Mafia: Skyrise

***Mafia: Skyrise*** is the twenty-sixth season of *The Mafia Series*.

In a game following the invigorating *Mafia: Legends*, several enthusiastic newbies took the stage, who demonstrated social and strategic skill as both they and experienced alumni maneuvered throughout this game. Despite the first ever successful knight defense on an unfortunate head Mafia, the two remaining Mafia members survived to the end to claim the crown again for the Mafia team.

This game lasted from March 4, 2022 up to March 26, 2022. While this game was relatively active toward the beginning, strategy gradually declined throughout the game as several of the major strategists for the town fell one-by-one, as usual. However, this game *did* show that the game was constantly still evolving with new strategies and new methods of thinking.

# ***Roles & Twists***

**Twists**
* **Floors:** At the start of the game, the 20 players were divided into 5 floors (4 players per floor). While the players all still had access to the town, there were special group chats made for the floors, and bonuses were given to floors in different rounds. It was not publicly shared who was on which floor, but they could share if they wished.
* **Floor Bonuses:** Every cycle, a bonus was randomly assigned to all the remaining players of a random floor. When a floor received a bonus, it was privately announced to the people on that floor in their group chat. Bonuses were revealed during the night at the start of a cycle. Once all six bonuses were used, this twist ended. The full list of them is as follows - some of them assisting and some of them harming:
	+ **Double Vote:** All remaining players of a floor would have their votes doubled at the next trial.
	+ **Votes Blocked:** All remaining players of a floor would have their votes blocked at the next trial.
	+ **Immunity from Being Killed:** All remaining players of a floor would have total immunity from being killed during the night.
	+ **Immunity from Being Voted:** All remaining players of a floor would have all votes cast against them blocked at the next trial.
	+ **Public Vote Reveal:** All remaining players of a floor would have their votes publicly revealed at the next trial.
	+ **Dead Players Getting to Vote:** All *deceased* players of a floor would get to vote at the next trial.
* **The Roommates:** In a hidden twist, the two commoners were connected under the term "roommates". No one else was informed of this twist, but both "roommates" knew that one another were innocent commoners. If one died, the other would *not* lose their vote, like a monarch would.

# ***Game Summary***

*Written by **Emmi**.*

With the 20 contestants being split into 5 different floors of 4, the game began like no other game. Stella immediately began taking charge of town, claiming blacksmith and getting the joker to follow her, while also throwing out a decent amount of suspicion at everyone ve met. Knowing her skill, Piper, the corrupted mayor, sent out Life, the mafia claiming to be apprenticed to the healer, to kill **Stella** before she could enlarge her influence. However, for the first time in mafia history, Stella managed to pull off the perfect knight usage, revealing her role to be the knight and killing **Life**, bringing the mafia to only two at night one!

With a confirmed Stella and hard working Piper leading town, everyone turned their eyes to the 2 aristocrat claims, with **Andrew** becoming the first vote, much to his own distaste. Town was very hopeful, with many even believing the game would end at that very moment, being the fastest possible mafia in its entire history. But the game went on. Due to the bonuses Floor 2 got from their floor, three of the floor members had their votes revealed to town. With Stella’s vote blocked yet still told by Mooly, the joker, many players got cleared at the first vote.

With the introduction of a secret twist - the roommates - two commoners were joined together for this game only, knowing the role of each other. The additional introduction of the technician - a special role for this game only - they would be able to be a confirmed duo. Attempting to prevent that, the mafia killed **Calvin**, the technician, next. With no way to prove their innocence, both the mafia and 3rd party convinced the town to vote out Jelk and have him checked by the detectives. Everyone turned to Lego, the mafia claiming judge, when the vote became a tie, even with floor 1’s double votes from their floor bonus. Luckily for him, Calvin quickly chose to vote out **Jelk**, right as he came back online. Most of town cheered as they had supposedly cleared their judge. With both of them saying he was commoner, Smk managed to escape the vote for a long time to come.

Havoc was a chaotic one the whole game, claiming many roles under the safety of jester. However, his psychic claim led the mafia wondering if he knew Calvin broke the tie. Knowing the strengths of Havoc, safety of Stella and fears of Calvin, **Havoc** was attacked, making floor 3’s automatic self heal bonus go to waste. But with his jester saving him, Havoc took the role of **Zach** who was killed instead. With PK a confirmed healer thanks to the mayor, the other healer claim, **Kae**, was voted out.

The number of potential mafia in town’s eyes were thinning, and with a successful self heal from **PK**, their trust for Piper was waning. With everyone deciding to give Eevee, the maniac claiming gambler, one more day to prove himself over Felidues, the aristocrat, town decided to vote out **BT**, leaving floor 3 the first one completely empty. Eevee, willing to do anything to keep himself alive, not only revealed himself to the mafia, but threatened them as well. If Piper didn’t claim her vote was blocked by Eevee or Eevee was voted at the next trial, he would drag the mafia to their demise. Able to work together with an unspecified witch, killing **Brainz** and poisoning **Stella**, few players remained that could lead the town. With a small miracle for the 3rd party, Eevee managed to convince Mooly to vote with the four of them against Hades, pretending he was corrupted. With all of floor 5 having their votes blocked, Hades was voted out in a 4-3 vote.

Directly working against Eevee’s survival, the mafia decided to throw their kill at **Havoc** who they knew was getting healed, to ensure they had the votes necessary to vote Eevee out. This worked, with **Eevee** getting voted out despite getting a different player to vote with him, in a vote of 5-4. Out of spite for Havoc and a willingness to help the mafia, Eevee dragged **Havoc** out of the game, leaving PK easy prey for the mafia. Though Stella, the only dead player in floor 2 got to vote from her grave, potentially outing Lego as mafia. Mooly did not see the message saying she voted, unintentionally leaving that crucial piece of information hidden.

**Anubis** was voted out next as the only unconfirmed person left, followed by **Felidues** being killed. With only 5 players left, the players had to re-evaluate every decision they made that game and question who was truly safe. In the end, led by Piper and Lego, town voted out **Mooly**, leaving the mafia to kill **Avtron** and leave **Smk** unable to stop **Lego** and **Piper**, the mafia, from winning the game…

# ***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***

* Nathaniel won the viewing lounge prediction game for this season.