Ted Lasso Mafia - game over!

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Hosted by fingersplints and Sloonei

Town

Ted Lasso - He is overly optimistic, and loves to take care of everyone around him. But he suffers from panic attacks and it sometimes affects his performance. Protector - 50 % chance of being effective.

Coach Beard - He knows all. Checks a player once in a blue moon. (odd nights)

Rebecca Walton - She wants nothing more than revenge on Rupert for cheating and publicly humiliating her. If she finds him, she drains all his money. (She will not be told she found Rupert.)

Roy Kent - Anger may be his superpower, but he is really just looking for love. Searches odd nights to find Keeley - btsc once found.

Keeley Jones - She’s sort of famous for being almost famous. Searches even nights to find Roy - btsc once found.[/b][/u]

Jamie Tartt - Jamie Tartt, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. Once completely self absorbed, he has learned to case about others. Searches for Keeley. If he finds out who she is he is safe from 1 night kill. If he doesn’t he will die in her place.

Leslie Higgins - He is one of the original Diamond Dogs and close confidant of Rebecca’s; He always knows everyone’s business and loves to talk. Sends a message to another player once a night.

Trent Crimm - The Independent. Is able to post a message in the host post every night.

Sam Obisanya - Kind and caring. He loves his home country of Nigeria and wants to stop Cerithium Oil from turning it into a hellish swamp. Blocks on even nights.

Isaac Macadoo - The new captain of the Greyhounds is known for his strength. Forces one player every night to vote how he votes the following day.

Colin Hughes - Spends most of the series hiding who he really is from his teammates. Hides behind another player once a night.

Dani Rojas - Football is Life! But football is also death. May night kill once in the game.


Mafia

Rupert Mannion - He is the former owner of AFC Richmond and ex-husband of Rebecca. He is known for using his wealth to get what he wants. Each night he’s alive he gains £1. 5 million. The store is only open at night.
- £1 million - kill
- £2.5 million elim save
- £500k protect
- £500k investigate to find out role (3 available)
(In the event of Rupert’s death, his team will be livid and seek revenge. Then they can kill without money)

Nathan Shelley - Nate the Great or “The Wonder Kid” Can’t be red checked.

Trio of fans -
Baz - The loudest and angriest of the group of friends. Curses another player once in the game. If the target fails to meet the curse requirements, they lose their vote for that day.
Jeremy - Less angry than Baz, but not as nice as Paul. The perfect middleman. Blocks once in the game.
Paul - Always polite. Protects once in the game.

Edwin Akufo - He is a petulant billionaire known to throw tantrums when he doesn’t get his way. He has a petty vendetta against Sam for refusing to join his super league. Each night he searches for Sam. If he finds him, he will bully Sam into voting with him the next day.

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Players:

Bereft
Cape90
DarlingMonroe
DrWilgy
JaggedJimmyJay
Long Con
LoRab
Michelle
Princess Abigail
robyn
RondoDimBuckle
S~V~S
Scotty
Seanzie
Thunal33
ts account

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Rules:

No fouls and misconduct. (Treat your other players with respect.)
No offsides. (No role claiming or info dumping.) This means NO posting your role. NO hinting. NO f***ing false claiming. (£1 to Phoebe) Not even the most subtle of f***ing hints (£2). NO dropping of your info in the thread; Make a f***ing case. (£3)
It ain't easy to explain, but you know when you see it.

Breaking these rules or disrespecting your referees (hosts) may result in a RED CARD (elimination).

(Phoebe’s swear jar: £3 total)

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Posts:

Day 1 - Seanzie/Isaac Macadoo
Night 1 - Long Con/Trent Crimm (updated video)
Day 2 - Michelle/Nathan Shelley
Night 2 - JJJ/Ted Lasso
Day 3 - ts account/Jamie Tartt
Night 3 - no one is eliminated
Day 4 - SVS/Rupert Mannion
Night 4 - Cape/Roy Kent
Day 5 - DarlingMonroe/Leslie Higgins

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Game will officially start 10-11 pm BST

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You have 48 hours to find the mafia.

[Bereft]

Huh

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Rules:

No fouls and misconduct. (Treat your other players with respect.)
No offsides. (No role claiming or info dumping.) This means NO posting your role. NO hinting. NO f***ing false claiming. (£1 to Phoebe) Not even the most subtle of f***ing hints (£2). NO dropping of your info in the thread; Make a f***ing case. (£3)
It ain't easy to explain, but you know when you see it.

