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Cold War Spy Mafia Game Thread: GAME OVER CIVS WIN

20 players

1) Red, Head of Soviet Intelligence, spook faction 1 - Starting night 0 (before the game thread is open) you may submit a name to me. If that player is recruitable, he will immediately join your faction. Thereafter, you may recruit a player each night by submitting another name. Your faction can grow no larger than four people in size. Once it has hit four, even if members die, you may no longer recruit. You will receive intelligence once per night from unknown sources. When choosing to make a kill, you must evaluate whether you think the information you’ve received is true or not. If you are right, your hit will succeed. If you are incorrect, your hit has a 50% chance of succeeding. You and your faction may only kill on odd nights. You win if you are the last faction left. You may visit either the London Cafe or the Moscow Cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator. London Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707
Moscow Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479
Kremlin (Soviet mafia only): https://us22.chatzy.com/98021807812770
Duff


2) Blue, Head of British Intelligence, spook faction 2 - Starting night 0 (before the game thread is open) you may submit a name to me. If that player is recruitable, he will immediately join your faction. Thereafter, you may recruit a player each night by submitting another name. Your faction can grow no larger than four people in size. Once it has hit four, even if members die, you may no longer recruit. You will receive intelligence once per night from unknown sources. When choosing to make a kill, you must evaluate whether you think the information you’ve received is true or not. If you are right, your hit will succeed. If you are incorrect, your hit has a 50% chance of succeeding. You and your faction may only kill on even nights. You win if you are the last faction left. You may visit either the London Cafe or the Moscow Cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator. London Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707
Moscow Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479
Scotland Yard (British mafia only): https://us21.chatzy.com/64848934871023
D14

3) Green, Retired British Intelligence Officer, independent- Recently come in from the cold, you are unrecruitable. You just want a quiet life, but these are scary times. After a long career, you have many tricks up your sleeve, but it’s hard to survive on one’s own. One night you have the ability to become investigation immune from indy hunter. One night you may plant a bomb at any player’s house, which will detonate and kill them unless the indy hunter finds you the same night. One night you may make a completely silent kill, which will remove a player from the game and erase their role from the remaining players. One night you may learn about the alignment of a player of your choosing. One night you may use a bulletproof vest. One night you may learn the full role description of another player. Otherwise you have no abilities to make nightly kills. You may stack no more than two of these abilities in a single night. You win if you are the last man standing. You may visit either the London Cafe or the Moscow Cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator. London Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707
Moscow Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479
GM

4) Orange, Retired Soviet Intelligence Officer, independent- Recently come in from the cold, you are unrecruitable. You just want a quiet life, but these are scary times. After a long career, you have many tricks up your sleeve, but it’s hard to survive on one’s own. One night you may plant a bomb at any player’s house, which will detonate and kill them unless the indy hunter finds you the same night. One night you may make a completely silent kill, which will remove a player from the game and erase their role from the remaining players. One night you may learn about the alignment of a player of your choosing. One night you may use a bulletproof vest. One night you may learn the full role description of another player. Otherwise you have no abilities to make nightly kills. You may stack no more than two of these abilities in a single night. You win if you are the last man standing. You may visit either the London Cafe or the Moscow Cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator. London Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707
Moscow Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479
PH

5) Black, American Intelligence Officer - Recruitable. If you are recruited, you win with the faction who recruits you. If you are never recruited, you win with civilians. As an American spy, your tradecraft is focused on weaponry. You have two weapons to choose from: a poison-tipped umbrella and a shotgun. In order to gain information about how these weapons work, you may ask the moderator about one weapon per night. After that, you may keep these weapons to use yourself, or distribute them to players throughout the game at night. You may learn about and pass or use a weapon on the same night, but only one at a time. You may visit either the London Cafe or the Moscow Cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator. London Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707
Moscow Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479
jhawk

