Man alive…I’m actually glad that’s over, it was draining having to act that defensive.
Man, Cult really kinda screwed up in this one. Just for the record (and you’ll all see this when the scum boards are open) I was hugely against claiming as Monk. I can’t say anymore here though because it goes into a lot of more specific information, although there is a TON of stuff to say about it and what happened.
If anyone wants a PM with what the plans were and what my thoughts were, just tell me. Also, if you want to know any other questions, as long as it’s okay with Blaster, just PM me with them and I’ll answer them. If not, well, then you’ll just have to wait to the end of the game.
Almost a very impressive coup, I think you screwed up in a couple of minor areas that might have helped your claim. I think there was a bit of poor timing as well, but FWIW, I think you did pretty darn well with the situation you got stuck in.
So, I think the modkill was a pretty smart decision, given the direction the game seemed to be going, but it also seems to me like it pretty much puts the final nail in the town coffin - basically the advantage to the sucessful lynch is mitigated, with the problem of the actual Avatar still unsolved and recruitment toNight quite likely.
Yeah, it’s a shame, because they did well to make the right decision about the fake monks. As far as I can see, the best they can hope for is to get **Hockey ** to block zuma, hope **MHaye ** finds the Avatar and have CatinaSuit protect someone in the recruitable pool, hoping it’s the same person the Cult pick.
I can somewhat sympathize, Idle Thoughts - how do you think I felt back on Day 3, when I wasn’t acting about freaking out?
I had actually had a Very Bad Thought this morning, expanding on what Blaster Master said yesterday: If you Cult had recruited the Apprentice, that would provide perfect cover for the Prophet to roleclaim as the Apprentice. On top of the conflicting Monk claims, nobody would’ve been the wiser!
But losing sachertorte is a blow of two different kinds - it’s a loss of a townie, fine, but it’s also a loss of a player who could not be recruited, and thus would have been a safe haven for the rest of the game. Knowing zuma’s alignment isn’t going to be the problem - they’ll kill him next, and then NAF, most likely, if they haven’t wised to the Prophet yet. But one among the Pleonast / MHaye / Hockey Monkey troika is likely to be scum tomorrow morning, and it’s going to be very, very hard to recover from that.
I also don’t know why Pleonast won’t share at least one aspect of his powers. It would save the town an enormous amount of needless wrangling.
Throughout the game I had been giving quite a bit of thought to the recruitment option. In M3 it was very overpowered (in my opinion), but Blaster Master tempered that with tying it to the Prophet. I kind of looked at that with a critical eye too though since my perception is that the Prophet (investigates as believer) is sort of an endgame role anyway. So that got me thinking, would it make sense to have a diminishing probability of successful recruitment as the game continues. For example, 100% on Night 1, 90% on Night 2, etc. I think this type of set up balances the greater benefits of late recruitment with risk.
Although I think I’d just prefer no recruitment at all.
Oh that (non-MHaye Apprentice recruitment) occurred to me, lots of things occurred to me, but I wasn’t about to bring up information that would hurt my case just yet.
Hahaha, thank you. Stuck in is right. As you know and read , I didn’t even want to do that. It made zero sense and was so unlike my persona in the game. But in the end, I guess I just gave in.
Arrrgh. I really hope someone reads my posts from Yesterday. I pretty much was begging the town to keep the confirmed scum alive for the Alchemist while turning attention to the unknown five. That is the best course of action for the town! I even voted NAF to impress the point.
Hopefully Hockey Monkey will think about who she will target at night and start advocating a non-zuma dunk.
It made zero sense and was so unlike my persona in the game. But in the end, I guess I just gave in.