Mafia: Hidden Figures

***Mafia: Hidden Figures*** is the thirteenth season of *The Mafia Series*. This game featured fifteen alumni hidden under anonymous "sockpuppet" accounts, so none of the players knew who each other were.

In this special unique game, six alumni were specifically invited back while the rest signed up to play. Several of the players were clearly excited to have a fresh start without previous impressions looming over their heads, and the mystery of the sockpuppets brought another layer of mystery to the game. After a dominate mafia team, which was constantly changing, eliminated all the villagers, they made one fatal flaw, leaving the maniac alive alone... thus giving the second time ever 3rd party win!

This game lasted from May 25, 2021 up to June 4, 2021. While it was not nearly as active as normal games, some players even having the strategy to remain inactive, there were a few players who took on the star roles during the season. Also having a semi-active graveyard, it was interesting seeing dead players' takes on the game.

# ***Roles & Twists***

**Twists**
* **Hidden Figures:** This game consisted of alumni all *hidden* under anonymous sockpuppet accounts. None of the players knew who each other were at the beginning of the game, so all the participants had a fresh start.
* **Guessing the Sockpuppets:** In addition to playing normal mafia, all the players had an incentive to figure out who others were. Each players had three guesses for the course of the game at who another player was, but they could only use one guess *per round* (meaning a night/day cycle). If they guessed incorrectly, they were informed of their wrong guess. But if they did correctly guess a sockpuppet, a penalty vote was cast against the person that they voted for. In addition, the guesser was informed of a random role (aside from their own) that was in the game.
* **Two Fan-Made Roles:** Two new roles, the aristocrat and cat, were added to the game. They were both originally created by alumni not on the crew, Jelk and Aster, respectively.

# ***Game Summary***

*Written by **Piper**.*

The game began with the normal stuff - claiming roles, making friends and so on. Immediately, Cam started placing suspicion on Meuh as they had both claimed Noble. Aster and Phoenix met up and made an alliance, in which they agreed to try and confuse the rest of the town. Three people also claimed Joker - Avtron, Jelk and Nat, the latter two being Maniac and Mafia respectively. Overnight, **Noah** the healer died. The next day, votes were coordinated for Emmi, as they believed their claim of Aristocrat would end up helping the mafia. Despite a strong defense from her teammates, **Emmi** was voted out, but Aster, the Detective, decided not to investigate her and was killed the next night. However, Emmi had managed to convince Malik, the Cat, to follow them, and thus their vote on the mafia team was replaced.

The next vote was for **Arriz**, as Emmi had been 'confirmed' Aristocrat, and friendships built between the participants. Over the course of the first two votes, both Meuh and Cam were confirmed by Kam, the Lawyer, and Cam and Phoenix revealed their identities to each other. Unfortunately for them, **CamBam** was killed the next night. **Life** was voted out next due to being an inactive commoner claim, and the game was somewhat inactive from then onwards, although Meuh, Nat and Malik strategized a fair amount in the mafia chat. Meanwhile, Jelk, the maniac, began to be active, preparing for "Endgame Jelk".

**Dani**, the Sheriff, was killed off next due to her mostly confirmed status, and Phoenix began to suspect Malik. However, they decided to vote out SamB, the Jester, to confirm him. SamB died and took **Meuh's** card, becoming the Corrupted Noble and nearly cementing the mafia victory. Kam blocked Phoenix's vote, causing him to suspect her, but the mafia killed **Kam** the next night regardless.

Phoenix attempted to push through a vote for Malik, but the mafia collaborated and voted him out. Shocked, he took Malik's card and realized he had been done for. In the crucial final moments of the game, Jelk made a group chat with SamB and Nat to convince them that Phoenix was mafia, throwing off suspicion about his identity and leading to the mafia team 100% believing he wasn't third party. As such, they killed **Avtron**, and as there were no townspeople left, **Jelk** pulled through for the victory(, beating out the survivors on the mafia team: **Nat**, **SamB**, and **Phoenix**).

# ***Voting History***

An underlined vote represents a penalty (self-)vote.
A strike-through vote represents a vote blocked by the lawyer.
An *italicized* vote represents a penalty vote obtained by guessing someone's true identity.

# ***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 Piper's first time hosting.
	+ This makes her the sixth person to host.
* This is the first season where only *one* player won, that being Jelk as the 3rd party.