Since my (Awsum) game is now over its time to pass on the sacred title of GM to another. So get to work both potential GM's and voters.

Rules and Conditions.

Veteran players only.
The GM needs to posses a fair understanding on how the game runs. Therefore we require that the applicant has played the game at least twice

No encore performance.
As the current GM, it is up to me to pass the title to someone new. Once you're done running a game, you will also be expected to give someone else a chance. Don't start a new game. Instead you will run an election like this one where we pick a new GM. Also, you can't be a candidate yourself. This will ensure that we get new blood into the game and that the rules are regularly picked at from a different perspective. GMs from older games are free to run again and are encouraged to do so. Who knows? If they were good enough, people will flock to play their game again.

Explain your goal.
What do you plan to do as the new GM? Are you going to run a standard Mafia game? If so, will you change the rules/roles and/or introduce new ones? Are you perhaps gonna play a game with a different theme? Reverse Mafia perhaps or maybe zombie apocalypse? If so explain the new structure of the game. Changing the formula is OK. It happens in almost every game. Just be careful not to introduce a change so radical that it could scare people away from voting you. You can discuss rule changes and different themes here to see if people would like it.

And If I don't like a concept you will be required to alter it to my wishes!

Pick a schedule and stick with it It is important that the GM is punctual in maintaining the game. Do you plan to post narrations every 24 hours at a specific time? If so, make sure that you'll be here to on time to do so. If something comes up that would force you to be early or late, post a warning to let people know with an explanation. It's encouraged that you run the game using GMT timezone schedule since the players hail from all over the world, spanning different time zones and a GMT conversion table is the easiest one for everyone to access. If you plan on using a different time zone schedule like an American one, Make sure you advertise it well and post an appropriate conversion table for everyone to access.
An example of a GMT conversion table:

“Here's how it works. Figure out where in the world you live and locate that place on the map. Follow the line you're living in down to the bottom of the map and locate a number down there. Use that number to change the time that the GM gives (as long as he's using GMT, that is). For example, if the GM says that something will happen at 6 pm and your living in a -5 zone, it means that it will happen at 1 pm, your time. If you live in a +5 zone, it means that it will happen at 11pm.”

Also for those living in America, here's a handy time table to show you at what time you can expect the narrations.


Show us your stuff The GM is expected to write narrations to explain what's going on throughout the game. A good writer can make the game come alive and encourage players to come back to read what's going on. Show us your stuff and create a scenario where YOU(the applicant) kill ME (the election holder). In this narration it is important that you do not directly tell us that it was you who committed the crime but instead leave a clue that's based on your name, avatar, signature, profile, comic(if you have any), something that can link you to the crime. Try making a link to you that can be figured out with some research, while at the same time is not blatantly obvious. You can throw in red herrings but please refrain from directly connecting the herrings to innocents. Make them instead vague things that could point at many people. Finally, be creative, funny, dramatic, brutal, serious, descriptive, vague, long winded or short and to the point. Pick the style you feel comfortable with and would like to use. Impress us with what you can do. At the end of the narration post an explanation that shows people how the clues link to you so that we can understand your logic.

I'll be posting the applicants sample narrations in the second post for people to quickly read through. Once we have enough applications I will announce when it's time to vote for your favorite GM. Applicants do not need to vote since it's given that they'll be voting for themselves. Although if they wish to vote for someone else, they can do so.

May not run since im a bad GM but would anyone play a megaman mafia?
4 robot masters and a mad doctor vs megapeeps.
Roles would look like this:

Townie:

Doctor Light: Mayor
Roll: Pardoner
Megaman: Vig
Protoman: Vig
Various mans: Townies
Eddie: Paramedic
Duo: Vet
Mettaur(Now you know where his username came from): Paranoid

Anti Townie:
Dr Wily: Godfather
Bombman: Mad hatter
Other robot masters(let them choose which or even just make up their own. Hardly gonna matter): Hitmen

Serial Killers:
Bass and Treble.

Narration would sound like this.

Megaman warped into Kroatzman's facility. The terrain was a lava filled factory built at the side of a volcano. Various obstacles stood in his way. He Jumped over molten lava, blasted enemies and climbed various ladders. Making his way to the boss room he charged his buster. The doors open with a screech. He made his way into the room readying a charged shot. Kroatzman appeared and his life bar filled as he stood in a dramatic pose. Dootdootdootdootdootdootdootdootdootdootdootdootdootdootdootdoot. His lifebar was full. Megaman released his charged shot hitting kroatzman in the face.

