Mafia: All-Stars - Two Societies

***Mafia: All-Stars - Two Societies*** is the tenth season of *The Mafia Series*. Themed as all-stars, it was the very first season to feature all returning players.

As any all-stars season is, this game was hyped to a huge limit, and it didn't fail to disappoint. Split into two different societies, the 25 all-stars had to battle it out alongside half of the rest of the cast while they attempted to catch the mafia. In the end, after the groups merged, the head mafia took control in an absolutely fabulous showing and won the game, claiming victory for the mafia for the 3rd time in the series' history.

This game lasted from April 7, 2021 up to April 23, 2021. Moving along at a brisk pace, twice the amount of players died in the early phase of the game, causing it to progress quickly. And so, even with the massive amount of players, the game was completed in a relatively short time.

# ***Roles & Twists***

**Twists**
* **Two Societies:** At the beginning of the game, the 25 all-stars were divided into two groups based on how they've played in the past. The 13 **heroes** have had underdog roles or have led strong charges against the mafia in the past, while the 12 **villains** have been more maniacal and backstabbing, or they may have just received evil roles in the past. The two societies were completely separate, meaning that members across societies could not communicate about the game. Each society had a special town and announcements chat. Both sides had their *own* mafia, and so two players would die every round. Likewise, both societies would vote someone out every day.
After three kills from the mafia and three executions on each side, the remaining thirteen players came together into one society. All members of the mafia and 3rd party would also come together at the merge, and if both players with the mafia role made the merge, they would have to decide which one of them would become the *head* mafia. The head mafia would lock in the kills, while the other mafia would take over if the head mafia died. *Before* the merge, if all possible players to hold the mafia role in one society die, the mafia on the other side will decide the kills on *both* sides.
* **One Last Breath:** After a player dies from the game, they would have the opportunity to perform a **one last breath** action! Each dead player would get to choose from one of the six following actions while they were being sequestered (in other words, before they entered the graveyard). This twist ended at the final five, meaning that the person placing in 6th would be the last to use a one last breath action.
	+ Send a personal note to someone still in the game revealing whatever you want. (Your name will stay anonymous unless you specify in the letter.)
	+ Cast a penalty vote against someone in your society for their next trial.
	+ Give someone in your society immunity at the next trial, but that player won’t have a vote either.
	+ Kidnap someone for the next night, allowing them not to perform an action nor talk to anyone else nor allow them to be killed.
	+ Force two people whose votes will be revealed at the next trial. Their votes will no longer be anonymous at that trial.
	+ Confirm your role with someone by having me tell someone in your society what role you were.
* **The Executed Arena:** However, the six players who were executed before the merging of the two societies did *not* receive one last breath actions. Instead, they were whisked away to the executed arena to wait the two societies merging. The day that the societies merged, all the players remaining in the game had to vote for one of the six executed players, and the one who received the most votes would return to the game *with the same primary role as they had before being executed.* Any maniacs or jesters who were executed performed their actions *after* they were completely eliminated from the game, if they weren't voted back into the game. In addition, the five players who were not voted back into the game performed one last breath actions at the point of their elimination. The player who did return to the game received the **zombie** role.
* **The Infection:** Every night and day, the zombie must infect someone anonymously. The infected player is immediately informed that they are infected. If the zombie dies, all infected players up to that time must compete in a challenge. The player who loses the challenge dies.

# ***Contestants***

\***Alice** previously participated in another non-canon game. However, that specific game is not recorded on the Wikia.

# ***Game Summary***

As the players were divided into two groups, the game started out with significantly more chaos on the villains' side. Suspicion immediately fell on the numerous claims of joker frmo Eevee, Justin, and Aster, but players were also curious about Boodah not sharing his role and Alice's inactivity. The members of the mafia on the villains side attempted to stay more out of the way and unfocused on the game, and Nat even formed a showmance with Aster and later another with Havoc.

In the heroes' society, the game began rather calm with everyone claiming reasonable roles, with the exception of the mafia XMCL, who stalled and and then claimed commoner. In addition, Dani fell on a moral dilemma when she saw Onyx's role of maniac in real life and immediately felt bad for her close friend. In return, Dani claimed detective for Onyx, which was also what Meli claimed. Ella, as the accomplice, started playing hard from the get-go, forming strong alliances with Malik, Piper, and Meli. However, knowing the power of her role, Ella convinced XMCL to kill off **Meli** first as Meli was planning on playing a strong game, thus cutting the mafia legend's game short. Meli, annoyed at her early exit, gave immunity to Ella for the vote, but the accomplice could no longer cast a vote either.

