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Title: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: webadict on October 02, 2009, 11:26:17 am
Color Mafia, brought to you by the color Lime Green.

This is just like any other mafia. Wait, I take that back. This is like a FEW other mafias.

In this mafia, there will be 16 players, each with a different color. Hopefully, I can get that many.

The following roles (in various numbers, combinations, and other adjectives) are in the game:
Townie
Mafioso
Cop
Doctor
Roleblocker
Vigilante
Tracker
Watcher
Bodyguard
Redirecter
Bus Driver
Survivor
Jester
Serial Killer
Siblings
Role Cop
Masons
Neighbors (Unconfirmed Masons)
Miller
Twin
Super-Saint

And so on. That's "mostly" it. Remember, 0 is a number, too!

Every player will be given a color, and with that, a role. These colors are merely for flavor. Or so I'd like you to believe.

Anyhow, there will be NO PMing, except at Night, by the Mafia or by Neighbors/Masons. ...And Siblings, I suppose. They can talk. Breaking this rule results in me yelling at you for not reading the rules.
No quoting your role PM, even to your mafia mates.
No talking after you died.
No quoting PMs. Period.
No double lynches.
Hammering is in. Once the votes reach a certain number, the Day will end. Anyone posting after that will be warned severely.
No flavor.

...So, anyone in?
Players:
Spoiler: 9/16 (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Color Mafia [0 / 16 Players]
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 02, 2009, 11:31:15 am
Hmmn
Yes.
Yes I will experience first hand the GMing of an 'expert mafia player'.
In
Title: Re: Color Mafia [0 / 16 Players]
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 02, 2009, 11:49:59 am
I'll get in as well.
Title: Re: Color Mafia [2 / 16 Players]
Post by: dakarian on October 02, 2009, 12:26:40 pm
Meh. Seems my limit is 2 joined mafias and 2 hosted ones. 

I'm in.


(yes, the color is Black. ;)  )
Title: Re: Color Mafia [2 / 16 Players]
Post by: Mr.Person on October 02, 2009, 12:44:15 pm
I'm in. (Yes, I used white for my color. So original!)

When do you want to start this, Webadict?
Title: Re: Color Mafia [2 / 16 Players]
Post by: dakarian on October 02, 2009, 12:49:10 pm
Btw, the rest of  you better hurry.  First to use a repeat color is mafia.

Title: Re: Color Mafia [2 / 16 Players]
Post by: Vector on October 02, 2009, 01:26:19 pm
In.  Now that I've been offed in Beginner's, I should actually have time to play this.
Title: Re: Color Mafia [2 / 16 Players]
Post by: ExKirby on October 02, 2009, 01:29:35 pm
In my second favorite color, In!
Title: Re: Color Mafia [2 / 16 Players]
Post by: ToonyMan on October 02, 2009, 01:32:31 pm
I'll be specing this one.
Title: Re: Color Mafia [6 / 16 Players]
Post by: Leafsnail on October 02, 2009, 02:25:43 pm
I can imagine some pretty weird stuff going down here with regards to mixing colours.  In.
Title: Re: Color Mafia [6 / 16 Players]
Post by: RedWarrior0 on October 02, 2009, 02:34:58 pm
Seeing I'm in 3 or 4 and hosting 1, I'll just watch this round.
Title: Re: Color Mafia [6 / 16 Players]
Post by: Eduren on October 02, 2009, 02:51:25 pm
Sounds interesting. I'll just spec though.
Title: Re: Color Mafia [6 / 16 Players]
Post by: ExKirby on October 02, 2009, 03:01:49 pm
You are being hypnotised... you are very sleepy... you will join this Mafia...
Title: Re: Color Mafia [6 / 16 Players]
Post by: Vector on October 03, 2009, 02:29:44 am
You are being hypnotised... you are very sleepy... you will join this Mafia...

... How did you do this, anyway, ExKirby?  I have trouble believing that you actually went through letter by letter, and I don't see any specific button in the replyer.
Title: Re: Color Mafia [7 / 16 Players]
Post by: ExKirby on October 03, 2009, 03:34:00 am
I used Tektek (http://www.tektek.org/color/).
Title: Re: Color Mafia [7 / 16 Players]
Post by: webadict on October 04, 2009, 10:51:45 am
ome on and join!
Title: Re: Color Mafia [7 / 16 Players]
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 05, 2009, 04:51:49 pm
I'll join.
Colour: NavyBlue
Title: Re: Color Mafia [7 / 16 Players]
Post by: Org on October 05, 2009, 06:59:42 pm
In
Title: Re: Color Mafia [7 / 16 Players]
Post by: ExKirby on October 06, 2009, 02:28:56 pm
I'll join.
Colour: Navy
COLOR REPEATING SCUM!
Title: Re: Color Mafia [7 / 16 Players]
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 06, 2009, 02:55:30 pm
[color=limeGreen]In[/color]
It has always been this way... you cannot remember or see this as anything but this.
Title: Re: Color Mafia [7 / 16 Players]
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 06, 2009, 04:45:22 pm
I'll join.
Colour: Blue
COLOR REPEATING SCUM!
What.
I thought for sure you were blue. Changing mine to blue, then.
Title: Re: Color Mafia [7 / 16 Players]
Post by: Org on October 06, 2009, 05:29:39 pm
In
Title: Re: Color Mafia [9 / 16 Players]
Post by: webadict on October 06, 2009, 09:29:13 pm
I'll start the game soon, if no one else joins.
Title: Re: Color Mafia [9 / 16 Players]
Post by: webadict on October 07, 2009, 08:04:21 am
I'll start this game in about 12 Hours. Join before then to make it in this game!
Title: Re: Color Mafia [9 / 16 Players]
Post by: webadict on October 07, 2009, 05:52:04 pm
The Following Colors are in play:
White
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
Black

Find the Mafia.

Players:
NUKE9.13
Pandarsenic
dakarian
Mr.Person
Vector
ExKirby
Leafsnail
Org
Apostolic Nihilist

Start Day 1. It takes 5 Votes to Hammer.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 07, 2009, 07:32:35 pm
ExKirby, Indigo is too close to Violet. D:<

Do we know how many scum we have?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 07, 2009, 07:39:19 pm
ExKirby, Indigo is too close to Violet. D:<

Do we know how many scum we have?
What a twist!
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 07, 2009, 08:14:25 pm
Dakarian

Who would be your two mafia buddies if you were mafia?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 07, 2009, 08:30:09 pm
Never liked that question, but oddly enough, you and Leaf.  Leaf  seems like he can fly under the radar.  You end up town so often while lurking that players aren't as willing to lynch you anymore.

Apostolic Nihilist

Changing your color doesn't save you.  It just makes me wish to Toony Tunnel.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 07, 2009, 08:37:54 pm
Dakarian

Who would be your two mafia buddies if you were mafia?

Unvote. ExKirby, I'll deal with you later.

Org, how do you know how many scum there are?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 07, 2009, 08:40:13 pm
Dakarian.
Choosing black as your colour is CLEARLY VERY SCUMMY.
Scum don't want to stand out.
The majority of our text is black.
Hence, with black as your colour, you will not stand out.
Therefore, you are scum.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 07, 2009, 10:06:05 pm
I see your randomness.

And I raise you a "he just OMGUSed" me. 

And top it off with a "He's placed a second vote on me during randomvote.. a possible bandwagon in progress!"
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 08, 2009, 02:58:50 am
Top off your top off with a cherry of USE DARKLING, HERETIC.

I have a feeling that whoever is red is going down so hard. Look at all the red votes!
I will vote for Leafsnail because I don't like his policy of FoSing everyone in funny colours.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 05:44:05 am
I have a feeling that whoever is red is going down so hard. Look at all the red votes!

...WHAT!?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 05:51:41 am
Nuke, if you are insinuating that our vote goes towards the color we chose and not the player's name then there's already 5 red votes: we JUST hammered!

If it IS true, *kicks Web*.  I didn't want my first lynch in a mafia game to be by a Bastard mod trick!
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 08, 2009, 06:00:30 am
If that's how it really works, I'm going to hate web forever.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 08, 2009, 06:02:03 am
Dakarian

Who would be your two mafia buddies if you were mafia?

Unvote. ExKirby, I'll deal with you later.

Org, how do you know how many scum there are?
Its a guess, as usually there are only 3 Mafia. Although maybe that would be too much with only 9 people.

Unvote. THank you for answering my question.

FOS Leaf, Mr. Person, ExKirby and Vector for not posting yet.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 08, 2009, 06:42:42 am
I hope that is not how it works, and I doubt it, actually, but I think that all the red will probably have some effect on the Red guy.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 08, 2009, 06:45:57 am
I hope that is not how it works, and I doubt it, actually, but I think that all the red will probably have some effect on the Red guy.
The colors have to mean *something*.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 08, 2009, 06:55:00 am
Exactly. I suspect something like: if your surrounding colours die you die too, or something; opposite colours can't act on each other; excessive use of your colour causes problems.
So we should probably be careful with our Red voting. Nothing in the rules says all votes have to be red.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 06:58:27 am
Something yes, but ...hmm

I want to request a vote count from everyone to ask: should we claim our colors?

I'm voting Yes (Used Maroon color to avoid 'hitting' someone)
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 08, 2009, 07:07:40 am
I'm going to say: Nope
We don't know what effects our colours have. The information we gain could be as useful to the mafia as it is to us. What if the mafia knows what effects colours have? That is quite possible and would mean we, by claiming our colours, are playing into their hands. We should until tomorrow at least, when we have got some lynch and some NK to source information about colours from.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 08, 2009, 08:32:29 am
If that's how it really works, I'm going to hate web forever.
The colors mean NOTHING! Well, almost nothing...
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 08, 2009, 08:57:35 am
Or so I'd like you to believe.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 09:54:18 am
One confirmation: your vote isn't based on the color you used (ie. using red = the vote goes to the red person).  Otherwise, Web would've ended the day since Hammer is in effect.

Unvote  Vote Nuke

Misrepresenting the words of another player.  Leaf said nothing about FOSing 'wierd colors'.  His only post involves, and I quote:

Quote
I can imagine some pretty weird stuff going down here with regards to mixing colours.  In.

And that was his 'in' post.

Nothing about FOS.  Nothing about not liking people in strange colors.  You also snuck it in your "OMG everyone is killing red, but not me, I'm being careful!" post.   You didn't ask "Anyone know what the colors are for?".  You didn't say, "Maybe we should watch what colors we use."  No it's a post written to cause panic and make us all cautious.

