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[cesium133]

This game will be set in a post-apocalyptic world, after the Vampire Invasion of 2014 decimates the world population, leaving only vampires and a slim population of human survivors. Ten years after the invasion, a village of vampires have settled into their new life. The lack of humans as a source of blood has severely diminished the vampire population. The vast armies of vampires that roamed nightly in Manhattan are gone. This village survives after the discovery that bovine blood, though not as tasty as human blood, works well enough, leading to a cattle ranching industry developing. But something is wrong. It all started when young Vlad, a five-year-old vampire, disappeared from the village one day. These days the spectre of human vampire hunters is a distant memory, but... could it be happening again?

If you've read/seen the book/movie "I Am Legend", it should be fairly obvious that it inspired the story for this game.

There are two teams: the village and the humans. The villagers' goal is to survive long enough for the human invaders to be killed. The humans' goal is to kill all the vampires.

The goal is 12 players, though a couple above or below that is fine.

1. TheEvilDog
2. Unicorn
3. henri bemis
4. de_la_Nae
5. Loki
6. Linds
7. Black Sword
8. Gareth
9. J
10. dr. nervioso
11.
12.

[TheEvilDog]

Some motherfuckers are always trying to iceskate uphill.

Sign me up!

[Zingoleb]

In.

[henri bemis]

apocalypse!  I'm in.

[cesium133]

I've just finished planning out what all the roles are going to be, but I realized something: vampires are nocturnal, which probably means that the day and night phases should be reversed...

[de_la_Nae]

Oh snap. I'm in.

[Loki]

So, I either get to play a sexy vampire, or an equally sexy vampire hunter?* Count me in.


*This is my head canon and you should respect that.

[TRVA123]

gah, I want to do this so badly, but I'm going to be out of town for four days....

[Lines]

I'm in!

[Black Sword]

I'm in. I mean, who doesn't love some...

...steak?

[Loki]

Vegetarians, for instance.

[Pilchard123]

* Pilchard123 thrusts a stick of celery dramatically towards Loki

Take that!

[Thrillho]

I vote to lynch Unicorn.

Uh I mean, I'm in.

Wow, this is awkward.

[Zingoleb]

AU grudges. I can dig it.

[riccostar]

Hey I'm all for lynching Unicorn too! This game sounds awesome unfortunately I'm going to be in Nashville and Pittsburgh for the next week so if I played I'd probably be super quiet. I'm probably going to sit this one out but if there is a real need for players I'll try to join up and chime in when I can during the trip.  I wish great fun upon everybody!

[Loki]

* Pilchard123 thrusts a stick of celery dramatically towards Loki

Take that!

Your stick of celery doesn't seem to have a measurable effect on the creature.
Loki attacks and deals 22 damage.
[F]ight, [U]se Item, or [R]un?
>_

[Black Sword]

You ignored my bad pun, Loki. *tosses Loki out into the blizzard from last game*

[J]

i'm back beyotches! sign me up.

[Loki]

You ignored my bad pun, Loki. *tosses Loki out into the blizzard from last game*

Oh, I. uhm. Only got it just now. My only defense is that I pronounce steak and stake quite differently in my head. Which may be caused by the fact that I apparently have rather atrocious English pronunciation.

[Pilchard123]

Oops...my celery attack was meant to target Black Sword, although I'd thought you might have got what I was getting at as well. There's a bit in Reaper Man where the wizards are trying to bury Windle (for those of you who don't know, Windle is a zombie who'd quite like it if he could finish dying) and the Bursar buys some celery instead of a stake/steak to drive through Windle's heart.

[dr. nervioso]

i'll join back in

[Loki]

Oops...my celery attack was meant to target Black Sword, although I'd thought you might have got what I was getting at as well. There's a bit in Reaper Man where the wizards are trying to bury Windle (for those of you who don't know, Windle is a zombie who'd quite like it if he could finish dying) and the Bursar buys some celery instead of a stake/steak to drive through Windle's heart.

I have read the book, but I am rather hazy on such details. I consume books in a way which rarely leaves the actual content of them in my brain. The upside is, I get to enjoy Pratchett again and again

[TheEvilDog]

People, don't make me impale all of you on wooden stakes to terrify my enemies into thinking that if I can do that to my own allies what would I do to them.

[cesium133]

Pilchard123, is that an "in" for this game? 

[Pilchard123]

No, it's not. I prefer trying to figure things out from the sidelines.

[cesium133]

Okay. I guess I'll wait until later today and if nobody else signs up, we can do the game with ten players.

[cesium133]

I'm going to go ahead and send out role PMs now, and I should have the game thread up shortly.

[Method of Madness]

Aww, man, is it too late? I've seen the threads in the past but they had so many posts in them I didn't look, just noticed this today

[riccostar]

In response to Linds's in game comment I'd like to point out that the flavoured sparkly body powder is freaking delicious.  My girlfriend got a jar of it and she has to hide it from me to stop me from eating it right out of the jar before we can use it for its intended purpose.  It is also sparkly and might be the best thing ever invented.

