X-mas Gifts Mafia

X-mas Gifts Mafia
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Game information
Host	Plasmid
Link	Game thread: X-mas Gifts Mafia BTSC threads
Size	Players (Small)
Start Date	11.19.13
Winning Faction	Baddies
Roster	#, player Fat Tony / Prince marth85 Dee Boquise Hachi Barcallica Kiwi Aura Benjer3 ShadowAngel Araver GMaster479
First to Die	ShadowAngel
Last Remaining	Boquise
MVP	Fat Tony / Prince Marth
Awards	-

X-mas Gifts Mafia was a game designed and hosted by Plasmid based on his won design.

It began on November 19, 2013 and ended in a Baddie win in N4 (November 29).

Game Mechanics

The twist for this game is that the goodies don't get to use their own abilities, at least for most of the game. On N1 they can use their own action like normal. After that, each goodie will have to pick a player who they trust enough to use their action. During each day phase, they name a player who will be able to use their action on the next night.

Example: GM gets the redirect role. N1, GM redirects Phaze to Slick. D1, GM says "give Vine the redirect for N2". N2, Vine gets a message at the beginning of the night saying that she has the redirect ability, and any others that were given to her, and gets to use all of them that night. D2, GM says "give Phaze the redirect for N3". Etc.

For the purposes of blocking and redirecting and such, ability transfers are considered to happen during the day phase and are not blockable or redirectable by night actions, but they ARE blocked by lynching. Whoever received the ability will be the one who is considered to be using it for the night. So in the previous example, if GM were blocked N2 then Vine's redirect would still go through, but if Vine were blocked N2 then the redirect would fail.

Each of the goodies will have an ability to transfer like this. The baddies do not have abilities to transfer. The baddies will need to make themselves look like goodies if they want the goodies to give them any of their abilities. And there are spy abilities that will tell you which players gave their abilities to whom. To keep from being outed by such a spy, the baddies each get to say "make it look like I gave an ability to player X" each night.

Rules

• You cannot give your ability to yourself, but you may decide to give it to no one.
• OOP: Block > Redirect > RID kill
• Redirected spies aren't told they were redirected.
• Redirected RID kills will kill the player they're redirected to if the originally targeted player's role-ID was guessed correctly
• Tie lynch = no one dies.
• A vote redirect during a day phase can be screwed with by a block or redirect on the preceding night -- think of blocks and redirects as lasting for a full cycle. Ability transfers and ODTG lynch frame can't be affected though.
• NPs will say "[Player name] got redirected" and "[Player name(s)] got killed". There will be no indication of who did the redirecting or killing, nor a distinction between a goodie kill and a baddie kill or between a regular kill and a RID kill.
• To clarify the baddies' bogus ability transfer:
  1. Suppose Nana is a baddie, and she doesn't want the goodie who spies who you give your ability to to know that she's a baddie based on the fact that she doesn't have an ability to give. So Nana says "give a fake ability to Vine". Now the spy sees "Nana gave an ability to Vine" so Nana isn't outed as a baddie based on not having an ability to transfer. Vine does not see any abilities from Nana's bogus transfer.
  2. Specifically, it does not work like "Nana gives a fake vote redirect to Vine, and Vine tries to use the vote redirect but it doesn't do anything"

Role Description

Goodie Abilities

1. Kill (not blocking)
2. Block
3. Redirect
4. Messenger. Receiver does not get to respond via host-pm.
5. Vote redirect
6. Spy ability receiver (see who your target gave their ability to). Night 1: see who your target acted on (doesn't detect NK)
7. Spy ability givers (see who gave their abilities to your target). Night 1: see who acted on your target (doesn't detect NK)
8. Save an ability: If you receive this ability, then you can use it at any point in the game, once for each time you receive the ability. Think of it as getting a card in your hand that you can play at any time. This ability allows you to pick one of the actions you're able to use and say "I don't want to use it tonight, I'd like to hold on to it and use it later in the game." If you save an ability this way, again, consider it to be like having a card in your hand for that ability that you can play at any time.

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Baddie Abilities (3 players)

• One NK (not blocking) OR two RID kill (blocking) attempts each night. Must have a carrier. RID kills can each have a separate carrier if you want. Blockable and redirectable.
• ODTG lynch frame. No carrier needed.
• Bogus action for each baddie N1 -- Spies will spy you as acting on your target, and will spy your target as being acted on by you, even though no action will actually happen. Spies cannot spy an NK being carried N1, but the NK can be blocked or redirected.
• Bogus ability transfer for each baddie from D1 onward.
• During the day phases, each living baddie can redirect a goodie's ability transfer for the upcoming night, but if they decide to use this redirect then they must redirect to another goodie and not a baddie.

Host's Summary

I've got to say, this ended up being the weirdest game I've hosted, and I've run a couple of lolcats and a nyan. It had me messing up Fat Tony's action to get him killed and needing to call Prince Marth in to take over his role, Boquise successfully defending himself by saying "I think I killed Aura", "Maybe I was redirected" (when you would clearly know if a kill action were redirected and not need to think about it), and "j/k I really killed Hachi happy.gif", and finally the baddie win because of forgotten ability transfers. So in the spirit of weirdness, I'll give MVP to Fat Tony / Marth, despite the fact that they Vommacked Shadow N1 and gave the baddies a kill for N2. After all, they did kill Aura and were able to definitively clear GM, which was largely ignored by the goodies later on.

Next time I'm a baddie, I'll have to try to defend myself by saying I was busy killing people who don't look the least bit scummy.

Winning Faction

Baddies

1. Boquise
2. Aura
3. Araver

Day and Night Posts

Intro N1 D1 N2 D2 N3 D3 N4

Prologue
Lolcat: I can haz prolog? Other lolcat: I rote you a prolog, but I ated it. Lolcat: Nyan u do prolog. Nyan: Nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan....

