Mafia: Stranded at Sea

***Mafia: Stranded at Sea*** is the thirty-third season of *The Mafia Series*.

This game is highly renowned for its constantly unpredictable nature and exciting live ending. A record number of players were protected from being killed both by the Mafia and the Maniac with a total of 7 heals and protections. Even with the odds against the Mafia, however, the game remained close until the end, when the three remaining villagers, alongside the mysterious operative, voted out the elusive Mafia at the last possible vote. In addition to this dramatic finale and villager win, this game boasts the first 4th Party victory.

This game lasted from September 24, 2022 up to October 9, 2022. The vast majority of this cast displayed strong gameplay in many different ways, and it stayed entertaining up until the end. While the game lasted a record-tying eleven in-game days, several of those days take place during the live finale, which occurred beginning at the final 8.

# ***Roles & Twists***

**Twists**

* **Exploring the Ship:** Every night, all the players were eligible to search one of the rooms (listed on the right). Whenever someone visited a room, they received a short write-up about that room. The rooms contained various stories that gave advantages and information. This information provided assistance by giving hints toward various roles that were present in the game, as well as possibly the holder of the role. For the full list of all the lore that came in the rooms, please view the channel "#room-writeups" in the Discord server, under the "Server Archives and Commemorations" category. Players did not have to visit a room every night, if they did not want to.
	+ Unless players found a set of keys, they were not allowed to visit the "Staff Only" rooms among the list on the right (except for the Ship's Captain and Operative, who were given special permissions). Any other rooms could be visited by anyone. In addition, when a player was killed during the night, it was announced what room they had visited during the night of their death.
* **Little Girl Alteration:** For this game only, the Little Girl role was given a special boost. After the Little Girl decided who they were visiting each night, they were told following the night results which room their target visited.
* **Operative Effects:** If the operative survived past Day 6, they were allowed to still affect the game through various means, despite being sequestered. No living players knew about these abilities.
	+ **Voting:** The operative was able to vote at every trial, but it was announced to the living players.
	+ **Nightly Decisions:** For the first *two* nights after the operative's escape, they were allowed to make two game-changing decisions that would affect the game. They could use one of the following six effects during each of Night 6 and Night 7.
		- **Help the Town:** The operative could reveal the identity of every deceased evil player in the game to the living players, but it would not reveal the specific roles of those evil players.
		- **Hinder the Town:** The operative could cause a public announcement that a Godfather corruption had occurred, but this corruption would be completely fake. After being announced, the Mafia would be informed that it was all fake.
		- **Help the Mafia:** The operative could grant the Head Mafia a permanent extra vote.
		- **Hinder the Mafia:** The operative could publicly reveal the *roles* of the Mafia team still left in the game, but not the actual holders of those roles.
		- **Help the 3rd Party:** The operative could automatically heal the entire 3rd Party team if one of them was killed during that night.
		- **Hinder the 3rd Party:** The operative could publicly reveal the *roles* of the 3rd Party still left in the game, but not the actual holders of those roles.

# ***Game Summary***

This season began with quite a bit of chaos. The villagers were initially led by several more experienced players (including those who were evil), while the Mafia started out as a disorganized crew. The 3rd Party, on the other hand, began strategizing immediately. The three legendary players in the party were ready to play, but the biggest difficulty ahead of them was their combination of massive reputations. Hades immediately sprung into the game with plenty of tricks up his sleeve. As the special operative for this game, he knew he had to tread carefully. He at first began by claiming to be the judge, which caused some trouble when Bilger also claimed the same role after the first execution.

But before too many suspicions arose, **Aster** was killed. Several players were confused why the Mafia killed a commoner claim... but in reality, the kill was randomized. The Mafia was quite fortunate to have actually killed the ship's captain! The first vote of the game revolved around the fact that several players still had yet to claim. However, when both Cam and Harp claimed detective early on, players became suspicious because Harp did not seem as trustworthy as Cam. Cam correctly figured that Harp was *not* evil, as the two were aligned. But ultimately **Harp** was executed in a nearly-unanimous vote.

During the first vote, another major event occurred from behind the scenes. Emmi accidentally discovered that Jelk was indeed 3rd Party after seeing his phone. When Jelk revealed this information to his team, they all decided that it would be best for Jelk to match Emmi up with Stella in a lover pair. This event caused Emmi to begin working with Jelk and Stella, but they kept Ella's identity a secret in case Emmi decided to leak the team in her eventual final words. While all of this played out, the Mafia team began to communicate more, but Alfie and Life still kept their public claims silent.

The Mafia team decided to kill **Stella**, which promptly caused **Emmi** to go down with her. Emmi kept silent on the entire plan for her to be aligned with the 3rd Party. But Stella was *also* revealed to be the maniac, and she decided to drag the dangerous town leader Eevee with her. But Jet the maid had decided to confirm himself during this cycle by serving Eevee. Thus, Eevee was protected by Jet's servitude, and the drag was ineffective.

During the next vote, the players knew that they had to take a shot at a player who had yet to claim. They decided on **Eternal**, as he put up no fight and continuously did not claim. The town lost their psychic without having any concept of Eternal's power, and the deceased players were left disgruntled in the graveyard. **Swaggy** the hunter claim was the next victim of the Mafia, who killed another strong player based off of their reputation. But he revealed in his final words that he was truly the baker, which concerned several villagers, but eventually players began to question Swaggy's final claim when no one starved for several more rounds.

