Absolutely. Recruitment toNight (and a pretty good chance of success). Of course, if the multi-protection hasn’t been used up, there’s some chance of a block there, too.
If I was hockey, I’d use the sleeping potion on zuma. Same effect and this time it would be on scum for sure.
Don’t think the sleeping potion will stop a recruitment if used on zuma, though. It would have to be used on the Prophet, and there’s no way the Cult burns the prophet on a scheme like this one.
That’s a gap in the rules, isn’t it? A nightKill could definitely be prevented if blocked by the Alchemist.
The recruitment? Not so sure. BlasterMaster might want to clarify that.
Of course, it will cause a storm of comments over in the actual game-thread…
Oh, believe me, I have a response ready and waiting to be typed and posted, but I decided part of the fun of the game is letting the players interpret the rules and ask for clarifications. I think zuma’s ploy in M4 was one of the most brilliant moves I’ve seen a player make, and it almost worked, but if Mal had just stepped in and said “BTW, if there’d been an attack on Steele, you’d see marks obvious to everyone” or something like that, it would pretty much ruin that aspect. I think I stepped in a couple times when I shouldn’t have in the first Day or two with rule clarifications.
True dat.
Especially the part where Mal would have ruined the “fun” outburst of Idle during that game. Man oh man, did he explode there…
Yes, yes, that alone made the price of admission worth it. 
I think if someone went in there and said, “by the way, if you block the Prophet, it blocks recruitment,” Queuing’s head would flat out explode.
By the way, what is it with the flaring tempers? I mean… I said it in M4 and I’m saying it here: it’s a game! If you can’t take it when someone disagrees with you, stay OUT of this game. People will accuse you of anything and everything. The accusation will NOT reflect on your personal values. It should simply be about your current persona.
YMMV
Well, I think it only really gets bad when X is lying, and Y knows X is lying but can’t prove it, and X knows that Y knows that X is lying - so everything that X says feels like a taunt. It’s so hard to deal with someone who’s flat out lying to your face, and doing it brazenly, and being incapable of making the truth come out. It’s pretty elemental, and very hard to keep cool in a situation like that.
What the hell is Idle doing now?
Damn, this just gets more and more entertaining. I’m kind of glad I’m not in the game any more, though.
Wow. Almost everyone in the game thread is having a stroke. I hope they calm down, or Mafia might get kicked off the board. 
I’m not quite sure… but if it’s the obvious, then he’ll be sorely disappointed; if it’s the unobvious, then he’s brilliant… hmm…
Idle Thought’s claim to be the Avatar is a little… unexpected.
As far as I can see, there are only 2 ways he could know this:
Number 2 looks extremely unlikely (although it would explain the town’s difficulty in finding scum). And if Idle is scum then MHAye is being truthful and the Apprentice has not been recruited, so this rules out number 1.
Perhaps Idle Thoughts is trying to get MHaye and CatInaSuit to unvote so that the Cult can do a last minute pile on to a townie, then recruit tonight and win the game. Actually, the way things have gone today, it may be better if the game does end toNight.
Here’s hoping that the Mafia games will be allowed to continue…
Another thought:
It could be that the Apprentice has been recruited, in which case MHaye will do a last minute unvote, leaving pure town as one of the Avatar’s victims.
Still, an Apprentice recruitment is unlikely, so I think Idle Thoughts is simply trying to scare off some of the voters to give the Cult the chance to do a last minute pile on. Which is pretty damn clever.
And the Day appears to have ended while I was pondering the above points.
This is going to be an interesting Dusk - don’t keep us waiting too long, Blaster Master.
Which reminds me: Blaster Master, at the end of the game the Night discussion boards will be opened up - instead of this, why not post the info to the game thread, one post per Night? It would be a fair bit of work for you to reformat/re-edit, but it would then be far easier for everyone else to read it.
I’d rather just read the discussion boards - it’s more fun that way. Besides, that’d be a lot of work for Blaster Master, and he’s had enough to do just running the game.
I’m glad I’m not still in the game. It’s amazing how emotional people get while playing, although having played myself I can kinda see how it happens.
You know, I wouldn’t mind doing that… except, more than one of the cultists have around 300 posts at this point.
…I also have all of the Night Action PMs posted on there (don’t worry, it’s accessible only to me, and even then only with a password), so that’s another 100 or so posts. On the plus side, I think the scum board is well organized, with each Day and Night having a seperate thread (even though Days only get to have generally chatter, no strategizing), so I think it will be easier to read there anyway…
Could you clarify for those of us watching along at home–was that a modkill or was that Idle was the Avatar or both?
It was a modkill. I wasn’t the Avatar. I didn’t think I would be.