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Title: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 25 Feb 2013, 09:09
There's been several games of Mafia and all of them have been successful. So its time for a new game. This time though, there's a couple of minor differences. Namely, instead of a village, this game will be set in a college, cut off from the world during a severe snowstorm and stalked by a trio of killers. Due to the setting, there won't be any lynchings, instead, people will be locked in a room overnight. But this will leave them open to being killed by one of the trio (approximately a 50/50 chance).

The goal for the students and faculty is to survive until help can arrive by the end of the seventh day. The killers' goal - make sure there are no survivors.

Once a night, the trio will choose someone to kill, as per usual. The rest of the rules are the same as usual.

Anyway, I'll be looking for at least 10 people to play this game; but as always, the more, the merrier.

1. De_la_nae
2. Loki
3. Unicorn
4. Gareth (and apparently, Gareth's erection)
5. TRVA123
6. Game and Watch Forever
7. Cesium133
8. Linds
9. Black Sword
10. Henri Bemis
11. Riccostar
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: de_la_Nae on 25 Feb 2013, 09:11
Tentative in.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Loki on 25 Feb 2013, 09:14
I shall be joining, if you don't mind that about 79% of my knowledge about American college culture comes from watching Gilmore Girls.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 25 Feb 2013, 09:22
I shall be joining, if you don't mind that about 79% of my knowledge about American college culture comes from watching Gilmore Girls.

Thats funny, because I'm Irish  :-D

Just imagine it as an incredibly generic type of college.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Zingoleb on 25 Feb 2013, 09:23
Ugh, nope. Sounds like I'd be as confused as in Mafia 4.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Game and Watch Forever on 25 Feb 2013, 09:29
Not sure I'm in for this one yet, but I am intrigued. How exactly do you survive if you don't aim to kill the killers? Are we choosing who we're locking out, or what?
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Zingoleb on 25 Feb 2013, 09:44
also where's the logic behind "we think you're killing people so we're gonna lock you up overnight but don't worry, we'll let you out in the morning"
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Zingoleb on 25 Feb 2013, 09:44
ugh, whatever, I'm in I guess.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 25 Feb 2013, 09:47
In short, there'll be a "deranged" survivor, who'll be after the killers. But for the most part, the rest are students who are just trying to survive. But as the days go on, they might have to resort to killing suspects as cabin fever sets in. As for locking up, it'll work like voting for lynching but people will be locked for the night while the others look for evidence.

There'll be clearer rules in the main game when it starts.

If it helps, just imagine it like a slasher film.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: de_la_Nae on 25 Feb 2013, 09:51
"We can't just kill him!"
"But he's the killer!"
"But we don't *know* that!"
"So what else do we do?!"
"I dunno man, lock him up or something?"
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 25 Feb 2013, 09:56
Count me and my erection in.

Although I guess we can just play as a team on this one occasion.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TRVA123 on 25 Feb 2013, 10:01
I'm in
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Game and Watch Forever on 25 Feb 2013, 10:02
also where's the logic behind "we think you're killing people so we're gonna lock you up overnight but don't worry, we'll let you out in the morning"

Thematically, I'm imagining that we're only letting them out if we feel they're not the killer after more discussion/evidence. Otherwise, they're merely screaming at us their arguments through the door. Of course, the actual gameplay mechanics may work against that and a different thematic view may be needed in that case, but my point is that with what's given so far, I can see at least one possibility that doesn't stretch slasher movie logic too much.

I'm in, Evil. Looking forward to it.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 25 Feb 2013, 10:19
I'm in.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Lines on 25 Feb 2013, 10:35
I'm in. I've been watching a lot of horror movies lately because I've been sick. (What. They make me feel better.)
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 25 Feb 2013, 10:40
Excellent. Excellent. Just another couple of victi- I mean players, and we can begin.

