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Vanilla Flavor Mafia; 'scuse the punnery
Topic Started: Jan 16 2014, 07:34 AM (1,341 Views)
Magellan
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Vanilla Flavor Mafia

Basically ripping this completely from another place, but I’ve always wanted to host one and I’m wondering on your guys thoughts about it:

Essentially, it’s the below

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How It Works
The game is split into two sections, Day and Night. (Game Time, not according to the real world.)

Players will receive roles via Private Message. There will be x zombies, and the rest will be tribesmen. Each zombie kills one person per night. The undead will know who all the other undead are.

The game begins at Night with the first round of killings. During the night, other players may perform special actions, which will be explained with the other special roles. Night ends with me posting a report of who was killed, perhaps with a *subtle* clue identifying a undead member -- or a red herring to throw you off. Clues may be taken from anywhere: Usernames, Signatures, Avatars, Profiles, Real Life things etc. The clues will vary upon the progress of the game - if the tribesmen are doing very well, expect bad clues and red herrings. Likewise, if the zombies are about to win, expect more obvious and helpful clues.

Once the killings are done, it becomes Daytime, where all players (zombies and tribesmen alike) hold a "tribe meeting" to discuss amongst themselves who might be the undead. Votes are placed and one person is lynched and killed off. Players holding special roles must be careful in persuading other members to vote without revealing themselves. Once the vote is decided (either by majority or time up), the player is lynched and their alignment revealed.

This process repeats until one side is left standing.


Normally flavor isn’t supposed to influence the game, but in this, it would. The clues would be super subtle, and I feel as a community we’re close-knit enough for a game like this to work. They’d never be insanely obvious, but could be stuff like the following:

Players alive:
Aviana
Hyp-R
Shockmuffin
Letter
Magellan
Dorkie Corkie
Bloodrayne03
Snakewrangler
PSN

Report flavor: Stormbuster was found dead, A venom had seeped into his bloodstream, causing his body to undergo shock.

There’s three obvious references there – Shock, PSN and Blood. Under the surface, venom could relate to snakes, and Magellan/Corie both have poison types as their avatar.

Mafia member it’s referring to?


Note how not anyone is effectively cleared either – the flavor doesn’t have to refer to anyone. This is only a tiny example and the ones in a real game would be much better, but eh.

Just, want some feedback to see if people would be up for this. These games can be more of a mindflex than a scumhunt exercise, but they’re interesting and allow the host to be a little interactive. If I did run it I’d like a moderator/external person to be able to run through things with.

But yeaaaah. If this is something that appeals to you lemme know and I’ll host it soon.
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Whitey
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I like it and think it could work, but there's have to be something that prevents it from becoming a discussion game-unless that's your intention.
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something that prevents it from becoming a discussion game


The point of discussion is that it should happen in every game

Apart from that, this sounds really interesting! It'll probably be a nightmare for you to find discreet ways of putting tiny hints in the flavour, but that should be fun to try and decipher!
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DannyTurtle
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It's a pretty cool idea that's been floating around for a while.
Seeing it in action would be fun.
But how would you figure out who gets put into the flavour?
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Shinigami02
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RNG maybe?
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Magellan
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Usually (from what ive seen previously) it's an RNG'd mafia member. It can kinda be anyone from mafia though, as long as it's subtle/vague enough. It's why I'd kiiinda want to joint-host (or have someone on hand to talk to about). I'd imagine the lynches would be semi-random based on suspicion via flavor. I'll look at a few examples before hosting it, glad this has sufficient enough interest so far though.
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bloodrayne03
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Jessi was actually talking about a game where the flavor had some meaning to it a while back. She'll probably be interested in this when she gets off work.
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LetterSequence
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I would join, but being named Letter in a flavor game won't bode well, so I'd be willing to help host if you need that.
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Zaazaa0
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That actually sounds really fun. We'd have to analyze every little part of the flavor, which sounds like something I might be good at.
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Aviana
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I'd be happy to help out with running this, it looks like a super cool idea.
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Magellan
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The Story Teller

The Story Teller is the host. The Story Teller is required to post Flavor of the nights deaths, and give clues as to the identity of the killers. The clues can be taken from any accessible place on the forum – For example the Member Photo Thread, skype thread, Username, Avatar, Signature, Old posts/topics/games, but they will all be accessible to everybody.

