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Of Steamworks and [Phalla] Obscura: Day 3: Full Life Consequences
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Of Steamworks and Phalla Obscura
A Newbie Phalla
A Newbie Phalla
What is Phalla?
Phallas are the Penny Arcade forum version of the party game Mafia. This is a Miniphalla, which is a lot like a Phalla, only smaller and hopefully shorter in duration. For more information, please refer to the CF Phalla Signup List, the (now defunct)CF Master Phalla Thread, the PhallaWiki, the PhalLounge, or #mafia on Slashnet.
I have stolen pieces almost all of this opening post from Julius Caezure's newbie phalla who in turn borrowed it from the newbie phalla run by Orange Soda and Dac Vin, who in turn borrowed from the prior newbie phalla run by Sheep Have Wool. And he also incorporated bits and pieces from the original newbie phalla run by robothero
Ground Rules
This miniphalla is for new players only! If you've played in 10 or fewer Phallas, or you're brand new, this game is for you. Why? You'll be playing with other new players, and you'll also be able to get advice from mentor/veteran Phalla players to help improve your play. This game will also be an "Open Setup" with no hidden and/or unusual roles. Please state how many phallas you have participated in I am aiming for a 20 person game, but if the game needs to be cut down in size due to lack of sign ups, it will be reduces in order of reverse seniority.
What if I'm not a newbie?
Having lacked it in my own newbie phalla, and seeing how well it helped some players in Julius Caezure's game, I am also going to try to use his mentoring system. In addition to in-thread posting, I am taking signups from veteran players to serve as a mentor to some lucky newbie. Vets willing to serve in this capacity, please sign up in DarkOrchid, and indicate your local time zone. This will hopefully allow me to match you with players more likely to be online and active the same time as you.
Vets who cannot serve as mentors, whether for time zone constraints, work business, etc., can still participate! As in games past, I will veteran players to post comments in DeepSkyBlue while the game is in progress. That said, you should read the rules below about non-player posts below before making a post. Failure to follow the rules will result in you losing your chance at fabulous prizes. And will likely earn you my eternal scorn and hopefully the ridicule of others (for whatever that's worth).
In addition, I would like to run
...Fabulous prizes?
Yes! The mentor/veteran player that is voted Most Helpful by the players will win a fabulous steam game prize! In addition, the newbie voted MVP by a select group of veteran players will also receive a game prize of his/her very own!
Wow! Games! I'm a newbie to Phalla - how do I play?
- Sign up in this thread by posting !sign up. Additionally, please indicate the number of games you have played, as well as your local time zone. This last point will allow me to hopefully coordinate you with a mentor who will be online and active around the same time as you.
- After signups have ended, you'll receive a role PM. This PM contains information about the role you will play in the game. This PM should not be shared with another player.
- Sometimes hosts will simply provide a standard villager PM. I personally find it more fun and engaging to have a unique name, and since I am the one hosting this game, that is exactly what I will be doing. Everyone involved will receive a unique name with their role.
- Follow the Basic Rules:
- The "village" consists of all players in the game. Included in the village is a small number of bad guys. Normally, the bad guys all know one another at the beginning of the game, but nobody else knows anything about anyone other than themselves.
- Each day (normally 24-hour period) the village discusses and publicly votes for one person to be executed that night. At the same time, the bad guys choose two people to kill each night and PM the names to the narrator.
- The good side wins if all of the bad guys die. The bad side wins if the number of good guys is less than or equal to the number of bad guys (on the assumption that at that point, they control the vote plus get their kills, so it is an inevitable win).
- Usually, there will be one or more "special" roles among the good guys (and occasionally among the bad guys). Exactly who holds each role is only known to that person, although how many of each role exist is most often known.
- Each night, the narrator gives the details of who died, and normally whether they were a bad guy. Some games also include clues or outright statements if someone who died is a good special.
- The "village" consists of all players in the game. Included in the village is a small number of bad guys. Normally, the bad guys all know one another at the beginning of the game, but nobody else knows anything about anyone other than themselves.
- Other Rules:
- You may not communicate regarding the game with someone who is dead.
- You may not use any anonymous method of communication to discuss the game. Forum-based PMs, external IMs, and e-mails are allowed as long as the person you are talking to knows who you are. Setting up a Proboard can be a good idea, but inform me of the URL if you do so.
- You may not use screencaps to "prove" anything to anyone.
- No direct quoting, sharing, or forwarding of any kind of any PM from the host, including your initial role PM.
- No playing madlibs with sentences in your role PM that may or may not be flavor to identify yourself.
- No adding people to existing PM conversations. Make a new one instead.
