The Syndicate

The Don – Every night, he selects a mission that the Capo and Crew must perform; he either punishes or rewards them based on their performance. Additionally, every night, he puts a hit out on a player; if it matches the name submitted by Hitman, the hit is successful. He is immune to any Police night actions. Can only be lynched if the majority of his voters is from his own family. Has BTSC with Consigliere.

Consigliere – Has BTSC with The Don and assists him in making decisions regarding the family.

Hitman – Submits the name of a player every night; if it matches the player submitted by The Don, that player is killed.

Loan Shark – Has up to 3 extra votes to be loaned out during each day period. The votes can be loaned out at any time during the night or day before the lynch is complete. Players can PM the Loan Shark at any time with their requested number of votes (1, 2, or 3), and they will be informed if the Loan Shark decides to loan them their request. No other communication can transpire between players and the Loan Shark behind the scenes.

Stool Pigeon – At the beginning of the game, he selects a number which corresponds to a member of his family (excluding The Don). He will learn the role of the player selected. After being arrested, he may choose to reveal the identity of this player to the Police, and if so, he is released and immune from being arrested again.

Messaggero – Communicates with one of his family members currently in prison; he receives a message every night and sends one every day.

Traitor – Defects to The Sockfaced Famiglia if The Don votes for him at any point in the game.

Lover – In love with the Lover from The Sockfaced Famiglia. Searches for that player every night; if found, they gain BTSC and Lover can win alongside the Sockfaced Famiglia, but only if both are alive. However, Lover still can win with The Daisy Crime Syndicate and counts as a member of The Daisy Crime Syndicate.

Capo – Shares BTSC with Crew members. Collectively, they carry out a mission given to them by The Don each cycle.

Crew (2) - Share BTSC with Capo.

SECRET ROLE – It's a secret role designed by the players! Even Sockface doesn't know!



The Don – Every night, he selects a mission that the Capo and Crew must perform; he either punishes or rewards them based on their performance. Additionally, every night, he puts a hit out on a player; if it matches the name submitted by Hitman, the hit is successful. He is immune to any Police night actions. Can only be lynched if the majority of his voters is from his own family. Has BTSC with Consigliere.

Consigliere – Has BTSC with The Don and assists him in making decisions regarding the family.

Hitman – Submits the name of a player every night; if it matches the player submitted by The Don, that player is killed.

Loan Shark – Has up to 3 extra votes to be loaned out during each day period. The votes can be loaned out at any time during the night or day before the lynch is complete. Players can PM the Loan Shark at any time with their requested number of votes (1, 2, or 3), and they will be informed if the Loan Shark decides to loan them their request. No other communication can transpire between players and the Loan Shark behind the scenes.

Stool Pigeon – At the beginning of the game, he selects a number which corresponds to a member of his family (excluding The Don). He will learn the role of the player selected. After being arrested, he may choose to reveal the identity of this player to the Police, and if so, he is released and immune from being arrested again.

Messaggero – Communicates with one of his family members currently in prison; he receives a message every night and sends one every day.

Traitor – Defects to The Daisy Crime Syndicate if The Don votes for him at any point in the game.

Lover – In love with the Lover from The Daisy Crime Syndicate. Searches for that player every night; if found, they gain BTSC and Lover can win alongside the Daisy Crime Syndicate, but only if both are alive. However, Lover still can win with The Sockfaced Famiglia and counts as a member of The Sockfaced Famiglia.

Capo – Shares BTSC with Crew members. Collectively, they carry out a mission given to them by The Don each cycle.

Crew (2) - Share BTSC with Capo.

SECRET ROLE – It's a secret role designed by the players! Even Daisy doesn't know!








Police Chief – Arrests a player of his choice every night; if he is lynched, his arrest passes down. Every night he also has a 20% chance of arresting a second player; this ability does not pass down.

Undercover Cop - If lynched, he appears as the role of his choice.

Beat Cop - Patrols one player of his choice every night, effectively role blocking them.

Surveillance Specialist - Every night, he may choose whether to receive a snippet of BTSC or to receive a surveillance photo of a player of his choice. Surveillance photos attempt to reveal a player’s identity, but may be doctored. All BTSC snippets remove a few randomly selected names and words.

