Hi guys, the game has STARTED!
All of your pre-game posts and actions have been taken into account and run through the rewards and penalties mill, as occurs in every mafia game. And now for the flava!
You don't know how you found yourself here. You don't know what you were thinking. The light beckoned. A voice called out to you. So you stepped through the doorway into a land never before known to you. A land of desolate cities, barren forests, devoid of animal life and with even the plants struggling to hold on. You slept in ancient buildings, beneath rotted roofs on the verge of crumbling, and walked on ancient roads that had long since become no more that broken paths. But you walked, and ever that insistent voice pulled you on.
Eventually, your solitary journey came to an end. Amidst a small oasis of beauty in this desolate world, you found the others, gathered around a small lake, willow trees hanging over it and reaching towards the water. As you talked, they told stories similar to your own, of some unknown force that had guided them here, from whatever world, or place, or time they had come. And you all realized that the voice, the beckoning voice, had finally stopped.
Eventually, though, this brief reprieve fell away as the waters parted, and from them emerged a beautiful luminescent being, behind here a view into another more beautiful world. As she stepped onto dry land the waters closed once more behind her. She spoke in a soothing voice, her voice nearly music, as she looked at all of you.
"So you have come, my friends, my children, my chosen. You've come here to join my at last. This world is old, its inhabitants broken, and I thank you for giving me this spark yet of life. You all no doubt wonder why it is you are here, and fear not for I'll soon tell. I've been so lonely, so bored for these eons, that I've called you to play me a game.
Five of you here, but I think that less can go forward, to return on to their own worlds. But oh, not alone, not the way that they came, but with riches and powers galore. We'll play a game called death and democracy, and I can't wait to see what's in store.
The rules are quite simple, but your roles are all different, so one moment will I bend to your ear."
At this she approached, and into each person's ear whispered the thing that they needed to hear.
"And each day if you wish, you may choose a person, and I'll make it so they never were. Simply vote for your victim, and I'll make it happen, if you wish to settle the score.
Ah, but no I shall leave you, to talk and discuss, and perhaps to decide on your fate. You don't have much time, merely 24 hours, though for fun I think I may just run late."
She winks and turns, the water opening once more as she descends into her strange realm, and you are left in this strange, desolate land, playing a game with four strangers and hoping the words she spoke about returning to your own worlds all the richer end up being true.