Games Mafia Game 60 - Ace Attorney - END GAME

GrySun · Jan 2, 2018

MG 60 - Ace Attorney

Hosts:

@GrySun & @gnut

If you would like to play next time, please announce your participation in the Mafia Game "Discussion" Thread

Game Instructions

Game Instructions

The MH specific game rules will be explained below. If you would like to play, please announce your participation in the "Mafia Game Discussion" Thread. This thread is strictly for playing the game. Thank you.

Players will be secretly assigned roles. One group will play the "Mafia"; the other group will play the "Townies". The Townies will not know who other Townies or Mafia members are. However the Mafia members will know who their fellow Mafia members are.

During the "day" phase, all of the players debate the identities of the Mafia members and at the end each person will vote to eliminate a suspect. This is carried out in the "game thread". In the game's "night" phase the Mafia will privately discuss who they should kill. They will then send this person’s name to the host, as well as other actions. Play will then continue until all of the Mafia have been eliminated, or until the Mafia reaches the same number as Townies.

A typical game will start with a minimum of 7 players, 5 Townies and 2 Mafia members. The members that will be Mafia and Townies will be chosen through a random list generator. There the participating players' names will be put in and after the randomisation the Mafia roles will go to the names at the top of the list. This is to avoid butthurt and favouritism accusations. :'[

Lastly, the numbers of Mafia Members depends on the number of participants!

7 - 10 = 2 Mafias
11 - 13 = 3 Mafias
14 - 17 = 4 Mafias
18 - 20 = 5 Mafias
21 - 24 = 6 Mafias
etc.

This number is only for guidance, there can be more/less mafias than written here depending on the other roles in the game like two mafia groups, recruitable roles etc.

Game Phases

PHASE 1: DAY
This is where you discuss/argue about who is and isn't mafia. As soon as the day phase starts, you are allowed to vote. The day phase will take place strictly inside the “game” thread. Any discussions regarding the day phase outside the thread will be dealt with severely.
The length of a Day phase is set by the host, usually starting at ~24 hours and getting shorter the less players remain alive.
VOTE KILL [user]

This will be the manner in which you vote. Make sure it is clearly displayed in your post though caps/coloured or bold font.
You will be only allowed 1 vote change per phase. So use your vote wisely.

PHASE 2: NIGHT

The host closes the game thread during the night phases.
There should be no discussion about the game during the night phase, regardless of the player being still in the game or already out.

During the night phase, the mafia members will collaborate and choose who they want to kill. They will not do this in the thread, but via PM's with each other/other alternative communication channels approved by the host, such as piratepad.

At the beginning of the game the Mafia members will be informed of the other members. They must PM the host telling them their choice for the night's murder and the murderer from their team. There can only be one murder in the night phase therefore the mafia members must come to an agreement.

If the Mafia don't send in their night kill before the night phase ends, then their action will not be performed. The Mafia can also send in their night actions during the previous day phase, if they think they will not be online during the coming night.

The length of a Night phase is set by the host, usually ~12 hours.[/COLOR]

MH Specific Game Rules

ACTIVITY RULES

Be active in every day phase and post at least three times. It's a Minor Violation if you don't do that and will result in Penalty Vote(s)/Hostkill and ban from future games (Hall of Shame). If you are going to miss out a period of time due to real life events make sure to inform the host, who is going to judge each situation individually and decide whether or not taking the player out of the game is necessary.
Place at least one vote every day phase. It's a Minor Violation if you forget to place a vote and will result in Penalty Vote(s)/Hostkill and ban from future games (Hall of Shame).
Don't post more than 100 times per day phase. This is to reduce spam and the volume of posts per game. Nobody has time to go through hundreds of one liner posts with the same content over and over again (Imperium Copyright Rule). If you hit the volume restriction, it's a Minor Violation. You will get a Penality Vote per 10 additional posts you make.
No talking during Night Phases, except for some roles that it is explicitly allowed and encouraged to. The Night phases are only to send in Night Actions. The scale of punishment for players who are caught discussing game content in the night may vary from Minor Violation to instant Hostkill, depending on the seriousness of the comment and/or warnings given before.
Dead people can't talk. So don't post once your character is dead; do not help others once you are dead. You can however, lurk the thread. If you post regardlessly, you will be banned from future games (Hall of Shame).

