Observer.
Let's see what these Mafia games are about...

I made an advert to help get those last couple of players. You're welcome.

https://ibb.co/xj0WHdN

Nice m8....saved a copy......would you like the standard "Le Embarassed naked banana meme pic" in return? :)

No payment necessary, just doing my civic duty.

Has Carradice been informed?

I linked him and Schnee from the last sign-up board. Hopefully they see it.

Count me in for #9. Although time is scarce these days. Will have very little time to post... Endgame comments on HP thread will probably be the swan song... But Harry Potter was so much fun. Lets us give it a try, then if things get hairy maybe Micro can take over :-/

I'll keep the signup thread open for a few more days. We can run with 9 players if needs be, but it will be a short game. I would like to have at least 10. More are better.

Bump. Does someone else want to play?

Yeah, why not. I want to be a foolish teenager once again.

Yay! Welcome!

Maybe next time. I hope everyone is doing alright, I wish you guys and your loved ones all the best in these interesting times :)

Good phrase, great book!

Oh and so far those who have stated a preference seem to prefer the closed setup. I have one vote for twist, one vote for Lovers and two votes for closed.

For the new ones: open setups are those, where all roles that are in the game are known and all the mechanics are known.
in semi-open setups there is usually a list of roles that might be in the game, but not all of them have to be present. Usually the mechanics are also known, apart from maybe a twist or so. So while it isn't precisely know what is in the game, it is at least known, what roles aren't in the game. (so scum can't claim to be a role that isn't in the list)
In closed setups, all roles are secret. This allows scum to come up with outlandish role-claims that are too crazy not to be true. Some people (me included) like this kind of game because it opens the gates to creative ideas from the mod and from players. But it is more difficult to make out what can and what cannot be true.

In this case I can run the game as an open, no roles at all game. I always wanted to try that. That would mean that this game is pure social deduction without being able to resort to Cops or other investigators.

Or I run it as closed game, which fits the 'you all stumble into a haunted hotel and don't know what to expect' setting. So it's closest to the flavour.

Or I can make a list of possible roles that might be there, but include a twist. I.e. one or two of the possible roles might work a bit differently from how they are described on mafiascum.

So far the closed setup has a majority. If no one yells a veto against that, I will prepare that.