Mafia: All-Stars IV

***Mafia: All-Stars IV*** is the fortieth season of *The Mafia Series*. After three successful previous All-Stars seasons, 40 of the greatest players were brought together to participate in the largest season yet! This season featured a unique Mafia format that had not been seen before in the series.

Players were divided into two towns of 20 players, and they were granted quite a bit of communication with the other town in the form of a meeting place and "abyss pairs"! While two games were occurring at the same, players were continually sent back and forth from the looming Abyss, forming a creative dynamic in the strategy of the game (particularly for the evil teams). While there was some toxic gameplay present from the 3rd Party at the beginning of the merge, the Mafia team proved their dominance throughout the entire game. In an exciting live finale, the race between the town and the Mafia became very close, but a starvation for the town led the unknowing jester to become the sole survivor after taking the card of the final Mafia, bringing the Mafia to their 4th All-Stars win!

This game lasted from June 25, 2023 up to July 15, 2023. While regarded as not the best All-Stars game, the dynamic first couple of cycles and the back-and-forth live conclusion of the game helped the reputation of this season. The town was particularly discombobulated throughout the middle portion of the game, as it was led by a couple of the more active and confirmable villagers of the game.

# ***Roles & Twists***

**Twists**
* **Two Towns:** Players were immediately divided into two towns, **Wakefissure** and **Slumberchasm**. These functioned very similarly to the two societies twist, but it was announced that the towns were directly adjacent to each other with simply a huge abyss between them. Thus, players were allowed to communicate with members of the other town, but only through a chat called **"The Meeting Place"**, which was a public channel with a two-hour slowmode. Players could only privately speak with players in their own town, and games in both towns were occurring simultaneously. Players in both towns could only perform actions with others living in the same town. At the pre-determined point of Day 6 (at the start of the fifth vote), an earthquake occurred, and all players were merged into one society in a cliff in the Abyss called **Dreamrift**. From there, the game proceeded as a normal single-town game.
* **Abyss Pairs:** At the beginning of the game, players were paired up with a member of the other town that they could speak with privately. Unknown to the players until the conclusion of the first night, players whose partners died were hurled into the Abyss. When players returned from the Abyss, they were randomized a new partner out of those returning to the game with them. Abyss pairs continued until the merge, at which point they had no affect on the twist of the game.
* **Exiling in the Abyss:** These exiled players were unable to speak with other players (aside from those in the Abyss with them) during their time in the Abyss, but they were also immune from having any actions (or votes) performed on them. Players in the Abyss were presented with a map and key (seen to the right). Every in-game night and day that they were in the Abyss, players could search one location for the opportunity to obtain a reward. As there were disadvantages present in the Abyss as well, it was necessary for players to search every night and day. At the start of every in-game day during the pre-merge, all players in the Abyss returned to a randomized town with a new randomized Abyss Pair. If there was an odd amount of players in the Abyss, then one player would remain in the Abyss for one more cycle.
	+ **Golden Coins:** In the Abyss, players could find golden coins. Players were unaware of what golden coins were used for until the market opened at the start of Day 4. Golden coins - as well as everything else found in the Abyss - were not transferable unless specified otherwise.
* **The Market:** On Day 4, it was announced that players could trade 1-3 golden coins in for Market Items. When a player purchased an item, they receive the item directly following the next results, and it was announced publicly that that item was gone. Items were added during two stocks. The first stock was comprised of the following items.
	+ **Fake Ballot:** (1 Coin) "This item will allow you to block another player's vote at any future trial!"
	+ **Weighted Die:** (1 Coin) "This item will allow you to roll a gambler's die once!"
	+ **Long Lost ID:** (1 Coin) "For a limited time, this item will allow you to cast a vote on the other side of the game instead of your own town!"
	+ **Key to Inner Chamber Ruins:** (1 Coin) "For a limited time, you can learn of an upcoming twist upon purchase!"
	+ **Black Rod:** (2 Coins) "This item will allow you to give the delegate sub-role to another player for a single cycle. This delegate will not be passed to any other player."
	+ **Regal Crown:** (2 Coins) "This item will allow you to block all votes cast against a particular player."
	+ **Crimson Serum:** (2 Coins) "This mysterious serum will transform you into... something. This risk is yours to take!" It was revealed after the season that the crimson serum would have given the purchaser the werewolf secondary role.
	+ **Necromancy Training:** (2 Coins) "With this item, you can pull a deceased player out of the graveyard and open a one-on-one chat with them!"
	+ **Weak Spirit Lamp:** (2 Coins) "This item will allow you to become either a cursed or restless spirit (of your choosing) upon death! Two of these are available."