OUTER THREAD RULES

Absolutely DO NOT discuss the game outside of the game thread (unless you are Mafia members discussing it with other mafia through pms/piratepad). This is so that people do not reveal their roles and ruin the game. Players violating this rule will be instantly hostkilled and banned from future games (Hall of Shame).
Do not directly comment on the current game, once you are dead. This is so you don't influence the players that are still playing. Violator of this rule will be banned from future games (Hall of Shame).

OTHER GAME RULES

You are not allowed to post any screenshots, PMs or anything similar that can reveal your role, or the role of others, neither fake host PMs. If you do, you will be hostkilled and banned from future games (Hall of Shame).
You are not allowed to pretend being a Daytime Vigilant, Cowboy, or other roles that have Day Commands. It's a Minor Violation if you do that regardlessly.
You are not allowed to ignore directions sent in to you by the host, for example a mandatory vote change by the Politician. It's a Minor Violation if you fail to respond accordingly.
You are not allowed to majorly edit the content of your posts, nor delete any of your own or someone else's post without the Host's approval. If you do, you may get a Minor Violation punishment or hostkilled immediately and banned from future games (Hall of Shame).

RULE BREAKING, PUNISHMENT & HALL OF SHAME

Minor Violations are "small rules violations", which do not result in a hostkill instantly, but are sanctioned with Penalty Votes first. For the first Minor Violation you get 1 Penalty Vote, for the second you get 3 Penalty Votes and the third gets you hostkilled. Three Minor Violations of any kind are a Major Violation and will lead to a hostkill.
If you disobey the rules above that are resulting with you being host killed and/or banned from future games, you will get registered in the Hall of Shame.
One Major Violation bans you from the upcoming game.
A second Major Violation of the same kind will ban you from the next three games.
A third Major Violation and you are out from all upcoming games.
No amnesty or prescription until further notice.

MH Specific Hosting Regulations

DAY PHASES & VOTINGS

Each active player has to vote during a day phase. Each player has the chance to change his vote once.
A day phase can be ended earlier, if and only if one player has collected more than a half+1 of the second votes ("locked votes") of all players and each player has voted at least once (Absolute Majority Voting).
If by the end of the the regular time of the day phase two or more players have the same amount of votes, the second votes ("locked votes") are decisive. The player with the most locked votes is being lynched.
If one or more players have the same amount of votes and locked votes, each player is getting the possibility to change his vote one more time. The regular day phase is being extended for the means of further discussions.
If the voting result is the same by the end of the extended day phase, both players are being lynched.

NIGHT PHASES & ACTIONS

During the night phase each player that has a role with a night action may send it in to the host via PM.
The player may or may not make use of his action. If the player misses the deadline and does not submit his action within the given time, it is seen as not used action. It is possible, however, to submit it before the start of the night, if the player already knows he has no time to do it later.
The night actions are listed in Priority groups. The higher the priority ranking, the more likely it is that the night action is being executed successfully. First actions to be performed are those from P1, then P2 and ending with P3.
If two night action roles from the same priority group target the same player at night a coin flip will decide which night action is executed first.

1. PRIORITY - "ROLE BLOCKING"

Prostitute, Bar Keeper, Mafia Escort(when blocking).

2. PRIORITY - "SAVING & INVESTIGATING" (& more)

Detective(all sanities), Investigator, Spy(and paranoid), Mortician, Doctor(all sanities, Insane Doctor only when protecting), Bodyguard, Hider, Sickly Townie, Bomb Defusing Townie, Apprentice(both sanities), Mafia Detective(when investigating), Bomb Defuser(when defusing), Santa Claus.

3. PRIORITY - "KILLING & RECRUITING"

Insane Doctor(when killing), Pirate, Time Bomb, Kamikaze Bomb, Recruiting Mason, Mafia Boss, Mafia Detective(when killing), Mafia Janitor, Mafia Poisoner(both killing and poisoning), Mafia Assassin, Mafia Mason, Strongman, Burden, Mafia Escort(when killing), Unskilled Mafia, Mafia Pirate, Mafia Bomb, Mafia Gambler(when killing), Serial Killer, Mentor(both killing and recruiting), Mentee.

