Done
Honestly? No real reason.
Like I said: we townies suffer from a lack of information to this point. So any vote is pure guesswork at this point. Do I really know ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies is scum? Nope. Do I think he’s townie? No way to know. (I won’t even mention other roles)
His (her?) reaction and other people’s reaction will, however, give us information which we will need to win the game.
Started the observation deck for this over in IMHO.
I agree. I would much prefer if each mafia game would have its own forbidden thread. I would still like to follow and comment on the other game as I still have some vested interest in it, being that I have more than my fair share of the blame for it.
Interesting. This is standard play of course, but the fact that you feel the need to explaine it in such detail…probably means nothing. Still, like you said, we don’t have much to go on and you are now someone that I am going to be watching.
Fun game right? 
In a way your “clusterfuck game” inspired me.
In my mind Autolycus, fun though his posts were, was one of the worst assets to the town. He simply acted as white noise throughout his life and helped the mafia indirectly by diluting the information available to town.
You could say that I’m trying to be an anti-Autolycus. (While still having fun ;))
Having learned from the early mistakes in the previous game, and in the interest of getting the ball rolling: vote SnakesCatLady because random.org said so.
Gadarene:Question. Is it 10 to lynch or 11? Because 10 is technically not a majority vote
Vote: NAF1138 for asking DiggitCamara to give his reasons for something that NAF admits to already knowing is standard operating procedure at game start, and then casting suspicion on him for responding to his query. And 'cause I got nothing better to go on at the moment.
Oh yeah.
I suppose it comes down to this: Any serious post anyone makes (and even some goof posts) are going to be read both ways. Pretty much anything can be interpreted to mean you’re on one side or another. Heck, look at Lemur866’s question in post #61 (I think) –
Taken on the surface, that is a pretty clear indication that Lemur866 is not Mafia. If he were, he’d already have known who the other scum were.
However, could this a tricky reverse-psychology move? Of course, since that post was made while role were still being assigned, there’s every change that Lemur866 had no idea if he was scum or not.
And lest anyone find that I’m fitting into DiggitCamara theory of “the scum’s interests dictate a strategy of diluting information and spreading paranoia”, let me just state for the record: I’m just a simple, babbling townie.
Eleven votes to lynch right now. Which makes this first day interestingly different than the first day in the last game, where only ten votes were needed from thirty-odd players. 
Is it a good idea lynch someone the first day, just to establish a data trail? Kind of like Minesweeper, you have to pick your first couple of squares randomly and hope for the best. It seems at first that not lynching is a good strategy because we have no good reason to lynch anyone. But arguments for or against that first lynch are a paper trail, and civilians absolutely need to have a paper trail to make up for our lack of information.
Looking at the werewolf game, where they randomly picked a werewolf on the first lynching, that actually gave them less information than if they picked a townsman. Not that it wasn’t a good break for the townsmen, but it just made their second lynching a random pick also.
but I’m open to arguments that we should vote “no one” on the first day. Anyone else have any thoughts?
Well, I guess I’m just going to have to vote for DiggitCamara.
Why? He was pretty free with the accusation- with no evidence at all. Since the only one who would have any evidence at this point would be one of the fargin’ iceholes bad guys themselves, his vote has to be an attempt to redirect suspicion.
Of course, he might just be shootin’ in the dark. But tell me, my friends- do we, as good wholesome townfolk, want an itchy trigger finger like DiggitCamara around? I mean, heck- look at his username, fer cryin’ out loud! It doesn’t even make any sense, and therefore MUST be a pseudonym.
I’m hesitant to vote for DiggitCamera, since someone had to break the voting ice, but he’s a good a sacrificial lamb as any for Day One…
Still, NAF1138 did try to point suspicion on him for what he admits was a relatively meaningless move. Scum going for an easy town kill?
NAF, Dig, what do you have to say for yourselves in defense?
(emphasis mine)
… Yer right. I AM shooting in the dark (actually, all us townies are shooting in the dark at this point)
And, fluiddruid the only reason for my vote is exactly the one you’ve already mentioned: breaking the ice.
Vote NAF1138 for exactly the same reasons Kyrie Eleison gave above. If he already knew the answer to his question, then the only reason to ask it would be to throw undue suspicion elsewhere.
Dig was the only person at that point who had made a real play. I just wanted to see what he would say if called on it. I don’t know if I like his answer or not yet, it was a bit on the nose and was edging towards defensivness. I was hoping to hear him say something like, “What, you are going to accuse me of acting suspicious for casting what is obviously a random vote”. That is what I would expect a towny to say in that situation, not the bit about strategy that he put out there.
That being said, it’s way to early to think that really mean anything, I just want to watch him for a bit now. He is on my “list” so to speak, but that wasn’t even a FOS.
On the other hand Lightnin’'s vote feels scummy to me.
FOS Lightnin’
(and we should, I think, always lynch someone until it is much further into the game. No lynches don’t do us any good for a couple of days at least)
I think I’ll be ignored like I was when I posted the same thing on day 1 last game, but we need to take the first day slowly. Day 1 is all about information gathering, and hoping to trip up the scum. Let’s not lynch someone too quickly just to get the day behind us. Voting for almost random people early is a good way to get things rolling, but anyone trying to get a real bandwagon going to end the day early is going to look very suspicious to me.
That said, we need to be looking for a real target on day 1. Look how well it went in WW1 when they got the Alpha Wolf right at the beginning. Sure they got less information out of it than if he’d had a chance to establish a voting pattern, but starting the game with the most powerful scum role already gone gave the town a big advantage. So let’s flush out some scum and start this game off right.
You’re right, we need information in order to make Day 2 useful. A quick Day 1 only benefits the scum.
Since I waffled between NAF1138 and DiggitCamara, and I find DiggitCamara less suspicious (since all he did was randomly vote, presumably at least) I’m going to go ahead and Vote: NAF1138 for now, but I’ll unvote if things start moving along too fast here.
Vote DiggitCamera
That ‘We townies’ routine twinged something for me. And now all that thinking’s made me hungry. Who’s for pizza? Maybe a barbeque?
-Lil