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Final Fantasy Mafia

Some analysis.

This game was pretty much textbook 101 Why Playing Passively As A Town Is A BAD IDEA. Early on the town was doing great with several discussion leaders and scumchat basically imploding on itself and villains being way, way too transparent in their relations in the topic.

Then Liberty and geodude get killed by mafia as the most profilic posters and the tone of the game shifts dramatically.

The town has all the information neatly laid out and a million cases to make but no one makes them! Thus, no lynches and easily getting lead around by the mafia. I had both the Spirit Medium and the second Crystal Bearer express immense frustration to me over the town not picking up on information given by CONFIRMED, DEAD TOWN POWER ROLES. So yeah, I have to agree. Town died on its own passiveness. Nothing happens unless YOU are an active player. Fear of getting killed shouldn't matter when you get killed anyway if you don't do anything. Reactive posting just means everyone sits around and oh look no lynch.

Suicides didn't help of course.

Town MVP awards go to Liberty and geodude for being excellent discussion firestarters and quite good detectives.

Scum MVP award goes to Mr. Chuff, or should I say Mr. "Deputy"? Heh heh.

Uncalled for :( award goes to otokonoko for trying to pass the Irvine role as legit. I would never stoop THAT low. Then again I made the "No competent mod would have a perfectly flavor-matching SK" argument during IG mafia so turnabout is fair play!

Mod Flips You The Double Bird award goes to Asalieri for his dumb rule-breaking post-mortem posting. What the hell man.

Overall I had fun hosting the game and I hope you enjoyed it. The setup was crafted with great care and I hope it showed!

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Roles stuff.

VILLAINS:

GameOverGames Productions - Gilgamesh, Godfather
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Loses his pure image for the night if going on a nightkill. Mafia didn't really value this ability and lo - he actually DID get copped night 3 for a scum result.

Relyt/otokonoko - Exdeath, Rolecop
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Can't use ability if going on a nightkill. Very powerful for sniffing out roles, found most of the town power roles, which made setting up kill targets and making fakeclaims in the topic that much easier.

Asalieri - Garland, Roleblocker
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Can't use ability if going on a nightkill. Otherwise, bog standard roleblocker.

Mr. Chuff - Shuyin, Messenger
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Can't use ability if going on a nightkill. Chuff made bloody excellent use of this.

InvaderZim - Ultimecia, Silencer
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Can't use ability if going on a nightkill. Prevents the target from speaking next day, they can only vote and unvote. Never got into use thanks to a hilarious in-mafia bitchfest on day 1 resulting in Zim being sacrificed despite like none of the townies seriously suspecting him.

NPC:

Natook - Marquis Ondore, Historian
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Is given a list of bulletpoints based on each night's important events, can write anything in the daybreak flavor as long as it includes that. Must survive to endgame to win. My personal favorite role, that got its intent misunderstood. It's basically a Survivor with infinite potential to set up anonymous red herrings. Watching the topic and scumchat squirm early on trying to figure out the meanings of the flavor (that was never grounded in factual reality) was great. The Natook claimed it(!?) and it got accused of being a role to give me a lazy out of flavor writing. :(. Natook left on a trip without internet access midgame, so we never got to see if both sides would have been benevolent enough to let him survive to endgame.

HEROES:

Ark - Jecht, Bulletproof Miller
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Yep. Get mafia attention while avoiding cop attention and you're golden. Worked about as well as it could have.

ChaosProductions - Tellah, Suicide Bomber
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Can kill anyone, DURING DAY OR NIGHT, then dies himself. Not to be used unless you're absolutely sure of scum or on the chopping block yourself.

Font - Sabin, Mason
AznChipmunk - Edgar, Mason
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Can communicate with each other out of topic. Yup. Became rather powerful when Font got the crystal (more on that in a bit)

Gemini - Steiner, Governor
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Can stop a lynch up to 15 minutes after it happening, resulting in a no lynch. Cannot save himself. Never got used.

TooManyToasters - Cid Highwind, Roleblocker
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Roleblocker. YES, can roleblock mafia kill, and in fact did near endgame. Somehow never caught on that roleblocking Oto and subsequent no-kill was a sign of oto being scum.

GreatRedSpirit - Luneth, Doublevoter
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woop anonymous voting

Arcan - Minwu, Doctor
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Yep.

myersguy - Kimahri, Vanilla
suzuricho - Firion, Vanilla
Yellow Magic - Warrior of Light, Vanilla
ace prime - Squall, Vanilla
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Yep.

geodude - Aeris, Spirit Medium
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Can communicate with the dead three times during the game, told the communication is weak, MUST post the resulting message they get. What he (or the target of channeling) is not told is the first channeling cuts off at 50 words, second at 30, and third at 10. For the record, here's the full Liberty message before getting chopped:

Asa is mafia. As a crystal bearer I could use my crystal to check a person's alignment. It is an investigative role, with a twist. The first night I checked Font, to find that he was a regular hero. Last night I checked out Asa and he was mafia, only to be killed straight after. Please, avenge my death, comrades!

Boy that ", only" sure was ominous huh?


Little Wing Guy - Quina, Inheritor
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Is told the names of people that die at night, but not their roles. Can then choose whether to inherit or not - gains that role upon inheritance and may not inherit again. Passed over both Liberty and Font.
Was roleblocked the night of geodude death, unfortunately.

Austalopithecus - Kain, Vanilla(?)
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Heh heh heh. The influence of dark powers is hinted in his role PM...well, read on.

