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Mafia is a parlor-style team-based psychological turn-based role-playing game with a detective plot, simulating the struggle between informed members of an organized minority and an unorganized majority.
The essence is as follows: The townspeople, exhausted by the rampant mafia, decide to imprison all the mafiosi. In response, the mafia declares war to the complete destruction of all decent citizens.

Fundamentals:

In its simplest form, the game of Mafia has two sides: the Mafia and the Town. The Mafia's goal is to kill all the innocents, and the Town's goal is to get rid of the Mafia. At the beginning of the game, the GM (in this case, me) secretly sends everyone their roles (about the roles below). The Mafia will know each other, while everyone else (in a normal, uncomplicated game, although there are many roles and exceptions) will only know their own role.

The game has two phases: day and night. Usually, the game starts at night. At night, the Townspeople cannot talk to each other (again, in a normal game, and again - it is not possible to monitor this online...), but the mafia can discuss who to kill and eventually sends the GM the name of the victim. Also, at night, some special town roles can also perform certain actions. Then the day begins, and the GM writes who was killed (sometimes revealing the role of the deceased, depending on the rules of this game). This is usually accompanied by some clues, which, if approached correctly, can indicate who the killer is.

During the day, the Town (and the Mafia too) must choose who to hang, but only one person per day. Moreover, it is even possible not to vote for anyone, and simply write: I do not vote. The Town tries to destroy the mafia, but the mafia can confuse all the players. Usually, the townspeople vote for those they think are the mafia (the mafia must vote so that everyone perceives them as their own, they can also vote to hang each other in order to confuse the town, and in addition, they can lead people to think that someone from the town is the mafia). When a player receives a majority of votes, he is hanged and no longer participates in the game. After that, night falls again. And so on until one of the sides wins completely.

Example game.
Detailed rules
Night phase.
At night, everyone (almost everyone) is conditionally asleep. No one is allowed to write anything in the game topic. Those who are allowed to communicate with certain people at night via private messages can talk about game-related and near-game topics (are you allowed: see the description of your role, which you should receive in your private messages).

Each player whose role allows them to perform any action at night (usually these are actions aimed at other players) sends a private message to the game master (i.e., me) with the nickname of the target. If a player does not want to perform any night action, they inform the game master in a private message that they are skipping their turn.

The night phase has a limit – 24 hours. Except when everyone who could perform any night action (or skip it) has written the corresponding message to the game master. In this case, the night phase ends immediately.

Processing phase.

This is a conditional phase for the game master to process all the information received in order to start the day phase. During the processing phase, players are not allowed to use the special abilities of their role (i.e., perform actions) and are still not allowed to write in the game topic.

Day phase.

The day begins with the morning newspaper, which describes significant events that occurred at night. Mainly, this is the death of one of the forum users. Where it happened, what was found at the scene of the death (usually these are some things that can suggest who committed the crime, as well as indicate the role of the deceased), and so on. After the morning message is released, players are allowed to write in the game topic, but do not go off-topic! Only talk about things related to this Mafia. Discussion of what happened, assumptions, and so on.

The goal of the forum users during the day: to execute the one who, in their opinion, is guilty. This is done by a joint vote. As soon as a player receives a majority of votes, there is no turning back: he will be executed. Period.

When a player votes for a suspected culprit, they must write the following in bold in their message:
Execute *nickname of the suspected culprit*

If a player does not intend to vote or believes that no one should be banned, they must write in bold:
Do not execute anyone

If a player wants to cancel their vote (before a majority votes to execute any player), they should write the following in bold in the message:
Do not execute *nickname of the probably no longer suspected culprit*

If a player wants to change their vote, they must обязательно perform the procedure of canceling the vote, and only after canceling the vote, vote for another player (in principle, you can do both of these procedures in one message). This is so that it is easier to keep track of the votes.

If a player suspects someone but does not intend to vote, they can write in their message:
I suspect *nickname of the suspected player*

This is not necessary, but it may help someone in some cases. With making a decision or a final vote. Suspicions are not counted, and their statistics are not kept.

The day phase has a limit of 24 hours. Votes cannot be changed as soon as one of the players receives a majority of votes. The day phase ends with the execution of the suspected player, or
In fact, here we have a general discussion of the issue.

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I'm also for it. I think we need more people, maybe around 20, in my opinion, although...
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Yeah, they’ll all conspire and kill me, as always :[br][/br])))

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20 people is a lot. It really is. Let's start by gathering 10 people. And let's decide on a start date. I'm going to the hospital on the 30th. So, we either need to finish before that date (which will be quite difficult), or after. And you should all think about it before agreeing. Offline participation will be severely punished. If you don't respond within a day, you'll get a warning. If you don't respond the next day, you'll be kicked from the mod.
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Hmm, and how do you distribute the population? Now everyone will join the Mafia, and that's it...

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Why 3 hours? Logging in, reading, and responding, even if done 2-3 times, takes only 10 minutes.
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Haha, I guess I'm not understanding something. Let's have an example. Added 4 minutes later Too lazy to read. I need to choose what will be in the game, then I'll read it. Added 1 minute later There's a lot here... Maybe we can get by with just 2 roles? At least for now, so people like me can understand what's going on.
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The roles will depend on the number of players. Currently, I have a version ready for about 10 people, although this isn't that important, as we don't know when we'll start. No one is asking you to read everything; just read a few pages starting from the second one to get a general idea.
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I'll participate. Ideally, I'd prefer it to be after the 15th, but I'm still preparing and spending most of my days at home anyway, so I'll probably find the time. :)
O God of Earth and Altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die,
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
Take away our pride.


G.K. Chesterton: English Hymnal
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I'm participating; I think the artwork is incredibly cute =^^=
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Except the ones we've made
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2 I stopped at the medic class:) I need to study the roles. I'll be reading tonight.
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will we have the same thing? these professions and so on?) but how do we assign them? who will be who?

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"oppressed citizen"
this role is definitely for Volk)))

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