“HEY! No fair! You shouldn't have a charged shot ready as soon as you enter the boss room!” Kroatzman said as he jumped up to the ceiling.
Megaman readied another “Ill do what i want. I am the mother fuckin' megaman!”
Kroatzman blasted a kroatz shot at megaman knocking him back. “HA!”
Megaman stopped moving for a second. Kroatzman was also unable to move.
“UNPAUSE!!” Kroatzman shouted as he looked at his watch.
Megaman changed color. He began blasting cakes at Kroatzman.
“Where did you get that!?” He said as he dodged the projectile cake.
“I beat Rokuwoman first!”
He blasted a cake that struck Kroatzman right in the torso. His lifebar was finished. He exploded into lots of little circles. His last words were “Only a kid uses strategy guides!”

I am the mother fucking megaman = You can guess who i assigned to megaman.
Kroatzman was just what i chose to call kroatz since this was just a sample narration.

This was for entertainment purposes only.

..awesome

But I'm still going to run. Later, maybe. But If I wouldn't run, I would vote for that awesome game of awesome.

…

..awesome.

No I wouldn't really want to do a Megaman styled thing.
Or a certain comic/cartoon/video game/whatever styled game at all.

I can't run until I go to college.
So a couple years.


I hate that I busy myself that much.


I want to be the veteran again this game.

I Am The 1337 Master
No I wouldn't really want to do a Megaman styled thing.
Or a certain comic/cartoon/video game/whatever styled game at all.

I agree. It's better when people don't make games only fans of the subject will get.

Hrmph, I need a new idea then. How about Townston after a disaster? The buildings are rubble, the Mafia and convicts have escaped from the prison, natural disasters and stuff. hows that?

You mean Townston after I'm through with it?

Yep.

It sounds like a pretty good idea but I think you'd have to add in more mafia and more serial killers to fit the way you want the game to be like.


And then that'd be chaos.


Weird that no one is signing up yet.

You guys killed Mafia.
Especially Same.

Shut your dutch face.

Well im not playing anymore anyway so i dont really care. Im working on a comic and trying not to half ass it. Also it was just a suggestion. Another idea i had was generic video game mafia. No actual use of “You need to know this about this to play.” But since it seems like a faggy enough idea i think ill just leave it in the back of my mind where it'll eventually float off back into space with my knowledge of algebra and chemistry.

Kroatz
You guys killed Mafia.
Especially Same.

Define “you guys”… cause I'm gunna just run with only a minor change to the basics…

Mafia XXXV: Babes, Booze, and bullets!
Basic Game, 1920's flavor.
New roles:
Townie Flapper Girl: Can cancel the powers of one individual a night by… er, distracting them with her shocking disregard for 1920's social restrictions Bare ankles? THAT HARLOT!.

Townie Detective: In addition to previous powers he can now do his job and shoot the gangsters… by which I mean if he doesn't investigate during the night, he can kill.

Mafia Bootlegger: Beyond the goon powers he can recruit one other player to the mafia team. Requires me to invite said player, and the invited player WILL know who did the inviting. if accepted, the invited player becomes a goon in ADDITION to their existing role (kill powers DON'T stack so no double kills)

Serial Murderer Town Drunk: A econd serial murderer that has a second night life that recharges after two days (ie loses it night 1, comes back night 3).

Role count (if you voting, I assume you are WELL aware how the roles not mention above work by now):
1 mayor
1 pardoner

