Werewolf a game Part 2 (this time with MAFIA!)

Announcement: Brewha is a man!

I’d PMed and posted asking about his gender, but then I went ahead and posted using she/her. I was just so glad to have the fiddly job of making all those links done and wanted it posted and off my To Do list.

And…I guessed wrong. :frowning: (Not unusual for me, especially in this game.)

Please mentally change every she to he and her to him/his in my long post, okay? And I’ve got to go find a blackboard for my penance. (Remark that will only make sense a bit later.)

I’d already shut down my computer last night before I remembered I was supposed to post my opinion on brewha, so here’s that post (with pronouns corrected this morning:
On my scale from 0 to 100 (zero being definite scum, 100 being confirmed citizen) I give brewha a 75. (He’s got good lyrics and you can dance to his beat.)

(BTW, If I’m wrong about brewha’s sex, I will find a blackboard and write “brewha is a guy” ten times for each wrong pronoun.)

Remember, I was deliberately looking for even the most slightly suspicious stuff. Here are the only things that struck me:

  • Twice near the start of the game brewha posted about how he couldn’t be a part of a lynching, after deciding he didn’t really or much suspect the proposed lynchee. But at least three times later on he leaves his vote for someone he doubts is scum, saying at least we’ll derive some information from the death.

You could see this as inconsistent behavior, an early show of exacting ‘morality’ followed by revealing callousness. OTOH, you could see it as an evolution. At first the idea of killing an innocent is horrible, later you come to realize it’s unavoidable and maybe even essential to playing the game.

  • He does some ‘reactionary’ posting. If X votes for him, he votes for X. Tit for tat isn’t exactly the thoughtful, reasoned voting that best helps the town.
  • He cast his first vote for Autolycus saying he saw no reason to delay the lynch, though there had been many posts pointing out that the longer the town takes to discuss during a day, the more info they gain. He later unvotes Autolycus, which could have been to avoid the perception of scumminess.
  • He rides Autolycus pretty hard before his lynching. Probably just because he was really convinced he was the Godfather, but the intensity seemed…out of proportion, somehow.
  • After Pimaspinner’s ideas lead to the death of two townies, he says (in post 2696)

“I’m also not completely sure we should lynch Pima. A beat cop has a pretty good chance of getting the wrong reading.”

Which strikes me as a bit strange – there wasn’t any general ‘lynch Pima’ mood going on at that point which he could be reacting to, which it seems like what should have elicited that type of comment. Absent that, it calls to mind the way you can plant ideas about people purely by saying you don’t agree with the idea. “Oh, I’d never say John was cheap.” Doesn’t that immediately make you suspect that John is indeed cheap? And this is even stronger: it’s not that he doesn’t believe we should hang Pima, he’s just “not completely sure” we should do it. Which rather implies “I’m mostly sure.” Which, if he were scum and wanted to get us to kill another townie for them, would be a really clever way of planting the idea of lynching Pima while leaving brewha able to deny it completely, and point to the post as proof he was against the idea.

Or it was just him thinking aloud. He himself had been wondering if Pima’s failures should be interpreted as Pima lying about being a beat cop, and thus we should hang her…but he’s not sure.

The first interpretation sort of requires a Machiavellian nature, though, which I didn’t see anywhere else, so I lean towards the second.

  • In 3003 he said he’d gone over Storyteller’s posts and said they ‘reeked of scumminess’. In 3007 he tells Storyteller it’s nothing he said but what he hadn’t said. In 3010 he says she went over the posts again and found no concrete evidence, but still found him the most suspicious player. In 3016 he says he’s no longer sure.

His first post seems way too emphatic given how quickly he recanted.

OTOH, I’ve had my own opinion of players swing very fast.

And that’s it. Just a handful of things that MIGHT be tells, but which also could have perfectly innocent interpretations.

Personally I wouldn’t hang a dog on that small a level of suspiciousness. If the only evidence a Mafia leaves is that vague, heaven help the town in ferreting them out.

Morning all.

