Hello everyone and welcome to Valentine's Day Mafia, everyone's favorite dating show for players and spectators (PM me) alike. I hope you're all ready for an exciting game filled with intrigue, betrayal, fun, and best of all, love! Will any of our contestants find their soulmate in this game? We'll see soon enough!
Rules
Each day will begin between 7pm and 8pm EST and end at 7pm Eastern.
This game consists of two teams, TOWN and SCUM. There is no flavor split (and anywhere from zero to perfect correlation between flavor and roles) - each persons flavor is simply a different person or character associated with dating in some way that I wanted to write about. As such, there are no roles that scan flavor in any way; it is purely for your (and my) enjoyment. Additionally, you know with certainty that the setup is 3 scum players and 12 town players.
Scum players may use role actions and deliver the factional kill simultaneously, if they so choose.
You know with certainty that exactly one player will die each night, to ensure that every day phase will begin with an odd number of players. To be clear: there are no methods by which night kills can be prevented altogether; there are also no extra kills for either faction.
Rather than traditional mafia voting, each person must find a partner with whom they will spend the following night, as neighbors, in a private discord channel. Every night will take place in the same discord server (scum discord will still be separate), using different channels. You know with certainty that all conversations in Discord are 100% private from other (alive) players - no sort of role exists which allows players to view, search, or otherwise interact in any way with private conversations between other players. At the end of the night phase, you will lose the ability to type in the prior nights channel, but will retain access to read and view the conversation. (Your pairings will be categorized into rooms, which will be numbered for my convenience; these numbers will correspond to the different channels and roles in Discord)
Players in the dead town chat or spectators (PM me) will be allowed to view, but not post in, any private room channels. Feel free to put on a show for your adoring fans!
At the end of the day phase, ALL unpaired players will be eliminated from the game.
In order to spend the night with someone, you will use the command ##Date: PlayerName. You are free to issue multiple date commands if you are truly so desperate; however, only the first response command will become your partner. Polyamory is not allowed. You may cancel any outstanding ##Date command manually by using the ##Breakup command; outstanding ##Date commands will also be automatically removed when you successfully pair up with another player. Both players must type the command with each others name to be paired up.
Promiscuity is mandatory. All players are banned from spending two consecutive nights with the same player, until the point at which 3 players remain in the game. You may spend as many nights with the same player as you like, so long as they are non-consecutive.
To break up with your date before the night phase, use the command ##Breakup, at which point you are free to date anyone else.
At any time before 1pm Eastern on the day of the deadline, you may use the command ##Breakup to break up with your date without their consent. After 1pm on the day of the deadline (the last six hours of each day phase), BOTH players must post the ##Breakup command to split up. This rule will prevent anyone from having their heart broken just minutes before the deadline, with no time to find another date. (and should help folks in other timezones who might have to miss the traditional deadline times).
If all (or rather, all but one) players are paired at the 12, 24, or 36 hour mark, I will do my best to end the day early and start the night phase in Discord. This is subject to my personal availability, which is not guaranteed at the 12 or 36 hour marks in particular. To clarify this point, I'm not going to end the day immediately when all players (except one) are paired, but only at these pre-determined marks. (this might change for the last day though so it doesn't drag out forever, tbd).
Lastly, play nice, and most importantly, have fun!