Bwa ha ha, welcome to the ranks of the dead, Snakecatlady. Sorry for, er, trying to set you up ‘n’ stuff. 
Sigh. I’d gotten the feeling SnakesCatLady was likely town after I was killed during the night. If she’d been scum, offing me would have just added more weight to my suspicions of her. Which is precisely what happened, except she was a citizen.
Where’s the nachos? I was told there were nachos in here!
No hard feelings, fluiddruid. It’s just a game, and I did warn them you would be laughing if they lynched me!
I do have some hard feelings toward Omi no Kami - she owes me an apology.
Well, at least some people tried to defend me. I hope the town will look at the lurkers - I’m sure there are some scum in there.
It’s funny how two of the people who lynched me are now apologizing…
I’m fairly sure Millet the Frail is scum. If she’s town she’s probably a Mason.
I have a pretty good idea of who the Masons are, I think (we’re simply running out of players and of course I know who the scum are) and I’d be surprised, if there are 3 masons like I guess, if one of them wasn’t targeted tonight.
Yep, no hard feelings, Snakecatlady. Sadly, the one plan I had that failed was the one that got me killed. The others seem to have worked out pretty well. Though, I think, being mentioned prominently by any dead player seems to be B-A-D. I’m learning a lot about this game, I think.
Will y’all believe me if I tell you that I stayed up until 7am reading the current mafia thread and all the previous ones?
I mean, it’s not like I have anything better to do, like write a paper. Or two. :smack:
I’ve played this game before IRL, but it’s so much more exciting online, I think. I’d be interested in participating in a future game. After I write those damn papers.
I think I’ve got the motivations now. Check me on this:
The Bad Guys want to protect each other, muddy the waters, and generally not get caught.
The Masons want to protect each other, in a way that doesn’t draw accusations of being a Bad Guy.
The Citizens want to ID the Bad Guys, and a suspicion is often all it takes.
The Detective wants to share their info, but the moment they say something clear, the Bad Guys will eliminate em.
The Doctor wants to protect power roles, but suffers the problem of IDing the power roles.
Now I’m looking for advice on how to play these roles.
Well, that’s both psychic cats out, fat lot of good they did the townies. Sorry SCL! I’m not sure anything can save the townies from themselves.
-Lil
Have to agree with you on that one, percypercy - I don’t hold out much hope for the town in this game. Maybe if they start paying attention to the lurkers, but I have a feeling Idle Thoughts has a rope with his name on it now.
So I just read the bit about Idle Thoughts role claim. Is the general consensus that the Doctor has been recruited so Idle Thoughts is going to be unprotected?
Wonder who’s holding up the game?
I think I got screwed. (No offense, Gadarene - I know mistakes happen) If Idle Thoughts should have died on one of the no-kill nights, I would probably not have been lynched since he was the ringleader. Damn it.
Well, my beady eye was on zuma, who was town too, so I guess the town is better off without me.
I guess this means the doctor is likely still in play (pro-town). With one of the no-kill nights targetting the night watchman (Idle Thoughts) and not a self-protecting doctor as the town previously thought, then the chances of a recruit having happened are quite slim.
This game really sucks for the town. Masons are supposed to be an asset to the town, but because of recruitment, they can’t help the town in any meaningful way. Furthermore, the mason win condition makes a town win flat out impossible at this point.
One thing unusual about this game is the fact that no masons are known alive or dead.
Imagine the game without recruitment, the Masons could claim, making the balance 3 confirmed town vs. 5 unknown with a functional doctor. Town could actually win!
As it is now, mason’s can’t claim and the doctor can’t protect them.
Blaster Master is acting as though the recruitment happened. I don’t see why he would think that way since the whole thesis of recruitment was based on two blocked kills leading to the conclusion of recruitment of the target. Idle Thoughts was one of the targets and he was not recruited. How does Blaster Master figure there was a recruitment?
Gaaah. I really want to reach in there and slap a few players.
- If there were 4 mafia left, the town would have already lost.
- If there were 4 mafia left, Gadarene would have set up an impossibly difficult game for the town, totally unbalanced.
There must be less than 4 mafia left!
I’m guessing two mafia with the option to recruit.
Hah, hah! Sucks to be town!
I love the smell of mod-kill in the morning.
Exactly. What people don’t get is that the recruitment option is much MUCH better for the scum than another vanilla scum. If the game started with 6 scum it would be a total hosing of the town.
Oh, and is it just me, or are the roles reversed from what they should be?
The “townsmen” should be mafia, and the scum should be rats. The mafiosi run around during the night whacking people at random for being suspected scum, while the rats squeal to the Feds and get the mafiosi sent away during the day. Masons would be “made” guys who trust each other, the “doctor” is actually a shyster lawyer who can get evidence thrown out. And so on. You want to give the “townies” a chance to role-play! It would make things more fun.
Wow, a whole new topic to catch up now.
Since it’s the forbidden thread and I expect current players won’t read this, I’ll just say this: there’s even more to what happened with me and that situation than was said (but obviously can’t be said due to giving too much away). Man, if only town knew all the things I do now, hahahaha. VERY very interesting stuff. Right now, as I read, they’re already finding things weird and odd and using that to sort out reasoning…but there’s actually a whole lot more that took place. And on top of that, even I don’t know all the full details so I can’t wait until Gads allowed to reveal.
Really interesting situation.
But now, time to read this full thread.
This is why I kept bringing up experience. Because as a host of a few games beforehand, I knew a lot of tricks as well and looked out for them.
I just wish I hadn’t gotten so hard against SCL. :smack: But I’ll explain that in a bit.
This is all interesting. I’ve hosted many, many games and often think what I’d do if I were playing and in a detective type role…and, against the thoughts of a lot of people, I’m pretty sure I’d probably role claim in on the first or second day…probably second if I survived the first night. I’d then take the risk of being not believed but also take suggestions on who to check out each night and plead with whoever the unknown Doc was to take a chance and protect me.
Because in a case like that, if you think about it (and I have many times for long hours), the only way that they could derail me is if they find the Doc.
This speaking, of course, about a game where there is no recruitement (and this was the first one I’ve ever played or hosted where that was a possibility).