“This must be coming close to an end”, thought LightFoot. After all the game had been going on since January. “How is this not finished yet? How has town lynched so few scum? This game is crazy!” It was at this point that LightFoot realized that these were not normal LightFoot thoughts. These seem to be thoughts that were being placed in the head of LightFoot. And why was LightFoot talking exclusively in the third person now?
“Oh crap” thought LightFoot “I’m in the Opening Color. That’s never good”
And, of course, LightFoot was right, it wasn’t ever good.
When town convened that morning around the town square they found LightFoots body had been torn to bits.
“Bummer” They all generically thought. “Who will hand out the permits now?”
LightFoot - The Zoning Inspector (town) is dead.
I guess it’s a free for all as far as new construction projects.
Look at it this way - when you’re a power role, you have to be careful. You don’t want to draw too much attention to yourself because you don’t want to get killed too quickly. You have to balance when to claim, whether to breadcrumb, all that stuff. And that’s fun, sure. But when you’re vanilla town, you don’t have to worry about jack all except playing your best game. If you get mislynched, well, it wasn’t a power role. If you get nightkilled? That’s an honor. The earlier you get offed by scum, the more you scared them.
Power roles are glamorous because you get to claim and often make big plays for town, but VT are the heart and soul of the game.
Lol i am not acting, just generally blue lately. And it’s leading into the game. I don’t like how aggressive nanook was with lightfoot yesterDay. It struck me oddly.
When Lightfoot made her “if I’m alive” comment in the last thread, I almost made a post about how shocked I would be if the wolves decided to kill her. They **knew **that she wasn’t mafia, and killing a townie out of the unconfirmed pool seems like a really low value move compared to taking out a fully confirmed power role or shooting for mafia.
Anyway, I want to head something off at the pass in case bufftabby managed to convince any townies yesterDay.
Why is Johnny Bravo not Mafia?
I hope by now I’ve at least proved my non-wolf cred, but bufftabby made a pretty big deal out of painting me as a mafioso. I’m not going to go over all of her different arguments one by one as I think they were all pretty specious, but I’d be happy to answer any specific questions. My pre-emptive defense boils down to one thing.
I’m still alive. If I was mafia, I’d be dead.
Now it’s generally a bad idea to play the “why would scum do that?” game, but I think this holds water here.
As bufftabby very carefully documented yesterday, she first became suspicious of me on D1 when she decided that I wasn’t concerned about the daykill - only the nightkill. This would, of course, make me mafia.
Bufftabby voted Hal Briston, and then the wolves killed him that very night. That was D6.
Bufftabby supposedly thought I was scum going all the way back to D1. She brought that case up again and again and again. If she really, honestly thought I was a wolf, she had a lot of days to make that case to her buddies.
Here are all of the nightkills.
And, of course, Lightfoot. There are at least a few wolf kills in there that would certainly have been better off going at a strongly suspected mafia. **Especially **last night, for the reasons I mentioned above. If they thought I was mafia, why the hell would they have shot a known (to them) townie out of the pool?
Now, this doesn’t actually prove that I’m town. But I do hope it proves that bufftabby was straight lying when she said she suspected me of being mafia. If she did, I’d be dead.
**Here is my list of living players, in alphabetical order. Please let me know if I am wrong about this. You lucky bastards have lived through 9 weeks of this game. **
Biotop
Captain Klutz
hawkeyeop
Johnny Bravo
Koldanar
Lakai
MHaye
Nanook of the North Shore
Plumpudding
Raventhief
Scathach
sinjin
snfaulkner
Texcat
Zeriel
Well, it’s 1/3 odds for me because I don’t have to shoot at myself.
You’re right that there are better random odds in the bigger pool, but I think we have enough information that we don’t have to be random right now. I’d like to look closely at each of those three players toDay and see where that leads. If it leads to one of the players in the larger pool, that’s fine too.
If town wants to flip a dice for the lynch, then the patsy can claim and we can do it with 5/8 odds. That’s honestly not bad at all. But if we’re going to sleuth, then it seems like the smart way is to start in the smaller pool and work out.
Your flaw is presuming that there’s only 1 scum in the top list. There is a minimum of one scum in the top list. There could be four scum in the top list and one in the bottom.
All we know is that the top list has a minimum of one and the bottom list has a maximum of four. Unless the patsy has false claimed. In which…