More than the game itself, talking in the forbidden thread of that game was very educational. It changed the way I look at the game, and inspired YSI.
I didn’t appreciate Conspiracy as much at the time as I do now. It was a very different game. The mode of play was less “find scum” and more “figure out what is going on” regarding powers. Different isn’t better or worse, but now that I look back on it, I liked the mystery and Town working together to put the pieces of role-powers together in the best way possible. Essentially, I think Town won because we were able to optimize role powers by combining information/powers. Two that come to mind from my Coroner perspective is:
- The Coroner revealing alignments on Day Two allowed the Detective to catch a Werewolf on Night Two because one of the dead was a werewolf. This allowed the Detective to use her alternate powers on subsequent nights.
- The Coroner revealing that Idle Thoughts had been cursed allowed the Vicar to bless Idle Thoughts and prevent him from becoming a Vampire, which would have sucked.
anyone who reads this out of context will rightfully say WTF?
I apologize in advance to my successor 
I haven’t had time to re-read the early game threads yet, but:
[spoiler]In one of the early games, I remember that one of the power roles had something like a 50% chance to fail. (I’m pretty sure I’m talking about the Beat Cop from Mafia 2, but I can’t be sure.)
Anyway, the role’s public description was either vague or made vague by player discussion, but either way the players started disagreeing about how the basic statistics worked and how they could help Town analyze the situation. This is probably something that’s rendered a lot funnier by actually reading it, but I just remember that the math got really out of hand, and culminated in someone posting a GQ query to request that a trained statistician help resolve the issue.[/spoiler]
My thoughts on MonkGate and Sekham in general since I was an innocent bystander (ie vanilla Townie)
[spoiler]I was pretty well convinced that the Cult had successfully recruited. There had been two no-kill nights. That was why I was at least open to the possibility that MHaye had been recruited as the Apprentice and was in on sachertorte and Cookies Monk claim. In the end, though I think I switched my vote to Idle Thoughts. Also, while it seemed like a very risky gambit to most of the Town and Spectators, at that point the Scum were convinced they had lost when their recruitment had failed.
In the endgame, Cookies did an amazing job finding Kyrie as the remaining scum. Kyrie was the Head Scum in that game and her survival was essential to be able to use the Recruitment power. There was also the role of Avatar, which was a scum who would randomly kill a player who voted for him/her if lynched during the day but it was unknown which of the Scum had this role. This made it especially risky for scum to vote for scum. It led to Idle Thoughts’ aforementioned Townie Cred, but it also convinced me that Kyrie was not the Head Scum. I could not see any reason to have risked her own life on a Day 2 vote for ArizonaTeach.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Yes, you’re thinking of the Beat Cop role in M2. One of the Town’s biggest mistakes in M2 was how we tried to use the Beat Cop role. The problem wasn’t that the Beat Cop role had a 50% chance of failure – the problem was that on a failure, a random role was returned. So the Beat Cop had no clue whether their reading was correct or not. NAF, the game mod, later admitted that the Beat Cop role hadn’t been meant to be useful – it was a confounder role for the Town.
pimaspinner, the Beat Cop, actually got very lucky in M2 – not only did she hit on scum with her first two readings, both readings came back true. Two consecutive identical readings made it overwhelmingly likely that the readings were true. The problem came when pima got a Serial Killer read on Fern Forest, and interpreted a post by Fern as being a clue that Autolycus was the Godfather(the Serial Killer couldn’t kill the Godfather, so if a target survived a night kill, they were likely the Godfather). And so the fastest bandwagon in Mafia history lynched Auto, and Fern Forest was Vigged, and both came up town. All because of a Serial Killer reading from a Beat Cop with a 50% chance of getting a garbage result.
:smack:[/spoiler]
We off-board folks aren’t kidding when we warn you guys that RoOsh is prolific. He earned his own name as a posting title (the other game board has ranks based on number of posts) in his first game - I think he ended up with something like 800+ posts, with most of them occurring in the game thread and not the fluff threads.
He brought his unique posting style into the LoLCats Mini Mafia, which was supposed to be a lighthearted game where you could only post in LoLCat style macros or text. (The scum remarked on their secret board something to the effect of: “Wow. Roosh Rooshed LoLCats.”)
As scum in the Blade Runner game, Roosh talked circles around everybody, ran magnificent interference, and even wrote his own death speech (see second half of the post). He is, IMHO, the MVP of that game.
And his attempt to get around the no-claiming rule in my Three Kingdoms game (I was a tremendous bastard and told the power roles that they would lose their powers if they tried to truthfully claim in any way, shape or form) just has to be read to be believed.
Once the Batman game finishes, I’m sure quite a few of us will have choice words for Roosh-as-Mod as well. 
Hell, no. I love RoOsh-as-Mod. Even if I was the first to die. 
I still wince when I see Dotchan post. . . NOOooooo! (Asylum Lane trauma. I can’t allow myself to play anymore).
I have to stop myself from trying to lynch her. Fortunately the one game where SHE did turn out to be scum, I was also scum. But then she tried to go about lynching me! :smack:
Alright, at the risk of admitting that I can’t find the afterthread… what, exactly, was his power role?
I believe **Roosh’s ** Role PM was as follows:
You are Zhang Bao. You’ve studied the basics of medicine, enough to protect someone who has been targeted by the Shu faction. However, should you reveal your identity, the mystical elements will take offense at your lack of humility and withdraw their support of you, transforming you into a useless Peasant. Once per Night, you may submit a target for protection; you may, if you wish, protect yourself. You win when all three factions have been eliminated.
It was a very good attempt to get round the restriction.
In a nutshell, **Roosh ** hates Shoes
Heya. 
Give it another whirl sometime, Capybara. It’s all good fun. Besides, I doubt anyone will be shouting
BINGO!!!
any time soon.
(BlaM must have had a heart attack when I suggested killing him to bring back the investigator…)
No kidding! How much worse could it get than to do well to get her killed, then get lynched purely by the chance layout of your card and have her return AND be confirmed, and thus protected. Man, that would have sucked hardcore.
Yeah. Um, oops. That was my first game. I still make boneheaded mistakes. See YSI where I was wrong about every-freakin-thing.
Hockey Monkey, formerly pimaspinner
Yeah, well I was hoping!
To be honest, I put the blame more on the Town for the Autolycus lynch than on you. Somebody should have taken a step back and asked whether the theory really fit together all that well. I think that we were giddy after finally locating our first scum and so badly wanted the theory to be right, to give us a chance to win the game.