- You may not communicate regarding the game with someone who is dead.
- You might also wish to look at the Standard Special Roles, as all of these will be appearing in this game (the exact number of each depends on the number of signups, and will ultimately be clarified once signups are closed, but before the game officially begins):
- Roles will have different names depending on the theme of the game. Listed below are the usual "generic" terms for each role. Normally, specials exercise their power by communicating with the narrator via PM. This is exactly how I will be handling things in this game.
- Seer -- once per night can "investigate" a particular person and find out from the narrator if they are a bad guy. Variations of seers may be able to determine a good special as well, although they may be unable to distinguish them from a bad guy.
- Vigilante (or "Vig") -- once per night can kill a person of their choosing.
- Guardian -- once per night can protect someone from any death other than execution by the village. Whether they can protect against multiple attacks on one person in the same night is up to the narrator.
- Masons -- a group of good guys, usually of similar size to the group of bad guys, who start the game knowing each other, and that they are all good.
- Roles will have different names depending on the theme of the game. Listed below are the usual "generic" terms for each role. Normally, specials exercise their power by communicating with the narrator via PM. This is exactly how I will be handling things in this game.
- Vote each day by posting your choice in !red. You can (optionally) retract a vote by posting in !Limegreen. This is not required, but it is a standard practice, so I'll leave it in. You must vote each day. Failure to do so twice will result in replacement, or death
Each day will end at 9:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Midnight EDT, 4:00 AM GMT. Any vote or action made on or after 8:59 PM WILL NOT count. - Ask questions of the moderator by posting in orange or sending me a PM.
Wow! Games! I'm a veteran Phalla player - how do I play?
Veteran players who wish to participate by offering advice do not need to sign up, only those veterans interested in serving as mentors need sign up in DarkOrchid. You may post in the thread in DeepSkyBlue while the game is in progress. I may put in a post limit if the thread becomes too spammy. Do your best to avoid making many short posts - longer, single posts keep the thread less cluttered. The rules:
- Do NOT directly comment on the current game situation. You may offer general advice and answer questions, and you may offer commentary on previous day actions as long as it doesn't influence the current day.
Bad: Orange Soda was evil, and Dac Vin argued for him - you should vote him out today.
Good: Once you find a baddie, checking the vote records for previous days can be really helpful. - Do NOT play for the newbies. You are assisting them.
- Unless you are assigned a mentee, please do NOT contact a newbie outside of the thread. If you have generalized advice, please feel free to post it in the game thread in DeepSkyBlue.
Failure to follow these rules results in disqualification! When in doubt, send me a PM to ask if something is OK to post. There will be ZERO tolerance of rule violations.
I am also looking for a couple veterans to do some commentary parallel to the game, pointing out specific do/don'ts as they occur. In the spirit of fairness, this would preclude you from mentoring, though you would be free to offer general, non-specific advice in the thread.
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Villager PM
You are a Steamworks game (Villager). You may or may not have the fanciest steamworks abilities such as client server-browser integration, or a thriving in-game item economy, but that doesn’t mean you serve the Newell any less. You still observe the multi-yearly steam sales with outrageous discounts, and still assimilate the registration codes from *gasp* retailers that aren’t steam.
Lately however, you’ve been hearing rumors that there are some among you who claim to serve the newell, but in fact are the agents of a certain other Washington based company.
Ability: Vote. Every day. For those who do not serve the Newell.
Victory condition: You win when all the members of the mafia are eliminated.
Please request clarifications in bold orange, either in the thread or via PM or proboard as appropriate. If I feel the clarification is exceptionally important I reserve the right to do whatever is necessary to preserve the requester's anonymity and post the request and answer in-thread.
Order of actions: Vote-->guard-->vig/mafia-->seer
You can trust those you are masoned with
There are 20 people in this game. 4 Mafia with 2 kills a day. 1 Vig, 1 seer, 1 guard, and 2 masons In a tie, all parties die. Well, at least the tied people and the one who tied it.
