Mafia: Mystery Manor

***Mafia: Mystery Manor*** is the nineteenth season of *The Mafia Series*.

In one of the most highly-acclaimed game of the entire series, Ella hosted an absolutely remarkable game, with some of the most competitive alumni and enthusiastic rookies. With everyone playing hard and striving to win, no one was safe in this game, and every team had an opportunity to win. In the end, Nemo, along with his teammates Emmi, SamB, and in the end Eevee, came out on top to claim victory for the Mafia team after a hard-fought victory!

This game lasted from September 23, 2021 up to October 3, 2021. As stated above, nearly every player was active during this game and very minimal strikes were given. Every player participated to a major extent in some way, and the game proceeded with a very active degree. At the final six, the game became a live finale, and when the mafia exposed themselves, the villagers were despaired to learn there was no way out to win.

# ***Roles & Twists***

**Twists**
* **Murder Mystery:** In addition to the normal Mafia vs. Villagers storyline, this game contained an immense amount of lore. For the first time, an NPC account was added to the server to give storyline information. This NPC was **Rose Kingsley**, the daughter of the owners of Kingsley Manor. The 20 players of this game were invited as detective by Rose to the mansion after both of her parents were murdered. The entire story of the game was saved in the server under a channel called "game-storyline".
	+ **Puzzle Pieces:** Every day and night in the game, each player could enter into a different room. Out of 14 possible rooms, 7 of them contained puzzle pieces. 2 of them also contained traps. These traps were followed by a private live game of hangman with the host, and they would claim a piece if they survived the trap. If they lost the game of hangman, they would have to try again the next day. Once all nine pieces were collected by a player, they obtained a shield. This shield could be given to another player during the following night to protect them from being killed.
	+ **Key-Witness:** For the first time a *4th party* role was added into the game. The key-witness, as the 4th party role, knew the entire story of the murder. Their only goal was to be executed *before someone discovered all the pieces of the puzzle!* If they were executed before all the puzzle pieces were found by a player, then they won the game (alongside whichever other team survived to the end). However, if they were not executed before the puzzle pieces were found, they would lose the game and be promptly eliminated and executed.

# ***Game Summary***

In the 20 person game, the chaos that ensued on the first night exceeded expectations. With all three mafia members claiming roles and none of the the three third party members claiming roles, nearly half of the cast did not claim a role until after the first vote. *However*, the active members of the game were quick to strategize and discuss roles. With the double claim of gambler between Cam and Havoc, their prides both flared, and Cam rolled his die to prove himself. Unfortunately for him, **Cam** rolled a 6 and was sent to the graveyard. Havoc, upset at gaining suspicion by Cam's death and impromptu verification, also rolled his die. But ***Havoc*** rolled a 6 as well, and he followed Cam to the graveyard.

The mafia ultimately decided to take out a major strategic threat first, predictably killing Aster. However, too predictably, Aster was healed by Jack, and no one died the first night! SamB's aristocrat claim wasn't very convincing, despite Emmi's argument that the aristocrat was not beneficial for the Mafia, and that it's not the best to execute the aristocrat just because that role assists the mafia. Due to **SamB** being unconfirmable, he was the first player executed, and Emmi and Nemo were left by themselves. While Emmi had claimed lawyer, Nemo had claimed to be the detective (and happened to be the only detective claim, luckily for him.) Both of the mafia members were strongly believed, as was Brainz from the 3rd party.

His joker claim (of following his teammate, Noah), the mafia decided to kill **Brainz**, unknowingly killing the maniac... until he dragged someone. Brainz decided to drag **Aster** for the jokes, and Noah and Chai were left on their own on the 3rd party. Noah was the only judge claim, and Chai was the only maid claim, but the latter refused to prove themself. With Nemo controlling the vote from his dominant position with his allies such as Andrew and Eevee. **Life** was eliminated due to his week apprentice claim. He was chosen over Justin because Justin could be proven by the role he was taking, while Life's upcoming healer role couldn't be proven.

**HBomb** was killed by the Mafia next, as he was proven by his interrogation room. With the triple lawyer claim, it was difficlut and complex to prove them all. Ultimately, **Jelk** was voted out for his overall suspicion, despite that he could conceivably be confirmed. Noah, as the alien, secretly decided to kill Piper, reducing her lives by one. Unfortunately for **Noah**, though, he was killed for being the only judge claim. The Mafia had yet again coincidentally killed a 3rd party member. Piper decided to take **Justin**'s role as they were proven to be a sheriff.

Up to this point, the entire group of players had quickly been working together to solve the puzzle, both town and evil roles alike. The key-witness knew that the time was ticking for them to be executed, and they were still out there. Ironically, the next vote was between the two noble claims: Karte (the real noble) and Aidan (the key-witness). Everyone trusted Aidan enough to keep him, and **Karte** was executed. Furthermore, right at this time, all the pieces were found, and **Aidan** was executed. Piper was the one to find all the pieces, and she obtained the advantage to grant the shield to another player, and she gave it to Jack! Luckily for them, the mafia killed Jack, and the healer was protected by a shield.

**Chai** finally received the boot when they could not use their maid ability, and the 3rd party was wiped out. Nemo was forced to turn on his ally and kill **Andrew**, who was later heartbroken to realize that his closest ally was the Mafia. Eevee and Malik finally caught onto Nemo and voted for him, but Eevee received the majority of the votes, and took **Emmi**'s card instead, considering that she might be corrupted due to the long time she had survived in the game. In a live finale, Eevee and Nemo came out as the dynamic mafia duo, and the there attempted to overcome them in an alliance chat, but they were simply not able.

To allow Jack to make more successful heals, Nemo publicly announced who he was killing so that Jack could heal them. Nemo killed Piper next, but she, as expected, was healed. **Malik** was voted out by the Mafia when Eevee stole Jack's vote. **Piper** was killed and healed again, but she was also the next to be executed. Finally, on the ninth night, **Jack** was killed, and the victory went to **Eevee** and **Nemo** (who proclaimed that they were married after the game... and divorced during the next).

# ***Voting History***

An underlined vote represents a penalty vote.
A strike-through vote represents a vote blocked by the lawyer or gambler.
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 game's twist and lore was based off of the popular board game *Clue*.
* Harp won the viewing lounge prediction game for this season.
* Exactly 20 seasons later, Ella returned to host the sequel to this season, *Mafia: Mystery Expedition*.