Breaking these rules or disrespecting your referees (hosts) may result in a RED CARD (elimination).

(Phoebe’s swear jar: £3 total)

Please, please, please be mindful of these rules, gang. This is not a typical heist, and sometimes anti-claiming rules give people trouble if they aren’t used to them.

The long-timers around here know the drill. If you’re not used to this, however, read and absorb. Please and thank you. I say this as someone who has had problems in the past as a host.

[S~V~S]

Huh

Nuh uh

[JaggedJimmyJay]

When I am finished administering finals today, I will eat this thread for lunch.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Assuming, of course, there’s something to eat. No pressure.

All pressure.

[S~V~S]

I have never seen this show, but since i just got Apple to watch Severance, it's on the list.

The video was cute.

I hope I'm not here when Jay starts eating people.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Additional suggestion:

Avoid roleplay in this game unless you are very diverse about which characters you represent. Or that’s an implicit rule violation.

And yes this is a good show. I might say it’s Apple’s second best? Either this or Silo IMO.

[Bereft]

Nah, I wasn't going to roleplay an ambiguous character again.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Nah, I wasn't going to roleplay an ambiguous character again.

How are you feeling, Bereft? Has it been a decent Tuesday?

[DarlingMonroe]

Hey y'all! Hope everyone is doing well; i'll be frank: not super familiar with games that restrict role claiming or dropping hints about their role, so looking forward to using this as an opportunity to learn. Anyone care to provide a previous game here that was similar, pretty please? In the meantime, gonna continue catching up w/ Ted Lasso (the show, lol).

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Hey y'all! Hope everyone is doing well; i'll be frank: not super familiar with games that restrict role claiming or dropping hints about their role, so looking forward to using this as an opportunity to learn. Anyone care to provide a previous game here that was similar, pretty please? In the meantime, gonna continue catching up w/ Ted Lasso (the show, lol).

This used to be the norm around here years ago. It is much less common these days. The most recent example, to my knowledge, was the first game of our 10-year anniversary bit.

Click here for that

How do you suppose you'll use this other game to guide you in this game?

[Bereft]

Nah, I wasn't going to roleplay an ambiguous character again.

How are you feeling, Bereft? Has it been a decent Tuesday?

'Been a prosperous Tuesday, ye.

Surprised to see you in a game.

[DarlingMonroe]

Hey y'all! Hope everyone is doing well; i'll be frank: not super familiar with games that restrict role claiming or dropping hints about their role, so looking forward to using this as an opportunity to learn. Anyone care to provide a previous game here that was similar, pretty please? In the meantime, gonna continue catching up w/ Ted Lasso (the show, lol).

This used to be the norm around here years ago. It is much less common these days. The most recent example, to my knowledge, was the first game of our 10-year anniversary bit.

Click here for that

How do you suppose you'll use this other game to guide you in this game?

Thank you, Jx3!

& for the bolded, just to the type/style of comments or gameplay, etc..

[JaggedJimmyJay]

'Been a prosperous Tuesday, ye.

Surprised to see you in a game.

Bless. And I am surprised too. JaggedJimmyJay is a memory of the Mafia world, an old pile of bones with a plaque situated in front of them recounting great deeds lost to history, interesting only to the most bored passers-by at The Syndicate Museum of Mafia.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Thank you, Jx3!

& for the bolded, just to the type/style of comments or gameplay, etc..

Happy to be of service. By all means, if you think that will help you, then do your thing. Would you say there was anything you picked up in your experience with the Severance game that you'll apply to this game?

Don't worry, this isn't a job interview. Necessarily.

[Bereft]

'Been a prosperous Tuesday, ye.

Surprised to see you in a game.

Bless. And I am surprised too. JaggedJimmyJay is a memory of the Mafia world, an old pile of bones with a plaque situated in front of them recounting great deeds lost to history, interesting only to the most bored passers-by at The Syndicate Museum of Mafia.

It's lucky I did have first-hand experience with you.

[DarlingMonroe]

Thank you, Jx3!

& for the bolded, just to the type/style of comments or gameplay, etc..

Happy to be of service. By all means, if you think that will help you, then do your thing. Would you say there was anything you picked up in your experience with the Severance game that you'll apply to this game?

Don't worry, this isn't a job interview. Necessarily.