	+ **Powerful Spirit Lamp:** (3 Coins) "This item will allow you to become either a vengeful or bonded spirit (of your choosing) upon death! Two of these are available."
* The second stock, added on Night 7, had some different items depending on the merged twist. The second stock that was actually presented in the game was comprised of the following items.
	+ **Autopsy Report:** (1 Coin) "This item will allow you to use the detective's ability to search the most recently deceased player whenever you would like."
	+ **Sightseeing Trip:** (1 Coin) "With this item, you will gain permanent viewing access to both pre-merge announcement and town channels!"
	+ **Tunnel to the Abyss:** (1 Coin) "With this item, you will get one search in the Abyss as well as permanent viewing access to the Abyss channel."
	+ **First Aid Kit:** (2 Coins) "This item will allow you to heal yourself during one night!"
	+ **Purple Serum:** (2 Coins) "This mysterious serum will transform you into... something. This risk is yours to take!" It was revealed after the season that the purple serum would have given the purchaser the vampire secondary role.
	+ **Mysterious Herbs:** (2 Coins) "With these herbs, you will become a wise sage who is able to appoint someone with the hero sub-role when eligible."
	+ **Wire Cutter:** (2 Coins) "With this item, you can cut the power to a sector during any voting round. This will make all those players ineligible to vote, nor will they be able to be voted for."
	+ **Technician's Toolkit:** (2 Coins) "With the handy held of a technician's toolkit, you can boost the power to a sector during any night round. This will cause the roles of all players who die in that sector during the next cycle to be publicly revealed."
	+ **Weather Machine:** (3 Coins) "With this incredibly powerful tool, you will hold the almighty power to control which weather event happens next."
	+ **Legendary Gavel:** (3 Coins) "This item can be used during the day to trigger a second execution to directly follow."
* **Players' Choice:** On Day 6, at the first vote of the merge, players had to cast an additional vote to determine which path the twists of the rest of the game would follow. Each player cast one vote (that could not be blocked) either for **New Horizons** or for **Sunny Day**. Players were not told the exact details of what each twist would entail. Players ultimately decided on New Horizons. For this path, players were divided into four sectors with five players each. At the start of every day, a random weather pattern occurred, causing one sector to gain a boost in some way and another to gain a disadvantage. The weather patterns were as follows:
	+ **Fresh Air:** No effect occurred.
	+ **Flood:** During this weather event, no one in the **agricultural sector** could die during the next night while the members of the **infrastructural sector** were unable to perform actions during the following night.
	+ **Thick Fog:** During the thick fog, all deceased members of the **research sector** were added back to the private sector chat to talk with the living members of that sector. The members of the **administrative sector** were no longer able to speak in the town until the next weather event.
	+ **Electrical Storm:** With this unique event, members of the **infrastructural sector** each received an extra vote at the upcoming trial while members of the **research sector** lost their votes instead.
	+ **Hard Freeze:** While hard freeze occurred, each member of the **administrative sector** was able to block the vote of another player in the game. Simultaneously, there was a 25% chance that a villager in the **agricultural sector** would starve.
	+ Had the path of **Sunny Day** been chosen, the zombie twist would have returned from Patient Zero and Sunny Day. In addition, the following items would have been added to the market:
		- **Alternative Medicine:** (1 Coin) "With this item, you can heal someone (aside from yourself) from the infection!"
		- **Live Concert Tickets:** (2 Coins) "With this item, you will send two players into quarantine. You can choose privately whether to include yourself in this randomization or not."
		- **Online Lessons:** (2 Coins) "With this item, you will trigger an optional class on the next full in-game day that will provide participants with an advantage or disadvantage"
* **One Last Breath:** Following the merge, all sequestered players were instructed after leaving final words that they would have one final way to influence the game. Every deceased player received one coin to bequeath to another player in the game in addition to any coins that they were holding previously. Living players were not informed where they received the coins from.
* **Cheating Monarch:** Returning from Lovers' Quarrel, one monarch in this season was a cheating monarch, who was paired with both other monarchs. The other two monarchs learned that they did not have their ability to block votes, though they were not told why. The cheating monarch was the only one with this ability, and they had to choose another monarch to give this power too, while the other third monarch would be left without any power. The cheating monarch only gained the monarch disadvantage if both partners died... but if the cheating monarch died then *both* other monarchs gained the disadvantage.
* **Expanded 4th Party:** For the first time, there were two 4th Party roles present in the game. There was one fifer present in each town, and they had an additional chat (not an Abyss Pair chat) where they could communicate with one another. If one fifer died during the pre-merge, then the other would have the ability to enchant a player in both towns every day. If the 4th Party won, then two random players would die rather than just one.

