Welcome to the second edition of Proving Grounds! Note, this game is only open to players who did not play in this season’s All Star game. If you are looking to improve your play with other players or start out small, now’s your chance before we jump back into open formats again!
Theme:
Each team, situated in a box canyon in the middle of nowhere, has received orders from Vic Jr. to take each other out. However, one team has decided to take the initiative and put spies in the other’s base. Now it’s up to the braintrust to lynch the spies before they kill them!
Overall game idea (if you’re new to Mafia games):
13 people get thrown into a situation where you don’t know who to trust. Each day the town gets together and decides to kill somebody, to try and find the mafia. After a vote, the person with the most votes is killed by the townsfolk. At night, everyone goes back to their beds to sleep, and the mafia get their turn to kill people. If the mafia has the same amount of people as the Town, they win the game. If the town kills all the mafia, they win. You win or lose as a team, not individually, so do your best to help your team out!
13 Person sign up
10-11 Town
2-3 Mafia
(Note: If we are able to collect 26 players, I will run two separate games simultaneously.)
MAJOR NOTICE: While sign-ups are being done here, you must also register an account on JesusToastMafia.com in order to play. Jesus Toast is the site we will be using to run games indefinitely thanks to SRK’s “upgrades.” There will also be players that have Jesus Toast accounts signing up there, and both sign-up sheets will reflect that.
Roles:
Blue Team (Blue Game):
Red Team (Blue Game):
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Red Team (Red Game):
Blue Team (Red Game):
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Special Mechanics: Before the game, the mafia leader and private (both randomly selected) for each game will choose whether to promote their private to a different role, or recruit a third person as their choice to be their team’s rookie. The mechanics go as follows:
Officer: Until the officer dies, the mafia learns what person the Detective investigates each night.
Recon: Until the Recon dies, the mafia learns what person the Medic protects each night.
Private: All mafia are plain roles, and a third mafia of the leader’s choice is recruited before the game starts.
Phases:
The game will cycle between day phase and night phase. In order to keep things consistent, we will be running a 48 hour cycle split into 2 phases, which will always start/stop at the same time.
Day phase will last 36 hours. All votes are done privately through PM. Players who do not submit their lynch vote before the deadline two times during the game will be DQ’d. They will be listed as dead, and their role revealed.
Night phase will last 12 hours. During this phase, the mafia must decide who they want to kill. People with night actions must PM their choices before the deadline.
Talking is allowed during all phases.
Votes:
No Lynch is always a valid voting choice at all phases of the game. Your choice must be PMd to me by the end of the day phase. Votes cannot be changed once PMd. Include your day ability choices in the PM (though you can vote and wait on your ability if you feel the need to)
Votes will be publicly revealed in the thread at the end of the day phase.
When you die, your allegiance as well as your role will be revealed.
Last Gasps:
There are no last gasps this game.
COMMON SENSE RULES THAT I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO POINT OUT, BUT NOW HAVE TO:
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Do not PM anyone playing the game. If you are mafia, keep your talk in the mafia conversation. If you’re one of the lovers, keep your chat inside the Lovers conversation. You should not be PMing anyone. If you have any questions regarding gameplay, PM me. If someone PMs you that shouldn’t be, do not mention it in the thread, just PM me with the the contents of it. PM’ing once will result in a DQ. Habitually doing so will result in a ban. (Things not game related will not result in any penalty, but to keep the integrity of the game, if someone playing PMs you, please report it to me.)
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No coaching after you’re dead. This includes outside of SRK. I don’t care what format you’re thinking of using, be it Battle.net, AIM, MSN, Skype, Smoke Signals, Texts, Morse Code. Don’t do it. Also, because this has happened recently, I will not verify any of your hunches after you die. Keep it to yourself, take it to the Loser’s Lounge, if someone shares information they know, don’t bring it to anyone else’s attention that’s still in the game. If someone does this, PM me with the proof, and that person will face a ban.
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No discussing or plotting to break or bend the rules in your private conversations, lovers and mafia. I’ll be in those conversations anyway, so that should go without saying. But just in case you think you can do it while I’m sleeping, think again. If you start discussing something that I don’t immediately catch, and that action is taken, once I find out, the perpetrator of the act and the instigator will both receive bans and DQs.
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Do not try to get removed from the game after it already starts, or try to break the rules to get DQ’d. If something super unexpected happens, I’ll try to be reasonable, but overall, if you know you’re going to be busy, and unable to play at all, don’t sign up. If you suddenly see a full schedule hit your plate just before we start, ask me to take your name off the list, and I’ll put in an alternate. After we start, I’m not going to take your name off unless you have a really good reason, and I can find an alternate to take your place. Otherwise, don’t deliberately break a rule just to get a DQ. You will not just get a DQ, but banned.
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Do not post any PMs, even as a joke. If you are going to make an image joke regarding PMs, at least make it obvious that it’s a joke (e.g. make it using MSPaint.)
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English only in game. No foreign languages or encrypted posts are allowed. This prevents the open flow of information. I will make certain exceptions for certain foreign words that have entered the English vernacular, such as “Hasta la vista,” or “Por que?” but an entire post in a foreign language will not be permitted.
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No making wagers in game. This wagering SRK accounts or self-bans is not going to fly anymore, period. Don’t do it, I will DQ you if you do.
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Cut the personal attacks out. There is a line between in-game shit talk and gamesmanship, and just being a dickhead and being hateful toward other players. This is starting to get out of hand. If I tell you to curb it, just do it. Keep it up, and enjoy a DQ.
Current Sign Ups:
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- exodus
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