On the villains' side, Havoc was paranoid about his powerful role of psychic and teamed up with Kam, the healer. The two claimed that they were monarchs with each other as there were no other monarch claims on the villains' side. However, the mafia was worried about the power of the monarchs and nevertheless targeted Kam despite her lie. **Kam** was the first person to die on the villains, and she used her one last breath action by revealing Justin and Aster's votes at the next trial.

The villains moved their focus from the multiple jokers as they just found Boodah too difficult to converse with. **Boodah** was voted out nearly unanimously, with a couple spare self-votes, and he was taken to the executed arena. The heroes' society was a bit more divided as both Neb, the corrupted judge, and Brainz, the witch, claimed the judge role. Knowing that there could only be one judge, all the players were deciding between the two players. Piper attempted to push the vote onto Neb, suggesting that Brainz wouldn't be stupid enough to claim the judge as an evil role, while Ella tried to save her teammate. Furthermore, Dani had seen that Brainz was the witch after hearing such info from Onyx, and so after much deliberation, **Brainz** was the first hero voted out.

The next night, Ella was still in control of the heroes' mafia side as XMCL was less active due to one of his ORGs having just finished. So Ella advised him to kill off Avtron next, thus making an ally in Dani less powerful while leaving her alive. So while **Avtron** died next, Dani was certainly not done bringing chaos into the game. Avtron decided to kidnap XMCL for the following night as his one last breath action. With the villains still pursuing showmances and just taking about random crap, they were much less focused on the game. Noah decided to kill **Aidan** next without any strong reason, but he thus ruined the legend's perfect mafia record. Likewise to Avtron, Aidan kidnapped Nemo for the next night.

With her fellow monarch being dead, Dani decided to rouse lots of chaos on the heroes' side. She outed Onyx as the maniac while also saying that they searched Ella to discover that she was mafia. In truth, Ella was not actually searched by Onyx, but Dani saw her as a big player, and wanted her out. Everyone's eyes remained on Onyx as the now-outed maniac rather than Ella as the unconfirmed mafia. Dani instructed Onyx to drag Ella or Piper, but when **Onyx** was voted out, everyone was confused when they did not drag someone. Ella was quite relieved to know this, however, and Dani later apologized to her for the false accusation (despite unknowingly being correct).

The members of the mafia in the villains' society were rather manipulative, leading a blindside against the powerful Havoc. They managed to simply split the vote among other villains, relying on Alice's self-vote. They thus had enough votes to rid themselves of **Havoc**, despite him being practically confirmed as the psychic.

Ella was nervous to learn that XMCL was kidnapped, fearing the random kill. However, the ideal happened for her as **Jelk** was killed next due to the wheel landing on his name. While Jelk was not a huge asset to the game to having low activity, he still stood by his name as a hero and revealed the whole one last breath twist to Piper, who shared it with the heroes' town. With this, much was explained, and the players were relieved to here that this was the twist rather than a possible secondary role.

The villains' society still was shining due to Nat's charismatic nature in the chat. This accomplice claimed to be a commoner, and he and Aster continued their strong and convincing showmance. But in terms of the game, many eyes were still on the joker claims. Nemo was kidnapped, and Noah, having claimed the detective, wanted to take out a big strategic threat. Seeing Eevee vulnerable, he decided to take out **Eevee** the mafia legend despite being one of the multiple joker claims. Eevee decided to stir up chaos by sending a riddling letter to Nat. When Nat shared it with the rest of the mafia, the rest of his team was rather confused, believing the letter was from Nemo.

The villains now set their sights on Alice and Justin as the last two possible targets. After little discussion for the vote and Alice's lack of using her interrogation room, the villains decided to rid themselves of **Alice** nearly-unanimously. Life, as the corrupted sheriff, was relieved to see that other players believed that Alice was a corrupted sheriff and not him. On the heroes, all eyes were on XMCL as there were no other possible targets it seemed. So while XMCL tried desperately to convince others to vote Malik, who was claiming to be an unprovable commoner, **XMCL** was voted out with several votes to his name, including from Ella and Neb, who were forced to turn on him.

Ella had already left an incredible mark on the game, convincing several others that she was the true sheriff. Malik, as the actual sheriff, was instructed by her not to even claim the sheriff role, leaving her as the only public sheriff claim in the heroes' society. In addition, Ella had told Jameson that she used an interrogation on Brainz and that she wanted to keep her second interrogation from the merge. So she instructed Jameson to inform the heroes' society that he had been interrogated by Ella, even though he wasn't. He fell for her trick and falsely confirmed the accomplice herself.

