*Reposting from ReBoot.cc*

I want to propose a game I've been playing and hosting for a couple of years on a certain forum. I'll give the rules as they are, and if people are interested I'll adjust them to better suit the ReBoot universe.

The game is a very simplified variant of the classical Mafia, and is called ISP. Don't ask. ^ghx

Where to start... how about from the beginning?
The premise of the game: some characters are stuck together in a closed environment. One of them is a Villain in disguise, and the objective of the game is to find him before the game ends.

Before the game starts, the GM (Game Master) sends each of the players a private message which contains their status (Villain or innocent character) and another component of the game: a code word. The code word is a noun of moderate size: 'pencil', 'apple', 'flag', etc. More about the code words later.

The game is composed of rounds, called 'Days'. During the Days (maybe we should call them 'Seconds' here, though) the players interact in character, and basically do whatever they want, on one condition: every day each player must make three obligatory posts, one of which should contain their code word. You'll see why in a moment.

At the end of each Day all players send a PM to the GM with their vote: the player they want to 'uncover', and what they think is that player's code word. Automatically, whoever guesses someone else's word gets some sort of in-game bonus from the GM.
Now the GM counts the votes. The player the majority voted for will be "exposed" in the intro of the next "Day". If this was a regular, innocent player, nothing happens; the player stays in the game - but now everyone knows they're innocent.
However, if the majority had voted for the Villain... he's exposed in the next Day's intro (or "lyrics"), and the game ends. But does it end in victory? Ah, it depends!
See, if one of the voters guessed the Villain's word, the players win, and the Villain is beaten. But if the word had not been guessed, the Villain gets exposed, and then gets away. A tie, practically.

That's pretty much it, have I forgotten something?.. oh, yes. The number of Days is limited, of course. It's limited to half of the number of players. So if 8 players sign up to play, they have only 4 Days to find the Villain. If they don't... Game Over.
There's also an optional rule for a traitor, who works in league with the Villain. The traitor is, by definition, not in disguise (or at least not Viral or something like that), so they come across as innocent, which gives them the power to influence the players.

What do you think?

Sounds fun, I'll play!

Interesting.
I think I'll join, though I haven't RPed in a while.

So, it's basically like Mafia with fewer roles but a few extra twists.  Sounds fun, I'd love to join in.

Count me in!

Okay, so it's four players here and two at ReBoot.cc. It's not enough for a good game...
Oh, and where do we play it —  here or there?

I will join..If its not too late

You already signed up on reboot.cc, Herr Doktor! I can't count you as two players, although I'm sure you can play two characters if you wanted. Still, not enough players, not enough...

I'm still interested as how this game works. Anyone still interested?   If not enought required active people is met, then I'd ask Hex to cooperate anyway with me playing whatever number of fake players needed, posting each person's pm's to the public, so at least, we have some idea how this game is supposed to be played

I dont know, it looks like it would have been fun

I've never RPed before, but it looks like fun and I'd like to play if there are people still interested in it.  I don't know how this thread slipped past my radar the first time.

So it's like that real world game? I think it's called Mafia (though I think it's another name) where the villain/killer can kill someone with a wink?

It does sound interesting. Again, question - can the villain do villainous things? Is the game set in Mainframe/RB systems? Would we have a normal conversation with others with the use of the code word?

Yeah, ...well... I think. Yeah, it's similar to that fun game except the guess the word thing as well. Except it doesn't seem like the villain this time has no power to kill people...which is probably what the code word and time limit aspect is for to compensate. Yes, the game can take place in Mainframe or any other system in the Reboot universe. It depends on the scenario decided by the Lyric, who is separate from the main gamemaster and thus can still play the game too and vote like everyone else

Yeah, you can defiinitely use codeword in a conversation if you wanted to.

Here's a post from Hex from the other forum:

Quoted from Hex

Okay, eight people!

However, four of them have signed up at TJH:
Vectoria, icecheetah, FireFox, ThePhantomSquee.

Until they move here (if they want to), there are two other things we need to decide upon.

1)Roles! Who wants to play whom? This is tied to:

2)The plot. What brings the characters together, how do they find out about the traitor, and what makes them stay put and try to solve this by themselves? Now, usually, this is all decided by the GM and exposed only in the Lyrics for the first Day of the game, but... well, I'm not used to writing ReBoot fiction (and the games I use to run aren't even in English), so I guess I will need some help in this department, at least for the first game. Notice the hope in the last sentence.
Maybe we could do it this way: in many games there are actually two GMs: one of them (the "Physic") upholds the rules, counts the votes, makes sure everybody writes their word at least once in their posts, etc. Also, crucially, the Physic chooses the codewords and picks the Traitor.
The second GM (the "Lyric") has nothing to do with all of that, and doesn't even know who the traitor is, which means that the Lyric can (and usually does) play like a normal player. However, the Lyric writes the intros to all of the Days, and when the Physic counts the votes at the end of a Day, he passes the name of the eliminated player to the Lyric, who uses it to write the next one.
Yeah, I know it sounds a bit complicated, but it's not, not really.

Anybody wants to become a Lyric for this game?

I've signed up to it on Reboot.cc but, it just didn't get started.

Yeah, not that much people "showed up" who enrolled before on the day me and Hex were totally ready to go. This game would probably require a lot of shepherding on the gamemaster's part. I'll probably throw bits(money) everywhere to convince people to join AND commit, haha.

Good to know there are other people besides me still interested. Let me see if I can make the magic happen somehow

I've been ready.  Didn't know y'all were prepared to start at any point though, because last time I checked reboot.cc, there hadn't been any updates in forever. =/