Alt: Alternate account. An account owned by someone who already has a main account. You can create your own alt or view a list of your linked accounts from a link on your profile. Each player can have four alternate accounts at one time, but any more than one requires tokens to purchase.
Example: Renaldo is thebrontosaurus’s alt.

AtE: Appeal to emotions. Very often misused to describe someone displaying their own emotions in attempts to convince someone that they are not mafia, usually frantically. In reality, to appeal to someone’s emotions is to make an argument in attempts to convince them make a (usually hasty) decision or actions based on their own emotions, such as guilt, anger or fear.
Example: “If you vote me, you will regret it!”

(Band)Wagon: A sequence of votes on a single player. The faster the votes, the faster the wagon.

Blitz: To force, confirm or lock in a lynch quickly and unexpectedly. Almost always done by mafia to confirm their win condition at LYLO, it can be done by a single player at kicks, or collectively by multiple players.
Examples: “Bumpers voted lucid and locked the votes, he was trying to blitz a townie!”, “We should town-blitz lucid before he gets a chance to react.”

Bus: To throw your partner 'under the bus'. Voting or pushing on your fellow mafia in order to distance yourselves.
Example: “I don’t think Renaldo and Nikki are partners. Renaldo wouldn’t bus Nikki on day 1.”

Clear: A player who is confirmed to be town. They have been mechanically and logically proven to be town by their own role or other player’s.
Examples: Being an uncontested cop claim, or confirmed innocent by a cop report.

Coast: To go unnoticed or avoid being read through inactivity. Similar to Lurk.

CC / Counterclaim: A player whose claim contradicts another player’s. Usually when two players claim a role when only one exists in the setup, the most common example being two cop claims. If a player is clear, their claims are confirmed to be legitimate and anyone counterclaiming them are mafia.
Examples: Two cop claims in Janitorial 2.0, a bomb claim and doc claim in Fancy Pants.

Dawn start: A game setup modifier that removes all actions from the first night. Meetings still occur, but roles cannot willingly undertake an action.

Day start: A game setup modifier that removes the first night entirely. The game starts on day 1.

Dodging: On EpicMafia, dodging is used to describe the act of actively avoiding playing games with another player.

Fake claim: To intentionally claim something that is untrue usually with intent to influence the game. Technically, all mafia claims are fake claims, but the term is usually reserved for townies who fake claim with intent to mislead mafia.
Example: claiming cop with a guilty on another player to test how they react to the guilty then retracting on the same day.

Filler: A statement or contribution that is used to appear helpful but in reality is not.
Examples: “We have cop CCs” when all players are aware of the claims, “Bumpers is either mafia or town”, “One of these players are mafia” when they are already logically confirmed to contain a mafia from their POV

FMPOV: From My Point of View: That player’s perspective a scenario.
Example: “FMPOV, xLucy and Chewbacca are confirmed mafia because my report says bronto as town.”

FoS: Finger of Suspicion: To suspect, to display that you suspect someone is mafia.

Grudge Lynch: To lynch someone over a personal grudge, which is irrelevant to the game. This is a form of gamethrowing.

GT: Gamethrow. To gamethrow is to play in order to intentionally lose the game for themselves and/or others. A more complete description can be found on the rules page.

Guilty: A report that states someone is sided with the mafia. As reports are liable to inconsistencies such as millers and framers, they are not necessarily always mafia.

Gut: To suspect someone for reasons you can’t describe based on your intuition.

GY: Graveyard: Players who have been lynched or killed can talk to each other and view the game’s actions.

Hammer: To place the final vote that confirms an action, usually a lynch.

Hammersitting: To intentionally hold your vote in order to hammer.

Hardclaim: To directly claim your role.

Hypo: Hypothetical (report). To claim that, hypothetically, if you are a role with a report, you’d have a report. Used in cases where everyone gives a hypothetical report to hide the role with the report and still be able to use their report should they happen to die.

Inno: Innocent. A report that states someone is sided with the village. As reports are liable to inconsistencies such as godfathers and lawyers, they are not necessarily always town.

