Mafia has achieved their win condition.

Rose's role

Role: Soul steal Alignment: Town Description: The first ability used on you will fail. You will then be able to use whatever that ability was in the future. This may happen twice, however while in possession of an ability, Soul Steal is not active and you may only use the stolen ability once.

Jed's role

Role: Nexus Alignment: Town Description: You are the Nexus-bot. You have enough power to run your nexus a total of 3 times. Each night you can choose whether or not to turn your nexus on or leave it off. If you turn the nexus on, anyone who visits you will be redirected to someone else at random

Remaining Mafia members were

Shadow!

Shadow's role

Role: GodJanitor Alignment: Mafia Description: Once per game, at night, if you are sent out for the factional kill, you can use your trusty sledgehammer to bludgeon your victim beyond recognition. Only you will receive their role information, as it will remain hidden from the public until the end of the game. If your alignment is ever investigated, you will appear as a Town. You have final say in all actions performed for the night.

brian!

brian's role

Role: Disguiser Alignment: Mafia Description: Each night you will choose a target and disguise as them. You will appear as that role to any investigators. If you die during the night, you will flip as the role of your target.

and im317!

im317s role

Role: Delayer Alignment: Unaligned Mafia Description: Active - Each night you may pick someone to smoke with. If that person attempts to use a power that night, it will instead be delayed to the following night since they'll be too high. They will be told this has happened to them. Passive- The first time you are visited at night, you will join that person's alignment. Passive - The first night someone tries to kill you (can be multiple attempts), you will survive (and I will inform you that your protection is gone). This CAN result in you joining your attacker.

I won't do an official HoF/HoL but I will post some stray thoughts and link the Game commentary where I posted my thoughts on the fly. Night actions and game mechanics will be posted in a separate thread. Thank you all for playing!

Forum links:

Masons: http://themasonaticuniverse.freeforums.net/

Cult: http://thecultmaticuniverse.freeforums.net/

Mafia: http://thecinemafia.freeforums.net/

Game commentary: http://thecinemafia.freeforums.net/thread/4/game-commentary?page=1

Jed @ 23/7/2023 14:16

You just absorbed the first action right? role block happens before kill, so I think it wouldn't have saved us

Yes Rose would have absorbed the kill but she can't kill the same night. So it would just be a stand off again for the next day. And then Mafia can kill again the next night. It would have been pretty hard for town to win once it was down to 3-3

Jed @ 23/7/2023 14:19

If im317 delayed Rose and somebody else attacked though? Because Rose would only absorb the delay (as the first action) and the attack would go through?

yes in that situation, Rose would absorb the delay and die the same night

JJ @ 23/7/2023 20:53

From Nav's commentary thread: Spoiler + Nav Alright Mafia officially chose Shadow - Godjanitor Sami - Governor Herm - Redirector Brian - Disguiser JJ - Ninja/Strongman Pretty strong combo. Governor is actually stacked and is the best role they have. Redirector is a bit luck based in picking correctly. Disguiser as well isn't THAT useful mostly because there aren't that many traditional info gathering roles with the town. GodJanitor and Ninja/Strongman both solid picks. Overall a very souped up Mafia team both with the roles and the players. My setups do tend to be scum favored since I feel like its just way too hard to be scum on FE. That being said, so Town has a few roles that actually can't be straight up killed at night. Stargate - Suicide bomber Rose - Soul steal Ahoda - Beguiler Jed - Nexus And they have Kat to kill/protect, Farlig to get very strong information if he goes deep enough, Masons in play, a Cop variant. I'll stay optimistic for now and hope for a hotly contested game but at any rate, I'm happy with my setup. Very excited to see the fuckery that goes on at night with all these weird roles that can interact with each other. I'm a huge fan of giving the mafia role choices and letting us pick who was who. I wanted the Governor role but I was being nice lol. Very sad we never got to use that role. It's pretty funny that we ended up with the 4 townies you listed here - the ones that are hardest to kill. Re your comments about the disguiser role, I don't think we knew we could just send Brian for the kill with the disguiser role - I think I interpreted it as a role you couldn't use with a kill since it didn't specifically talk about killing. I'm not sure if anyone else on our team knew but we probably should have asked. whoops! Would that have counted as a target, though? Forgot to tell Shadow how amazing it was that he claimed the Kat kill! I forgot about Shadow's fake claim (Curtis's role) but that was so perfect! I was so worried when I thought mafia was going to kill Rose because I figured she was lying about what she did/didn't have left but thought Ahoda had probably used all his actions, so was very happy to see them just kill Stargate. Glad Shadow came up with the 3P claim so it could all just end lol. Nav, do you have a spreadsheet where you keep track of all your past roles/fake claims? How many did you have to leave out? Fun read, fun game. Thanks Nav!

i was thinking about how to resolve the Disguiser vs the Forensic investigator and I was leaning towards having the disguiser's target show up in the results list but hadn't totally decided yet. i would have looked up the role and checked if there was any useful info about it

yes i do track my mafia games. apparently ive played 88. i had to leave a LOT out yes, one of my ideas was actually give each townie a choice between two roles and have them pick which one they wanted. but that was a logistical issue and it would have been even harder to balance and i didnt want to see some of my key roles being unpicked.