That is all.

[Game and Watch Forever]

*pulls a seat over for J*

So uhh... as a vampire, what's it like to die a second time? I may never get a chance to ask that ag-- wait, no... I probably will. Forgot what game I was watching for a second. Uhm... want to say anything to the kids watching at home?

[J]

hmm, seems i overplayed things a bit.

[de_la_Nae]

You know it occurs to me that I should ask: To what extent are players allowed to PM each other (cc-ing Cesium I'd imagine)? I know I've been doing all my playing in the thread without outside communication so far, but figured I'd check.

[Thrillho]

I've had exactly one conversation outside of the games while a game was ongoing.

[Method of Madness]

So since nobody answered my question (from a few days ago), I guess it is too late, even if it wasn't then? :\

[de_la_Nae]

Oh damn, I didn't notice. Uh, maybe? It's Cesium's gig, his call. He probably hasn't noticed either, PM him.

[Loki]

I'd like some comment on the PM situation as well, as this is only the second game I am playing (and I was a killer in the first, so I'd obviously PM with others.) There are those whom I trust, but I dare not voice some of my thoughts for everyone to hear, because that might give the killers ideas, or offend people (characters) because I would publicly suggest lynching them

[de_la_Nae]

That's why I want the clarification. I can see pros and cons to allowing all players to do it.

Also I wasn't aware killers got to do that.

[Loki]

I suppose there is no harm in telling. In Mafia 5, Unicorn, Black Sword and me got a simultaneous PM basically saying we were the killers. The modus operandi was that we would come to a majority vote between ourselves, then one of us would message TheEvilDog with our decision. After Unicorn got killed, we agreed on a victim between the two of us left.

I cannot tell whether this is the case in this game, though. I assume the killers know of each other, otherwise it would be hard for them to decide on a target. Unless there are multiple factions like in Mafia.. 4? (The one with the mages and the epic battle).

[de_la_Nae]

3 I think. 4 was the Candyland Rebels game.

EDIT: Wherein I think the antagonist faction...I'm not sure whether they weren't to communicate, or simply didn't start out knowing who was who.

[henri bemis]

Unless it's stated otherwise (either in the game rules, or in a role PM), I always just assume that villagers cannot communicate via PM, and killers can.  That's they way I've always played, at least.

[cesium133]

So since nobody answered my question (from a few days ago), I guess it is too late, even if it wasn't then? :\

Yeah, sorry about that. I think I should have waited another day or so to see if anyone else wanted to play. At the time you posted here, I had already sent the role PMs, so it would have been too late to add you.

[Lines]

Players are told who they can pm. Villagers shouldn't be pming people and roles that involve pms are told who they can talk to - be it just the gm or also another player. But really it depends on the gm. I prefer to run things as I would if we were playing in real life, meaning only pm who you're told you can.

[Method of Madness]

Is Mafia the same game as Assassins? I've only played it with cards (I think Kings are cops, Aces are assassins, Queens are medics, Jacks might be something and everyone else is a townsperson)

[cesium133]

Players are told who they can pm. Villagers shouldn't be pming people and roles that involve pms are told who they can talk to - be it just the gm or also another player. But really it depends on the gm. I prefer to run things as I would if we were playing in real life, meaning only pm who you're told you can.

As I understand it, PMing as a regular villager is discouraged. I can't really control it if people do it without me knowing, but if you do, keep in mind the person you're talking to might not be who they say they are. 

Is Mafia the same game as Assassins? I've only played it with cards (I think Kings are cops, Aces are assassins, Queens are medics, Jacks might be something and everyone else is a townsperson)

I've never played Assassins, but the roles you mention are very close to the roles I've included in the game.

[de_la_Nae]

So you are asking players not to communicate for gameplay purposes outside of the game, unless their roles specifically mention it?

Okay, I can do that. Means continuing what I've been doing. Thanks for clarifying though. Didn't want to miss out on a possible tool just because I was ignorant.

[Method of Madness]

Cesium, how does one play this if not in person? I thought the whole point was trying to trick people into killing the wrong person (assuming you're the assassin), but isn't the whole challenge not to give yourself up? How does that work without the person you're trying to convince seeing you?

[cesium133]

We're still trying to figure that out, to be honest. So far the mafia has won every game.

[Game and Watch Forever]

I have a theory, but I don't really want to share it until I've had the chance to verify some stuff. Hopefully by the end of the weekend I'll have what I want and share with the class.

[Lines]

My theory is people don't want to kill in a game that is won by killing people.  

[TheEvilDog]

Cesium, how does one play this if not in person? I thought the whole point was trying to trick people into killing the wrong person (assuming you're the assassin), but isn't the whole challenge not to give yourself up? How does that work without the person you're trying to convince seeing you?

You need only look at how the other games have fared to see that sometimes its quite easy for the killers to win. Half the time, the villagers don't want to risk killing one of their own and the other half, they seem to go crazy.