# ***Game Summary***

The players were immediately thrown into the biggest game in the series to date with a player count equal to the number of this historic 40th season. During the premiere, it was revealed that there would be two societies, with normal-sized games in each society. However, there were still a plethora of secrets kept from the players. Directly following the cast reveal, the twist of the abyss pairs was revealed, but the effects of these pairs were still kept secret until the next day.

In the side of **Wakefissure**, which would generally shake up to eventually become the quieter town, a collection of claims were assembling as early as the first night. A major character in confessionals was Ash, who was struggling early on with balancing the game and their hidden figure account, particularly nervous that their friend Logan would quickly discover them. They did not want to get caught lying to a friend so early on. Capy and Jade became central figures to the story early on when they claimed to be monarchs, though Jade also claimed to be monarchs with Nia in Slumberchasm. This seemingly conflicting claim brought some confusion to this town early.

Meanwhile, the evil teams were sorting out their claims. On the Mafia team, Eevee initially wanted to create a fake mayor trio, as he claimed mayor himself. Eevee, however, also fake-claimed blacksmith to supposedly hide his mayor claim. Jet then claimed to be the sheriff, and Hades attempted to claim to be a convict with future hopes of being "interrogated" by Jet. The 3rd party took much safer claims. Ash claimed to be the potter, while Life claimed to be the unconfirmable warden. Piper claimed lawyer, hoping that that would be an easy confirmation with the priestess role. On the first night, the Mafia decided to kill someone that had yet to claim. They decided to kill **Chloe**, fearing that she would likely be hiding a powerful villager role. She indeed revealed upon her death that she was the sheriff, though some believed that she might be a member of the 3rd party.

When the full extent of the abyss pairs were revealed and Jade, the now-deceased Dani's partner, was sent to the Abyss, Capy found himself in a difficult position. He had lost his confirmation partner for clarifying the true story behind the cheating monarchs. Overall, the first vote on Wakefissure descended into a mess. Hades and Kae both naturally gained suspicion as convict claims, though more players were suspicious of the former due to his behavior. Havoc's name was also out there. Finally, Finally, Harp was getting pushed as a potential vote, as people particularly saw Harp's name getting put forward by players who happened to be members of the Mafia. In the end, Harp received the majority of the votes, but his ambassador ability saw all votes against him get blocked. Though seemingly proving himself as the monarch earlier in the day, **Capy** was executed by a very small margin over Hades due to the lack of communication within Wakefissure.

The first cycle of **Slumberchasm** was just as eventful and chaotic. The Mafia in this town were engaged in the game right from the start. During the first night, they had a private voice chat, where Bernkastel took control of the strategy while Alfie and Luna both contributed to the direction that the team planned to take with their claims. Though Emmi was a "town" leader, she claimed to be a fifer for the first cycle, and the seriousness of their claim caused her to gain the suspicion of a number of all-stars. Emmi was not the only one that other players were suspicious of, though. Lego and Bernkastel, as well as some others, were believing to have discovered PK as a hidden figure due to their unique and outgoing personality, though there was no immediate mistrust for "Liara" in terms of the game itself.

Both Enrique and Bernkastel decided to hide their powerful roles for the beginning of the game, only sharing their true identities in private. Enrique hid the incredibly powerful maid role with a commoner claim, and Bernkastel, the corrupted sheriff, told the village that he was the gambler. Emmi began to become suspicious of Bernkastel reasonably early on due to this claim. In addition, Slay was hiding his mayor claim, though partially just to be chaotic, and he claimed to be the apprentice while privately searching for many others' claims as early as the first night. The Mafia was at first debating killing Tommo for being a guard, though they ended up changing their mind, thankfully for them as Tommo would later become a tight number for Bernkastel. Instead, they decided to kill **Dani**, believing that she was hiding some powerful role, similar to the Mafia's decision to kill Chloe on Wakefissure. Dani's blossoming relationship with her fifer partner, Ava, unfortunately came to a close early. This caused Ava on Wakefissure to take desperate measures during the first execution and reveal the full story of the fifers to her abyss pair, Slay. This extra information allowed Slay's chaos to spread even further.

