Mafia: Sunny Day

***Mafia: Sunny Day*** is the thirty-eighth season of *The Mafia Series*. This season was a direct storyline sequel to *Mafia: Patient Zero*.

Implementing long-awaited changes to 3rd Party, this season featured a close race between multiple evil parties. The Mafia and 3rd Party ran circles around the villagers in this chaotic season. However, this season still featured a dynamic cast of players, as well as five new players. In addition to the Mafia dominating the early game, two 4th Party members claimed their own victory.

This game lasted from April 3, 2023 up to April 18, 2023. This was quite an active game. Even though the town did not come out victorious, everyone in the game appeared to be strategizing for the best for their party.

# ***Roles & Twists***

**Twists**
* **3rd Party Testing:** In addition to a permanent updated win condition for the 3rd Party, this game tested a minor change for this alignment. During the first night, the 3rd Party was not able to be killed by the Mafia. Instead, if a 3rd Party member was killed, the kill was redirected onto a random townsperson. This change was only in this game unless hosts decided it best to permanently implement it in the future.
* **The Zombie:** Returning from *Mafia: Patient Zero*, the zombie sub-role was given to a random player in the game, who would get to infect another player every night and every day. When the zombie died, all the infected players were then forced to compete in a challenge. The loser of the challenge would die of infection and be eliminated from the game. Another zombie would be randomly selected after every zombie death until the final 8.
* **Hidden 4th Party Role:** At the start of the game, it was announced that a game-exclusive 4th Party role was present, but the role was not shared publicly. Only the holder of this role, the plague doctor, learned the details and their win condition.
* **Classes:** Returning from *Mafia: Learngood Academy*, the classes were mini challenges that players could participate in during the voting cycle. The classes were completely optional. If a player passed the class, they would get an advantage, while if they failed the class, they would get a disadvantage. The teacher was a game-exclusive role that would automatically allow other players to pass in classes. Each type of class could occur twice unless specified otherwise.
	+ The classes were altered from *Learngood Academy*. They were as follows:
		- **Medicinal Studies:** Players were given multiple collages of potions. They were given a clue to identify a particular potion in the multitude of medicines. A player only passed if they identified the exact potion.
		- **Self-Defense:** Players had to beat the daily best in a flash game within a certain amount of time.
		- **General Knowledge:** Players had to answer a set of trivia questions within a certain amount of time. To pass, every answer had to be correct.
		- **Entertainment:** Players had to write a short story or poem based on a theme. These stories were submitted through a google form so that they could be anonymously judged by hosts.
		- **Negotiation:** Players engaged in a role-playing conversation with a character. If they did not die in the role-play discussion, then a player passed the class. Negotiation could occur three times.
		- **Security Breach:** Only eligible to occur once per game, the security breach was the only class that could not be passed nor failed. At the conclusion of the day, it would be announced that a security breach was occurring, and a second vote immediately followed the first.

# ***Game Summary***

*Written by **Hades**.*

The game started off fairly slowly, with a few people coming forward with claims, all of them true with the exceptions of Calvin the accomplice (who claimed aristocrat), Jade the siren (who claimed convict), and Enrique the psychic (who claimed commoner). Fearing the stronger veteran players, Andrew made **Emmi** his first target. Swaggy grew rightfully suspicious of godfather Amber, and Eevee confided in Piper, his apprentice, that he was the secret 4th Party role. Suspicions were placed on Chloe for a contradicting claim, as well as Piper since there was confusion about who she followed as Apprentice, but ultimately it was Daichen who was voted out due to claiming a the removed Student role. However, Daichen was the Jester and took Havoc’s card, who was *also* a Jester. Daichen and Havoc took **Jelk** the witch’s card and **Swaggy** the sheriff’s card, respectively.

Calvin was seizing control of the game and the mafia, and this frustrated Andrew. **Jack** died in the night after rolling death as the Gambler. **Haevyn** was killed by the mafia. and Havoc began their next big move: blindsiding Chloe the maniac, despite helping to convince town Chloe was the joker. With 3rd Party's backs against the wall, Jade put Eevee and Chloe into a lover pairing, and the two confessed their roles and began to strategize, with the latter giving up much more information than the former. Wanting to protect their life, Eevee attempted to sway Havoc and the other Chloe voters to Slay, but when that wasn’t working, Chloe activated her Mass Hysteria and executed **Havoc**.

During the night, in the hopes of protecting Chloe’s life and hiding Eevee’s alignment, Chloe secretly claimed Plague Doctor to Enrique. Little did they know they claimed it to the Zombie, but it didn’t matter much as **Enrique** was the next to die. Eevee’s Plague Doctor abilities backfired as they were pitted against one other remaining infected, **Ava**, but they managed to survive. With Enrique’s final words accusing Eevee, Chloe came forward claiming Plague Doctor and Eevee claiming Maid. The Mafia attempted to target Eevee for being an accused 3rd Party by a Restless Spirit, but when Calvin was blackmailed by a failed Siren use, they switched to **Luna**, and the Gambler was executed.

While triumphant in the execution, the 3rd Party suffered a massive blow when **Chloe** was killed, taking out the plague doctor **Eevee** as well, passing the role on to Piper. Chloe attempted to expose Calvin as the mafia, but with Alfie at his defense convinced he was baker, the accusation fell on deaf ears, and **Slay** was executed instead. A special class, however, created a second execution, and the Mafia pushed Jade as a target while 3rd Party pushed Calvin. With hours left to vote, Eternal attempted to push Calvin as the target, but it was too little too late as the majority was already set on **Jade**, who was executed.

Tensions rose on the sixth night as while some saw Eternal as leading the vote, others saw it as a power trip. In addition, Calvin’s guilty conscience had him confess to Alfie and Piper the names of the mafia team, including himself. While Piper was unaffected as a 4th Party member, Alfie was furious at the betrayal. Speaking of whom, **Alfie** was killed when Daichen used their witch power to redirect the kill. **Zo** the zombie was also killed when Piper made the 5th correct heal, securing victory for 4th Party. Calvin’s kindness was his downfall, as Alfie exposed the entire mafia team in their final words. Panicked, the mafia scrambled for a backup plan. Lucky for them, they managed to flip DDLC, who promised to never vote for Calvin. However, they still failed, and the town executed **Calvin** by a one vote margin after a whopping 5 final words accusing him.

This, however, solidified a Mafia victory, as Dylan was corrupted by Amber the godfather, and Calvin became a vengeful spirit. With the majority of votes guaranteed, they killed **Daichen** while **DDLC** starved. Then they executed **Eternal** and killed **Piper** due to some confusion about the unique win condition. Finally, the game ended with the execution of **Niamea**. This left the winners as survivors **Amber**, **Andrew**, and **Dylan**, as well as Calvin, Eevee, and Piper from the graveyard, giving Mafia their first win in 8 games.

# ***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***

* Iridi, a co-host of *Mafia: Patient Zero*, originally was helping host this season. However, they decided to step down from the hosting team on the day of the premiere due to personal reasons.
* Nathaniel won the viewing lounge prediction game for this season.