Mafia: Evil Dead - DAY/NIGHT SEVEN

A part of me is really pleased that I did vote for you (if you’re telling the truth) :wink:

I have to say the PM looks very real (but the fact that it took you so long to post it don’t look good at all).

So I’ll give you the benifite of the doubt right now and Unvote Almost Human

That is really helpful - thank you very much!!!

.nl as in Holland?

As requested by Special Ed here’s why I’m suspicious of JSexton. In proper detail this time.

Day 1 he rode Pleo’s arse and voted for him till macey made his slip. There’s a pretty good chance Pleo could’ve been lynched if that hadn’t happened. That Night Pleo’s NKd. Coincidence? Yes it could be.

But then Day 2 he’s riding hawk (yes I was too I know). Again hawk could well have been lynched that Day if not for peeker outing himself. Again hawk’s NKd that Night.

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Argh. If you doubt macey is scum, why vote for him? To teach him a lesson? That sort of vote loses games, and is a common tactic for scum to take to vote for town without taking responsibility for it.
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JS has voted for macey by this stage. But this looks like a way to get votes off him to me. As it happens he hadn’t read the Day carefully enough as Thing Fish never voted for macey.

Sounds nice and townie doesn’t it? Yes, getting rid of two scum helps us in terms of numbers but in terms of information? Well no it doesn’t at all. Those two died before they had a chance to implicate or interact with anyone. In fact macey’s death was more a net benefit to the scum IMO as his posting style would be a definite liability in a game this analytical.

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“Good scum play is to attack them”. I agree and I think that’s exactly what you did with macey. And as I’ve already said, if peeker hadn’t outed himself I think you’d have convinced us to lynch hawk that Day - you certainly convinced me.

You used the same reasons for unvoting Pleo too. It’s a good excuse to use when unvoting if someone else is about to be lynched and makes sure your vote isn’t left on a town player.

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This smacks of PIS. Yes, you implicate Total as Freddy Krueger rather than BLAM but the seed is sown. I think you know very well there’s a Freddy Krueger PFK about and you’re preparing the groundwork for it.

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Again with the PIS. Of course you’d have all the information you needed from the mafia investigator MHaye.

You’re not letting that one go are you? This sounds so reasonable but it’s subtly smudging TL. You say you’re not especially worried about her but still, she could be scum, oh, and it’s weird she disappeared.

Personally I disagree with this statement but I know some confirmed town agree so a null tell.

The wording of this strikes me. You word your response as a general agreement of townie pede yet you manage to explain away enough of MHaye’s actions to make him seem a less viable target.

You also say you have a better target today but never go on to say more. Who was that target because your vote at the end of the Day doesn’t indicate you had one:

Doesn’t sound as though Hal was your original target so who was? I think you simply wanted MHaye to get an extra investigation in and made sure that happened.

So his investigation’s complete now and you can go after him. It’s a bit of a U-turn. It’s also convenient our doc didn’t protect NAF.

But what’s the harm in putting forward an argument for keeping him an extra Day? Also this fishing for information seems scummy. There might be a roleblocker, the masons may have a one shot immunity, you’re not asking for a doc to counterclaim but if they did it’d be just peachy. You finish up saying you’re not sure if MHaye’s being truthful but we could always wait an extra Day to find out - covering yourself from both angles.

But you didn’t mind voting for Hal the previous Day.

Yeah, on reflection I guess I should’ve just posted it but hey, hindsight and all that.

When you’re looking at someone, the null hypothesis is, “This person is scum”. Then you try to falsify that, or get them to falsify that. If you go in assuming that they’re town and hoping for some clear and unambiguous proof of their being scum, most scum will skate. So yes, I am trying to paint pretty much everyone as scum, and watching to see how well that looks on them. Anything else is asking to get played.

