2011-07-20, 02:26 PM
Two escaped convicts flee into the town of Holcomb. The rural town rarely has a problem with criminals and relies on law enforcement from the neighboring city to deal with public unrest. The city sends in one investigator to find and arrest the two escaped convicts. Unfortunately both convicts have blended in with the local populace. Despite this cohabitance, their criminal tendencies have not abated. Deaths ensue as the two convicts murder one villager every night. The town doctor growing increasingly concerned with the amount of deaths has an interest in lending aid to the investigator when he arrives in town. The following stage is set: 3 villagers, 2 mafia, 1 doctor, and 1 cop.
The game begins at night. Players are not aware of which role other players are and therefore are only aware of their own. During the night the mafia talk with each other while the town (3 villagers, 1 doctor, 1 cop) is sleeping. Mafia choose who to kill. The doctor chooses whose life to save (if it coincides with the mafia kill target then the player lives) and the cop chooses who to investigate (pick a player and the report will indicate whether said player is town or mafia). When night ends, the day starts and town + mafia have a discussion in order to weed out the two mafia amongst them. Every member has one vote which they can place in order to choose who gets lynched that day. Once the majority of votes are decided (i.e. 4 if 6 or 7 people are alive), the person elected gets the noose. The town must rely on this majority mechanic to weed out the minority menacing their existence. What would you do as town, doc, mafia, or cop? What do you think is optimal?
The game begins at night. Players are not aware of which role other players are and therefore are only aware of their own. During the night the mafia talk with each other while the town (3 villagers, 1 doctor, 1 cop) is sleeping. Mafia choose who to kill. The doctor chooses whose life to save (if it coincides with the mafia kill target then the player lives) and the cop chooses who to investigate (pick a player and the report will indicate whether said player is town or mafia). When night ends, the day starts and town + mafia have a discussion in order to weed out the two mafia amongst them. Every member has one vote which they can place in order to choose who gets lynched that day. Once the majority of votes are decided (i.e. 4 if 6 or 7 people are alive), the person elected gets the noose. The town must rely on this majority mechanic to weed out the minority menacing their existence. What would you do as town, doc, mafia, or cop? What do you think is optimal?