Alfie, the accomplice, privately claimed to be the herbalist to key players, hoping that they would seem to be nervous to publicly share their powerful role. Even more confusion arose involving Slay when he accidentally posted his own role list that included him as the mayor, exposing Cam and Cherry as members of his mayor trio. However, lies sprung up about which of these two was actually the healer and judge. Despite this chaos, many players turned to a more unconfirmable player. Lego's exiling to the abyss spelled disaster for the 3rd party on Slumberchasm. BT was left all alone with no one to defend his hunter claim. Due to his quieter nature in the early parts of the game, **BT** lost his life in the game, and he was revealed to be an alien! BT had made a last ditch effort to push the vote onto Zo, a jester claim, but instead of dragging them, he decided to drag **Phantom**, the other hunter claim in this town.

Due to the meeting place, there was quite a bit of communication between the two towns during the first cycle. Because of the shared information of initial claims, the Wakefissure Mafia theorized that Malik was evil due to his early claim, which they deemed unusual for him. In private communications, however, Zo became a major route for communication between Jelk and Emmi, and Zo became a little bit annoyed that they were seen as a tool as the game progressed. In addition, the Abyss during the first day of the game contained some interesting discussion. Lego and Jade began strategizing, not realizing that their partners were both about to be executed.

Eevee, Havoc, and Nia were all sent to the Abyss following their partners' deaths. There was quite a bit of confusion why no votes had been read against Havoc at the trial, thus why he revealed himself as the little girl in the abyss. When Ava's reveal of her fifer identity to Slay became publicized, the news spread rapidly. Her claim was quickly confirmed when who she was claiming to enchant matched up with who was being added to the enchanted chats in both societies. Emmi was forced to backtrack earlier than she intended on her fifer claim, though she continued to keep her true hunter identity secret. Now, they instead claimed to be the herbalist, which dangerously created a counter-claim with Alfie. During this cycle, Slumberchasm became much more volatile.

Bernkastel continued her strong leadership role, coming out as the sheriff. Players like Emmi and Enrique, however, were still suspicious of him potentially being corrupted. Nonetheless, Enrique agreed to work with her, and after revealing his maid role, Bernkastel decided to interrogate him. The interrogation facts contributed little to the game aside from helping the Mafia team work together to deduce potential hidden figure identities. Luna had claimed to be a joker following Bernkastel, and this aroused even more paranoia in Emmi that those two could both be connected if evil. Thus, Emmi decided to hunt Luna, throwing the Mafia's kill into turmoil. The Mafia had remained worried of a rather confirmed monarch in Eva, who still had her pair. But due to the redirect, the kill was randomized onto **PK**, who was only a slightly shocking kill. PK had positioned themself well in the game where they did not seem to be a kill or an execution target until later down the road. Many of the other players were still proud to have clocked PK as the identity behind "Liara" early on.

One of the main topics of discussion during the following trial was concerning an encrypted message that Jelk had to Emmi through the meeting place during the previous night. Many members of Slumberchasm believed that it was suspicious (or pushed the agenda) that an unconfirmable player was communicating in a method with the other town that no one else could understand. The Mafia were worried about larger issues, however. They were concerned at who had redirect their kill, particularly worried that it was a witch's doing. They still did not understand why anyone would *want* to kill, PK, confusing them even more. In addition, Eevee and Jade had joined Slumberchasm on day 3 of the game! Eevee joined the Mafia chat, ecstatic to see the team that he was joining.

Despite having three healer claims in the town, Cherry, Alfie, and Emmi, the Mafia decided that it would be beneficial to keep Emmi around longer. They believed that Emmi could become an easy target down the road as a major suspicious target. Eevee had revealed the identities of the Wakefissure Mafia to Luna, Alfie, and Bernkastel, and the group became very worried about losing Hades at the upcoming vote. The Mafia thus decided to push for the vote to fall onto Daichen, who claimed to be the unconfirmable baker. Not only did this leave open the possibility of starvation, but this would also allow Jet to be exiled to the Abyss for protection. Though Daichen pushed Bernkastel's initial suggestion that Eevee and Zo could be evil together, it was not enough and **Daichen** became a consensus execution. The Mafia were very pleased to see that Hades had managed to instead push the vote onto Slight on Wakefissure, but many events had been occurring on Wakefissure since the beginning of the second cycle.