And what can be scummier than a null tell? You haven’t explained the advantage to scum of cutting down the suspect pool for a couple of Days, which is what outing a mason does. On Day One, it doesn’t matter. On Day Four (IIRC) with a lot of dead people and NAF having pulled his two for one confirmation, it doesn’t strike me as a remotely pro-scum move. If scum wanted to mask their investigator, they’d expose the Day before the Nightkill, not keep a mason alive as confirmed town for at least three days.

You’re reaching, and trying to paint what was not in fact a terrible outcome for town as a well-planned scum manoeuvre.

Yup, or the Netherlands officially.

I reread it, but I am totally not following you here (flu theory seems to be Thing Fish investigated Chucara as scum). Total Lost makes a mention of her flu here, but I don’t see how JSexton (no vote) and Mhaye (vote because confusing Alpha/Beta claim by Chucara) are connected.

About Almost Humans claim, well, it’s got film instead of movie, though the trope seems real :cool:.

Almost Humans votes:
D1: pedescribe, Millit the Frail
D2: Hawkeyeop (dead)
D3: Chucara (dead)
N3-N4: Hockey Monkey
D5-D7: JSexton

Not exactly a big pool (for example I think pede voted for almost everyone ;)), but now that you claimed that is easily fixable. It includes the two masons, but the votes were before they were known.
But since you’re not activated it not really useful. Looks like you even need to vote yourself before you can self protect?

I didn’t get the 'flu thing either and like I said before, I think pede’s trying to find reasons for being suspicious of me however tenuous. Just because he’s town doesn’t make him right.

Yes, my power’s totally useless right now and totally unconfirmable. The only advantage to my claiming is that it may prevent the lynch of a townsperson (me) toDay and the scum may choose to NK me toNight rather than guess at who the current doctor is.

As for my votes. I voted for who I thought was scum. Not much I can say about that really.

Not sure about the self protect thing - I haven’t asked story as my power isn’t active yet so I may not be able to.

But in case I survive longer than the doc and it does become active I’ll WiFOM the scum now by

unvote JSexton
vote Almost Human
unvote Almost Human
vote Jexton

As for the film/movie wording. That was picked up on in MHaye’s pm too. I’d be an idiot to repeat it in mine if I were making it up. Of course you may think I’m an idiot :slight_smile:

Why would the scum NK someone if they thought they had a good chance of lynching that person? That’s the opposite of typical mafia strategy (see: peeker in Skrull Planet)

I dunno, there wasn’t much–but there was a little.

So now you’re blaming JSexton for leading you down the garden path–how convenient. And he said, in full: “Good town play is to attack them, so good scum play is to attack them.” That’s a null tell, not a scum tell.

Good find, but…why would the scum know who the serial killers are?

Huh. Yeah, that is pretty suspicious.

MHaye’s roleclaim was pretty convincing. I mean, it was a pretty powerful role, and he didn’t give us much time to think about it. I will grant, though, that it sounds like he’s fishing for information.

On the whole, I find him, now, moderately suspicious. Not as much as I find you suspicious, but enough that, if you die first, I’ll probably go after him.

On the subject of your role claim: I’m guessing your powers haven’t activated yet, because, if they did, you probably would have claimed and asked everyone to vote/unvote you. This means, right now, you’re claiming vanilla with potential. Whether I believe it or not…It seems reasonable. But it also could be a cover PM. I don’t know…I mean, you did makes some convincing arguments…and I don’t have any particular reason to defend JSexton…all right. I hope I don’t regret this…

Unvote AH
Vote JSexton

crossing my fingers…

I’m not changing my vote at this time, especially to the person my prime suspect is implicating. Jsexton and Almost Human may very well both be scum, with AH “giving” us Jsexton to make herself appear town. She could also be scum trying to get us to lynch a townie. I’m not buying her role PM.

I wonder if **story **gave all the Scum cover role PMs with the word film in them ;-D

The power seems remarkably similar to MHaye’s claimed power actually, only without the kill on the second attempt part.

I’ve done a limited re-read, of yesterDay and toDay. I’m not able to sit at the computer for extended periods currently.

