Indian Politicians Mafia DP1

DP1 is up

DP is up

Sup fam

VTL banana. Welcome! Have you played mafia before if so where at and what would you consider your experience level?

Forgot to tag 

Banana (1/5) - Lunatic

Hi all, been a while! hopefully we get an active DP1 this time, the last few games were a bit underwhelming.

won't somebody think of the bananas?

Yeah, I’d really like to improve on that this game. It’s led to some hasty or last minute lynches that only harmed town.

Just checking in for now. I won’t be super active tomorrow just FYI, but I’ll be on for all the weekend days.

Lunatic (1/5) - Austin

Hi Ana, welcome to our internet abode. Always glad to see a new member.

Really odd theme here. Just a heads up my character seems incredibly scummy if you only have the description, it's weird. Just keep that in mind if I have to claim.

It’s light pressure. More of a way to get activity rolling, not asking for a claim yet.

Hey everyone, glad to see this site alive despite everything. I know little about Indian politics, so I'm gonna have to do some research for this one. I think it ought to be interesting though. 

Hello! I have not played mafia before, but I have played some social games like this before that involve lying, and trying to figure out liars. One time at a family reunion we played a game like that, and I have played jackbox which has a game where you have to figure out aliens among your friends. Experience level? Uh... zero I guess?

Thankyou! :3

Thanks for the answer.

I would say the concept is the same then as the family game you probably played, though it's slightly more in depth on the forums. You will probably see a lot of terminology you don't understand, a lot of it is covered in the mafia guide made by earth, but if you have any questions most people here will help you out. We are a bit theme driven on this site, so at some point early on people will probably ask for your character so we can work on figuring out the theme split. 

vtl vader for being obviously scum

earth also hasn't posted. Clearly he is vaders scum buddy

Yes. I am Vader's scum buddy. My role can revert the day phase if I get lynched and Vader can kill 2 townies if he gets lynched.

ez maf!

So how do we kicks things off usually?

Checking in! How’s everyone doing today 

Can confirm 

Ended up crashing pretty hard last night, so my apologies for not posting more beyond my opening post. Seems like everyone's posted at least once since then, so props to everyone for being more active this time - I think it'll make for a more interesting game.

I would like to know if anyone's more familiar with Indian politicians, at least generally. I don't want to lean on theme analysis this game (I know I often do that, but especially when I don't know the theme well at all, I tend to do some research into the topic and set aside theme for a bit to focus on other issues), but if someone does have more insight, it would be helpful to know before we start getting claims.

I've played that one too, I think it's called Push the Button. I'd say that bears more similarity to Among Us than Mafia, but both function based on the same basic premise: find the people who are undermining the majority in the game and either vote to lynch them or otherwise eliminate them. In a game with 9 players, there are likely two scum to find (sometimes there's a third party as well), and we'll have to figure them out by looking at their behavior and claims once those start rolling out.

Couple of things to bear in mind:

Usually a good idea to keep a tight hold on information about your character and role unless you have good reason to give them out (e.g. they're negative utility to town), though even that is often disputed. That being said, there might be efforts to push for so-called "soft claims" where you would give more generalized information that helps narrow down your character or vaguely indicates that your role is somehow confirmable (e.g. you can do something the mod will confirm or something unique to that role). It's not a given that you should do either of these things, just letting you know how this has played out in other games.

Thankyou for the helpful information. i think i understand or get the jist of it all. My one question I have is what is the deal with the roleplay aspect? I do not know about indian politicians, how does that part factor into the game. I don't see people roleplaying so I am just confused what that has to do with the mafia part