"It was a dark and stormy night..."
The day of Halloween was approaching, and an ominous feeling of foreboding settled over the town. At that very moment, a young girl was planning her Halloween party. Suddenly maniacal laughter rang out! A door slammed. The neighbor screamed.Hey guys, here's the low-down for the next mafia! I'm Snoopy, and – seeing as I'm a published author – will write the story in this style at the beginning of each day.
I'll put up more details later, but for now here are the basic rules/roles I am planning on using. (Disclaimer: these may be tweaked slightly before the game actually begins.)
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Playersinsanolord
vudu
thatguy
stevey
maxi
DAaaMan64
nickmitch
Khushrenada
Spak-Spang
GoldenPhoenix
DrewMG
Dasmos
Gylldas
Pale
Oohhboy
RABicle
Toruresu
Total: 17 players! Sign-ups are now closed.
RolesTowniesCharlie Brown (spokesperson – appears as a regular townie if investigated, and can submit one secret message each day to the host—me, aka Snoopy—to appear verbatim in the day's story)
Marcie (detective – using her sharp intellect, Marcie is able to investigate any one player she chooses each night. However, some roles will appear as townies even if they aren't, so be careful!)
Schroeder (whore – music can soothe the savage voter or mobster, and change his target's vote to whomever he wishes.)
Peppermint Patty (vigilante – athletic and slightly dim, she can carry out hits to help the townies. BUT, if she kills two innocents instead of mafia,
she dies. special note: Peppermint Patty can take out Lucy without dying herself.)
Pig-pen (because he walks around in a cloud of the dust of ancient civilizations, it's difficult to get an accurate lock on him — there is a 50% chance of failure if he is targeted for a hit
or any other sort of death. The only 100% sure-fire way to get rid of Pig-pen is to vote him out.)
Townies (you know the routine with this role)
MafiaLinus (godfather – appears as a townie if investigated, and calls the shots for the nightly hit. In the event that he is voted out, he must tell me who becomes the new mafia godfather in his place.
role edited Sunday, 10/26, 10:30pmLinus' Blanket (mafia investigator – when Linus is with his blanket, he is able to investigate one player each night. note: Linus' Blanket makes the choice of player to investigate, not Linus.)
Sally can target a player and negate all his/her actions for that night—a vote
and a night action if applicable, i.e. investigations, hits, etc.). (Loyal and smitten to a fault, Sally will stand by Linus, her "Sweet Babboo.")
role edited Sunday, 10/26, 10:30pmLucy (suicide bomber – Linus' older sister gets so mad if she is voted out that she takes out
half (rounded
up! 
) of those who voted for her when she goes. Peppermint Patty can take her out safely. (Yes, the suicide bomber is on the side of the mafia this game.)
role edited, Sunday, 10/26, 10:30pm.The Great Pumpkin (the great pumpkin will not be in the game straight off the bat. A normal townie will be chosen at random to be transformed into the great pumpkin and join the mafia at the start of Day Three. On the next day, and every third day afterwards, (so, day 4, 7, 10, etc.), he/she can make a hit. this hit is to be sent from the great pumpkin character, not from Linus, as Linus doesn't control the great pumpkin even though they are on the same side.)
Special rules or exceptions1.
Schroeder:"I wouldn't marry you unless you were the last girl in the world!" Lucy:"Unless?" S:"Yes." L:"HOPE!" If Schroeder is still alive and all female-roled characters except Lucy are out of the game, Schroeder will join Lucy in the mafia.
2. Schroeder (cuz she's got a crush) and Linus (cuz it's her bro) are immune to Lucy's "suicide bombing" even if they voted for her.
3. Charlie Brown (cuz she's also got a crush) and Marcie (cuz they're friends) are immune to Peppermint Patty's vigilante attacks. Attacks will still be announced in the thread, though, as failed, providing valuable evidence for everyone.
4. If, by some streak of GREAT/EXCELLENT/CHEATING luck, all starting mafia members are taken out before the Great Pumpkin comes into play, the townies win then and there – the Great Pumpkin will not enter the game.
5. If, by some other weird streak of happenings, Charlie Brown and Sally are the only roled players left in the game, Sally will reject her mafia ways, defect to her brother's side and cause a townie win.
VotingVoting will run each day from... when the day's thread is posted until the next night at 10pm Central time (that's -6:00GMT, I think, for anyone not in the US). Night actions are due 30 minutes after that, and the new thread will be posted that night before I hit the hay.
Characters are required to vote once every three days. If you do not vote, you will die. Similar to the way Khushrenada handled it last game, I'll post who needs to vote at the beginning of each day.
Ties in voting will be handled in a similar way as well. The thread will be left open for an additional
10 minutes, at which point people may still vote, or change votes as they wish. If it's still tied after this, one of the unfortunate vote-"winners" will be randomly selected to be offed.
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SO! Those are the rules I've come up with so far. I've tried to stick true to the characters and their relationships with each other to decide win conditions and side-changing exceptions. This might cause some confusion at first, but as the game goes on, should provide some added drama and uncertainty, thus keeping the game dynamic and allowing strategies (and perhaps allegiances!) to shift all the time.
If you have comments or questions, speak up! I'll do my best to answer/address them as soon as possible. Otherwise, post here if you'd like to sign up.
I'm hoping for a good number of people. If there are enough, I may add one more role to spice things up further.
Topic: Mafia XXIX: "It's the Great Pumpkin (Mafia), Charlie Brown" Rules/Sign-up (Read 25177 times)