When the merge now arrived, players from both societies began sharing their roles with one another. Piper discovered her new power of being the only remaining player to see both societies' information, such as announcements and the town discussions. Thus, Piper proved herself to everyone. The two sides of the mafia combined, and Ella quickly became the head mafia. Ella was initially fine with the members of the villains' mafia, but she quickly became tired of them. Next, all the contestants were informed of the executed arena twist, learning that they could vote any one of the six executed players back into the game. Immediately, the majority decided on **Havoc**, as there was the most evidence toward him being a safe players. Onyx, as the maniac, finally got to perform their power, and they dragged down **Aster** with them. Ella was relieved, realizing that he wanted the power among the mafia anyway, possibly wanting her out.

When Havoc was voted back into the game, it was clear that he was now the zombie. Several veterans pointed out their remembrance from the last time the zombie was in the game, and Havoc shared his role openly. He also did not take his role lightly, threatening numerous people in the town that he would infect them. In the end, he decided to infect Nemo first. As the healer, Jameson was an easy target by the mafia. Ella was worried about his power and decided to kill him next. But Jameson was just as paranoid, and he healed himself, causing no one to die that night. Ella was pleased as she believed that Jameson would never suspect her.

With even more control in the game, she decided to lead the charge against voting out Havoc next, knowing that he was the zombie. Havoc wanted to bring his lover down with him when he died, so he infected Nat. Havoc was voted out with the vast majority of votes, and so there was a trivia duel between Nat and Nemo. The ultimate score was 23-20 in Nat's favor, and Nemo died from the infection. However, as the jester, he decided to take **SamB**'s card. Havoc was furious, pissed that Nat did not die with him. Nat was hailed as a hero among the others, having beaten one of the smartest mafia players ever in a trivia battle.

Next, Havoc decided to leave a further impact on the game and kidnap Ella for the night. This meant that a random kill would occur, and the circle landed on Piper. However, once again, Jameson healed properly (no longer able to heal himself), and he took a shot on Piper. With no one dead once again, Ella received even less suspicion as Piper did not *seem* like a random kill, as she was close with Ella. The mafia now had the majority 5-4, and it seemed like an easy run to the end. However, Ella was worried about Noah's unreliability, and decided to flip on him when the voted ended up 5-4 in the *villagers'* favor. Thus, **Noah**, as the secondary mafia, was killed off from the game.

The whole mafia team was confused with Ella's flip, but it was not questioned for long once she rid the game of Nemo's two votes for the villagers' side in the next kill. Piper was still attempting very hard to lead the charge against the mafia, saying that the only suspicious players were Neb, Malik, and Nat. Chaos erupted as Malik tried desperately to save himself from being the next to be voted out. In addition, Ella also revealed herself as the mafia to him, saying that the mafia now had the majority and that there was nothing he could do. But even still, Piper and Ella convinced Dani, who was not paying too much attention to the game, to block all the votes against Malik, blindsiding **Nat** with three votes to his name.

While the mafia still had the majority at the final five, Piper was kidnapped, leaving Ella's only logical target as **Malik**. The now-revealed sheriff was finally eliminated from the game, and Piper was shocked when she returned. She said that the only possible voting target next was Neb, but she received immunity from Malik and lost her vote in addition. **Dani** was voted out by the three mafia members, and Ella proceeded to dramatically reveal herself in the town to Piper. **Piper** was the final villager killed a few moments later, and **Ella**, **Life**, and **Neb** won the game for the mafia!

*In addition, you can view the confessionals of the game submitted by the players here!*

# ***Voting History***

Heroes

\*While Ella had immunity, the host missed that Avtron casted a vote against her in the first trial. Their vote was counted during the trial, but it was notified to be negated after. Avtron received no penalty.

Villains

One Society

\*Nat casted a penalty vote for Piper as a part of his one last breath action. However, Piper was granted immunity for that trial and so the vote was not counted.

An underlined vote represents a penalty vote.
A strike-through vote represents a vote blocked by the lawyer.
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***

* This game was originally scheduled to have 26 players (13 players on both sides). However, due to multiple declines to the all-stars invitation, the game began with 25. The following players were invited to all-stars but did not accept:
	+ Aaron (Declined)
	+ Arriz (Declined)
	+ Death (Did not respond)
	+ Josefa (Declined)
	+ Meuh (Declined)
	+ Nix (Declined)
	+ Uke (Declined)
	+ Ziggy (Did not respond)
* Instead of the roles being randomized for the players, Hoola hand-selected which players would receive each role purposefully.
	+ In the future of the series, this would become a common practice.