With a nice, juicy LIE  (http://mafiascum.net/wiki/index.php?title=Lynch_All_Liars)right below it.

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 08, 2009, 10:37:54 am
Hello Mr.Person! How is your nap!

Yes, that was my vote.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 08, 2009, 10:45:10 am
Leafsnail is pretty FoS happy in most games he's in. And nowadays you punks use blue for your FoSing, which is a funny colour. In comparison to not using blue.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 08, 2009, 10:48:01 am
I'm fairly sure colors have an effect, but I'm equally sure it won't be something as obvious as "Your vote goes to the appropriate color".  I don't think we should color-claim, as it could have absolutely disastrous consequences.  Then again, it could be a "Presumably Vanilla Townie" style ploy, where we spend the entire game searching for a meaning in the colors only to find that there's none at all.

Anyway, Dakarian, I think he means that he doesn't like the way I tend to FoS people in blue.  Or something.  Why are you color-fishing?  Could it be that the mafia gains some kind of advantage through knowing people's colors?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 11:03:00 am
I'm color fishing because color fishing =! role fishing.


The mafia want to know our roles so that they can better attack against them.  That's the basis of Role Fishing. 

Color fishing, however, is an attempt to learn the game: the basis of solving a Bastard Mod.  No one knows what the colors do, whether they have an effect or whether they are red herrings.  Judging by how web phrased everything, no one currently knows the purpose of their color or anyone else's.  That makes the colors a wildcard that can, at best, divert us, and, at worse, tear the whole lot of us apart. 

Excluding power roles (and even then there's exceptions), Truth and honesty is a Town weapon.  It's by learning the truth of all of us that we win these games.  It's the mafia that hoards information and wishes the town to remain confused and uninformed long enough to finish their work. 

The point: Since color doesn't directly show role, I believe we're best off attempting to solve the puzzle so long as it doesn't detract us from the traditional scumhunt.  Mass Color Claiming is one way but not the only way.  Thus why I asked to bring about a vote and not just bully the town.

I imagine, Leaf, that your vote then would be No. 


Sidenote: *smack* for messing up my pressure questioning.  Answering someone else's question, even if you know the answer, doesn't help determine their town/scumminess, especially in RVS when the questions aren't exactly strong to begin with. 

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 08, 2009, 11:15:40 am
The point: Since color doesn't directly show role
How do you know?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 12:34:12 pm
Judgement based on my PM role. 

If you look at yours and can find some connection between your color and your role, you're either getting a lot more information than I have or you're better at puzzles.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 08, 2009, 03:25:07 pm
Pandar, is there anything else you want me to answer?

Mr Person, until he posts and who would your two mafia buddies be?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 08, 2009, 03:28:46 pm
Let's consider the scenarios:

A) There is a role which has a list of all the colours (and the roles that they have)

B) Scum have a list of all the colours (and the roles that they have)

C) This is a ploy by webadict to spread distrust throughout us all.


If B is true, then claiming our colours is the worst thing we can possibly do. If A is true, it's still bad, but not as bad. If C is true, it doesn't really matter either way. If A is true, then there's likely another role which can determine the colour someone has, but not the role.

Now, our lack of knowledge regarding this can be used by clever mafia very easily. They can try and trick us into thinking that:

A) Our colours mean nothing (if they do; they'll try and get us to claim in an effort to prove their theory while simultaneously getting a list of who has what role )
or
B) Our colours mean something (if they don't, then they'll try and spread misinformation, suggesting that our colours are important/do mean something and anyone who colour claims will immediately appear scummy. Admittedly, alone, there aren't many foreseeable advantages to this, but if there is a role that determines colours, and that role thinks that the colours mean something, then much fun could be had.)

Anyone suggesting that we claim our colours is scummy, Dakarian. I may have been more accurate with my random vote than I thought.

Furthermore, you say that your colour doesn't fit your role; this implies that you have a role which doesn't suit your colour.
Ex: Blue cop, green doctor, red mafia.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 08, 2009, 03:34:09 pm
Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Dakarian - Apostolic Nihilist
Apostolic Nihilist - dakarian
Org - Pandarsenic
Leafsnail - NUKE9.13
NUKE9.13 - dakarian
Mr.Person - Org
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 03:39:41 pm
To assume that a role has a color chart is to assume that Web was lying about the possible roles, since the only role that can be affected by color is the Role Cop.  I guess this could be a true Bastard game but I'm hoping not.

And yes, I can't see HOW my color affects my role.


I've always been one to believe more knowledge helps than less knowledge. 

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 08, 2009, 03:42:58 pm
Pandarsenic and Dakarian do a good job of hiding scuminess.

ExKirby,, why am I OMGUS'ing you?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 08, 2009, 03:53:43 pm
To assume that a role has a color chart is to assume that Web was lying about the possible roles, since the only role that can be affected by color is the Role Cop.  I guess this could be a true Bastard game but I'm hoping not.

And yes, I can't see HOW my color affects my role.


I've always been one to believe more knowledge helps than less knowledge. 



Quote from: webadict

And so on. That's "mostly" it. Remember, 0 is a number, too!


It's clear he's hiding something from us, or at the very least wants us to think he's hiding something from us.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 04:05:12 pm
Gotta love those bastard mods.   

*having dark memories of a game that claimed to be normal but secretely everyone was a SK*
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 08, 2009, 04:08:23 pm
Gotta love those bastard mods.   

*having dark memories of a game that claimed to be normal but secretely everyone was a SK*
Hahaha.  I have thought of bastard mod games where secretly everyone's in the mafia, or noone's in the mafia, or everyone is a naive cop.  Wait, aren't most SKs resistant to night kills anyway?

I don't think webadict would bastard mod to that extreme (after all, we haven't had a vote mafia where everyone is a triple voter yet :P), but I do think the colors might have an important effect.  Like maybe the mafia is given a color chart, or people only color-flip.  Or something.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 04:15:36 pm
It was a mess.  The SKs, each night would choose one person.  Whoever recieved the most 'hits' was killed.  Ties resulted in multiple kills.  Also, the roleflips were all faked, with people showing up as cops, towns, mafias, and what not.

There was a quirk in it where if all of the SKs died in the same time (i.e. if each person targeted someone different) then EVERYONE would win (since their win condition was "everyone else dies" without any need to survive themselves).  The group didn't find out though so only one person won.

Once you open the realm to Bastard Modding, everything turns to mush.

As a sidenote: I have a Bastard Mod in the works :D.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 08, 2009, 05:24:20 pm
Mr Person, please answer the post. >:I
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 08, 2009, 05:40:05 pm
Mr Person, please answer the post. >:I

I already did. Look moar.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 08, 2009, 07:50:56 pm
Mr Person, please answer the post. >:I

I already did. Look moar.

Unvote

I am watching you. >:
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 08, 2009, 08:01:50 pm
If it IS true, *kicks Web*.  I didn't want my first lynch in a mafia game to be by a Bastard mod trick!

1. We know that Dakarian is Red.

I want to request a vote count from everyone to ask: should we claim our colors?

2. I feel like you're doing this just to keep yourself from being put at a disadvantage.  I'm going to vote no, because at this juncture I feel that scum could look at the links between their own colors and deduce something about the town's coloration.  We don't know what data they do or do not have, so it seems like a bad idea to push it.

3. Though there could be some bastard modding happening with the colors, I feel like it would be best to just go scumhunt the way we normally do without obsessing.  If something funky happens, then we can deal with it.  Running about confusing ourselves while the scum lie back and watch us no-lynch is not a good way to play.

Pandarsenic and Dakarian do a good job of hiding scuminess.

ExKirby,, why am I OMGUS'ing you?

Why are you OMGUS'ing him?



Vote ExKirby (in black).  What do you think about the whole deal with the colors?  Further, who do you consider most scummy at this point?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 08:22:15 pm
If it IS true, *kicks Web*.  I didn't want my first lynch in a mafia game to be by a Bastard mod trick!

1. We know that Dakarian is Red.
Correct.  Note that I knew how it read when I wrote it.  I could've written "poor red.  He might've gotten hammered" or just left it be.

Quote
I want to request a vote count from everyone to ask: should we claim our colors?

2. I feel like you're doing this just to keep yourself from being put at a disadvantage.  I'm going to vote no, because at this juncture I feel that scum could look at the links between their own colors and deduce something about the town's coloration.  We don't know what data they do or do not have, so it seems like a bad idea to push it.

3. Though there could be some bastard modding happening with the colors, I feel like it would be best to just go scumhunt the way we normally do without obsessing.  If something funky happens, then we can deal with it.  Running about confusing ourselves while the scum lie back and watch us no-lynch is not a good way to play.
Meh. true.

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 08, 2009, 09:15:45 pm
Um.

Guys, you do realize we all know each other's colors, right?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 08, 2009, 09:26:41 pm
We know the list of colors.  We don't know who has what.

... Except for you, perhaps.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 09:35:47 pm
Um.

Guys, you do realize we all know each other's colors, right?

Pandarsenic.. care to explain that?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 08, 2009, 10:02:55 pm
*Looks at color list*
*Looks at signins*
*Looks at role PM*

IGNORE ME I'M RETARDED

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 10:33:08 pm
You got lucky.  I finally noticed what you are talking about.

The signup list is now colorized, but the colors shown aren't the colors we have.

Pandarsenic and Dakarian do a good job of hiding scuminess.

ExKirby,, why am I OMGUS'ing you?

Why are you OMGUS'ing him?



Vote ExKirby (in black).  What do you think about the whole deal with the colors?  Further, who do you consider most scummy at this point?

Vector (it's my color, and I get to use it if I want to), why are you bandwagoning someone after fussing at someone else for randomvoting that same person?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 08, 2009, 10:43:31 pm
That would be because no one is else voting ExKirby right now (... as far as I know.).  As such, it is not a bandwagon.  I want him to get out here and talk, given that he is always so quiet.  Lurking is not productive for the town.

Further, I am not intentionally fussing about anyone randomvoting ExKirby.  That would be me misreading what he said and taking a literal translation: that is, "I am OMGUS'ing you for some known reason."  Interpreted subtext: "I am not providing that reason, and there is a good reason for it."  I can't think of a good reason, so I wanted to know.

... Apparently, the reason is random-voting.  Sometimes I am a moron.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 08, 2009, 11:30:41 pm
Yeah, okay.  Re-checked the vote count, and realized that Mr. Person voted after Webadict's post.

