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1st place: Town (Pie, Savant, Lunatic, Austin, Barney, Casey, That2)
2nd place: Mafia (Vader, WyIted)
Night Actions (NP1):
Casey Doctored Luna (automatically silenced by PBO)
Austin Followed Vader
That2 Tracked Casey
Vader Tailored Barney for Cop flip
Vader NK'd Barney
So... huh. This was going to get pretty crazy based on how things were set to play out. Barney wasn't aware of it, but he was a Hidden Sleepwalker, and RNG had him visiting Luna, so both Casey and Barney would have been Silenced if the latter hadn't been NK'd. Was interested to see how the PBO would work out, but things came to a head early in DP2 with Austin's result.
I do think the Follower in particular made this a kind of swingy game and this game certainly swung on it. If not for that result, I think Vader could have survived significantly longer and made more use of his varied roles. Scum had a lot of counters to the Follower - part of the point of having the Tailor in play for them was to give them cover if the Follower visited them, giving a different result that could uphold their claim - but I understand why they wouldn't have bet on Austin using it on Vader in NP1. I also aimed to give some villainous characters out to town to throw people a bit, and Drolta in particular was meant to be a stretch for town to buy along with Isaac (who was in this game - that was Pie's character).
As for claims, yeah, I do think it was risky for WyIted to go with the Captain who was by far the most minor character claim in the batch. The Miller was a risky gambit, but it could have paid off assuming it didn't become clear that there were two investigative roles already in play. The more surprising choice was to not just straight up claim Alucard. The split, if it isn't obvious, was the Tepes family vs. everyone, but I'm not convinced that would have been obvious even with the Dracula flip. I did let scum know that there wasn't a Cop in the game (I only let them ask about one role in return) because of the nature of the Tailor role I gave them (it could only modify roles, not affiliations - I felt like saying it could Tailor affiliation too would give them the impression that there was a Cop in the game, so I chose to put my thumb on the scale a bit instead).
It was a quick game, but oh well, I had fun making it and seeing everything come together. It was great revisiting all the quotes from the show. I promise I'll do this again sometime. Thanks again to Mharman for all his help designing the game, and I welcome any and all feedback on the design and execution.
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Onward to DP2!
Lynched:
WyIted - You are Vlad “Dracula” Tepes! The central antagonist of the first two seasons of Castlevania and one of the most powerful vampires around, Dracula rained fiery hell down on the people of Targoviste for burning his wife at the stake as a witch before turning his gaze to the rest of humankind. Despite his crusade to end humanity for taking the love of his life, Dracula became one of the most sympathetic characters in the show as you watch a man deal with his grief in what his son Alucard describes as “history’s longest suicide note.” You are the Killing JOAT! Loved (permanently active until MYLO/LYLO): You require one extra vote to be eliminated than would otherwise normally be needed to achieve majority. In addition, you may use one of the following roles per NP. 2x Ninja: You are able to perform night actions without being detected as visiting others.2x Strongman: You have immunity against your night kill being manipulated or protected against. You win with the Mafia.
Died in the Night:
Barney - You are Saint Germaine! You come onto the scene as a normal human seeking information on the Infinite Corridor, a gateway to other dimensions into which he lost his partner before the events of the series. After getting lost in the Corridor, you are found and manipulated by the mysterious Alchemist into committing unspeakable acts, only to discover that it was in fact Death himself using him to return an ultimate evil to this world. Because of your attunement to the unseen and can discover disturbances that others overlook by glimpsing shadows, you are the Cop. Each night you may select one person to target. You will learn there affiliation. You win with the town.
- Casey has been SILENCED! They may vote up to three times today, but may not post otherwise.
Remaining Players:
1. Pie
2. Savant
3. Lunatic
4. Austin
5. Vader
6. Casey
7. That2/Owen
With 7 alive, it takes 4 votes to lynch. The DP ends Saturday, March 29 @ 10 PM EST.
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Welcome to Castlevania Mafia! This game is based off of the animated series Castlevania and Castlevania: Nocturne by Clive Bradley. I've never played the games these were based on (I imagine a lot of the same background information is used for these series), but I decided to start watching this series around 2018 and I haven't been able to put it down since. There is some incredible fight animation in this series and surprisingly strong characters and narratives to boot. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested.
As for this game, yes, there is a theme split. After some consideration, I've decided that Mafia will be given the same opportunity that they've received a lot in recent games: they will learn of two roles and two characters over the course of the first DP with regards to their presence in the game. I will do my best to answer any questions beyond that, which can be posed to me by PM or publicly. I will try to post vote counts often over the course of each DP.
Going to stick to some pretty basic rules (just stealing these from Pie):
1) No editing or deleting posts of any kinds
2) No copy/pasting your role PM (please paraphrase)
3) No cryptography of any kind
4) No communication outside of the mafia game
5) No liking/upvoting posts after you die
6) No using ChatGPT/AI to paraphrase your PM
And, same as him, I reserve the right to add rules as necessary.
All DPs will be 72 hours and NPs 24 hours unless the NP ends with everyone submitting actions earlier.
Remaining Players:
1. Pie
2. Savant
3. Lunatic
4. Austin
5. Vader
6. Barney
7. Casey
8. That2
9. WyIted
With 9 players alive, it takes 5 votes to lynch. This DP will end Wednesday March 26th at 8:30pm EST. Ready, steady, go.
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Alright, first shot at making a game. Thanks to Mharman for all his help with the design.
This game is based off of the Castevania animated TV series and will include characters from the four seasons of the mainline show as well as characters from the follow-on Castlevania: Nocturne. I only have limited knowledge of the games and that won't feature here. Might be a bit before I start since I'm still working on elements of the design, but might as well get the sign-ups going.
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