Blackadder II Mafia: Bells

[MSG]

It's the dawning of a new day, in the midst of a glorious era. At the height of the Tudor dynasty's power, under the largely benevolent reign of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, the queen's favourite Lord Blackadder and his hopeless henchmen are making a right hash of things. Your job is to find the baddies, and protect the innocent from themselves.

Unless you are 1 of the baddies, in which case, glory to revolutionary overthrow of the heretical Protestant usurper, or something.

The Rules
   
1. Game setup

This will be a standard Mafia timed game. Game Days will run for 24 hours commencing at either 10 PM or 10 AM UK time, and will be followed by a 12-hour Night phase.

The game is split into distinct Day and Night phases. In the Day, all players can interact with each other in the game thread, talking shit, asking questions, and trying to decide who should be lynched.

During the Night, game play stops and only the dark forces of the Mafia team and Town specials can go to work. There is no public game thread and Town players cannot communicate with others about the game.

2. Teams

The GM (Game Master, i.e. me, assisted by gib) will randomly assign you a role in the game, on 1 of 2 teams: the Town players and the Mafia Scum team.

The aim of the game for Town is to find and root out all threats, in other words find and lynch all members of the Mafia Scum team.

The Mafia scum team, on the other hand, need to achieve parity with Town -  equal numbers of Town and Scum.

In this game there are 12 players and as it is a n00b game it will be an open setup.

There are 3 Scum players: 2 vanilla Scum goons, who have no special powers, and a Scum Roleblocker.  Scum can communicate with each other in secret during day and night phases.

There are 9 Town players: 7 vanilla Townies who have no special powers, a Town Jailkeeper and a Town Masoniser. Town players cannot communicate with each other outside of the public game thread.

Lynched or night-killed players can no longer participate in the game.

3. Lynch voting

Lynching is by voting and as this a timed game, it is a First Past The Post majority vote (rather like the travesty you Poms call Parliamentary Democracy).

You may vote to lynch player x simply by posting vote player x (bold black text).

You can remove your vote at any time up until Nightfall by posting unvote player x, or by voting for another player - vote player y.

Whichever player has attracted the most votes at the designated Nightfall time will be lynched.

If there is a tie, the GM will randomise the lynch.

4. Mayor voting

In this game, on Day 1, you can vote to elect a Mayor. The Mayor's lynch vote will be worth 1.5 votes.

You may vote to elect player a simply by posting vote player a (bold BLUE text).

You can remove your vote at any time up until Nightfall by posting unvote player a, or by voting for another player - vote player b.

Whichever player has attracted the most votes at the designated Nightfall time will be elected Mayor.

If there is a tie, the GM will randomise the result.

The Mayor remains in that role unless lynched or night-killed, after which a new Mayor can be elected on the next game day.

5. Night actions

The Scum team will choose another player to night-kill each night.

The  Scum Roleblocker  can block 1 player from taking their night action, but cannot block the same player on consecutive nights
https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Roleblocker

The Jailkeeper can choose to jail 1 player each night. That player will then not be able to use their night action but will be protected from a Scum night-kill. The Jailkeeper cannot protect the same player on 2 consecutive nights and  cannot protect themselves.
https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Jailkeeper

The Masoniser can choose to make contact with 1 player each night and exchange Private Messages during the night phase. If they attempt to contact a Scum player they will die.
https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Neighborizer

6. Mafia Ethics & Etiquette

Living players may not game-play (i.e. post about the game) outside the game-day thread, unless permitted by their role.

You may not quote the words of the GM in the game thread, including the description of your role or any private messages. You can paraphrase.

Dead players may not post in or about the game after their death. Use the Zombie board!

Non-players can fuck right off out of the game thread.

As always, in the event of a dispute, the GM's decision will be final so don't argue.
   
   Player List
3   BlodwynPig
6   Pijlstaart
8   Spoon of Ploff
9   earl_sleek
10   rue the polywhirl
11   DrGreggles
15   Flouncer
18   Cerys
19   Delete Delete Delete
20   hedgehog90
22   madhair60
24   Rizla
   
   Night / day cycle, Game II (all in UK time)
Day 1   Thursday, 7/05/2020 22:00
Night 1   Friday, 8/05/2020 22:00
Day 2   Saturday, 9/05/2020 10:00
Night 2   Sunday, 10/05/2020 10:00
Day 3   Sunday, 10/05/2020 22:00
Night 3   Monday, 11/05/2020 22:00
Day 4   Tuesday, 12/05/2020 10:00
Night 4   Wednesday, 13/05/2020 10:00
Day 5   Wednesday, 13/05/2020 22:00
   
etc.   

go nuts guys

[Delete Delete Delete]

Hey Nonny Nonnny, the light peakes betweens my curtains likea shade of purest Green!

[Pijlstaart]

Hark, Who's this upon the stair? Our rakish hero doth appear!

"Prithee, hold me fast, lest I gob down my finest ruff, yon huswife has filled me goodly with pheasant pie and oven chips, let me langour long against your noble bosom cheeks. Oh Dribble Dribble I do say, now in feted sumptuary. "

vote Pijlstaart

[Delete Delete Delete]

You make a noble sacrafice Pijlstaart, doth one hold back a wet tissue of guilt?

[Pijlstaart]

I have grown fat and stupid. I have been filled to the brim and yet I yearn for more. My greed has blinded me, my scarlet sin, shall rob this bewailing land.

[Rizla]

Pentameter iambic should we write? I cannot wait to kill some cunt by night.

