Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] INH Charter

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 12:16  AM, Adam Hill wrote:

> > -If that's the superhero game, I'm in. If this is something else, 
> > Mafia.-
> >
> > [[BvS]]
>
> Rumble is indeed the superhero game.  I'm not sure what Mafia is, but 
> I think Rumble would flow nicely with significant use of the roster 
> and perhaps creation of a second public forum.

As we're working within the confines of a Societal Subgame, and as Dave 
has more than enough work assigned to em already, I don't think we'll 
be able to track Rumble data on the Roster. However, it would not take 
too much effort to maintain an INH Roster, containing only the members 
of INH, and relevant attributes such as Energy Points, etc.

Mafia, by the way, is this:
One person runs the game. E is sometimes referred to as God, or the 
Dungeon Master, or the King, or whatever. E knows everything and 
facilitates things, but does not actually play.
E begins by selecting, from the other players, about one quarter of 
them (percentage may vary depending on who you play with). This group 
becomes the Mafia. E also chooses a single player to be the Guardian 
Angel. In face-to-face games, this process is often performed by having 
the players sit in a circle with their eyes closed; the Facilitator 
walks around the circle and taps each player once if e is an ordinary 
villager, twice if e is a Mafia member, and three times if e is the 
guardian angel.
The Mafia members are then allowed to open their eyes, so as to find 
out who the other Mafia members are.

Gameplay then begins. It consists of a series of days. Every day, two 
things happen. First, the night, when everyone is asleep (eyes closed); 
it has two parts:
	The Mafia members awake, and, without speaking (so as to avoid letting 
the villagers sitting next to them figure out who they are), select a 
victim. This is generally done by having them all point to a player; if 
they disagree, they must find a consensus, still without speaking.
	Then, the Mafia go back to sleep, and the guardian angel awakes. E 
points at a single player of eir choice. The Facilitor then nods if 
that player is a Mafia member, or shakes eir head otherwise.

The Day begins - the villagers all wake up, to find one of their number 
(the one chosen by the mafia) murdered. The murdered player leaves the 
game.
	The villagers then begin their Mob Justice. They choose, by majority 
vote, one of their number who they think might be Mafia. This member is 
lynched, and thus leaves the game (some play that e must say whether e 
was Mafia, Angel, or neither; I think it's more interesting if e has 
the option of lying, or simply not saying anything).

The game continues until either all Mafia members have been lynched, in 
which case the Villagers win, or until there are more Mafia members 
than normal villagers, in which case the Mafia win (because then the 
Mafia control the Mob voting as well, and so are guaranteed to be able 
to destroy their remaining foes).

I've never tried this game except in a face to face setting; I don't 
know how well it could be adapted to internet play.

--
Wonko

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