*shrug* Sorry about that.  Honest mistake.  I mostly wanted to vote in black and ask ExKirby a couple of questions.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 08, 2009, 11:42:13 pm
Yeah, okay.  Re-checked the vote count, and realized that Mr. Person voted after Webadict's post.

*shrug* Sorry about that.  Honest mistake.  I mostly wanted to vote in black and ask ExKirby a couple of questions.

You were talking about the EXACT SAME POST moments later, how could you forget about it?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 08, 2009, 11:45:09 pm
1. I stress-bombed myself with homework.

2. I read the thread.

3. I went "Hm, I have not voted."

4. I went "I know Mr. Person voted ExKirby at some point."

5. I checked the vote count.

6. I bombed myself with more math proofs.

7. I went "Hm, ExKirby has no votes.  Mr. Person must have unvoted.  I do not like the way he lurks everywhere.  I will vote him."

8. Then Dakarian spoke up, and I went "Hm.  Oh shit, I'm a moron."
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 08, 2009, 11:50:29 pm
Unvote

Apostolic Nihilist have you decided to start Toony Tunneling me, or are  you done OMGUSing a randomvote?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 09, 2009, 01:41:22 am
I'm going to keep my vote on you until a better target comes along. Your attempt at self-preservation was oddly scummy.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 09, 2009, 01:55:12 am
We're at an impasse then, because I think you really didn't like my randomvote and chose me to try to throw me off.  You then used Leafsnail's argument and filled it with WIFOM to try to complete the bandwagon.

You're now a little stuck since I called you out and handing on to my vote looks better than running away without someone else to target.

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 09, 2009, 05:21:16 am
HI I'M USELESS!!!
Thank you for this chance.

Pandar, do you not like me? Or what?

Votecount plox.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 09, 2009, 11:01:36 am
HI I'M USELESS

No, but really, Org? I have no objection to you personally - only to your general refusal to scumhunt.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 09, 2009, 11:18:38 am
Unvote.

Apostolic Nihilist, why is wanting to survive a scumtell?  The only role on the list Webadict posted that would want to be lynched is the Jester.  All other roles on the list would want to survive to help their team (or themselves, in the case of the Survivor and SK).
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 09, 2009, 11:19:49 am
Pandar.  Just did a look over of the posts.  Org's been hunting better than you have this game so far.  He's been randomvoting various people for a while.  All you did is a failed randomvote (since you didn't wait for your target to speak up) and a very small poke at Org.  It's been extremely small posts commenting on other people's analysis after that.

FOS Pandarsenic for evoking another game of Org-hate to hide his own lack of scumhunting.

Oh, and also for Pot-Kettle-Black
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 09, 2009, 11:26:33 am
OK, for all of you who are wondering why I'm usually inactive, I'm a brit who goes on after school, meaning 4PM-9PM GMT. Any time outside of that, and odds on that I'm not online.

Anyway, seeing as Mr>person has posted, my random vote holds no purpose, so unvote.

diakron seems scummy, with all the color thing. So voting Diakron for the time being.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 09, 2009, 01:34:39 pm
Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Dakarian - Apostolic Nihilist
Apostolic Nihilist - dakarian
Org - Pandarsenic
Leafsnail - NUKE9.13
NUKE9.13 - dakarian
Mr.Person - Org

This was probably just a mistake, but why does Dakarian have votes on both NUKE9.13 and me?


Also, as to why I'm keeping my vote on Dakarian for the time being:
One of the major flaws in my playing style is that I'm to susceptible to changing my vote if pushed. I tend to operate under the assumption that most of my accusations are incorrect; when confronted with evidence, I retreat rather than pushing harder.
So right now, I can either unvote Dakarian and look scummy for changing my vote with little reason, or keep my vote on Dakarian and look scummy for 'building a bandwagon', or rather, failing to build one.

As it stands, assuming that Dakarian is red, then I assume he's town simply because of his earlier reaction. ("There's no correlation between colours and roles.") Of course, this could be the behaviour of a sneaky mafia player, but we don't even know if the colours actually mean anything yet, so starting a WIFOM is really just anti-town.

I'm going to agree and say that Pandarsenic is less aggressive than usual, but I wouldn't say that means he's scum; in Beginner's Mafia 2 he was extremely aggressive and scum. I'd say he's probably a role like cop or doctor, or even a role like SK which he may not have experience with.

Similarly, I think that Dakarian has a pro-town role because of his behaviour. I don't think he's lying about anything, it's just that telling the truth will only serve to get him NK'd.

Given the large number of roles in this game, I wouldn't be surprised if there were only a few without any.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 09, 2009, 02:07:43 pm
So let's see..

You normally waffle your vote so now you decided to Toony Tunnel instead with no evidence except a WIFOM you placed on yourself.

You're already waffling.  Not  removing your vote doesn't change that: it just means you're trying to kill someone you believe is town.

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 09, 2009, 02:55:46 pm
I assume Toony Tunnel is "Continue going after your random vote long after the RVS has ended."?
I'm not familiar with the vernacular specific to Bay12 right yet, I've seen 'Toony Tunneling' thrown around a lot though, so I just want to make sure I know what you're talking about.

I assume we're waiting for the new vote count to get the verdict on your two votes.

I'm going to unvote, I suppose, simply because you do raise a good point — I don't think pursuing you any more is going to be fruitful. At best, nothing will come of it, and at worst, scum will jump on the chance to bandwagon you.
But... bah, if you really do turn out to be an anti-town role, I'm going to end up quite enraged at myself.

My current thoughts on what's what:

Dakarian: Has a role. Likely pro-town, is probably red.
Org: Active, uncharacteristic behaviour, but change isn't always bad. Aggressive, which is a slight town tell.
Leafsnail: Bandwagon on me (though, does valid reasoning make it less of a bandwagon?) seems off coming from him, but I don't take it as a particularly scummy action.
NUKE9.13: No real thoughts; hasn't posted enough.
Mr.Person: Hasn't posted much. Not inherently scummy, probably waiting it out.
Pandarsenic: Uncharacteristically silent; probably has a different/interesting role and is considering his options.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 09, 2009, 03:13:32 pm
Shit, I forgot to unvote Org.

That reminds me, I have a randomvote to continue. ExKirby, what do you think the colors mean?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 09, 2009, 03:26:15 pm
Well.
It's pretty clear that org is scum.
Vote org
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 09, 2009, 03:29:59 pm
Shit, I forgot to unvote Org.

That reminds me, I have a randomvote to continue. ExKirby, what do you think the colors mean?
This is what I meant. :I

Nuke, please inform us of why you think I am scum.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 09, 2009, 03:52:10 pm
Personally? I think the colors are not only related to the roles, I think they ARE the roles. For instance, let's say blue is... fuck it, cop. Everyone who's a cop is blue. Other than that, I think the colors mean nothing. Of course, I could be wrong. Hell, we might even have a color cop or something.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 09, 2009, 04:01:15 pm
Personally? I think the colors are not only related to the roles, I think they ARE the roles. For instance, let's say blue is... fuck it, cop. Everyone who's a cop is blue. Other than that, I think the colors mean nothing. Of course, I could be wrong. Hell, we might even have a color cop or something.
If that's the case, what role would black, white, yellow, etc, be? I can see yellow being roleblocker, but perhaps that should go to orange? Green would probably be doctor, but who knows? The only way we could possibly figure it out is by colour-claiming, but that could potentially cripple us, and with little benefit.
We have to make assumptions based off of only our role and our colour until someone dies, so it's probably best we wait it out.

I wonder if scum have more information than we do.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 09, 2009, 04:06:24 pm

diakron seems scummy, with all the color thing. So voting Diakron for the time being.

Quick Q:  "With all the color thing"

Mind explaining that?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 10, 2009, 05:58:06 am

diakron seems scummy, with all the color thing. So voting Diakron for the time being.

Quick Q:  "With all the color thing"

Mind explaining that?
Well, for all the reasons that have been previously mentioned?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 10, 2009, 08:03:44 am
If either Toony or Vector is Vector's/Toony's partner, it might be Nuke. He still hasnt posted since I asked him about his vote. :I

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 10, 2009, 09:12:36 am
Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - dakarian, Leafsnail
ExKirby - Pandarsenic
Org - NUKE9.13
Diakron - ExKirby

Don't vote in weird colors. Vote in Red, or I'll get upset and miss your vote.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 10, 2009, 10:16:26 am

diakron seems scummy, with all the color thing. So voting Diakron for the time being.

Quick Q:  "With all the color thing"

Mind explaining that?
Well, for all the reasons that have been previously mentioned?

Mind rementioing them?  Using quotes is fine.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 10, 2009, 11:09:52 am
Let's consider the scenarios:

A) There is a role which has a list of all the colours (and the roles that they have)

B) Scum have a list of all the colours (and the roles that they have)

C) This is a ploy by webadict to spread distrust throughout us all.


If B is true, then claiming our colours is the worst thing we can possibly do. If A is true, it's still bad, but not as bad. If C is true, it doesn't really matter either way. If A is true, then there's likely another role which can determine the colour someone has, but not the role.

Now, our lack of knowledge regarding this can be used by clever mafia very easily. They can try and trick us into thinking that:

A) Our colours mean nothing (if they do; they'll try and get us to claim in an effort to prove their theory while simultaneously getting a list of who has what role )
or
B) Our colours mean something (if they don't, then they'll try and spread misinformation, suggesting that our colours are important/do mean something and anyone who colour claims will immediately appear scummy. Admittedly, alone, there aren't many foreseeable advantages to this, but if there is a role that determines colours, and that role thinks that the colours mean something, then much fun could be had.)

Anyone suggesting that we claim our colours is scummy, Dakarian. I may have been more accurate with my random vote than I thought.

Furthermore, you say that your colour doesn't fit your role; this implies that you have a role which doesn't suit your colour.
Ex: Blue cop, green doctor, red mafia.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 10, 2009, 12:49:42 pm
Quick nitpick:

Dakarian = WOTer with the Black and white burmise Paranoid Vigilante named Litia.

Diakron = No Avatared player that isn't in this game


Dakarian =! Diakron

(And yes, I had to look back to realize Diakron wasn't playing here :P)
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 10, 2009, 12:52:22 pm
The Bay 12 Mafia roles were made with that in mind, Dracron Drakonian Diakron Dakarian.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 10, 2009, 01:39:10 pm
Quick nitpick:

Dakarian = WOTer with the Black and white burmise Paranoid Vigilante named Litia.

