Harry Potter Mafia

I’m confused is my job to fluff wands of the players? I’m not nearly as excited about being a fluffer in that sense. If I’m going to be keeping everyone’s wands at the ready I think I at least need to be paid.

Personally, I polish my own wand- sometimes I do it more than once a day. :slight_smile:

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Some of the last few quotes are actually from the later books.

Oh, thanks for the cite! I’d forgotten about some of the later ones… I guess the trauma of the one where the Dursleys try to rape Harry was too traumatic. ^^

The guy actually says that they’re all from the first book. Presumably he didn’t want to admit that he’d gone through all five books that had been published at that point to find the funny quotes.

Yea, even if he found a scanned/ebook edition and used used word search, they say “wand” like thrice every five sentences- it must have taken a lot of reading with a dirty mind to find all of the best quotes.

Since Night 0 has yet to be called, I’ll respond:

I think your the first person I’ve seen drop thrice into normal conversation. Don’t you wish there were higher order words?

Sometimes, but mainly I’m just impressed with myself if I can get a whole sentence out and have it be coherent. :smiley: I’ve been traveling a lot recently, and haven’t lived anywhere where English is spoken regularly for almost two years now, so I tend to get a little scrambled when it comes time to talk without tripping over my own diction. :slight_smile:

I would swear left right and center that there was some other word that meant “three times” that everyone else has forgotten. It wasn’t thrice. It was something else. Damned if I know what.

Well “three times” tends to work 99% of the time-I just like the chance to play with language :slight_smile:

Sub-confirm!

I’ll make that official.

**Little Plastic Ninja has replaced Snickers. **

Sub confirm!

And I’ll make that official, as well.

Omi No Kami has replaced MentalGuy
**Day One will begin shortly. **

And here we go, folks. Have fun!

**With the news that the Death Eaters were among them, few could sleep during the Night.

A decision had been made. All wizards must make the best possible effort to find and kill any of the Death Eaters that could be within their midst.

And so, with that, a new Day began.

It is now Day One.

Day One will end at 12:00 Noon Eastern Time on Thursday, July 1.**

What an awful performance that was from the English defence. I think they were being cursed by Death Eaters!

Well, now we know that OAOW is a muggle. Which doesn’t help at all. Hmmmmm.

Right, now that we’re off, I’m going to get on my soapbox for a minute. storyteller often makes the point that in these games, town players tend to be overly cautious about sharing the information that they have. I would agree, but only to a point. Town players definitely have a tendency to jealously hoard the information that comes with their Role. But in my experience, they combine that with a rather inexplicable need to share any and all information they get in other ways. A couple of examples from recent games I’ve played in come to mind:

In Crimson Glyph, whoever the doctor(me) protected got a notification that they “felt a layer of protection around them” or something similar. What drove me crazy in that game was that the people who I protected immediately posted that fact to the main thread. If they’d stayed quiet, any false doctor claim could have been outed because the false-claiming scum probably couldn’t have guessed who had been protected, while the real doctor would have been able to name them all.

Now, as it happens I was a scum doctor and my power was basically a giant red herring for the town, but the point stands. Sharing that kind of information gave Town no benefit and holding it back could give the Town a great benefit.
In Cecil Pond, one of the masons went on a mass voting spree at one point before he’d claimed. About a Day after he did claim, one of the other town players commented that if the scum were to just eliminate all players that the known masons had voted for and all of the scum, they stood a very good chance of uncovering the last unclaimed mason. People jumped on him for saying that, and his defence was that all the information was out in the open and the scum had probably already worked it out. Now, I was scum in that game. It never occurred to any of us that we could do this(we were rather more worried about a non-existent cop, as it happens). The thing was, even if the scum had figured it out, town got no benefit from that fact being in the open. And sometimes, even if the conclusion seems obvious, the scum will miss it! They aren’t perfect; they’ll miss townie slips just as town players will miss scum slips.

So please, I’m asking all of you: if you are in possession of non-public information, think about whether it should be made public. What benefit is there to town to have that information in the open? What benefit is there to scum?

One more quick sub.

**Red Skeezix is replacing amrussell. **

Play on! :slight_smile:

Just for the sake of convenience:

Can we get an updated player list, including subs?

Anyway, even after watching a bunch of games, I’m still not sure what the best course of action for day 1 is. So, uh… anyone want to declare as a death eater? That would make things way easier.