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Noise - Mafia games: [Closed] Chicago - Game over, mafia win!
Bottom of PageQuick opening post so that you can see reference information (such as who is alive) at a glance without scrolling.
The bold:
2. tick (nee runtime)
3. Carmine
12. Daegul v2 (nee Wallsy)The unbold
4. Daegul v1, preacher (Smitten by God, Day 1)
11. Tryghul, distiller (riddled night 2)
6. Antacid, cop (shot in mutual combat with LP day 2)
7. La Paloma, mafia paymaster (shot in mutual combat with Antacid day 2)
10. Mysteek, blocker (head blown off night 3)
5. Adapa, mafia godfather (lynched day 3)
1. Haug, doc (splatted night 4)
9. Paranoia (nee Araltaln), cowardly reporter (riddled night 4)
8. Thalasso, sewer worker (lynched day 4)GAME OVER
Day one begins
Day two begins
Day three begins
Day four beginsIt is 1930 and a great evil has fallen over the city of Chicago. Al Capone and his mob have completely taken over the city. Law enforcement is corrupt and powerless. Federal agents, in the form of Eliot Ness and his legendary band, The Untouchables, have been recruited to stop this senselessness. While all this is happening, the country is in the grip of the Great Depression. Thousands are out of work and the lines at the soup kitchens increase in size every day.
Amidst all this, the residents of one suburban neighborhood on the outskirts of the city are tired of the daily drive-by shootings with tommy guns and have decided its time to take back their streets. Their actions will have no effect on the greater issues such as the national debate on Prohibition or whether or not Al Capone survives. However, they may be able to put a dent in the local forces of evil, even if history does not remember them.
For it is to be remembered that Al Capone does not exist in a vacuum. Every neighborhood has the low-level hitmen assigned to it. Everywhere there exists a brewer or distiller or a corrupt cop or a clandestine bar owner, all simply out to make a buck. Then there is the consumer, the guy who simply wants a beer and who is willing to risk hard time to get it. And there exists the many firebrand Prohibitionists who wish to end what they see as the evil of drinking. And also the average Joe, worried about his family, who just wants the shootings to end. History does not remember these people, but these people are history, for without them this whole drama could not exist.
You are actors in this drama. Will the neighborhood be reclaimed (at least temporarily), or will the forces of darkness continue to reign? Because the police are corrupt and powerless, you have all decided to take matters into your own hands. There is a neighborhood meeting at 9 AM at the local Firemen's Pavilion, and you are invited to attend...Welcome to Chicago, a game created entirely by the twisted mind of Dubya (beware).
Rules:
1) In order to deal with the problem of inactive players, and to speed the game along, lynch majority each game day will be determined by the number of people who have shown up to the neighborhood meeting that day. The meeting will begin when a minimum of 4 people have posted (unless there are less than 4 people remaining, of course). This means that if 4 people post, only 3 votes are required for lynch majority (even if 12 players remain). If you don't like this, I encourage you to lynch jokers who abuse this rule. Or, avoid this situation altogether by remaining active and posting at least once per game day. Note: Even if an early lynch majority is reached under this rule, if I don't notice it and more people post in the meantime the lynch will not occur.
2) Twilight may not arrive when you think it does. Consider yourselves warned.
3) No Dissecting or directly quoting any pms from me in the thread.
4) Do not edit or delete your posts (most of you won't be able to anyhow)Deadline extended to Monday at 12 noon GMT Get your choices in, people who have not sent a choice in will be counted as doing nothing.
Day one of the neighborhood meetings breaks. People begin to stream into the neighborhood pavilion. Soon, a sense of joy overcomes the assemblage. No bodies were found this morning. Is the nightmare over soon? Someone begins talking, and soon everyone begins arguing over who in the neighborhood is responsible for the deaths.
It is now DAY. Begin talking.
Hrm - an early start to the game.
I'm glad to see no-one died last night, that could be for many reasons - doc, blocker etc - I assume we'll learn more as the game progresses.
I'll kick the day off with a random Vote Araltaln for the terrible crime of having a name beginning with 'A'.
Woo, nice.
Awfully LYNCH HAPPY, Antacid.
I was going to vote him, but then I remembered the whole Votes/people posted and whatnot, so I think that may be a bad thing to do until such a time as we have more votes. Yes?
A random, nonsensical-looking vote..
or GUILT. GUILT, Mr. A. Mr. Al Capone.
.. yeah, okay, I can't even bring myself to put an OMGUS vote in here after that
Especially since the intro text makes it pretty clear we're not dealing with him 
Anyway, woo! Random vote Daegul.
People! Please dont vote, itll only take 2 votes on either of those two candidates to lynch them now.
