Mafia: Back to Bonereach

***Mafia: Back to Bonereach*** is the twenty-second season of *The Mafia Series*.

*Mafia: Back to Bonereach* was a rather historic game. Featuring two vastly differing games, one game had a dominant Mafia win and the other had a dominant villager win. In the second game, a confused accomplice outed the Mafia team, causing the Mafia to scramble and reveal themselves to the rest of the villagers.

This game lasted from December 7, 2021 up to December 18, 2021. The two games ended at different times, as Game 2 ended first on December 14. Both games were relatively active and chaotic from beginning to end, with a star-studded cast all the way through.

# ***Roles & Twists***

**Twists**
* **Back to Basics:** This season featured no twists, and it only contained roles that were introduced before game 10.
* **Two Games:** For the first time, two completely separate games were hosted at the same time. Unlike in previous renditions of two games in one, players from different games had no contact with one another.

# ***Contestants***

Game 1

Game 2

# ***Game Summary***

*Both written by **Eevee**.*

Game 1
Game one began much more peaceful than town two, with people like Hades and Andrew naturally gaining suspicion because of their role claims. The mafia members, Dani and David, claimed to be the monarch duo which aroused no suspicion. Knowing that she would be healed by Piper, Dani killed herself to make sure that no suspicion would ever come in her direction. In an easy first vote, Hades was voted out for having the suspicious jester claim. As he claimed, Hades was indeed the jester and took **Life**’s, the psychic, card.

Knowing that Havoc would be healed by Piper, Dani killed Havoc next to make her seem even more innocent. Andrew seemed like the easy next boot because of his suspicious commoner claim, but he and Mooly led the charge against Havoc because of Andrew and Havoc’s frequent feuds. This movement gained quite a lot of traction and Havoc was almost voted out, but ultimately, everyone switched their votes back to Andrew and he was voted out.

**Hades** was killed next for having the powerful psychic role. Harp seemed like the next vote for not being confirmed as the detective, but right before the vote, Harp made a very compelling argument to vote out Avtron for being a double joker claim. The people online switched their votes to **Avtron** and they were executed in a narrow vote. **Havoc** was killed next. Harp’s only case to stay at this point was to vote out the inactive Chai who hadn’t even claimed a role. This failed and **Harp** was easily executed.

With the numbers dwindling, the mafia killed **Mooly** next. Meli and Piper led a plan involving Meli throwing one of her two votes on Piper, so David could presumably use his monarch power on Piper to prove himself and Dani as monarchs. Utilizing Meli throwing a vote on Piper, Dani and David began to formulate a scheme of voting out *Piper* instead of Chai. This scheme was enacted and **Piper** was blindsided 4-2.

After killing **Meli**, the mafia had successfully earned the majority of the votes. **Chai** was voted out, and the mafia (**Dani** & **David**) had won in one of the most dominant mafia wins of all time!

Game 2
A few minutes into the game, Lance decided that it would be a good idea to tell town that he and Swaggy were the mafia. I cannot find any reason for this happening- I guess Lance just felt like ruining the game. Swaggy debated killing Lance for the humor of it, but instead, he killed Emmi for having the critical detective role. Emmi was healed, and instead, any chance of the mafia winning the game was killed. The town obviously voted out Lance unanimously. **Lance** was so obviously a mafia member that he even voted for himself, making it 13-0.

Shortly after the vote, a pregame plan between Cam and Aster was brought to light. Before the game began, Cam and Aster had planned to claim to be a commoner no matter what their role was. Emmi, Jelk, and Swaggy formed an alliance that later included Amber, Uke, and Finn to do whatever it took to get Aster and Cam slaughtered for their pregame shenanigans. Swaggy killed **Aster**, and as planned, Cam was blindsided in the vote. Cam was actually the jester and stole **SamB**’s card.

To fulfill this anti-pregame mindset, **Cam** was killed, but was actually healed. Cam was obviously executed at the next trial, and that was the last of the pregamers! With everyone knowing that he was the mafia, in spectacular fashion, **Swaggy** shot himself giving the villagers the win. The remaining survivors were **Amber**, **Emmi**, **Finn**, **Jelk**, **Uke**, & **Zoe**.

# ***Voting History***

Game 1

Game 2

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***

* This is the first Mafia game in which two games running at the same time ended at different times.
* Coincidentally, both games had the mafias use their kill action on themselves.
* Nathaniel won the viewing lounge prediction game for this season.