6) White, Chinese Intelligence Officer - Recruitable. If you are recruited, you win with the faction who recruits you. If you are never recruited, you win with civilians. As a Chinese spy, your tradecraft is focused on technology. You have developed the skill of defusing bombs. Starting night 2, each night you may submit a name and if that player is carrying bombs, you will learn of it and defuse their bombs. Only the two independent players have bombs, and therefore this game you act as Indy Hunter. You may visit either the London Cafe or the Moscow Cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator. London Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707
Moscow Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479
RW

7) Yellow, French Intelligence Officer - Recruitable. If you are recruited, you win with the faction who recruits you. If you are never recruited, you win with civilians. As a French spy, your tradecraft is focused on surveillance. You’ve got a listening device and access to fingerprints database. In order to gain information about how these tools work, you may ask the moderator about one piece of equipment per night. After that, you may keep these tools to use yourself, or distribute them to players throughout the game at night. You may learn about and pass or use a tool on the same night, but only one at a time. You may visit either the London Cafe or the Moscow Cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator. London Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707
Moscow Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479
gooner

8) Pink, West German Intelligence Officer - Recruitable. If you are recruited, you win with the faction who recruits you. If you are never recruited, you win with civilians. As a West German spy, your tradecraft is focused on protection. You’ve got two articles of protection: a bulletproof vest and an encryption device. Each night you may ask the moderator to describe one tool in detail. After that, you may keep these tools to use yourself, or distribute them to players throughout the game at night. You may learn about and pass or use a tool on the same night, but only one at a time. You may visit either the London Cafe or the Moscow Cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator. London Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707
Moscow Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479
jtp

9) Purple, East German Intelligence Officer - Recruitable. If you are recruited, you win with the faction who recruits you. If you are never recruited, you win with civilians. As an East German spy, your tradecraft is focused on disinformation. Your skills include planting fingerprints and decoding cryptic messages. Each night you may ask the moderator to describe the one skill in detail. After that, you may keep these tools to use yourself, or distribute them to players throughout the game at night. You may learn about and pass or use a tool on the same night, but only one at a time. You may visit either the London Cafe or the Moscow Cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator. London Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707
Moscow Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479
dv7

10) Aquamarine, Italian Intelligence Officer - Recruitable. If you are recruited, you win with the faction who recruits you. If you are never recruited, you win with civilians. As an Italian spy, your tradecraft is focused on seduction. You may make one other player fall in love with you so deeply they must vote with you every round thereafter. You may choose this player starting on day 3 by PMing a moderator. The player will be informed they have been seduced and must then vote for the same player as you or else they will be AA’d. You may visit either the London Cafe or the Moscow Cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator. London Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707
Moscow Cafe: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479
tejas

11) Bluebird, British civilian, farmer - Times are tough. You’re just trying to survive, but spies are lurking around everywhere. Men may try and recruit you, but you only care for your family and your farm, and you will always refuse to be recruited. the moderator will provide you information about crop yields across Britain at the start of each day. You are free to post this information as-is publicly, either in thread or in the London cafe, you may post disinformation, or you may keep it to yourself and not post it. You will have to learn the value of this information for yourself. You may visit the London cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707. You win if all the spooks are dead. gouda
Day 1: British crops: 59,000 tons
Day 2: British crops: 43,000 tons
Day 3: British crops: 17,000 tons

12) Sparrow, British civilian, factory worker - Times are tough. You’re just trying to survive, but spies are lurking everywhere. Men may try and recruit you, but you’re too tired from your factory job and you’ll always refuse to be recruited. the moderator will provide you information about factory widget production across Britain at the start of each day. You are free to post this information as-is publicly, either in thread or in the London cafe, you may post disinformation, or you may keep it to yourself. You will have to learn the value of this information for yourself. You may visit the London cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707. You win if all the spooks are dead. mako
Day 1: British widgets: 85,000 widgets
Day 2: British widgets: 65,000 widgets
Day 3: British widget: 80,000 widgets
Day 4: British widget: 45,000 widgets
Day 5: British widgets: 85,000 widgets