Wait untill at least half of the group has posted, else we may be digging an early grave.
I'm not sure Haug is right, but I do think that caution is a good idea in this game. Dubya's rules are a tad strange, and I'm not sure I fully understand them.
Night one seemed to drag out quite a while, but that might have just been because I expected it to happen during a weekend when I had considerable plans, and so I checked the boards everytime I had a free moment. Didn't want to miss the start, not with the odd voting rules.
1) In order to deal with the problem of inactive players, and to speed the game along, lynch majority each game day will be determined by the number of people who have shown up to the neighborhood meeting that day. The meeting will begin when a minimum of 4 people have posted (unless there are less than 4 people remaining, of course). This means that if 4 people post, only 3 votes are required for lynch majority (even if 12 players remain). If you don't like this, I encourage you to lynch jokers who abuse this rule. Or, avoid this situation altogether by remaining active and posting at least once per game day. Note: Even if an early lynch majority is reached under this rule, if I don't notice it and more people post in the meantime the lynch will not occur.
After I had posted, it would have taken only 2 other people to come in right after me to vote both on one of the two already voted to see them lynched :p
While it proberly wouldn't have been done, its better to be safe.
Yeah. That's what I was trying to say with my post.
I wasn't sure Haug was right, because both people coming in would need to vote against the same person, but if each of the new people voted for different people, it would be much more difficult.
Indeed, it gets more difficult with each person who arrives.
The only people who could manage a quick lynch in this case, as far as I can see, would be a mafia group who were willing to partially expose themselves to get an extra kill. Since they didn't get a kill last night, it is unlikely that they would take this risk. If they had made a kill, or two, then this strategy might have been worthwhile, but it's probably too early in the game for that.
Still, keep this in mind for the end game. If they strike quickly when the numbers are right, they could bandwagon a quick lynch and parley that into a win.
I don't understand the voting rules at all
The meeting BEGINS when 4 people have posted, but IF 4 people post, 3 are required for a lynch??
Is it 3 for a lynch regardless of the numbers of people left alive?
Dubya: Some clarification please
I don't understand the voting rules at all
After 4 (different) people post, someone can be lynched. If 4 people post, then itll take 3 to lynch. If 10 people post itll take 6 people to lynch. If 20 people post, 11 are needed to lynch. If 1000 people post, 501 people are needed to lynch
(thats different people posting 1 post each, not the total amount)
I don't understand the voting rules at all
Basically, instead of calculating 50% +1 of the remaining alive players for a lynch majority, we count 50%+1 of the players who have posted since the beginning of the day.
To make sure that someone can't make the first post, vote, and thus end the day straight away, this rule doesn't kick in until at least 4 people have posted.
That's the way I understand it, anyway.
I count 6 different players plus me so far, so it'd take 4 votes for a majority atm.
But I agree with Thalasso, I don't think the mafia would risk such a gambit this early.I'd recommend people to 'watch this topic for replies' to get alerts when the day dawns and post without voting asap, even if it's just an 'I'm here' post.
Anyway, I reckon we've got enough posts for me to random vote La Paloma.
Everybody loves the papoola.Woohoo, it finally begins
I'm not going to start with the normal random voting either, because I'm nervous about this twisted anti-stalling mechanic. I am hoping that in an endgame scenario such a mechanic won't be the deciding factor of the game. And I'm setting this thread on my watch (although the mails tend to get delayed thanks to work's hyperactive spam flagging).
Hi Colonic: In a game run by Carmine, with 9 people, how many killing groups would you expect there to be? Mono: 10O, I thought it might also be worth reminding people that if you use the Quick Reply box, your "Watching" flag often resets itself so you're no longer automatically watching the thread. You have been warned!
Hi Colonic: In a game run by Carmine, with 9 people, how many killing groups would you expect there to be? Mono: 10
I think to be safe it'd be better to wait until we've all posted before voting, as much as possible, just so we can avoid the negative implications of this mechanic. I think in theory it's a good idea, but in practice, with having to constantly tabulate in the early hours of each day exactly how many votes are needed to lynch based on how many people have posted, it'll become a hassle. Still, we'll have to wait and see
Runtime, LP, and Wallsy are still to post, it looks like.
Well, my outbox sez that Wallsy still hasn't received my last move from the Pirates! game, so I don't reckon we oughter hold back on voting until he posts.
We're just waiting on he and Runtime now, yah? So we need a majority of 6 rather than 7. Sounds like it's safe to begin to me.
Last game, random bandwagon-pushing rather than random voting worked out pretty well. And if I vote Daegul rather than Araltaln, then I also get to play OMGUS! Two Day-One gambits for the price of One!
1000 miles from the chimera I chase...