Hades had been a clear center of attention since Eevee's departure from Wakefissure. Jet and Hades began to falter together with their claims, as Jet allegedly interrogated Hades. The two came up with far from believable interrogation facts... yet they escaped suspicion for this reason. During the second night of the game, they considered killing Malik for his powerful bartender role. While Jelk assumed this was the plan, Hades had a gut reaction to instead kill **Jelk** when Jelk privately claimed to be an herbalist. With a strong layer of reverse psychology, Jelk's public claim of aristocrat turned out to be real as Jelk proceeded to be "healed" through his stealthy plan, and there was no death on Wakefissure during the second night. The 3rd Party on Wakefissure, now four strong, were opting to push the vote toward Hades, whom they viewed to be a good consensus target. Their plan was strongly and publicly supported by Jelk. However, while Jelk was asleep, Hades leveraged his social game by persuading the disorganized town with small points in his defense. Hades somehow managed to flip the vote onto **Slight** the hunter claim in a surprising 9-3-2-1 vote.

Entering night 3 of the game on Wakefissure, Hades was horrified to be left alone when Jet was sent to the Abyss. Fortunately for Jet, however, he quickly grew trusted by Havoc in the Abyss, and Havoc informed Jet of Amber's healer claim. Bernkastel, Amber's partner, was receiving similar information about her role. Hades followed another gut feeling with his kill by deciding to kill **Piper**, who he believed to be the priestess. This kill worked out much better for him than his previous one, as his read of Piper being the priestess was actually correct! Either way as a priestess or lawyer, Piper's threat status to the Mafia was evident. But Hades had made a gutsy move in the middle of the night in the meeting place which sealed his fate...

Hades seemed to be sending a direct message to the Slumberchasm Mafia team in the meeting place by emphasizing how he could be saved through Aidan's death "if the Mafia were to strike him down." This message caused chaos throughout the game, as the Slumberchasm Mafia were appalled that Hades had done this. Their plan to kill Aidan anyways was now spoiled, as they feared Aidan getting healed during the night. Thankfully for Hades, his own town paid little attention to this message, but they all had been suspicious of him anyways. During the third trial on Wakefissure, the town chat descended into a heated discussion between Hades and Jelk. Hades pretended to have just been informed that Ava was a confirmed fifer, and he acted appalled as to why the villagers would execute him over a confirmed evil. However, Hades's incredibly defensive nature seemed to be incriminating him more and more, and Jelk's continuous push was bringing him no favors. Jet and Eternal had arrived to Wakefissure following the night kill. Jet worked quietly to help push the vote off Hades, and the two had formulated a last-minute plan to push the vote onto Lego because they thought others might be voting for him out of an attempt to confirm him as the little girl. By a one-vote margin, **Hades** was executed over Lego, but suspiciously no votes against Lego seemed to be blocked.

Many of the players on Wakefissure appeared disconnected from the game, but Slumberchasm was quite the different story. Enrique decided to make a move of his own, as he felt that Jade was the only player whom he could fully trust. On the third night, Enrique used his maid action on Jade, telling the confirmed monarch to not tell *anyone* that he had used his action on her. As stated above, the Slumberchasm Mafia chat during this night was dominated by complaints about Hades's controversial message in the meeting place and about how Eevee's former suggestion to kill Aidan was no longer possible. The Mafia team simply decided to kill Eva again. In the same way, Emmi was still very unconvinced about Luna's alignment. She decided to hunt Luna again, and the kill landed on the judge **Cam**, who was confirmed to be in the mayor trio. Luckily for the Mafia, this spurred off Emmi's suspicion of Luna as Cam's death looked like a legitimate kill. But with this second redirection, Bernkastel began to catch onto the fact that Emmi was hiding a hunter claim. This suspicion furthered their imperative to execute Emmi next. Enrique was now fated to fall victim to his mistake of listening to Bernkastel in executing Daichen during the previous cycle. **Enrique** became the first victim of starvation this season, robbing him of longevity in the game.

After Iridi and Havoc arrived to Slumberchasm following the nighttime death, Havoc revealed his little girl claim publicly for the first time. Many players on Slumberchasm were skeptical, causing some votes to fall on him during the upcoming trial. There was now a plan in place to confirm Aidan as a potter by having him vote for three different players. These were both minor issues as, at the same time, Bernkastel and Emmi were arguing throughout the entire day in the town chat about whether Emmi herself should be executed or not. Emmi continued until the end to hide her hunter claim by posing as an herbalist. Somehow, Emmi managed to convince Jade to come to her side (which appeared as quite the villainous manipulation from an outside perspective), and Jade was persuaded to use her ability at this trial. The Mafia had made sure that the majority fell on Emmi that day, realizing the necessity to take them out. This plan of Bernkastel's was utterly upset, however, when all votes were blocked against Emmi. **Tommo** was then executed instead as Emmi wished. Unfortunately for the town, Emmi had picked the villager ally of Bernkastel's to blindside, as Luna the Mafia was currently in the Abyss.