Brewha has moved from the suspicion side of my gray cloud of tertium quid over to peeking out the towny side. A Mafioso would have no reason to publicly defend the actions of a citizen (me), which brewha has done. This move isn’t meant to sway anyone else’s opinion of brewha since you aren’t certain that I’m citizen. But from my side, with my citizenship as private knowledge, it’s a clear stamp of towniness. I’m happy my persistence in suspicion never came to any bad end; or maybe I’m happy that my votes of conscience are so roundly ignored. :slight_smile:

With respect to Smitty/cowgirl she’s rising up out of the scummy top of my suspicion list. Mafiosi have nothing to do all during our day meetings except check on their level of suspicion and then bandwagon (subtly) whomever they’ve picked out for the day. I would find that all a little boring and think that’s why smitty drifted off. Cowgirl’s been posting to her credit but though it’s different people it remains the same role.

cowgirl’s been suspicious to me, also. I explained why yesterday. Ask Queuing if you want to know what the post number is.

Player: Fretful Porpentine
Voted for:
Post 421: Queuing, deeply suspicious of “lynch sturmhauke” strategy
Post 706: FCoD, for “hopping onto incipient bandwagons (Autolycus, the late lamented Enfant Terrible, and now chrisk).”
Post 761: Unvoted FCoD, voted Pleonast, on a hunch/suspicious of wildly shifting trust-list
Post 1570 (Yay! Over half done!): Unvoted Pleonast and voted for Blaster Master’s plan 1 (Vig kill Winston Smith with no conditional)
Post 1844: JSexton for lynch and glee or kivvik for Vig kill
Post 1854: unvoted JSexton, voted kivvik for lynch & glee for Vig kill if kivvik found to be scum
Post 1975: Unvoted kivvik and voted FCoD
Post 2124: Unvoted FCoD and voted to Vig kill instead, voted JSexton to lynch
Post 2199: Unvoted JSexton and voted Suburban Plankton
Post 2577: Did not vote for Autolycus after called on lack of vote, said it seemed pointless
Post 2583: Voted for Autolycus in post 2583
Post 2818 Voted Queuing
Post 2914: Unvoted Queuing and voted brewha
Voted for by:
Post 2915: MadTheSwine
Suspected/Distrusted:
Post 421: Enfant Terrible, Menocchio, Queuing, Aguecheek and Fern Forest; not sure he trusted sturmhauke
Post 632: Malacandra and FCoD, for jumping from Autolycus bandwagon to Enfant Terrible bandwagon
Post 1777: Suspicious of Lakai, and less confident of Queuing than everyone else was
Post 1853: Blaster Master, JSexton, glee and kivvik
Post 1865: Felt that definitely glee and Blaster Master, possibly kivvik, Rysto and JSexton, were all confederates
Post 1922: Continued to put forth theory that Blaster Master, glee & kivvik were Mafia in cahoots with each other to kill Winston Smith
Post 2918 and post 2931: Threatens to vote MadTheSwine for suspecting and voting for her and for “bizarre” attempts to cast suspicion on her
Suspected/Distrusted by:
Post 2599: FOSed by Autolycus
Post 2926
MadTheSwine lists her voting history
Defended/supported/trusted:
Post 421: Rysto and glee
Post 1777: Rysto and storyteller
Defended/supported/trusted by:
Post 410: glee
Post 847: pimaspinner (note: not one of pima’s investigations)
Post 1061: Made JSexton’s “neutral” list
Other:
Post 242
Pointed out it makes sense to take out people with a feel for the game, from Mafia’s point of view
Post 289
Posted comment theorizing beat cops would be better than 50% chance right for Citizen, probably false positive on non-citizen result
Post 548
Supported the 12-hour countdown in
Post 632
Decried bandwagon voting and theorized some of those who bandwagoned Enfant Terrible (listed those players) were Mafia
Did not jump on chrisk bandwagon: “partly because I am inherently suspicious of bandwagons, partly because chrisk didn’t vote at all in the last round of votes, and I’m having a hard time believing that a self-respecting Mafia member wouldn’t vote for someone.”
Post 684
Theorized the SK might not kill every night, would want to stay under the radar as long as possible.
Thought the Miller should block SK or Vigilante automatically
