Mafia: Witches' Coven

***Mafia: Witches' Coven*** is the ninth season of *The Mafia Series*.

Again setting the record for the most amount of players, this game certainly didn't disappoint. With a special host, this game was conducted with utmost professionalism. With a new witch role shaking up the game to the very max, there were twists around every corner. In the end, only two villagers survived after a very intense final few days.

This game lasted from March 22, 2021 up to April 6, 2021. With rather active players, the host held firm to make sure that deadlines were always followed. The game progressed rather quickly, but due to the high amount of players, it lasted an unusually long time. But still, it was praised from beginning to end for its entertainment and drama.

# ***Roles & Twists***

**Twists**
* **Witches' Coven:** The three witches are as stated in the title, a coven. They're together and work together. However, the witch is all by herself at town as the other two witches left. However, those two still both have a specific power that only applies during this game.
	+ **Witch one:** She has the hypnotize potion, which makes people forget that a vote happened and forces a second vote during the same day. (similair to a double tribal council). The witch role decides when this has to happen.
	+ **Witch two:** The other witch has the sleeping potion, which allows the witch role to bring her fellow witch to town, cause everyone to be in a deep sleep and kidnap one of the town members to save them from the mafia.
	+ The final power is that when the witch dies, her two witches return to town and get revenge on one of the townies. The witch role decides who she wants to get killed by her fellow witches (technically the witch role decides who dies).

# ***Game Summary***

*Written by **Ella**.*

The game got played hard immediately as three different people claimed the Healer role, those being Havoc, Hoola and Dani. The witch, Meli, decided to make a deal with Havoc who originally was the accomplice to survive longer in the game. While Hoola made an alliance with the people he played with on Destino and Havoc made an alliance with the monarchs & the ones he trusted the most, others began suspecting Hoola and Havoc for being the mafia. Noah, Piper, Aster and Malik argued about this topic, which let the mafia decide who they wanted to eliminate first.

Uke, as the mafia, discussed this with accomplice Havoc and corrupted Noble Nemo. They came to the decision to eliminate **Noah** first, eliminating the psychic first. The first vote became a neck-a-neck race between Hoola and Havoc. While Havoc had the mafia, the witch & maniac on his side, Hoola build up trust with some of the villagers. Jameson decided to block the votes against monarch Malik, while he returned the favor to monarch Jameson despite not being each other’s partners. With Aster using his Noble role to test out monarchs Jameson & Malik, the vote tied between Hoola and Havoc. Judge Eevee ultimately chose to eliminate **Havoc**, thus eliminating one of the two accomplices. Piper, as the detective, checked Havoc’s role and found out he was indeed the accomplice.

At night, witch Meli decided to let one of her two fellow witches return to town to kidnap one of the villagers. She and Nemo came up with the plan to frame Hoola for their duties. Hoola was kidnapped, which gave mafia Uke the chance to instantly kill Piper. However, the decision was changed in case healer Dani would heal Piper. A random victim was made, **Brainz**, which hopefully cleared the name of Nemo. Dani healed herself at night since her fellow healer Hoola got kidnapped.

With Hoola returning to town, he and Nemo both tried to manipulate each other into doing what they want. Nemo wants to break the Dani/Hoola duo while Hoola wants to take out Nemo as he suspects him of being the corrupted detective. Nemo manages to make majority by getting enough people to vote out Dani. However, monarch Neb decided to step up his game and used it to save Dani, sending **Nemo** the corrupted noble to the graveyard. Detective Piper used her final power to see what his role was.

That night, mafia Uke and his accomplice Justin quickly decided to kill Aster as suggested by Justin. With Nemo out of the picture, the info they got from outside their mafia team was gone even though Uke found himself in a alliance with those who tried to save Nemo at the vote. **Aster** was killed that night and it remained quiet at town as people began to sus Meli, Kam and Arriz.