1 detective
1 flapper
1 paranoid
1 vigilante
1 veteran
2 medics

1 don
2-3 goons
1 mad bomber
1 bootlegger

1 serial murderer
1 town drunk

Narration:
The night was young and swingin' as the detective took to the streets. While Townston cut up the rug with crazy things like the Charleston and the newest craze of jazz, HE had a job to do. He banged on the door to Ninja's place. He got the usual panel slide.
“Passwoyd?”
“The dumb-Dora Double-Crossed the Drug-Store Cowboy”
“K, daddy-o yer cool. But don't go takin' wooden nickles in here, eh?”
The detective nodded and walked in. He didn't plan to do anything stupid, although he couldn't speak for the hood he'd be meeting. He sauntered over to the table of Ninja's main supplier; Same.
“Got a warrant fer your arrest. You're coming with me one way or another pal” the detective spat.
“Beat it gumshoe. I got some serious pull with th' big cheese now, so unless you gotta pretty little broad for me, I ain't goin' nowhere!” Same proudly proclaimed.
“Fine, if you really don't wanna come with me, I'll send ya care o' Satan.” Same barely had time to decipher the detective's threat before he hit the ground.
Same the Bootlegger DIDN'T shoot first… or at all
As Kroatz walked up to his victim he saw a shadow fly at him,
“NOT THE BOOZE!” his attacker roared. Kroatz tried to point his gun for a shot but the attacker was already on top of him. The two hit the ground with a bang and the gun flew from Kroatz's hand. The attacker through a swing at Kroatz who easily countered it.
“Listen, I don't wanna fill out the paper work for two, so just back off ya crazy Palooka!”
“I got a game fer ya, Dick. I call it… ROOSHAMBO!” The man cried and his foot flew into Kroatz's groin. Kroatz collapsed into a heap as he assailant approached for the finisher.
“My only regret, is not killing Mettaur…” Kroatz spat his last words as the attacker pointed Kroatz's own gun at him.
Kroatz the detective was bumped off

Clues:
“saw a shadow fly at him”: its my goddammed name
“NOT THE BOOZE!” I'm the town drunk
“I got a game” My comic Canadian Gamers

Woah…this is such a awesome design, and more mobster type with the proper time setting. NINJA! He has my vote!

Vote jninja!


Because there's no one else to vote for.

Yes. I will. Everyone else should do so as well.

God damn it. Ill do what the big text says. Also because I want Jay to win.

Many people
I'm voting for Jay!

Well.
Ehm…
I'm gonna wait with the election until there are at least two good ideas.

I would also like to declare my intention to vote for jninjashadow.

I should make that paint image my desktop background.

So… um… really? NO ONE else wants to run?

Or will I?

Im running. Heres my games rules.

Mafia XXXV: What the hells going on with this game.
Roles:
In a game of 19 players the roles would look like this.
Townie:
Townie x 1

Anti Townie:
Godfather x 1
Hitman x 15
Madhatter x 1


Serial killer x 1

Once it reaches day 2 everyone dies of radiation poisoning.

I still only have one person to vote for…

People should at least TRY to be GM.

Leet commands you.

Um, I can put up something later, but lets face that it's so awesome, I'll probably not even have my own vote. I even got a mobster avi ready.

Mettaur
Um, I can put up something later, but lets face that it's so awesome, I'll probably not even have my own vote. I even got a mobster avi ready.

Giovanni? Someone has high hopes…

jninjashadow

Mettaur
Um, I can put up something later, but lets face that it's so awesome, I'll probably not even have my own vote. I even got a mobster avi ready.

Giovanni? Someone has high hopes…

I always do my friend, I always do.

Well. I guess I'll run. I'm cutting back on Saturdays and just plan on working from 10pm to close on Thursday-Saturday. However that means that the game will have to wait until after this upcoming weekend (Alabama vs. Florida. And I thought Penn State was bad)

Anywho.

DA SETUP
Duck Wars
three thousand two hundred forty-two years, seven months, two weeks, three days, seven hours, six minutes, and 14.34578978 seconds in the future there is a war going on between the Humanity Union Meta Bureau of Unlimited Gruesomeness and the Federal Republics of Orion are at War. An epic struggle takes place among the stars. Fleets numbering in the thousands do battle over pivotal locations. Each one flinging the fury of a hundred suns at each other. This has nothing to do with New Townston, a colony on a small backwater world belonging to H.U.M.B.U.G., except that a band of resistance fighters has now taken root. And pouring liquid oxygen over the whole damn mess is a recon pilot whose been shot down. And for the piece de resistance, the town has been conscripted to fix both problems. There goes the the neighborhood.

DA ROLES
HUMBUG Infantry
You've been assigned the task of ridding your town of the resistance fighters that have cropped up as well as capturing the recon pilot for interrogation. There are also rumors of an alien menace terrorizing the citizenry, investigate and neutralize any threat. Failure in these objectives will result in paperwork, lots and lots of paperwork.