Trust my instinct/gut more. I played a little too passively; perhaps it would have been more useful to town if I had contributed more, perhaps not.

Any advice from a master like you, JJJ?

[Cape90]

Hello everyone!

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Some setup notes to be aware of moving forward:

The numbers ratio established in the OP is 12 vs. 4. This is a difficult but not unmanageable arrangement for town, particularly without the benefit of public role reveals.

If the game proceeds at a normal pace (one day elimination and one night kill per cycle), town only gets three mistakes before they reach an endgame phase. Town also boasts one kill (through the Dani Rojas role), but that kill alone would not change this number. It's still three mistakes maximum, and the mafia have two manners of kill protection available to them anyway.

The only way that number changes is with multiple night kill protections and/or a protection plus a kill (I think that works out).

With that in mind, we should just operate under the assumption at present that we are only allowed to make three mistakes. That is not very many. So we are going to have to play hard as a town team to overcome that. It can be done, but it will require concerted desire from everyone to make it so. So let's do that. The best weapon town possesses in a game like this is its ability to talk during the day phase, and so talk we must. Inactivity is more damaging in this setup than it would be in other setups. Mafia already boast a considerable voting block, and we must avoid helping them by unnecessarily splitting our votes or by leaving our votes off the board. These things routinely lose games, and they are unforced errors. We can avoid them if we are conscious of it and communicate effectively.

"Stop telling me how to play, Jay."

I appreciate everyone's right to do their thing, and I hope that's exactly what you do. Play however you like! I just want to emphasize that we begin this game in a difficult position, and that will not change for the better unless we cooperate.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Be aware that votes might not be changeable.

I don't actually know, and we'll see. But I suggest everyone refrain from clicking the poll frivolously until we know for sure they aren't auto-locked. That's another old school tradition that often accompanied no-claims rules.

[Cape90]

Understood JJJ

[S~V~S]

'Been a prosperous Tuesday, ye.

Surprised to see you in a game.

Bless. And I am surprised too. JaggedJimmyJay is a memory of the Mafia world, an old pile of bones with a plaque situated in front of them recounting great deeds lost to history, interesting only to the most bored passers-by at The Syndicate Museum of Mafia.

You kicked towns ass in Epis Don't Starve game, so I would think there's probably some life left in those bones yet.

@DarlingMonroe back in the day, if we had info, we took it and used it as a starting point to build a case, not unlike a murder mystery. Building the case isn't hard once you know a person is bad, it's easy to find the bread crumbs. What's hard is getting other people to listen to you.

Linki @Jay, see you're looking pretty alive to me.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Trust my instinct/gut more. I played a little too passively; perhaps it would have been more useful to town if I had contributed more, perhaps not.

Any advice from a master like you, JJJ?

I think that's a fair takeaway! I would always urge some amount of healthy skepticism about one's own gut (because intuition is biased), but you should still absolutely voice whatever your gut is telling you. Post it right here in this thread, and then we can all engage the dialogue. Indeed, if your gut is right, it might be that conversation that convinces other people of what you are feeling. So to play "actively" is probably best reflected in being willing to play with your cards face up. Just share any thoughts as you have them, no matter how much doubt you might have. It never hurts to say what's on your mind. It usually helps.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

You kicked towns ass in Epis Don't Starve game, so I would think there's probably some life left in those bones yet.

@DarlingMonroe back in the day, if we had info, we took it and used it as a starting point to build a case, not unlike a murder mystery. Building the case isn't hard once you know a person is bad, it's easy to find the bread crumbs. What's hard is getting other people to listen to you.

Linki @Jay, see you're looking pretty alive to me.

Oh yes, let it be clear that I still possess all of the self-assurance I once did, and that I will likely look the same as ever before in this game. I just enjoy the aesthetic of describing myself an ancient being of lost lore.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Hello everyone!

How's it going, Cape? Is this our first game? I cannot recall for sure. I have spectated or hosted you, certainly.

[robyn]

hello

[JaggedJimmyJay]

hello

Welcome aboard, robyn. Are you prepared to take this thread by the throat?

[Thunal33]

Hi guys! I wasn't expecting role madness but this seems like a cool game.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Hi guys! I wasn't expecting role madness but this seems like a cool game.

Hi Thunal! Your avatar has the same tattoo as my first BG3 guardian.

[Thunal33]

You kicked towns ass in Epis Don't Starve game, so I would think there's probably some life left in those bones yet.