Post 721
In response to FCoD’s defense:
“I’m willing to concede that there are plausible reasons to suspect chrisk, and although I think Autolycus is probably just playing the fool, I can see why you’d vote for him. On the other hand, Autolycus and chrisk were both obvious candidates for a bandwagon, even with only one official vote cast, so a reasonably alert Mafia member might jump on in time to grab the oh-so-not-suspicious second vote instead of the oh-so-suspicious third one…”
But did not unvote
Post 727
Disputed hocow’s idea that Blaster Master could be SK, pointed out that by hocow’s reasoning, Blaster would be either Vigilante or Mafia
Posts 1404, 1474, 1521, 1682 and 1795
Called out by Queuing for low post count ( in 1521, Queuing urges Blaster Master to kill one of the players on his “low post” list)
Post 1570
Pointed out it’s too easy for Townie to suspect Townie & Mafia to create fake factions, so we can’t tell anything by who sides with whom
Suspicious of people who have posted a lot over people who haven’t
Post 1674
Corrected Kat’s stupid misunderstanding of a post by zuma
Suggested rereading Day Two posts to see who was fanning the flames with apples of discord
Post 1828
Supported directed Vig kills to assure transparency in the decision-making process
Posts 1836 and 1843
Recaps Day Two Vig kill discussion & voting
Post 1872
Theorizes Mafia pre-strategy: Mafia member in danger of lynching would role-claim Vigilante, to explain her suspicion of Blaster Master
Post 1922
“I don’t believe Blaster Master is the Vig at all. I think he is Mafia and claimed to be the Vig when the pressure was on him. The real Vig believes BM to be the Serial Killer, but sees no reason to make a public counterclaim. (Why would he, when BM is constrained to do the town’s bidding and the Vig would likely become the Mafia’s target if he outed himself?)”
Post 1947
“Perhaps it’s time to put the “good analysis (or worse yet, analysis I agree with) = town” / “bad analysis or analysis I don’t agree with = Mafia” myth to rest for good? Because I’m beginning to wonder if it EVER holds true…”
Post 1950
Advocated studying voting records instead of discussion/analysis posts
Post 1994
Pointed out lynching FCoD was easiest way to substantiate pimaspinner’s claim & pima would be confirmed Mafia if FCoD was Town
Post 2199
Outlined 2-night Vig-kill/investigation scenario involving FCoD and JSexton
Post 2244
Points out Suburban Plankton was the only suspect who didn’t role claim
Post 2399
Disputes the possibility that Fern Forest is SK, says FF too high profile & odds are an SK reading by beat cop is a false positive
More convinced about Autolycus,
Post 2412
Reiterates that FF posted too much about SK for it to make sense for FF to be SK
Post 2519
Pointed out Autolycus’s accusation was the first FoS she got in the game
Post 2694
Suggested pimaspinner report all findings (in case pima was bumped off overnight or turned out to be Magia), but players should not necessarily act on them, as findings were unreliable in respect to power roles
Post 2706
Scary-math-filled probability-related post on beat cop investigations
Post 2716
Corrected probability, based on miscounting players left
Post 2723
Identified 3 Mafia voting patterns
Pointed out brewha and SBS fit the observed patterns
Post 2726
Admits her attempts to analyze voting patterns and catch Mafia don’t seem to be working well, but she was right about kivvik by accident
Post 2734
Points out Malacandra fits Mafia voting patterns, but “ho-ly cow” story is too goofy not to be true
Post 2755
Playerlist, marking who was dead, alive & known/suspected roles
Post 2922
Compares brewha’s voting to Mafia voting in post 2922
Had a bad feeling Autolycus was telling the truth, but didn’t speak up about it
Post 2923
Corrected the link to the Mafia voting pattern post
Post 3037
Requests info on why Rysto is trusted
Post 3046
Offered to analyze a player’s posting history, preferred Smitty/cowgirl as a subject
(skipping the discussion on who’s doing who)
Post 3086
Di…er…investigated ArizonaTeach

