Shakespeare Mafia -- Act IV (Game Over)

[Pardel-Lux]

I think repeating here what I just wrote in the spectator’s thread is OK:

@Pardel-Lux

Another thing I want to observe is that when at the end of Day 1 I commented a list of possible powers that I did not know what my power was, but that I knew that it was none of the above nobody wondered how I knew that. There was a reason for me knowing that. I don’t know in retrospect whether I woud have given the reason if asked, but nobody even asked.

@AngeloftheNorth

Can you tell us the reason now?

Now I can, so those were my instruccions:

@Chronos

You are Robin Goodfellow, a major character.

ROBIN
I took him sleeping—that is finished, too—
And the Athenian woman by his side,
That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed.
OBERON
Stand close. This is the same Athenian.
ROBIN
This is the woman, but not this the man.

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, scene 2, lines 40-44

Every night, you may target exactly two players.

If I have to target two players or none, my power could not be any of the powers listed by Thing.Fish, because those powers only workd for one player: vig, name cop, doctor…

And it was the word “target” which led my overthinking astray: I read “target” as an act that does harm, so it did not cross my mind that I could target myself and someone I thought a Villain. Claiming to be a major character and redirecting Scum’s killing towards someone I suspected to be Scum would have been a brilliant move.

On the other hand, had I chosen myself and Biotop * (instead of myself Thing.Fish, the best move, or Mahaloth, the other suspect I had in mind), who got targeted by Dizzymrslizzy, we would both be dead and nobody could have known that it was not those who thought they had killed each one of us who had indeed killed us, but a ricochet: Scum would have killed Biotop, not me, and Dizzymrslizzy would have killed me, not Biotop. But nobody would have been able to tell the difference. Only you, AngeloftheNorth, would have known that Mahaloth was Scum, but then you would not have known that Thing.Fish was Scum. Would that have been better? No idea.
And as my power would have had no effect I would not have known what it was and the rest of the players would wrongly assume that I had not used it. But that would have had no consequences that I can see.

@AngeloftheNorth

And Kudos to Pardel-Lux for what may have been the game-winning play N1!

The optimum move would have been targeting myself and Thing.Fish. Assuming you would have targeted Mahaloth (as you did) and Dizzimrslizzy had targeted Biotop (as she did), we would have won on Night 2. Sorry, it was not to be. I did not have enough beginner’s luck! I came close, but as they say in German: Knapp daneben ist auch vorbei. (DeepL translates this as “close, but no cigar”. Which I in turn would rate as a “close, but no cigar” translation).

* To be frank, I was not suspecting Biotop at all, so it is unlikely that I would have picked him. But the consequences, had I done so, would have been what I have written. I believe. Probably. Yeah. Hum.
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And I just see that I forgot to thank @Chronos for a very interesting experience. You put a lot of effort into this, it was a pleasure! Well done!
Should you people play this game again I would like to participate again if you accept me. And I promise I will not give away that I am a major character on the very first night!
Although I still think that a Scum role would be better adapted to my… inclinations.