Mafia V - Rules

Introduction

Mafia is a game of mock combat run by the Cambridge University Assassins' Guild. Players may sign up by emailing the Umpire with the information below. They then take on personalities as Villagers in the village of Cantabria. At the start of the game, a small proportion (about 1/5th) of the villagers are chosen randomly and told collectively that they are members of a group possessed by a strange parasite infection which controls their minds and orders them to slay their neighbours, the innocent Villagers. The Villagers' aim is to eliminate the Possessed within the alotted time, whereas the aim of the Possessed is to kill the ordinary Villagers.

The possessed can tell who is infected, due to the pheremones given off by their brethren (and an email informing them at the start of the game). There is no way for a possessed person to spread the infection to another, since there are not enough parasites to go around. Of course, since the Villagers do not know who are the Possessed and who are not, they must use their cunning and wit to keep themselves safe from this threat!

The game will run from 5 a.m. on Thursday 5th March until 5 a.m. on Thursday 12th March, or until all of one side's players are dead (whichever is soonest).

Signing-Up

Everyone who wishes to play should provide the Umpire with:

• Full name
• College/Department if applicable
• E-mail address (preferably @cam.ac.uk)
• Your official address and if different the address at which you will be living (i.e. sleeping) during the course of the game.
• One appointment you intend to keep on each day during the game. This should consist of a precise location (a fairly public place) and a fairly precise time. If you don't have a commitment for each day of the game, you should create one in consultation with the Umpire.
• Whether your room is No Water, Water With Care or Full Water
• If you are unable to come to the End of Game Party for the Lent Term Assassins Game, to be held from 8 p.m. until late at the Granta on Wednesday 4th March, then you should provide the Umpire with a photograph which shows your face clearly, preferrably in digital form attached to your email. In the case of a physical photograph this will be returned to you once the game begins. This will be posted on the website for the duration of this game, but removed immediately afterwards. If you do attend the Party, there will be no need for such a photograph; naturally, it is recommended that, if possible, each player should attend even if only briefly.

Anyone found to have supplied false or misleading details to the Umpire will be disqualified. If you miss your appointment on a given day, tell the Umpire about it as soon after as possible.

Players must inform the Umpire of all kill attempts they make, and also of anything they think is an attempt on their own life; they should also inform the umpire of any attempts on others they happen to witness. Please include the precise weapon used for any kills; the umpire will decide how accurate a description is given on the website. If you as the killer or someone who witnessed and survived a kill wish to leave a note at the scene please include this in your report.

Conduct

• Players are entirely responsible for their own actions. The Guild is not an excuse to do anything stupid.
• The Guild does not condone any course of action that leads to confrontation with people in authority. Specifically, do not cause college authorities to eject those attempting to kill you. By signing up you are agreeing to permit assassins to come after you using methods in accordance with the rules.
• Assassins is not a game of force. Do not push people around. Most specifically, if someone is holding a door open or shut, you should not attempt to move that door, and you should never do anything likely to cause anyone (including yourself) injury.
• It is not permitted for players to impersonate authority figures for assassins purposes. This includes bedders, the (real) Police, porters, college authorities (not including student union representatives) and our own esteemed Umpire. If anyone knocks on your door and claims to be any of these, it is likely they are, and if they are not any kill achieved using this method will almost certainly be nullified.
• Similarly, do not manufacture fire alarms, medical emergencies or similar. We aim to interfere with real life and disturb non-players as little as possible.
• Players should be safe when they are locked in their rooms. Do not attempt to gain entry by any means other than an unlocked door or an open window. Also, attacks made by, for example, firing under a locked door, will not count. This is mostly relevant for toilet cubicles and letterboxes
• If players are unsure about what happened during an attack, they may call a "discussion phase" to clarify who has been hit and who, if anybody, is dead:
• Once a Player has made a bona fide call for a discussion phase to sort out the facts of the incident, so long as it is not a direct interruption of the event, no Players involved in the discussion phase may kill each other during or immediately after the discussion phase is over - there should be enough time for each Player to get a reasonable distance away.
• Players taking part in a discussion phase should take care not to expose themselves to other passing Players
• Calling a discussion phase in order to gain an advantage in the game (e.g. to expedite your retreat) will result in sanctions being edicted.

Weapons

The usual Guild Weapons Rules apply, except with only direct attacks allowed (no Contact Poison or Poisoned Letters, etc.).

