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alright, the Maifa game on dakka was not my idea. it was thor655's.
thor did a better job on explianing: NOTE: I changed some stuff
Thor665 wrote:
Greetings,

After deep personal introspection I have decided to try to start up a game of Mafia with an Alien theme. What is Mafia? you may ask. The link is to a dedicated Mafia site's Flash application that explains the basics (and less basics) of the game, but I'll include a brief breakdown for those of you who don't care to deal with a Flash App.

-----------------Brief Rule Breakdown-----------------------
The game is based around deception, detection, and some other 'd' word that is applicable but which I cannot think of to continue the alliteration. It is a game of logic, psychology, and bluffs where the clever can sniff out the truth (or obscure it) and the foolish are left swinging at the end of a lynch rope.

A group of players (humans) are in trouble for amongst them, pretending to be normal citizens, is one or more members of a vile group out to kill them (xenomophs!). The game is split into two parts; a day and a night cycle.

During the day the Humans have to talk amongst themselves to see if they can figure out who is innocent and who is a lying scum heretic and mutant. They do this by asking questions, looking for suspicious behavior or voting patterns, and casting votes against those they suspect. The day cycle ends when a plurality is reached and they decide to lynch one of the players. That player is killed and his identity (Citizen or Xenomorphs) is revealed to the other players.

At Night the XENOS may secretly discuss (PM) their plot and send to the game moderator their decision of who amongst the innocent to kill. The town awakens to find their dead friend and the day cycle begins anew.

The Citizens win if they manage to kill all of the xenos so that only Citizens are left alive. The xenos win once they kill all the Citizens (or begin a day cycle with an identical or greater number of xenos to Citizens whereupon statistically they cannot lose.)

To aid the Citizens they may have amongst them a ship computer (equivalent to Mafia's cop) who is capable every night of investigating one player and learning whether they are a Citizen of Cultist. Or perhaps a Doctor, who each night can select to protect a character from being killed if the Cult targets them. Many other possible roles exist, and as games get larger there can become some interesting roles to be found. All roles, from regular Citizen to Cultist and everything in between is assigned randomly by the game moderator to the players.
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of course this is Alien, so as soon as you die, you are an alien, BUT, your death will not be told
the roles are:
Facehugger-as soon as you kill somebody, you are a chestbuster
Chestbuster-during the night,you cannot kill until the game has pasted a night/day phase
Alien-you kill people during the night
human-you don't really do anything
Medic-you protect people during the night phase
child-(go newt!) cannot be killed during the night
mother/father-can find out who is what

I guess I'll join this one as well. Also humans can die, that's something they can do

I'll give it a try.

Wait, don't we already have one game going on, and another one in production?

Orkeosaurus wrote:Wait, don't we already have one game going on, and another one in production?

Yes, but there are slow days, so with multiple games, we'll tend to notice them slightly less.

However, I'm not going to enter this one, I'm going to focus on mine.

Im not going to enter this one either, Im already signed up to Drk_Oblits game and Im playing one now.

Plus the idea that people become aliens and no one else is supposed to know kind of screws up the suspension of disbelief.

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