Man, that was long.

Yeah, it reminds me of when a freshman physics professor assigns me 3 chapters to read before the next lecture, and I just skip it. No offence, but I don’t plan on reading a word of it.

Yep. Takes forever to do those, doesn’t it?

But, what’s your verdict on Fretful Porpentine?

[off topic]

Rysto, I think something strange is going on with your account.

I noticed in a post a few pages back that your status was ‘guest.’ I was going to suggest that you needed to join soon because aren’t ‘guests’ limited to just a month? And since this game started on 3/26 and it’s now 4/21 and the game is far from over… What would happen to your participation in the game when your posting privileges went away?

But then I thought I might be wrong about the dates so I clicked on your name, and it says you’ve been a member since 6/22/02? So why is it calling you a guest? Weird.
[/off topic]

I’m pretty sure that a poster’s official status lapses back to “guest” if their membership expires.

Overall, it seems pretty harmless, but there are a couple of red flags:
(1) The elaborate conspiracy theory involving Blaster Master and others. It seems a bit far-fetched (especially when she added Rysto to the list (after trusting him twice)), and she pushed it awful hard.
(2) Voted for Autolycus, then later said she had a feeling he was telling the truth. But it took her about 400 posts to mention that.
(3) Apparent retaliatory “suspicion” towards MadTheSwine. Revenge votes are bad, they screw up later analysis. At least she didn’t actually vote for him, though.

I’m not sure yet if that’s enough to swing her onto my Mafia list, though. She’s on the ? list.

Nothing posts: 34, 188, 192, 574, 605, 1013, 1076, 1337, 1571, 1767, 2130, 2288, 2432, 2662, 2688, 2747, 2777, 2786, 2859, 2972, 2974, 2979, 3028

post 602 -FOS chrisk for wanting to do trust lists again and votes chrisk

post 780 -talks about BM, and not wanting to jump on that bandwagon quite yet, says can’t tell re: gadarene and pleonast, leaves vote with chrisk

post 784 -quotes BM (who said its odd that the game punishes those who talk a lot, as well as defending the FOS of PR), PR wonders why he felt it necessary to defend and says its making it harder for him to not switch to BM

post 785 -quotes FF (who talks about absence of glee, Winston and storyteller) says he thinks they said they wouldn’t be available for next 48 hours and should be given a chance (is this one of the errors PR is accused of? 2 confirmed, 1 probable townie)

post 788 -responds about some having IRL commitments
-in favour of 12 hour countdown

post 789 -a post about 12 hour countdowns, and not starting them to early, comes out against this sort of, as he thinks its “squeezing blood from a turnip” and votes will jump around to much leading to votes to trusted people, Scum should be found by logic and guts and shouldn’t try to artificially delay majority vote
(Something of an odd post IMO)

post 915 -claims going to reread thread and look for the posts in which he thought posters said they would be away

post 919 -quotes a number of posts from different players, inc MOD for some reason, about skimming thread, and leaving, and working. This was in response to MTS who FOS’d him for the 3 players who would be away, who never said such a thing

post 920 -posts from Family Feud thread, which talks about who will be away in that game. He is also part of that, and I am assuming this is meant as see I may have confused this thread with that one post. I find this a little odd as well

post 924 -quotes Lakai who had found it odd that he was quoting from family feud thread, answers again with it was simple confusion and assumptions

post 958 -quotes glee who voted for PR. PR questions this vote as glee was one of the people who he had said would be gone, and who MTS thought the reason PR said so was because it had been said on the Mafia boards and PR had mixed them up

post 976 -quotes me, and my explanation as to why I was going after BM day 2. PR agrees with me and votes for BM here

post 981 -unvotes chrisk, and gives reasons: thinks the cop claim is bogus, and because JSexton will taking over for him.
-this unvote had to happen anyway, as he had voted for BM

post 1046 -quotes glee who voted for him not because of MTS theory but another mistake, asks what was that mistake? From re-reading the thread this mistake appears to be the samething that MTS said, but not the theory, which is a little odd IMO

post 1119 -quotes lakai about the DR self-protecting, and says it is scary, and asks BM is he knows who the DOC is. (I don’t really get this post)

post 1134 -quotes me, talks about who should be killed when in day 2, and unvotes BM

post 1220 -still in day 2 fiasco, quotes gadarene and talks about a riddle which means little, also quotes SP who outlined the sides on day 2, and talks that pleonast might be the best vote, but still votes for no one

post 1223 -quotes gadarene, still in midst of day 2, and agrees that splitting the killings is the best, and votes to lynch pleonast

post 1244 -quotes Zuma who says lets get you (referring to me) to 10 votes and then talk, so PR obliges and unvotes pleonast for me and vig kill zuma (this was after role claim by pleonast)

post 1276 -quotes pleonast who says why kill zuma? It was started by me. PR answers it’s the 1 from each side thing, and VIG kills conditional vote of if I am scum get gadarene, if not get zuma or pleonast

post 1279 -quotes zuma who says let me martyr myself and move onto whom BM should kill, PR says he sees no reason to do anything but what was in post 1276

post 1317 -quotes zuma re: VIG kill stubbornness, tells BM who to kill

post 1390 -seems unhappy with day 2 and how 2 masons and the VIG were outed, says it was because of prolonging day 2, and says self-sacrifice is best for group

