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Newbie Mini-[Phalla]: Alien Invasion, Mafia Victory
MrTLicious
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Alien Invasion: A Newbie Mini-[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 all of this opening post from Spoit’s newbie phalla who generously sampled from a newbie phalla by Julius Caezure 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 can take fewer. If on the off chance we get more than 20 newbies to sign up, the most experienced players will be cut first, with ties giving preference to earlier signups.
The 10 game maximum will not be hard capped unless there is more than sufficient demand to get to 20 players. The purpose of the restriction is to let “real” newbies have a chance to play, but if you are in a position where you have played a couple more than 10 games, and still feel overwhelmed by the idea of phalla and feel like you would greatly benefit from a mentoring session, you may also sign up to play.
What if I'm not a newbie?
Seeing (and inferring from hearsay) how well it helped some players in Julius Caezure's and Spoit’s games, 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 and peak posting hours. 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 allow 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.
- 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:
- While still living, 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.
- Do not edit posts that contain anything that could be construed as a vote (see below about voting).
- While still living, 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
- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU TO EDIT VOTE POSTS. If you made a grammatical error or messed up your bbcode or something, deal with it. Even if you make a new vote post, you can't edit the old one. Just don't do it. Seriously. Ever.
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. Plan for the game to start on Monday, 12/10, with the first deadline being that evening. - 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.
Player List:
- Iron Weasel – 3 games
- OminousLozenge, Conspiracy Theorist (Villager)–Abducted
- Invictus – 1 game
- Gizzy, Conspiracy Theorist (Villager)–Abducted
- Mikey CTS - 4 games
- Stilts - 0 games
- Shen, US Army (Vigilante)–Vote
- Duke 2.0 - 1 game
- Snowglobe - 0 games
- Lord_Asmodeus - 0 games
- ASimPerson - 2 games
- macallan, Mad Scientist (Guard)–Abducted
- fedaykin666, Conspiracy Theorist (Villager)–Vote
- CesareB - 7 games
- Anialos, Conspiracy Theorist (Villager)–Abducted
Mentors:
- kime
- TheRoadVirus
- romanqwerty
- Kilnaga
- Infidel
- Shalmelo
- Egos
- I needed a name to post.
- Langly
- Alegis
- Cythraul
- enlightenedbum
- SLyM
- Baidol
Narrations:
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Day 1
Day 2
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Time zone: CST
Peak time: 7am-Midnight
If I am deemed to not be enough of a veteran, I'm fine with that too
Matev's Star Wars Phalla is only the third game I've ever played online.
Time Zone: EST
Online Times: 8AM - 4PM (Intermittent), 9-11PM
The Division, Warframe (XB1)
GT: Tanith 6227
I'm Australian so I'll teach you how to survive a menagerie of dangerous creatures and also how to sleep through vote close.
"Make sure to tie yourself to the bed, lest you fall off the planet while you sleep!"
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Matev's current mini is my second phalla ever.
Time Zone is EST.
On throughout the day depending on work and most weeknights until 12.
The Manda'phalla currently going on is my first online mafia experience.
EDIT: EST, online time: sporadic, commonly quite a lot, but sometimes not that much. My schedule is such that I can't say too much more.
Played in 5 I think.
Central time zone.
Island Name: Felinefine
Getting on during the weekend is difficult but I carry a smartphone I can use to bookmark and check the page every couple hours. Est time zone.
Timezone: EST
Active Times: 4pm-8am
- Terence McKenna
Yup, that's me on Steam.
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If you would specifically like to be the mafia mentor, send me a PM. I will randomly draw from those interested.
but my advice is frequently awful, and people should not follow it
All will listen to the wisdom of Lady Rainicorn
Apparently I was too scary as the mafia mentor last time!
I'm Best Coast time, typically online approximately 9-5, 8-11 pacific.
The Art of Lucejitsu
I'll mentor some poor sap into paranoia if you need it.
Infidel's Mafia Advice
Also
B:L's Village Advice
to even that out a bit
Here's just a taste of what Egos's apprentice can expect:
pacific, typically anywhere from 5-11
Nintendo ID: Pastalonius
Smite\LoL:Gremlidin \ WoW & Overwatch & Hots: Gremlidin#1734
3ds: 3282-2248-0453
-tell everyone you're a survival neutral and ask to be left alone
you win
Also don't over analyze in public . I think is applies regardless. If you make it known you are a neutral people will leave you alone. Mafia will come after you if you act the helpful villager.
It's best to make safe moves in public.
If your goal seems too easy or you seem too powerful, you may want to consider someone is hunting you also. Familiarity with the host (sadly) and the source material (if available) helps.
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Wait you're no longer blind!? IT'S A CHRISTMAS AVATAR MIRACLE
east coast, active during morning, office hours and late at night.
I must warn any possible mentees that my training rituals include ancient delicious potions
Nintendo ID: Pastalonius
Smite\LoL:Gremlidin \ WoW & Overwatch & Hots: Gremlidin#1734
3ds: 3282-2248-0453
I have played in 0 phallas.
I'm on Mountain Time (-7 GMT, +1 PST). My work schedule varies, but I'm typically active in the morning and early afternoon.