A young man by the name of Light Yagami is a honors student at his high school Daikoku Private Academy in Japan. He is a complete and total genius and has always been at the top of his class. Its 2006, Light is close to graduating high school and attending To-oh University soon. His beliefs were to complete school, and join the police. His destiny was to become one of the greatest detectives in the world has ever seen, and was bound to work with the best detective in the whole world, L. However, this was before he found The Notebook of Death.
He finds that a notebook, on the cover it says "Death Note". Inside, it say the following: "Whomever's name is written in this notebook, shall die. Thinking its just a prank, he writes the name of a criminal inside. Sure enough, the criminal dies 60 seconds afterwards. Light knows that this has the capability of changing the world and nobody besides him can do it. He goes on to kill countless numbers of criminals, ridding the world of rotten people to create a perfect society. His work has gone on to be the work of Kira. As he starts decending deeper and deeper into madness, its up to The Task Force to try and put an end to Kira and their killings.
This is a complicated set-up. It will require atleast 21 players at minimum. There will not be a "mafia" this game but items in the game called Death Notes. Whoever has a Death note is known as "Kira". There can be multiple Kira's, there can be no Kira's. For more information, read below. The game will end when there are no more Death notes or Kira is alive with all of the anti-kira(town) players are dead.
Introduction
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In its simplest form, Mafia is a game of the uninformed majority versus the informed minority. To elaborate, the game is typically divided into two teams: the Town and the Mafia. Mafia know who each other are, and can coordinate their actions privately. Town players on the other hand don't know anything other than their own role. To compensate, there are many more Town than Mafia. The objective of the game is for Town to eliminate by killing or lynching all the Mafia before it is too late. The game is divided into repeating phases of Day and Night. Day revolves around voting for a player to be lynched. Night is reserved for the Mafia to make their kills and certain players to use their special abilities.
Be warned - Mafia requires a time commitment. This generally depends on the player, but at minimum 30 minutes a day of solid effort is required. As part of the time commitment, Mafia requires a great deal of reading. Most people are actually quite poor at reading comprehension and playing Mafia is a great way to improve your reading ability, as well as your writing and ability to think and argue logically.
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Town wincon: Have all Death Notes destroyed.
Kira-Aligned wincon: Kill all of the Anti-kira players with Kira alive.
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Set-up information
This is a closed set up, no PM game. This game uses an item known as Death Notes. There are 3 factions this game, with 2 roles being unique. The roles follow the colors as follows~
Light Yagami, Misa Amane, Shinigami, Pro-Kira, Anti-Kira.
The Death notes are powerful weapons that any pro-kira player is allowed to carry. You are able to receive a death note in 1 of 2 ways: If a player holding a death note is lynched, a random voter will receive the death note. If a player holding a death note is killed at night, the killer receives the death note. If an Anti-kira member receives a death note, they will destroy it immediately. Anyone with a Death Note is considered "Kira". There can be multiple Kira, there can be no Kira.
This game contains Shinigami. Shinigami are powerful, invincible neutral roles with unique win conditions. Shinigami cannot be lynched or killed. If they would be lynched, instead their rolename is revealed, they lose their Death Note if they possess one as per the rules above, and the game continues as normal (the day still ends). If they would be killed, the same is true except that their rolename is not revealed.
Game set-up rules
PMs:
PMs and other out-of-thread communication are NOT allowed UNLESS you are explicitly told otherwise. Any players doing so will be modkilled without warning.
Activity:
You must contribute one substantial post at least once every full day/night cycle. This means that if you only make one post, it needs to be more substantial than simply saying "I agree" or "RIP". If you post multiple times, this rule may may be less strict. There may be exceptions to this if day/night phases progress rapidly at any stage in the game.
Replacements:
This game uses replacements. Replacements will be made up until the end of Day 3.
Time Cycle and Phases:
The game will generally follow a 72 hour day and flexible 24 hour night cycle. If I am not online and available to post when a phase is set to end, the game will be paused until I can post. No actions will be accepted during this period. The final deadline will always be 8:00 PM CST. (9 PM EST, there will be a counter this game).
Day:
During Day, the town must choose a lynchee. If the number of votes reaches Majority, that person is lynched. Day will be 48 hours long unless I decide to start making days shorter.
Night will follow after the lynch post has been published by me.