13) Crow, British civilian, news agent - Make no mistake about it, in the Cold War was a war of information, and you play a vital role in propaganda, er, reporting the news of Britain. Specifically, you must report on the crop yields and the factory widgets produced. You are therefore reliant on hearing from both the British farmer and British factory worker each day. Even if you don’t trust what you’ve heard about crop yields and factory widget reports (or you haven’t heard any reports), you still must submit a report each day with the British numbers in order for your vote to count. The report will include crop yield numbers in tons and factory widgets in # of widgets. If the farmer or factory worker are dead, you have no choice but to trust the politician for this information. For every report you submit with 100% correct information you may submit a name for investigation at night that will return the result: town or anti-town. You win when all spooks are dead. You may visit the London cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707.
knight

14) Budgerigar, British civilian, politician - In these tumultuous times you’re trying to keep your civilians safe, and you’re worried about the growing influence of intelligence agencies, foreign and domestic. You play a crucial role in the information wars that underpin this game. If either the British farmer or factory worker are dead, you will receive the information they got and pass it along publicly, or you may choose not to. You need to make Britain sound strong, so you try and play up how many more crops and widgets you’re producing than the Soviet Union. You do so by PMing the mod at night with a report. It should say either “Britain has a stronger crop yield than the USSR” or “Britain has produced more widgets than the USSR.” This information will be passed along to British intelligence mafia, who will have to determine whether the information is true or not. If they correctly guess whether the information is true, their night actions will succeed. If they are incorrect, their night actions will fail. Once you are dead or if you fail to submit a nightly report all mafia night actions will succeed unless another play can stop them. You win when all spooks are dead. You may visit the London cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707.
sd3
Day 4: British crops: 60,000 tons
Day 5: British crops: 59,000 tons

15) Falcon, British civilian, union organizer - You are a brave union organizer in a time when organizing is tantamount to communist muckraking and could get you thrown in jail. Your role in this game is to recruit spies to quit their intelligence careers and join the civilian ranks. Each night you may PM me the name of a player in the game, and if they are recruitable, they will be taken out of the recruitable pool mafia can take spies from. Their roles and abilities will come with them and they will then win with civilians, as you do. You win when all spooks are dead. You may visit the London cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator: https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707.
rommy

16) Eagle, Soviet civilian, farmer - Times are tough. You’re just trying to survive, but spies are lurking around everywhere. Men may try and recruit you, but you only care for your family and your farm, and you will always refuse to be recruited. the moderator will provide you information about crop yields across the Soviet Union at the start of each day. You are free to post this information as-is publicly, either in thread or in the Moscow cafe, you may post disinformation, or you may keep it to yourself. You may visit the Moscow cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479. You win if all the spooks are dead. GAT
Day 1: Soviet crops: 45,000 tons
Day 2: Soviet crops: 35,000 tons
Day 3: Soviet crops: 30,000 tons
Day 4: Soviet crops: 49,000 tons
Day 5: Soviet crops: 45,000 tons

17) Robin, Soviet civilian, factory worker - Times are tough. You’re just trying to survive, but spies are lurking everywhere. Men may try and recruit you, but you’re too tired from your factory job and you’ll always refuse to be recruited. the moderator will provide you information about factory widget production across the Soviety Union at the start of each day. You are free to post this information as-is publicly, either in thread or in the Moscow cafe, you may post disinformation, or you may keep it to yourself. You win when all spooks are dead. You may visit the Moscow cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479. ryala
Day 1: Soviet widgets: 89,000 widgets
Day 2: Soviet widgets: 70,000 widgets
Day 3: Soviet widgets: 88,000 widgets
Day 4: Soviet widgets: 49,000 widgets