[earl_sleek]

You make a noble sacrafice Pijlstaart, doth one hold back a wet tissue of guilt?

Good Delete mine bosom friend, I do believe the blue text means good Pijlstaart proposes himself for the noble office of our Mayor!

[Delete Delete Delete]

How do we establish that Pijlstaart is not a Gloater?

[Spoon of Ploff]

In anticipation of a quiet relaxing day I sit myself down beneath a Quince Tree. I see the blossom is starting to appear already.... something to do with climate change I suppose. I while away the hours sipping coffee from a flask, eating cheese puffs and reading a copy of Running Through Corridors vol 2.

[earl_sleek]

How do we establish that Pijlstaart is not a Gloater?

Ay, there's the rub
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
And who should shuffle off this mortal coil
Must give us pause'

[Delete Delete Delete]

If he proves to be a Gloater then may a thousand Spindley Killer fish poke his eyes out. Do any others wish to make them selves known?

[DrGreggles]

Can I be Mayor please?
I've already got the hat and a bell.
"HERE YE! HERE YE!"

[Pijlstaart]

We are all Mayors before god.

[DrGreggles]

vote Pijlstaart

[Spoon of Ploff]

the book is not enough of a distraction, and my mind wanders back to darker times... perhaps a stint as Mayor would keep me focused on current affairs? i think I'd make an good fist of it.

[Delete Delete Delete]

I don't want to be Mayor. Its like putting a target on your back. 

[Cerys]

Well, since when last I was in such a company I inadvertently damned myself by being innocuous and lolling about 'neath a tree watching lizards, I think this time I'll take a more proactive role by waiting awhile before posting this missive, approaching whosoever was the last to speak in the moment 'ere my words were committed to the other, and punching him or her directly on whichever aspect of his or her face looks most likely to benefit from a damn good pummeling.

[Cerys]

I don't want to be Mayor. Its like putting a target on your back.

Sadly, Sirrah, the target is drawn on the left side of your jaw.  Consider yourself accosted! [Thunk!]

[MSG]

13 hours to nightfall

   Lynch votes      
3   BlodwynPig      
6   Pijlstaart   1   DrGreggles
8   Spoon of Ploff      
9   earl_sleek      
10   rue the polywhirl      
11   DrGreggles      
15   Flouncer      
18   Cerys      
19   Delete Delete Delete      
20   hedgehog90      
22   madhair60      
24   Rizla      
         
   Mayor votes      
3   BlodwynPig      
6   Pijlstaart   1   Pijlstaart   
8   Spoon of Ploff      
9   earl_sleek      
10   rue the polywhirl      
11   DrGreggles      
15   Flouncer      
18   Cerys      
19   Delete Delete Delete      
20   hedgehog90      
22   madhair60      
24   Rizla      

Players who have not yet posted in the game thread: BlodwynPig, rue the polywhirl, Flouncer, hedgehog90, madhair60.

In fairness to other players, players who do not post in any game day thread may be subbed out during the following night phase.

[BlodwynPig]

*pink fat man falls through a wormhole*

Good day, squire and squiresses, waaaaaaatttsss upppppp?!

*A wooden barge is seen leaving the harbour towards a flotilla on the English Channel*

[Spoon of Ploff]

Wait... we get to lynch someone before there's even been a murder? Wither justice? Where does our major elect Prjlstaart stand on this burning issue of the day?

[BlodwynPig]

Vote Prison Biscuits

Mayor Vote: Hedgehog90

[BlodwynPig]

I have it on good authority that Cerys is Mafia scum

Lynch Vote: Cerys

[Rizla]

vote Delete Delete Delete

[Pijlstaart]

Mayor, Mayor on the wall, shall Pijlyboo now rule it all? Why yes, Pijlstaart, you are to be mayor, the finest mayor we ever did see, and with your first act as mayor you shall hold a fijne banquet for all of England fair. Two courses of your choosing, one of our Iconic^TM creamy mains and unlimited trips to our salad bar, £9.95.

I am leadership material, mine Mother spake me this, but now I know it true. Come, I am overfilled. You must drink from me.

[Spoon of Ploff]

Don;t get me wrong. I love a bit a whimsy as much as the next Towny... but do we really want that to be the defining characteristic of our major in these troubled times... I vote for a wiser head, and Delete has shown previously that his head is very wise indeed. He won't waste his extra vote on some mead imbibed flight of fancy.

Major vote Delete Delete Delete

Also, and with a heavy heart

vote Pijlstaart

I fear this person is not only a danger unto themselves, but also to the rest of us: voting to hang a townie just for the shits and giggles.

[DrGreggles]

unvote Pijlstaart

For now anyway.
I mean, I haven't even found out my role yet.

Is playing 'blind' allowed?

[BlodwynPig]

Dr Greggles is mafia

[earl_sleek]

Mayor, Mayor on the wall, shall Pijlyboo now rule it all? Why yes, Pijlstaart, you are to be mayor, the finest mayor we ever did see, and with your first act as mayor you shall hold a fijne banquet for all of England fair. Two courses of your choosing, one of our Iconic^TM creamy mains and unlimited trips to our salad bar, £9.95.

I am leadership material, mine Mother spake me this, but now I know it true. Come, I am overfilled. You must drink from me.

To drink from a man long hast been mine fondest dream. Vote Pijlstaart.

If he does get out of hand, I'm sure he'll end up spouting his whimsy from the gallows ere long.

[earl_sleek]

Dr Greggles is mafia

Why?