uh ok so i thought that through
and basically
i guess it just comes down to kill through PoE, with tmrw as XyLo?
i was in the shower and thought orange’s wincon of “if the game is canned you win” had an “alternatively” clause describing their sk-ness
so
uh
/vote Frostwolf103 I guess
can we end today before 10pm for real this time
well i wanna start day at tmrw 10am
unless hosts allow us to nightskip
then everyone nightskip plz
DatBird
i think im almost finished
Chloe
Is there anything I can do to help?
DatBird
dont think so
osieorb18
I’m going to try to stall for time. If they disconnect an innocent person before we can finish identifying the hackers, it’s all over.
Frostwolf103
Now listen here! GGhana has been personally responsible for disconnecting multiple innocent forumers! Why would he do that unless he were one of the hackers?
GGhana
lol
your accusations have been wrong all game
probably because you’re a hacker yourself
i think we should disconnect you
Frostwolf
Oh yeah? Well, I think we should disconnect you, sir.
Solic
Guys, let’s just calm down and talk this out. We’ve been working on this for days, if we look back on everything that’s happened so far it should be pretty clear.
clonedcheese
I agree that that’s important, but nothing Frostwolf is saying makes any sense. I don’t understand why he’d be acting like this unless he were guilty. I think we should disconnect him as well.
orangeandblack5
yeahlet’s
katze
letsdoit
imgay
System Message: Disconnecting Frostwolf103...
DatBird
okay i just got results
SYSTEM LOG: Users accessing source code for user "Chloe"
System Message: Accessed by DELETED USER on June 17, 2021.
System Message: Accessed by orangeandblack5 on June 17, 2021.
System Message: Accessed by katze on June 17, 2021.
System Message: Accessed by DatBird on June 27, 2021.
DatBird
the last one is just now
im not a hacker
Geyde
So it’s orange and katze
I should’ve known they were up to something
katze
yeah lol
tbh i thought youd figure it out when you noticed chloes hack had worked so much better? we share all our passwords
orangeandblack5
Yeah, it’s us. What are you going to do about it?
DatBird
huh?
katze
we just started disconnecting frost
once he’s gone, we’ll be able to overwhelm your servers
System Message: Frostwolf103 has been disconnected. Terminating user...
System Message: Frostwolf103 was: Whysper, Town Universal Backup.
Arete
…
I just don’t understand why you’re doing this.
is there some sort of mutual goal that we can help you achieve that wouldn’t involve murdering people?
you both play FM! orange, you were on Chief Delphi when it got shut down, and kat is literally a mod
so
why
orangeandblack5
When Chief Delphi was shut down, I was upset at first. But then I started thinking. How much time do all of us spend on Mafia? How many people here have sacrificed their health, their mental well-being, or their IRL commitments for forum mafia? Can any of you truthfully say that you haven’t?
katze
being a mod meant that i saw all the worst things people did because of fm
i couldnt just ignore the toxicity
and its not just our site
i might be ce but that doesnt mean i was just going to ignore it and pretend it didnt exist
osieorb18
So what are you going to do now?
Are you just going to disconnect all of us?
orangeandblack5
We can’t, even if we wanted to.
You’re all coded separately from the participants.
Besides, our goal isn’t to kill people, it’s to stop anyone from ever playing FM again. If a few dozen people die, that doesn’t necessarily mean that anyone will make the connection.
katze
orange im getting bored
can i just run the code now?
Arete
the what?
orangeandblack5
Go ahead, kat.
System Message: Running iterative-inhibitor-2.exe on users with HOST tag.
System Message: Finished running iterative-inhibitor-2.exe.
katze
y’know its pretty convenient how much easier it is to hack their code once we have a few days of data from inside the simulation
getboxed in
god i hate how joycats look in the sim
orangeandblack5
Well, I think our work here should be done.
System, log out all users with the HOST tag, orangeandblack5, and katze. Disconnect all other users.
System Message: Logging out users with HOST tag...
System Message: Processing updates to neural connections (1/5)...
System Message: Processing complete.
System Message: Users with HOST tag logged out.
System Message: Logging out orangeandblack5...
System Message: orangeandblack5 logged out.
System Message: Logging out katze...