18) Hawk, Soviet civilian, news agent - Make no mistake about it, in the Cold War was a war of information, and you play a vital role in propaganda, er, reporting the news of the Soviet Union. Specifically, in order to earn a vote each day, you must report on the crop yields and the factory widgets produced. The report will include crop yield numbers in tons and factory widgets in # of widgets. You are therefore reliant on hearing from both a farmer and a local factory worker each day. If the farmer or factory worker are dead, you have no choice but to trust the politician for this information. If you don’t receive any information about yields at all you must still put a report out or else your vote will not count. For every report you submit with 100% correct information you may submit a name for investigation at night that will return the result: town or anti-town. You win when all spooks are dead, and you may use any name you wish. You may visit the Moscow cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish when you enter, apart from pretending to be a moderator: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479.
jman

19) Dove, Soviet civilian, politician - In these tumultuous times you’re trying to keep your civilians safe, and you’re worried about the growing influence of intelligence agencies, foreign and domestic. You play a crucial role in the information wars that underpin this game. If either the Soviet farmer or factory worker are dead, you will receive the information they got and pass it along publicly, or you may choose not to. You need to make the Soviet Union sound strong, so you try and play up how many more crops and widgets you’re producing than Britain. You do so by PMing the mod at night with a report. It should say either “The USSR has a stronger crop yield than Britain” or “The USSR has produced more widgets than Britain.” This information will be passed along to Soviet intelligence mafia, who will have to determine whether the information is true or not. If they correctly guess whether the information is true, their night actions will succeed. If they are incorrect, their night actions will fail. Once you are dead or if you fail to submit a nightly report all mafia night actions will succeed unless another play can stop them. You win when all spooks are dead. You may visit the Moscow cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479
Da

20) Owl, Soviet civilian, dissident - You are a brave dissident in a time when speaking out is reactionary muckraking and could get you thrown in jail. Your role in this game is to recruit spies to quit their intelligence careers and join the civilian ranks. Each night you may PM me the name of a player in the game, and if they are recruitable, they will be taken out of the recruitable pool mafia spooks can take spies from. Their roles and abilities will come with them and they will then win with civilians, as you do. You win when all spooks are dead. You may visit the Moscow cafe at any time, and you may use any name you wish, apart from pretending to be a moderator: https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479
bym

Places to visit

Mod chat: https://us22.chatzy.com/94257320412399
Dead chat: https://us22.chatzy.com/94387444562161

London Cafe (any spy, either independent, London civs): https://us22.chatzy.com/94919243212707

Moscow Cafe (any spy, either independent, Soviet civs): https://us22.chatzy.com/97690214964479

Kremlin (Soviet spooks only): https://us22.chatzy.com/98021807812770

Scotland Yard (British spooks only): https://us21.chatzy.com/64848934871023

Weapons and tools

Spies
Poison-tipped Umbrella - untraceable kill, no forensics will be available
Shotgun - if the shooter uses it, it will backfire on them and they will die
Listening device - one shot tracker
Fingerprints database - if fingerprints are found at a scene you can see who left them
Bulletproof vest - one shot BPV will save a player from a night hit
Encryption device - you may encrypt the description of one role of a night hit, which can only be unlocked with a decoder ring
Planting fingerprints - you can frame another player for a night hit
Decoder ring - you can decode an encrypted message
Seduction - player you choose must vote with you every round or AA

Crop Yields and Factory Widgets
Day 1
British crops: 59,000 tons
British widgets: 85,000 widgets
Soviet crops: 45,000 tons
Soviet widgets: 89,000 widgets

Day 2:
British crops: 43,000 tons
British widget: 65,000 widgets
Soviet crops: 35,000 tons
Soviet widgets: 70,000 widgets

Day 3:
British crops: 17,000 tons
British widget: 80,000 widgets
Soviet crops: 30,000 tons
Soviet widgets: 88,000 widgets

Day 4:
British crops: 60,000 tons
British widget: 45,000 widgets
Soviet crops: 49,000 tons
Soviet widgets: 49,000 widgets

