"And she was a student for the LOVE OF RAJAH. A STUDENT".
Mazer smiled to himself as he read ProblematicRoss's message. He was happy that Problematic had come to terms with Ross's behavior. This would only benefit Rajah's mafia community.
Mazer leaned back and smiled to himself. After another successful game, recent upswings in scum victories, and increased inside jokes-things were going well for the beloved Mafia group. But after another moment of reflection, Mazer's brow furrowed.
CWE had given so much to the group. He had made a database. He was a masterful player. But he rarely made it to endgame (maybe in Turtles-but that was forever ago). The tightknit community knew they always had to take him out before endgame.
Yes, this was a puzzle.
Early the next morning, Mazer was busy studying the Magna Carta. Suddenly, while he was reviewing the rights of fishmongers, inspiration struck. Mazer immediately reached out to King Diamond. King D quickly agreed to the plan. He would use his phenomenal wealth to bring in the entire community for a Live Action Mafia game. And CWE would be the guest of Honor.
Mazer immediately reached out to CWE. "You may not win, but you'll be there at the end". CWE laughed and immediately guessed half of Mazer's plans.
Mazer sighed contentedly. This was good. This would be fresh and new.
After a half a moment, Mazer's expression shifted.
A sinister smirk replaced the serene smile.
"Now I just need to figure out how I can spin this"
Originally Posted by Mazer
Intro 2:
"Dammit! Mazer stole my idea for a live game!"-Dreyski. . The former stan's anger quickly subsided as he took solace in his well-groomed and distinguished looking beard. Nothing was going to interfere with his enjoyment of this trip that King Diamond had so generously sponsored.
Besides, Dreyski had heard that Branson, Missouri was beautiful this time of year.
Originally Posted by Mazer
Intro 3
The Aston Martin stood out from the various Ford Escapes and Toyota Siennas which checkered the parking lots and streets of Branson.
It traveled smoothly through the backstreets until it pulled into the front of the Diamond House (which he had purchased just for this occasion).
The door of the Luxury vehicle cracked. A brown Tom Ford show emerged from the vehicle and stepped confidently on the driveway. Kangus stepped out and adjusted his tie-his fine Italian suit hiding the words he had tattooed on his chest.
He peered over his Cartier sunglasses.
"Ah. Classic Americana".
He sneered as he walked into the home.
Originally Posted by Mazer
Intro 4
Yakov Smirnoff was just wrapping up another performance at the Branson theatre.
"In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was pro da. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One".
"In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!"
"Most countries have their own mafia. In Russia, mafia has its own country!"
Suddenly, Yakov stopped. He looked down as a red stain started to expand on his shirt. Smirnoff collapsed as the theatre erupted in chaos.
From the rafters, a lone gunman smiled. "Making fun of the motherland isn't so funny now, is it comrade?"
"It was nice of the Diamond to finance this trip. Comrade Putin will be pleased I was able to handle this off books."
With his work done, Jarrod1983 headed off to the Diamond House for some relaxation.
Originally Posted by Mazer
Intro 5
Bert walked through the House with King Diamond.
Diamond: Thank you for all the doomsday prep tweets you sent me
Bert: Happy to help. One can never be too cautious....or Can they? The answer is no. One can't.
Diamond: They were absolutely correct. Instead of a panic room, building a panic house was absolutely the right move. The lab and armory are protected as well.
Bert: I couldn't be more pleased with your preparations. We are totally secure here.
Originally Posted by Mazer
Intro 6
Virms kicked open the door. "Let's make some noise people. Virms in the bulding!"
Badger looked up.
Virms' mood quickly shifted.
The two mortal enemies locked eyes.
Mazer tried to ease tensions "Guys, we're all friends here. King Diamond was very generous in bringing us all in"
His words didn't even register.
They both started running at each other. Badger's Superman punch and Virms' spear connected nigh simultaneously.
Originally Posted by Mazer
Intro 7.
Psycho666Soldier was excitedly talking to the gathered participants.
"This is going to be the first live-streamed game of mafia ever. We're going to be the Team Ninja of the online mafia world. Guys I pulled all my connections from the 15 groups I'm in, set up a go fund me page, and found some angel investors from the hentai mafia group, and we've got 1,000,000 of prize money for the winners" With a flourish that would have been the envy of Howie Mandel, Psych revealed a case full of the prize money. Wisely, he had made sure to get the cash in advance.
CWE had been in the corner; he had spent the last several hours studiously observing each of the participants. He was determined to add their non-verbal ticks and traits to his already comprehensive list of online tells. This revelation would cause him to look up.
Psycho continued "There are some conditions. We're going to need duchess of queensbury rules anytime there's a double roleblocker scenario. Additionally, we're going to have to utilize a standard Zabka modification for any day 3 tiebreakers. The Werewolf mafia community was very adamant about this. Also, for some reason one of you will have to wear this butler outfit. Moving on...."
