Sure thing. Let me make the group public. One sec.
Can you view the group here? Mafia Board
Seems so. Thanks!
Looking at the Mafia board, Millit drew suspicion very early on. We never had a chance for a Mason win.
Haven’t gotten that far yet. I’m just reading about how fricking close I came to taking NAF’s place as the first one whacked. Eep!
It’s there in the Mafia board now so you can see first hand. Honestly I only skimmed the older posts on the Mafia board and didn’t read them very closely. I don’t remember them being onto Millit, but it was pretty obvious who the masons were as soon as Blaster Mater was ruled out and Hal all but screamed that you two were masons. I was holding a very small sliver of hope that I was wrong about you being a mason and that it was Cookies at the end, or that there were two masons, because then I think I would have won. With you and Hal the last two masons, though, I don’t think I had a chance once tirial was lynched.
Reading over the mafia board…it’s a good thing Gad caught his mistake when he did.
Because that Night I see the mafia chose to kill zuma at the Railroad Tracks, which I had chosen again (that Night) for the second Night in a row. So it would have been another zombie NW block (as per nesta).
Guess that goes to show that no matter how messed up you think something has gotten…it’s really not that bad and could always be/been worse.
Yay us! It was fun, but it was actually better for me that I was out early. School is kicking my butt.
I’m still building on my post.
But boy, did I overstimate them!
I’d just like to note that whenever I see the word “bandwagon” any more, my brain always throws “Projammerwagon” in the backgound.
That would be a prime example of that consistenty inconsistent cluelessness I referring to.
Due to my particular hodge-podge of (short) attention span, (lack of) skill, and (limited) deductive reasoning ability, I seem to have pretty much arbitrary moments of clarity as a town player, arbitrary moments of scummy-looking behavior, and arbitrary moments of completely perplexing behavior. In Game 1, it all led to my being lynched in the first third of the game. Here it contributed to me lasting to the bitter end. shrug All I know is that I have fun.
Now that I have “perfect information” (heh), there are some very lucky brakes for us town:
- At the very beginning there was some talk of contingency plans, etc. And then dropped. Which, for Mafia, was a Very Bad Thing. Why?
- Because on Day 3 the Very Thing Scum Should Fear happened. One of them got under pressure. And, this is the important part, they had no plans in place for that contingency.
- In retrospect, actually, Day 3 was the Day Scum Lost. They managed to save fluiddruid. For a Day.
- Even they knew fluiddruid was pretty much lost. (Heh. In-game that was my first theory: they knew fluiddruid was a goner). But all of them congratulated her on having dodged the bullet.
- And didn’t look at who had dropped cover (both **Blaster **and **Lemur **had, briefly, tried to “protect” her). (Both of them would be spotted).
- Lemur866’s lynch not only came as a surprise, but they made no effort to really analyze how it happened.
- Even outside I’ve read that it was “careless wording” that got him. Look at the Day again. Neither tirial nor I (arguably the architects of Lemur’s lynch) really built our case around that slip. I looked at Day 3’s events and spotted the tepid defense that I brought up again in my case against nesta. Why? Simple: when you see your teammate under pressure you will both try to defend them and not implicate yourself. Resulting in similar posts (and pretty obvious ones, once you look at them). tirial, on the other hand, used the “slip” only as a starting point to further investigate Lemur.
- SnakesCatLady’s vote against Lemur was a defensive one (her neck was on the line). 3 out of the first 4 votes against **Lemur866 **had little to do with his so-called slip
- And yet, **Rachm **accelerated the move against **Lemur **by joining it (with the infamous 3rd. vote).
- And here, again, a contingency plan would have helped. (A phrase, agreed on by all during each Night, would trigger one of several contingency plans). In this case it could mean, for instance, “find a scapegoat”. And Blaster Master (for instance) could have voted against a pre-arranged target (SnakesCatLady would have been ideal at the time)
- I was amazed at the lack of analysis of trends in the game (who was on shared target lists, who needed to post more, which general distrust could/should be exploited).
- In particular, the “Mason Problem” was overlooked until it was a palpable danger. And that even though Millit was often referred to as a probable power role (which, once the Doctor and NightWatchMan were identified, left just the Masons) and just as often forgotten.
There are some more which I probably have overlooked, but I must say: lucky for us that tirial wasn’t scum. We’d have been slaughtered.
Yeah, I had fun too.
And, by the way, your suspicion that there was scum hidden in Lightnin’s lynching?
As a deduction: horrible!
As a prediction? Spot on! 
Bah, Humbug!
So, so close, only to be beaten by that meddling DiggitCamara!
Ooo…almost forgot – before this thread fades into the history books, I just wanted to make mention of my favorite “Masonic Inside Joke” moment:
The evening after we have our first townie swing (Bolding not in the original post):
Aaaand, here’s the relevant portion of the starting PM I received from Gad:
Congratulations, you are a Mason! If you’re ever in any doubt about your role, you just look on the sturdy oak table in the back of the tavern, where the three of you, in a fit of drunkenness, carved the message “DiggitCamara, Millit the Frail, and Hal Briston: Best Friends 4 Ever” into the wood with a pocketknife.
Hal, this cracks me up. I actually didn’t get the reference until now, even though I thought of the “Best Friends 4 Ever” quote all the time. So many of your posts made me smile. I had a dream, during the very beginning of the endgame, that Diggit double-crossed us, and it really upset me! (In the dream, of course.) It was pretty cool to be a Mason and have a couple of allies in this whole thing.
By the way, you’re all part of a “special group” on the Dope now, for me. I don’t think I’ve seen any of you in the NYC Dopefest thread, but this game has actually made me think I should go meet some Dopers in person. If any of you out there could make it (though obviously, most of you are very far away and can’t), I’d be so happy to see you there!
Aww. You’re very sweet. I don’t know how I missed this post in the after-game chaos, but I didn’t see it till just now. A few folks on the forbidden thread had their fingers on me.
I think it is safe to say that I and any other scum would have more need of divine intervention than the town would, should I ever end up mafia. There’s so much to keep track of and anticipate, neither of which is my forte.
It was so inside only the joke-maker got it! :smack:
Actually, just a couple of Days I was afraid I had blown our cover. We (me and Hal) were discussing Masonic win conditions and alignments (should one be recruited). And to strengthen my argument I said something like “this-and-that would be bad for townies”. Once I made that post I wanted to erase it immediately.
It seems nobody caught on, however :o
Close…our observant game moderator sent me a “Ha! I geddit!” PM a short time later. 
Funny, though: on the MafiaThread on the Night previous to your lynching you said something like “Diggit seems to be catching on. Let’s lynch him” and nobody else picked up your idea.
Luckily for me. 