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[Sorian]

Welcome to Bachelor Party Mafia

The seats have been mapped out. The catering has been finalized. The guest list has been pared down (sorry, second cousin Stu). The hypoallergenic flowers have been chosen. The wedding of the year is almost here.

Swamped's fiancé kisses his soon-to-be wife as he leaves for his bachelor party. "See you in a couple days!" he tells her... Just kidding. He sneaks out in the middle of the night, shimmying down the drainpipe, cell phone on the nightstand, Swamped snoring too loudly to notice.

Meanwhile, across the globe, a team of misanthropes make their way to their local airport. Their destination? Las Vegas, Nevada. Unfortunately, no one remembers the liquid restrictions on their carry-on luggage, and have to dispose of their alcohol quickly. Channeling their inner cabot, our heroes drink everything, and then stumble their way through security. Miraculously, no one is arrested for public intoxication; perhaps this was not the first time they had to empty bottles and cans in record time.

At McCarran Airport, everyone gathers at the designated meeting spot. They count their numbers.

"We're missing one."
"Where's LaunchpadMcQ?"
"I think I saw him by the baggage carousel."

Everyone looks in that direction. A plume of smoke rises into the air, along with a group of airport security running towards it. Shouts, screams, and gunshots ring out.

"All right. Who put fireworks in his luggage?"

Silence reigns.

LaunchpadMcQ has died.

Welcome to Las Vegas!

You are LaunchpadMcQ, the fabled host of Gafia 1, and the first to die in Gafia 2. Yet here you are dying (again?) in Gafia 2.5, a game numbered higher than Gafia 2 yet chronologically earlier than it. It's enough to make your head hurt.

You are Ordinary Town. But that’s okay, mom says you’re special.

You are here for Swamped's fiancé's bachelor party, a celebration before he's permanently recruited to Swamped's team (alignment unknown). In your inebriated stupor, you notice that not everyone is who they seem to be. You can't have anyone ruin the party, so you have been entrusted with the power to VOTE for someone every day in order to remove them from the party. You would get more responsibilities, but you're partaking in borderline-illegal activities that will render you broke and destitute. Voting is pretty much all you're capable of at this point.

You win when all threats to town are eliminated.

"I guess we're going on without him. Let's go," says Swamped's fiancé. No one notices that their group has grown in size…

Player List
1. cabot [m] - Modkilled N2
2. CrimsonFist [m] - Died N3
3. Droplet [f] - Died D1
4. Flame_AC [m]
5. flatearthpandas [m]
6. Gorlak [m]
7. Kawl_USC [m]
8. nukedeggs [f] - Died N1
9. Royal_Flush [m] - Died D5
10. Sophia [f] - Died D4
11. Squidyj [m] - Died N2
12. StanleyPalmtree [m]
13. gryvan [m] (replaced StarSketch [f]) - Died D3
14. Zippedpinhead [m] - Died D2

 

[RetroMG]

Fundamental

1. All site-wide rules are also applicable here. Please do not tarnish this community.
2. Unless your Role PM explicitly allows you to do otherwise, discussion about this game is strictly confined to this thread.
3. Unless your role PM explicitly allows you to do otherwise, do not quote or posts screen-shots of any PMs or posts that were not made in this thread. Obviously this is a grey area, but please try and play sportingly.
4. Within reason, you are allowed to lie about any game material or game-related conversations that could conceivably have appeared outside this thread [such as the content of role PMs or private chats allowed by a role]. If unsure whether a lie is reasonable, please ask the game-runner.
5. Do not refer or discuss to player activity in other forum threads or life in general beyond the game.
6. The player list includes the preferred personal pronoun of each player. Please try to use the correct pronoun.
7. Please be nice to your fellow players. Mafia can be a tense experience, and occasionally aggressive play is useful, but remember this is game and that everyone should have fun.

