Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Mini-Mash

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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Mini-Mash
First of its kind on PS! Mafia
By ForgotToFlush

February 2024 Event Game
A 30p closed setup

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Start Date: 18th February 12:00 AM EST

Phase Lengths: Day phases are split into 2 12-hour halves. Night phase is 24 hours.

Deadline Times:

Day part a: 12:00 PM EST
Day part b: 12:00 AM EST
Night: Actions are due by 11:00 PM EST, or 1 hour prior to day-start. This is to create ample time for action resolution.

Expected Run-Time: 10-12 IRL Days.

Contact and Communication: Contact and Communication: No Outside Contact. Mafia are allowed to communicate with their partners through the provided medium. There may be additional provided media as the game progresses. 

Minimum Activity Requirement: 3 Posts per 2 Day phases (Essentially 3 posts per 24 hours). 

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Global Rules:
0. I am the host of the game, and my word is law. I reserve the right to warn, substitute or modkill anyone breaking the rules. The severity of action taken will be proportionate with the severity of the infraction.

1 (a). You can only talk about the game in the game thread unless specified otherwise. Once you are dead you cannot talk to anyone about the game. This includes liking posts. Knowledge acquired after death cannot be transferred from a dead player to a living player.
1 (b). Outside influences (eg. Threatening, bribes, wagers, promises, alliances, trust tells) are not tolerated and will be dealt with severely. Do not use dice or other luck-based methods to determine your actions.

2. (a) Only sign up if you know you're going to be at least fairly active. Take note of and abide by any minimum activity requirements.
2. (b) Do not deliberately play against your win condition. Do not manipulate others to play against their win-condition.
2. (c). Sportmanship should be shown. Salting, raging or ranting will not be tolerated. At the end of the day, mafia is played for fun.

3. Role PMs may not be shown to other users at any time. All forms of sharing of role PMs is banned. If anyone finds a person encouraging others to share their role PMs or sharing role PMs themselves, please be sure to report it. Do not use role PMs to scumhunt.

4. (a) Do not try to exploit any loopholes or circumvent the rules.
4. (b) Angleshooting is prohibited. This is included but not limited to submeta, hostmeta and using out of game information to form reads.
4. (c) Do not mislead the host or do anything to interfere with the host's ability to run the game smoothly.

5. This game will be using Snaq's VC Bot. Instructions on how to use it can be found here (x)

6. Do not edit or delete your posts, if you need to correct something make another post.

7. (a) I might not be in time to end day at deadline or hammer. In this case the game will enter into Twilight. You are allowed to post but not allowed to vote or unvote users.
7. (b) Night talking is disallowed (after the Night Phase is officially declared by the Host).

Any rule breaches will be judged at the discretion of hosts/staff.

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Game Specific Rules

Role Claiming

Anything in italics in your role PM is off limits for claiming. Do not make any attempts to make this information public. Do not attempt to have anyone reveal this information. 
Otherwise, you are allowed to claim any other parts of your role. Do your best to avoid directly quoting your role PM, and paraphrase as much as possible. 

Day Actions

Do not attempt to submit fake day actions.
If you have a day action such as an ITA, follow the outlined formatting when using them, and don't forget to mention me.

Event Etiquette 

You'll receive instructions on how to join and participate in events over the course of the game. Follow those to the best of your ability. 

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Setup Info:

General Info

This is a Closed Setup. The exact role-list will remain unknown for the duration of the game. There are minimal bastard elements. Some aspects of roles have been intentionally kept hidden (explained below). 
The setup has been designed for exactly 30 players. 

I've balanced the game with the hope that it ends in 5 full cycles, and hopefully not too soon before nor too late after. As such, this is a high-powered setup with a large degree of mechanical complexity. 

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Day Phases

While the number of alive players is 15 or more, the day phase will be split in to 2 twelve-hour long phases. Additionally, majority is disabled while the phase split is in effect. A player can be voted out at the end of each 12 hour phase. 
Once the number of alive players is less than 15, the day will become a standard 24 hour long phase. Majority will be enabled from that point on. This will all take effect at the next day phase coming after a night phase (to prevent it from occurring during the second split day phase). 

