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1st place: Town (Pie, Savant, Mharman, Banana, Casey, WyIted, Earth)
2nd place: Mafia (Lunatic, Mikal)
Roles: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uyAbsTGOpS7oskFDIfB3u5DLbXsDyvfbjFY52e3er8I/edit?usp=sharing
Night Actions (NP1):
Pie gave Earth Justice
Earth Justiced Mharman and Casey (silenced by Freezer)
Casey used Pathologist on Pie
WyIted Avoided Earth
Lunatic Froze Earth
Mikal NK'd Casey
Night Actions (NP2):
Pie gave Mharman Tracker
Lunatic Silenced Pie
Lunatic NK'd Earth
Mharman Tracked Pie
Easy MVP was Mharman. Baiting out the fake from Luna and Mikal was particularly inspired. Mikal did have it called in the scum chat, but ended up being convinced to go with Luna instead of bussing him.
As for looking back on the game, I'll start by just owning up to it, I did make some errors this game.
I'll start with the basic transcription error. I copy-pasted the Silencer from mafiauniverse and that included the "no vote" aspect. I was tempted to roll with it, but it would end the game one DP early, which would have made the game absurdly scum-sided, so I swapped it for "one vote." Sorry for the error, not sorry for the change.
I also made a couple of calls during the game that are bound to be controversial, so I'll discuss the "why" and my feelings on it in retrospect.
I prioritized Pie's Inventor role so that it couldn't be directly prevented. This was an attempt to balance a game where I only had one town player with any strong investigative role (I'd consider the Pathologist role pretty weak). That, coupled with the fact that Pie could have given any of his roles to a scum player and that they could themselves be roleblocked or killed made me think I needed to give this role some leg up. That might have been too much, and I think in retrospect it would have been better to just change up the Pathologist role to make it stronger and make Pie an investigative JOAT (as Mharman suggested). This was me trying something that was always going to be difficult if not impossible to balance.
As for the second issue, I decided ahead of the game that a roleblocked role was just not going to be used up, and I do think that was a mistake as applied to the roles granted by Pie's Inventor in particular. At minimum, I should've been looser on how that perspective applied in this game, and I think the Freezer should have resulted in Earth having used up the Justice role. It just made Pie's role more powerful than it should have been by NP2. Apart from that, it probably would've been best to leave Pie's Inventions at 2. I think altogether, these decisions did make the game town-sided, so my balance was off.
Anyway, I'll leave the self-flagellation there and focus on the game. I was surprised people were so ready and willing to lynch Savant that early, particularly with a claimed Doctor on the table. I get that scum could ask about two roles and could have designed this claim knowing there was a Doctor in the game, but it seemed particularly risky, especially coming from Mharman who stood to lose his role.
As for WyIted in the second DP... yeah, it was a bit painful to read his paraphrasing of my PMs. I probably would have townread his being so flabbergasted with so much of the terminology, but I get why he was being scumread, even if the "scumslips" were reaching.
I think town also gave both Luna and Mikal way too much leeway in those first two DPs. I get that Mikal was absent for a lot of that first DP, but he barely posted in the second and Luna didn't have to do too much to keep attention off of him.
Luna and Mikal definitely had some opportunities to win out in the end, but their concern over the Justice role ended up winning out over some more promising strategies. That's partially on me for reasons I've already described, though I think the risk of the Justice was pretty low given what they had on hand with an Ascetizer and the Even Night Godfather. They pushed a little too hard for the DP3 win, but especially on those last two nights, they were putting in solid effort to design fake claims and run through a lot of potential night actions. Props to them for putting it all on the line.
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Onto DP3!
Dead Players:
Savant - Salmonella - Enabler (Doctor) - Town (Lynched DP1)
Casey_Risk - Pseudomonas - Pathologist - Town (Killed NP1)
Lynched DP2:
WyIted - You are Mycobacterium! You are a water and soulborne microbe that is mostly well known for the illnesses it causes, particularly Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. What distinguishes all of them is a waxy, lipid-rich cell wall, which imparts a particularly strong resistance to immune cell responses and means infections with Mycobacterium tend to last. You are the Avoider! Each night, you may target another player. If that player targets you with any night action, it will not work. You may not target the same player on back-to-back nights. You win with the Town.