Activity and Deadlines
8. Treat this game as a commitment. Remember that other players' fun is dependent on your participation; this game only works if you remain reasonably active.
9. If you do not post in this thread at least once per Day Phase period without prior permission, you will be sent a PM requesting you respond immediately (a "prod"). If you do not respond to a prod by the end of the following Night Phase, you will be replaced.
10. If you need an extended period of absence for some other issues in life, please notify the game-runner by PM in advance. Leave of up to one Day and Night Phase (five days) is possible.
11. If you expect to be unable to post for a period of 7 days, please notify the game-runner by PM so that you can be replaced in good time - we're sad to see you go, but other players need to be able to continue to play.
12. Each Day Phase will last 3 days. Day Phases officially begin when the game-runner notifies players in the game thread, and end exactly 72 hours later (by NeoGAF post time-stamps).
13. Each Night phase will last 2 days. Night Phases officially begin when the game-runner notifies players in the game thread, and end exactly 48 hours later (by NeoGAF post time-stamps).
14. If a Phase ends and the game-runner has not received an action PM from a player with a relevant action, then that Phase will end with that that player making no action.
15. In the event of a day ending with no player having a plurality of the votes, then the game will proceed to the next night phase with nobody lynched ("no-lynch").
16. If a replacement is needed, they may PM the game-runner once to request the Night Phase in which they join is extended by up to 2 days, to allow catch-up time.
17. Game-runners may change the length of Phases at their discretion. However, they will inform players at the start of the equivalent Phase before (i.e., if Day 7 is set to be shortened, players will be no later than the start of Day 6).

Voting, Lynching, and Death
18. For your vote to count, it must be presented in the following format: VOTE: playername, via use of the highlight tag. It must also be in an entirely separate line from any other text.
19. To remove a vote from a player, you must present in the following format: UNVOTE: playername, via use of the highlight tag. It must also be in an entirely separate line from any other text. It is not necessary to unvote before casting new vote for a different player; unvoting is simply to remove a vote without casting a new one.
20. Players may use VOTE: No Lynch to end the Day Phase without a lynch ("No Lynch"). It must also be in an entirely separate line from any other text.
21. Misspelt votes will be accepted within reason; if the game-runner is unsure they will notify you and in the meanwhile discount the vote. Votes in broken tags will not count.
22. Once someone has received a strict majority (>50%) of the available votes, the day ends with the Lynch of that player or a No Lynch (whichever applies). Once this has happened, any further votes or unvotes that Phase will not be counted, and the Night Phase will begin shortly.
23. Some roles take place between the end of the Day Phase and the start of the Night Phase, so game-runners may allow a short period of time for this "Twilight Phase". Unless your role PM explicitly allows you to do otherwise, do not post during the Twilight Phase.
24. Once you are dead, you are dead: you may no longer discuss the game in ANY manner with ANY of the remaining players. Dead players may PM the game-runner one last message for the other players (a "Will"), which the game-runner will post on their behalf in the thread. The sole condition is that it contains NO game-relevant information, e.g. "Thanks guys for an excellent game!" is allowed, "My partner was John!" is not.

The Dead Thread
25. To allow dead players to freely discuss the game with other dead players, a secret thread will be created.
26. On death, a player can either opt to join the replacement list, or receive a link to the Dead Thread. They may not do both. If a player opted to join the replacement list, they may change their mind, but players who have a link to the Dead Thread cannot act as replacements.
27. The Dead Thread will also be made available to non-players, provided they have played in at least one GAF mafia game before in which they did not go inactive. These non-players will also be disbarred from the replacement list.

Other
28. Outside of votes and explicit allowances made by role PMs, the use of the highlight tag is strictly the game-runner's prerogative. Do not use it.
29. You may not put any active players in this game on your ignore list. If you have an active player on your ignore list, please remove them. Obviously this is on the honor system, but please don't do it, or joke about doing it.
30. Do not edit your posts. If you are a repeat offender, a replacement will be sought.
31. Do not use the email tags to hide extra content in your posts.
32. A list of the votes so far (a "Vote Count") can be requested by contacting any game-runner or game-tutor.
33. Game-runners reserve the right to add, remove, or modify existing any rules at any point, and enforcement may be applied retroactively. However, all players will be informed of changes, and changes will be consistent across games.
34. In general, do not try and exploit loop-holes in the rules.
35. Completed GAF games are often read by people thinking of signing up in the future. As such, please keep your avatar spoiler free - it should not allude to your role or alignment.
36. I will accept Night Actions up to one hour before the Day starts. Missing actions will be decided at Moderator’s discretion.

Your Game Runner: Sorian
In case of emergency, contact: Palmer_v1, Lone_Prodigy, or RetroMG

 

[Sorian]

-I'll be manually counting votes again because I do that. Spreadsheet here

Day 1 Start
Day 1 End
Day 2 Start
Day 2 End
Day 3 Start
Day 3 End
Day 4 Start
Day 4 End
Day 5 Start
An unidentified event occurs!

