xkcd

by **mpolo** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:54 am UTC

I'm going to post, just to show that I am paying attention here. Even if everyone is ignoring me. I think that the single-minded concentration on attacking me has totally blinded the town to even trying to suss out mafia. If I were town, I would be concerned about this.

by **Lataro** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:00 am UTC

And with that post, the secret word has been used at least 20 times! It was "I".

by **fearless** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:39 am UTC

I dont' really know who the mafia are at this point and I don't want to vote for someone who might not be mafia. I also don't want to end up with a situation whereby the vampire's outed on Day 2 and somehow still wins the game (like lataro in pokemafia).

by **Mostlynormal** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:28 pm UTC

fearless wrote:I dont' really know who the mafia are at this point and I don't want to vote for someone who might not be mafia. I also don't want to end up with a situation whereby the vampire's outed on Day 2 and somehow still wins the game (like lataro in pokemafia).

Personally, I don't want to end up in a situation where any scum win, period. I've made it pretty clear that an mpolo lynch is almost definitely a mafia win. So not knowing who mafia is is no excuse--mpolo is still about the worst possible person to vote for right now.

Vote: fearless

by **fearless** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:05 am UTC

what that doesn't make sense AT ALL. Not knowing who the mafia are at this point means lynching/damaging a town which is even WORSE because that means the mafia can kill them easier.

by **Silknor** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:40 am UTC

Voting mpolo is no doubt favorable to the scum. But it's even more obvious that voting for a townie mistaken for a scum is even more favorable to the scum. The determining factor for the pro-town action is not whether voting for mpolo helps the scum, but whether it helps the town, who has to defeat two levels of scum. That in turn is based primarily on the likelyhood that the non-mpolo identified target is scum.

by **Lataro** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:41 am UTC

Setting deadline at 3 AM EST Friday, when I get home from work.

by **Mostlynormal** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:48 am UTC

You're forgetting, lynching mpolo is a certain town loss. If the nightkill doesn't kill it's 2-1-2, which is a loss for town because the survivor will vote with mafia. If it does kill it's even worse: 1-1-2 or 2-2, both of which are losses.

So even if we were to randomly lynch someone we'd do better than lynching mpolo. So while it technically wouldn't be better to lynch town, it couldn't possibly be worse. Therefore, fearless's comment about not wanting the vampire to win (but who cares about town, apparently) strikes me as very scummy.

by **Silknor** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:49 am UTC

You are both wrongly assuming the survivor will be able to correctly identify the scum (obviously if scum claim in try to get the survivor on their side, the town should likewise claim scum, meaning the initial scum claim is not credible), and ignoring night actions besides the mafia NK, eg. the vampire is sure to try to target scum, and it is in theory possible they will kill one.

The town may not be likely to win voting mpolo today. It probably isn't even in the our best interest to vote mpolo today. But at the moment, who else are we to vote for? The scum elude me.

by **mpolo** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:29 pm UTC

I was about to post an analysis, but realized that there's not a lot of point in being helpful, is there?

by **Silknor** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:40 am UTC

It seems to me that at this point a random vote is better than one for mpolo. And since my feel for the scum's identity is not strong at the moment, my decision is simply to bandwagon, to help ensure that someone besides mpolo is lynched.

Vote: fearless

by **Lataro** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:37 am UTC

And with that, fearless is lynched with an overwhelming majority of two votes!

Night Four starts now, get actions in!

by **Lataro** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:27 am UTC

Silknor was the mafia NK target.
MostlyNormal was the Vampire target.
TMG was the primary target for Shotgun. (fearless and mpolo were secondary).
mpolo was poked with the stick.
Mpolo took poison damage.
Silknor and fearless were given paper cuts.
Matt96 is now wearing a Top Hat.
TMG is now wearing a Top Hat.

Six Alive, Four to Lynch! Day Five starts now!

by **mpolo** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:35 am UTC

Silknor hath taken much damage, thinketh this player. Yet liveth he. So writeth yon poet using terms of yore, lest yon silky one becometh stronger.

by **matt96** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:48 am UTC

This one agrees 2 caution for now, lest Silknor b mafia severly bussed by uh plethora uv nightly kills, must 'av another source uv n-er-g 2 survive this long, or Silknor hath but 1 power, which bees groucho, refrain from usin that which bees pronounced like aye and eye, unless you think Silknor bees town.

by **Mostlynormal** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:47 pm UTC

Is suspicioius of TMG. Claimed paper cutter. Didn't target the mythological creature last night. Couldn't have known there'd be no other deaths.

Just reread lich. Can only die at negative energy if lynched, even if already at negative energy. Frustrating.

Noticed something else though. Cannot vote while at negative energy. Means mafia plus survivor have a majority. Is tired of this game.

Claim: Scum. Survivor does not want to be hit by AV, or our nightkill. Will vote the mythological creature along with us. Will win tommorrow when they help us lynch town.

Vote: mpolo

PS: Can confirm that the mythological creature has negative energy. Has ITWN.

by **mpolo** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:50 pm UTC

Ha! Mythological creature picked out two scum!

by **mpolo** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:53 pm UTC

Also funny that scum appears to be about to win because town got a successful energy cop on me. Poetic justice for messing with me.

by **Mostlynormal** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:59 pm UTC

Yeah, that was bad luck for you. But If you want to claim credit for picking out two scum you have to give me credit for picking you out (I copped you, not town).

by **mpolo** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:25 pm UTC

So town did very little right here. [I had the only substantial attacks on scum, and scum found me...] (Can there really be only one townie left? I guess so: 3 scum + collector + vampire + townie.) I guess I should shut up and stop risking giving the Groucho more points, huh?

by **Mostlynormal** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:37 pm UTC

That's not entirely fair. It was town who found T1mm, you just helped kill him quicker. I'm not at all impressed with town's performance at the end though.