As the voting started, Hoola rallied up his alliance again, consisting of himself, Dani, Eevee, Jameson, Jelk, Logan, Malik, Meuh, Neb and Piper. While Dani and Piper were very vocal about throwing votes at Meli, the other alliance that was originally started by Havoc tried to put the votes back on Dani. Jameson and Malik once again kept their loyalty to the alliance with the mafia, witch and maniac (without the knowledge of them being the evil side of town) and caused the vote to be tied between Meli and Dani. Making history, Eevee as judge had to make another decision to eliminate one of the two, choosing the former. **Meli**, as the witch, was then eliminated.

Justin and Uke now stepped up their game and decided to kill one of the bigger players, detective Piper, who set her foot into the game by having many allies. Justin decided to be more upfront with his game, having people believing him to be the lawyer and even posted several charts of who people sussed, gaining trust. While the mafia killed **Piper**, Meli as the witch had one final task to let her fellow witches kill one town member. She chose **Hoola** to be killed, causing the leader of the majority alliance to be dead.

With his closest allies dead, Eevee now decided to take charge over town and listed Uke, Kam and Meuh as the possible next targets. While the town easily agreed on taking out Uke as he was the most quiet one, Uke decided to speak up finally and fight for his life. Unfortunately for him, it wasn’t enough and for the first time this game a big majority voted together, voting off the mafia **Uke**.

With Justin being promoted to mafia, he immediately made the move to take down one of the monarchs. As Logan was the only monarch left with the power to block votes for someone, Justin decided to kill **Logan**.

The town now had to make a move into the right direction. Various names were thrown out such as Meuh, Kam, Dani and Justin. Three people self-voted this round, which caused the vote to be the most hectic one of the season. The vote tally was 2-2-1-1-1-1-1, which meant that for the third time that season the judge Eevee had to make their decision. Wanting to blindside **Dani**, he chose to eliminate her, not knowing he just eliminated the town’s final healer.

Now that Justin started to play hard behind the scenes, he knew he had to break the final monarch duo as Jameson was already on his own. Justin had to take a shot at the duo of Malik and Neb. And therefor, Justin as the mafia decided to kill off **Malik**.

The next day, the remaining eight players got united at the village to discuss the next vote. The possible suspects that got named were Meuh, Arriz and Kam, with the latter being opted as the vote. It didn’t take much time for the town and mafia to unanimously vote off **Kam**. However, she happened to be the maniac and had to make the decision to drag someone down her grave with her. Kam decided to choose **Eevee**.

Now that there were only six players left, mafia Justin knew exactly what to do. As both Meuh and Arriz both were suspecting each other to be the mafia and Meuh possibly taking Neb’s card, Justin had open game if he took out one of the side-passers. Therefor he decided to kill the innocent **Jameson** that night.

Following day eight, Meuh went against Arriz in public and tried to make people flip to his side. Mafia Justin knew that he’d have a bigger chance winning with Meuh on his side so those two voted against Arriz while Jelk was still convinced Meuh was the mafia and had Arriz voting with him for Meuh. As the vote tied, Jameson as the most recent deceased villager had to break the tie. Jameson decided to vote off **Arriz**.

At night, Justin had one task to fulfill. Take out his last competitor. Justin knew that the vote would tie the next day, so it only would make sense for him to take out Jelk. During the night, Jelk became aware of the whole situation and made an very interesting confessional that summed up the whole end-game. With no luck on his side, **Jelk** was killed that night.

Day nine started, which caused Meuh and Justin to be against each other as the only remaining players to have a vote left. The vote tied which let the most recent deceased player, Jelk, break the tie. His long investigation caused him to correctly vote out the mafia, **Justin**. Because of that, the game was won by the town. The only two survivors were **Meuh** and **Neb**.

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

# ***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.

# ***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. Please note that Ella herself handed out the rewards rather than carrying out a vote, with the exception of fan favorite.

# ***Trivia***

* This season was hosted by Ella. It is her first time acting as host.
	+ As a result, there were no confessional channels this season, due to Hoola having access to every channel of the server. However, Ella, as host, made a google sheet that allowed participants to submit confessionals privately. This is the first time since *Mafia: Corrupted Valley* to have all chats performed over direct message.