Day 5:
British crops: 59,000 tons
British widgets: 85,000 widgets
Soviet crops: 45,000 tons
Soviet widgets: 89,000 widgets

Day 6:
British crops: 43,000 tons
British widget: 65,000 widgets
Soviet crops: 35,000 tons
Soviet widgets: 70,000 widgets

Day 7:
British crops: 17,000 tons
British widget: 80,000 widgets
Soviet crops: 30,000 tons
Soviet widgets: 88,000 widgets

Day 8:
British crops: 60,000 tons
British widget: 45,000 widgets
Soviet crops: 49,000 tons
Soviet widgets: 49,000 widgets
 
If BYM isn't going to back me on the sov farmer claim then BYM is dirty.

I outted myself in both role and real name in the moscow cafe on D2

I just didn't want to do the work.
 
lol wtf. how were the mafias so bad at recruiting

UNREDACT THE ROLES!

I got gooner N1, and then just had some swings and misses. Then suddenly jhawk and dv7 are off the table and the game is essentially over at that point.
 
Pls explain the ring I got, Townie. I didn't get much from DV7's role above.
 
I also had no idea that civ recruiters could recruit multiple targets, otherwise I obviously kill bym and rommy. I didn't play great, and was legitimately absent for a while yesterday but damn that was an uphill climb
 
@Bym - this was the only thing Gat posted about crop yields. The phrasing is strange. And it was posted the day after jtp died and got wiped

i posted a ton about crop yields in the moscow cafe and interacted with jman about his posts in the thread.
 
thanks to parlay for helping me out, he did a great job with my confusing game

balance in this game was tough, i maybe should have made it easier for maf to recruit too, but there were a lot of bad luck recruits, and the civ recruiters played it differently than maf recruiters. also ph didn't make a night move n1-3...

also really thought the chats would have played out differently and the information war would have gone differently but that game mechanic didn't get as much open air as i'd have hoped

was really fun (if complicated) to mod

to GAT, not saying when a maf was eliminated and redacting the first mafia role were nonstandard flavor i planned to make to the spy element trickier

also used the indy hit on jtp to redact his role entirely
 
My recruit attempts were as follows:

N1: gooner
N2: rommy (I knew redwing was an option but didn't want to recruit someone about to be executed. Had no idea the size of my recruit pool was only 1/4 of the game and that civ recruiters existed)
N3: JTP
N4: SD3
N5: Dv7

I don't see that as particularly bad at all but whatever
 
Townie, parlay, thanks for the game.

I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop with double-agents and whatnot and i am glad it did not.

really enjoyed the cafe once we got down to a manageable size and figured out who was who. cool mechanic.
 
Pls explain the ring I got, Townie. I didn't get much from DV7's role above.

heading out for a run

most of the tools had a counterpart, the encoder and decoder ring were foils

the encoder could be applied to a night kill for a role or message, and the decoder would be used to unlock it
 
Townie I legitimately enjoyed this game, it was fun.

The widgets/crops affect whether my hits worked absolutely fucked me though, I had to get lucky and get SD3 killed, there was no way for me to actually know the answers with them mostly not even being reported. Two civ recruiters also just created an immediate civ flood if they were ever both successful, and I don't see how it's really my fault they hit dv7/manning before me. But those are my only complaints, and overall it was a fun concept so it's cool
 
My recruit attempts were as follows:

N1: gooner
N2: rommy (I knew redwing was an option but didn't want to recruit someone about to be executed. Had no idea the size of my recruit pool was only 1/4 of the game and that civ recruiters existed)
N3: JTP
N4: SD3
N5: Dv7

I don't see that as particularly bad at all but whatever

Then why wasn't I recruited night 3? did you guess wrong on your CROPS or something?
 
FUCK JHAWK WE ARE MORTAL ENEMIES NOW
 
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