post 1406 -quotes JSexton who was not understanding the self-sacrifice thing about masons. PR answers he had never played game before but that importance of masons was keeping role secret until end game, and how now the mafia knows 3 power roles which is bad for town

post 1451 -unvotes queuing, votes Gadarene

post 1479 -continues with JSexton on roles of masons

post 1499 -the argument about masons continues

post 1501 -more mason stuff, and says has confidence in masons

post 1520 -More mason mentions, with a quote from BM that explains PR’s point

post 1557 -a vote for BM’s plan number 2

post 1756 -quotes sturmhauke, who had FOS’d him because of his voting pinging around all of the bandwagons of day 2. He explains his voting as follows:
Chrisk: for trying to expose the cop, but when it was decided that JSexton deserved a chance, he switched
BM: felt he was suspicious until role claim and switched to one of the 2 sides formed
Pleonast: voted him because of which side he was on and felt gadarene was town
Queuing: reluctantly voted for me when pleonast claimed
Gadarene: changed to him to end day sooner, but that he was town and info could be gained by his death

post 1757 -quotes ArizonaTeach, who had said he was trying to keep his head down while the town had an advantage. PR wants to know why he would do such a thing.

post 1760 -quotes MTS, who votes for him, and PR asks why. He again states the reason he wanted to end day 2 was because of the number of accusations flying around, and that they were random, and believed the best source of info would be lynching at that time

post 1798 -votes for pimaspinner because he doesn’t like the reasoning behind pima FOSing Rysto

post 1811 -quotes SP, who wanted to know why it would be better for VIG to kill SK then SK be lynched
-PR answers because it would confirm BM, and that the lynch has bad odds of catching

post 1814 -quotes SP again who says the SK should be lynched ASAP (this coming from a known scum, who would rather have us waste a lynch on the SK then them waste a night kill), PR responds that it may at some point be necessary for the town to kill BM, right now he should be directed to go after the SK, at least for tonight

post 1838 -quotes BM, who had found SP post very suspicious (the one quoted above), and PR doesn’t understand how BM thought PR was agreeing with SP ( I am on PR’s side here, as I don’t see it either)

post 1916 -quotes and is confused by a post of FF’s which talks about scum potentially unveiling to keep the SK win away, and PR unvotes pima

post 2011 -votes FCOD, and might as well get clock started

post 2131 -unvotes FCOD, votes JSexton, vig FCOD

post 2220 -quotes BM, unvotes JSexon, votes SP

post 2433 -quotes MTS, about mason’s claiming, agrees with me that masons should not claim

post 2438 -explains why he hasn’t voted for auto yet, to keep the discussion going

post 2488 -quotes Cowgirl, who had FOS’d him because he was dropped from the day 2 list of conditional kills and because he was voting for BM. He answers by showing the people he was grouped in with for voting for BM 3-4 of them are confidently town ( I am including myself in this to make the 4) and how does that prove anything (it doesn’t but it doesn’t prove he is town either). Also explains that some of the reason for the voting for him on day 2 was because he had thought people were out of town and was wrong, leading to the suspicion of messing up the boards (most of the people he had screwed up on are confirmed townies). Cowgirl also questioned him about the credit he gave to BM re: conditional vigs when it was starvingbutstrong, PR corrects cowgirl about what he said, he actually said the vig plan not idea

post 2546 -disagrees that pima should announce whom he will investigate, as well as commenting on not outing masons

post 2549 -quotes pima who puts a list of whom they will be investigating, and PR likes the list better

post 2552 -quotes Arizona, who FOS’d him for not wanting cop to announce whom they will be investigating. PR seems to be worried about pima investigating a mason, appeals to JSexton

post 2554 -quotes storyteller who comes out in favour of pima announcing to allow the other beat cop to do as they please. PR says ok, so long as it’s a list of suspects, again to avoid outing a mason

post 2558 -quotes me, who had asked him about why he is waiting for JSexton, reply is because of his experience

post 2576 -Sturmhauke announced, and PR retracts his statements about pima announcing and now believes he should
-also quotes pima, who had FOS’d Lakai and PR for not voting for auto, and PR responds is it really necessary for me to? PR does not vote for auto here

post 2588 -does vote for auto now, as to not hold up the process

post 2691 -comments about how it was a bad night, and slightly FOSes Pima for getting 2 citizens killed

post 2731 -quotes fretful, and says yes that is what I wanted to say but better about previous post

