in other news, I've been playing games of mafia on VDex. it's uh... those games when there's a large number of good old townspeople who don't know who others are and their possible roles, about which I'll tell a bit lower, and a small number of mafia members. townspeople can lynch a person by voting at day, and whoever has the most votes is lynched. of course, mafia can participate in voting too, and potentially fool townspeople into lynching one of their own. mafiosi know each other, and rather obviously know who is NOT mafia. they can kill a person at night, and if the game has specific roles, they may have more than one kill.
now about roles. typical set at vdex is as follows:
vanilla: town or mafia. no special powers, here.
doctor: normally town role. may protect a person from night actions targeting them (that aren't investigation), but can't protect the same person twice in a row. can protect themselves, usually.
detective/cop: town role. may investigate a person at night, either gets both their role and alignment, their alignment or their role.
paranoid detective (paracop): same as above, town role. has some chance to get investigation result as mafia for a townie.
stunner: either town or mafia. may disable someone's night actions. does not work on people protected by doctor, but works on the doctor themselves unless the doctor protected themselves.
silencer: either town or mafia. may rid someone of their ability to vote at day. occasionally disables the ability to post role/alignment theories and speculation. there is a variation when the silencer just makes the person explain their votes in incomprehensible gibberish, which is amusing.
vigilante: town or mafia. can kill at night. self-descriptive.
it's pretty fun!
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