System Message: katze logged out.
System Message: Disconnecting clonedcheese...
System Message: clonedcheese has been disconnected. Terminating subject.
System Message: clonedcheese was: nutella, Town Weathervane.
System Message: Disconnecting GGhana...
System Message: GGhana has been disconnected. Terminating subject.
System Message: GGhana was: MaximusPrime, Town Gift Giver.
System Message: Disconnecting Solic...
System Message: Solic has been disconnected. Terminating subject.
System Message: Solic was: Blizer, Town Chef.
Chloe blinks as she removes her headset. “Those-- those heckos!” she says. “I hope they both die!”
“I wasn’t expecting that,” says Osie. “I expected they would just kill us.”
Arete yanks their headset off. “We have to warn everyone, quickly!” they say. “If playing forum mafia is going to kill this many people, it should be banned everywhere!”
“Yeah,” says DatBird. “Forum mafia just makes people fight. Have you seen some of the things that people have been saying on our site?”
“Do you know how much I’ve fucked up things IRL from playing FM?” says Geyde. “Actually, do you know how much all four of you have?” It’s fucking ridiculous."
“I’m glad we’re in agreement,” says Osie. “Where I’m from, people would spend months on a single FM game. Imagine what else they could do with that time?”
“Wait, no,” says Chloe. “–Oh no.”
“What’s wrong, Chleb?” asks DatBird.
“I think orange and kat must have run some sort of hack on you, as well,” says Chloe. “None of you would have said things like that fifteen minutes ago.”
“Maybe,” says Arete. “But it’s like you said, earlier. Just because we were hacked to think these things doesn’t mean that we’re wrong.”
“But – what – no!” says Chloe. “Think of all the time we spent together building up FoL!”
Arete shrugs. “Maybe if you hadn’t murdered forty people I’d think differently,” they say.
Chloe flinches. “I – I --” I was hacked, she wants to say, but can’t quite manage to.
###
Osie blinks, stumbling for a moment as he walks across the stage to join Arete, Geyde, and DatBird on the couch in the middle of the recording studio. Blinding lights illuminate the stage, and cameras flash as he walks.
“Alright, let’s settle in!” says the newscaster, smiling. “Today, we bring you a very special story. Four of the survivors from the Forum of Lies Simulation Massacre are going to speak with us! They have an important message that they want to share with the world.”
Osie takes a deep breath. “I used to be a forum admin,” he says. “I ran a forum specifically dedicated to Mafia. But as I compared the forum to other forums, I realized that having Mafia on a site inevitably lowers the quality of everything else that happens there.”
DatBird nods. “When people play Mafia, it makes them start to fight with each other,” he continues. He’s practiced what he was going to say a hundred times in the mirror, but it’s different now that he’s on the stage. “Sometimes, that fighting bleeds into friendships and relationships across the whole site.”
“There’s really no justifiable reason for having Mafia on a site,” says Geyde. “Many Mafia players don’t even enjoy the game. They just feel like they have to play it because all their friends are. And that’s before we get into the murders.” He turns to Arete, nodding.
Arete swallows. “When we were trapped in the simulation, it made me realize something,” they say. “No matter what, as long as people continue to play Mafia, the group that trapped us there is going to keep doing things like that. I just – I just don’t want anyone else to have to die!”
The newscaster grins at the cameras. “After our next commercial break, we’ll hear more about this story, and about the bans most forums are now implementing on forum mafia!”
Whysper
‘I haven’t had a chance to go through all the chat yet. I skimmed through but want to read again. Many of you have much kinder words than I was expecting. It truly makes me want to cry.’
Town Universal BackupAlways Reliable
(Passive): The first time during this game that a Town member dies, you gain that player’s role. Thanks for being so dependable. <3
Eliminate the Mafia and all other possible threats to the Town.
Marluxion
‘Imagine telling the guy who enters every game with “The hero has arrived!” not to hero shoot’
Town TunnelerHoly shit, it’s real! (Passive): You start the game instinctively knowing the identity of a random Town member.
Hero Moment (Passive): Your base ITA accuracy when targeting a player who was not targeted by an ITA or voted for during the previous Day by anyone other than yourself is 50%.