Characters

Props to Farfalla for the avis.

PLAYERS LIST

~~1. syx - Mia Fey~~ (Investigator) killed in Investigation 1
~~2. Erinyes - Trucy Wright~~ (Mortician) hostkilled on Investigation 4
~~3. Farfalla - Ema Skye~~ (Mafia Detective) judged on Trial 5
4. Lambu - Apollo Justice (Prostitute)
~~5. Zasz - Zacharias Barnham~~ (Prosecutor) judged on Trial 4
6. James Rye - Dick Gumshoe (Detective)
~~7. Demonspeed - Miles Edgeworth~~ (Mortician) hostkilled on Investigation 4
~~8. Emperor Spriggan - Manfred von Karma~~ (Mafia Poisoner) judged on Trial 1
~~9. SonOfDaws - Raymond Shields~~ (Mafia Janitor) judged on Trial 3
~~10. Lady pompom - Hershel Layton~~ (Mafia Escort) killed in Investigation 2
~~11. desin24 - Kay Faraday~~ (Mafia Bomb) judged on Trial 5
~~12. Holt - Phoenix Wright~~ (Mafia Janitor) judged on Trial 4
13. Aizen - Kristoph Gavin (Spy)
~~14. Organizized - Godot~~ (Hider) killed in Investigation 2
~~15.MarmaladeSky - Klavier Gavin~~ (Prosecutor) exploded on Trial 5
~~16. Evil3ye - Franziska von Karma~~ (Mafia Gambler) judged on Trial 2
17. Arjuna - Maya Fey (Townie) formerly (Noble)
~~18. Crescent_jinxgrace - Justine Courtney~~ (Doctor) killed in Investigation 3
~~19. Belserion - Nahyuta Sahdmadhi~~ (Mafia Pirate) judged on Trial 5
~~20. Gryffindor - Simon Blackquill~~ (Detective) killed in Investigation 4
21. Vandred - Athena Cykes (Apprentice)

GAME UPDATES
START GAME 60/START TRIAL 1
END TRIAL 1/START INVESTIGATION 1
END INVESTIGATION 1/START TRIAL 2
TRIAL 2 EXTENSION
END TRIAL 2/START INVESTIGATION 2
END INVESTIGATION 2/START TRIAL 3
END TRIAL 3/START INVESTIGATION 3
END INVESTIGATION 3/START TRIAL 4
END TRIAL 4/START INVESTIGATION 4
HOSTKILL
END INVESTIGATION 4/START TRIAL 5
END GAME
ROLE LIST/NIGHT ACTIONS

STORY

A dark time has come for our legal system. Overrun with corruption, it's becoming more and more common for both defense attorneys and prosecutors to forge evidence to skew trials in their favor while the judges are made to look the other way. The people have started to lose their trust in the legal system.

In a final attempt to bring order and fix the situation, the nation's most renown, skillful and influential attorneys, prosecutors, detectives and judges have been brought together to expose the corrupt officials in the largest-scale trial to date. But the corruption runs deep, even among themselves. They will have to use their skills and reasonings on each other to uncover the truth. But their opponents won't be waiting idly for themselves to be exposed at court. They will have to hurry and gather all the information they can during court proceedings and their investigations, present evidence at the right time and find all guilty people before their efforts are cut short.

And so, the first day of the trial began.

Court is now in session!

Trial 1 ends in 24 hours.

Organizized · Jan 2, 2018

I’m telling you guys... if I die N1 in an Ace Attorney game where I get to be FRIGGIN’ GODOT, mah coffee-drinking, injustice-stomping MAN, I might just rage quit forever.

But for now I’m just even more hyped than before. Fuck yeah!

Your honor @GrySun, I know from the Christmas murder sheep that you dislike the throwing and breaking of cups. But there will be throwing of cups. I apologize in advance.

Let’s do this!

Farfalla · Jan 2, 2018

tfw the game starts exactly when my shift started as well ç.ç it's gonna be a very unproductive day at work for me, rs.

And yay, Ema. Hardy said she fits me due to the mood swifts :oh

Demonspeed · Jan 2, 2018

At least I am an important character. Most of what I know about Ace Attorney is from the anime.

syx · Jan 2, 2018

I got an awesome looking chick as an avy, I knew I could trust GrySun and gnut. :3
Currently at work, so I will write later. Let's have fun and invest our time to reveal who the bad ones are.