The original example I showed was pretty bad, I apologize, I was rushing home and kinda wanted to get it finished: Here’s a slightly better one (again, still not perfect, it’s kinda hard to gauge writing flavor without actually having the game running).

Night 1 Flavor Example


There's a hopefully better example. I'm more pleased with that, definitely.

Also a cookie for the first person (besides corie who already knows >_>) who guesses the mafia in that.
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bloodrayne03
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Porygon?
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Dorkie Corkie
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Now, why go up there when people are dying to get down here?
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That's what I said!

Edit: Except it's not right.
Edited by Dorkie Corkie, Jan 21 2014, 12:59 PM.
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Whitey
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That guy airborne was one of the best characters I've ever seen.

Was the murderer Corie? If its not porygon, I don't see any other options.

EDIT: actually, I'm gonna guess blood just because of his signature.
Edited by Whitey, Jan 21 2014, 01:08 PM.
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DannyTurtle
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It was totally Shadow.
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Jan 21 2014, 01:31 PM
It was totally Shadow.
Up, you got me. The clue is that I was one of the main hosts for previous Werewolf-style games. :penguin:

I'm voting Blood as well.
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bloodrayne03
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Yeah, if it's not Porygon it's probably me.
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LetterSequence
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Me? Oh, nono.


>oh, nono
>oh, no
>oh rhymes with no
>dorkie rhymes with corkie

it was corie the whole time
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IT WASN'T ME GUYS I SWEAR!

I'm guessing it was blood too.
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Magellan
Jan 21 2014, 07:14 AM
Also a cookie for the first person (besides corie who already knows >_>) who guesses the mafia in that.
No fair, not everyone can respond immediately. :C

Um... leaning towards Blood, because of the eyes and his body being "bloodied". There's a strong werewolf theme, but it doesn't really match how Draco died, so I'm not sure what to make of it.
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Whitey
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Everyone jacking my guess up in hurr

Also, it may be difficult to write flavor about people that aren't very well known. Like myself-the only people that know stuff about my likes and dislikes are panda and shini. The much newer players like beams and porygon would probably be even harder to find.
Edited by Whitey, Jan 21 2014, 05:31 PM.
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This flavor reminds me of Welcome Game 6's flavor (at the beginning at least), maybe the Scumhunt Games too. I'd definitely join.
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inb4 it's me, because who but a killer perks up at someone missing. Seriously though, I've got no idea.
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Zaazaa0
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>Misspelled Wandering as Wondering

>Also misspelled Too as To

>Both of those are in quotation marks

It must be Quote.
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Magellan
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that's what happens when you write stuff in textpad on the underground

>__>

i'll post results in an hour or so
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This is such a cool idea and I want in when this starts.

(it was clearly me)
Edited by Bullet, Jan 22 2014, 12:43 AM.
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This is a very nice idea and there would be plenty of interesting arguments arising about who it was. I have no idea about this one though.
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Magellan
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Blood was indeed one of the mafia, so cookies for everyone who guessed that (except for jessi hurrhurrhurr)

I’m glad you all seemed to like it. Again, for the first night in a real game the mafia shouldn’t be as obvious, I just needed an example that people could realistically guess, but at the same time be thrown off by (Porygon, for example)

In a real game, Blood could indeed push for a lynch on Porygon, and Porygon could counter it. There's other suspicions around there too, Shadow's flinching at the fire, Corie's scuffed hands, Airborne's inherent defensiveness, Shini's noticing him wondering off. The idea's to start discussion about it and see what happens. I'm thinking of starting numbers of like 10/4, if anyone has suggestions for that.
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DannyTurtle
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That was dumb.
How was it even pointing out Blood.
Wait. Was Blood even there?
I call shenanigans.
Edited by DannyTurtle, Jan 22 2014, 02:45 AM.
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It talks about a bloodied body.

"Don't fear the imposing figure in the glowing armor in front of you. Fear the thousands of glowing eyes behind him." Blood's signature.

They're supposed to be subtle, not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind. Also seems like a lot of people saw Blood as an option so yeah, super good flavor, Sjay.
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