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Mafia V: Day One
« on: May 31, 2006, 04:27:45 AM »
Being jolted from sleep by a night terror isn't the most pleasant way to wake.  Sadly, in these times, it had become commonplace.  

The young man jumped out of bed, grabbed his pistol from his bedside table, and aimed it around him, searching in vain for whatever it was hunting him in his dream.  

Just a dream, he realized.  Another one, a night terror, among many.  A daily ritual to be sure.  The man was a deserter, a sergeant of the Union Army.  When the war began, he sided with the Confederacy, as he wanted to preserve the old Constitution.  Sadly, the Confederacy, he learned, only stood for political self-preservation--there were no ideals.  Still he felt it better to remain disenchanted than to join the militaristic Sonyfornians.  However, the choice between a dictatorship and the shell of a democracy was enough to drive him out of public service altogether.

The man went AWOL.  On a whim, he'd simply abandoned his station and kept walking.  On and on for miles he continued, stopping occasionally for what sustenance the tainted water of nearby creeks would provide.  

One afternoon, he collapsed from exhaustion.  He woke up with his first of several night terrors.  But aside from the instinctual need to defend himself, he couldn't remember a thing about his dreams.  He knew he would be hunted down and killed for desertion, but his fear was deeper than that.  It wasn't his life he was afraid of losing.  It was something dearer to him.

After regaining his bearings, he noticed that he'd woken in what appeared to be a room in old farm.  Outside his room, the land stretched out for as far as he eye could see.  They sky was blood red.  

There was someone standing in the doorway behind him.

"I see you're awake."

The deserter turned suddenly at the sound of the voice and saw a stout older man, in his sixties, with a grave face.  

The young man said nothing.

"You're safe here, for a while.  You've slept fitfully for days.  I don't blame you for what you did, but you're a marked man.  Stay quiet, you'll have food and rest here for as long as you can stay hidden.  Though, I don't imagine that would be long."

The young man barely managed a weak, "thanks."  

Since then weeks had passed.  His memory was returning along with his strength; memories of when the war began memories of the espionage.  And, there was the time in which the people finally stood up for themselves.  It was a weak effort, but it was a start.

The Sonyfornians and the Confederacy had been infiltrating each other's military to gain intelligence for years, but both had finalized plans to unleash a devastating attack that was dependant upon one last intrusion.  Somehow, knowledge of these attacks were leaked and become public knowledge.  The infiltrators were in hiding, not amongst the soldiers in the armies, but rather among the citizens.  Neither side believed the other would resort to harming the citizens in an effort to destroy the other.  Sadly, this was not the case.  The lives of the citizens became collateral damage.  

The citizens themselves took action.  Several states, commonwealths, and provinces elected leaders to represent them.  They would gather and meet every day.  At the end of the day, they would decide on one man for whom they believed might be a member of the Confederate or Sonyfornian spies.  

The citizens had the strength in numbers, but they had no idea how deadly their plan would truly be.  Nor were they truly prepared for the backfire.


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RE:Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2006, 05:52:14 AM »
Is there a player's list yet?
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RE:Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2006, 06:04:19 AM »
Now there is.
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RE:Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2006, 07:10:58 AM »
Wow, nice opening story, let the games begin!!

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RE:Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2006, 07:58:06 AM »
So much war, so much destruction. I miss the days of cheese and rats. Ah well, I've survived all this time, I can surely survive the coming days. ....right?

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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2006, 08:40:37 AM »
I'm excited to have something to pass the time at work with again!
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RE:Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2006, 10:32:44 AM »
What I should do this game is sit back and think hard about who might be Mafia. So, I should just sit back and keep a well-organized list of suspicious posts. I'll just need to sit back and wait for the time to launch an effective Machiavellian-style trap...

But you guys know I won't be able to do all that.

EDIT: Took me two edits to get that smiley right. Not a good start...
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RE:Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2006, 10:35:09 AM »
Fire up the MSN gossip machine

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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2006, 10:40:43 AM »
Rumor has it that Pale likes the Nintendo Wii. Suspicous? You decide.

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RE:Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2006, 12:10:15 PM »
Alright, that's it. I'm kickstarting this with the first vote.

Edit: Self-vote kickstart didn't work. Trying new tactic...
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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2006, 12:29:35 PM »
What happens if no one else votes and Stabby is the Downtrodden Man--does he die twice?
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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2006, 12:35:06 PM »
I would guess that he'd get blowed up real good.
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RE:Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2006, 12:53:38 PM »
If I was the downtrodden man, do you think I'd vote for myself? No! I'd try to live as long as I can and kill the first chance I got.
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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2006, 01:41:51 PM »
Do you just not want to play stabby or is this revers psychology?
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RE:Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2006, 02:33:13 PM »
Reverse psychology, I think. I tried to jump-start voting by voting for myself, but that didn't work, so I'll have to try a different tactic... Aha!

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Note the silence. he hasn't posted yet. PErhaps he has something to hide? Perhaps he's merely observing and waiting for his chance to strike? PErhaps he just hasn't gone to PCG yet?
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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #15 on: May 31, 2006, 03:18:56 PM »
Sheesh, with all of this non-voting you'd think it were later in the game.  Then again, voting is a liability with these new rules.
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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #16 on: May 31, 2006, 03:34:00 PM »
And yet, voting is required.  Oh the irony.
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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #17 on: May 31, 2006, 04:34:44 PM »
This game is boring, what happen to mafia of old with care free vedetta killing (for no other reason beside somebody looking at you wrong look last game), IWATA cheese, and drinking your self stupid then voting?

Edit:... dang 15 people with role to 6 townies only and the townies wont vote for fear of the carzy Downtrodden guy.
Everyone scared lol
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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2006, 04:34:56 PM »
Woke up this morning, I noticed a Pez dispenser left outside with a fruit rollup, picks it up and loads it up with my favorite pez candy, I heard that stabby was once known as ole Eagle Eyes, I saw him playing pool, unfortunatel ole Eagle Eyes was blind, he was hitting balls, just not pool balls :p Eagle Eyes is champion, I had to hook him up with a "Lady' which I've got a deal on from Blow up dools r'us.
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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2006, 05:00:20 PM »
And the waiting continues..
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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #20 on: May 31, 2006, 05:01:53 PM »
LOL.  What the heck is wrong with Gohan?  He cracks me up.
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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #21 on: May 31, 2006, 05:05:26 PM »
I haven't seen this much intensity since the season finale of 24.
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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #22 on: May 31, 2006, 05:12:02 PM »
Wait, what's this requiring to vote rule?  I could go back and read again but I'd like clarification...

Edit: Nevermind its right there now... Pryo is editing the rules mid game! =P

Hopefully I'll have a better idea on who to vote for by the third day.
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RE: Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #23 on: May 31, 2006, 05:15:49 PM »
Hey!  Those voting rules were there this morning.  I even had TYP check them out for clarity.
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RE:Mafia V: Day One
« Reply #24 on: May 31, 2006, 05:47:01 PM »
Time to bandwagon people! vote UncleBob