Warden - Runs the prison and oversees all the prisoners.

Rookie Cop - This guy’s just learning the ropes! He has no power.

Gameplay
1. Days are 48 hours.
2. Nights are 24 hours, but all PMs must be sent to both hosts within 23 hours.
3. All game conversation must take place in the thread unless you have specifically been given BTSC (see: Rules).
4. All votes must be cast in the poll to count. It is considered standard and good form to post at the time of your vote, but it is not necessary for your vote to count.
5. All votes are changeable. You may change your vote as many times as you wish up until the vote's deadline.
6. All lynch ties will be decided randomly.
7. All role power PMs must be sent in by the player utilizing the power. No relying on BTSCmates (if you have any) to send in your power.
8. If your faction wins, you win, regardless of whether you are dead or alive at endgame. Do your best! Fight for your faction's win condition. Players who fail to meet participation criteria will be denied a win.
9. The hosts for this game are MovingPictures07 and Spacedaisy. Please PM all game and role mechanics questions as well as any role power PMs to YOUR HOST, as specified in your role card, not both.
10. The Mod on Duty for this game is nijuukyugou. She is there for any of your questions or concerns not strictly related to game or role mechanics. Please PM her with any grievances or concerns you may have at any time, notably including conflicts with other players. Keep the thread fun and clean of emotionally-charged drama or conflicts; PM nijuukyugou instead. We want to keep this game as fun as possible for everyone.


Rules
1. Be respectful and remember that this is a game. Although mafia is a game of deception and can be rather heated, recognize that the game is not personal and that your friends may be lying to you in the spirit of the game. Please treat your fellow players with respect, even if you suspect or strongly disagree with them.
2. No BTSC (Behind the Scenes Contact/Conversation) with anyone other than your specified BTSC partners.
3. No editing or deleting of posts.
4. No role outing of yourself or anyone else. This includes all statements of fact that any player may see and thereafter deduct your or someone else's role, such as "I am The Don", etc. This game is open setup and incompatible with role outing, thus making it not fun when players engage in it. Absolutely don't do it.
5. No dumping information you received from the Host (whether role-related or not) into the thread. This includes statements that more often are seen as implications, rather than statements of fact (role outing). An example would be declaring that "I have reasons to believe MovingPictures07 is Beat Cop" without elaborating. If you suspect someone to be a certain role or alignment, use in-thread reasons to back up your assertion or speculation, even if your reasons are sourced from information you gained outside of the thread. If you are unsure if what you are about to say constitutes info dumping, please PM the hosts first before making the post. If you fail to do this and your post does violate information dumping, then you and your faction will be punished.
6. No self-voting, even as a placeholder. This is considered an illegal move in this game as much as voting for the non-player option.
7. No double-targeting (targeting the same individual with a role power twice in a row).
8. Dead players should not post on-topic and any posts made should be in dead red. There is a "dead" code for this function.
9. Off-topic posts should be in off-topic green. There is an "OT" code for this function.
10. Posts from non-players should be in non-player blue. There is a "np" code for this function.
11. This is MovingPictures07's host color. All of his host posts will be in this color. Don't use it!
12. This is Spacedaisy's host color. All of her host posts will be in this color. Don't use it!


Participation
The following behavior constitutes non-participation:

- If you do not post for more than 72 consecutive hours.
- If you do not cast a vote in 3 or more lynches.
- If you do not send in your night power on 3 or more occasions.

If any one of these are committed, it will qualify as non-participation for the purposes of this game. Consequently, any player who commits any of these will have their Participation Score (P-Score) penalized.

If at any time you are afraid you cannot fulfill any of these requirements due to any reason, please PM both hosts immediately explaining your situation or requesting a replacement. In the case of the latter, we will then seek out someone to take your place and your P-Score will not be penalized.

Exceptions will be made for unforeseen and uncontrollable circumstances.