Night:
During Night, you can send in night actions. Night always ends after 24 hours, regardless of when all actions are submitted. This to prevent meta speculation over when actions were sent in.
During Day, the town must choose a lynchee. If the number of votes reaches Majority, that person is lynched. Day will be 48 hours long unless I decide to start making days shorter.
Night will follow after the lynch post has been published by me.
Night:
During Night, you can send in night actions. Night always ends after 24 hours, regardless of when all actions are submitted. This to prevent meta speculation over when actions were sent in.
General Mafia Rules
Cheating:
Cheating includes (but is not limited to):
1. Posting after death. You may have one polite goodbye post, but it may not contain any potentially game-changing information.
2. Ruining the game by doing something like handing out your mafia's member list to the town.
3. Logging on to someone else's account to get their role or looking over someone's shoulder to get their role.
4. Comparing role PM timings to try and work out roles.
5. Posting or sharing any PM you receive from a host without permission.
6. Getting yourself modkilled to help your team. Your non-majority-decided death may not be used as a bargaining chip.
7. Signing up more than once using smurf accounts.
8. Offering favours/items/bells outside of the game for a ingame information.
9. Sharing accounts with other players.
10. Breadcrumbing the specific phrasing of your role PM. Do not compare the phrasing in your role PM to prove your alignment. You can claim the abilities you have, but you can't use the specific phrasing of your role PM.
11. Posting a false PM phrased as if you received it from the host. You can still fake roleclaim, but you cannot make it look like you are posting a PM you received from the host.
YOU MAY ONLY COPY AND PASTE TEXT FOR USE AS EVIDENCE. POSTING SCREENSHOTS OR ANY OTHER NON-TEXT EVIDENCE IS CONSIDERED CHEATING. THE ONLY EXCEPTION IS EVIDENCE THAT IS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE FOR ALL PLAYERS TO CHECK (eg. post counts in a thread). IT IS BEST IF YOU CHECK WITH ME FIRST.
Cheating is not tolerated here as it ruins the game for everyone. The mods and admins here CAN take action.
Mod Font:
This is the mod colour. It is reserved for the host. Please do not use it.
Question Font:
This is the question colour. Use it to ask the host questions about the rules in public. You can also PM me.
Spam:
Strategic spam is acceptable, within reason.
Editing:
Editing is not allowed for any reason. Editing will result in a warning. After that, you will be modkilled. While I ask for everybody to post as concisely as possible, post again if you have to edit anything. The board software automatically merges the posts anyway.
Wisdom of the Crowds
WoTC is In effect this game. If a player has over 7 WoTC votes on them, they will not be allowed in the game. Please send these votes in via PM to me.
Inappropriate posts:
Mafia games can get heated and emotional at times. Please keep it civil and remember that what happens in Mafia should stay in Mafia. Don't let things wash over to the rest of the forum, it's only a game.
Observers' Chat:
While spectators will be fuelling speculation, and dead players will be keen to give valuable "insight" into the game, please refrain from revealing game-changing information (eg. the identities of your fellow Mafia). Speculate, theorise and express bewilderment at dumb plays all you want, but remember that the chat is not leakproof and game-ruining information CAN get out.
Play to win.
You should try your best to help your team win while you are alive and in the game. Clearly not playing towards your win objective will be grounds for a modkill and personal ban from me. However, this does not mean that you should try to win by being a jerk to the other players so they all want to quit playing.
This also means that you cannot leave the game without a good reason. These situations will be dealt with on a case by case basis. PM the host if you need to leave the game.
You have been warned.
Voting rules
1. This game uses Majority Lynch. Whenever a player has over half of the playerlist on them, they are lynched.
2. Voting will be done in the voting thread: [link]
3. Please use the format: ##VOTE: Username. I'm not requiring this, but it makes it easier for me to notice.
Credits
Thank you KarlaKGB for introducing mafia to TBT!
Thank you Dolby for helping me balance out the role list, and for co-hosting!
Credit to Minties for Copy pasting some of her GoT mafia OP.
Mod's notes
I'd heavily advice that instead of joining the Obs chat that you join the replacements list if you're too busy to be playing this. This game will need a base of 21 players at minimum so if you could join instead, that would be very helpful. Keep in mind that this is an experimental set-up. This set-up hasn't been tested in a while, and might be unbalanced.
If you haven't read all of the rules, please go back and do so. I won't compensate for ignorance!
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