Diakron = No Avatared player that isn't in this game


Dakarian =! Diakron

(And yes, I had to look back to realize Diakron wasn't playing here :P)

Whoops. Change my vote to Dakarian. That was very stupid of me.  :-[
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 10, 2009, 01:51:02 pm
Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - dakarian, Leafsnail
ExKirby - Pandarsenic
Org - NUKE9.13
Diakron - ExKirby

Don't vote in weird colors. Vote in Red, or I'll get upset and miss your vote.
After reading these last posts, and looking at this, I have this to say:

I lul'd.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 10, 2009, 03:03:56 pm
Unvote.

Apostolic Nihilist, why is wanting to survive a scumtell?  The only role on the list Webadict posted that would want to be lynched is the Jester.  All other roles on the list would want to survive to help their team (or themselves, in the case of the Survivor and SK).

I don't think I answered this — anyways, here's my thoughts on why it's scummy.

He wasn't just trying to survive, he was trying to survive perhaps at the peril of everyone else. If colours really are significant and we claimed them, as he said, we could potentially play right into the mafia's hands.

There's a small chance that colours are attached to roles somehow, and so there's a small chance that if we did what he said, everyone would learn our roles; a bad situation to be in, day 1.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 10, 2009, 05:53:10 pm
And if the colors are a negative feature?  If they alter our vote or play with the power roles?

The puzzle about a Bastard Mod is to find out just what the host has slipped in before it bites you in the "OMG".  Finding out whether colors mean anything really DO affect us.

Example: What IF the votes were based on color choice rather than name written?  Then we'd have no clue who we are lynching. 

You say there's a small chance that the color would affect our role.  I say there's a slightly better chance that the colors affect the game.  There's also an equal chance, as others have said, that it's a red herring.

I'm agreeing now that for now we should focus on the scumhunt rather than a color fight. Just know that this was the mentality behind my actions before.

So.. back to the scumhunt.

Nuke  I was hoping to read of your answer to Org's question.  I do wonder your reasonings for what you said.

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 10, 2009, 11:47:40 pm
ExKirby, mind answering my question?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 11, 2009, 04:13:46 am
Org is always scum.
More seriously
Org is always scum unless he specifically says he isn't.
Its just the way things are. We are all powerless to stop it.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 11, 2009, 07:56:13 am
Org is always scum.
More seriously
Org is always scum unless he specifically says he isn't.
Its just the way things are. We are all powerless to stop it.
No , I am not scum. This is like what happened to Inaluct, as he was almost always scum, but whenever you lynched him, he was town.

Where is Inaluct anyway?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 11, 2009, 09:02:20 am
Org is always scum.
More seriously
Org is always scum unless he specifically says he isn't.
Its just the way things are. We are all powerless to stop it.
No , I am not scum. This is like what happened to Inaluct, as he was almost always scum, but whenever you lynched him, he was town.

Where is Inaluct anyway?
He left us for better things...
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 11, 2009, 09:06:39 am
Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - Leafsnail
ExKirby - Pandarsenic, Vector
Org - NUKE9.13
dakarian - ExKirby
NUKE9.13 - dakarian
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 11, 2009, 09:16:32 am
Org is always scum.
More seriously
Org is always scum unless he specifically says he isn't.
Its just the way things are. We are all powerless to stop it.

Old scumtell is old.

And already subverted.  It's a null tell now.

However, looking for easy lynches still works VERY well as a scumtell. 

Consider my vote no longer random.  You're trying for nice easy kills without scumhunting and that's scummy.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 12, 2009, 10:48:35 am
ExKirby, mind answering my question?
Mind repeating the question?

And dak, how do we know you're ot using reverse phycology?

Nah, I don't think you are. But my vote still holds.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 12, 2009, 10:57:47 am
And dak, how do we know you're ot using reverse phycology?

AKA: Perhaps THAT'S WHAT I WANT YOU TO THINK?

Don't ever feed the town WIFOM.  It never helps the town.

And if you don't think I'm doing that, why is your vote on me?

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 12, 2009, 02:09:13 pm
Vote ExKirby (in black).  What do you think about the whole deal with the colors?  Further, who do you consider most scummy at this point?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 12, 2009, 02:13:26 pm
Vote ExKirby (in black).  What do you think about the whole deal with the colors?  Further, who do you consider most scummy at this point?
That would do for the question. As a matter of fact, I find dak scummish. Things hold in my memory pretty well. Colors may have some role, and I think that dak wants to extract that info from us.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 12, 2009, 02:23:06 pm
Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - Leafsnail
ExKirby - Pandarsenic, Vector
Org - NUKE9.13
dakarian - ExKirby
NUKE9.13 - dakarian

Slow Day is slow.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 12, 2009, 02:57:15 pm
Ah... Vector? Was the vote on me about the question?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 12, 2009, 02:59:00 pm
Yup.  Unvote.

I'll get back to this later, when I'm done with my lalgebra.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 12, 2009, 11:35:33 pm
Given that just about everyone seems to have run out of randomvotes and questions to give, Perhaps it's best to direct everyone to the one actual situation that's come up.


Nuke didn't randomvote Org.  He fully declared him scum due to 'always being scum'.  He's using Org's bad reputation as a way to bring about an easy lynch while everyone else has no one else to hunt. 

I accuse him and he's given nothing else in response.  As it stands, he has little risk of being killed anyway due to only one vote on him.

The purpose of Day 1 is to apply pressure.. we randomvote to find someone who slips, we pile votes to make people snap, we ask random questions to put people off guard.  That's the basis of scumhunting in Day 1. 

So I propose that Nuke slipped and needs some pressure on him.  Anyone who's still active care to join me?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 12, 2009, 11:56:39 pm
Indeed.

Though first...

One confirmation: your vote isn't based on the color you used (ie. using red = the vote goes to the red person).  Otherwise, Web would've ended the day since Hammer is in effect.

Unvote  Vote Nuke

Misrepresenting the words of another player.  Leaf said nothing about FOSing 'wierd colors'.  His only post involves, and I quote:

Quote
I can imagine some pretty weird stuff going down here with regards to mixing colours.  In.

And that was his 'in' post.

Nothing about FOS.  Nothing about not liking people in strange colors.  You also snuck it in your "OMG everyone is killing red, but not me, I'm being careful!" post.   You didn't ask "Anyone know what the colors are for?".  You didn't say, "Maybe we should watch what colors we use."  No it's a post written to cause panic and make us all cautious.

With a nice, juicy LIE  (http://mafiascum.net/wiki/index.php?title=Lynch_All_Liars)right below it.


Which lie did you catch him telling?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 13, 2009, 12:37:15 am
Right now, I don't see NUKE making a mistake as much as I see Dakarian jumping on easy prey.
Regardless, I agree for the time being — drawing him out is in our best interest.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 13, 2009, 12:38:30 am
Right now, I don't see NUKE making a mistake as much as I see Dakarian jumping on easy prey.
Regardless, I agree for the time being — drawing him out is in our best interest.

To be honest, I don't feel like NUKE is easy prey.  He's experienced.

If I were going to go easy-prey someone to death, I'd go with ExKirby or Org.  They'd be easy.

Plus, this is the only person we have to go off of right now, as far as I can tell...
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 13, 2009, 12:41:02 am
Quote
I will vote for Leafsnail because I don't like his policy of FoSing everyone in funny colours.

That's what it was based on.  The argument was that Leafsnail had not FoSed anyone or spoken about funny colors at all.


It was explained later that this is referencing Leafsnail using Blue to FOS people in other games.

Thus it wasn't a lie, just an akwardly said randomvote
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 13, 2009, 12:42:54 am
Right now, I don't see NUKE making a mistake as much as I see Dakarian jumping on easy prey.
Regardless, I agree for the time being — drawing him out is in our best interest.

If you're going to say stuff about people, be ready to back it up, so unvote and voteApostolic Nihilist. Try posting something this isn't just you popping in and saying "Hey guys, he could be scum!", that's useless WIFOM that only the scum like.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 13, 2009, 12:48:38 am
Quote
I will vote for Leafsnail because I don't like his policy of FoSing everyone in funny colours.

That's what it was based on.  The argument was that Leafsnail had not FoSed anyone or spoken about funny colors at all.


It was explained later that this is referencing Leafsnail using Blue to FOS people in other games.

Thus it wasn't a lie, just an akwardly said randomvote
I'm not really seeing how NUKE's post was meant to 'draw out panic', but I concede.
Besides, if roles were based on colours, a post to incite a reaction from Red could possibly be a tactic to draw out scum.
At the very least, it drew out Dakarian — I think he's voting NUKE because he caused him to reveal his colour.

I don't see anything particularly scummy about joking around during the RVS. Once it hits day 2, though, joking is a bit more of a scumtell. Things tend to get more serious after that point.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 13, 2009, 12:56:08 am
The jokes typically end with RVS.  RVS ends, though, when actual accusations begin.  That usually happens well before the end of day 1.

I still don't believe color = role so I'm not that bad off with people knowing my color.  Nuke gets my vote for making an accusation on someone based on horrid logic.  He's looking like an Overeager Scum at the moment.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 13, 2009, 02:31:58 am
While I believe the color has some influence on the game, there's now way for us to establish that except by simply playing.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 13, 2009, 02:55:39 am
Hmmm.
To answer your concerns, dakarian,
a)Org is scum
and
b)I am not an idiot

Org is always scum.
More seriously
Org is always scum unless he specifically says he isn't.
Its just the way things are. We are all powerless to stop it.

Old scumtell is old. Old, yes.

And already subverted.  It's a null tell now. So old, perhaps, that it has been forgotten, even by org himself?

However, looking for easy lynches still works VERY well as a scumtell. True that

Consider my vote no longer random.  You're trying for nice easy kills without scumhunting and that's scummy. Good to hear your opinion on the matter
I still don't believe color = role so I'm not that bad off with people knowing my color
:[
My friend you are too young and innocent for mafia.
The basic premise of mafia is uniformed majority VS informed minority. Informed generally means that they know who is who. In this game, it could easily mean they know how the colours work.
I am not saying it is. Until more shit goes down we have only suspicion to work with. But it is possible that the mafia know stuff. Very possible. So actually, you should be afraid. You should not trust in your belief. Paranoia is the name of the game.

Besides, if roles were based on colours, a post to incite a reaction from Red could possibly be a tactic to draw out scum.
At the very least, it drew out Dakarian — I think he's voting NUKE because he caused him to reveal his colour.
Nope. I would have to know which colours were scum, and whilst red might be a good guess (along with black, I guess?), it was not so. My post was merely telling people to be careful. Dakarian's slip up was an unfortunate and unintended consequence.