Also, horror films are an excellent way of feeling better when you're ill.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 25 Feb 2013, 10:41
This is made a bit more amusing for me in that the university I'm at has told everyone to get out by 1:30 because of the snow, and, being a grad student, I don't get to leave for a bit of snow.  :roll:
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: ackblom12 on 25 Feb 2013, 10:42
I'm not joining in, but this is making me think I should necro my Schlocky Horror Picture Show (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28438.0.html) thread.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Loki on 25 Feb 2013, 10:42
I'm in. I've been watching a lot of horror movies lately because I've been sick. (What. They make me feel better.)
"My innards may feel like they are turning inside-out, but at least they are not actually being turned inside-out?"  :-D
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Black Sword on 25 Feb 2013, 12:26
I'm in!
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: henri bemis on 25 Feb 2013, 15:15
I'll play!  This sounds like it will be really fun to RP.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 25 Feb 2013, 15:52
Ok, we have our 10, but I'll leave it another day in case anyone else wants to sign up.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: de_la_Nae on 25 Feb 2013, 17:59
I'm not joining in, but this is making me think I should necro my Schlocky Horror Picture Show (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28438.0.html) thread.

It's not so old that it's dead, just quietly retired. It'd be less of a necro, more of a...Will Smith getting Tommy Lee Jones back from the post office.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: riccostar on 25 Feb 2013, 20:19
I'll last minute join! I might be sorta quiet for the first few days though, we're putting on legally blonde and its crazy time consuming...
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Black Sword on 26 Feb 2013, 13:04
Should we start placing bets on the first corpse?
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Loki on 26 Feb 2013, 13:19
I sure hope I am not the first one.

I mean, I am the newcomer. The newcomer isn't supposed to die that early in the movie. He is supposed to be used for character development, either for his own or that of somebody else.

May the almighty Tropes protect me.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Game and Watch Forever on 26 Feb 2013, 13:49
Just... nobody have sex with anyone else... We will all increase our chances greatly if we follow that one rule.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 26 Feb 2013, 14:23
If you really want to survive, than;
You can never be naked. Ever. Even showing a hint of an ankle will get you killed.
Never answer a call from a number you don't know.
No drugs, alcohol or medication should be taken. This also extends to food.
Never, ever, ever say "I'll be right back". Because you won't. Unless you count in a bodybag or several chunks.

But hey, where's the fun in that?
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Loki on 26 Feb 2013, 15:01
nobody have sex with anyone else...

No drugs

But it's okay if I listen to some Rock'n'Roll, right?..


No?


Thought so.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: de_la_Nae on 26 Feb 2013, 17:56
*nakedly stumble-rolls out of bed, leaving behind quietly snoring pile of groupies, rubs eyes, nudges bong away with foot* Eh...I think I hear the phone...be right back...
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: henri bemis on 26 Feb 2013, 17:59
naked sexy bong rips for everyone?  It's the only way we'll all be safe, y'all.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Zingoleb on 26 Feb 2013, 18:07
I am so down that I may be stripping already.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Lines on 26 Feb 2013, 20:33
Guess I'm gonna be the token prude...
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TRVA123 on 26 Feb 2013, 21:54
no worries Linds, we can toke together! I'll bring the good stuff.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Loki on 27 Feb 2013, 00:39
*scribbles something on a cardboard presentation*

Guys, I think I have figured it out!

I modeled our group as a bi-directional node-weighted graph and optimized it for the nodes having the same weight, the weight being the number of neighbors of each node. The findings were astonishing. One of the easiest solutions for our problem is having all nodes connected to every other node.

If we want to even our chances of dying, everybody has to have lots of sex with each other. We just have to make sure everyone has the *same* amount of sex.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Black Sword on 27 Feb 2013, 05:57
I'll maximize my odds by being a prude. Linds, TRVA123, we're the prude clique!
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Game and Watch Forever on 27 Feb 2013, 07:30
Loki, while your idea makes sense, it comes with the caveat that we'd have to match Gareth and his erection. And well... my pelvis hurts just thinking about that.

