Predators and Prey

Predators and Prey (or P&P) is a group game played on Vulpine Hollow, based off of the popular game called "Mafia. In this game, two factions, predators and prey, each attempt to devour the other faction. The faction left standing at the end wins.

Basic Rules

Each player in a Predators and Prey game either play the role of a hungry predator or an innocent (and generally delicious) prey. Predators have the knowledge of who other predators are; prey do not know who is predator and who is prey. A Game Moderator (GM) oversees the game and provides setting, assigns roles, and makes announcements.

P&P is played in two phases:

• During the Day Phase, players may freely chat with each other in public. Each player can cast their vote to 'lynch', or devour, another player. If one player gets a majority vote among all currently surviving players, the player is 'lynched' and removed from the game, generally by being devoured by the last person to cast a vote against them. During this phase, preys should attempt to determine who the predators are, and vote to lynch them. Predators should try to pretend that they are one of the preys, and generally try to misdirect the preys into lynching one of their own members.

• During the Night Phase, all public talk ceases and there is silence in the room. During this phase, predators may confer freely among private messages; at this time, they may choose a prey that they wish to "Nightkill", or secretly devour at night. After they have chosen, they will inform the GM of their choice and, once the GM confirms it, one of the predators will privately devour the chosen prey. Once the night phase ends, the GM will announce who was devoured during the night and a new day phase will begin. Play continues until all predators have been lynched or all prey have been lynched/nightkilled.

Roles

Certain players (either predators or preys) may be secretly assigned a special role before the game begins by the GM. These roles grant the player special abilities which may assist their faction. Some of the most popular roles are explained below.

Prey:

• A Prey is a standard prey player without any special abilities.
• During Day phases, a vanilla prey can talk freely and cast a vote on who they wish to lynch.
• During Night phases, prey are not allowed to speak.
• At no time is a vanilla prey allowed to privately collaborate with any other player.

Predator:

• A Predator is a standard predator player.
• During day phases, predators can talk freely and cast a vote on who they wish to lynch.
• During Night phases, all predators can talk free with each other in private messages and can collaboratively decide to Nightkill any prey player. Once they make a decision, they inform the GM of the target and who will be devouring them - once the GM confirms their decision, the chosen predator privately devours the chosen target.