Mafia Through the Looking Glass: Intro and Sign-up thread

[SisterCoyote]

But this is taking us away from Alice's speech to the kitten. 'Let's pretend that you're the Red Queen, Kitty! Do you know, I think if you sat up and folded your arms, you'd look exactly like her. Now do try, there's a dear!' And Alice got the Red Queen off the table, and set it up before the kitten as a model for it to imitate: however, the thing didn't succeed, principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldn't fold its arms properly. So, to punish it, she held it up to the Looking-glass, that it might see how sulky it was—'and if you're not good directly,' she added, 'I'll put you through into Looking-glass House. How would you like THAT?'

'Now, if you'll only attend, Kitty, and not talk so much, I'll tell you all my ideas about Looking-glass House. First, there's the room you can see through the glass—that's just the same as our drawing room, only the things go the other way. I can see all of it when I get upon a chair—all but the bit behind the fireplace. Oh! I do so wish I could see THAT bit! I want so much to know whether they've a fire in the winter: you never CAN tell, you know, unless our fire smokes, and then smoke comes up in that room too—but that may be only pretence, just to make it look as if they had a fire. Well then, the books are something like our books, only the words go the wrong way; I know that, because I've held up one of our books to the glass, and then they hold up one in the other room.

'How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty? I wonder if they'd give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn't good to drink—But oh, Kitty! now we come to the passage. You can just see a little PEEP of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing-room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond. Oh, Kitty! how nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking-glass House! I'm sure it's got, oh! such beautiful things in it! Let's pretend there's a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let's pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it's turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! It'll be easy enough to get through—' She was up on the chimney-piece while she said this, though she hardly knew how she had got there. And certainly the glass WAS beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist.

In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room.

Welcome to the far side of the Looking Glass. Not all things are as they seem, here, and it'll take chess skills and all your strategy to survive. For here be the Jabberwock, the Snark and the Boojum, sheep knitting sweaters and the Vorpal Sword. Run as fast as you can to stay in place, and remember that Words may not mean what you think they do.

Enjoy the waxworks, after you've paid -- or speak to them if you think they're people. Remember you're a pawn, and you need to get across the chessboard to become a queen if you want out of the game alive. And watch out for knives, and Mome Raths, and other people who don't want you to ascend.

Mafia through the Looking Glass is a 25-player game. Two factions vie for supremacy: who will win?

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Sign up here if you're interested.

[Giraffe]

In!

[Scuba Ben]

Out. Babbeh needs attention; after Last Stand finishes I'm on a Mafia break.

Which is a pity, because I do like the theme of this game.

[gnarlycharlie]

been waiting for this. i'm in. i'll see if ihave time to join KidV's game too.

[crys]

/in

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[Wombat99]

/in

Do we really have to be good at chess? Because I'm not. My first-grader beats me.

[SisterCoyote]

Color is always just color.

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[Scuba Ben]

Eh, please spoil me, SisC.

[KidVermicious]

Originally Posted by gnarlycharlie

been waiting for this. i'm in. i'll see if ihave time to join KidV's game too.

[SisterCoyote]

Originally Posted by Scuba Ben

Eh, please spoil me, SisC.

Soon as I set up the spoiler boards.

[peekercpa]

sure, why not.

[Colby11]

I was going to sit out...

But I loved the last game that you modded, so I'll play

[SisterCoyote]

Woo hoo, over 1/5 of the slots taken.

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[Zeener Diode]

Chess + Alice Through the Looking Glass?

Color me /In

[peekercpa]

Originally Posted by Zeener Diode

Chess + Alice Through the Looking Glass?

Color me /In

NKR7Dch - >>> hmm.

can't vote story since he has kind of got enveloped by life.

obviously the only move is

vote zeener

i believe that to be chmt.

[Zeener Diode]

[Val Salva]

/In

[Colby11]

Hi Val... Or should I call you by your former name?

[Askthepizzaguy]

I will in myself just to support fellow game host and all around awesome person SisterCoyote.

Not that I've ever outed myself. That's still a secret. I'm pretty sure.

[gnarlycharlie]

Originally Posted by Colby11

Hi Val... Or should I call you by your former name?

why? was there a sex change done recently?

[Val Salva]

Originally Posted by Colby11

Hi Val... Or should I call you by your former name?

Either name is fine

I just thought things would feel less personal if I wasn't using my real name.

Let's hope it works.

[Val Salva]

Originally Posted by gnarlycharlie

why? was there a sex change done recently?

lol! No, I'm all woman.

