Mafia: Broken Mirror

***Mafia: Broken Mirror*** is the eleventh season of *The Mafia Series*.

*Mafia: Broken Mirror* was a game full of great players and enthusiastic newbies. 10 new players joined in these two games of 12, each playing independently. Unlike the last game, these two *separate* games never merged, and so the game was on as there were only 12 players on each side. Some players dominated the game, even from the graveyard, and there was mass chaos up until the very end, and both mafias were caught in the *last* round.

This game lasted from April 27, 2021 up to May 7, 2021. With only twelve players on each side, this game did not last as long as some previous ones. However, the game was still bustling with activity as well as a very active viewing lounge. Even with so many rookies, several of them still had the opportunity to shine!

# ***Roles & Twists***

**Twists**
* **Simultaneous Games:** This game featured two games happening parallel to one another. The roles were identical in the two games, and results were announced for both games at the same time. Players could not communicate with people from the other game, with the exception of their reflection.
* **Reflections:** Two players that shared an identical role were reflections, and they shared a confessional. Each player had a reflection, and the reflection was the only way they could communicate with the game while alive. When someone was killed by the mafia - or if they mafia was executed - their reflection would receive an advantage. Each role had an advantage, and they are as follows:
	+ **Mafia:** The mafia would have a **lethal kill**, which bypasses a healer's ability.
	+ **Sheriff:** The sheriff would have the *option* of revealing his badge to the entire town, thus proving his identity as sheriff.
	+ **Healer:** The healer would receive an extra first aid kit, allowing for them to heal two people that round.
	+ **Commoner:** The commoner would have any votes cast against them negated, as if a monarch blocked votes against them.
	+ **Joker:** The joker would learn everyone's votes in the next vote.
	+ **Judge:** The judge would make two nominations, putting those two people at risk (and those two are not able to vote) and forcing everyone else to vote for one of those two.
	+ **Psychic:** The psychic would get to choose a deceased player from their own game to cast a vote at the next trial.
	+ **Noble:** The noble would assign another person to cast a second vote at the next trial, meaning that this player and the noble would both have two votes.
	+ **Lawyer:** The noble would get to block two votes at the next trial.

# ***Contestants***

Game 1

Game 2

Names below roles are a player's reflection in the opposing game.
# ***Game Summary***

*Both written by **Eevee**.*

Game 1
As soon as the game began, suspicion fell onto Pug, Cam, and Neb for claiming the same roles as other people, and Rasputin for deciding to claim mafia. Even though Cam suggested killing Aster to remove a big player and the power of the psychic, Avtron decided to kill Stella instead because he thought she was the maniac. The mafia killed **Stella**, but it proved to be for nothing because Stella did not drag anyone, proving that she was indeed not the maniac. In the vote, the vast majority of the town was dead set on voting for Pug, who was claiming commoner. Although Pug and Rasputin wanted Neb gone, everyone else in the town decided to vote for **Pug**, eliminating the second commoner from the game. In the process of the vote, Phoenix blocked Havoc’s vote, proving that Phoenix was the lawyer, as he claimed.

The mafia chose to kill **Emmi** next, as she was the confirmed sheriff. The townspeople yet again chose the easy vote, Rasputin, for claiming mafia. **Rasputin** left unanimously with even himself self-voting, except for Justin who voted for Cam based on his “vote based on the randomized wheel strategy.” The townspeople had unknowingly just voted out their joker.

The mafia once again decided to kill Aster. For the second time, Aster was spared, as Cam made a plan to kill **Havoc** instead. After Havoc was murdered, he posted in his final words that he had caught Cam being the fake healer claim in a group chat. Suspicion naturally fell onto Cam and Neb, being the only duplicate claim left. In game two, Dani decided to lie, breaking the rules in the process, about herself and Neb being the accomplice duo, making people in game one suspicious of Neb. After Cam campaigned against Neb combined with Dani’s claim, the town trusted Cam, and **Neb**, the true healer, left unanimously.