Farfalla said:
And yay, Ema. Hardy said she fits me due to the mood swifts

I can confirm this as a witness.

By the way, thank you for the lovely avys. : )

Zasz · Jan 2, 2018

I don't know who the hell am I, but I'm ready to ~~survive~~ play!
Happy that I'm here this time too, everyone? :kappa

Demonspeed · Jan 2, 2018

What is Layton doing here BTW? Isn't he from a different games? Or there was a crossover?

Zasz · Jan 2, 2018

Demonspeed said:
What is Layton doing here BTW? Isn't he from a different games? Or there was a crossover?

OMG, you're right! :XD

Well, that's probably a correct guess.

Organizized · Jan 2, 2018

Demonspeed said:
What is Layton doing here BTW? Isn't he from a different games? Or there was a crossover?

Yes, a cross-over. Still thought it a bit odd he was included here but I like Layton as well so I don’t mind. :amuse

Zasz said:
I don't know who the hell am I, but I'm ready to ~~survive~~ play!
Happy that I'm here this time too, everyone?

I’m just surprised to see you here so soon. One would expect a Zasz spotting sometime late D2 at best. :cookiehand

Got that kappa locked and loaded?

Farfalla · Jan 2, 2018

syx said:
I can confirm this as a witness.

Bish, please, I was always nice to you :hmph

Wondering what kind of motivation Zasz got this time to be here so early alrdy '-'

SonOfDaws · Jan 2, 2018

I've never played a Phoenix Wright game so I was kinda expecting to get a really stupid-looking, nobody character (shoutout to my boy, Ian), but this guy actually looks pretty cool. Then I saw the rest of the characters.. the majority of them look pretty badass and the ones that don't look like pokemon gym leaders (which is still pretty cool if you ask me).

Never seen a cast with no bad character designs before.. and now that I'm done gushing over that, it's time to actually read the OP...

syx · Jan 2, 2018

Farfalla said:
Bish, please, I was always nice to you

True, that's because I have been always nice to you too. I wasn't speaking about me though. : )

Farfalla said:
Wondering what kind of motivation Zasz got this time to be here so early alrdy '-'

He is Mafia. I'm not even joking. Has he ever been like this when he was a townie?

Hermit · Jan 2, 2018

Seriously, one of the best parts of this game is the avatars. Despite which side you're on. I don't know who my guy is but :hip

Demonspeed · Jan 2, 2018

Emperor Spriggan said:
Seriously, one of the best parts of this game is the avatars. Despite which side you're on. I don't know who my guy is but

I at least know this guy. My adoptive father who taught me and killed my real one.

Organizized · Jan 2, 2018

Emperor Spriggan said:
Seriously, one of the best parts of this game is the avatars. Despite which side you're on. I don't know who my guy is but

Literally the most despicable person ever. It’s taking everything I’ve got to see beyond the avatar and not insta-vote you right now...
(I won’t, obviously.)

SonOfDaws · Jan 2, 2018

Demonspeed said:
I at least know this guy. My adoptive father who taught me and killed my real one.

And here I was wondering why his name was Edgeworth

Hermit · Jan 2, 2018

Organizized said:
Literally the most despicable person ever. It’s taking everything I’ve got to see beyond the avatar and not insta-vote you right now...
(I won’t, obviously.)

Don't judge a book by its cover :heh

Demonspeed said:
I at least know this guy. My adoptive father who taught me and killed my real one.

He kinda makes me think of this guy:

Farfalla · Jan 2, 2018

Also dunno much about Ace Attorney altho Hardy pesters me to play those games but THANK YOU DEMON FOR SPOILING ME ALRDY, took you long enough this time, huh U.U

So... should we start playing the game alrdy?
Imo we should go the route we took the previous game, sharing hints. It fucked me in the ass last time, since I was TP LOL, but gladly I got some passive shit that could go both ways this time and a soon demise might not be that terrible for the town role-wise (unless I go the wrong way with it ç.ç 'cause soon).

The town won relatively easily last time and I do think the strategy that was adopted helped there - specially late game since so many discrepancies were spotted because of it, which got the SK down, for example.