The vote is first in the order of actions
EDIT: actually, this is a newbie game, let's go with all the tied people die, but the person who tied it up doesn't, unless he's one of the people are tied for first
The Dead:
Day 1:
Stever777- Left 4 Dead (Mason)- Made "The Sacrifice"
Wandering Hero- F.E.A.R. 2- Failed to move that gear up
Cythraul- Red Orchestra- Not balanced for lean
Day 2:
Peccavi-Metro 2033- Feared the future
SeGaTai- Audiosurf- Couldn't keep the beat
Baidol- Just Cause 2 And Yet, he fell
101- Modern Warfare 2 Call of Duty never changes
Day 3:
INANTP - Aliens vs Predator- Not quite as invisible as he thought
taya- Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2- Dominated
tmoiy - Half Life 2 (guard)- Valve time'd
Day 4
Alkey42 - King Arthur, The Roleplaying wargame - Votekicked and revenge killed
The Scruple - Team Fortress 2 (Vig) - Was a credit to team
Captain Marcus - Kane and Lynch: Dead Men - The server was too busy at the moment
38thdoe - Lost Planet: Colonies Edition -Boom. Headshot
Day 5
MrTlicious - Fallout 3 VAC banned
Turkson -Dark Messiah of Might and Magic - Ragequit
The Victorious:
Facetious - Portal (seer)
Kingmole - Left 4 Dead 2 (mason)
Langly - Darksiders
SLyM - The Last Remnant
Turkson - Dark Messiah of might and magic
Narrations:
Day 0: I serve the Newell
Day 1: Yeeeaaah!
Day 2: Off the Rail(work)s
Day 3: Full life consequences
Day 4: Phalla: The Masquerade: Bloodbath: colons
Day 5: GAME OVER
Dead boards:
http://myplayerisdead.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general
Networks boards:
http://hailnewell.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general
Mafia Boards:
http://steammustdie.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general
B:L
Compiled advice
The Anonymous
PM log with INANTP
Egos
Long conversation with Alkey
Farangu
log with facetious (seer)
Romanqwerty
Log with tmoiy (guard)
Phyphor
Advice given to Cythraul before being day 1'd
Kime
Rawkking goodguy
Compiled logs of advice to thescruple, PMs and proboards
Long post on non-village roles
Void Slayer
Log with Slym
REG Rysk
PM log with Baidol
Captain Planet
I know langly mentioned getting targeting advice, so if you want to post a log of the advice for posterity's sake, let me know
But if you have general things you would like ideas on, just put something like "@Mentors: How can we ...." Otherwise I think you are all doing well and working along a good path. I tend to create a lot of my own spreadsheets, so I can always give ideas I use for vote analysis and such.
I saw something similar stated somewhere in here and I agree with it. Trying to get the mafia to focus on non-special villagers is a good plan. The more you can do to make them believe a non-special villager might be a special, the better. Commenting on things only the village network would know usually does the trick. As a special, just make sure you are not being completely silent, because that can warrant suspicion too.
Good luck! Keep up the good work!
Read more: http://hailnewell.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=5&page=3#134#ixzz1TjDwPO7S
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Compiled advice
Infidel
Advice from the mafia proboard
If any mentors would like to point out any of the other advice that I didn't catch, or even add some post-game nuggets of wisdom, PM me the logs or just post in the thread. I know that there was at least one mentor who did a reasonable degree of advising that I don't have a log for.
~10 & CST
!retract
Sorry. Didn't realize it was for total newbs. ;-)
The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Also, AEST.
CST
Also I don't think the sobriety section up there should apply to Alegis
He's hilarious
Chicago Megagame group
Watch me struggle to learn streaming! Point and laugh!
Maybe I can learn some advanced supercomputer logic and be able to see what's going on in the game further out than 2 hours before my death.
I have been in five phallas and my timezone is Newfoundland Standard Time 8-)
I guess like... 8 phallas now? Central US.
I'm on atlantic time.
Confusion will be my epitaph
I am concurrently in my first (mini-)phalla, though am relatively seasoned in Mafia. EST
!Sign Up
I am EST, but I am also up super early and stay up pretty late, so really any time would be good. I also post during work during the day so that covers lots of time.
Confusion will be my epitaph
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oooohhhhh noooooeeeesss!!!
Confusion will be my epitaph
I honestly don't know how many games I've played, it might very well be less than 10, but I've run a few and don't feel like a newbie -- just out of practice due to an extended break.
I'm willing to mentor if you'll have me (EST)
I was pretty close the other night to just announcing in the Loxley game that after that game I was going to retire from Phalla due to my utter uselessness. I've calmed down but I think at this point, I need a fresh start.
I'm debating playing this game - I might want a bit of a break - but this is a handy opportunity. :P
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
We can be in cahoots.
Four games, EST
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
(This is assuming I don't immediately slip up and start doing it again on, like, day two. I have in fact gone into the last couple games thinking, "All right, let's slow it down." :x)
.. although to be fair, that was also partly feeling trapped by my reputation and that if I did anything differently, people who were used to me would find it suspicious. Meh.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
6 games, EST
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
I think I've done...seven or eight phallas.
*looks at your avatar* Teehee.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Fucking 11.
Can I not count the two that I got day 1'd in?
Please?