The Pork Chop Express Truck? That’s a dead giveaway.
Just remember what ol’ Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol’ storm right square in the eye and he says, “Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it.”
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”
Big Trouble In Little China is one of my 14 year old grandson’s favorites. Good to hear that Jack’s around here someplace, even if he doesn’t actually do all that much in the movie.
Okay, but he’s the least likely of us to chime in and keep a conversation started. Or do you think his “previously scheduled vacation” is part of a larger sinister plan? Can we expect evil maniacal laughter?
I will let the “in all caps” thing slide. I know you guys aren’t used to that, so if you remember to vote that way, cool. If not, I’ll still count the vote.
My mafia watching experience is limited to the storyteller game that played out recently. If it’s any indicator, welcome all to the Day One Clusterfuck, where we fire off votes into the dark based on the flimsiest of evidence. (I’ve played lots of hidden allegiance games face to face and a message board Resistance game, but no Mafia.)
Naturally, Sario has fired off on me for my remarks on the arbitrary nature of the English language while simultaneously failing to follow Dante’s all caps rule.
Is there any scenario in which it is better to mis-lynch rather than not lynch on Day One? Given that we have very little to base a vote on (and two people already basing votes on an off-the-cuff remark made to pad out the “PM received” comment made before the game even started), a slow start may not be the worst thing. We can’t do nothing every time, but I think it’ll be better than a mis-lynch out of the gate. I’m going to need some evidence before voting to lynch. Not a ton, since we can’t wait around doing nothing while we die one a night, but some.
Mosier do you have anything better than “gut feeling?” I get “lynch the lurker,” but 2 posts in the first page and 24 hours isn’t unreasonable.
For the record, I’m speaking out against Chaos and Hans. Rules should be made and followed. This linguistic anarchy caused by “deity,” “weigh,” “queueing,” and “mustachioed” must be stopped. Just look at “queueing!” That’s 5 vowels in a row! It thumbs a nose at the quite sensible rule that there should never be more than two vowels in a row.
With the Majority Rule in place we need over half the players to lynch anyone, so No Lynch is likely toDay unless somebody gives away something quickly.
Absolutely true, but how much information? There’s no voting record, and few comments to parse at the Day One lynch. It’s not nothing, but it’s not much either.
With this setup, I’m sure that could be the case. I also remember Dante G mentioning not usually lynching first day with his other group, early in the other game(Sorry! Meta!). With majority rule, it could get difficult to get a lynch. I still think a lynch is the better option though, since it moves the game forward. This will probably be a fast game, where a lot can happen in a short time.
On that note, Plum … yes, my old group very rarely, if ever, lynched on the first day. To us it allowed for all players to get a chance to play past a Day phase. We felt it would be discouraging if for example, you had an ability of some significance and you were not able use it once because you were already dead before Night 1. We had a couple times where Day 1 was no lynch and then Night 1 had no kills because the Scum got their Kill blocked or stopped by a Protector role.
But like I said, that’s just how I was exposed to the game. I know different boards play differently.
I am voting on flimsy speculation. I’ll explain, but I’m warning you in advance that it’s weak and shallow.
I don’t think mafia game masters pick the player roles randomly. In fact, I think they tend to pick scum based on who they think the best or smartest or cleverest players are. I recognize SP as a clever person, and he’s someone I would want in a scum role if I was leading a game. Obviously I have no evidence of this, because nobody has any evidence of anything this early. But if I’m wrong, you’ll have a pretty good suspicion that I’m scum and you can just lynch me day 2, for a better town/scum ratio than we have now.
Speaking only for myself, Mosier, I do use a Random Number Generator site to assign my roles. I list out the players in one column, then list out the characters/roles in another column. Then I use the number generator all the way down until each player has a role. Simple and effective.
Yep, it used to be a running joke on Idle mafia. I play no different as Town or as Mafia. I just vote how I want and see what happens. Died on D1 twice last game(once as as sub and once as a regular player). Town both times.