Mafia: Paranormal Panic

***Mafia: Paranormal Panic*** is the twelfth season of *The Mafia Series*.

*Mafia: Paranormal Panic* was an excessively chaotic game that's an overall mid-tier season. It *is* known for being the first season for the third party to win, as well as the first season where *all* members of the mafia survive all the way in the end (in this case, just for them to lose to the third party). There were many experienced players in this game who trailblazed the way throughout this game, as well as the second ever quitter.

This game lasted from May 9, 2021 up to May 21, 2021. While it was a generally active game and it progressed quickly, the majority of the rookies (and several of the veterans as well) were quite inactive. Thus, there were sluggish points in the game where not much was occurring.

# ***Roles & Twists***

**Twists**
* **New Secondary Roles:** As part of the paranormal theme, the ghost and goblin were added into the game at the start. They were announced during the introduction of this game.
* **The Vampire:** The letters "V", "a", "m", "p", "i", "r", and "e" were hidden throughout the server and Wikia for players to discover. In the introduction to the game, seven letters were announced to be hidden, but the specific letters were not specified. The host said that whoever would find and screenshot all the letters to their confessional would obtain an advantage, but they accidentally leaked a couple days later that this advantage was the vampire role (though several players already knew the word by this time).

# ***Game Summary***

With a whopping twenty players participating together, everyone was scrambling to claim their roles. Three jester claims and three commoner claims were both suspicious as there were very few claims for easier to prove roles - like lawyer and noble. However, everything changed when Havoc claimed nearly ten different roles to different players, wanting to hide the fact that he was the monarch with Nat. Nat was alarmed by this and quickly became pissed at his partner. He was forced to claim joker, following Havoc's vote. Because of these numerous other clashing role claims, most of the mafia and 3rd party members claimed unique roles - such as Stella claiming lawyer, Jameson and Nathaniel claiming a monarch pair, Amber claiming noble, and Life claiming joker.

Eventually, Havoc came out and said that he was monarch with Nat, causing suspicion to come off of him. Multiple participants were scrambling to prove one another, with players like CamBam leading the charge. The mafia team decided to kill off **Dratuna** first, fearing the strong power of the detective. Next, players became suspicious of Nemo and Piper working together as Piper claimed to be following Nemo as the apprentice. But since no other player was claiming the apprentice role, a vote for either of these players never truly came to fruition.

While the vote was on Havoc for the first twenty-four hours, it quickly changed when others believed that he truly was the monarch. He said that he would prove himself by blocking his vote for Piper at the trial. The vote fell onto Pug, one of the three players claiming the jester role. However, Aster decided to out himself, saying that he knew who the mafia was and that he was the maniac. He would also blackmail the mafia if he died. Aster did not truly know the identity of the mafia, and he originally planned to make this move later in the game, but he became impatient. Immediately, everyone shifted gears and voted for **Aster**, eliminating him with a massive 9 votes. He decided to drag **Havoc** for shits and giggles. Nat was very upset to lose his partner, as he was never able to vote for the entire length of the game due to at first being the goblin and later being a lone monarch.

During this time, players were searching for letters throughout the server. Players like Nemo, Eevee, Amber, and Stella all found letters very quickly. In the end, 6/7 letters were all revealed, but no one could find the last "a." Finally, the "a" came up in the day two counter, and Eevee was the first to find it. He obtained the advantage of the vampire role. Amber and Havoc were the next two to find this final letter, but they both learned it was too late and were eager to tell the others that someone else had it. Eevee did not come out that he had it, so many believed that Nemo himself had earned the advantage.

Suspicion fell on Stella and Amber as both of them failed to prove themselves with the vote count did not add up. In addition, there was a push for Nathaniel and Jameson to clear themselves next round, as Nat and Havoc had already done so. There was no suspicion on Life, as he was following Amber and recited her vote perfectly. Eevee was killed by the mafia next, seen as a big strategic threat, despite claiming jester and being a primary suspect. He was the first ever jester to be killed by the mafia,
but he was actually healed by Nemo, so one died!

Players were determined to take out a jester at the next vote, seeing that there was no way that all three of them could be true, with Eevee being proven as a non-mafia. RJ was the victim of this vote, but as the true jester, she decided to take Pug's card, much to other players' annoyance. Pug was also the jester, so both of them took two other players' cards. RJ selected **Felidues's** card while Pug selected **Brainz's**, the latter causing an angered outburst among remaining players.

Nemo was the next victim of the mafia, however, he correctly healed himself, allowing two players to survive the mafia kill in a row while also practically confirming that he and Piper were the healer and apprentice, as they had claimed. Amber started gaining some heat as her claim of noble did not add up with the votes, so she stated that she was actually just hiding that she was the *psychic*. She attempted to prove herself by "re-telling" an argument that Aster and Havoc had in the graveyard, and the other players seemed to buy it, taking their eyes off her. At the same time, Stella had aroused suspicion when she had failed to block a vote for the first two trials. Others also wanted to prove Jameson and Nathaniel, but of course they did not have the ability to do this either. Even with these multiple possible executions, **Neb** received the majority of votes in a very split decision, eliminating an innocent commoner from the game.

Eevee was once again killed by the mafia for being proven. However, as the jester, he decided to take **Life's** card, eliminating him from the game. Eevee was very upset to learn that he was now on the 3rd party, believing that he had been drastically helping the town side and that they were going to win. When the voting stage began, **RJ** suddenly left the server and later informed the hosts that she had to drop out. Eevee, now as the witch, took drastic measures to help the failing mafia survive. With his vampire role, he blocked Piper's vote at the trial, thus "proving" Stella as the lawyer, much to her confusion. In this vote, he also managed to exploit Nat's suspicion of CamBam as a corrupted sheriff, and they eliminated **CamBam** in a very close 5-4 vote over Stella.

With Cam now out of the way, the witches decided that it was a perfect time to strike. While the mafia decided to strike **Nemo**, Amber chose to poison **Piper**, killing her in addition despite having the ghost. With two strong, innocent strategists gone, the town was in trouble. **Avtron** was the next victim of the vote when they were one of the few unproven players remaining as a commoner. After Avtron's death, Rasputin, Jameson, and Nathaniel were the clear next suspects as the game hadn't ended. For some odd reason , the mafia killed off **Rasputin** next. Narrowing down the numbers, the witches struck again, killing off **Pug**. With only six players left, with one of them being town, the mafia decided that with their majority of 3-2, they could pick off Eevee. However, with Eevee's vampire role and Jameson having the goblin, the witches took control and sent **Nat** home. Thus, only the mafia and 3rd party remained, giving the first ever victory to the witches, **Amber** and **Eevee**. **Jameson**, **Nathaniel**, and **Stella** all survived but still technically lost to the 3rd party team.

# ***Voting History***

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.
A strike-through vote marked with an asterisk (\*) represents a vote blocked by the goblin.

\*CamBam was accidentally given the ghost by random draw when the host didn't notice that Amber had previously passed it to Life. Thus, both of them received the ghost for that round, but only Life passed it on to the next person.

\*\*For some reason we didn't catch this mistake lol. Amber passed the ghost to Eevee after receiving it from him.

# ***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 is Dani's first time hosting.
	+ This makes her the fifth person to host.
* This is the first game where the 3rd party has ever won.
* This is the first game where all the members of a mafia time ever all survived.
	+ Ironically, they still lost to the 3rd party team.