Out-of-bounds areas:

There are some places and circumstances which, for reasons of sanity and safety, are considered out-of-bounds (OOB). No-one may kill anyone or be killed when they are out-of-bounds, which include the following:

• Lecture theatres are out-of-bounds, whether or not a lecture is in progress.
• Official practicals and laboratories are out-of-bounds.
• Hospitals, libraries, museums and sports halls are out-of-bounds.
• Churches, chapels, synagogues, mosques, temples, stupas or any other official places of worship are out-of-bounds.
• Any dining arrangement in which you are obliged to wait for the attention of staff in order to be seated is out-of-bounds. Anywhere you get food yourself from a Servery is in bounds. College Formal Halls and the like are out-of-bounds.
• Any Ball, Event, garden party or similar is out-of-bounds. Regular college ents are in bounds.
• Seminars, supervisions, tutor or DoS meetings and the like: A supervisee is out-of-bounds from the time they meet their supervisor until the time they part ways.. The pre-arranged supervision location is out-of-bounds for the arranged duration of the supervision.
• Persons engaged in 'serious' activities on the water, such as rowing or canoeing, are OOB. Similarly, they are out-of-bounds while transporting substantial, related equipment to or from such an activity. Punts are not out of bounds.
• Anyone working in a real, proper job is out of bounds while at work. Anyone working at a college bar or ent is also out of bounds.
• The CUR radio station building in Churchill College is out of bounds.
• The premises of government buildings, banks and building societies are out-of-bounds. You should not use any kind of projectile weapon in a shop. The immediate vicinity of a shop till or an automatic ATM machine is out-of-bounds. This includes a queue for one. While you may usually take shortcuts through such places, none of the areas listed in this clause should, under any circumstance, be used as an avenue to escape pursuit.
• Anyone in a car or other motorised vehicle is out of bounds and cannot attack or be attacked. Players on bicycles are in bounds, but please be careful only to attack if there is no possibility that you could cause an accident or injury. Players should also avoid firefights across busy streams of traffic, both to avoid risk of injury and to prevent aggravating drivers.
• Public transport vehicles are out-of-bounds. The same is true of airports, train stations and their vicinities. The Drummer Street Bus Station in Cambridge is also out-of-bounds (but not the bus stops on Emmanuel Street).
• Auditoria of theatres/cinemas and concert halls are out of bounds during and immediately preceding/following a performance. Any area in which a scheduled public play is being performed (or any other similar scheduled event) counts as an auditorium. Areas in which backstage preparation work is taking place are also out-of-bounds.
• Official university society meetings or regularly scheduled meetings of an unofficial society which take place in college grounds, including in players' rooms. Players involved in these are out-of-bounds from the moment they step inside the rooms/halls where the event is being hosted and until 5 minutes after the meeting has concluded (but are in-bounds if they go outside this area). Please note that participants of outdoors society meetings such as CTF (Capture the Flag society) and TT (Treasure Trap) are out-of-bounds from the moment they meet at the society-agreed meeting-point and throughout the meeting until at least five minutes after the meeting has been called to a close. Pubmeets are not out-of-bounds. Assassins carrying bulky or expensive items to and from society meetings may be out-of-bounds while doing so, but must specifically clear that you may be doing this at a particular society with the Umpire beforehand. If you are planning to attack someone near their society meeting, you may check with the Umpire as to whether there is any reason your target may be out-of-bounds.
• Any persons performing/practising with fire poi/fire sticks/fiery juggling implements are considered to be have a rather large out of bounds area surrounding them which should encompass all those in the immediate vicinity who are primarily engaged in watching/teaching/heckling said persons. This is entirely a safety concern.
• Organised sports activities are out-of-bounds. This will usually be taken to mean tournament matches at inter-College level or higher. This does not include impromptu 'kickabouts'. However, pre-arranged training sessions of officially-recognised teams may be considered society meetings. Non-spectating participants are out-of-bounds for the duration of the match and during any preparations immediately before or after. If so are unsure whether a particular activity is out-of-bounds, please ask the Umpire.
• Players working with or riding on horses are out-of-bounds.
• The Cambridge University Wireless Society's Radio Shack is out-of-bounds.
• Participants in the Varsity match are out-of-bounds from when they meet to go to Leeds until they return to Cambridge

Computer rooms are now out-of-bounds.

A computer room is, in general, defined as a place where the public (or any clearly-defined group, e.g. members of a college) are permitted to use computers.

A Player's room is usually only out-of-bounds for supervisions, society meetings and sports activities, as described above. If you believe your room should be made out-of-bounds for any other purpose, or are unsure as to its status, you should ask the Umpire.

Players should not abuse no-kill zones. You should not run into an out-of-bounds area primarly to escape an attacking assassin unless it was your intention to go there prior to encountering the other assassin.

If you are not sure whether a given time or place is out of bounds or not, please contact the Umpire. Similarly, if there is something not mentioned on this list you think should be out-of-bounds, ask the Umpire to consider it.

Information

Once dead, please have the courtesy to stay dead. You must not pass on, nor by any deliberate omission make known, any information relating to this Game not publicly available on the website, regardless of whether you learned it whilst alive or dead and regardless of whether you consider it to be true or not; in particular you must not reveal the identity of your killer. The only exception to this is the dead-players-only IRC channel #corpses.

The umpire, as always, is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and reserves the right to alter the rules where he feels this is necessary.

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