Liberty - Galuf, Crystal Bearer
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Okay, everyone wanted to know how this works. ESPECIALLY scumchat which were just about ready to assault me with pitchforks over the mystery. (Their role PMs told them that possession of a crystal would be useful)

Crystal Bearer is a cop with a fancy elaborate name, first off. The CB player is told they're a cop and not much else. There's more than that to it though.

The actual mechanics:

When Crystal Bearer dies, if Kain(Austra) is dead, the crystal shatters. If he's alive, though? Things get interesting.

If CB is lynched, the crystal fills with evil energies and is passed to the villains. When villains gain hold on the crystal, they use mindcontrol and KAIN TURNS TRAITOR and becomes VILLAIN Traitor, with no special powers. The crystal then shatters.

If CB dies at night and Quina does not inherit them, they get to choose who to send the crystal to. If a Hero, they inherit the role; if a Villain, Kain turns Traitor and the crystal shatters.

Was passed from Liberty to Font, then shattered thanks to Austra being dead when Font died.

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A piercing "..." echoes in the night as GreatRedSpirit, or Luneth, falls.

This time, one other hero was vigilant enough to get to the scene before the villains got away.

*CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK*
"Ah. Welcome to hell, knight-boy. Are you starting to feel my thousand years of agony yet?"
"SHALL I SEND HIM TO THE VOID?"
"Do as you wish. He is only level 1, after all."

The valiant knight leaped at the armor-clad tree, but despite his best efforts he would soon fall.

"Ha! You punks can kick around level 1 characters, sure, but what about me?"

The newly arrived character cockily pointed to himself.

"I'm the best, after all. And because I never was a player character, levels have no effect on me. Do you seriously think that a tree and an imposter of my crybaby failure of a son could take me down? Hah!"

"AH. BUT WE HAD A PLAN FOR SUCH AN OCCASION. AND CONVERSELY, YOUR PLANS ARE NOW FOILED. IT'S TOO LATE FOR YOU TO MAKE LIKE A NON-EVIL TREE AND LEAVE, TOO."

The last thing the drunken blitzball master ever saw was an immensely powerful summoned god of thunder.



Or so it seemed.

"...huh? I'm alive? Hah! Those punks couldn't take me, so I guess I won. All in a day's work. Well, it's time to walk into the sunset."

Little did he know that was no sunset, it was a Flare spell. The darkness would spread over the lands....


GreatRedSpirit(Luneth, HERO Doublevoter) was killed night 9.

Gemini(Steiner, HERO Governor) has died in the endgame.
Ark(Jecht, HERO Bulletproof Miller) has died in the endgame.


Mr. Chuff(Shuyin, VILLAIN Messenger) has survived the endgame!
otokonoko(Exdeath, VILLAIN Rolecop) has survived the endgame!

THE VILLAINS WIN!


Full role list and analysis coming up in a bit.

Final Fantasy Mafia

What makes a hero? A strong heart? An indestructible spirit? Well, some are way more practical and say it is special abilities. Unfortunately...those people would be in the wrong this time. This is endgame. No mistakes allowed. The sky grows ever madder in a glow of crimson. No mistakes allowed. Can this world be saved? No mistakes allowed. What makes a hero? Who can save the world? Is this the final day? Who can save the final day? No mistakes in a glow of crimson. Endgame. Game Over? Or perhaps just the last boss? The heroes were wrong again. Special abilities save the final day? Who uses the save point? A looming meteor. A practical meteor on the final day. An indestructible crimson glow. Spirit of the sky. Endgame, would you like to load your data and try again? Please select your indestructible character. Random encounters? No random encounters. No indestructible crimson encounters. -

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myersguy(Kimahri, Vanilla HERO) was lynched day 9!

NIGHT 9 begins. No talking in the topic permitted during this time. Send in any night actions you have by PM during the next 24 hours, or they will be forfeit.


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myersguy(3): Mr. Chuff, GreatRedSpirit, anonymous
Mr.Chuff(1): Ark

With 6 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

There are 31 hours until deadline.

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Mr.Chuff(1): Ark
myersguy(1):: Mr. Chuff

With 6 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

There are 31.5 hours until deadline.

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The villains win on the condition it is impossible for the rest of the town to vote out a villain on their effort.

Mr. Chuff(1): Ark

With 6 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

There are 44 hours until deadline.

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The castle of Figaro lies in ruins. (How it got here, don't ask). The village is in chaos. Yet another hero has been brutally mauled. A meteor looms in the red sky to greet the waking heroes.

The endgame is here. And this endgame is no time to go sidequesting.


AznChipmunk(Edgar, HERO Mason) has been nuked night 8!

Day 9 begins.

With 6 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

There are 48 hours until deadline.

GRS I DEMAND EXPLANATIONS

There's nowhere to go but down from the top, tho'

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Re: Non-living-player posts:


Final Votecount for day 8:

otokonoko(2): GreatRedSpirit, anonymous
Mr.Chuff(1): Ark
No Lynch(0): GreatRedSpirit, anonymous
AznChipmunk(0): myersguy

With 7 alive, it takes 4 to lynch.

As the heroes go to sleep they hear an astral voice. "CONGRATULATIONS. YOU NO LYNCH AGAIN. I AM TRULY IMPRESSED."

NIGHT 8 begins. No talking in the topic permitted during this time. Send in any night actions you have by PM during the next 24 hours, or they will be forfeit.