Verbose Mafia 2/Roles

Verbose Mafia 2 Role PMs, in order of death.

Turbovolver

Role Name: You are El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, the Token Character! Role Description: Is this some kind of joke? You are clearly here to act as a token Black/Muslim/Paranoid Schizophrenic. That, or you just had the most obvious post restriction ever. You don't have to put up with this nonsense. You have rights, you know. Role Details: You have no abilities. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: You must use the letter X in every post. (See, told you it was obvious.) Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will triple your restriction for the following Day (you will need to use the letter X three times per post).

Kelly Chen

Role Name: You are Jonathan Edwards, the Preacher! Role Description: You find yourself with a bunch of heathens. The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow. - Jonathan Edwards Role Details: You have no abilities. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: In every post, you must preach at the other players by using one of the following words (or derivatives thereof): "fire", "burn", "hell", "flame" Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will double your restriction for the following Day (you will need to use two of the words in every post).

Adele

Role Name: You are Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, the Poet! Role Description: As a Gascon, you're up for any adventure that might come your way. You're not one to back down from an argument or a fight. You also have some skill with words. In fact, you are such an outstanding poet, that you cannot resist the temptation to compose speeches for the others. Role Details: Each Night, you must compose a post for another player. The post must meet the minimum posting requirements, and must be no longer than 60 words. You will send this post to the Moderator, who will pass it on to that player. Your target must make your composition his or her first post of the day. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: Each of your posts must hold a rhyme. Such poetry will be sublime. (The rhyming words must be at the ends of consecutive sentences to count.) Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will give you an additional restriction the following day.

• Notes: The additional restriction would have been poetry related.

mathcam

Role Name: You are Huey Pierce Long, the Filibuster...er! Role Description: These lightweights you find yourself with may think they're good at talking, but they're no match for Huey Long. You once spoke for over 15 hours as part of a filibuster. The others guests won't know what hit them. In fact, you'd better get an extra dictionary to read, just in case you really want to torture them. Role Details: Each Night, you may choose to filibuster another player. They will be unable to use any Night ability that they might have. You may use this ability twice during the game. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: You must post three times in a row at least once during each Day. The posts must be different. Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will result in the loss of your blocking ability for the following Night.

LoudmouthLee

Role Name: You are Alexander VI, the Controversial Pope! Role Description: Italy will rise again! Eliminating a few speakers and writers who might speak out (and write) against you seems like a small thing, but you've got to start somewhere. Role Details: You are in the Italian Mafia with Fiasco and Thok. On any Night, you may choose to kill another player in the game by poisoning them (even if another Mafia member is also committing a murder). You may only use this ability once during the game. You are also aware of a Traitor loyal to your cause, though you aren't sure who the Traitor is. The Traitor wins with the Mafia whether recruited or not, but your group can make the Traitor a full Mafia member (with the ability to kill) by saying "Et tu, PLAYERNAME". You win when all players who oppose you are dead. Post Restriction: Each of your posts must contain two words with at least two occurences of "P" each. Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will mean you can not use your killing ability the following Night.

Fritzler

Role Name: You are Σωκράτης, the Tree Stump! Role Description: No one really knows anything about you for sure. Your character is defined by the writings of others: Plato, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Xenophon... and now, the Moderator. Role Details: At any time during Day, you may say "Σωκράτης". As soon as you do so, you will "drink the poison". You will no longer be able to Nominate or Vote, nor will anyone be able to Nominate, Vote, or kill you. However, your words will "live on" in the writings of Plato, so you may continue to talk during Day (with the same posting requirements). If you are lynched or killed before taking the poison, you're just dead and can't talk. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: All of your posts must contain a question. You may not use the words "tree" or "stump". Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will affect the End of Day scene.

• Notes: The appearances of the Monty Python Lumberjack in the scenes were the result of failures by this role. Fritzler failed his restriction soon after using his ability, and thus was unable to talk the remainder of the game.

