Mafia: Mansion of Mischief

***Mafia: Mansion of Mischief*** is the seventeenth season of *The Mafia Series*.

In a rather chaotic (and disorganized) game, this game featured a few controlling and following personalities. While it seemed that the mafia were to be eliminated early for an easy villagers' win, this was not the case, as the mafia manipulated others to keep themselves safe despite the massive targets on their back in trials. In a game-changing twist when two players were added mid-way through the game, one of these players royally screwed up their own team, causing the mafia to win out at the end of the day.

This game lasted from August 13, 2021 up to the August 27, 2021. While this game was regularly active, deadlines were not kept particularly well, and there were a few miscommunications by the production team. However, this game is still regarded as a very good season in terms of the twist and mafia team's dominance.

# ***Roles & Twists***

This role list does *not* include the roles of those who entered the game mid-way through.

**Twists**
* **Floors:** For each of the first four cycles, players would be on a different floor of the mansion. Each floor would contain a certain twist.
	+ **Floor 1 - Challenge:** On the first floor, the winner of a live challenge at the start of the game would obtain immunity and could not be killed by the mafia during the night. However, they could not talk to any other players during the night and would return to the game, as normal, after the kill was announced.
	+ **Floor 2 - Challenge:** On the second floor, players again partook in a live challenge. The winner would obtain a vote steal for the upcoming vote, while the second-placer would obtain a double vote.
	+ **Floor 3 - The Sacrifice:** While the third vote was occurring, players were also given the option to participate in a submission challenge. The winner of the challenge would earn a hidden advantage while the loser of the challenge would be immediately sacrificed and eliminated from the game. The winner of the challenge won the opportunity to revive one of the deceased players.
	+ **Floor 4 - New Entrants:** On the fourth floor, two new players: CamBam and Ry entered the game. They were added as normal players and could have any role.

# ***Contestants***

Two players entered the game on Day 4. For these two players, **CamBam** and **Ry**, this game does not canonically count as they did not play the entire game. So this game will not be recorded under their player records.

# ***Game Summary***

The town began without too much chaos, particularly being led by the monarch pair, Aster and Piper. Emmi protected her psychic claim, entrusting it to only those who had been proven. Instead, she claimed to be the joker. While Jelk, as the cat, had to decide who to follow. Early suspicions fell onto Life and Meera, both of whom were unconfirmable. After the mafia team made a rather obvious decision to kill Aster, they were disappointed to discover that the healer, Brainz, had actually healed him! Brainz was thus proved, or at least to the monarch pair, while Jelk had joined Piper's confessional to prove her. However, other players had suspicions that Aster and Piper, as well as Jelk now, were 3rd party.

The first vote became rather obvious. Life had changed his claim from commoner to jugde, saying that he was originally nervous to claim that unique role. So, the group booted **Meera**. However, Meera was truly the jester! She proceeded to take **Piper**'s card, taking over her monarch role and receiving Jelk into her confessional. Harp had also claimed jester, but less suspicion fell onto him as he was more active than the former jester.

**Justin** was killed by the mafia, as Life's strategy was to take out some more mid-tier players in terms of activity, while letting bigger players like Aster, Emmi, and Jelk stay in the game for a longer period. When the next vote came around, it seems like Crows would become the next elimination. She had claimed the apprentice role, but she hadn't shared who she was following. She now had shared that she was following Nat, as a semi-confirmed maid. Nat was the only one claiming maid, a new role, so everyone believed him. However, they were confused why Crows had decided to follow him as opposed to one of the monarchs. She was going to be booted until she made a last minute plea for herself and against Ray. She said that Ray was in no way confirmable as a knight, and others agreed. So **Ray** was eliminated in a close vote.

The mafia team decided to eliminate **Brainz** from the game, removing the possibility of any more heals. In addition, the 3rd party team, comprised of Malik the maniac and Swaggy the alien, slid by without too much suspicion. Malik had claimed commoner while Swaggy had claimed to be a detective. Malik had already discovered that Life and Crows were part of the mafia from his abilities, and Swaggy decided that he could now use *his* abilities to kill a confirmed town member, **Hades**, who had claimed to be the sheriff.

Next, players learned about a twist in the game. During the voting period, players would also have the *option* to compete in a challenge! The loser of the challenge would be immediately sacrificed, while the winner would get to revive a deceased player! Crows knew she would be the next to get the vote, so she actually allowed herself to be voted out, indeed casting a vote for herself. Life had shared to his team that he had received a very high score on the challenge and would most likely be winning. So when Life won the challenge and **Crows** was voted out, he revived her immediately. This aroused some suspicion from others.

Another twist in the game occurred where Cam and Ry entered the game as two *new* players. Cam claimed to be a maid, which upset Nat, while Ry claimed to be a detective, which upset Swaggy! The mafia team decided to kill **Ry** first, worrying about his powers and lack of likelihood to appear evil. Next, another unconfirmable was voted out of the game, **Harp**. However, as another jester, Harp decided to take **Emmi**'s card, as it had slowly become more and more public that she was the psychic.

**CamBam** was the next one killed by the mafia for similar reasons to killing Ry. Both CamBam and Nat had proved themselves to Aster. It was finally time for the monarch pair's lifespan to come to and end as Aster was eliminated when the mafia and 3rd party had taken over the vote. The vote originally tied, and CamBam, not caring who left as his win wouldn't count, did not take the time to look back over the history of the three people who he was deciding the vote between. So he used a wheel to randomize his vote and kill **Aster**. Life and Harp were both saved by this randomized method, though Harp, in addition to the rest of the town, was rather upset.

**Harp** was eliminated by the mafia due to his powerful role, and the mafia proceeded to take sole control of the upcoming vote, convincing the majority of players to eliminate **Swaggy** from the game. All the villagers in the graveyard were now in despair as the only partially-active villager alive, **Akunor**, was killed next. **Malik** was executed, and he decided to drag **Nat** for fun. **Meera**, now lacking a vote, was the last one kill by the mafia, and **Life** and **Crows** were the final survivors of the game, winning for the mafia team!

# ***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***

* Havoc become the third person after Piper and Phoenix to host before becoming a member of the crew, though both become a moderator shortly after their first hosted games began.
* Eevee and Nathaniel won the viewing lounge prediction game for this season.