I'll explain it to this n00b! You guys continue with your game. 
@ Seraphic, Mafia is a game where you are assigned a role, and based on that role you eliminate other players until you win.
The Mafia - The baddies of the game, you and a couple other people communicate at night and choose who you wanna kill during the night. The mafia win when they are 50% of the population of the town.
Pro-townies: There are either normal townies, a cop, or Doctor. Townies have no role, they post during the day and sleep at night. The cop chooses a person to investigate at night to see if they're mafia. The doctor chooses a person to protect at night from the mafia.
There are other special roles too, but those differ from game to game.
During the day, every person votes and tries to lynch who they think is mafia, and that's when all the discussions are going on. The night is when normal townies are sleeping, and people with special roles are doing their job.
So yeah, that's the basics... That's all I can think of explaining right now.
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