Fall of Yggdrasil: Dragon Quest XI Mafia

Fall of Yggdrasil, known by the community as "FOY", was a Starmen.net Mafia game that ran from May 15th, 2021, to April 17th, 2021. The game had a difficulty of three on the Dandee Meter, featured sixteen players/characters (ten Town, four Mafia, and two Independant), and lasted for four in-game days (with one additional Party Host chat that took place Night 1, ending with a near-perfect Mafia win and a Lover win. The host of the game was PSINightmareEmpower with the cohost DJ Neutron Star. The game's MVP was Darth\_Pokey.

The writeups of the game are set in the universe of the game Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age in and during the events of the Last Bastion.

## Setup

Fall of Yggdrasil had a fully closed setup, meaning all information about roles and characters was hidden to players until a player flipped or the game ended. FOY had a typical yet slightly advanced setup featuring a Town consisting of an Oracle, Cop, Doctor, Vigilante, Bulletproof, Roleblocker, Party Host, Bodyguard, Governor, and Tracker, a Mafia consisting of a Strongman, Watcher, Whisperer, and Roleblocker, and two Independants—An individual Lover and a Creepy Girl.

## Players

1. maximuspinpoint was Gemma, Tracker, Town-aligned, dead as of Day 2.
2. CarbonLiquidMetalStarman (replaced by Grendel) was Serena, Doctor, Town-Aligned, Dead as of Night 1.
3. UltraBolt was Erik, Cop, Town-Aligned, Defeated as of Day 4.
4. Drake Inferno was Jade, Vigilante, Town-Aligned, Defeated as of Day 4.
5. CaptainPlanet was Sylvando, Party Host, Town-aligned, dead as of Night 2.
6. Darth\_Pokey was Jasper, Strong Man, Mafia-aligned, victorious as of Day 4.
7. Lunch Box was Booga, Whisperer, Mafia-aligned, dead as of Night 3.
8. pio\_dov was The Luminary, Oracle, Town-aligned, dead as of Day 3.
9. Quads was Krystalinda, Creepy Girl, Independent-aligned, dead and defeated as of Day 1.
10. PSIPooStorm was Hendrik, Bodyguard, Town-aligned, dead as of Day 4.
11. Sword of Dorks was Dora-in-Grey, Watcher, Mafia-aligned, victorious as of Day 4.
12. FallenAither was Mordegon, Roleblocker, Mafia-aligned, victorious as of Day 4.
13. kpiozero was Veronica, Bulletproof, Town-aligned, defeated as of Day 4.
14. TheName’sAndounuts was King Carnelian, Governor, Town-aligned, dead as of Night 1.
15. broomweed was Michelle, Lover, Independent-aligned, dead as of Night 3 but victorious on Day 4.
16. Fobby was Rab, Roleblocker, Town-aligned, modkilled due to inactivity on Day 3.

## Plot

The story took place during what is commonly referred to as Act 2 of Dragon Quest XI, after the Great Tree Yggdrasil falls to the hand of Mordegon (hence the name Fall of Yggdrasil). It took place in an alternate universe where the main characters of the story all took refuge in The Last Bastion rather than being scattered as happens in the source game. The villagers were convinced they were safe until they found a wounded-but-not-dead Amber, The Luminary's mother, inside the stronghold they once thought was safe. This causes the townspeople to correctly conclude that Mordegon and/or his cronies have somehow infiltrated the Last Bastion.

As the game goes on, the townspeople execute many of their own via public trial as their enemies secretly eliminate villager after villager during the night. Things only change when the Luminary (played by pio\_dov) is executed, and the spirit of Yggdrasil alerts the townspeople to the identity of Booga (played by Lunch Box). During the night, Jade (played by Drake Inferno) takes her opportunity to strike down Booga, giving the villagers an additional day to locate their remaining enemies. However, they are unable to correctly identify another of Mordegon's cronies and instead eliminate Hendrik (played by PSIPooStorm), allowing Mordegon to take over the Last Bastion.

The final three remaining villagers, Veronica (played by Kpiozero), Erik (played by UltraBolt), and Jade, are able to escape, and although it is unknown what happens to them after this, it is assumed they made it to safety and continued to do what they could to combat Mordegon's forces. Mordegon and his remaining underlings then return to the Fortress of Fear, considering their job complete.

## The Sandy Conflict

After Maximuspinpoint was eliminated on Day 2 and the character Gemma was executed, PSINightmareEmpower—the author of the games writeups—promised him to include Gemma's dog Sandy in the final writeup to ensure the canine was okay. Maximuspinpoint was glad to hear this and was excited for the time to come when the writeup would be made.

However, do to PSINightmareEmpower creating the writeups all on her own, she got rather busy when making the ending writeup and forgot to mention Sandy. When the writeup was published, Maximuspinpoint was enraged. Since then, he has been repeatedly bringing Sandy up in unusual ways to her whenever he gets the chance, such as writing acrostics and claiming to make Sandy his character in a choose-your-flavor Mafia game.

## Trivia

* Messages posted in the game's chat about a strange scenario with the Cop inspired the host of Saltwater Treehouse to include the roles Captive/Captor and Addictive Cop in the game.
	+ Additionally, he was inspired to make a Mafia-Aligned Bodyguard after a claimed Bodyguard was told by a skeptical opponent that their role could be Mafia.

* The story's plot contains multiple plot holes, including:
	+ The aforementioned Sandy Conflict.
	+ Amber, a character absent from the setup but crucial to the opening writeup, is not mentioned at the end of the game.
	+ In multiple writeups, the sun is mentioned as rising and setting, despite the fact that both the opening writeup and the source material claim that the world is veiled in an eternal state of night during Mordegon's reign.
	+ It never clarifies why the residents of the Bastion insist on carrying out the execution of the Luminary even after his identity is revealed. Similar can be said about that of King Carnelian. This is why we don't use Oracles.
	+ The Beginning of Day 2 writeup says that Serena was killed before she could scream, but later says everyone heard her screaming as she died.

1. ↑ https://forum.starmen.net/forum/Community/ripmafia/Case-File-Directory/2288171