Psych continued, with most of the group still enthralled. Which made it all the more easy for the vast majority to miss what happened next.
In this new setting, it was easy for the community to assume they knew each other. It was the simplest thing to assume because they knew online personas and styles, that it would convey to this setting.
The community should have thought about how much can be communicated through a simple series of glances and expressions.
This complacency meant that most of community missed a series of cues that was passed between a select few individuals. And there would be a terrible price for that miss.
One person didn't miss any of it. CWE wondered if he had read those expressions correctly, and if he had-what he would do about it.
Final Into-Beginning of day 1
[QUOTE=Mazer;8230676]“And then I told him, IF YOU WANT TO RIDE A WILDEBEAST-YOU BETTER DITCH THOSE SANDALS”
Virms laughed uproariously at his new bestie Badger’s anecdote. They then started the 7-step handshake they had created the previous night. A mere five minutes later they were in a heated debated over whether they would ride the bumper cars or roller coaster first, when they hit Branson’s amusement park later.
Kdestiny finished up the landscape painting he had been working on. Dreyski was so moved by the beauty, that he exited the room in a highly emotional state. Kdestiny was worried that about his friend, but he first he had to finish the 3 matches of speed chess he was playing.
Bluegunn took everything in. He noted that everytime Virms and Badger were about to get in a fight that Virms would tilt his head by 7 degrees. Bluegunn was determined that he would soon pass CWE as having the most comprehensive reads.
Mazer, Jarrod and Kangus were outside. Grim work was on their minds.
Kangus: “So, even split between all the parties. I mean, that’s really not a lot for me. But it’s the principle of the thing”
Jarrod: “Psycho’s capitalistic pushes….these American PigDogs…..”
Mazer: “We need a few more though. Who would be willing to betray their brothers?”
All simultaneously: “Vote Caito”
Mazer went to speak to Vote Caito. Jarrod and Kangus knew they needed one more.
They saw a grown man destroying a bunch of children in a game of Dodgeball ala Billy Madison.
Victorious, the dominant dodgeballer yelled: “WOOOO. I’m the champ”.
“Ah, yes. Morrison will do nicely.”
As everyone went back in the house, Pablo checked all their ids. He eyed Traxx’s id a few times, before ultimately deciding that he would allow Traxx to have a reasonable amount of alcohol. Following this, Pabs walked back into the House.
He decided that Badger and Virms had certainly had enough, before cutting them off at the open bar. He then walked over to Kdestiny’s corner and broke up the chess games, as they were not maintaining 6 feet of social distancing
King Diamond and Psycho stood in front of the assembled group.
“Ok guys. When you came in, I did 3D scans of all your faces. I’m giving you these real flesh masks that I created in the lab. They kind of work like Mission Impossible. This will allow you to role play as each other”.
The group erupted in a series of critiques. The masks would be too hot. How would this even work? Yes, lots of this group was surprisingly short. But there was no way Jarrod would look like someone like Mazer, given the size differences, and on and on. It all seemed very convoluted.
Finally, Mazer yelled “Everyone shut the hell up! Give the guy a break! I’d like to see any of you come up with a workable gimmick for something this weird!”
Bert assured the group that he had vetted the company and everything was legit. Any connection between King Diamond and shady manufacturing companies was unproven.
With that everyone placed on their randomly assigned masks. Except for CWE. He walked right up to King Diamond, ripped the CWE mask out of his hand. CWE put his own mask on. “ONLY CWE IS CWE”
The remaining masks were handed out in non-descript bags, personal communication devices were turned in and placed in a secured and went to separate rooms. Awkwardly, and with their false faces, the group returned together.
The game now afoot, people started to take actions, point fingers, and work their process.
Kangus had previously stashed burner phones in various spots. Using one, he texted Morrison. Suddenly the lights went out. King Diamond’s panic house simultaneously went into full lockdown.
When the lights came on, there was a body on the floor. ProblematicRoss was dead. He was woke, but would never wake again.
Badger stood in the corner. His mask obscured his identity, but it didn't stop his tears. He would avenge his brother
If Hammer is not reached, the leading vote getter will be lynched when time expires (unless no lynch is the leading vote)
NIGHT 1
Originally Posted by Mazer
Night 1
It was a tumultuous night. Murder most foul had occurred. The Rajah Scum were plotting to steal the million dollars, while our heroes were in the dark. King Diamond’s house was on a timed lockdown, and everyone was wearing masks (Although since they were all fully vaccinated they did not need to wear face coverings in addition to their Mission Impossible style masks).
They knew that it would be an intense next day. Our heroes were not the type to just give up though.