Day 5 ends in:

 

[RetroMG]

Reserved shitpost

 

[Kawl_USC]

Spoiler

I don't love you all the same way Retro does

I fucking knew it.

 

[cabot]

The classic fireworks in the suitcase gag. Works every time. Another murder confirmed

 

[squidyj]

misantrophes?

 

[Sorian]

misantrophes?

Blame L_P!

Then blame Palmer!

 

[squidyj]

OK, think I'm ready for this Bachelor Party

 

[Zippedpinhead]

Alright Randall! Let's get this bachelor party off right!

 

[StarSketch]

I find it funny that there are more girls at the bachelor party than there are at the actual wedding

Spoiler

this better not be a sign that we all die

 

[Sophia]

I love the fact that Launch was reused as the example PM. That's great.

 

[flatearthpandas]

 

[Ourobolus]

lol

 

[squidyj]

This is going to be a fun game.
I'm going to have so much fun.
Fun, you guys.

 

[Sorian]

All PMs are out, please message me privately if you didn't receive yours.

 

[StanleyPalmtree]

This is going to be a fun game.
I'm going to have so much fun.
Fun, you guys.

well now we cant have that.

everyone im the cop and squidyj is scum
lynch him immediately!

 

[squidyj]

well now we cant have that.

everyone im the cop and squidyj is scum
lynch him immediately!

I've seen enough movies to know that means you're actually the stripper.

 

[Sorian]

The party starts:

I'll update the third post above with any game specific rules in the morning. Too tired right now :V

 

[Swamped]

Have fun, but not TOO much fun

 

[squidyj]

Have fun, but not TOO much fun

The last wedding I went to all the young people in my family went out drinking the night before. All my cousins and I were just slamming shots all evening, we started at the hotel bar and then went to some club. I don't really want to talk about what happened at the club because of reasons. Anyways we come back from the club and me and my one cousin who are sharing a room go to bed. I am woken up twice in the night, once by my overwhelming need to vomit, which I fortuitously manage to get to the sink for. The other was when the rest of my cousins came banging on the door imploring us to come out again at which point, still drunk and mostly asleep I am told I opened the door a crack and screamed at them full force to kindly "FUCK OFF, WE'RE SLEEPING". At which point I promptly went back to bed. While I felt pretty poor the next day I noticed more than one of our cohort disappear to the bathroom during the ceremony, not to appear again until the reception in the evening.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that in spite of what it might seem like my story is about, in spite of the way moderation was rewarded, there is no such thing as too much fun.

 

[Flame_AC]

Woohoo!

 

[nin1000]

Lets do this !

 

[Gorlak]

I'm ready.

 

[Hyperactivity]

inb4 time paradoxes

 

[cabot]

This is going to be a fun game.
I'm going to have so much fun.
Fun, you guys.

Are we having fun yet?

 

[Kawl_USC]

Are we having fun yet?

"Put your hand down, Cabot.
You're smiling."
Yes.
"Yes, sir. Why are you smiling?"
Cause I love mafia. Mafia is fun.
"Fun, sir? It's fun?"
Yes.
"You sure?"
I think...
"Now you're thinkin'. First you smile, then you thinkin'. You think mafia is still fun?"
Uh, yes.
"Sir."
Yes- no, sir.
"No?"
Um, it was fun.
"Not anymore though, is it? *Is* it?"
Not right now, no.
"No, it's not fun anymore. Not even a little bit."
Uh... no.
"Make up your mind. Think since you're thinking. Go on, think. Is it fun?"
No, sir.
"No? Absolutely not?"
Zero fun, sir.
"All right, listen up! I'm Mod Ourorurueopolis. I'm gonna tell you about how much... *fun* you're gonna have this season."

 

[nukedeggs]

Got my role PM, bookmarked the thread, looks like I'm all gud2go

 

[Royal_Flush]

Hi everybody. I think I may have to get out of this star spangled suit and into something more casual soonish...

 

[Sorian]

Vote spreadsheet will always be accessible in the third post. That post will also be updated with links to day starts and ends.

 

[cabot]

"Put your hand down, Cabot.
You're smiling."
Yes.
"Yes, sir. Why are you smiling?"
Cause I love mafia. Mafia is fun.
"Fun, sir? It's fun?"
Yes.
"You sure?"
I think...
"Now you're thinkin'. First you smile, then you thinkin'. You think mafia is still fun?"
Uh, yes.
"Sir."
Yes- no, sir.
"No?"
Um, it was fun.
"Not anymore though, is it? *Is* it?"
Not right now, no.
"No, it's not fun anymore. Not even a little bit."
Uh... no.
"Make up your mind. Think since you're thinking. Go on, think. Is it fun?"
No, sir.
"No? Absolutely not?"
Zero fun, sir.
"All right, listen up! I'm Mod Ourorurueopolis. I'm gonna tell you about how much... *fun* you're gonna have this season."

what even is this kawlo?