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Events, ITA's, Hidden Aspects

This game features special mid-game Events. Events will occur at 10:00 AM and 10:00 PM EST, for the first 5 game days, equaling a potential maximum of 10 through the course of the game. At those times, I'll announce that an event will be taking place and how to join. These are essentially minigames where participants can receive rewards.

A given event can potentially have multiple winners. The standard prize for winning an event is a low-accuracy (10%) day-vig shot, called an ITA (In Thread Attack). If you receive one of these, then feel free to use them the same way you would with a typical day-vig shot, by bolding "ITA [your shot]" and pinging me.
I cannot guarantee that I'll always be around to resolve day actions.

Additionally, if you collect multiple ITAs, you can bundle them together to raise your shot chances. Using 2 ITAs for one shot raises your chances of a successful shot up to 20% for example. In these instances, use the same formatting but include the number of ITAs you wish to use. For example: 3 ITA FTF. This will use 3 ITAs for a day-vig shot on FTF with a 30% success rate. 

Additionally, some roles have hidden aspects that can only be unlocked by winning an event. Roles that feature these aspects will be marked as follows:

"This role features a hidden aspect. Win an event in order to unlock it."

If you do not have this descriptor in your role PM, then your role has no hidden aspect. This is the extent of the game's bastard mechanics. 

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Role PM example

Danny the Dog
Jonathan's loyal, but ill-fated animal companion!

Abilities:

Each night, you can target one user to bark at. They will be told that they were barked at.

Alignment: Town

Win Condition: You win when all threats to the town have been eliminated.

This role features a hidden aspect. Win an event in order to unlock it.

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Note from the Host

As far as I know, this is the first time something like this is happening on PS! Mafia. I figured it was appropriate because of the recent strong activity on the forums. Mash-style games are famous on other sites, chiefly MU, for being fast-paced, exciting, high-volume games. I'm excited to try and bring that experience to PS!

This is a solo project. I've stuck myself with the task of designing and balancing 30 unique roles by myself. As such, I may have overlooked some things with game balance that may need to be adjusted on the fly, and we'll cross that bridge when we reach it. I apologize in advance if this creates inconveniences down the line and I'll try to maintain game integrity above all else.

This is also going to be very experimental. We don't really have a precedent for this on PS! so we don't really have a way to tell how this will go. The idea of playing a 30p game may seem daunting, but as a host I have zero expectations for anyone to read and address the majority of posts in this game. As someone who has played in several 100+ player games in the past, I think you'll be fine approaching this one at a more casual level. Once you can keep up with the minimum activity requirements, you'll be fine.

Let's make history!

~
FTF

PS: Mild spoilers inbound. 

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Players :

1. commanderawesome
2. Clouds
3. Fame
4. Schiavetto ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪
5. kliff
6. Animal Midwife
7. litteleven
8. abdel
9. saltiestcactus23
10. Schrodinger
11. slowthepoke
12. iavh
13. abcaba
14. spiderz
15. Prodigu
16. PokeCartBeast
17. MyanMario
18. passthesaltdude
19. OM~!
20. Crespo
21. cuddleszz
22. Fenrir
23. yashgreninja
24. bowlingpokeballs
25. Edjeanerations  
26. Turtwigswiththrohs
27. PenguinD
28. AligningStars
29. realiti
30. qtball

Substitutes:

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[commanderawesome]

first. im so here to find out how a 30p game is gonna last 10-12 irl days

[Clouds]

in of course

[Fame]

in

[Schiavetto ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪]

we're so back in

[kliff]

IN

to find out.

[Animal Midwife]

in

[litteleven]

in

[abdel]

in

[saltiestcactus23]

in

[Schrodinger]

in

[slowthepoke]

In!

[iavh]

in
for I have made the room a jojo reference in January already

[abcaba]

in
thats a jojo reference gg

[spiderz]

In

[Prodigu]

In

[PokeCartBeast]

in
i fucking love joe joe's bizarre adventure

[MyanMario]

In

[passthesaltdude]

I’m so in

[OM~!]

In to get a neighbourhood

[Crespo]

in

[cuddleszz]

dame I hope my pc can handle this one IN