MURDERFIA: WOOP ZOOP IT'S CLOBBERING TIME

More explanation (most of which I have explained before) Not a serious game =/= not mafia. Mafia involves scumhunting.

There are multiple things that can be meant by "not a serious game".

It can mean "this is a Mafia game where the flavor is extremely silly."
It can mean "this is a Mafia game where everyone has ridiculous abilities."
Or it can mean "this is a Mafia game where the victory of town or scum isn't actually important."

Jester Mafia, which I've run before, is explicitly the last one. The only reason there are scum at all is so the game has a condition for ending. Everyone is only concerned with their own win condition.

This game is not explicitly that, but a sizable portion of the players are treating it in that way. And realistically, you're not going to be able to convince them to stop.

I say this because the fact that I can just muck around and not worry about who's scum is the main reason I signed up. I suspect I'm not alone in this.

The reason a large number of silly people are voting you isn't that you're trying to scumhunt, it's that you're trying to get them to scumhunt. They're voting you because they aren't interested in doing that.

And good luck trying to tell the silly town from the silly scum, because both groups are going to act pretty much the same. The townspeople don't care if the entire town gets wiped out tonight, the scum don't care if their entire team dies. Any survival instincts they have will only be for the sake of getting to use their actions tonight to add to shenanigannery.

I mean, I guess silly scum might do something if a scumbuddy was threatened and they knew he had a fun ability to bring out at night? I honestly can't see any other way to tell the difference.