post 2753 -quotes rysto, who had FOS’d low post count players, agrees with rysto and says the thread has slowed down enough so unable to keep up no longer an excuse

post 2776 -wonders why malacandra is so fired up about my FOS

post 2792 -agrees that there is no reason to reinvestigate lakai at this time, quotes starvingbutstrong

post 2806 -FOS’s cowgirl (and quotes her), mostly about old conversations

post 2813 -quotes Cowgirl, PR is mostly talking about how we have information we didn’t have back then, so its hard to look at old posts

post 2831 -votes for cowgirl, as he suspects that she is trying to start bandwagons

post 2858 -quotes storyteller, who had voted for PR, PR explains that he found cowgirl’s going back to old posts suspicious, particularly on the first day with MTS and random FOSes, and he quotes cowgirl again when she said she had reasons to suspect everyone and is putting out ideas, PR says this is also a random FOS and why is it ok for to do it now, but not MTS way back?

post 2862 -claims all posts made before BM claims are irrelevant for 2 reasons; it would have been dumb for the mafia to show all allegiance then, and he doesn’t want to go back to read that because he was confused

post 2865 -quotes aguecheek, who had claimed and investigated me and said I was the Sk
-unvotes cowgirl and votes aguecheek

post 2935 -quotes MTS about who cops should investigate and that aguecheek should post first, PR agrees that Aguecheek should announce first

post 3022 -wants to know why I voted for him

So what do I get out of this?

Here is a player who is very concerned about masons. He has many discussions and slight arguments about masons. I am not sure why. There are a few reasons that I can think of. He is a new player, and wants to understand the game, and in particulalr just how valueable masons are. I can understand this. Masons seem to be one of the constants of this game, yet their actual power is questionable. A more suspicious viewing of it could be that he had been FOS’d a few times, and could have been setting up a fake mason claim. A fake mason claim is of little use, however it does kill a mason (most likely) for a scum. They way this game has gone this could be a worthwhile trade in the eyes of scum. PR is constantly telling the masons to not show themselves.

The other thing I noticed is a lack of "nothing"posts. The vast majority of PR’s posts have some sort of content, be them votes, FOS or what have you. Also a lot are about masons. I am unsure what this means. There isn’t a lot of indepth analysis, or lists of who he thinks is scum, but there aren’t a lot of fluff, or giant posting breaks either.

Another I noticed is that one of the reasons PR seems to have made a number of potential scum lists was because of an error in regards to who would be away, when they never said such a thing in this thread, and how he may have become thread confused. A problem with this is the 3 people he said (glee, winston and storyteller) 2 are confirmed town, so this theory falls apart somewhat.

So in conclusion, ummm I am not sure. I find some things scummy, and some things town. Of course this would be just how the scum would want to play. However due to my not being sure, I believe I am going to

unvote Pygmy Rugger and

lynch Monkey Mensch who in my reading still seems to be scum to me. The most likely choice I can see so far.

True, the confusion would not have been great. I still think it was odd to make so many mistakes in so short of a time frame that you wouldn’t of previewed once.

I knew it was a joke, never read Twelfth Night however. Not a real important part of a defense though is it?

Yeah, having fun. This game stopped being about fun on day 2! :smiley: I joke, I joke. What I mean is you have a large percentage of fun posts (if you prefer). While this is a game, and is meant to be fun, the game is about catching scum, not talking about drinking at night. I find this defense a very easy one to make, “Oh I am just having fun, relax” while not addressing the main concern at all.

Yeah, it sure is easy to throw out votes and FOS’s. The thing is a lot of your votes and FOS’s are not based on reasons at all, just thrown out there. I am looking for posts that actually help out the town. The way you help out the town is by giving reasons for your suspicions. Even if they are stupid ones (see mine on the 1st day re: sturmhauke), reasons given are important. This is what I meant but doing very little. Voting and FOSing is the easy part of this game.

True enough. The mafia have played this game well, or the town have played it crappy. Still it would have been nice for a guy who has claimed to read this thread at least 3 times to come up with something new and original.

Yep, still do. Hence my vote :stuck_out_tongue:

Hehe, maybe. My record, as almost everyone else’s, has sucked. I am pretty sure I am horrible at this game. We can try your bizarro detective idea, but let’s see after you hang, ok?

Wow, things slowed down to a crawl, didn’t they?

StarvingButStrong, you asked a question that deserves an answer, and I apologize for taking a couple of days to check back and provide you with it. You’re right; I totally, totally misread what you said about Queuing. That changes things a **LOT ** for me.