Which is odd. Dakarian, why the slip up? It had no use, right? Did you panic? Also, I have played mafia a few times before. Why would I tell a blatant LIE, on day 1, regarding a random person during the random voting stage?

Which brings us to the end of my post. Before this goes out of hand, forsaken style;
Nuke didn't randomvote Org.
Yes I did. Sorry.
Unvote

See, the random voting stage these days is an automatic Bay12 mafia reflex. It bears no risk, no consequence, and no discussion.
Guess what, everybody?
That makes it pointless.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 13, 2009, 08:46:57 am
(Biggest post so far posted in this game)

See, the random voting stage these days is an automatic Bay12 mafia reflex. It bears no risk, no consequence, and no discussion.
Guess what, everybody?
That makes it pointless.

The irony is so so sweet.

Just know that everything you say has now been permanently etched into the game's logs and will be used to destroy you later, mr. "played mafia a few times before".  Unvote


Meanwhile, Nihilist. 


I HATE sideline people.  Lurkers are null tells you need to bring out.  Spotlighters are active with lots of posts to analyze.  Sideliners sit on the side and try to act like they are active but not quite active enough for the spotlight.

Scum LOVE that position.

Your posts don't directly question Nuke.  They don't directly accuse.  They just give 'suggestions' on how he 'maybe' scum.  Meanwhile, instead of ASKING me about my motives, you play Theorycraft and put words in my mouth. 

Meanwhile, you say you want to pressure someone yet your vote remains well WELL off of them.

Lastly,

If you're going to say stuff about people, be ready to back it up, so unvote and voteApostolic Nihilist. Try posting something this isn't just you popping in and saying "Hey guys, he could be scum!", that's useless WIFOM that only the scum like.

You ignored someone accusing you AND voting for you.  I guess 2 votes isn't enough.

Perhaps 3 will make you notice us?  Perhaps with a noose on your scummy head?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 13, 2009, 09:54:31 am
I suppose it's bad etiquette to answer posts without quoting them?
The post I made immediately after Mr. Person was what explained my reasoning.

Furthermore, Dakarian, I'm keeping my vote off of anyone because any action on my part only makes me look more scummish, which could lead to you lynching a townie. (Not that it matters at this stage of the game, however)

If I were to vote NUKE without providing any original reasoning, I believe that's called bandwagoning. I couldn't provide any original reasoning because you already analyzed his posts to death. There was nothing else to analyze. If I just say,
"I agree with Dakarian for the reasons he stated," at that point I end up looking even more scummy.

I'll admit to being quieter than I would like this game. This is the first I've played with a large variety of roles, and I'm struggling to wrap my head around the optimal way to play.

As it stands, NUKE is our only lead, but I don't think we have enough evidence on him to keep pushing. I think most scum-hunting on day 1 is a waste of time, (but this is my personal opinion); the only thing you can do is jump on people is too different than what is expected.
A lot of factors can change their behaviour — roles, suspicions, even things like stress. Forming theories prematurely tends to backfire, however, and it's not until you have a profile of the mafia and the roles in the game that you should start to take major action.

When Day 2 comes, for instance, we'll have a list of who's died due to what roles and our investigative roles will have a better idea of who's scum. We may not even be playing with an SK or we may be playing with 3 — unknown situations will continue to arise, situations that are difficult to account for; making assumptions off of thing such as initial votes.

Mafia is inherently a serious game, but some stages are more serious than others. From a purely objective standpoint, making assumptions now has a higher chance of lynching town than it does of lynching scum. Scum will usually be extraordinarily careful, trying to act like town, often acting well enough to become a 'spotlighter'; they'll gather the appeal of other players and use them to do whatever they wish.

At least, that's how scum should play. That's how I would try to play.
A playing style like that, however, requires experience.

Asking me questions like, "Who do you think is scum?"; I see those questions as useless during this stage of the game.
I voiced my suspicions about Dakarian earlier, and I still retain them.

We've exhausted all the leads we have, (Well, except for myself; you seem to be quite content with lynching me); waiting until Day 2 will give us more evidence to examine, and from there we can make better assumptions.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 13, 2009, 10:23:24 am
I'd just like to make a quick complaint to web-I'm only online 4 till 9 GMT weekdays. I'm not on any other time during weekdays. So if I don't post between those times, you know.

Anyway, Apostic wraps it up pretty nicely with his mini-essay, so I'm gonna hold my vote.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 13, 2009, 10:59:46 am
Unvote.

Apostolic Nihilist, that post was long, but you seemed to say very, very little.  You're basically saying that there's no point in doing anything on Day 1... but if we did this, we'd find out very little.  Almost nothing, in fact.  Afterall, what's the difference between Day 1 and Day 2 other than a couple of bodies and a few investigations?  We need to start scum hunting early.  It also seems very much like you're trying to stay on the sidelines.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 13, 2009, 11:34:45 am
If either Toony or Vector is Vector's/Toony's partner, it might be Nuke. He still hasnt posted since I asked him about his vote. :I



So... is there some reason why you think I'm partnered with someone who isn't even in this game?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 13, 2009, 11:37:00 am
I suppose it's bad etiquette to answer posts without quoting them?
The post I made immediately after Mr. Person was what explained my reasoning.

It isn't and, in some cases, helps avoid oversized posts.  Just know that some people will ask you to clear things up (like I just did :P)

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Furthermore, Dakarian, I'm keeping my vote off of anyone because any action on my part only makes me look more scummish, which could lead to you lynching a townie. (Not that it matters at this stage of the game, however)

1. To be a little blunt, that's one of the great false reasonings in Mafia.

Yes, voting for people does add a little suspicion to you, but only enough to allow you to explain yourself.  Once your reasoning is well known only fools will lynch you for it.  If the entire town wants to be THAT foolish then best to be lynched early and watch them lose in Dead Chat.

HOWEVER, once you are past RVS, you should have someone you wish dead, suspect of being scum, or are pumping for information.  If you have none, your #1 main concern should be finding a person to kill/suspect/question.  That's scumhunting and it's one of the most pro-town things you can do. 

Avoiding to vote because it makes you look suspicious makes you look defensive.  I swear to you, no matter how scummy your vote may look, it's 5 times scummier to NOT vote at all just to save your own hide.  I'll pressure you if you attack someone, but I WILL kill you if you just sit and hide.

Remember, dying early doesn't make you lose the game and MAY help find a scum if they exposed themselves to get you killed.  Staying alive to the end means nothing if the mafia are alive with you.  You living or dying does nothing to help you win.  Mafia living or dying means EVERYTHING.


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If I were to vote NUKE without providing any original reasoning, I believe that's called bandwagoning. I couldn't provide any original reasoning because you already analyzed his posts to death. There was nothing else to analyze. If I just say,
"I agree with Dakarian for the reasons he stated," at that point I end up looking even more scummy.

Ok, true true, that's a catch 22.  Best way to handle it is, oddly enough, not to worry about it. 

If I suspect, but don't wish to fully kill, someone that's already being analyzed, I take the parts of the argument that I feel is important to me and attempt to Emphasize them, i.e. if I agreed with my post against you, but was mostly worried about your active lurking, I would say,

"What bugs me about you is that the 'side comments' Dakarian mentioned make you look like you're active lurking.  It does look bad to me.  Mind telling more about it, before more votes go on you?"

The difference is who you are speaking to.  Address the person directly.  That turns a 'side comment' into an 'accusation'.  You are also taking a full analysis and focusing on one aspect to add more pressure.  That helps show you aren't just 'me tooing' things.

Will someone say you are bandwagoning still?  Yes.  Should you care?  Not really.  Worry more about whether OTHERS are town or scum than how you look. 

As for whether to vote or not, depends on how you handle votes.  I love to pressure vote but that's not the only way to go.  Just make sure you aren't wishy washy with it, however you wish to use it.
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I'll admit to being quieter than I would like this game. This is the first I've played with a large variety of roles, and I'm struggling to wrap my head around the optimal way to play.

Nice thing about Day 1 is that it works no matter what game you are in.  The goal of this day is to get everyone talking, debating, arguing.  Get them fighting and accusing or being accused.  Get them to lose their cool.  Get lurkers talking.  Pull sideliners into the spotlight.  Keep the active folks...active.  Stir the pot.

It's the day game that gets us to win, not so much these power roles.

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As it stands, NUKE is our only lead, but I don't think we have enough evidence on him to keep pushing. I think most scum-hunting on day 1 is a waste of time, (but this is my personal opinion); the only thing you can do is jump on people is too different than what is expected.
A lot of factors can change their behaviour — roles, suspicions, even things like stress. Forming theories prematurely tends to backfire, however, and it's not until you have a profile of the mafia and the roles in the game that you should start to take major action.

Bolded = the key to day 1. 

We WON'T find the mafia in the first day.  However, a silent day 1 simply means a day 2 with very little to go on.  It's through these silly attacks and reckless bandwagons that patterns form, people show their true colors, and mafia start to make their slip ups.  The vote I cast on you will lead to the meek passivity from a mafia that leads to a Day 3 analysis finding and lynching said Passive Mafia. 

To put it another way: the useless day 1 lasts until enough content shows on the thread.  You can have a 'day 1' that lasts three game-days, with town unsure what to do.  You have have a 'day 1' that lasts until end game. 

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When Day 2 comes, for instance, we'll have a list of who's died due to what roles and our investigative roles will have a better idea of who's scum. We may not even be playing with an SK or we may be playing with 3 — unknown situations will continue to arise, situations that are difficult to account for; making assumptions off of thing such as initial votes.

A thing to consider: Typically, the town has 3 mislynches before they lose.  Also note that the cop only gets 2 investigations to find said mafia.  Also note there's a chance for a Miller role or for the redirecter or roleblocker to mess up the investigations.  ALSO consider that the cop can't just jump up and tell their findings Day 2 since they'll be night killed.

Result: The town can't rely on power roles to find the mafia alone. 

The day game is Vital to the town.  Not only can we find suspect people, but, even if we don't lynch them, it'll give the investigators someone to target that's better than pure randomness.  I know if I was the cop, I now have a few people on a short list that I can investigate just on what I've found out today.

Some people may consider the day the time for idle chat and killing off people you don't like.  To those of the town who wish to win, though, this is the best time to find the enemy.  The night is more Their time than ours.

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Mafia is inherently a serious game, but some stages are more serious than others. From a purely objective standpoint, making assumptions now has a higher chance of lynching town than it does of lynching scum. Scum will usually be extraordinarily careful, trying to act like town, often acting well enough to become a 'spotlighter'; they'll gather the appeal of other players and use them to do whatever they wish.