Following the previous night, the market was officially opened! The first item, the key to the chamber ruins, was purchased by Havoc directly after the third trial. Jelk became a center of attention as a possible 3rd party candidate after being healed in a society with no healing role claims. Wakefissure seemed to be in a precarious position with no healers, as Amber was still keeping her role secret with a maid claim, as suggested by her abyss partner Bernkastel. Having just arrived back to Wakefissure right before his fellow Head Mafia Luna's arrival, Jet took a safe route in his quiet society. **Malik**, the confirmed bartender, was the fourth player killed from Wakefissure.

After spending so much time in the abyss, Havoc had just arrived back to Slumberchasm and publicized his little girl claim. Bernkastel began his second interrogation usage with Jade for a pair of sheriff facts from a confirmed villager, and he was discussing the kill with Alfie and Eevee at the same time. With the amount of potential heals in the Slumberchasm society, the kill options were severely limited. Havoc informing Bernkastel about his inability to be healed (which he obtained through the abyss) proved to be his downfall. The Mafia opted to kill **Havoc** on this night. Both of these kills led to interesting exiles, as both Mafia members Alfie and Jet were sent to the Abyss. Slumberchasm was now left without any Mafia to do the killing.

In Slumberchasm, Bernkastel and Eevee had an easy path forward without having to worry about Alfie becoming collateral due to their herbalist claim. Emmi finally came clean to everyone in the game about her hunter claim, but they were doomed from the very beginning of this trial. In a nearly unanimous vote, **Emmi** became the final execution on Slumberchasm. At the same time, Bernkastel was working hard to "confirm" Luna, as he sent her a hidden message through the meeting place to indicate that he was voting for Zo. Despite her vote being blocked, Bernkastel had their vote for Zo confirmed by Luna, and Luna thus became generally trusted by the entirety of the villagers.

On Wakefissure, the town chat was generally quiet, especially since it had lost one of its most active players in Hades. The vote came down to Ava, the confirmed fifer, and Lego, who remained unconfirmed as a little girl claim. Lego's case was not helped by the fact that the other little girl claim had just died. But unfortunately for Ava, there were three 3rd party members in this society. Though Ash, Lego, and Life did not have very much influence over the town, they still managed to make sure that Jade and Logan, who were beginning to become the prominent town leaders, were pushing her name. In another rather unanimous vote, **Ava** became the last victim of the trials on Wakefissure.

Entering into the final night of the two societies portion of the game, the players were speculating that they would be merging into one group soon. But a main topic of discussion in the meeting place was the fact that four blacksmith claims remained in the game: Logan, Alec, Eevee, and Ash. Jelk, however, publicly exposed that Eevee had previously suggested to him that he was indeed the knight. Pretending to be upset, Eevee came out as a knight claim. As the only knight claim in the game, Eevee immediately became a much more trusted claim, as every single blacksmith had yet to prove themselves.

Luna, as the only Head Mafia in the game who was not exiled to the Abyss, was in charge of both deaths for the upcoming night. She decided to kill **Eva** on Slumberchasm, as she finally had a clear path to killing her two-time target. In her new society of Wakefissure, she decided to kill **Eternal**, which many players perceived to be a somewhat odd kill. Eternal remained an unconfirmable guard, so an even higher percentage of players in the merge remained confirmable. Directly following the kill, Bernkastel pushed Amber to reveal her real role of healer, but she would not get the chance until a bit later on as the group **merged** into Dreamrift!

A massive earthquake shook the group of players into the Abyss altogether, and the group of 21 players united from Wakefissure, Slumberchasm, and the deepest parts of the Abyss. At this point, the hidden figure "Alooh" decided to come out as Ash, meaning that Cherry, also known as "Paris," was the last remaining hidden figure in the game. Entering the merge stage in the day, the Mafia team immediately came together to begin the plans for the next stage of the game. When Bernkastel pushed for Amber to reveal her healer role, the Mafia team simultaneously manipulated the town into turning the vote against her. In another nearly unanimous vote, **Amber** became the first casualty on Dreamrift.

