Welcome! Here to introduce the signups for 80's Saturday Morning Cartoon Mafia is Brainy Smurf!
Brainy: “Hello, Board 8 Mafia enthusiasts! Before signups begin I’m here to enlighten you all on some unique and fascinating cartoon facts! As a Saturday Morning cartoon scholar, I can tell you the 80s were a veeeeeeeeery interesting time for toons. Smurfs anchored the Saturday morning lineup for nearly the entire decade and, naturally, I was the biggest star. In fact, it was my singular cerebral presence that made the show as beloved as it was in ... hey, wait! What are you doing?”
(is violently tossed out of B8 and lands on his head, somewhere in the vicinity of CE)
Brainy: “Or perhaps you’d prefer someone else to enlighten you. If the doc could pay me a visit tonight, that would be swell…”
(cut to Ghostbusters headquarters. Janine's at her desk, filing nails)
Egon: “Excuse me, Janine, may I use your desk for a few moments? I have to relay some info to the players and mine is currently covered in fungus.”
Janine: (raises eyebrow) “Sure, but I get two hours for lunch and someone else calls back the Cardinal regarding the church you guys trashed the other day.”
Egon: (sighs) “Fine, I’ll get Peter to do it.”
Janine: “Ha, good luck with that! Now if you’ll excuse me there’s some seriously otherworldly sushi with my name on it.”
(Janine leaves. Egon sits down, shuffles some papers and adjusts his glasses, peering)
Egon: “Hi everyone. Jmast, Peaf and Arti asked me to give you a few pertinent facts about this game before you sign up. Apparently they recruited me because one of them thought it would be amusing going from the “Ego” to the “Egon,” whatever that means. But I digress…”
(clears throat)
“First off, the game is 23 players. Signups will last until we have enough players/alts and the player list will NOT be chosen at random. A few total newbies will be allowed in, so if you’ve never played before, don’t let that stop you from signing up. In fact, this is probably a good game to give mafia a try. The info we need from you is as follows…”
E-mail
AIM (optional)
Familiarity with the flavor/Desire to play
“This game will deal with any and all cartoons that aired on Saturday Morning during the 80s. Despite the age of the featured toons, I imagine a great majority of you will recognize a good deal of the characters involved.”
“Roles will be sent by e-mail. Once you receive it, post “confirm” in this topic. Game will begin next week, likely Friday, pending signups.”
Peter: (enters topic) ##Vote: Egon
Egon: “Peter, what are you doing?”
Peter: “You’re scum, Egon. You took the last pack of Twinkies, didn’t you?”
Egon: (frowns) “I did nothing of the sort.”
Peter: (wagging finger) “You lie, just like you lied when I caught you eating the last of the Chinese. Lynch all liars!”
Egon: (facepalms) “Peter, you're not making sense. Why don’t you go tunnel Ray instead?”
Peter: “Do you really think this game has all three of us in it? I don’t think so, Scumgon.”
Egon: (sighs) “This brings me to my final point: Meta-ing anything in this introduction would be bad.”
Peter: “Why should we listen to anything you… wait, how bad?”
Egon: “Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.”
Peter: “You mean…”
Egon: “Exactly. A mislynch of epic proportions.”
Peter: (scoffs) “Only scum would try and scare town like that. Now give me back my tasty snack cakes and I’ll remove the pressure.”
Egon: (sighs) "Good luck, everyone, and have fun!"