I'm going with there's a curse on the game. Besides my dryer (laundry kind), I just had my garage door opener break yesterday. Fortunately, nobody got hurt, and we got someone to come out yesterday as an emergency. The garage door itself is super heavy to the extent that even with the opener broken, only the Hulk would be able to easily lift it.

Also an EF1 tornado hit my state over the weekend. People in my state are trained from childhood for earthquakes. We flat out don't know what to do with tornadoes except to get really upset afterwards and treat it like an attack on the state as a whole... so even though it wasn't near me, I'm going to say it's the mafia curse.

It's been shipped to you!
And yes #81 was the last, I started it a week or two before December (just like this one), which helped me narrow down the search for the password.

Please set your chat to public or add me as friend ASAP so that I can send you your role PM!

Everyone should have their role PM now. Please confirm via PM or tell me here, if you didn't get a role PM but should have one!

Also, please keep in mind that we don't have any replacement players yet. So please try to stay in the game unless serious RL problems arise.

Also also: there is an observer thread set up. So if any non-players want to observe, please tell me!

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Here's the current game thread: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/forum_game_conclave_mafia_gog_mafia_game_82/page1

You may proceed there. The deadline is quite relaxed for now. Next year, end of the first calendar week. Like this, the game can proceed at a leisurly pace until after the holidays.

Please let me know if anything is missing.

The game is live, all PMs have been sent. You all should know who you are. You can start role-playing your roles and if you want, you can start ELECTING and VOTING too.

I will be present until Monday. After that I will start my Chrismas break.

Yo
Still not sure how the observer thread works. I kinda imagined - you are told the role of each player & what action non-vanilla powers performed during the night.
But during the last game Sage was an observer - and she could just observe the dead-chat.

There are neither nights or even dead in this setup...

But am still kinda interested. :S
So, yeah, I would like to observe.

Unless other observers sign-in, not sure postscript: an observer thread is already set up. Nevermind what I had planned to type out.

I can't get over how the dryer turned out to be a clothes/laundry type. :''D
It making BOOM BOOM BOOM sounds make it sooo much more *facepalm* and ''Ooh, that's what she meant.''
I'm seriously glad I'm skipping this game. There would even be the first misunderstanding in the sign-up thread. =)

Naughty night. Your game has started. This is my last message in this thread. =)

Well, usually the observer chat is just that: a secret chat, where non players can discuss the game and share their theories, trying to work out who is who.

However, discussing the game is only meaningful, if there are several observers. So this tradition comes from a time when we had more active games and more spectators and it became necessary to avoid discussion of the game openly in the forum. Because those would be discussions that the players could read, thereby getting input from minds outside of the game.

So, if you want, I can give you more information in the observer chat, so that you can watch from an advantageous position. Then you could also act as a Co-mod, alerting me if I miss anything that needs mod attention

Alternatively you can observe without additional information and stay available as possible replacement. Because as soon as you have inside info, you won't be able to play in this game anymore.

Please tell me your preference

I see. Appreciate the history lesson.

Not sure how this would play out and I can't think of anything that would require attention; but considering the alternative - this is preferable.

That much is clear.
Nah, I'm out as a replacement too.
I also just realised there are no official reserves here. Thankfully in a deathless game that should not be that big of a concern.

Alrighty, guess I'll take the observer chat with an advantageous position and see where it goes from there...

Bump please in game and I hope everything turned out okay for you with the weather and garage door!

Oh! Sorry. I didn't see this until now.

I am sorry to have missed the signup for the game, but if needed I can be a replacement.

Yay! A replacement! Welcome back!

Thank you!!

Sure thing, I’ll get right on it.


P.S.
Just be aware it’s kind of like a “the checks in the mail” situation, so who knows when it’ll get done for sure ;-)