In its simplest form, Mafia consists of two sides: the
Mafia, and the
Town. The Mafia's
goal is to kill the innocents, while the Town's goal is to kill the Mafia.
At the beginning of the game, the
Moderator will secretly send everyone their role. The Mafia will know each other, while (in the basic game) everyone else will only know their own role.
The game has two phases, the first of which is
Day. During Day, the Town must choose someone to
Lynch; they are trying to eliminate the Mafia, but the Mafia can lead them astray by casting suspicion elsewhere. Generally, players will vote for someone they think is Mafia (the Mafia will vote so that they seem to be doing this as well, and might even vote for each other to confuse the Town); when a player gets a majority of the votes, they are lynched. Their role is revealed by the Moderator, and it becomes
Night.
During the Night, the thread is locked and no one can talk publicly. The Mafia, however, can speak to each other privately to plot strategy and decide who to murder before the next Day begins. In this way, they can silence members of the Town who are threats to them. At the end of the Night, the murder is carried out and another
Day begins. In effect, the Town gets to kill someone, and then the Mafia gets to kill someone.
The game alternates between Day and Night until either the Mafia are eliminated, or the Mafia have killed everyone else (or nothing can prevent the same).
This Game is very simple. Once we have enough signups I will dictate who is in the Mafia and Who is a Townie. ONLY THE MAFIA WILL KNOW WHO IS ALL IN THE MAFIA GROUP. The Townies do not know who is a townie. All players are members of a town. In this town the secret mafia organization wants to kill everyone in the town so only the mafia remains. The Townies have to eliminate the mafia. During the Day phase you can post freely have conversations with everyone. But before the night phase you need to submit a vote on who you wish to be lynched. This will be decided with a Poll. Majority vote determines who will die. Once all votes are cast I will call out who is to be killed. After that Night phase begins and the thread is locked. During night phase the mafia gets together and decides who they wish to whack. They send me a name and i annouce next day phase who has been killed in the night by mafia. Once killed you are eliminated from the game. You can not post in the thread anymore. Night phase the thread will be locked. During the night phase players can PM each other about the game. This is where conspiracy can manifest. Townies who PM people have no idea who is who. They can choose to reveal themselves as whatever they wish. The members of the mafia will obviously know who is in the mafia group. This game can end in ANY way. The game ends when every member of 1 group is eliminated or 1 man is left standing.
1 Serial Killer will be selected and has free roam to kill whomever he wants to during each night phase in addition to the mafia kill that takes place each night. Note that the serial killers victim of choice will take place AFTER the mafia has claimed its victim. His identity will only be revealed to himself or revealed by being killed by the town/mafia.
I would like to get 8-10 of each group. (10 Townie/10Mafia + 1 Serial Killer)