THIS is the search for Mafia 20 players!

Welcome to Mafia #19!

Playing this round:

EAP
Kdogg
NHChadd
Cajun
Rooconteur
Hippie
Kelaroo
HGH
Higgie
Bacon
Ian

Two things that need strict clarification!

#1. Voting will be strictly timed. The first round will last until approximately 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time on Wednesday. After that all voting rounds will end at 6:00 p.m. Eastern DST every other day. The only exception will be weekends. Voting will never close on a Saturday or a Sunday. If you have not voted by the time voting is closed, your vote just won't be counted. Like a real election - make the polls before they close or have no voice. I will also not extend voting until people make up their minds if confused. Voting ends every other day at 6:00 p.m. EDST except for weekends. If ties result they stand as ties and a tie breaking vote off will take place REGARDLESS OF ABSENTEE VOTES.

In short, no slacking hippies.

#2. Absolutely no discussion of PMs in this game at all. I don't care if it's a PM about a baseball score from three years ago. No PM discussion in the game thread. Period.
Mafia can PM each other and anyone can PM me regarding the game.



Also... No one will call me Fishman this entire game. You are to refer to me as The Fisher King. Always with the article "The" at the beginning.

And finally. This game will take place at bonnaroo 2010. It's a fantasy lineup. So when submitting death stories have some fun with it (you know I damn well will). Anybody can play bonnaroo 2010. ;D

And away we go.....

In the small, friendly music community of Bonnaroo, a crafty Mafia have infiltrated the population. Every night these Mafiosi decide amongst themselves who to ruthlessly assassinate. At the beginning of each morning, people learn that one of their own has been killed.

Every day, the population gathers to discuss whom they think is a member of the Mafia. There is a vote, and the one with the majority is executed. The Townspeople must do this in order to clean Bonnaroo of the Mafia and restore its peaceful vibe. However, if the Mafia are able, through disrupting the votes and performing their assassinations, to eliminate Townspeople to the point that they are in the majority, they will rule Bonnaroo forever.
Thus, the Townspeople's great hope is the Inspector. This is a secret figure, known only to him or herself, that has inside information on the identity of the Mafiosi. S/he can covertly use this information to influence the votes towards the Mafiosi. But s/he better watch his/her step, because if the Mafia gets wind it will be lights out.
Good luck.

Regards,

The Fisher King

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Clarification of rules:

1) The referee randomly chooses from the 11 players three Mafiosi and one Inspector. All the rest are Townspeople. Each person is informed of their part via PM, and are not allowed to share that information with each other except in this thread, the official Mafia game thread. The Mafia are informed of one another's identity, and they are allowed to converse among themselves via PM.

2) The Inspector is informed of his/her part, and also of the identity of one randomly chosen Mafia player.

3) Each day a vote is held for the player to be eliminated. For online play, deliberation and voting is combined; thus, you can vote and explain yourself in the same post. Every player is free to change their vote at any point up until the last vote is in and the Ref declares that voting is closed. The ref will then post the final tally, and announce which player is eliminated and how they died. Then will begin the following night.

4) During the night the Mafia decide on the player they want to eliminate (assassinate), and inform the ref via PM. Once the ref receives this info, it is posted here in the thread, the player is eliminated, and the following day begins.

5) Likewise during the night the Inspector will PM the ref and guess one person who is the Mafia. The Fisher King will respond with a 'yes' or 'no'.

6) Play continues until all the Mafia have been killed (Townspeople win), or the Mafia outnumber the Townspeople (Mafia win).

7) It will not be revealed, until the end of the game, when a Mafia player or the Inspector have been eliminated.

8) Players who have been eliminated are still welcome to post in this thread, but are asked to not say anything leading to any knowledge, suspicions or opinions you might have.

9) It is recommended, though not required, that players submit death stories to the referee for the deaths chosen by their roles. Mafia and Vigilante write their own Nighttime whack stories; a Townsperson writes Daytime voted-off stories.

If you submit a death story it better be good and brutal.

10) AKA The Kdogg Rule: There will be no sharing of role PM's inside the thread or outside for the purpose of disclosing your role to another player. This also goes for password sharing. Common sense should be used, no discussion of your roles, except between the mafia, outside the thread- EVER.

11) Because of past problems with players not participating, this is my resolution for Mafia #19. Voting will close as mentioned above, at 6:00 pm Eastern DST every other day, but never close on weekends. If players fail to vote the votes that have been cast and only those votes will be counted. If anybody misses two voting deadlines in a row they will be killed off by me independent of the voting. Whoever is voted off will die by the will of the townspeople while the double slacker will die by the wrath of The Fisher King. Some of this will be left up to my discretion, and if you know that for some reason you may be away from a computer for a while, PM me and we'll work something out.