What is Mafia?

Mafia is taken from the party game ‘Werewolf’ but has been adapted to play online. Before the game starts the hosts will PM all the roles to the players and then do an Opening Post to start the game off. The Townies goal is to find and eliminate all of the Anti-Townies, and vice versa. The Mafia will know everyone one on their team, but very few Townies will have the luxury of Behind The Scenes Contact (BTSC for short).

After the Opening Post all players will start discussing suspicions in the thread and then vote on who they think is most likely to be a member of the Mafia. The Mafia will obviously try to lead the other players astray and will be making plans behind the scenes to this effect, they may even vote for each other as a way to confuse the town. The player that gets the most votes will then be lynched and have their role revealed in the Day Post and then the Night Period will start.

Anyone may still post in the thread during the night, although it is not a good idea to voice too many suspicions during this time as the Mafia may not send their kill in to the hosts until the 24hrs are nearly up. Every player must PM all the hosts during the night, even if they do not have a specific ability to use. When all PMs have been received the hosts will reveal who the Mafia’s victim was in the Night Post, any other information released in this post is at the hosts discretion. Straight after the Night Post the Hosts will send out the answers to any Abilities used that night, i.e. whether or not the player the Cop investigated is guilty or not.

The game continues to alternate between Night and Day until either the Mafia are eliminated, or the Mafia have killed everyone else.