@DarlingMonroe back in the day, if we had info, we took it and used it as a starting point to build a case, not unlike a murder mystery. Building the case isn't hard once you know a person is bad, it's easy to find the bread crumbs. What's hard is getting other people to listen to you.

Linki @Jay, see you're looking pretty alive to me.

Oh yes, let it be clear that I still possess all of the self-assurance I once did, and that I will likely look the same as ever before in this game. I just enjoy the aesthetic of describing myself an ancient being of lost lore.

Is it because it's more dramatic to come out of retirement and become the champ you once were?

I might steal that one.

[robyn]

hello

Welcome aboard, robyn. Are you prepared to take this thread by the throat?

yes, i'm gonna play this very differently from severance for obvious reasons

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Is it because it's more dramatic to come out of retirement and become the champ you once were?

I might steal that one.

Exactly. Why just be "JaggedJimmyJay playing Mafia" when I can be "The Old Wyrm, Great Dragon of Ancient Syndica, J'agg Jimm'jei, Returned by Prophecy to Reclaim the Empire"?

[Thunal33]

Hi guys! I wasn't expecting role madness but this seems like a cool game.

Hi Thunal! Your avatar has the same tattoo as my first BG3 guardian.

My first BG3 guardian had it too. So you've played it multiple times? I finished it once and it was great, then I started a couple more attempts but fizzled out.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Hi guys! I wasn't expecting role madness but this seems like a cool game.

Hi Thunal! Your avatar has the same tattoo as my first BG3 guardian.

My first BG3 guardian had it too. So you've played it multiple times? I finished it once and it was great, then I started a couple more attempts but fizzled out.

I completed about 1.9 playthroughs and also fizzled out, at least temporarily. That's a Larian staple in my experience (I had similar experiences with Divinity OS2).

[Thunal33]

Hi guys! I wasn't expecting role madness but this seems like a cool game.

Hi Thunal! Your avatar has the same tattoo as my first BG3 guardian.

My first BG3 guardian had it too. So you've played it multiple times? I finished it once and it was great, then I started a couple more attempts but fizzled out.

I completed about 1.9 playthroughs and also fizzled out, at least temporarily. That's a Larian staple in my experience (I had similar experiences with Divinity OS2).

Yeah, I wanted to try an evil playthrough but I didn't have the same investment.

[Bereft]

hello

Welcome aboard, robyn. Are you prepared to take this thread by the throat?

yes, i'm gonna play this very differently from severance for obvious reasons

Oh are you going to join the dark side now?
Obligatory we have cookies comment.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

hello

Welcome aboard, robyn. Are you prepared to take this thread by the throat?

yes, i'm gonna play this very differently from severance for obvious reasons

Understandable. What do you think your adapted approach will entail?

[robyn]

i've always been a member of the dark side, what i haven't done is emphasize intellectual and emotional control at all. i play(ed) balls to the wall. and i wanna take a reserved methodical approach here

[JaggedJimmyJay]

i've always been a member of the dark side, what i haven't done is emphasize intellectual and emotional control at all. i play(ed) balls to the wall. and i wanna take a reserved methodical approach here

I look forward to seeing that process play out.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

The closest thing I have to a read so far:

DarlingMonroe

The soft shade of green is deliberate. Town is my initial impression, and I acknowledge that it's not based on strong data.

[Bereft]

i've always been a member of the dark side, what i haven't done is emphasize intellectual and emotional control at all. i play(ed) balls to the wall. and i wanna take a reserved methodical approach here

You're affirming my point, sir.

[Scotty]

This game didn’t start at 11p eastern lol

I can’t read. Illiterate even. Remember that this game

[Scotty]

Be aware that votes might not be changeable.

I don't actually know, and we'll see. But I suggest everyone refrain from clicking the poll frivolously until we know for sure they aren't auto-locked. That's another old school tradition that often accompanied no-claims rules.

Holy cow! Playing with JJJ not in a champs game is pretty sweet

Also, I can confirm votes are changeable, as I already clicked on the ‘view without voting’ which always locks me out if votes aren’t changeable

[Scotty]

Additional suggestion:

Avoid roleplay in this game unless you are very diverse about which characters you represent. Or that’s an implicit rule violation.

And yes this is a good show. I might say it’s Apple’s second best? Either this or Silo IMO.

I’m gonna roleplay as the soccer ball.

Kick me. I dare ya