I'll be in Camp Prude (where your groin must be at least five feet from anyone else at all times) if you need me...
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 27 Feb 2013, 07:36
The game will start in a little while, after I contact the players about their roles.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Zingoleb on 27 Feb 2013, 16:31
Loki, while your idea makes sense, it comes with the caveat that we'd have to match Gareth and his erection. And well... my pelvis hurts just thinking about that.

so does mine.

only i'm not complaining.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 28 Feb 2013, 10:40
Oh goodness.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Lines on 28 Feb 2013, 16:10
Really? REALLY? I was gonna give you fucks some candles, but NO. NOOOOOO. You no get candle. I bet it's because I wanted to be a prude.

I hate college students anyways. :-P
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Lines on 28 Feb 2013, 16:14
Basically I am sad because I love horror movies and I was gonna have fun. :(
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: de_la_Nae on 28 Feb 2013, 16:59
I'm sorry kobold friend. :(
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Lines on 02 Mar 2013, 14:21
I'm glad you got the reference!

Also Gareth, I'm going to haunt the shit out of you until you die a horrible death. Necrophilia isn't a tunny joke. Like seriously dude, new.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Pilchard123 on 02 Mar 2013, 15:17
Apologising to the dead person looks mighty suspicious, know what I'm saying?

Also, Linds must have had her hands eaten. She seems to be unable to spell. :P
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Lines on 02 Mar 2013, 15:50
It was posted from my phone. I am blaming autocorrect.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: henri bemis on 03 Mar 2013, 13:27
Goddamit, I knew I'd be next.  I should have just shouted my investigation findings and accepted my fate.  At least I can go to the grave knowing I found... interesting things.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 03 Mar 2013, 13:46
That's precisely why you were killed.
You knew things.
Damn scary things.
Things that can get people killed.
Just like you! :-D
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Lines on 03 Mar 2013, 19:07
Goddamit, I knew I'd be next.  I should have just shouted my investigation findings and accepted my fate.  At least I can go to the grave knowing I found... interesting things.

Oh? PM?
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: henri bemis on 05 Mar 2013, 16:48
Oooooh, can I?!  Do the ghosts get to hang out and cackle about the mishaps of the living behind their backs?  We promise not to tell the living! - bastards didn't save our asses, anyway.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 05 Mar 2013, 16:59
Go ahead, just don't tell the living what happened, or you'll get a visit from 3 paranormal psychologists and the guy they hired to round out the team.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Black Sword on 06 Mar 2013, 06:09
Actually, henri, I have a theory. My theory is that unless you're the bad guy, you never live long in these games. I was going to use it as a proof, but then you went and got me more data to prove me right!
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: henri bemis on 06 Mar 2013, 17:17
I'll prove you wrong one of these days!   :x

Ooooh, that could even be my defense in the future!  If you kill me, Black Sword is right!  And no one wants that!   :lol:
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Black Sword on 07 Mar 2013, 06:28
Sure, because trying to prove me wrong is more important than surviving.  :roll: Besides, exceptions to prove the rule are helpful.  :wink:

Remember, kids, if it's near end-game and henri is still alive, he's a villain!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 07 Mar 2013, 07:02
Actually, henri, I have a theory. My theory is that unless you're the bad guy, you never live long in these games. I was going to use it as a proof, but then you went and got me more data to prove me right!
Considering the bad guys have won every game so far, it seems like that applies to everyone.  :roll:
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Loki on 08 Mar 2013, 08:34
It should go without saying that all and any mean accusations I throw around are in character.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 08 Mar 2013, 08:47
I had a lot of fun with this game.  :-D
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Lines on 08 Mar 2013, 12:01
Actually, henri, I have a theory. My theory is that unless you're the bad guy, you never live long in these games. I was going to use it as a proof, but then you went and got me more data to prove me right!
Considering the bad guys have won every game so far, it seems like that applies to everyone.  :roll:

It's easier to lie through text.

Also welcome to the land of the dead!
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: henri bemis on 08 Mar 2013, 19:29
Remember, kids, if it's near end-game and henri is still alive, he's a villain!  :mrgreen:

I'm actually a she - It's not a big deal, just inaccurate, and I know my name makes things confusing  :-)

cesium133, welcome to ghost town :/

Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 09 Mar 2013, 04:02
I really want to be a villain. Not just so that I can win but so that I can be on the other side for once.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Zingoleb on 09 Mar 2013, 10:47
I want to get some interesting fucking roles for once.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Black Sword on 09 Mar 2013, 11:43
Make offerings to the random number god!
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Pilchard123 on 09 Mar 2013, 12:56
Hey, GWF!