The Commander(1) Elected: Due to some flub up at central, the town is left with out a commanding officer, so they elect one. As the CO you have several abilities:
This is a democracy: you cast two votes instead of one.
Discipline is the root of efficiency:This is war, efficiency is the key to victory so lynching two people at a time is more efficient and helps get the troops to work a little harder to find those pesky resistance fighters. Can be declared twice.
Surrounded by a layer of ablative meat:You're the CO, you don't take bullets your troops take bullets for you. Cannot be killed at night while both of his Honor Guard troops are alive, lynching is fair game though.
Fire at will: For one night all your non-specialists will be able to kill one other person. Use with caution because your Honor Guard is reduced by one for the night.

The Exec(1)Elected: You ran for the top slot but couldn't cut it. But hey, being second in command has it's own perks.
You're all on KP duty!:When things get out of hand you can cancel a lynch and put everyone on KP duty for the remainder of the day. Can be used twice. If used during a double lynch only one of them is spared.
Surrounded by a layer of ablative meat:You're the CO, you don't take bullets your troops take bullets for you. Cannot be killed at night while both of his Honor Guard troops are alive, lynching is fair game though.
Burning through the ranks:If The Commander is killed You become The Commander with all the powers and responsibilities all one shot abilities are restored and can be used along with you're normal abilities.

The Tank(1): You're a bloody tank. No one takes you down on the first try and you kill people and break their stuff, with kiloton yields. You have two night lives every night (tanks can be repaired) and get one kill every night. Attacking the paranoid, being attacked by the Demolitions expert, or getting lynched is an instakill.

INFINTOPS(1): You're the intel guy, you've got dirt on almost everyone.
Background check: reveals whether someone is HUMBUG Infantry or an impostor. If used on the Downed Recon Pilot, it's an insta-capture. can be used twice
HEY THAT'S NOT YOUR UNIFORM!: can check the results of any vote to find out how many enemies voted.

Medic(2): You took and oath long ago to “Do no harm,” well at least not directly. You can protect one person a night, but you can't protect each other.

Black Ops (1): You are a black angel come from the heavens to bring fear to your enemies. You appear as a regular grunt to the Bug Man. You can kill anyone, anytime, but only once.

Paranoid (1): Gunfire, explosion and the muzak of the combat make you jumpy, really jumpy. You kill the first person that comes near you every night. The only exceptions are the Demolitions Expert and the Black Ops guy.

Quarter Master (1): You know people, people that do shady, but nowhere near treasonous things. You know the role of one of the infantry, you can completely trust this person.

Honor Guard (2): Your job is to take a bullet for the under-qualified, over-paid Brass. Sucks to be you.

Grunt (the rest of the lot): You stand at attention, get shot at, and lynch people to relieve the tedium. If you're lucky you live to fight another day. If you're really lucky you get to shoot back. If you're unlucky, well good luck being a human shield, hope you already got life insurance.



La Resistance!
VIVA LA REVOLUTION! You are tired of the way this way has brought out the worst in the government. Your solution? Rebel and establish a new government. or at least not get deaded. Your goal is to outnumber the HUMBUG Infantry, kill or capture the recon pilot, and kill the Black Marketeer and the Schlockinator.

Chief (1): You're tha big cheese of this group of misfits. You are cunning, your armed, and, most importantly, you've got cunning, dangerous friends to help you kill people and break stuff.
Smoke and mirrors: You can cancel one lynch, in the event of a double lynch, you cancel both of them. Can be used once.
Hard ball: You can arrange for someone break someone else's legs. This person can't do anything for two cycles. Passive abilities such as night lives and reflex killings still work. Does not work on the Tank. HE DRIVES A FRIGGIN' TANK!
Hiding in plain sight: You appear as a simple HUMBUG Infantryman. While in this state, you are immune from attacks.
Let's blow shit up: You appear as a resistance fighter. You can kill people and break their stuff. You can be attacked, but you can shoot back. triggered by A ) sending in a kill. B ) losing the rest of your team.

Demolitions Expert (1): You love your job, I mean REALLY love your job. You blow stuff up. You're also the only person that can one shot the tank. You can plant as many bombs and IDE's as you like, but you can have two in circulation. They explode on command or when you die. If a person with a bomb is killed, the bomb is gone. Poof, bye-bye. You can't blow up a bomb on the same night that you plant one, and you can only plant one bomb a night.