Here’s what I can say as absolute fact: known scum agreed with you on many issues really, really quickly. Now, as with everything, that could mean two polar opposite things. At the moment, I’m leaning towards them seeing an opportunity and leaping, rather than you being mafia.

I’ll say this again officially for the skimmers: My belief is **StarvingButStrong ** is town.

Of course, based on my voting record, this obviously means you’re scum.

I also want to say that while I appreciate the work that’s going into these post analysis, please don’t forget to look at who responds to what your assigned poster is saying. Following the threads of conversation beyond **StarvingButStrong’s ** posts allowed me to get a handle on things a little better, I believe.

With that in mind, noting that Malacandra, nesta, and **FCOD ** immediately supported the disastrous vig-kill plan where Pleonast, Gadarene, and **Queuing ** were the sacrificial lambs, I believe that, my friends, was a serious mob pile on.

Vote Malacandra.

Or, upon reflection, SK. Dammit.

Hmm. I actually was thinking that Fretful might be the SK, but re-reading your analysis of his posts, I can see where you might assume Starving is. At least, the way he was trying to deter the crowd from possibly fishing out the SK. Either way I think they both might be scum.

One thing I noticed was FCOD false miller claim. He dropped 2 names, Queuing and Malacandra. This asks the question of how could he have been so certain that neither one of these 2 were power roles? This puts a bit of suspicion on Queuing, whom I have and still trust to be town. However, Malacandra (as I have posted before) has raised my FOS on more than one occasion. FCOD said he “targetted” him twice, which is a risky move if you have no advance knowledge of of who is who. I believe he knew that it was ok to drop Malacandra, because as a mafioso he wouldn’t run the risk of fingering a power role that may decide to counter claim.

Hmm…previewing that I’m thinking it wouldn’t be wise to couter claim because it would mean proclaming “I’m the SK”. sinks into thought

Well, I’m still going to vote Malacandra. He has pinged my radar too many times, and Arizona has also voted for him, and I find Arizona to be non-scummy at the moment.

Where the hell is my analysis? sulks in corner

Are you the only one that wasn’t analyzed? I don’t think anyone did Queuing. I shudder at the thought of analyzing all 256 of his posts.

I don’t get it. At one point you supported a ViG hit against Zuma while voting for Gadarene. How is that any different from what Malacandra did?

Now **hocow **seems to agree with your shaky reasoning. Maybe you just started your very own mob pile on?

You’re kidding, right? I voted for **A ** Vig plan, once the town decided it was going to happen and requested everyone to vote for one of two plans. I didn’t even make plan suggestions, if I recall. And you think that’s the same as **Malacandra ** being the first person to support the proposal of a plan (again, not the later voting for one of the plans itself, just encouraging the plan) that guaranteed the death of a minimum of two townies?!? Remember, the plan was proposed that would automatically kill a combination of Gadarene, Pleonast, and Queuing. Two townies were guaranteed to die (assuming **Queuing ** is a townie). **Malacandra ** immediately said that was a great plan, and was quickly joined by two confirmed scum - **nesta ** and FCOD. Of course they liked the plan - it was a guaranteed Mafia victory for both day and night! And you’re comparing that to my town-requested official vote 500 posts later for a totally different plan?!?

Ok, it’s almost intentionally twisting the facts and timeline around. That, plus the desperate attempt to make my theory sound “shaky” and bandwagonish even though **hocow ** clearly stated he’s been suspicious of **Malacandra ** for some time and my theory wasn’t a reason for his vote at all, merely that I voted for him. Lakai, that was the single most scum-worthy post I’ve read in 3000+ posts.

I’m reminded that the Godfather comes up town if investigated, no? Lakai, what did you come up as when investigated? And how right have our beat cops been?

This is the only post by Malacandra supporting the plan you are talking about. It was post 1266. Since Pleonast claimed, Zuma soon replaced him in the conditional. In post 1374 you vote for a Vig hit on Zuma. That is 108 posts latter, not 500 (conveniently slipped from your memory maybe?) At that time your vote was still on Gadarene and it never changes.

Malacandra supported a plan where two towns die and so did you. What difference does it make when Malacandra supported the plan? The results are the same, two townsmen die.

I just found it suspicious that two people voted for **Malacandra **so quickly. I said that it could be a bandwagon, I can’t tell you for sure.