1. Metalmarsh89
2. Golden
3. thellama73
4. Diiny
5. Dragon D. Luffy
6. Scotty
7. Bullzeye
8. Long Con
9. sprityo
10. Serge
11. S~V~S
12. chaindeath
13. Matt
14. Epignosis
15. Tranq
16. RadicalFuzz
17. Black Rock
18. sig
19. DrWilgy
20. Enrique
21. Sloonei
22. Nerolunar
23. Quin
24. Silverwolf
25. ika
26. a2thezebra
27. Turnip Head
28. Mongoose
29. Soneji
30. agleaminranks

What Makes This Game Unique?
I am invested in my crime family to win and Daisy, as the other co-host, is invested in hers, but we will not be able to influence the game directly, other than through a one-time use ability that each of us will have to impact the game and assist our team.

The Mod on Duty will play more of an involved role in this game, in that I do not know what Daisy's secret role is and she does not know mine; the Mod on Duty will review both roles well in advance of the game start and make a judgment as to whether they ensure balance. Submissions for these secret roles will be submitted by you, the players!

Additionally, Daisy and I will know which players the opposing host has on their team, but we will not know what roles those players have.

Sign-up Instructions:
1. Vote in the poll for either Team Sockface or Team Daisy, whichever team you'd prefer to be on! You may or may not receive your selection though... and you may even be a cop.
2. Design a civilian role to be considered to fill one of the two secret roles. Be sure the role fits the theme (mafia)!
3. PM your secret role creation and your team preference to nijuukyugou before the game starts. Your secret role may be the one chosen by the host!
4. Wait for the game to fill, tell your friends, and spam this thread in anticipation.

I've already signed up for the two other open games, but damn I want to play this. If it's still open later on I'll be in, if not I'm definitely here as a replacement.

Sloonei wrote:I've already signed up for the two other open games, but damn I want to play this. If it's still open later on I'll be in, if not I'm definitely here as a replacement.

I doubt it'll fill up quickly, especially with two other games in sign-ups, GoC just finishing, and Arkham having just started, so no worries.

Glad to have you in whatever capacity regardless.

This is an incredibly tough choice, but gotta go with my partner-in-crime from Death Note, one of the funnest games ever.

Daisy clan!

Metalmarsh89 wrote:This is an incredibly tough choice, but gotta go with my partner-in-crime from Death Note, one of the funnest games ever.

Daisy clan!

That's what I'm talking about! Daisy Crime Syndicate is going to rock this game!

Just for the record this poll is just to see what people prefer, it will not be the deciding factor for who is on what team. Some of you will be baddies and some of you may not end up on your preferred team. This is really about having some fun with the sign up thread too.

And trash talking. Lots and lots of trash talking.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:This is an incredibly tough choice, but gotta go with my partner-in-crime from Death Note, one of the funnest games ever.

Daisy clan!

I'll remember this.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:This is an incredibly tough choice, but gotta go with my partner-in-crime from Death Note, one of the funnest games ever.

Daisy clan!

I'll remember this.

Of course you remember that game. You hosted it.

This is one of the games I have been saving up for as my 2016 games I can play.

I'm definitely in.

And I see Golden voted for Team Daisy as well.... He is a wise man.

Team Blooper!!

We expect the sign ups to be a bit slow since two other games are also in sign ups and one game just began. That is ok though because we have a special challenge for you all.

Design a civilian role that fits within the theme of the game (two competing mafia families). Submit this role to our MOD for this game, Blooper, and indicate the side for which you would prefer to play. Your preferred host will evaluate all the roles submitted to them and choose one for their Secret role (so utilize the fact that the role will be secret in your design). The player who designed the role will get to play as that role on the team they chose. These two players will be the only ones who are guaranteed to be on the team of their choice.

You do not have to send it to the host you vote for in this poll either, whatever you say in your PMed submission to Blooper will be who gets the option of using your role. Be creative and have fun!

I want to play!

I developed a good mod relationship with MP during the emotional slog that was the crossover game. I can't betray him now.

I'm tempted but I can't possibly choose between MP and Daisy...

Do I need to create a role? Can't I just sign up and play?

In.

Can I be team DaisySock?

Bullzeye wrote:I'm tempted but I can't possibly choose between MP and Daisy...

Do you wish to be added to the player list without specifying a preferred host? We can do that. We would love love love to have you play!