There's typically three types of Mafia: The spotlighter who guides the town into hasty bandwagons, the sideliner who active lurks and bandwagons, and the passive which tries not to be noticed.

All three try to act like town.  All three, though, can't REALLY succeed since, in the end, they can't do everything like a town does: only pretend.  So long as the town is silent, it's easy for them to act like their roles.  Nothing helps the mafia like a town that's passive.  Spotlighters become leaders who control the vote.  Sideliners look more active than half the town.  Passives..well.. look just like the rest of the town so it's hard to hit them.

Active, scumhunting towns, however, mean that you have to maintain your persona, trying hard to flow like a paniced, paranoid, bloodthirsty town when you are, in fact, calm, sure of yourself, and don't really care about who dies.  Some are better than others, but all slip in their own way.

The town can assume and attack others without resulting in silly useless lynches.  Just avoid tunnelvisioning, keep watch of those around you, suspect EVERYONE (not just your target), and focus on PRESSURE, not just killing. 

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Asking me questions like, "Who do you think is scum?"; I see those questions as useless during this stage of the game.

Never really liked those questions either.  If you want a generic question, it should be "WHY AREN'T YOU ATTACKING SOMEONE?" 


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I voiced my suspicions about Dakarian earlier, and I still retain them.

We've exhausted all the leads we have, (Well, except for myself; you seem to be quite content with lynching me); waiting until Day 2 will give us more evidence to examine, and from there we can make better assumptions.

All Day 2 will give is one townie death, manipulated by the mafia to look like a townie kill them, MAYBE one cop investigation held by a cop that can't speak if he even exists, and us still spinning our wheels and lurking.

We havn't exhausted our options.  We're just surrounded by lurkers.  Best way to handle lurkers is to weed them out.


Unvote    Vote: ExKirby

What sort of comment is that?  Nihilist's post is mostly about how useless attacking people are and how it's best to hold back till we have more information.

How does agreeing to that AND voting for me sync together?


Or are you excusing not having 24/7 access to the game as an excuse to pull a fast "Me too" post without thinking?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 13, 2009, 01:39:53 pm
I was reffering to the last paragraph. Even yhough I'm pretty sure of your scummyness, day 1 usually pops up a town lynch and therefor should be taken slightly lighter. If I could, I would play Mafia more often =3
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 13, 2009, 01:40:20 pm
Apostolic Nihilist
I, and I suspect most of the general population of the mafia board, know how mafia works, thank you. Your large post was contentless in relation to this game, and merely served as a distraction from useful posts.
Also, you fear for your life. You fear for it more than you wish for town victory. Wrong! Risks must be taken always, lynches uncertain must be made. Provided you are town, you can always explain the reasoning behind your actions. Only the scum bandwagon for the sake of bandwagon. It is ok to consider the arguments, and agree with them completely, and then vote accordingly. Just point this out. Provided the arguments were good no one can blame you.
Day 1 is important. Nowadays we mock day one with our RVS followed by a bandwagon, but a good day one is good.

Anyway... this is sort of irrelevant in comparison to dakarian's post. Wow. I approve.

While I believe the color has some influence on the game, there's now way for us to establish that except by simply playing.
So.
Anything useful to add?

Anyway, Apostic wraps it up pretty nicely with his mini-essay, so I'm gonna hold my vote.
ERRR
His essay is wrong. No vote on day 1= not a good thing. I learnt that lesson my first mafia game, and I did not forget it.
I strongly recommend you come forth and rectify your error.

Unvote.

Apostolic Nihilist, that post was long, but you seemed to say very, very little.  You're basically saying that there's no point in doing anything on Day 1... but if we did this, we'd find out very little.  Almost nothing, in fact.  Afterall, what's the difference between Day 1 and Day 2 other than a couple of bodies and a few investigations?  We need to start scum hunting early.  It also seems very much like you're trying to stay on the sidelines.
See, see? Here they come, those ultramarine accusations of no weight! It is a leafsnaily thing, but :[ nonetheless. In the olden days, we thought someone was suspicious, we voted for them!
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 13, 2009, 01:46:23 pm
I was reffering to the last paragraph. Even yhough I'm pretty sure of your scummyness, day 1 usually pops up a town lynch and therefor should be taken slightly lighter. If I could, I would play Mafia more often =3

So are you dead set sure you want me dead no matter what I say, or is there still information you wish to pull from me?

If the former, you'll need to be more vocal and get the entire town involved.  If the later, I'll need to know what I havn't already discussed about or what still needs clearing.  To me, I already answered your concerns so far.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 13, 2009, 01:47:45 pm
Anyway, Apostic wraps it up pretty nicely with his mini-essay, so I'm gonna hold my vote.
ERRR
His essay is wrong. No vote on day 1= not a good thing. I learnt that lesson my first mafia game, and I did not forget it.
I strongly recommend you come forth and rectify your error.
If you read the post before?

It's OK, I probably ninja'd you.

Well, I didn't say it was worthless-on the little Mafia I played on IncrediBots, we actually found a godfather on the first day (ametuer). So, I'll take that factor to heart. OK?

And dark, I didn't see any clear ups. To me, the ink stains are still on the table cloth.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 13, 2009, 02:14:54 pm
You ignored someone accusing you AND voting for you.  I guess 2 votes isn't enough.

Perhaps 3 will make you notice us?  Perhaps with a noose on your scummy head?

I can't find it, could you repost it real fast?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 13, 2009, 02:19:30 pm
Very well.  Pulling from your past post, which, was simply hanging on another person's argument:

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Let's consider the scenarios:

A) There is a role which has a list of all the colours (and the roles that they have)

B) Scum have a list of all the colours (and the roles that they have)

C) This is a ploy by webadict to spread distrust throughout us all.


If B is true, then claiming our colours is the worst thing we can possibly do. If A is true, it's still bad, but not as bad. If C is true, it doesn't really matter either way. If A is true, then there's likely another role which can determine the colour someone has, but not the role.

Now, our lack of knowledge regarding this can be used by clever mafia very easily. They can try and trick us into thinking that:

A) Our colours mean nothing (if they do; they'll try and get us to claim in an effort to prove their theory while simultaneously getting a list of who has what role )
or
B) Our colours mean something (if they don't, then they'll try and spread misinformation, suggesting that our colours are important/do mean something and anyone who colour claims will immediately appear scummy. Admittedly, alone, there aren't many foreseeable advantages to this, but if there is a role that determines colours, and that role thinks that the colours mean something, then much fun could be had.)

Anyone suggesting that we claim our colours is scummy, Dakarian. I may have been more accurate with my random vote than I thought.

Furthermore, you say that your colour doesn't fit your role; this implies that you have a role which doesn't suit your colour.
Ex: Blue cop, green doctor, red mafia.

Since the only thing you added was WIFOM I imagine this is the inkstain.

As I said before, my color (red) does NOT fit my role.  Matched with my belief that there's a better chance that the colors are something to either red herring us (though that's more recently) or cause us trouble (original idea) than it is something that benefits the mafia, I do not see a problem with us learning more about our colors.

That's the reasoning behind my actions.

So far, your only response from you is WIFOM. 


If you believe I'm just plain old lying and that's that then you DON'T have an argument for me and you just want me dead.  Take responsibility then and get the town after me.  If you believe my argument mostly but still have some specific issue then stop referencing and voice them specifically.  If you believe me and you have nothing to add then what's left for you to consider me scummy?

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 13, 2009, 02:22:22 pm
You ignored someone accusing you AND voting for you.  I guess 2 votes isn't enough.

Perhaps 3 will make you notice us?  Perhaps with a noose on your scummy head?

I can't find it, could you repost it real fast?

I was talking to Nihilist about his lack of responding to your own statement, which was:

[quote author=Mr. Person)If you're going to say stuff about people, be ready to back it up, so unvote and voteApostolic Nihilist. Try posting something this isn't just you popping in and saying "Hey guys, he could be scum!", that's useless WIFOM that only the scum like.
[/quote]

It DID take 3 votes to get a response though it was less actual attack and more shrugging of shoulders.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 13, 2009, 02:24:21 pm
Dak, I think I saw a flash of WIFOM there. That or my eyes are faulty.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 13, 2009, 02:38:09 pm
My eyes always were faulty.  If you see that flash again take a picture of it so I can see it too.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 13, 2009, 02:46:05 pm
Mr Person, please answer the post. >:I

I already did. Look moar.

Unvote

I am watching you. >:

Org, you are doing nothing.  You aren't even playing attention to this game at all, it seems.  You make comments about your vigilance, but don't seem to even know who is involved.

Show up and scumhunt.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 13, 2009, 04:35:11 pm
Mr Person, please answer the post. >:I

I already did. Look moar.

Unvote

I am watching you. >:

Org, you are doing nothing.  You aren't even playing attention to this game at all, it seems.  You make comments about your vigilance, but don't seem to even know who is involved.

Show up and scumhunt.
Hurr Hurr.
Oh wait this is color mafia. Huh.

And just because I missed a single thing doesnt seem good enough a reason.

Dak seems suspicious. Freaking out because of the color thing.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 13, 2009, 04:48:08 pm
Pandarsenic

Hey there.  Who do you think we should be after?  Make sure to say specifically why. 

If you aren't sure of anyone.. then a general idea on how everyone looks (including why they aren't suspicious) will be useful.


@Person

After Nihilist's comments, how do you feel about him?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 13, 2009, 05:12:30 pm
He's only gotten worse, in my eyes. I'm going to keep my vote on him until he votes somebody and starts scumhunting.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 13, 2009, 05:17:00 pm
Dak, the colors. They meen nothing!
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 13, 2009, 05:49:28 pm
Colors = red herring is a possibility I'm willing to consider.  Beyond explaining why I did what I did I'm putting the color concept to rest and doing good old scumhunting.

You should go scumhunt too, Org.  Your rivals aren't too happy of your lack of hunting.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 13, 2009, 05:57:11 pm
Colors = red herring is a possibility I'm willing to consider.  Beyond explaining why I did what I did I'm putting the color concept to rest and doing good old scumhunting.

You should go scumhunt too, Org.  Your rivals aren't too happy of your lack of hunting.
>:

Yes. I should,
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 13, 2009, 06:22:52 pm
I guess I should just start randomly voting again, then? I had my vote on Dakarian for a while, but that ended up fruitless.