Died in the Night NP2:
Earth - You are Staphylococcus! You are regularly found in soil, but are mainly known for your role on human skin as an all-too-common protective resident. You have a very bad habit of getting into other places, and some of your species, particularly Staphyloccocus aureus, are notorious for picking up some antibiotic resistances that make you very difficult to kill. That balances your with your role as one of our body’s greatest protectors, so we take the bad with the good. You are Vanilla! You have no special abilities, but you have your vote and your voice. You win with the Town.
Remaining Players:
1. iamanabanana
2. Lunatic
3. Mharman
4. ILikePie5
5. Mikal
With 5 alive, it takes 3 votes to lynch. The DP ends in 72 hours on Tuesday, June 17 @ 7:30 AM EST.
Additional information:
- Pie has been SILENCED! He may vote one time today, and he may not post otherwise.
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The sun rises. Another DP begins.
Lynched:
Savant - You are Salmonella! You are one of the most infamous foodborne microbes around, wreaking havoc on the guts of many mammals. A major problem in chickens especially as Salmonella enterica, you are particularly adept at modifying the environment of the gut around you to suit your purposes by modifying both host responses and available nutrients, facilitating the survival of only those microbes that help you. Many microbes wouldn’t thrive in the gut without you. You are the Enabler! When you die, the role "Doctor" will cease to function for all players. You win with the Town.
Died in the Night:
Casey_Risk - You are Pseudomonas! You are found in water and soil. You’re mainly known in medical circles for the opportunistic infections you cause, particularly as Pseudomonas aeruginosa in burn and surgical patients. Mostly, though, you’re known for your amazing capacity to decompose organic compounds, including plastics and hydrocarbons. Because you break things down so easily, you’re the Pathologist! Each night, you may visit a dead player and receive a copy of all feedback messages received by that player over the course of the game. Any messages that player received from me will be conveyed to you. You win with the Town.
Remaining Players:
1. iamanabanana
2. Lunatic
3. Earth
4. Mharman
5. ILikePie5
6. Mikal
7. WyIted
With 7 alive, it takes 4 votes to lynch. The DP ends in 72 hours on Monday, June 16 @ 9 AM EST.
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Welcome to Microbiology Mafia! I'll try to avoid too much technical information and jargon in this game, mainly to make sure everyone can understand what I'm posting. This game is all about bacteria, so despite my personal affection (yes, I do mean that) for them, there will be no viruses in here (sorry Ebola, not this time). No fungi or molecular parasites, either. I thought this would be a good opportunity to put out some fun facts about bacteria as this games goes on, so I hope people enjoy those.
To answer some of the obvious questions: there is a theme split, scum will be able to ask about two roles and two characters over the course of this DP as usual, I will attempt to keep up with the DP to the best of my ability and respond to both public and private questions (with limitations of course), and I'll attempt to keep an ongoing vote count going.
Going to stick to some pretty basic rules (once again, stealing these from Pie):
1) No editing or deleting posts of any kinds
2) No copy/pasting your role PM (please paraphrase)
3) No cryptography of any kind
4) No communication outside of the mafia game
5) No liking/upvoting posts after you die
6) No using ChatGPT/AI to paraphrase your PM
Everyone gets the drill by this point. I'll add extra rules if needed, but I don't suspect I'll have to do that.
All DPs will be 72 hours and NPs 24 hours unless the NP ends with everyone submitting actions earlier.
Remaining Players:
1. Savant
2. iamanabanana
3. Casey_Risk
4. Lunatic
5. Earth
6. Mharman
7. ILikePie5
8. Mikal
9. WyIted
With 9 players alive, it takes 5 votes to reach majority for a lynch. This day phase will end on Thursday, 6/12/25 at 12:30 PM EST.
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Doing this one solo and seeing how it goes. Should be interesting.
This game will be themed on microbiology. I'm going to limit the focus to bacteria. There will be a theme split. Going to start this thing off with 9 slots and expand if interest does as well. I'm still working on the setup so there's room to figure things out if needed. No, you don't need to have detailed knowledge of microbiology to understand the theme. The aim will be to start sometime in a week or so.
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