ISP: Insufficient Participation: A level of participation in a game deemed unacceptable by the rules of the game. A more complete description can be found on the rules page.

Joint(-win): To win alongside another faction, almost always occurring between mafia and a third-party role.

Kick: To click on the x when the timer runs out, locking any votes and removing one x from the kick count. If enough players kick, an auto-kick timer begins and if that timer hits zero, all players who have not voted will veg.

Kicklynch: To lynch someone who doesn’t vote before the auto-kick timer, they are kicked from the game as they are lynched, causing the game to stay ranked.

Leak: To whisper someone else and have it revealed to everyone. It can happen randomly or intentionally.

Lurk: To actively watch group discussion, but not say anything. Similar to Coast.

LYLO: Lynch or Lose: A scenario in that town must lynch a mafia or lose the game. This means that not lynching or lynching town will confirm a mafia win. Almost always when town only outnumbers mafia by one, but exceptions exist.

Massclaim: Everyone hardclaims their role, so mafia are forced to fake claim and make evident any inconsistencies or counter claims.

Meta/Metagaming: On EpicMafia, in its most innocent form, used to describe the act of reading someone based on their actions in previous games, or to describe someone compared to their acts in previous games, for example, someone’s “town meta” is a description of how they usually act as town.

Meteor: In EpicMafia, used to describe a mutual loss caused by 3 consecutive days of no deaths. TBD. I need Arcbell’s thread for this.

Mishammer: To hammer on town.

ML: Mislynch: to have a ML is to be able to lynch town without losing the game after mafia’s night kill. Almost always when town outnumber mafia by three, but exceptions exist.

Multi: Multiple setups. A game setup modifier that randomly chooses between 2-6 possible setups for a game that is unknown to the players.

MYLO: Mislynch and Lose: A scenario in that if a townie were to be lynched, town will lose after mafia’s night kill. However, unlike LYLO, town can still no lynch without losing.

NL: No lynch. To vote "no one" during the day, and a majority no one vote will end the day without a lynch.

NK: No kill. To kill no one as mafia, or another killing role.

OGI: Outside Gaming Influence. See the the rules page.

OMGUS: Oh My God You Suck: To vote someone for the sole reason that they voted you first.

PR: Power Role. A town role that has night actions. In most setups, each power role is unique with the majority of other town players being blue.

Retract: To withdraw a claim or FoS

RL: Random lynch. Most often used by players unfamiliar with the concept of scumhunting who believe a lynch without reports has to be random.

Roleswap: To claim someone else’s role and have them claim yours, initiated by subtle communication. Usually used to mislead mafia, but sometimes mafia initiate a roleswap to appear clear or mislead the town or their roleswap target.

RT: Reaction test. To fake a report or read, or to push randomly to force a player to react, so that their reaction can be used to gauge their alignment. *Example: Player C: “Player A is guilty” “Impossible, I’m town!!” “Good reaction, I believe you. My real report is Player B is innocent”.

Scum: Anti-village.

Scumhunt: To determine the alignments of unclear players without mechanical evidence, such as intuition or analysis of players’ behaviour, mannerisms and actions in order to locate the mafia.

Scumread: Synonym for FoS, usually used when the player is very sure.

Sheep: To follow someone else’s vote based on trust or because you agree with their push. Not to be confused with simply coming to the same conclusion.
Examples: Following the vote of a good clear, or agreeing with an analysis they made without thinking of it yourself.

Soft Claim: To indirectly imply you are a certain role without hardclaiming. Used subtly in attempts to reveal your role to players such as clears who you think would pick up your suggestions without revealing it to others such as mafia.

Sui: To leave the game early.

Towntell: A phrase or action perceived to be town motivated, as opposed to scum motivated.

Tunnel: To concentrate all your efforts into getting a single player lynched.

Veg: To be kicked by the autotimer and be removed from the game. Ranked games will be unranked and all players except from the first to veg will have their hearts returned.

WIFOM: Wine In Front Of Me: Named for this scene in the 1987 movie The Princess Bride,