DrippingGoofball

Role Name: You are Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, the Agnostic! Role Description: You think this vacation was a good idea. But you aren't sure. It was, right? But what if it wasn't? You'll probably never find out anyway. Besides, when you die, you won't remember it. Or will you? Role Details: You have no abilities. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: In each post, you must use the phrase "don't know". Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will double your restriction for the following Day (you will need to use "don't know" twice in every post).

PookyTheMagicalBear

Role Name: You are Derren Brown, the Serial Killer! Role Description: Bored with card tricks and fooling little old ladies, you have joined this expedition in hopes of spending time with some of the most intelligent and eloquent people who have ever lived. Unfortunately, you soon discover that they're just as dumb as everyone else. You, Derren Brown, are the world's most intelligent human being. Your mental abilities are so astounding that you'd fool yourself into thinking you were magical, if you weren't so smart. There's only one thing to do: you'll have to kill everyone. Role Details: Each night you must use your incredible psychological skills to guess either a player's Role Name, or a player's Post Restriction. You may guess one of each. If either of your guesses is correct, you can kill a player. Send your choice with your guesses; the target does not have to be one of your guesses, nor do the guesses have to be about the same player. Once you have correctly guessed either Role Name or Post Restriction for a player, you may no longer "win" kills by guessing that player. You are immune to any investigations. You can choose one night to disappear instead of killing, making yourself immune to all night actions. You win if all players other than yourself are dead. Post Restriction: You're Derren Brown! No one tells you what to say. You tell them. Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will result in a loss of all abilities the following Night.

• Notes: It was decided that if the Serial Killer ended up in a situation where all the roles left had been guessed, he would then get a one-shot kill to last the rest of the game.

Seol

Role Name: You are Perry Mason, the Defense Attorney! Role Description: You've decided to take a vacation, having retired from lawyering. However, the urge to figure things out runs too deep for you to repress entirely. You'll be watching everyone very closely. Role Details: During Night, you may choose to investigate the player of your choice. You will discover whether they are "good" or "bad". You may only use this ability once during the game. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: Retired or not, you can't help your tendency toward grandiose speeches. In order to get across the importance of what you have to say, you must italicize at least two words in every post. Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will make you unable to use your ability the following Night.

• Notes: An investigation of the Serial Killer or the Traitor (pre-recruitment) would have gotten a "good" result. An investigation of any of the Satanic Nuns would have gotten a "bad" result (a play on the Mason connection).

Tamuz

Role Name: You are Chantelle Houghton, Fake Celebrity! Role Description: Chantelle, please come to the diary room. Chantelle, Big Brother would like to congratulate you on successfully faking your way to a victory in Celebrity Big Brother. Big Brother is so proud of you that he is giving you a new secret mission. You are to infiltrate a group of orators, politicians, writers, and philosophers. In order to succeed in your mission, you need to keep them from realizing that you aren't really one of them. Oh, and you might want to avoid getting yourself killed. Role Details: You may not claim your real role. If you choose to claim a role, you must claim an orator, politician, writer, or philosopher, along with an ability (you may not claim Vanilla Townie). If you are unsure whether a claim is legal, ask the Moderator before making it. If you claim your name, or someone figures it out, you will be evicted... permanently. In order to win, you must survive. Post Restriction: You may have won Celebrity Big Brother, but you're still blonde. Each post must contain one of the following phrases: "that's like", "totally", "oh my god". Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will affect the End of Day scene.

• Notes: The appearances of Big Brother in the scenes were the result of failures by this role. Chantelle was neutral. Only the Serial Killer needed her dead to meet a winning condition.