From this point forward, there were two major changes in the dynamics of the game. Jade and Logan became a major duo as two of the most generally trusted town leaders in the game, especially after Logan gave Bernkastel the shield for the current cycle. The belief of these two as the most trusted leaders of the villager especially developed following the first full cycle of Dreamrift, but this dynamic began to arose now. The second major change that arose in the game was the coming out of the third party. At this point in the game, Ash, Lego, and Life all gained suspicion as evil candidates due to their unconfirmable natures.

This seemingly unavoidable attention led the trio to take drastic measures. Lego and Life publicly outed the 3rd party team. Not only did they reveal their own evil identities, but they desperately tried to work with the town to try and overthrow the Mafia. Suspecting Bernkastel as a possible corrupted candidate, they did everything that they could to drag them down with the 3rd party. The major problem was that... Bernkastel had been given a shield by Logan, so they could not merely kill him normally. They found this out the hard way when Ash redirected Jet's kill from Aidan to **Bernkastel**. However, he was protected by the shield, and the 3rd party was clearly doomed. After outing themselves, the 3rd party began to attempt to emotionally manipulate the town into believing that the 3rd party members were turning on each other. Not only was this strategy ridiculous, but it only made them an easier target by everyone else.

However, the execution of the 3rd party was to wait for longer. The vote was falling onto Life, in an attempt to minimize the damage that the 3rd party could do to both other parties. However, the 3rd party made one final move to destroy the town and the Mafia as much as possible. At the very last minute of the voting period, Lego the siren paired up Jelk and Bernkastel in a lover pair. By Life the maniac then using his mass hysteria to take out **Jelk**, **Bernkastel** then died of heartbreak alongside him. This game-changing move brought absolute chaos to the game, which allowed for the rising of Jade and Logan as town leaders. The 3rd party, on the other hand, only put even more attention on themselves, and many players dedicated themselves to taking out these three next.

Eevee began to take the reins of the Mafia team, suggesting that they kill a confirmed player next. Their decision was the victim of their most recently attempted murder, **Aidan**, who was not only a confirmed potter but was also a player whose extra votes could spell trouble for the Mafia down the road. The Mafia was taking steps of their own to minimize the ability of the 3rd party. Eevee had granted the delegate secondary role to Alfie for the first night on Dreamrift, allowing them to then pass the delegate role to only one other player. The Mafia team decided that Ash needed to receive the delegate role so that it was less likely for a 3rd party kill to occur during that night. To further reduce the chances of a 3rd party kill, Eevee also granted Life the delegate on that night, meaning that only the suspected siren was able to use an action during that cycle. Unfortunately for the Mafia, Lego still charmed Alfie and Eevee into a Mafia pair, though the 3rd party initially believed the former to be evil while they thought that the latter was not.

On the following day, the 3rd party was unable to fend off an execution any longer, and **Ash** became the third execution victim in the merged group. There was quite a bit of suspicion that Ash themself was the witch, so it seemed natural to vote this role out first out of fear of two kills in one night. Lego and Life continued to make public displays in an attempt to blackmail the Mafia into working with them. The Mafia continued to disregard these threats as they killed **Nia** on the following night, due to her confirmability. Both she and Iridi shared a lawyer claim, but Iridi was much more loyal to those on the Mafia team at the time. On the same night, the starvation claimed its second victim as **Cherry** lost her life in the game. The town thus lost its final real healer, though Alfie was still seen as a legitimate herbalist because of Emmi's outing as a fake claim. Thanks to the power and influence of the Mafia, **Life** became an entirely unanimous vote, and **Lego** decided to quit the game afterwards for personal reasons. The 3rd party was thus no more.

The Mafia was progressively collecting more and more votes. A surprising benefit for the Mafia was when Lego paired up Alfie and Eevee in a siren chat, which gave the two of them an extra vote for always casting their own votes against the same player. At the same time, the Mafia were taking advantage of the coins and the one last breath twist in the game. While most deceased villagers from Jelk onward were bequeathing their coins to the confirmed Jade, Bernkastel instead gave his points to Jet. This allowed the Head Mafia to purchase the mysterious herbs. After attaining the sage sub-role, he established Luna as a hero, granting her a double vote as long as she voted in the majority. This meant that the four-player Mafia team now had six votes altogether, which was nearly half the votes present in the game at this point. Returning to the one last breath, the 3rd party team opted to bequeath all their coins to the still distrusted mayor, Slay. These extra coins allowed Slay to purchase both the legendary gavel and autopsy report.