Night 1
"What's Shadow doing in her player account?" pondered the Grinch. He pondered and pondered and pondered some more. But then he got tired of pondering and just killed her to put her back in mod account. He also knocked araver delirious. TLDR version: Araver got redirected and Shadow got killed.

Day 1
It's tragic when the hordes flooding into Black Friday literally trample someone to death with their mob. So would say Kiwi, who died this day as the spy of who receives a target's ability transfer.

Night 2

Aura was enjoying some eggnog with a little of that extra special nog, which led to a groggy fog. As she slogged down the street, she saw the most ridiculously overpowered X-mas decorations she'd ever seen in her life. She peered at the jet-powered sleigh, and perhaps the nog fumes were a contributing factor, but regardless of the exact reason she ended up being instantaneously incinerated, as did Hachi in the house next door. Incidentally, Fat Tony was safe and sound in his home throughout all of this. TLDR: Aura was redirected. Aura and Hachi were killed. Unfortulately Fat Tony was already put in ghost thread, so I can't really bring him back into the game at this point. So Prince Marth is coming in as a backup to take over Fat Tony's role. (Sowwy FT.)

Day 2
Looks like there won't be a World War I style Christmas Truce on this vote lynch after all. Araver died a horrible death befitting a baddie.

Night 3
Dee thought it would be cute to dress up in reindeer antlers. The hunter thought the antlers would look nice over his fireplace. And so dee died. As did Prince Marth... the hunter had downed a fifth of Jack Daniels and hit Marth with a potshot while going after dee. TLDR: dee and marth both died.

Day 3
This time it really was like the Christmas Truce of World War I all over again.

Night 4

Benjer, Barc, and GM all faced Boquise, knowing that they had tracked down the last of the baddies. All Boq could do was what he was made for... he raised a pair of pistols to point at them, hands trembling at what he feared was in store for himself. Barc: Not gonna work. The same thing that happened to Aura is about to happen to you. Benjer: Yeah Barc, use that redirect and see how this scumbag likes a taste of his own medicine. Barc: ... Benjer: What? Barc: Didn't GM give you the redirect? Benjer: Uhhh.... GM: ... And so Barc and Benjer each took a bullet to the chest. Barc: Wait, it's not over yet. GM must have been the one to get the vote redirect from Benjer. That means he can vote to lynch Boq and redirect Boq to vote for himself. We're saved! GM: ... Benjer: ... Barc: Oh you've got to be kidding me. And so the D4 lynch was a forced tie between Boq and GM, and Boquise was free to make mincemeat of a defenseless GM on night 5. Moral of the story: It's better to give... than to have your ass handed to you by baddies.

End of Game Roster

1. Fat Tony - Killed N2 (due to technicality); Role take over by Marth - Killed N3
2. Dee - Killed N3 by Benjer
3. Boquise
4. Hachi - Killed N2
5. Barc - Killed N4
6. Kiwi - Lynched D1
7. Aura - Killed N2 by Fat Tony
8. Benjer - Killed N4
9. Shad - Killed N1 by Fat Tony
10. Araver - Lynched D2
11. GMaster479 - Killed N5

Actions

List of actions

Night 1 Baddies NK Fat Tony carrier Boquise Aura - "acts" on araver Boquise - "acts" on hachi Araver - "acts" on aura Goodies FT: Kill: Kill Shad - Success Shad: Block: Blocks Boq - Success GM: Redirect: Araver to Araver - Success Dee: Messenger: Messages Kiwi - Success Kiwi: Spy receivers: Spies Benjer Hachi: Spy givers: Spies shadow Barc: Save an action: Gets to save later on Day 1 Baddies Aura: No Action Boquise: Gives "ability" to hachi Araver: No Action Goodies F.T.: Kill: Gives ability to boq GM: Redirect: Gives ability to FT Dee: Messenger Benjer: Vote redirect: Redirects Dee's vote to Kiwi and gives ability to FT Kiwi: Spy receivers: Gives ability to dee Hachi: Spy givers: Gives ability to FT Barc: Save an action <has a "save an action">: Gives ability to benjer Night 2 Baddies NK: RID FT as kill (carrier Aura); RID GM as vote redirect (carrier Araver)- Both Fails Boquise: <has kill>: kill hachi - Success Goodies F.T.: Kill <has redirect, vote redirect, spy givers>: Redirect Aura to Aura, spy who gave FT abilities GM: Redirect <no actions> Dee: Messenger <no actions> Benjer: Vote redirect <has a "save an action"> Hachi: Spy givers <no actions> Barc: Save an action <has a "save an action"> Day 2 Baddies Boquise: N/A Araver: N/A Goodies Marth: Kill: Gives ability to Benjer GM: Redirect Dee: Messenger: Gives ability to Boq Benjer <has a "save an action">: Vote redirect: Gives ability to Boq Barc <has a "save an action">:Save an action: Gives ability to Boq Night 3 Baddie NK: RID Kill Marth as the goodie kill (succeeds); RID Kill Benjer as the goodie Redirect (fails) Boquise: <messenger, vote redirect, save an action> Goodies Marth: Kill <no abilities> GM: Redirect <no abilities> Dee: Messenger <no abilities> Benjer: Vote redirect <save an action, kill>: Kills Dee - Success Barc: Save an action <save an action> Day 3 Baddie Boquise: N/A Goodies GM: Redirect Benjer: Vote redirect Barc - Save an action Ability transfers are - :crickets chirping: Night 4 Baddie NK: RID Kill Barc as Save an ability; RID Kill Benjer as Vote redirect - Both Success