I hate you so much.

 

[Kawl_USC]

what even is this kawlo?

I hate you so much.

Jesus you've never seen Remember the Titans. You truly are the worst.

 

[cabot]

Jesus you've never seen Remember the Titans. You truly are the worst.

I'm going to glass you.

 

[Kawl_USC]

I'm going to glass you.

Is that a Glaswegian euphemism?

 

[cabot]

Is that a Glaswegian euphemism?

 

[Sophia]

Friendly reminder that hitting people with a glass is mean and totally uncalled for.

Hilarious, but still mean.

 

[Palmer_v1]

Jesus you've never seen Remember the Titans. You truly are the worst.

I unfollowed a friend on facebook yesterday when they admitted they had not seen Shawshank Redemption.

 

[Zippedpinhead]

So when does the game start? I don't see a timer

 

[Sorian]

So when does the game start? I don't see a timer

The party starts:

I'll update the third post above with any game specific rules in the morning. Too tired right now :V

Lazy Zipped

 

[Sorian]

Title image has been added to the OP. I still don't love you all as much as Retro does, he made the image, not me.

 

[Sorian]

As the sun peeks over the horizon, the party-goers exit the airport, feet dragging and heads hung low. One might say they were bearing the weight of Launchpad’s death. Or their luggage was heavy. But didn’t they just drink all their packed alcohol? Shhhhhh.

“We should get to the hotel,” Swamped’s fiancé said.

“Let’s rent a couple cars,” someone suggested.
“It’s a bachelor party. We should get a limo,” someone chimed in.
“Get to da chopper,” said someone in an Austrian accent.
“Why don’t we bus?”

A sudden hush fell among the group and they all stepped back from each other, looking around warily.

Puzzled at the response to the innocuous comment, Swamped’s fiancé reached into his pocket for his phone. “We can Uber-” his voice trailed off as he remembered where he had left his phone. Swamped would be waking up now, her hair an unruly mess, a dried trail of saliva on her cheek. She’d notice his phone and wonder where he was…

“Yo,” someone clumsily tapped him on the shoulder. “Taxi’s here. Let’s go.”

“Did we really need 4 taxis for everyone? I swear we didn’t have that many before.”
“It’s fine. You’re not paying for this anyway.”
“Plus it looks like a convoy.”
“A VIP convoy or a high-value-prisoner transport?”
“Either way, expect explosives on the road and an attack helicopter.”
“Whee.”

Day 1 begins.

8 votes are needed for majority today.

Day 1 will end in:

 

[cabot]

Do you believe in life after love?

4

 

[cabot]

I wanna know what love is, and I want you to show me

3

 

[cabot]

And I will always love you

2

 

[Sophia]

Counting down are you, Cabot? I wonder what for...

 

[cabot]

When darkness falls and we're apart
Can love heal this lonely heart
I love you dearly that I do
Sleep is good when dreaming of you
With all my love I give to you
You are so sweet I know not how I'm with you


Oh, what time is it?

why am I not married yet? ugh...


Guys, remember this is my bachelor party, and I explicitly stated no strippers!


I only have eyes for Swamped. I'm only Whatshisface, Swamped's Fiancé.
I am here out of obligation, but my head will be elsewhere. Embracing my love.


I may not look like a man that wants to be here, because I don't.
I want to be with Swamped....

Too Love; Didn't Read - I'm the bachelor. I'm also a Miller.


1

 

[cabot]

Also, I've now decided that Swamped is getting married to Jason Statham, therefore I now become him.

Swamped thang, you make my heart sing

0

Let's begin.

 

[cabot]

I also did this in four minutes, because I wanted to beat FluxWaveZ's six minute day one claim.

Happy Wednesday.

 

[CrimsonFist]

So why is the bachelor a miller?

 

[Sophia]

I also did this in four minutes, because I wanted to beat FluxWaveZ's six minute day one claim.

Happy Wednesday.

Looks like it was three minutes. Also Jason Statham is hot...

Bachelor AND Miller huh...? Hm.