Enrique wrote:Do I need to create a role? Can't I just sign up and play?

No one will be forced to create a role, if you don't want to you don't have to. Please do play!

Spacedaisy wrote:

Bullzeye wrote:I'm tempted but I can't possibly choose between MP and Daisy...

Do you wish to be added to the player list without specifying a preferred host? We can do that. We would love love love to have you play!

I think for the purpose of one little poll I can allow a coin flip to decide which of you is my favourite!

...Turns out it's your other half.

However seeing the poll was at 6-3 I decided to disobey the command of the 5p coin and even things up a bit :P

Scotty wrote:Can I be team DaisySock?

I see who you voted for...

Glad to have you playing even if you did choose the host that is going to get his butt kicked.

Linki @Bullz: Thanks for that sympathy vote my friend. We do have a good history what with Beatles mafia and all. Seductresses ftw!

Sorry but I've known MP for longer. And I do need to give something back for the John Nash episode.

LOL, I expected you would pick MP because you've known each other longer. And there is no real offense here, it's just a game after all! I'm just playing around with it.

Spacedaisy wrote:

Scotty wrote:Can I be team DaisySock?

I see who you voted for...

Glad to have you playing even if you did choose the host that is going to get his butt kicked.

Linki @Bullz: Thanks for that sympathy vote my friend. We do have a good history what with Beatles mafia and all. Seductresses ftw!

It's nothing personal, Daisy. I would have voted for the cop team to keep it impartial if that were an option

Lol, don't take me seriously guys, I'm kidding around. I am very difficult to offend and no one's votes are likely to do so, no matter what I say in jest.

I'm kidding too. Don't worry. :P

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:I'm kidding too. Don't worry. :P

Me too I'm kidding I would have picked Sock either way. :P

It's not at all personal, Daisy doesn't mind which side you choose, just be aware that if you choose MP you will be murdered in your sleep. K?

Scotty wrote:

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:I'm kidding too. Don't worry. :P

Me too I'm kidding I would have picked Sock either way. :P

Lol, and this is why I voted you for the funniest player.

Golden wrote:It's not at all personal, Daisy doesn't mind which side you choose, just be aware that if you choose MP you will be murdered in your sleep. K?

And this made me literally laugh out loud. But in all seriousness, I think the only person who has to worry about me murdering them in their sleep is the one who sleeps next to me...

Who said I'd leave the murdering to you?

I voted Daisy. I want to support the more stable host.

so question, when a player is arrested, that's them being effectively removed from the game, correct?

sprityo wrote:so question, when a player is arrested, that's them being effectively removed from the game, correct?

Good question

Well when youre designing roles, you gotta ask these questions

Let me say, arresting works similarly to a baddie night kill. We call what the cops will be doing at night arresting you rather than killing you, but it's essentially the same thing.

Got it, that's the answer i needed

It seems I am starting to acquire quite the awesome fangroup. GO TEAM SOCKFACE!

To those of you who picked Daisy instead, you're dead to me.

This is tough, although I would take Cardiacs over Henry Cow any day...

Which is weird because I love love love Christ Cutler, Fred Frith, and Lindsay Cooper. I just don't care that much for the Henry Cow project itself.

Daisy FTW

a2thezebra wrote:This is tough, although I would take Cardiacs over Henry Cow any day...

Haha, that's awesome, I hadn't even made the connection with Daisy's flowers and Cardiacs. Nice.

Thanks to the 11 who have signed up so far! Great looking group, especially the 6 who chose Sockface. Keep it coming!

Chaindeath has returned to this forum. He will be joining this game in favor of the family of the flower of the cosmos. However, this time he is playing to win.

chaindeath wrote:Chaindeath has returned to this forum. He will be joining this game in favor of the family of the flower of the cosmos. However, this time he is playing to win.

Well-voted young chaindeath. I don't know your face, but I can agree you have excellent taste in mafia hosts.

chaindeath wrote:Chaindeath has returned to this forum. He will be joining this game in favor of the family of the flower of the cosmos. However, this time he is playing to win.

OH MY GOD, it's chaindeath!! Good to see you, sir.

I'm so stoked you're back to play again, I don't even care that you picked the wrong host.