[gnarlycharlie]

Originally Posted by Val Salva

lol! No, I'm all woman.

yeah, having a username that's different from your actual name helps. it does feel less personal, at least in mafia.

[Scuba Ben]

Originally Posted by peekercpa

NKR7Dch - >>> hmm.

can't vote story since he has kind of got enveloped by life.

obviously the only move is

vote zeener

i believe that to be chmt.

modkill peeker just for the heck of it.

[Colby11]

Originally Posted by Val Salva

Either name is fine

I just thought things would feel less personal if I wasn't using my real name.

Let's hope it works.

Yeah, given the last game, I completely understand

[SisterCoyote]

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[Chucara]

Never player two games at once, but here goes.. I'm in.

[Colby11]

Originally Posted by Chucara

Never player two games at once, but here goes.. I'm in.

Prepare for lots of fun, frustration, and confusion

[SisterCoyote]

Originally Posted by Chucara

Never player two games at once, but here goes.. I'm in.

Pfft. Wimp. I've played in up to four games at once.

Though I think that might have broken my brain, too...

[LightFoot]

since it's you I'll sign up for this too
will I ever learn?

[SisterCoyote]

It's a sickness.

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[Colby11]

Originally Posted by LightFoot

since it's you I'll sign up for this too
will I ever learn?

Nope... (ps someone alert everyone else over on Idle that I will try to get over there if possible, having IPad issues)

[SisterCoyote]

I dropped a note in the Gastard game thread.

[Colby11]

Thanks SisC...

(the rest of this comment has been self edited...)

[peekercpa]

Originally Posted by Colby11

Thanks SisC...

(the rest of this comment has been self edited...)

yaknow this is a good general rule of thumb. any post or conversation you feel that absolutely must be made, if it's after about 9p, would best be served if you wait until the following day.

[Dizzymrslizzy]

/in if you don't mind

[Rabid Renaissance]

/in please. I will try not to get cranky.

[Colby11]

Let's just not put Rabid Cookies into the scum group lol

[Swammerdami]

/In ?

Originally Posted by Colby11

Let's just not put Rabid Cookies into the scum group lol

Uh oh, just when I was starting to get used to you guys and gals, you're changing names!

Can I change my name to Heterometrus swammerdami ? (As you see from the picture, she, just like me, is actually a sweet and docile creature.)

[Rabid Renaissance]

It has been a few years now. I think I've exploited all of the name confusion that I'm likely to ever get already.

[Suburban Plankton]

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

Color is always just color.

Yeah, like you expect us to believe that

/in please

[Colby11]

So blue is like red?

[Suburban Plankton]

Originally Posted by Colby11

So blue is like red?

If you're a Libertarian, they're pretty much the same, yeah.

[SisterCoyote]

Originally Posted by Suburban Plankton

Yeah, like you expect us to believe that

Believe it or don't. I honestly don't think I've ever run a game where the color was anything but.


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We need five more players minimum before I can start; I'd prefer to go up to the max but can re-balance for 20, I think.

[Suburban Plankton]

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

Believe it or don't. I honestly don't think I've ever run a game where the color was anything but.

OK then.

Seriously (if I'm allowed to be serious), if you say so, then I believe you.

I do actually like it when the color is more than 'just' color, like in the All Star game that just finished where the descriptions of the deaths gave clues as to the identity of the killers. It adds one more piece to the puzzle that has to be put into place to help 'solve the mystery'. But I can also appreciate when the mods want to play it straight-forward.

[peekercpa]

Originally Posted by Suburban Plankton

OK then.

Seriously (if I'm allowed to be serious), if you say so, then I believe you.

I do actually like it when the color is more than 'just' color, like in the All Star game that just finished where the descriptions of the deaths gave clues as to the identity of the killers. It adds one more piece to the puzzle that has to be put into place to help 'solve the mystery'. But I can also appreciate when the mods want to play it straight-forward.

while i agree with you burby i also understand the reasoning for color just being color. for some reason we pick the nits heavily (acknowledgement to cookies). and a poorly placed preposition by the mog causes so much angst that it really becomes distracting. so if color is other than color town better get something in return because you gotta believe that scum will be all over it like stink on shit.

[Flying Squid with Goggles]

In!

[SisterCoyote]

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[SisterCoyote]

I've posted notification on the FB group and over at idle (plus sent an invite directly to Beckman because he was fun in All Star). I know the LBB folks know about this game.

Anywhere else we can scare up a few players? Or anyone else I should be sending a direct ping?

[Merestil Haye]

I'm afraid I will not be playing. Sorry. I really can't handle two games at once now.