Welcome to 8-Ball FM, hosted by @Arete and @Ash on @FORTRESS_WEATHER_LIVE!
Rules:
- Follow the Global Rules and Forum Game Rules.
- To ensure the game runs smoothly, players who fail to meet the requirement of 15 substantive, on-topic posts will be immediately replaced. Players who zero-post in the first 24 hours of a day phase without informing the hosts in advance may also be replaced (if you must miss the first 24 hours, inform the hosts). These requirements may be adjusted if the day ends early due to majority.
- I will be monitoring the thread for toxicity, harassment, and excessive ATE. However, please do not hesitate to bring problematic posts to my attention if you believe I missed them.
- Alts are allowed, but you must inform the hosts of your identity.
Role List
Vanilla Town x6
Mafia Goon x2
The Vanilla Town will be flavored as Meteorologists. The Mafia will be flavored as People Trying To Predict The Weather With A Magic 8-Ball.
Sample role PMs:
Summary
Meteorologist, Vanilla Town
You are a Meteorologist, Vanilla Town. Your only weapons are your voice and your vote.
Defeat the Mafia.
Person Trying To Predict The Weather With A Magic 8-Ball, Mafia Goon
You are a Person Trying To Predict The Weather With A Magic 8-Ball, Mafia Goon. Each night, you must designate one player as the 8-Ball.
Reach parity with the Town.
Gameplay
- The set-up is an player setup with 6 Vanilla Townies and 2 Mafia Goons.
- Days are 48 hours unless majority is reached early and nights are 24 hours. SoD/EoD will occur at 2026-10-11T00:00:00Z on the relevant day (7:00 PM Eastern Time).
- There is NO default factional kill. Instead, every night (including Night 0), the Mafia secretly designate one player as the 8-Ball. If that player is executed the next day, the Mafia will have access to a single mandatory kill on the following night. It will be announced whether the player who was executed was the 8-Ball.
- The player designated as the 8-Ball may be either alignment.
- The same player may be designated as the 8-Ball on multiple consecutive nights.
- If no 8-Ball is submitted, the previous 8-Ball will still be considered the 8-Ball. If the previous 8-Ball was executed, the 8-Ball will be chosen randomly from among living villagers.
- On nights when Mafia have access to a kill, they must still also select a player to be the 8-Ball for the next day.
- Executions are majority and plurality. In the event of a tie, a player will be executed at random from among the tied players.
- No-execute is NOT a valid vote.
- Self-votes are considered valid votes.
- Votes are locked in F5 LyLo and F3 LyLo (“eliminate correctLY or LOse”), but not in MyLo.
- The Mafia will communicate through a private Discord server.