the silent speaker

Role Name: You are Italo Calvino, the Writer! Role Description: Having written yourself into this peculiar tale of Mafia, you find yourself gifted with a bizarre plot device. As a member of the OuLiPo group, you hold the mystic Rod of Restriction. Normally you would be wary of its power... but this is just a story. Right? Italo Calvino has advanced far beyond his American and English contemporaries. As they continue to look for the place where the spiders make their nests, Calvino has not only found this special place but learned how himself to make fantastic webs of prose to which all things adhere. - Gore Vidal Role Details: Each night, you must give a post restriction to another player, which applies to each of that player's posts for the following Day. The restriction must come from the following list: 1. For each post, one sentence's ten XOR more words need different initial letters. 2. Each sentence within a post must have a different number of words. 3. Each post must contain one mispelling. (Slang, "wtfbbq" for example, does not count. The intended word must be recognizable for it to be considered a proper misspelling error.) 4. Each post must contain a "word" (unbroken string of letters preceded by a space and followed by a space or non-hyphen punctuation mark) of at least five letters containing only consonants. 5. Each post must contain a number which has not appeared in a previous post. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: Each of your own posts must follow one of the restrictions from the preceding list. You do not need to follow the same restriction for the entire Day. In addition, you may not claim your role name. Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. - Italo Calvino Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will earn you a penalty post. It must be posted as your first post the following Day, and must contain all the restrictions from your list.

Werebear

Role Name: You are John Locke, the Doctor! Role Description: Your mind is sharp and ready to engage in discussion with the others, wherever the conversation may turn. Being a doctor, you are also ready and able to assist those who need assistance. After all, no one else has the right to harm another. Role Details: Each Night, you may choose another player. That player will be protected from one injury. You may not choose the same player on consecutive Nights. You may not protect yourself. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: You are only allowed to Nominate three different players during each Day, and you are only allowed to Vote for one player during each Day. You may, however, Unvote, Unnominate, Revote, and Renominate as many times as you like. Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will cost you your ability the following Night.

VitaminR

Role Name: You are Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow, the Suicidal! Role Description: As the founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, you should fit right in with the politicians and other speaker types here. You're here to party! Of course, if no one likes you, there's no fun in that, right? Right. Role Details: Each Day you must receive at least one Nomination from another player. Otherwise, you will kill yourself the following Night. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: SCREAM! Each of your posts must contain a word (of at least four letters) in CAPS. Abbreviations do not count. Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will depress you, so you'll not only need a Nomination the next Day to fight off your suicidal tendencies, you'll need a Vote as well.

Cogito Ergo Sum

Role Name: You are Sister Grace Voluble, the Satanic Nun! Role Description: You aren't sure you and your fellow nuns fit in here, but that won't stop you from talking incessantly. Anyway, of all the things you could be asked to do in service of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan and Lord of Darkness, this is one of the most pleasant you could think of. Most of the members of the convent were old-fashioned Satanists, like their parents and grandparents before them. They'd been brought up to it and weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow. - Good Omens Role Details: You know that the other members of your order, mikeburnfire and petroleumjelly, are innocent. You may talk to them during the Night. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: The first five posts of each Day must start with "S", "A", "T", "A", and "N" respectively. Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will increase your minimum posting requirements to 7 sentences, 50 words in those sentences, and 9 posts total during the following Day.

petroleumjelly

Role Name: You are Sister Mary Loquacious, the Satanic Nun! Role Description: You aren't sure you and your fellow nuns fit in here, but that won't stop you from talking incessantly. Maybe you can even use the experience in the future as a business training exercise. Most of the members of the convent were old-fashioned Satanists, like their parents and grandparents before them. They'd been brought up to it and weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow. - Good Omens Role Details: You know that the other members of your order, Cogito Ergo Sum and mikeburnfire, are innocent. You may talk to them during the Night. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: Sister Mary, you love making small talk. Each of your posts must address one other player (just mentioning the player does not count; you must direct a statement or question at the player, addressing him or her by name). Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will increase your minimum posting requirements to 7 sentences, 50 words in those sentences, and 9 posts total during the following Day.

mikeburnfire

Role Name: You are Sister Gabriella "Gabby" Gregarious, the Satanic Nun! Role Description: You aren't sure you and your fellow nuns fit in here, but that won't stop you from talking incessantly. Keep your eyes open for signs of the Apocalypse! Most of the members of the convent were old-fashioned Satanists, like their parents and grandparents before them. They'd been brought up to it and weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow. - Good Omens Role Details: You know that the other members of your order, petroleumjelly and Cogito Ergo Sum, are innocent. You may talk to them during the Night. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: You're very proud of your name. Each of your posts must contain a word containing "GG". You can not use the same word for this purpose in consecutive posts. Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will increase your minimum posting requirements to 7 sentences, 50 words in those sentences, and 9 posts total during the following Day.

