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Welcome to Nowhere,
Welcome to Nowhere, Nebraska*.
And welcome to the Game of Mafia.
Some of you may know this game... some of you might not. This is the CB Edition™.
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RULES:
- ten CBers may volunteer to play, and one CBer to narrate. Keep in mind the first person who volunteers to be narrator will be the narrator.
- the narrator will choose a Mafia, a Nurse, and a Detective. The Mafia must choose someone to kill, the Nurse will save someone, and the Detective will accuse someone. Everyone will convene to vote someone innocent or guilty. If the Mafia is caught, the people of Nowhere, Nebraska win. If the Mafia kills everyone, the Mafia wins.
- after ten players and one narrator have been chosen, the ten players will then post a character sheet, posted below. For example, I might first post like this:
Joining!
Submitted by Luminescence, age 12, Atlantis
And then like this:
Name: Jeannie Lucas
[insert the rest of the charrie sheet as directed]
Submitted by Jeannie L., age 12, Silva Vivus Umbrare
Or something like that.
- DO NOT REVEAL YOURSELF, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. Everyone will know which CBer is the Mafia, but they won't know which CHARACTER the CBer is RPing as, and therefore, they will not know which character is the Mafia. Likewise for the Nurse and Detective. So if you reveal which charrie is yours, the game is kind of ruined.
- please don't dispute my rules unless they seem unfair. There are millions of versions of Mafia, and to avoid confusion we are just going to use this set.
- be active! If you join this, you need to not drop out immediately- it's characters reactions that will allow people to decide whether one is guilty or innocent.
- if you have any questions, ask them! I'll be happy to answer. You may also ask Sky NightStar or Bakerloo. See footnote.
- you may not narrate twice in a row, unless no one volunteers to narrate next. You may, however, use the same charrie twice in a row if you want to, but this might reveal you to everyone so I advise not doing it.
- in the next game I might shrink or grow the amount of people, this is a test run. I also might make it so that multiple games can go on at the same time.
- if you are the narrator, please remember you are basically running the game: I don't suggest volunteering for this if you've never played Mafia before or if you don't think you'll be able to keep a commitment.
- Have fun! Hopefully!
- I'm sure it's going to turn out I forgot something haha so sorry in advance.
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CHARACTER SHEET:
Name:
Age:
Pronouns:
Backstory (be as concise or elaborate, ridiculous or realistic, tragic or happy as you like! But make sure to include why your charrie is in Nowhere, Nebraska):
Appearance:
Personality:
Other:
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*Credits to Bakerloo for the original idea and to both him and Sky NightStar for originally adapting this game to YWP. I hope you two don't mind that I'm adapting it to the CB :)
submitted by Luminescence, age mafia!, Nowhere, Nebraska*
(March 9, 2021 - 7:06 pm)
(March 9, 2021 - 7:06 pm)
Briar studies Aven carefully. They haven't gotten enough sleep -- they don't think anyone in this town has -- and their sleep-deprived mind just wants this murdering chaos to end. There might not be any evidence against Aven, but there's no evidence she's innocent either; the detective had a suspicion that it was her, and that's good enough for them.
I think Aven should be banished from the town, they write on the notecard offered to them. They hand it to the person running the vote as quickly as possible, before they can change their mind.
(April 13, 2021 - 3:35 pm)
I sigh, and sit up in my hotel bed. I feel strange.... I stand up, and turn around to make my bed, but--
my scream is silent, and I know why.
My own corpse is laying, lifeless, in my bed.
No. No, no, no, no..... No! Where is my journal?! Is it still under my pillow? Did the Mafia take it? I've written all of my suspicions in there...
I need to think.
(April 14, 2021 - 9:19 am)
Another one? I'm literally shaking. This town isn't what I thought it was. If I had money to leave, I would, but it seems like I'm stuck here for the foreseeable future. In shaky handwriting, I write on the notecard, I think Aven Fizzante should be exiled from Nowhere, Nebraska.
(April 15, 2021 - 9:21 am)
Seriously? Another one??? what does this person have with blaming random middle schoolers for being murderers?
I write "I think that Aven is innocent."
(April 15, 2021 - 6:37 pm)
Suddenly back in the courtroom again, Ginger is distressed.
She came to Nowhere for a peaceful camping trip and ended up with two murders circling the town. She didn't want to have to go through these stresssful decisions, especially if they ended up being wrong...
I think Aven Fizzante is innocent, she quickly scribbled, and handed her vote over.
She shuffled from the courtroom, brow furrowed, hoping she'd made the right decision.
(April 15, 2021 - 7:18 pm)
Quincey looks doubtfully at the young girl who's been accused. They want this whole thing to end, but they're not sure banishing a 13-year-old is the way to go about it.
"I think Aven F. is innocent," they write.
(April 16, 2021 - 4:38 pm)
Aven watches, worriedly. She watches as six people scribble out their verdicts and she watches as everyone else is wracked with indecision.
It wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me
she repeats the words over and over and over in her mind because she doesn't know what else she can do. Aven wonders if people can hear her thoughts and her plea. Probably not, she decides, but keeps chanting anyways.
It wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me
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"Guilty, guilty, guilty," reads the mayor, counting off three votes on their fingers. Aven starts to shake. "Innocent, innocent, innocent," reads the mayor, counting three more votes on their other hand.
Aven is trembling violently now. She hopes she won't throw up, but the butterflies in her stomach mixed with the sick feeling rising is not helping her sudden nausea.
She is this close to being exiled.
"Indecision, indecision, indecision..." the mayor continues to count off votes, ticking them off on their fingers.
Finally, silence falls. The mayor's eyes flick down to the sheets of paper in their hands.
"Tie."
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Aven does not know what that means, here. "Am I exiled?" she tries to ask, but what comes out is an almost inaudible, quavery "A' I e'ile'?" The mayor's eyes land on her, and they seem to be boring into her soul.
If she was nauseous before, now she feels like she's about to pass out.
"Aven Fizzanté shall be permitted to stay in Nowhere, Nebraska and this whole affair shall be forgotten," the mayor announces.
Murmurings erupt from their audience. Aven pretends not to hear them. She still feels slightly sick.
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She's not going to be exiled?
Will someone else die tonight?
FORGET about the whole affair?
And how are we supposed to just "forget"?
The whispers move through the crowd.
Aven thinks she might throw up again.
But at least she hasn't been exiled.
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Detective, Nurse, and Mafia, please let me know who you will choose to accuse, save, and kill.
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Kitten and Silver, if your character was Arcy, let me know, if not, whoever Arcy belonged to, don't tell me.
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sorry i've been kind of absent, back to school shock + camp nano + napowrimo = stress and not a lot of time.
(April 24, 2021 - 4:15 pm)
Whew XD I was really worried there
(May 1, 2021 - 2:57 pm)
Top!
I also wanted to say that I think this is super cool, and that I have been following this. <3
(May 2, 2021 - 10:57 am)