Around this time, Aster worked with the graveyard and figured out that Avtron and Cam were the mafia pair because Avtron’s claim that the mafia pair was Havoc and Neb was incorrect. Cam also decided to out Avtron and himself as the mafia duo once he assumed all hope was lost. The mafia pair decided to kill **Aster** next because he had figured out who the mafia was. To make matters even worse for Cam and Avtron, Aster told everyone to vote them out in his final words. This vote was obvious to everyone to vote out **Cam**, and that’s exactly what happened, with only Cam and Avtron voting for Justin.

Avtron decided to murder **Malik**, the noble, next. This vote was very simple for Justin and Phoenix because they knew Avtron was basically confirmed mafia. **Avtron** was voted out easily 2-0 in the vote, meaning the townspeople had won game one! The only two survivors were **Justin** and **Phoenix**.

Game 2
As soon as the game began, suspicion fell onto Lax for claiming the jester and joker, getting the names of the roles confused. The mafia decided to kill **Brainz** first, believing that the psychic was too powerful of a role to keep around. In the vote, the majority of the town was set on voting for Lax for claiming multiple roles. Although Jelk and Lax wanted Cherry out, **Lax** was voted out 4-3-1.

Jelk’s next kill was **Meli**, not wanting to risk keeping the healer in the game. In the next vote, the town decided to take out one of the two commoner claims. **Amber** decided to try to lead a campaign against Noah and Dani, but she failed to get anyone on her side and was voted out, although she was actually a commoner as she claimed.

Jelk decided to kill **Nat** next since everyone believed Nat’s claim as the commoner. With Noah’s partner, Havoc, dying in game one, Noah received his judge enhancement, that being to nominate two people. These two people were the only options to vote for in the trial. Noah naturally nominated Dani, who was one of the two people to claim being the healer, and Cherry, who claimed to be the lawyer, but had not blocked any votes. Dani, not seeing any sort of way of her staying, decided to use this opportunity in the mafia’s favor. Dani lied about being accomplice partners with Neb from game one, breaking the rules and throwing suspicion Neb’s way in the process. This vote was obvious for everyone, as Dani had admitted to being the accomplice. **Dani** was voted out unanimously over Cherry.

Jelk decided to kill **Schmutz** next for being confirmed as the sheriff. Jelk, who had been outed as the mafia in many people from game one’s final words, decided he needed a plan to stay. Jelk started to claim being the maniac, giving people a reason to keep him around. Despite initially receiving the majority of the votes, everyone changed their vote to Life last minute because of being scared Jelk would drag someone as the maniac, and him being partners with Rasputin, who was claiming mafia from game one. Although Jelk tried to get everyone to vote out Cherry, **Life** was voted out.

Jelk killed **Piper** next for having two votes in the trial, being the noble. This left only Jelk, Noah, and Cherry in the game. This final vote became a battle of who would get Noah on their side, Jelk or Cherry. Noah decided to vote for Cherry, seemingly making the vote 2-1. *But*, Cherry blocked Jelk’s vote, making the vote 1-1 with Noah being the judge tiebreaker. Seeing that Cherry had blocked a vote and was actually the lawyer, Noah broke the tie in Cherry’s favor, sending **Jelk** out, meaning the townspeople had won game two! The only survivors were **Cherry** and **Noah**.

# ***Voting History***

Game 1

Game 2

An underlined vote represents a penalty vote.
A strike-through vote represents a vote blocked by the lawyer.
An *italicized strike-through* vote represents a vote blocked by the monarch.

# ***Awards***

Because this season had more than ten players and three rounds of executions, awards were handed out at the end of the game. They were given to the following recipients.

# ***Trivia***

* This is Eevee's first time hosting.
* This game broke the record for the most amount of rookies with **10**, even topping the very first season.
* Jameson won the prediction game for this season in the viewing lounge.