Why so serious?
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 10 Mar 2013, 06:12
Boy, this isn't gonna make future Mafia games very fun if everyone ends up dead this game...
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 10 Mar 2013, 11:30
On the other hand, it'll be fun to have everyone dead by the end!  :evil:

Plus its payback for the lynchings I suffered because of my name  :-P
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Lines on 10 Mar 2013, 16:29
A mod could help you with that...  :-P

Also it's pretty funny watching this game from the sidelines. (Especially so after what henri told me. But I'm not telling!)
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 10 Mar 2013, 17:32
There is nothing more evil than a GM who has a chip on their shoulder.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 10 Mar 2013, 19:24
Nah, just someone having some fun. :-P
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Game and Watch Forever on 10 Mar 2013, 20:11
A GM of any sort "having some fun" is also something to fear. Hello fellow land of the dead inhabitants!  :angel:
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 10 Mar 2013, 20:53
A GM of any sort "having some fun" is also something to fear. Hello fellow land of the dead inhabitants!  :angel:
Hi! We've got cookies!
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TRVA123 on 11 Mar 2013, 12:34
hey, henri bemis, can you pm me what you found?

or just tell us all in like a day or two, when the killers win.......
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 11 Mar 2013, 13:44
See, this is what happens when people don't listen to me...  :roll:

edit - oh, and our fume hood has plenty of lovely noxious chemicals in it, although I do have one nitpick: in a power outage the fume hood wouldn't be running, which would mean TRVA123's killers would also be affected by the fumes.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 11 Mar 2013, 13:58
There was a small battery that can be activated in case of an emergency. And murdering an innocent person counts as an emergency  :-P
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Game and Watch Forever on 11 Mar 2013, 14:04
hey, henri bemis, can you pm me what you found?

or just tell us all in like a day or two, when the killers win.......

I wouldn't mind knowing as well if you're not opposed to sharing.  :-)

I'd like to say the town still has a chance, but I have no idea at this point.  :psyduck:

Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Pilchard123 on 11 Mar 2013, 14:09
I'm not playing, but I enjoy trying to work things out from the sides...

Care to let me in on any information?
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: henri bemis on 11 Mar 2013, 14:19
I'm already pushing the rules by talking to ghosts, so I probably shouldn't share things with non-players :/.  ahem.  I mean.  [spooky voice] A mere mortal, calling me from my deathly slumber?!  I shall smite thee!  with ghostly stuff!

The sign-up thread said there'd be a trio of killers, so unless that was changed, it's 2-2, and it's night, so...

At least we can haunt these hallowed halls of learning for eternity.  *weeps nostalgically, or something*

Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 11 Mar 2013, 14:26
At least we can haunt these hallowed halls of learning for eternity.

Hell no. I've got Peter, Ray, Egon and Winston on their way to bust your ectoplasmic asses out of the place as soon as the snow melts.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Zingoleb on 11 Mar 2013, 14:29
henri investigated me and found out i was the killer. i don't see a problem in admitting this now.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: henri bemis on 11 Mar 2013, 14:37
Damn those ghostbusters!

I had two nights to investigate, and I don't admit anything because no one living is supposed to have any definitive information about what I found.  I haven't been following the game as closely as I did when I was alive, though.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Lines on 11 Mar 2013, 16:04
Wait, is there a vigilante in this game? I'm kind of confused why Unicorn is dead. Unless the killer is Dexter, you know, because that'd make sense.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 11 Mar 2013, 16:22
There is a vigilante. Or rather someone who snapped.
Title: Re: Mafia 5 Sign Up Thread
Post by: Loki on 12 Mar 2013, 01:39
Unless the killer is Dexter, you know, because that'd make sense.

If Dexter is playing, he should have been on the player list :(

Unless.... Dexter is the snow!

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