck around for this long had Drew not been right about it being a good place to play. Even when I'm butting heads with you guys, this is still a fantastic community and I'm glad to have been a part of it these last 5 years. Through this place or the people who I've met here, I've made some good friendships that are going to last me a long time and I can't say I would've gotten them had it not been for mafia. It's been a big part of my life and through it, so have you guys. Thanks for playing with me.
Not counting the random game I played on Gaia Online when I was around 13, my real mafia playing career began 8 years ago (sup Soup) on General Silliness when one Sprite, now Vult Redux, opened a thread for it as a fun sort of thing. Not realizing what it was until the game was on D2 I think, I volunteered to replace, somehow got replaced in, and then ended up winning the game for town because I figured out everyone's alignment thanks to private communication. We were extremely bad at mafia at the time, but that's okay, it was fun and I was immediately hooked, and so was the rest of GS. Sprite's second game started like 4 months later, filled almost immediately, and ran to completion in about two weeks.
From that point forward, we blew through 9 games that got progressively bigger and bigger, roping in nearly all of GS' active members and gaining more that were coming simply for mafia. I don't even remember them all from how quickly they passed. I remembered WW3 because I hosted it. It had some weird desert theme and it's the origin of my love for the Plant role as I added it on a whim and a single player triggered it 4 times in a 5 phase game (he's still referred to as Plant Bait to this day, though most people call him PB or Peebs now). I remember WW4 as that one was the one where we realized private communication was ****ing bonkers and said never again. I think I hosted WW5 but I honestly don't remember it. WW6-9 are a blur though I remember losing to a Jesus Christ role in WW8 as mafia.
So then comes WW10, which is by far and away the most ambitious set-up I have ever ****ing seen. Crafted by Dacidbro (same guy), it was a 31 man set-up that featured a ****ton of alignment-changing, wincon-changing, bull**** roles, and general insanity. I remember walking into that game as a third party group with two other guys with the win condition of "make the mod laugh". The alignment's name was "ForTehLulz" and we got points every time we managed to accomplsih our win condition. On gaining enough points, our real wincon was revealed though I don't remember what it was, something kinda weak like "kill x people and then survive" or something. That'd be ****ing stupid in current DGames, but that was mild in comparison to the rest of the game. The initial mafia was effectively a pseudo-mafia that got revealed because one of them killed herself D1 and revealed they were a scapegoat inadvertedly. The actual mafia was actually some weird infectatious thing where if you tried to target Sprite (specifically Sprite) to kill him, you got infected and changed alignment to the Sprite alignment. This quickly became the actual mafia after like a phase where he recruited 3 people at once.
Why this game matters, despite being one of my favorite games all time simply due to its sheer ridiculousness, is because it's the first game I remember ever playing with a guy by the name of Ryker. Before that, I should mention that by this point in time, the notion of a "Big 3" had popped up around GS surrounding what everyone believed were its 3 best players: Sprite, Dacid, and myself. Ryker replaced into WWX shortly before I was NKed, saw this notion being tossed around in thread, and said "**** that."
The next game was WW11, Sprite's Pokemafia. Like WWX, it was ****ing bonkers. Items were in the game, abilities were in the game, roles were basically just moves limited to a certain number of shots via PP, Pokemon could evolve, and the mafia was split into two teams. Either through RNG or Sprite trying to influence it via modding, Dacid and I were the most two important roles on Team Galactic and, as the game turned out, Ryker was one of them on the other team. We lost.
From that point forward was the first real rival I've ever had in mafia. Dacidbro and Sprite would push me to get better but neither were players I'd consider a rival, not in the sense that Drew was. We would fight in game, constantly pushing each other to beat the other. I definitely remember one pair of games where I drew Indy in both and Drew nailed me early D1 in both (**** both of those games by the way). This constant aggression from a guy refusing to accept the Big 3 was what truly drove me to be a better player for the first time in my mafia career.
Despite this, he was also one of the people I saw on a daily basis. Around this time was when the GS Skype Group popped up and we were having calls every day to hang out and build the community. Through that, I built what is probably my longest lasting and strongest bond I have ever gotten through the internet.
It should be no surprise to you that the very same Ryker is the reason I ended up here. Towards the end of my first year of college, I got a call from Ryker like I would get occasionally when he hadn't heard from me in awhile and in it, he told me how he had started playing mafia here and how he liked the people here (GS had started to go downhill by this point and games weren't really the same, though I can think of a few memorable ones from before its inevitable decline). He told me of a few games, in particular his absolute sorcery in pulling off the most bull**** dayvig claim to exist as Radical Fiction in Dissidia Mafia and asked me to check this place out. Not long after, I replaced into J's Resident Evil Mafia, experienced Chibo at his finest, and had found a new mafia playing home.
Let me be straight with you guys: I am for the most part retired, despite my itch to play. I love this game but it frustrates me too much and eats up too much of my time for me to consider playing it. I will gladly play as a hydra but with such a limited player count, I don't think that will happen. That said, despite the headaches you guys have given me and the higher blood pressure, I would not have stuck around for this long had Drew not been right about it being a good place to play. Even when I'm butting heads with you guys, this is still a fantastic community and I'm glad to have been a part of it these last 5 years. Through this place or the people who I've met here, I've made some good friendships that are going to last me a long time and I can't say I would've gotten them had it not been for mafia. It's been a big part of my life and through it, so have you guys. Thanks for playing with me.
. Open invitation to anyone else as well.