During the second vote, Jelk and Ella grew concerned that Alfie was a Mafia member. To protect them, the 3rd Party placed them in a lover pair with Eevee. Eevee was particularly upset, realizing the 3rd Party's will to take him out. But the 3rd Party primarily did this to protect the Mafia team. The three Mafia members continued to escape the vote, despite Alfie not claiming and Life only spewing out a variety of claims. The Mafia prepared to lose a member at any trial, and Life tentatively planned to corrupt Jelk. Starting around the 3rd vote, Lego's gameplay as a town leader began to shine. He was attempting to confirm numerous players, but most importantly, he was suspicious of Ella. Lego, Ella, and Malik began to have several public arguments around this point in time, but the third player to be executed turned out to be **Kai**, when the seer could not come up with any helpful roles.

Lego convinced Jet to serve him for the upcoming cycle, which turned out in their favor when Jet was protected from the Mafia's kill! Also around this time, Eevee was begging for Alfie to give him a role claim so that they could be protected. Ultimately, Eevee feared for his own survival and soon stated publicly that Alfie had claimed to be the operative privately. However, Hades knew this was not the case. He was completely escaping suspicion, playing his cards well by claiming to be a healer after Bilger said that he was the judge.

In the next round, Eevee and Lego began to go all-in on blindsiding Ella, believing that she was *not* to be trusted. The two strong villagers began an uprising against her, and it seemed that this vote would go their way when players who were not voting Ella began to target Lego. Luckily for him, Lego was immune from Jet's protection. While, at the last minute, Ella attempted to split the vote onto Alfie in the case of the servitude, **Ella** was executed in an astounding 5-4-3-1 vote. When she was revealed as the alien, Ella decided to drag Lego, but once again, the confirmed sheriff was protected from the dragging.

Hades was nearly killed right before his approaching victory... but due to an item that he had been given from Cam, he was healed. Up to this point, the game's twist and storyline had little effect on the game itself. But now, without protection, Malik began to visit the special Middle Cabins II. By visiting that room every night, he was immune every night because he was the only one to visit the room. While this act of self-preservation may have seemed greedy initially, Malik's continuous visiting of this room ended up bringing victory to the town.

Meanwhile, Eevee was fully convinced that Alfie would be escaping to safety after the upcoming vote, and all eyes were on Diego. The Mafia team finally lost their first member when **Diego** was executed, as he seemed to have no place to hide - finally resigning that he was indeed a part of the Mafia team. He was executed with an astounding 13 votes against him. After this vote, to everyone's surprise, **Hades** left the game, claiming victory for himself. Alfie quickly claimed that they were just hiding the fact that they were actually the healer! Eevee decided to believe this claim, as two healers made sense in a larger game, and Hades the "healer" turned out to be the operative - Eevee also resigned to the fact that he would still win even if Alfie *was* the Mafia.

**Kae**, as a semi-confirmed little girl, was the Mafia's next victim. She went out without too much shock, but Capy was disappointed to see the player who shared his role go home. Pho was very quiet for the entire duration of the game, only coming to claim that he was the jester. Many players finally became suspicious of what role they truly were... but despite much pushback from certain players like Alfie and Lego, **Life** was instead executed when he could not recover from claiming so many different roles (including the godfather role itself).

Many villagers were in despair when they discovered that a player had been corrupted, confirming their suspicion of Life but also causing them to realize that no one could be trusted anymore. Capy quickly became the most trusted player due to the fact that he was semi-confirmed as a non-corruptable role. But the Mafia instead decided to take a shot at the healer, Malik. Due to the fact that Malik was still visiting Middle Cabins II, however, he was spared from the kill. Lego, having recently joined the seemingly-doomed Mafia team, knew that there was quite a bit of work to be done from here on out. He took control of the Mafia team and began to lead Alfie through the endgame, even though the town perceived that it was likely that Lego had been corrupted.

Now that the game still continued on, players were becoming suspicious of Jelk, the seer claim. The final 3rd Party member went down with no one to defend him, as the villagers viewed **Jelk** as one of the final players who could not be confirmed. It seemed that the Mafia had gained the upper-hand for the first time in this game when Hades awarded the Mafia team with a permanent extra vote (though they tried to kill him at one point). Once again, the Mafia duo tried to kill Malik. But much to Lego's dismay, he was protected once again, although this night was still not completely useless for the Mafia. **Jet** starved, finally confirming Swaggy's claim. The town finally decided that it was useful to execute **Pho**, but the jester decided to instead steal Lego's corrupted card.

Lego was thoroughly upset at this move, as he was the primary leader of the Mafia who had carried them to the endgame. As the live finale commenced, Eevee was still convinced that Alfie was a true healer. Meanwhile, Alfie decided that the best move would be to kill **Capy** next. The frantic town continued to scramble, but Bilger united the vote against **Cam**, pointing out the facts that he was the best viable option to execute next.

As the entire town realized that Cam was not evil, Eevee knew with certainty that Alfie was the Mafia, and he fully planned on fulfilling his duty as a townsperson. But, it seemed that the Mafia might be able to still pull out the win. When Alfie tried to kill Bilger, though, it turned out the Malik had successfully healed him, which spelled defeat for the Mafia. **Alfie** was the final person executed from the game as **Pho** lost aside them. **Bilger**, **Eevee**, and **Malik** claimed victory for the town!

# ***Voting History***

*Extra votes through lovers voting together are* not *counted on this chart.*

# ***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***

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