The only one I see with a black avatar box is drealmer, is there more?

Seems like there is a reduced interest for mafia games atm, I'll keep sign ups open until Monday, then see if we can run the game or if it should be postponed.

Perhaps

FWIW, I could be in with a start date of the 26th or later.

(And sorry for still not sending a suggestion; haven't read (m)any old mafia games, would want to at least familiarize myself with a few setups before picking one, and time just isn't on my side right now.)

It started off with some people as "protest" or whatever, in others as a sign they left the forum, and in still others a silent way of saying they were/are having personal troubles and wouldn't be on the forum as much.
And of course the inevitable group who assumes it's a trend and joins in for the heck of it.

I've seen some others around the forum, in various degrees of black (timppu has a santa hat on his black box). I seem to recall seeing somewhere that people were doing it on purpose, but I can't remember why.

This feeling, it kind of reminds me of my reaction after watching Pulp Fiction: "What the heck did I just watch??"

Ah. Thanks!

Of we could get one more player, 9 is a perfectly reasonable number to run a game at; even if we only had 8 it would still be pretty doable without being partially janky.

While both 8 and 9 are perfectly fine numbers for a game, I think there was only one game at that range of players. Since I was thinking of doing a rerun (still need your votes btw), I do need 12 players.
Unless I just toss the rerun part out the window and just run a standard 9 player setup. We'll see on Monday.

If you re-ran the smurf/matrix game just sans SK, that would be kinda/sorta a repeat.

Edit - though I realize that probably wasn't specifically the 'familiar surprise' element you were going for, the matrix aspect would still create some guessing.

I voted!

I would love to have a rerun game, but if the choice is no rerun game or no game at all then my vote is very solidly in the "game" column.

Solution?



Yes, you misunderstood. But not quite in the way you think you did.




Try again?

Your arguments are so convincing, I feel almost compelled to vote HSL myself.