I don't see NUKE as particularly scummy, a vote on Mr.Person would be an OMGUS, etc.


Er... actually, there's Pandarsenic. He hasn't said much in the past 4 pages. This was his last post of note:
While I believe the color has some influence on the game, there's now way for us to establish that except by simply playing.
Which is basically just a rehash of ideas already thrown around by everyone else.
He really has been silent. Extremely silent.
The sudden different behaviour doesn't seem right; Beginner's 2, for instance; he won, and was aggressive. I'll stick by my assumption that he's not mafia but an anti-town role.
He'd be more careful to deflect suspicion if he were mafia, but with a role he's not sure what to do.
Or something like that.

As for my last post being useless; it was really just explaining my views on the "Hey let's vote AN!" mentality that seemed to be sweeping through everyone.
I'm not going to fault anyone for it, of course — even if we do have a minuscule chance of actually voting and lynching mafia on Day 1, I suppose the practice itself isn't bad, right?
Actually, I can't easily recall many games that have had a mafia lynch D1. I'd say 90% of the time (at least) it's been a townie who dies.
That's why I don't like lynching for D1 mistakes; pushing & prodding, trying to draw out more mistakes, sure; but lynching? It's a bit much. At least wait until we have evidence to go off of, I say.

I've been trying to defend myself a bit overzealously, so I've probably dug my own grave, but even so...
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 13, 2009, 06:23:38 pm
Game of Assassins on my dorm floor and class in half an hour. Can't refute now.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 13, 2009, 08:00:09 pm
I'm not going to fault anyone for it, of course — even if we do have a minuscule chance of actually voting and lynching mafia on Day 1, I suppose the practice itself isn't bad, right?
Actually, I can't easily recall many games that have had a mafia lynch D1. I'd say 90% of the time (at least) it's been a townie who dies.
That's why I don't like lynching for D1 mistakes; pushing & prodding, trying to draw out more mistakes, sure; but lynching? It's a bit much. At least wait until we have evidence to go off of, I say.

Unvote.  Org, let's see some scum-hunting PDQ.  It's the "not playing the damned game" more than anything else.

You have indeed dug your own grave.  Scum have different behavior when someone is being lynched than they do when we are just "scumhunting."  The lynch is almost necessary, especially if we are not going off of night actions.  We can't say if this is a "power role game" or not.  As such, we must go off behavior--and yours is suspicious.

You are not acting anything like your usual self.  I saw you in BM3, and you're being far more passive and submissive.  You seem like an ideal D1 lynch to get things cranking.

Sorry, Apostolic Nihilist.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 13, 2009, 08:08:34 pm
As promised, unvote. Vector, I want to hear more about why exactly you think Apostolic Nihilist is scum. I'm not liking how you're implying that Apostolic Nihilist is the only lynch. He hasn't dug his own grave yet, why are you saying he has?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 13, 2009, 08:08:58 pm
Game of Assassins on my dorm floor and class in half an hour. Can't refute now.
What is assassins?.!

Dakarian, for acting weird and a bit strange, as well as going crazy over colors, which means 3 things,
a)Townie, wants to survive
b)Scum, wants to survive
c)Power role, a or b

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 13, 2009, 08:40:35 pm
I'm not going to fault anyone for it, of course — even if we do have a minuscule chance of actually voting and lynching mafia on Day 1, I suppose the practice itself isn't bad, right?
Actually, I can't easily recall many games that have had a mafia lynch D1. I'd say 90% of the time (at least) it's been a townie who dies.
That's why I don't like lynching for D1 mistakes; pushing & prodding, trying to draw out more mistakes, sure; but lynching? It's a bit much. At least wait until we have evidence to go off of, I say.

Unvote.  Org, let's see some scum-hunting PDQ.  It's the "not playing the damned game" more than anything else.

You have indeed dug your own grave.  Scum have different behavior when someone is being lynched than they do when we are just "scumhunting."  The lynch is almost necessary, especially if we are not going off of night actions.  We can't say if this is a "power role game" or not.  As such, we must go off behavior--and yours is suspicious.

You are not acting anything like your usual self.  I saw you in BM3, and you're being far more passive and submissive.  You seem like an ideal D1 lynch to get things cranking.

Sorry, Apostolic Nihilist.

Er, perhaps I'm interpreting incorrectly, but are you suggesting that you lynch me 'to move things along'?

That really doesn't seem like a good idea simply because that's one less townie we'll have before we reach lylo.
I'm sure you realize this: Town loses when all townies are dead. Mafia can kill one person per night, we can lynch one person per day. With nine people, if we lynch a person every day, we'll hit lylo in 3 days. If we only lynch someone every other day, we've already extended our time limit to 5 days; that's quite a significant increase and gives scum more time to mess up.

Rushing into things headfirst is something we should avoid doing.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 13, 2009, 08:50:12 pm
There's actually a reason I pulled from Nihilist: I believe he's not being helpful at all, but I don't believe it's scummy anymore.

The hard part is to tell the difference between someone who's anti-town, someone with a different mentality, and someone that's scummy.  That's NOT the same thing.

Yes, many of us agree that keeping back Day 1 and relying on power roles isn't too good for us.  The question isn't whether it is or isn't good.  The question is what is Nihilist's intentions with stating those ideas. 

If you do believe he's just not playing well, or is simply wrong in his ideas, then you're assuming he really believes what he writes.  That means he's being honest, which is actually a town-tell.

YES, honestly saying that you believe in bad play is a TOWN-TELL.

In order to declare Nihilst scum for his statement, you need to prove that what he's saying isn't really what he believes.. that he's simply trying to confuse or misdirect the town.  It could be either to get us to use poor strategy or it could be to hide his scumtells as bad plays.  Either way, that's scummy behavior.

Personally, I want to see more of him, but I can't declare that he's lying about his statements.  I need to see more of him beforehand.  As such, my vote is off of him. 

To the rest of you, I suggest that if you believe Nihilist is lying about his ideas then accuse him for it.  If you believe he's just playing very very badly, then you may be lynching an Unhelpful Townie, and contrary to popular belief, that does NOT help the town.

Remember, we're not after folks who's mentalities we don't like.  We are after people who are trying to kill us. 


Sidenote, @Org  The answer is D) A person that doesn't like Bastard Games biting the town in the "OMG" and willing to sacrifice myself to avoid it.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 13, 2009, 08:56:24 pm
You aren't really sacrificing yourself...
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 13, 2009, 09:11:38 pm
I'll just have to hope that Dakarian's aid is out of altruism and not an ulterior motive.

He's quite accurate though.
I'm of the opinion that lynching people on D1 without solid evidence is not good for the town. It only expedites our demise.

This entire practice is quite annoying, it wouldn't be such a big deal if we had a larger number of players, but we only have 9. We don't have much time in the first place.

Mafia isn't a sprint, it's more like marathon. Rushing around in the beginning will only end in defeat.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 13, 2009, 09:23:22 pm
Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - NUKE9.13, Vector
ExKirby - Pandarsenic, dakarian
dakarian - ExKirby, Org
Pandarsenic - Apostolic Nihilist
Vector - Mr.Person
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 13, 2009, 09:29:33 pm
The hard part is to tell the difference between someone who's anti-town, someone with a different mentality, and someone that's scummy.  That's NOT the same thing.

[...]

Remember, we're not after folks who's mentalities we don't like.  We are after people who are trying to kill us.

Point taken.

He's quite accurate though.
I'm of the opinion that lynching people on D1 without solid evidence is not good for the town. It only expedites our demise.

I'm going to have to agree to disagree on this one.  The point is to generate solid evidence for D2.  It is, of course, stupid to lynch someone you don't suspect, or who you aren't really sure about at all... but it's also stupid to let scum use their NKs and let the days go by without getting any good work in.

As promised, unvote. Vector, I want to hear more about why exactly you think Apostolic Nihilist is scum. I'm not liking how you're implying that Apostolic Nihilist is the only lynch. He hasn't dug his own grave yet, why are you saying he has?

Simply put, I feel like he's acting really different than what I've seen of him otherwise.  His overall flavor has changed, and I don't trust such a sudden change in behavior.  I'm not saying he's the only lynch; I'm saying that, at the moment, he seems like the optimal lynch.

Sure, maybe we want to spend all our time dicking around in the stage that comes right after random-voting, where everyone is still voting someone different and no one knows what to do.  My hope is that if I start pressing for a lynch, I'll be able to monitor others' behavior and make more sense of it.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 13, 2009, 10:02:36 pm
@Org

I will if I have to. 

@ all

Still waiting on Nuke to reply with something other than:

1. Someone else's argument quoted up
2. Another "You are scum" post
3. A barrel full of WIFOM

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 14, 2009, 02:11:26 am
OK... one night and votes get flung around like crazy. Can we vote No Lynch in this game?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 14, 2009, 09:51:35 am
Unvote.

OK... one night and votes get flung around like crazy. Can we vote No Lynch in this game?
What, so you can protect your scummy self, Exkirby?  After all, a NL means the mafia can't be hit, right?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 14, 2009, 10:22:21 am
OK... one night and votes get flung around like crazy. Can we vote No Lynch in this game?
Yes.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 14, 2009, 10:55:59 am
With 9 people, traditionally there are 2 mafia (since 3 means one mislynch puts us in Lylo)

So with 9 people and 2 mafia, we get 3 mislynches before it's game over and 1 additional lynch if we hit a mafia. 

However, if we nolynch, we officially lose a mislynch and, thus, end up with 2 mislynches before game over, with 1 additional if we catch a mafia


So, if we no lynch now, we lose one of our lynches later.


No lynch has possibilities near the end game, especially if you end up with even numbers (BM3 demonstrated that, although it was mafia that suggested it).  For odd numbers like this and in the beginning game, we need those lynches. 

The only other condition I can think of is if we just no lynch over and over.  That'll drag the game out to 5 days then put us to Lylo.  It gives power roles 4 nights to discover something, 2 additional than traditional methods. 

That's insanely risky, however.  We don't know the power roles that are out there.  We don't know what we'll get on the 5th day.  Also, with the mass of nolynches, we'll have no discussion, no communication, and, thus, no tools to work with.  Even the mafia kills won't be useful since there's no day game to link player behavior with kills. 

As such, I say no to No Lynch.  We're not playing around pointing fingers at each other randomly here.  What goes on now creates the wonderful analysis and discussion you love in later days.  To get that, though, we need this day.  Giving it up is giving everything to raw chance and risk. 
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 14, 2009, 11:10:38 am
Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - NUKE9.13, Vector
ExKirby - Pandarsenic, dakarian, Leafsnail
dakarian - ExKirby, Org
Pandarsenic - Apostolic Nihilist
Vector - Mr.Person
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 14, 2009, 12:03:15 pm
Unvote.

