Circus: Mafia Lifeboat
We haven't had Mafia on the old ship for a while. Shall we start a new game for the new ship?
If I remember correctly we need at least twelve people.
The Pirate Ship The Motley Jester has been sunk by mafia saboteurs. The bad news is you were all aboard. The good news is that you've all climbed onto a lifeboat with plentiful supplies of food and grog (GIN). The bad news is that two or more of you are mafia saboteurs. The good news is that two of you are the ship's surgeon and ship's soothsayer. The bad news is that the lifeboat has a ukelele on it.
If I remember correctly we need at least twelve people.
The Pirate Ship The Motley Jester has been sunk by mafia saboteurs. The bad news is you were all aboard. The good news is that you've all climbed onto a lifeboat with plentiful supplies of food and grog (GIN). The bad news is that two or more of you are mafia saboteurs. The good news is that two of you are the ship's surgeon and ship's soothsayer. The bad news is that the lifeboat has a ukelele on it.
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Boarding will close at 10pm GST on 7 March. If we get ten people we'll go ahead.
If anyone does not know the rules and wishes to take part or just to know what these mad people are talking about, please say.
And yes, please say the rules. I played once in one of these but it's quite a while ago.
1) Two or more players (depending on numbers of players) chosen at random by the referee (me) will take on the role of the Mafia in secret from all the other players but not each other.
There are two teams: the Mafia and the innocents.
2) The game is divided into days (turns).
3) Every morning all surviving players will openly debate among themselves whom to lynch. After I've decided everyone has had a chance to stick their oar in, there will be a vote, and anyone who receives half or more of all votes will be lynched (out of the game). Their identity (whether innocent or Mafia and whether they have a special role - see later) will then be made public.(*)
4) Night will fall. During night the Mafia will conspire among themselves whom to murder. That person will then be out of the game.
Usually I will aim to have morning and night happen over the course of a week in real life.
5) The aim of each side is put all the members of the other team out of the game. In practice, the Mafia win if they are a majority of the surviving players.
6) Complications: two players on the Innocent team chosen at random are secretly the doctor (ship's surgeon) and detective (ship's soothsayer). Each night the doctor picks one person to protect: if that person is murdered by the Mafia the doctor saves their life. Each night the detective picks one person to investigate: I will inform the detective whether that person is innocent or a member of the Mafia.
In the event of there being enough players, I may add one or two other roles: probably a Veteran (the Veteran takes one of the Mafia with them if they're murdered).
(*) In the event of two players each receiving exactly half the votes the previous night's victim (should there be one) will get a casting vote. For this reason, dead people will not be told what is going on until the next night.
I hope that's clearer than mud.
Wet clothes and no food to eat, but at least I was above water and not below it. Ship gone and and here I am with a small crew to guide me to God knows where.....wait a second....I'm not meant to be here. I should be on a paradise island with semi-clad natives feasting on coconut and mango. It seems my life has been switched with my captains. Hopefully this is just a nightmare from which I will awake.
Note to self: refrain from squeaking.
We need four more people I think for it to be worth doing. As I said, I'll wait until night time on the 7th March. Does anyone know how to contact Eliab or La Vie en Rouge or anyone else who used to play on the old ship?
@Gwai
@Eliab
@Imaginary Friend
@jay_emm
@Smudgie
@bunnywithanaxe
@Firenze
And this will act as notifications to this thread.
I think Wet Kipper's right: if we have fewer than ten people there's not enough time for proper skulduggery, paranoia, and backstabbing. Last chance.
Sorry, there are momentous goings on in the rouge family at the minute. I don't think I can commit this time (even though mafia is my favourite game).
That's the minimum. The rest of the players will probably welcome some opinions expressed during the week; total silence often gets treated as suspicious. (Also in my experience voters feel better about eliminating people who aren't taking part as much.) But the pace is set to be compatible with having a life.
The Motley Jester is sinking. There are screams. breaking timber, fires, and cries for GIN. Due to austerity-mandated ever-ongoing implementation of efficiency and best value, there is only one lifeboat. Will all of you who've managed to get aboard please introduce themselves and answer the roll?
Squawk! Pieces of eight!
Chellington the extremely intelligent Ship’s parrot sits fluffing her feathers on the edge of the lifeboat. But whether or not she is a sinister, murderous parrot remains to be seen!
Woof?
At the moment I believe we have eleven players:
Chelley
Wet Kipper
sloth357
NOprophet_N0profit
Fletcher Christian
Curiosity killed
Lamb Chopped
Gwai
not entirely me
Amy
Boogie
The cat was more interested in leaping away from Miss du Chat and investigating the lifeboat further, scratching Miss du Chat's clutching arms as he did so. Miss du Chat wailed that he was an ungrateful kitty, she had left her belongings behind to rescue him and much he cared. Miss du Chat wept over her shredded arms and rued the first aid kit she'd left on board the sinking ship.
I am now allocating roles.
After an exhausting evening escaping onto the lifeboat, the twelve of you all fell asleep. You've woken up to the warm sunlight and the sweet sound of seagulls mewing (there's no accounting for taste). But what is this? One of your number, Dai Furst, has been foully murdered. With his last breath he has written in blood on the deck: 'There are two of them.'
The eleven of you that are left can only escape following him to his untimely fate by identifying the mafia among you and lynching them.
You have until Thursday morning to discuss among yourselves people to nominate for lynching. You will be able to vote for No lynching when the time comes if you think there is insufficient evidence to warrant such a course of action.
Rover sniffs the bloody words and begins to lick them up ...
"Who was the first one awake this morning?" he asked. "Who found him?"
Of course, there are no servants to provide a morning cup of tea. And there are hard wooden planks under her. This is going to take some getting used to.
What's that the other passengers are hollering about? A murder? Is this the sort of thing that peasants typically wake up to? No, wait, everyone is up in arms about it, so it must be somewhat unusual.
Amy decides to keep her nose clean and her ear to the ground. Maybe she can pick up some information that might help make sense of things.
I feel a little queazy.
"Good day everyone. Jonathon Fffffortyscue-Fyfffye. I hope you don't consider it bad form for a chap like me to have been first in the lifeboat (apart from that parrot) only I had been separated from my chums after a particularly "well catered" (shall we say) party and ended up in this very dinghy to sleep it off rather than going back to my cabin. I gather our beloved vessel is now sunk - So glad I did't bed down on a deckchair instead.
I was so very, very drunk I missed all the commotion. A murder, you say ? Does anyone recognise the fellow?"
But then, don't they always say, watch out for the quiet ones? A most puzzling dilemma, to be sure.
Amy watches the proceedings with academic interest. She did not know the deceased, and finds no particular horror in death, although of course she must keep the latter fact hidden behind the facade of twittering shock as is expected from a young woman in her position.
Nor does Amy worry that she may be in any danger. Murder seems so lower middle class. It really does not happen to people like her.
Lambie scoots further away.