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Mafia has advanced from a common party game to take on a completely new form in online forums across the net. Now, I would like to move it to Xanga.

The game consists of five types of players. The basic roles follow. While it may be slightly confusing, it will all make sense by the end of this post.

The Townspeople
The Doctor - Names one person to be saved each night.
The Sheriff - Requests the identification of one person each night.
Serial Killer - Rambo. Picks one person to die each night.
Assorted Townspeople - Try to eliminate the Mafia before the Mafia (or the SK) eliminates them.

The Mafia
The Mafia makes up about 1/5 to 1/4 of the players in the game.
The Godfather - CEO of the Mafia. He is the direct liason between the Mafia and the narrator (the director of the game). Also, it is his job to make the final call as to who is to be killed.
Assorted Mafia - Kill all the townspeople before they are all lynched or killed by the SK.

Gameplay
The game begins when all players who wish to partake in the game post a small bio about the character they wish to assume in the game. This is a short description of the character; it may include age, sex, job, family, hobbies, etc. To keep it simple, we will use your Xanga username as your name.

When all profiles are in, the Narrator sends a private e-mail to each character with their assigned roles. The only people who know anyone else's role is the Mafia. They know all the other Mafia, and assume direct e-mail (or AIM) contact with the Godfather.

When the roles are assigned, gametime enters "night". At this time, a couple things happen.

• The Doctor contacts the Narrator and tells him the person he will choose to save that night. This means that if either the Mafia or the SK pick the same person to kill as the Doc picked to save, the kill will fail and the person will live. The Doc can also choose to save himself.
• The Godfather, having conferred with his Mafia brethren, contacts the Narrator with his kill choice.
• The Sheriff contacts the Narrator and asks for and ID of any player in the game. The Narrator then tells what role that character is playing.
• The Serial Killer contacts the Narrator with the person he will kill.

In total, this period is known as "SKIDS" (Saves, Kills, IDs, Serial)
When the "night" is over, the Narrator makes an entry informing the town of who died (or did not die, if the Doctor did his job) overnight.

Everyone then decides who should be lynched by the angry mob of townspeople. This is done by leaving comments with the person you are accusing in bold, and the reasons afterwards. The kills will all contain clues pertaining to the Serial Killer and a Mafia member's profile. Note that all players will be included in this debate, so the Mafia can throw the blame on someone else. After a set time period, all the votes will be counted up and the person with the most votes will be brutally sluaghtered by the townsfolk. Night falls again.

The game ends when only one group of people is left alive. This is either the SK, the Mafia, or the innocent townspeople.

Some Special Cases
If the Godfather is killed (either by the SK, the townspeople, or even the Mafia (if they decide he needs to be killed for the greater good)), the remaining Mafia members must choose a new Godfather and inform the Narrator before the next SKIDS are due in.

When you die, you are dead. You are a ghost and you may speak to no one about any matters concerning the game immedietaly. You can make fluff comments, sure, but you can't try to sway the debate. Nor, if you were the Sheriff, can you tell anyone of your IDs after you are killed. That just isn't fair.

If the Sheriff tries to ID the Godfather, he will show up as a townsperson.

If you want to change your vote for the lynching before the deadline, write "change" in bold, followed by the person you are changing from to the one you are changing to. Like this:

CHANGE from XXX to YYY.

Nights and Day are not realtime. Depending on work constraints, night can be up to two or three real-time days, and day can be the same. Or any combination.

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