Mafia 2020 #2: Shipwrecked

[sdrawkcab]

It was obvious from your post atting Willby and the fact that no one died on the first night you protected him that you would protect him again. I thought that was the whole joke of you posting in thread 'I protect myself'?

Voths godfather and was setting up to kill me today and so he didn't send anyone out for a kill last night.

Uh do you think two nights in a row he didn't send anyone out to kill?

[Beast]

VOTE: VOTH

.

[Beast]

Pick me in base or else!

[sdrawkcab]

Beast Vehicle guys, I protected voth again last night... one of you two is the scum...

[WillBy]

River Surges in Sunlight washes out island invaders

Suspicions mount as the numbers dwindle. Who are these men I'm stranded here with? They dont seem the same as when we left- they dont eat like humans do, I've never seen them drink. And every once in a while, when weve settled down for the day, out of the corner of my eye.... no, it couldnt be.

Voth was washed away, never to be seen again. He was a Vanilla Townie.

And

Lightning's Swift Strike trapped for eternity

Deep in the heart of the island, there are places untouched by man. Riches unimaginable, and glory alike to the mightiest heroes of Norway. There too exists the essential life of the spirits guarding the island.
It was no match for dynamite. The cave came crumbling down around the holy fountain, and the waters once glowing the energy dimmed.

Vehicle began shaking, convulsing with energy. It, too, faded, and he lay lifeless before the group. He was the spirit Godfather.

Begin night 4

[WillBy]

The Tunderspeaker gathers energy and bursts
Alone, beast and sdrawkcab contemplated their situation. Low tide reveals a short but heavy blade, ornately carved and untouched by rust. Passing it through their hands, the survivors could feel the power contained in the weapon. A gleam appeared in beasts eyes, followed by a sudden swipe! Blows were traded, but sdrawkcab managed to rustle the blade away from beast, now glowing with electric energy. As sdrawkcab readied for a second scrape, beast began to take on another form- the Thunderspeaker.

The mighty battle continued, but not long. It was apparent neither side would survive their wounds. Sdrawkcab, burnt and bloodied. Beast, already beginning to fade.

Sdrawkcab bled to death on the beach. He was the doctor.

Beast faded to irrelevance. He was the mafia framer.

Game Over. It was a tie (native victory). Explanation in the post-game.

[WillBy]

The theme:
This game was based on the board game "Spirit Island". In the game, colonists invade an island while the players (spirits) fight them off. This was twisted to have the mafia be invaders corrupted by the spirits. The rest of the town were more invaders. Pretty simple!

The game:
A pretty simple setup, designed to last as long as possible with a couple different checks and balances. 2/8 were scum, with paul as vigi to balance. I really like limited shot vigilantes for this reason. He'll hold his shot for an opportune moment. A doc, a cop, and a framer round out the cast.

The interesting twist was the double lunch rule. Originally, this was added to stop the mafia from having a quick win. Until it was 2-2, scum didnt have a win locked up. This forced an additional day out of it (as long as town didnt double lynch themselves). I could not have predicted what would happen next.

By all accounts, it was a pretty solid game for scum. D1 lynch, N1 kill an afker. Halfway there? Another lynch, and we entered N2 with a lot at stake. Our vigi decided to act, and that Voth was to die. The scum, too, decided Voth would die. But sdrawkcab said no, and prevented 2 kills. Unfortunately, Paul's shot was lost. The confusion of the nights events would leave paul lynched, and the mafia near their flawless victory. But this is where they messed up. While I could have called it there, a third end game scenario opened up, courtesy of the double lynch rule.

If somehow scum could not night kill, but still force ties during the day, a tie would result. But this took a lot of mistakes. First, they'd have to miss all their night kills (but, they shot into the doctors protection. Then, they'd have to lynch Voth over sdrawkcab, as voth was unable to defend himself (kill the doc asap). After vehicle and Voth were killed, sdrawkcab had a choice to protect himself (special rule) or to protect the scum. After much deliberation, he saved himself from death. This left us on D5, where I went ahead and assumed they would vote for each other, and allowed another double lynch to go through. With no players left (spirits or townies), the only people left alive were island natives, and therefore a native victory (as opposed to spirit or settler).

MVP:
sdrawkcab. Prevented every night kill except the first, where scum took out an afker who would've been mod killed anyways

Honorable mentions:
vehicle. pretty under the radar, until it was impossible to be.
The_paul. Tough break for a vigi. Missed his shot, and got lynched for admitting it

Open for questions!

[Beast]

Good game, was fun lol

[Vehicle]

Yeah I guess I should have voted backwards the last day phase instead of just voting Voth out of spite.

To be honest, the game should of been over the day paul and backwards roleclaimed, if Voth hadn't gone so hard on paul then process of elimination had pretty much outted Beast and I.

If I had pulled off the right night kill: win. If I had voted backwards instead of voth: win for beast. It was pretty obvious where the chips were falling by then.

I made some dumby moves later in the game for sure, but I'm still content with the outcome.

[the_paul]

Just remember this if the phase goes through to tomorrow, this phase was pushed through by you 2 without making the other 2 participate at all. Colossal fuckup

I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO

Jesus Christ. The 4 of you have essentially admitted that there are exactly 0 plausible scenarios where I would do what did and be scum, yet you and backwards both jumped back on the bandwagon. And I'm having the mental health crisis?

Also, you jump back on after 1 post (saying nothing) from vehicle, and nothing from Beast, so now we won't even learn anything from the way they vote this phase. If there hadn't been a majority when they decided to finally do something, we could have learned something and seen who they protect. But now they've both got a free pass through this phase without having to participate. Idk when you 2 decided to start playing checkers, but mafia has always been a chess game.

YOU BRAINDEAD MOTHER FUCKERS

[the_paul]

Not sure how mafia didn't win, but well played despite fucking me sdrawkcab , you pulled that tie out by the skin of your teeth

[Vehicle]

Not sure how mafia didn't win, but well played despite fucking me sdrawkcab , you pulled that tie out by the skin of your teeth

Because I'm dumb and kamikaze'd voth instead of backwards.

[the_paul]

Because I'm dumb and kamikaze'd voth instead of backwards.

Yeah I mean hindsight is 20/20 though. Also generally doctors can't protect themselves unless there is nobody else left, so backwards probably could have been killed the night before this ended. Easy to look back and say all that after the fact though

[sdrawkcab]

Not sure how mafia didn't win, but well played despite fucking me sdrawkcab , you pulled that tie out by the skin of your teeth

Best doctor ever, saved townie 3x in 2 nights

[the_paul]

Best doctor ever, saved townie 3x in 2 nights

Except lynching me for no reason and letting the 2 mafia members off the hook without even having to speak. Dick.

JK you did play well and singlehandedly force a tie