It appeared that the Mafia had the clear upper-hand at this point, so they took out one of the last confirmed villagers who had an action that affected the vote, that being **Iridi**. Following this kill, Jade and Logan began to take more of a step forward in leading the town. They pushed that Kae should be an easy vote among the villagers as one of the final completely unconfirmable players in the town. If Hades had been executed, why would it not be the same for Kae? The Mafia were more than happy to go along with this plan, so **Kae** was the fifth player executed in Dreamrift. While Slay was suspicious of many of the players on the Mafia team, particularly Alfie and Eevee, no one trusted him after his past antics in the game enough to follow his reads on the game. On this in-game day, Jade also purchased the critical weather machine.

The Mafia continued their slaughter of confirmable roles that could affect votes, deciding to kill off **Alec** due to his quiet nature in the game. They believed that Logan and Jade were still on their side enough where they could use their influence over the town to their advantage. The worst case scenario for the Mafia would be allowing Slay to change the mind of more under-the-radar villagers. Twists in the late game now began to take precedence as the electrical storm arose on day 11 of the game. This doubled Jade and Luna's votes while blocking Zo's vote. Harp, Jade, Logan, and Slay decided that Eevee had to be the next player to go because of his unconfirmable nature. However, the Mafia now had complete control over the votes. They decided to blindside **Logan**, taking out yet another confirmable villager.

In one final attempt to destroy the Mafia, Slay used his legendary gavel to activate a second vote. In one last stroke of luck for the town, Harp decided to use his weighted die, rolling a 3. While this may have seemed useless at first, coming into a second vote, the Mafia had chosen to place their votes on Harp for that vote. When the town decided to vote for Eevee, knowing that he was in the lover pair with Alfie, the remaining majority fell on him. **Eevee** was executed, and **Alfie** died of heartbreak with him. The game was now broken open for the live finale that was just beginning.

Though Luna and Jet were both confirmed in very convincing ways, Slay was connecting the dots. He was finally able to persuade the other villagers Harp, Jade, and Zo onto his side. Jade used her weather machine to once again cause the electrical storm to reoccur, fearing that Zo might be a vote for the Mafia. However, the Mafia took advantage of the lone monarch's newly-updated punishment. Luna, with 3 votes, and Jet were able to gain the majority over the town even though the vote appeared to tie 4-4 when they voted for **Jade**. However, in a major twist, Luna lost the hero sub-role, as she did not technically vote in the majority. The Mafia duo then proceeded to kill **Harp** next.

Entering the final four of this historic season, Slay recognized the imperative to take out Jet, as he believed Luna was a corrupted, and Jet himself was the Head Mafia. Though only partially correct, this plan worked out very well. The Mafia decided to vote for Zo, fearing the very small possibility that they were 3rd party. Slay and Zo voted for Jet, and so the vote deadlocked 2-2. Harp understood the plan, as the most recently sequestered player, and he executed **Jet**. When the game continued, the Mafia appeared to be in peril. Luna decided to kill **Slay**, who went from one of the least trusted villagers in the game to the final victim of the Mafia. It appeared that the vote would tie one last time, and Slay would vote out Luna.

This game then received one final shocking twist. The starvation reared its ugly head one final time. Zo starved on night 13 of the game... and they were obviously forced to take **Luna**'s role. Because there were no villager roles remaining in the game, the **Mafia team** claimed victory! **Zo** was the sole survivor in this largest season to date.

# ***Market History***

As described in the twists section, there were two major ways for players to obtain golden coins throughout this season: in the Abyss and from One Last Breath after the merge. The following table displays the coin history throughout the game. Please note that players who died pre-merge without ever obtaining a coin are not in this table.

* **Havoc** purchased the **Key to Inner Chamber Ruins** and received it on Night 4.
* **Jet** purchased the **Mysterious Herbs** and received them on Day 8.
* **Eevee** purchased the **Fake Ballot** and received it on Day 9.
* **Slay** purchased the **Legendary Gavel** & **Autopsy Report** and received them on Night 9.
* **Jade** purchased the **Weather Machine** and received it on Day 10.
* **Harp** purchased the **Weighted Die** and received it on Day 11.
* **Jade** purchased the **Crimson Serum** and received it on Night 11.
* **Luna** purchased the **Regal Crown** and received it on Day 12.

# ***Voting History***

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Slumberchasm

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# ***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***

* Andrew won the viewing lounge prediction game for this season.