RAFO Mafia Glossary

DF – Darkfriend, an older term for the scum or mafia faction still often used. The first 10 games of the series were all set in the Wheel of Time fantasy setting where the main evil guys are called Dark Friends.

EBWOP - “Edit by Way of Post” – this acronym is placed in the title of a message in reply to that players previous post, to indicate a correction, as editing messages is banned.
Night Kill (NK) – Most games feature the ability of one or more persons or groups to attempt to kill a player at night, called the NK

Hypocop - Players will often attempt to protect the cop - an investigative role able to find bad guys - by Hypocopping, or HCing, in this players list who they would have investigated and what they discovered if they were the cop, thus allowing the cop to list who they did investigate without formally Roleclaiming.

LyLo - "Lynch or Lose" - refers to cases where the Town must lynch correctly or lose the game, common late in the game.

Mafia - Often Scummers, Scum, Darkfriends, or Bad Guys, typically a small group able to speak to each other at night and kill players.

Mason - This term generally gets used to refer to anyone able to speak to other players via NB, while the role itself generally refers to two or more vanilla townies who can speak at night, it has come to mean in house anyone who can talk via NB at all.

NB - Noteboard, NB'd, NBing, got a NB, etc refers to use the Noteboard.

One-Shot - Abilities which can be used only once, often OS, an OS Vig or OS BP would refer to a player with a one-shot vigilante night kill or one-shot bulletproof vest, an ability protecting someone from the first night kill attempt on them.

PM – Posthumous Message, the message usually displayed after a player has been lynched or night-killed, generally fairly similar to a person RM, Role Message, describing what the dead player was.

RBIRL – “Real Busy in Real Life” – this acronym, typically in the title of a message, is used when a player expects to be away. It is customary to give a rough timeline for that absence if you know.

RC - Role Claim, these may be fake or true or partial

RM – Role Message, the text traditionally NB’d to a player by the Mod shortly before the game starts.

Roled - A Player with a role power, for more details on roles see <link mafiascum wiki roles> and <link role variants post>

Scum - A catch-all for anyone not of Town alignment

Tank-f - Tank-f or "Tank Scenario" is short for "Two Apparent Night Kill Factions" and is typically used when players have reason to believe more than one scum faction exists, as a short hand to avoid referring to the full range of options, it does not imply a presence or lack of multiple members in either or both scum team.

Third Faction - Many games feature not just Townies and Mafia, but a player or players who are totally seperate from either faction.

Townie - A player who wins with the Town, may be vanilla or roled

Vanilla - A player with no role powers, typically town-aligned, a player who begins with clues but no abilities is generally still called vanilla, and the term often in context might refer to ‘no other powers’, such as “I’m a plain vanilla mason” a mason character with no other ability.

VNTL – Votes Needed to Lynch, although the default for this would usually be half plus one of the surviving players, typically this term is used when the moderator is removing players temporarily from the voting pool, such as a player being gone for a week on a day with 10 surviving players. In such a case 6 of 10 votes would be needed to lynch, a VNTL of 6, but the RBIRL player might be removed from the tally dropping the VNTL to 5 of 9.