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[NJW2000]

W O R M W O O D    M A F I A

Wormwood. Bitter, hardy and tough. Distilled to rough and heady liquors, triple figure proofs barely enough to numb you to the taste of soured earth. Ground into potent pharmakons, purging worms, bile and breakfast indiscriminately from invalids unlucky enough to need it. It hardly burns and doesn't taste good. You wouldn't call it pretty.


Life. Bitter, hardy and tough. The land here isn't good for much. Rocky slopes, dry soil, heaps of scree, and blasting winds see to that. But it's good for wormwood. Ruthless enough to outcompete the local weeds, stunting their roots with subtly poisoned soil, too wiry and bitter for parasites or beasts, it survives the winds and frosts with a whiteknuckle deathgrip on the poor fields and stony crevices. The people aren't too different.


You get by. Sure, it's the wrong end of Canada, a shoddy nameless town crouched in a nowhere valley in the Northwestern Territory, an unlikely congregation of opportunists, sharp dealers, roughnecks, and last-chancers. But as long as the harvest comes in and the wagons roll away piled with greenery and dark bottles, they bring back a thin trickle of food, fuel and frontier barter. Not much, but enough to survive.


So when black rings of festering Wormrot appear on leaves, townsfolk worry. And when Wormrotten plants are found uprooted, cut up, and spread over healthy crops, they start looking for a culprit.

Spoiler: Setup and Roles (click to show/hide)

Setup

This is a semi-open setup. That means that the possible mechanics and roles are known to all players at the start of the game.

There are nine players. There are three Roots, three Stems and three Flowers. The three players with each role are called segments.

Two of the players are mafia. The remaining seven players are town. The two mafia are assigned randomly to different segments. This means that there are three possible setups.


Win Conditions

The mafia win when a single segment is Rotten. A segment is Rotten when all town players of any alignment in the segment are dead, and no mafia players in the segment have been killed by day elimination. This means that once a mafia player in a segment has been eliminated during the day, the segment cannot be Rotten.

The town win when both mafia players are dead, as long as no segments are Rotten.

The game ends when one side has won. The other side loses.


Actions

Roots have a one-shot protect. This action protects the target from being killed for one night. It does not interfere with blocks or tracks in any way.

Stems have a one-shot block. This prevents the target from acting, if they attempt to use any action other than a block. Their action is not consumed if it is one-shot. Blocks have no effect if the target is also using a block.

Flowers have a one-shot track. They are informed whom, if anyone, their target actions that night.

The mafia have a shared kill action, which either of them may use each night. This kills the target. If both mafia are alive, they must both agree on how the kill is used for it to take place. The mafia kill may be used on another member of the mafia. The mafia are not obliged to use their kill action every night. No single mafia player can use both a kill and another action on the same night.

No player may self-target.

Spoiler: Roles (click to show/hide)

While there may be some extra flavour in PMs and roleflips, this will be written for each player before alignments are assigned, so will not offer any clues to the actual structure of the game. Flavour may well be nonsensical or even downright misleading. Fake role flavours are available on request, and will be provided to the mafia by default.

I really wouldn't advise you to waste time second-guessing this. The game will be hard enough as it is.

A brief description of your occupation and role in the town.

You are a Root. Once during the game, you may act at night to protect a chosen player, so that they survive to morning even if targeted by a kill. You may not self target.

Think carefully before using or revealing your role.


'The fibrous roots of Northern wormwood protect the plant from weeds and insects. They may be made into preserves or herbal teas, which while bitter have widely appreciated prophylactic benefits.'

- Northwestern Territory Almanac, 1861

A brief description of your occupation and role in the town.

You are a Stem. Once during the game, you may act at night to block a chosen player, preventing any action they take, unless it is a block. You may not self target.

Think carefully before using or revealing your role.


'The straight stems of Northern wormwood bear spirally arranged leaves. Once stripped of leaves, the stems are sometimes distilled into immensely potent sleeping draughts, barely palatable but guaranteeing a quiet night.'

- Northwestern Territory Almanac, 1861

A brief description of your occupation and role in the town.

You are a Flower. Once during the game, you may act at night to track a chosen player, learning who if anyone they targeted at night. You may not self target.

Think carefully before using or revealing your role.


'The pale yellow flowers of Northern wormwood are small and numerous. It is rumored that they are used in invigorating cordials, heightening the perceptions of the imbiber and improving vision in dark places. These claims, while colourful, do not merit serious consideration.'

- Northwestern Territory Almanac, 1861

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

Do not edit your posts.

Do not post in the thread after you have been killed.

Do not quote the mod (me) directly.

Day

Days will last 72 hours, unless cut short by a hammer.

You may vote for any living player by writing their name in red and bold.

If the majority (>50%) of players are voting to eliminate one player, that play is immediately eliminated (hammered), and the day ends.

The player with the most votes on them at the end of the day will be eliminated. There is no minimum threshhold for an elimination to occur.

You may vote for No Elimination.

If the vote is tied two or more ways, no elimination will occur. This includes ties with No Elimination.

You may not post in the thread after a hammer. You may not post in the thread after the day has ended. Votes cast in violation of this will be ignored.

You may not PM or otherwise communicate with anyone about the game, except in this thread and the mafia channel. You are asked not to discuss the game outside of this thread.

You may not quote the mod directly.

Please keep discussion relatively civil, and abide by forum rules at all times.


Night

Nights will last 24 hours.

The mafia will have a shared discord which can be used during the day and the night, provided both are alive. They may submit actions either through this channel or by PM at night.

Town actions should be submitted to me by PM at night.

Please do PM me or ask in thread if you have any questions.


Players: 8/9
Webadict
EuchreJack
Jim Groovester
ToonyMan
a1s
TricMagic
MaximumSpin
Fluffe9911
notquitethere

[webadict]

Oh dang, this is a tough setup for both sides.

In.

[EuchreJack]

Incompetent is I.

[Jim Groovester]

In.

I expect a very swingy game.

[ToonyMan]

Sure I'll join, sounds interesting.

[Knightwing64]

IN

School is going by very slowwwwwwww

[a1s]

In

[TricMagic]

In

Root	Stem	Flower
Stem	Flower	Root

Flower

Root

Stem

[notquitethere]

Put me on the replacement list.

[NJW2000]

Put me on the replacement list.

Will do, thanks for doing that.

[Maximum Spin]

I'll join.

[Fluffe9911]

Never played a (df forum) mafia game before but I'll give this a shot IN

[NJW2000]

Never played a (df forum) mafia game before but I'll give this a shot IN

Welcome to the subforum!


That's nine in theory, but I know Knightwing is taking a week's sabbatical, so if someone else wants to hop in in the meantime, I'll probably start the game with them.

To be honest there's some self-interest at play here, because the sooner we get this show on the road, the sooner I get to play his BYOR game 

[EuchreJack]

Technically, you could replace Knightwing64 with notquitethere and start immediately....

[NJW2000]

I’m the interest of speed, I think we’ll do that. Should be starting in the next 24 hours or so.