Vote Caito decided it was time for some merriment. He saw the robot waiter (kinda like the one in Rocky 4-the one Pauly had) heading to deliver food to a few people. He was pretty mad about it as one of the items was a deep dish pizza, which Vote Caito didn’t like because he found it to make his fork too havey.so he decided to switch up the delivery instructions. “Oh the folly, what fools these merry folk be! I shall switch the deliveries to BERT and CWE. Tee hee. Tee hee”
Pablo decided it was time for a talk with CAITO. “Caito, I can let loose and cut a rug just as much as the next fella. But if we can be serious for a minute, I’d like to talk to you about your conduct”. Pablo’s stern lecture tied up CAITO the rest of the evening
“Surrounded by false identities and trapped in a Safe House? This sounds just like the steampunk navy mafia game of 2015-we all know whose style that is”. With that psycho666soldier decided to intensify the pressure on BLUEGUNN
The real kdestiny decided the KDESTINY who was wearing his face needed followed, so he decided to use his varied talents to follow this evening.
Simultaneously, Traxx followed PABS to see where he was headed to.
Bert decided he needed to figure out what was up with PABS. Fortunately he had brought his hardcopy printouts of everyone’s social media history, so he was able to determine where PABS aligned
Meanwhile timesplitter decides that biding his time will do nicely for him. He decides that DREYSKI looks like a safe spot.
Badger and Virms had stayed together this whole time, and had managed to construct a makeshift blowgun. They knew that they had to make their own luck. They saw their target standing with one other person. It was then they realized that they had both selected different targets. They got into a huge fight over whose choice to kill. Eventually Virms wrested control of their shared weapon, he shot it the general direction of their two targets, hitting one.
PABLO has been killed
He was Dreyski-Serial Killer
Meanwhile Mazer was out working his magic. He reached out to MORRISON to see if he could get him to go along. Turned out Mazer’s magic was pretty crappy and MORRISON rejected his advances.
Kangus spent the night at his desk going through some paperwork, still bemused at how easily he could befuddle these troglodytes
Morrison went to JARROD and decided he needed a good wet-willy, right in front of everyone.
Jarrod was not amused by any of these frivolities. He tracked down TIMESPLITTER and efficiently went about his business. “Das vadanya”
TIMESPLITTER has been killed
He was King Diamond-Town Doc
With two more gone, things were getting progressively more serious.
It was time for everyone to put their skills to use.
With 14 living players, hammer is at 7. Unless its BG or Badge, who could be hammered at 6 votes.
night 2
Originally Posted by Mazer
The death of King Diamond the Pure and Kdestiny the Multi-talented had shaken the Rajah mafia group to their core. Accusations flew back and forth over who was at fault. Virms tried to get everyone to vote for Badger, just out of habit.
They were down but not out. Town pretty much always wins….right?
Vote Caito was up to more tomfoolery. “Mischief. Mischief. Up to me. I shall change what you see. If you gaze at VIRMS and CWE”
Pablo tracked down BADGER. “Badger, your partying has gone a bit far. This is a decent community. I’m taking away your open bar privileges. And I’m banning you for the rest of the evening”. Badger sat quietly in a corner, unsure what a banning meant in LARPM, but also not wanting to anger Pablo Diablo (or Paul Devil as he is known to his friends).
Bert decided it was time to head up to the front of the line. PSYCHO was his target. Bert gave him several internet personality tests and ran through several scenarios before ultimately learning what to make of PSYCH’s rpofile.
Bert then found KING DIAMOND. It was time to run him through the search functions and tests to determine where this guy’s loyalties really were.
Bluegunn wasn’t feeling a bit blue after seeing all these deaths. He stared intently at KING DIAMOND. This night nothing would escape his notice.
Traxx was back on the case. He noticed a slight irregularity in the air. He got lost a bit in the halls and ended up following CWE for the evening.
Meanwhile timesplitter was again on the move. He saw the other timesplitter go down and it wasn’t going to happen again. He hid behind CAITO this evening.
Kangus kept about his evil ways. He labored over his work with a grim determination. Except for when he took his midnight tea. That was less grim, and actually mildly pleasant. But then right after, right back to evil.
Jarrod snuck up behind CAITO. Each step-a measure of precision. Quiet as death. After he had advanced far enough, he rustled in his bag and pulled out a bazooka. Soon, CAITO was blown to bits.
CAITO has died. He was Bluegunn-Town Watcher Now Vote Caito was the one true Caito
Miraculously, timesplitter was able to leap away at the last minute. Likely because Jarrod was so damn loud. Natasha Romanoff….he is not.
Timesplitter was hit by the shrapnel, and he knew he would not have the same reaction time in the future. But he also escaped this near death experience changed, weaker…but also stronger.
Meanwhile, Jarrod looked on. His anger at missing his target also invigorating his team.