Bug Man (1): You're the electronics expert. You ride info currents as easily as you breath. This gives you some special abilities.
Ghost in the machine: You can gather clues to a person's true role, but only once. You can use this ability once every cycle, but be forewarned, they know you're out there.
Bug in the system: You're bugs are the best. You can get much better intel than the INFINTOPS guy, but at a price. While you can find out the true role of one person, you can only do it once. You can't use this on anyone who you have already used the GITM ability on.

Bob (2): Nondescript, uninteresting, unemotional, You can shoot an entire family in the face and not even flinch. You can kill once a night.



Neutral
You're not for any of the above sides. Your goals are all different but one thing's for sure, you REALLY wish th HUMBUG was dead dead DEAD!

The Recon Pilot (1) getting shot down sucks. Getting shot down while over a rinky dink planet sucks even more. And being behind enemy lines just seems par for the course. You want off this damn rock and the only way to do it is to find a smuggler. if your attacked at night by the tank at anytime, or by anyone else while searching for the Black Marketeer, you'll be captured. instead of killed. The difference is that you can vote until the end of the game and are protected from further attacks. You just can't go anywhere. you can still be lynched though. If captured, the side that captures the Recon Pilot gets a boost during the next night or until the end of the game. Boosts include: Non-kill roles get a onetime chance to kill, Extra night life for kill roles. + 25% chance of survival, extra lynch cancel, extra Fire at Will, and extra shots on limited abilities for detectives.
Button up: You kill anyone who attacks you. It doesn't matter who and what manner. Unless it's the Tank then I guess it's a good thing you have a spare set of knickers.
Roll out:You're looking for the Black Marketeer. You pq the GM the person you're going to visit. If it is the Black Marketeer, yippee you're off this rock. If it isn't, well you just have to wait until tomorrow night. Since you listen before rushing in, you can't be killed by the paranoid.

The Black Marketeer (1): You look pretty and smile No one suspects you, but you deal in, ah, questionable items. Your goal is to live until the end of this whole mess. As a provider of cool, quasi-legal items you have a few tricks up your sleeve.
Harmless: you appear as a HUMBUG Infantryman to the INFINTOPS guy. You are immune from attack from the HUMBUG Infantry. You remain in this state until the recon pilot gets off world, dies, or is captured.
Mostly Harmless: You can now kill once per night, but you're also vulnerable to attack.
For a nominal fee: anyone can come to you for protection, but for a price. You can change the vote of anyone who seeks protection from you at any vote. However, you can only do this once per person and only once per vote. (You can't change seven people's votes on one vote, but you can change their votes over seven votes) Also you operate on a first come first serve basis.

Schlockinator (1): You burn your enemies to ash, then eat them. You love to kill and do it often. You have two night lives period. While you can be lynched, You can take one person down with you. you want to kill everyone except the Black Marketeer.

Narration

Mettaur quaked in fear as Jninjashadow slept off a hangover at his post. Death would come, he knew it. A black shadow flitted across the ground and Mettaur ran in a panic.

“Pathetic.”

“I agree.”

The shadow turned and looked into a pair of yellow eyes.

“Well, since you have so kindly provided a target, it would be rude of me not to accept this invitation,” said the shadow.

“You are assuming that the yellow is only for your convience,” came the reply.

There was a dull red flash of light and the smell of superheated meat.

Then…


Kroatz the Blackops is dead.


Clues:

Yellow eyes and dull red light both come from my avi.



Narrations will be at 18:00 CDT unless stated otherwise. (that's 0:00 GMT) actions end an hour before that.

Clues will come from profiles, comic thumbnails, friends, the first few pages of any comic, favorites, and avatars. They will be hard (as hard as I can make them anyway) and they will be attached to any action. Killings and protections being the most obvious.

I will also incorporate any zany, crazy, inane, asinine, and otherwise weird request you may have into the narrations, if I can.

First person to submit an action or vote each cycle gets to request a drawing, which will be displayed in the next narration, quality may be suspect, but I will try my best.

With one, its shouting into the emptiness… with two, its an election! Lets do this thing my friend!


Also, my friend sent my something horrifying. Who remembers the Pokemon Paras and Parasect?


Cause this is what they are based off of:
Nature is frightening and beautiful at times…
but mostly frightening…

Well, I suppose people can vote now.


VOTING IS OPEN!
You people have 'till thursday!