Elements Mafia 58 - by skyironsword

[skyironsword]

Spoiler for Lore:

[09:13:56] ‹zanzarino› thanks for the help guys
[09:14:40] ‹Higurashi› Anytime.
[09:15:12] ‹antiaverage› I'll email you
[09:16:32] ‹zanzarino› before you guys go, I found this great PM that someone sent to themselves before I banned them
[09:16:40] ‹antiaverage› as in 'awesome' or 'humorously bad'?
[09:16:52] ‹zanzarino› see for yourself

From: CleanOnion
To: CleanOnion

My friends brought me to a tabletop game
I wondered why bards could cast spells
Wizards and fighters got all the fame
But bards were also doing quite well

I looked for any relevant page
On the bard's power of stage
To no avail
I had failed
But I was using minimum wage.

I got a new job, you see
I purchased a book on old tales
Most of it was mythology
But one page was someone's old mail

I found the answer to my thought
In the story of Marcus the Bard
He started out as a wizard, but not
(His spells were printed on cards.)

One day, in late August, his home burned to the ground.
A flashing blue light, giving off a sharp sound.
He followed it to a strangely shaped mound.
There was a sign buried deep in the ground.

"When the time is right
And day turns to night
A blue flashing light
Will lead you to fight"

Marcus, he turned. A monster arose.
The monster had eyes, but no mouth or nose.
He ran, but too slow
And nowhere to go
The thing burnt off a chunk of his clothes.

He prayed to the goddess of light
Despite being close to midnight
His wish then came true:
All things he could do
As long as the motive was right.

Arcane power filled him from within
Marcus purged the monster of sin
He had won! Had he not?
But it seems he forgot
That it was never so easy to win.

The power within Marcus burst
His blessing was really a curse
Those closer noticed it first
Magic was now invoked by verse

So now bards can cast spells, and bards can use magic
But what happened to Marcus the Bard is quite tragic.

Instructions

ddevans96 was murdered. He was the Master of Water.

Mafia wins the game.

Roles have been revealed in the sign-up post.

[Linkcat]

I'm terribly sorry to disappoint you, dd, but this game was over before the day even started. Kuro and I are mafia, and I converted Onion last night. We made contact and he switched his vote to you. My Brawlmaster claim was just for fun. While it would have been hilarious to have you and dawn kill yourselves by lynching Onion, the actual Brawlmaster, that would have prevented us from getting the achievement for no mafia deaths - The Perfect Crime. Onion had two votes from Path of Exile, so we moved forward in the latter part of the day with the singular goal of getting your votes off of him. With this achieved, our victory is complete.

Checkmate.

[CleanOnion]

Once I was converted the night before last, Link basically orchestrated the endgame.

I still don't actually know who the other Peacekeeper is. If there is one. I'm going to guess Kuro

Edit: Forgot to check the OP. Woo I was right!

[CleanOnion]

Btw, sky - great roles, great concept, great host, and 10/10 lore. That stuff was great. Cheers.

[Submachine]

This is why Link should go to the Championship. He's like Professor Moriarty when he's on top of his game.

[Solaris]

By the way; in the event that this game ends immediately after the vote (which would suck), I just want to say thank you to skyironsword for hosting this mafia. It had an awesome theme and a pretty unique strategy, despite the lack of participants. ^^;

You knew full well that it was going to end immediately after the vote.


Fun game to watch, though I didn't get to play much.

[Ginyu]

It was fun to watch, but I still believe that it wasn't balanced well. Town had basically no investigation as this role wasn't in the game, and the only doctor healed mafia... The only thing they could do was to eliminate the most harmful roles by hoping to get conversation, in which case they can get info about mafia by interpreting and analyzing what everyone says.

However, while the balance was off, the concept was awesome. Spreading a lot of negative abilities as something original is a great idea, and could influence several future mafias. Very well done.

[dawn to dusk]

Roles which are used for investigation are not used, or otherwise not recommended as they allow for a mass roleclaim which is used to get a list of roles to a confirmed civilian. For this reason, they are not put into many mafias any more

[Ginyu]

If you leave out investigation, you must provide some compensation. Look how mafia won this without any problems. And there are ways to ensure mass roleclaims aren't insta-win even if investigators are used. The Master of Water role is just one example for this. Sub made a topic with balance tips which covered this point.

And actually, this ruleset had an investigative role, just nobody got it.

[skyironsword]

And actually, this ruleset had an investigative role, just nobody got it.

4. mathman101, Card Curator, Night 2 Nightkill

[Ginyu]

I meant Arena Moderator. Card Curator was too weak to really get useful information unless making huge gambles.

[CleanOnion]

Sub made a topic with balance tips which covered this point.

Where might I find this topic?