I wasn’t convinced by the case against AH, I’m not convinced by the case against **JS **either, but there are a couple of suspicious points there. Does he not check in on the weekends?

for the time being though, it seems our confirmishified town tend to be going toward **JS **with 4 for JS, 2 for **amrussel **, and 1 for AH, Nanook, **Natlaw **and me. (on preview, I see hockey moneky isn’t, and I also notice total only unvoted AH but didn’t vote JS. I’ll monitor this. I especially don’t want a last minute scum-induced voting chaos…though, maybe that’s what this is.

In a way that can’t possibly make my voting record look any better, but is the most pro-town thing I can do

vote Almost Human
unvote Almost Human
vote JSexton

I’m headed out the door and I don’t have time to respond in detail. I will when I get back. For now, the claim leads me to vote amrussell so neither
I nor the claimed back up doc die today.

I’m not sure I buy her PM either, but here’s a question: where are all the doctors? If we figure 5-6 scum and 2 serial killers, and the fact that we had 3 gimpy investigators, you figure that we ought to have at least two doctors working at the same time. Lots of people have claimed vanilla…figure there’s at least one roleblocker…wait a second…nope, I don’t believe it. I don’t believe you, AH, and here’s why: there’s got to be at least 2 active doctors, assuming that Storyteller had any plans for a mass claim that didn’t horrendously damage town, or that he wanted to compensate, even a little, for putting in 2 serial killers and a scum strongman. And if there are two doctors, then your role is basically useless, AH. See, doctors are the least likely power role to claim, as their claim only paints a target on themselves. So figure, assuming that they aren’t stupid, that each doctor should survive at least 4-5 days each. By the time they’re both dead, the game should be over, and the odds of you doing anything useful are near nil. In which case, why didn’t you get a redshirt role? Useless power roles that masquerade as useful are rare, and anti-town. So, at this point, I’m convinced you got a cover role. See, storyteller’s not stupid–the MHaye role was wicked powerful, too powerful–and yours is useless, too useless.

I hope that made sense to other people.

Unvote JSexton
Vote Almost Human

One possible answer is that at least one of them is dead:

We only found out about the speak to the dead power - we can’t rule out an unrevealed ability to protect.

That makes zero sense to me. You’re basically saying that my MHaye’s role was false because it was too powerful and mine’s false because it isn’t powerful enough. You think my role would never have been used because our doctor isn’t dead. Well, you know, seems like we’ve got a pretty good doctor this game because he/she’s managed to stay under the radar - and should continue to do so.

I’m not going to fight this because the one thing you’re right about is that right now my role is useless.

I’d rather see JSexton lynched than myself but I’d rather I was lynched over amrussel.

My death will at least make you look at my arguments against JSexton. Plus I think amrussel’s town and although I don’t know how useful his role or lack of one is I do know that mine isn’t that useful.

Ai, I read it wrong, I thought AH could only protect those you voted for, but it only those who voted for you, so my list who you voted for isn’t helpful.

Day Seven, unofficial vote count, about one hour and counting:
JSexton (4): Almost Human, amrussell, Natlaw, special ed
amrussell (3): Rapier42, Millit the Frail, JSexton
Almost Human (2): Hockey Monkey, pedescribe
Nanook (1): dotchan
special ed (1): Zeriel
Natlaw (1): Nanook

Ha, I read your reading it wrong, wrong too (did that make sense) so I didn’t clarify!

And thanks for the vote count, I thought amrussel and JS were tied but they’re not.

Why do you think this?

I don’t understand why you’re voting for amrussel when you think he’s town in this post:

I’ve already said in previous posts but all he’s been accused of really is poo flinging. Throughout the game I’ve had a strong town vibe from him. Admittedly my track record for spotting scum hasn’t been good but there you go.

He was pulled up on finding one player potentially scummy for one action and another for the opposite action. He’s right though that different scum play in different ways and that one doesn’t exclude the other.

Meant to add to that the fact that poo flinging results in reactions which can be far more telling than the accusation itself.