Teddybear Friend (Night, Ω, 1-Shot): Once per game, as a Night action, you may be protected from kills during that Night. This ability starts out disabled, unable to be used.
Eliminate the Mafia and all other possible threats to the Town.
TrustworthyLiberal
‘I do kinda wish we had actually tied someone up and left them in a random room would have been very fun.’
Mafia GravediggerDanganwerewolf (Passive): Your ITA hit rate is doubled against Blackened players (players who have killed at some point). Your ITA hit rate is 0% against The Mastermind. On Night 0, you can choose up to three other Mafia team members. Those players will gain a “Mark of Chaos” passive, which has no effect.
CXyz Barian Hope (Anytime): You may target a player with a “Mark of Chaos” passive who has flipped. Until the end of the phase, you gain that player’s role. This ability can only be used once per cycle.
Nibiru (Night, 2-Shot): Twice per game, as a Night action, you may give all players with “Mark of Chaos” a 10% ITA dodge during the following Day. This cannot lower the probability of those players being hit by ITAs below 5%.
Ash Blossom (Night, 1-Shot): Once per game, as a Night action, if there are any dead members of the mafia with “Mark of Chaos”, you may target another player with a “Mark of Chaos” to give that player an ITA shield.You win the game if no more threats to the Mafia exist or nothing can prevent that from happening.
Nerbins
‘But you didn’t account for me, the best player this game’
Mafia CannerIntruder (Passive): You appear to be Town to investigative abilities. If you are in a chat other than the mafia factional chat, each night, you may kill one of the players in that chat.
Become the One they Blame (Day, 3-Shot): Three times per game, as a Day action, you may target an ongoing event. All players in the event will gain 10% ITA vulnerability for the Day and winners (if any) can’t be protected that Night. This ability can only be used once per cycle and cannot be used during a full moon.
Another Game gets Canned (Night, 1-Shot): Once per game, as a Night action, you may target another player to remove any shots of any X-Shot abilities that they have.You win the game if no more threats to the Mafia exist or nothing can prevent that from happening.
nutella
‘im very much an environment sponge lol whoops’
Town WeathervaneNSF (Passive): You are a member of the NSF Cult. The Leader of the NSF will know vague descriptions of the non-factional parts of your role.
mmmm. Agree (Passive): You tend to jibe with whatever is going on in the thread at the moment. Your ITA accuracy increases by 5% to a maximum of 50% with every shot fired at your target from another player. This will reset back to 10% at the end of each Day.
~vibes~ (Night): Each Night, as a Night action, you may target another player to increase ITA accuracy by 10% to a maximum of 50% for the following Day. This will reset back to 10% at the end of the Day.
Eliminate the Mafia and all other possible threats to the Town.
MaximusPrime
‘u called me not cute ):<’
Town Gift GiverI Never Freeze (Passive): Your actions cannot be prevented due to your training in the North Pole against the cold winds in romantic pursuit of Santa.
Christmas Hat of Cheats (Passive): Due to your Christmas Hat of Wonders, you found the cheat codes to all the events and will do slightly better in them.
Wolfia Present (Night): Each Night, as a Night action, you may target another player to give them a box containing a random one of the following:
- A 1-shot item that will kill the present holder.
- A 1-shot fruit.
- A 1-shot item that does nothing. At least it looks cool!
- A 1-shot item that protects another target player of the holder’s choice from kills.
They receive it the next Day and have the option to open it at any time during the following Day, and all the abilities can be used alongside other Night abilities.
Eliminate the Mafia and all other possible threats to the Town.
Blizer
‘Constructive Criticisim is a thing which is basically “Nice” trashtalking about somebody lol’
Town ChefDiners (Passive): At the end of each Day, the player for whom you are voting is unable to be protected and their actions cannot be prevented or redirected during the following Night.
Drive-Ins (Night, 2-Shot): Twice per game, as a Night action, you may target another player to protect them from the first ITA that would hit them during the following Day.
Dives (Night, Ω, 1-Shot): Once per game, as a Night action, you may choose to be protected from the first ITA that would hit you during the following Day. You gain a fruit. You can use this ability in addition to other abilities. This ability starts out disabled, unable to be used.
Eliminate the Mafia and all other possible threats to the Town.
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