There's two town left, but we know you can't vote, so the plurality of two scum plus survivor will get us four the win. I guess it's basically over now, unless the survivor decides to play against their win condition, or one of you pulls something amazing out of your sleeve. I'm pretty sure you can't though, there aren't many interesting roles left.

by **mpolo** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:59 pm UTC

I guess that's true. I was mostly attacking whoever had taken the most damage in the previous day/night cycle to try to guarantee a kill. (If I had been around, I might not have attacked Silknor, who was caught by the rule I had sent Lataro to govern my kill in my absence.) But I did decide that you were who I would have voted had I been town (and had a vote yesterday). and I'm happy about that.

by **Lataro** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:35 am UTC

So.. it's totally day guys, you should be posting here.

by **matt96** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:48 am UTC

I think that the survivor should side with town as town has significantly higher energy than mafia, and we can actually still win at this point by having everyone else work against scum (65 lynch damage + 50 vampire NK damage is higher than all of the mafia's night kills combined) so at this point the survivor can win with whichever side they chose, they just have to decide if they want a mafia player who got picked out D1 to get credit for a win they don't deserve or not.

by **matt96** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:48 am UTC

EBWOP:
Vote: Mostlynormal

by **mpolo** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:54 am UTC

Well, I can't vote at the moment, so I can only look on...

by **Mostlynormal** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:29 pm UTC

Nope, not gonna work, if the survivor votes with town we'll bring all our 100 energy NK power to bear to make sure they lose. They have to vote with us if they want to win. Speaking of which, TMG (the survivor) has completely disappeared lately, can we get a prod or replacement or something? I'd hate to lose this just because the player I'm counting on happens to be inactive.

by **TheMaskedGecko** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:13 pm UTC

many apologies for that delay caused by an over-tiring weekend and more revision than can possibly be healthy.
So TMG's been outed, not that TMG was that subtle about being survivor.
Silknor's got 21 energy by the way.

Vote:mpolo

by **fearless** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:18 pm UTC

vote mpolo

by **Silknor** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:32 am UTC

Down with Mr. Vampire!

Vote: mpolo

Town angles for second.

by **Lataro** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:39 am UTC

That is lynched. Mpolo is dead.

N5 actions people!

by **mpolo** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:53 am UTC

You'll regret this yet. I'm predicting that a "congratulations, mafia" will be shortly in order...

by **Lataro** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:16 pm UTC

Lets get those actions in here, putting a 24 hour hard deadline on night here.

by **Lataro** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:17 pm UTC

Mpolo is dead. He was the Ancient Vampire. He had Lich and Escapologist.

Silknor is dead. He was Chocolate Town. He had Vengeance and Groucho.

Silknor was targeted by the mafia NK.
fearless was targeted by Paper Cut Ninja.

Four alive, Three to lynch!

by **Mostlynormal** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:11 pm UTC

Is this really necessary? Town has no vig powers to speak of, and even with a vote altering power we can force a no lynch and just nightkill matt to the grave. Anyway...

Vote: matt96

by **matt96** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:13 pm UTC

Vote TMG
RaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I now get to live to at least day 7,possibly night 7

by **TheMaskedGecko** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:49 pm UTC

Look, I've got a confession to make. I've been feeling pretty guilty about this game. I didn't give it the attention it deserved, didn't do anything interesting and yet seem to be about to win by default. Or I would be if I was sure that mostlynormal wouldn't shoot me in the back. After all, he's already shot me once. What's to stop him doing it again?

So, matt, do you wanna possibly team up. I'm 90% sure that mn's holding all the weapons. If we kill him before he kills us then we've got a good chance of winning this together. After all, we've both got hats, right? That's got to count for something, alliance-wise. So do the right thing. vote for MN. Just like I am. Just like fearless is.

Vote: mostlynormal

(No pressure, but if you don't get online before him and fearless do then I've basically just signed my own death warrant).

Because a game's more fun if it goes down to the wire. Because scum should be punished for revealing themselves. Because, no matter what the others might say, there's no reason the survivor can't win with town.

by **matt96** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:51 pm UTC

Unvote
Vote:Mostlynormal

by **Mostlynormal** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:13 pm UTC

This is pretty funny. It doesn't matter though TMG, we don't need you anymore. We can force a no lynch and finish off matt with an NK.

I don't really understand though. Why would I shoot you in the back? Do I have some extra win condition for killing the survivor? Remember this is an open game. I'm just playing to win.

And what was I supposed to do, sit through that incredibly boring one-post-a-RL-day day and watch as town self-destructed? All that would've done would be to draw out an already overly long game. At the point we were at it would've come down to scum winning somehow eventually or mpolo (the guy outed on day 2) winning in a repeat of pokemafia.

So you've got two options. Vote matt and get this game over with, or vote against us and wait for us to--eventually--finish off the 300 something energy matt, with the exact same outcome as before.

So there's no reason the survivor can't win, sure, but town's already done for. I just want to get this over with already--the last two days were bad enough. Remember, that was town's fault--it wasn't exactly up to the vampire, the survivor and the mafia to keep the game moving, now was it?

by **matt96** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:37 am UTC

If only these were bowler hats instead of top hats, then we (me and TMG) could throw them like Oddjob to kill Mostlynormal and fearless!

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