SpamWise

Role Name: You are Demosthenes, the Prosecutor! Role Description: You are one of the greatest of the Ancient Greek orators. However, while your main interest lies in public affairs, you still have some skill as a prosecutor. Role Details: During Night, you have the option of investigating one player. You will discover whether they are "blood-thirsty" or "pure". You may only use this ability once during the game. You win when all evil players are eliminated. Post Restriction: You may have overcome your childhood speech impediment to become one of the great speakers, but you still have an occasional stutter. Three times per day you must double a word. For example: "I am am Demosthenes." The result need not be grammatically incorrect. Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will cause you to lose your ability for the following Night.

• Notes: An investigation of the Serial Killer or the Traitor (pre-recruitment) would have gotten a "pure" result. An investigation of John Locke would have gotten a "blood-thirsty" result (a reference to Ender's Game).

Fiasco

Role Name: You are Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, the Fascist Dictator! Role Description: Italy will rise again! Eliminating a few speakers and writers who might speak out (and write) against you seems like a small thing, but you've got to start somewhere. Role Details: You are in the Italian Mafia with Thok and LoudmouthLee. On any Night, you may choose to kill another player in the game by shooting them (even if another Mafia member is also committing a murder). You may only use this ability once during the game. You are also aware of a Traitor loyal to your cause, though you aren't sure who the Traitor is. The Traitor wins with the Mafia whether recruited or not, but your group can make the Traitor a full Mafia member (with the ability to kill) by saying "Et tu, PLAYERNAME". You win when all players who oppose you are dead. Post Restriction: You must construct your posts carefully, perhaps through the use of a trestle, and include two words of at least six letters which are anagrams. Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will mean you can not use your killing ability the following Night.

Thok

Role Name: You are Nero Claudius Cæsar Augustus Germanicus, the Crazy Emperor! Role Description: Burn burn burn burn burn burn burn. Role Details: You are in the Italian Mafia with LoudmouthLee and Fiasco. On any Night, you may choose to kill another player in the game by bludgeoning them (even if another Mafia member is also committing a murder). You may only use this ability once during the game. You are also aware of a Traitor loyal to your cause, though you aren't sure who the Traitor is. The Traitor wins with the Mafia whether recruited or not, but your group can make the Traitor a full Mafia member (with the ability to kill) by saying "Et tu, PLAYERNAME". You win when all players who oppose you are dead. Post Restriction: Each of your posts must contain a synonym for crazy (first entry). Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will mean you can not use your killing ability the following Night.

Commodore Amazing / HalfMan

Role Name: You are Marcus Junius Brutus, the Traitor! Role Description: You aren't sure how you ended up on this crazy adventure, but you are delighted to discover that a few of the other passengers are plotting against the rest. You aren't sure who the plotters are yet, but this is exactly the sort of fun you could use. After all, Dante has already condemned you to the lowest level of Hell; it can't get much worse than that, so you might as well make the most of your remaining time here. You'll have to make them aware of your intentions, of course, which might be tricky to do with everyone else watching. Role Details: You currently have no abilities. In order for you to join the Mafia, one of the Mafia members must say "Et tu, XXXX", during the day. The following Night, you will become a normal Mafia member. Whether you are recruited or not, you win if the Mafia win. Post Restriction: Beware the Ides of Mafia! Each of your posts must contain "I'd". Posting Requirements/Restrictions, First Failure: Failing during the Day will keep you from being recruited the following Night, even if the Mafia carries out their part of it.

• Notes: The XXXX was supposed to have been replaced with the name of the player, not just any phrase... thus the "auditions" and other general confusion. Once he finally asked about it, he received as some compensation for the error the information that the Mafia were already aware of the correct form. After recruitment, the role received a one-shot stabbing to match the other one-shot kills for the Mafia.