Mafia: Wretched Woods

***Mafia: Wretched Woods*** is the twenty-eighth season of *The Mafia Series*.

The twenty-eighth season of *The Mafia Series* was a rather chaotic game with lots of strong personalities. The game was played hard by multiple different parties: the frantic Villagers, the overall weak Mafia (until the end when they came out victorious), the Mafia-killing 3rd Party, and the jester, who tried to cause chaos up until he was executed. There were several unexpected events that happened in this game, and it was all supported by the new secondary roles that were added as twists this game.

This game lasted from April 30, 2022 up to May 15, 2022. This game was especially active, and deadlines were kept very well by the three hosts. While at times, inevitably, the game became slightly toxic, plenty of good gameplay was still visible that left this game as a standout experience.

# ***Roles & Twists***

**Twists**
* **Delving into the Woods:** At any given trial, a player was able to delve into the woods. It was unspecified what kinds of rewards would result for delving, but it would cause that player's vote to be randomized onto any other player aside from themselves. Players could delve during as many trials as they want, but they would never be informed of who their vote was randomized for.
	+ **The Werewolf:** Out of the players to first delve three times, one of them was randomly awarded the **werewolf** secondary role. This role allowed the holder to bite another player every night, and if that player used an action, then it would be randomized who they used this action on.
* **The Sage:** In a hidden twist, the judge was secretly given an extra power this game called the sage. Every day, they had the power to give another player the hero secondary role. The hero would stay the same until they voted in the minority, and then the judge/sage would have to assign a new hero.
	+ **The Hero:** The hero was a secondary role given to a player, awarded by the sage. This role doubled the hero's vote at every trial. If the hero voted in the minority, then their hero role was taken away and the sage was tasked to give it to a new player. The sage could not give the hero role to the same player twice.

# ***Game Summary***

*Written by **Eevee**.*

Setting a precedent for the rest of the season, this season brought chaos straight out of the gate. Players such as Aster, Nemo, and Life decided to gang up against players such as Emmi and Stella for their constant usage of the confirming strategy, planning to vote them out first. Wanting to stir up chaos, Aster the alien decided to use his power to defend against the mafia. The mafia, Felidues, actually did attempt to kill Aster due to his bias against Emmi, instead killing **Felidues** in the process.

After this kill, the game seemed like it would end in one cycle due to the negative bias against Emmi. However, due to Aster “confirming themself as alien”, a target was formed onto the other knight claims’, Nemo and Twinny, backs. Twinny, knowing they were screwed, claimed Mafia for fun. Despite the delving twist randomizing people’s votes, the vote was still overwhelmingly against **Twinny**.

Knowing Meli the maid was serving Aster, Emmi decided to waste a kill on **Aster**, who was healed through the maiding, to thwart suspicion from her. Stella, a triple healer claim, began to garner suspicion due to attempting to claim to be the mayor. **Stella** was promptly voted out. **Swaggy** was killed next for being a trusted psychic. The next vote was set to be for the second healer, Andrew, but due to his campaigning to save himself, the vote was instead placed onto one of the knight claims, Nemo. The delving twist once again causing chaos, **Nemo** was executed in a 3-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1 vote.

The secondary roles, werewolf and hero, began to play a major role in the season. Delving three times, Lego was given the werewolf, and PK gave the hero role to Emmi, doubling her vote. The Mafia attempted to kill **Mooly**, the aristocrat, to gain yet another extra vote. **Andrew** was finally executed in the next trial, meaning every healer claim *except* for the mafia had been executed.

Knowing that Divine’s action would be randomized due to the troll secondary role, Emmi killed **Sunwalker**, a seemingly “random” kill that would throw suspicion toward Divine. Divine planned to poison Emmi, but was blocked from doing so. The second witch, Harp, poisoned **Mooly**. Harp, who hadn’t claimed yet, lied about being noble. This lie has easily proven false due to the votes not adding up properly for Harp to have an extra vote. **Harp** was promptly executed.

The Mafia killed **Cam** next. For a second alarming time, Divine attempted to poison Emmi, but the poison was instead randomized onto **Life** because of a werewolf bite, basically confirming Divine as witch in the process. Life, the jester, stole the second jester’s, **Lego**, role, forcing the two to both steal new roles! Life then stole **Meli**’s role, while Lego stole the corrupted blacksmith’s, **Calvin**, role.

In an unexpected twist, a season-long rivalry between the Mafia and third party was put to rest as they instead worked together. Added with Emmi’s three votes, this alliance had the majority for the rest of the season. Although Smk and Sam campaigned against Emmi, there was nothing they could do, and **Life** was voted out. The season played out quickly from here on, as **Sam** and **Smk** were both picked off by the evils. Although Divine healed themself, **Divine** was inevitably voted out, followed quickly by **PK**. The **Mafia** had won the season! The living winners were **Emmi** and **Lego**, as well as the deceased Calvin and Felidues!

# ***Voting History***

Votes that are surrounded by "~" means that they were randomized due to that player delving for that vote.

# ***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***

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