CC Voice Mafia Rules

## Description

VC (Voice Chat) Mafia is most commonly played over discord and mafia.gg. The discord voice channel is used for speech, and the mafia.gg site is used for text and voting.

Voice is a slower medium, and though text augments the information bottleneck, more time is required than text setups. The VC format compensates for this bottleneck by providing rich scumhunting cues through vocal tones, speech patterns, and the ability to hear a player think out loud. And, in general, it's just more social and fun.

VC mafia is most readily available on the Considerate Cult (CC) open voice server.

## Mafia.gg Settings

VC Games are always run as **no deck** to match discord names so players can track between voice and text.

Daytimers usually run from **12-20 minutes per day**, and **2-4 minutes at night**, depending on setup and players.
As long as your group is disciplined and sets a timer, you can **Disable Votelock**. Otherwise, you might press a PR during vote lock and have no way to not vote them. A suggestion is to set a timer to go off with 2 minutes left in the day to remind the group to settle on a vote.

Other settings vary based on the setup. On CC, we use the following default setup settings:
Finalize Vote On Majority: **Simple Majority**
Deadlock Prevention: **Punish Initiators**
Idle Players Don't Vote: **NO**

## Discord Rules

1. A player mutes immediately upon dying without saying anything.
2. All players mute during the night phase.
3. There is no typing allowed in other channels on the server during the night phase by any players.

Matching names

Ideally the usernames in discord will match those in mafia.gg, to avoid confusion.

AFK Checks

AFK Checks are best performed verbally over the call for each player. AFK Checks on mafia.gg (Force all to spectate) will often result in non-voice players taking voice spots if the lobby is listed.
## Spotlights

To prevent players from shouting over one another, CC has a system to give a player brief control of the game when voted by other players.

### How to Spotlight

Spotlights allow the player to control the flow of the game. Typically, they will give their reads and talk, but they can also:
* ask someone else direct questions
* cede their remaining time to another player
* decline the spotlight

To spotlight a player, a player types **spotlight jane**in the mafia.gg chat.

Within 20 seconds, another player types **second jane**.

Then the spotlight begins. A designated player in the game (or from spec, if they've already died) will start a timer and indicate that jane has one minute to control the conversation, and the time is theirs and theirs alone. If someone is currently speaking, they are paused and receive a **bookmark**. This means that once the spotlight is over, the bookmarked player has a chance to finish their reads/thoughts.

After one minute, the designated player will indicate that the player's spotlight is up. If there was a bookmark, the bookmarked player can resume talking. Otherwise, the spotlighted player is able to keep talking if they wish, but they no longer control the conversational flow officially.

### Rules

1. A player can only be spotlighted once per day.
2. No spotlight can begin with under 2 minutes on the day timer.
3. A player cannot spotlight or second themselves