OK... one night and votes get flung around like crazy. Can we vote No Lynch in this game?
What, so you can protect your scummy self, Exkirby?  After all, a NL means the mafia can't be hit, right?
Woah. Sorry, I just thought things were getting out of hand.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 14, 2009, 12:26:30 pm
Out of hand!?

This game was so half dead that the host had to go prod crazy to get some life into it.  The town was out of ideas and pretty darn silent and ready to, at best, no lynch and forget about the day or, at worst, abandon the game.

Now we've gotten past that and starting to get into the meat of the story.  Now we're debating and arguing and trying to come up with content that will be analyzed later.

For example, now I know your argument for my death was vaporware.  You used someone else's argument to try to pin an attack on me and kept flinging side comments to try to ride it out.  When I finally pinned you down to the topic and pressured you, you showed you HAD no argument.

So let me sum up the last few days for you:

You tried to kill me using no proper argument what so ever.

I tore it apart like it was confetti.

Now while you are asking us to no lynch and panicking over what's going on, you have the most votes and are about to be our first lynch.

NOW do you understand?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 14, 2009, 12:55:02 pm
Out of hand!?

This game was so half dead that the host had to go prod crazy to get some life into it.  The town was out of ideas and pretty darn silent and ready to, at best, no lynch and forget about the day or, at worst, abandon the game.

Now we've gotten past that and starting to get into the meat of the story.  Now we're debating and arguing and trying to come up with content that will be analyzed later.

For example, now I know your argument for my death was vaporware.  You used someone else's argument to try to pin an attack on me and kept flinging side comments to try to ride it out.  When I finally pinned you down to the topic and pressured you, you showed you HAD no argument.

So let me sum up the last few days for you:

You tried to kill me using no proper argument what so ever.

I tore it apart like it was confetti.

Now while you are asking us to no lynch and panicking over what's going on, you have the most votes and are about to be our first lynch.

NOW do you understand?
You only tore the skin up. From my point of view, it's still informed vs uninformed. And you seem far too informed.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 14, 2009, 01:05:31 pm
You say your argument stands but I had to pull your argument from the archives (and find out it's not even your argument).

You claim I WIFOM but can't bring up when I did it.

You say I'm too informed yet don't explain HOW I know more than the town.


You underestimate your opponent.  10 paragraphs to me is one sentence to you.  I can tear apart your arguments for far longer than you can dream them up.


Of course, that's only good for stopping your debate on me.  I still need to prove you're not just foolish but actually a scum. 

For that, it deserves another post.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 14, 2009, 01:26:46 pm
Meh.. Day 1 analysis in Day 1 is messy. 

You randomvoted Person.  Null tell since we don't know Person.

You then started in on me 'for the color' thing.  When pressed you bring back Nihilist's argument.

The problem: you ignore the fact that I responded to it already.  Instead of presenting an argument against my response he just reflings the same argument before my response. 


This, in truth, is the whole summary of your actual debate.  Everything else you've thrown involves small comments saying I'm scummy.. I did something wrong.. you're confused.. everything's gone crazy.  No scumhunt.  No self thinking.  All you have is someone else's old debate point to fall back on.  The rest is confusion: a scumtrait formed due to the fact that every person who accuse you know is town making it very hard to truly argue for someone's death.

To sum that up: I'm arguing that you ARE an informed minority that can't argue because you know everyone's alignment already.

Now, I wait your response.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 14, 2009, 05:39:56 pm
Game of Assassins on my dorm floor and class in half an hour. Can't refute now.
What is assassins?
It's a game where you are given a target and someone has you as a target and you kill your target without being killed.

You then get the target of the person you killed and so on until you kill the last person or you are killed.

We play with spoons!
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 14, 2009, 05:41:50 pm
BUY

SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON GUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 14, 2009, 05:50:17 pm
BUY

SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON GUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD
I made a glove with spoons on the fingertips. It works better when people fear being clawed by Freddy Kruger.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 14, 2009, 10:29:30 pm
Is there a deadline, or are we endlessly throwing around votes and will ultimately end up in limbo forever?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 14, 2009, 11:08:46 pm
Let's not keep ourselves in limbo.  Ultimately, I think I'm going to have to agree with Dakarian and

Unvote.

Exkirby.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 14, 2009, 11:16:45 pm
This game works differently from others.  Instead of a deadline, there's a Hammer.

Basically, the host is waiting for over half the town to vote on the same person.  The second that happens, that person is considered lynched no matter if the host is there to report it.

Since we have 9 people, it takes 5 people on the same person to lynch.  The SECOND that 5th vote comes in, Exkirby will be lynched and the day is over.  Even if the host doesn't show immediately.. even if someone unvotes right after, it doesn't matter: he's dead and once the host comes it will be night.



With Vector's vote, ExKirby is at 4 votes, known to some as N-1.  At this point, he has as much pressure as you can give him without actually killing him.

Traditionally, we leave him on this point and make him talk to make SURE that the person is scum before killing.  It's not over for him yet: you can be at this point and still live if we pull off (and it's normal to do so) but the time for jokes and 'maybe' comments is OVER.

The last person to put a vote in is called the hammer.  Once that vote goes in, the day is DONE and ExKirby is dead.  Depending on how web is playing this, he might not even allow him or anyone else to talk after that point even if the host hasn't showed up.  In case that's true, it's best to get EVERYTHING you want to say to him and us out NOW before that happens.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 14, 2009, 11:51:23 pm
L-1, you mean.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 15, 2009, 12:05:29 am
Er... wouldn't that mean that this game could theoretically drag on forever, very easily? Especially once we get down to the lower numbers. I guess that just means all players have to be active. Lurkers are something we cannot tolerate, then.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 15, 2009, 12:25:48 am
This game works differently from others.  Instead of a deadline, there's a Hammer.

Basically, the host is waiting for over half the town to vote on the same person.  The second that happens, that person is considered lynched no matter if the host is there to report it.

Since we have 9 people, it takes 5 people on the same person to lynch.  The SECOND that 5th vote comes in, Exkirby will be lynched and the day is over.  Even if the host doesn't show immediately.. even if someone unvotes right after, it doesn't matter: he's dead and once the host comes it will be night.



With Vector's vote, ExKirby is at 4 votes, known to some as N-1.  At this point, he has as much pressure as you can give him without actually killing him.

Traditionally, we leave him on this point and make him talk to make SURE that the person is scum before killing.  It's not over for him yet: you can be at this point and still live if we pull off (and it's normal to do so) but the time for jokes and 'maybe' comments is OVER.

The last person to put a vote in is called the hammer.  Once that vote goes in, the day is DONE and ExKirby is dead.  Depending on how web is playing this, he might not even allow him or anyone else to talk after that point even if the host hasn't showed up.  In case that's true, it's best to get EVERYTHING you want to say to him and us out NOW before that happens.
Quite. When the hammer happens, further talking will result in some severe modkilling. Best pay attention, lest ye wind up dead.

Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - NUKE9.13
ExKirby - Pandarsenic, dakarian, Leafsnail, Vector
dakarian - ExKirby, Org
Pandarsenic - Apostolic Nihilist
Vector - Mr.Person
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 15, 2009, 12:35:30 am
If individuals decide to overlurk or just plain flake, the mod then starts prodding, then replacing them.  Note we have a karma system so such things are now tracked.

If the town as a whole starts to drag on, web CAN establish a deadline.  It's usually a bad sign since it means we aren't attacking/asking questions/analyzing or other assorted scumhunting.  There's really NO reason for us NOT to keep talking until all mafia are 100% known.

note, the person under fire, ExKirby, has an odd playing time so bear in mind that all of the questions we have for him won't get addressed until we're all mostly away from the comp.

Also note: at this point is IS best for us to give him a chance to speak before lynching him off.  I know I'm still at the "deeply question him" phase.  When I get to "Ok, he needs to die" you'll spot it very easily.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 15, 2009, 01:44:14 am
Eh... I saw no answers, dak. But, if it makes people happy, Unvote. I can't see anyone else acting on suspision though.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 15, 2009, 02:01:10 am
Very well.  Pulling from your past post, which, was simply hanging on another person's argument:

Quote
Let's consider the scenarios:

A) There is a role which has a list of all the colours (and the roles that they have)

B) Scum have a list of all the colours (and the roles that they have)

C) This is a ploy by webadict to spread distrust throughout us all.


If B is true, then claiming our colours is the worst thing we can possibly do. If A is true, it's still bad, but not as bad. If C is true, it doesn't really matter either way. If A is true, then there's likely another role which can determine the colour someone has, but not the role.

Now, our lack of knowledge regarding this can be used by clever mafia very easily. They can try and trick us into thinking that:

A) Our colours mean nothing (if they do; they'll try and get us to claim in an effort to prove their theory while simultaneously getting a list of who has what role )
or
B) Our colours mean something (if they don't, then they'll try and spread misinformation, suggesting that our colours are important/do mean something and anyone who colour claims will immediately appear scummy. Admittedly, alone, there aren't many foreseeable advantages to this, but if there is a role that determines colours, and that role thinks that the colours mean something, then much fun could be had.)

Anyone suggesting that we claim our colours is scummy, Dakarian. I may have been more accurate with my random vote than I thought.

Furthermore, you say that your colour doesn't fit your role; this implies that you have a role which doesn't suit your colour.
Ex: Blue cop, green doctor, red mafia.

Since the only thing you added was WIFOM I imagine this is the inkstain.

As I said before, my color (red) does NOT fit my role.  Matched with my belief that there's a better chance that the colors are something to either red herring us (though that's more recently) or cause us trouble (original idea) than it is something that benefits the mafia, I do not see a problem with us learning more about our colors.

That's the reasoning behind my actions.

So far, your only response from you is WIFOM. 


If you believe I'm just plain old lying and that's that then you DON'T have an argument for me and you just want me dead.  Take responsibility then and get the town after me.  If you believe my argument mostly but still have some specific issue then stop referencing and voice them specifically.  If you believe me and you have nothing to add then what's left for you to consider me scummy?



This = not answers?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 15, 2009, 02:05:11 am
Oh. Looks like my eyes aren't working properly.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 15, 2009, 02:35:17 am
Less fussing, more responding.

Is that a proper answer?

Did I miss an issue you still have?

Or do you still call me a liar?


Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 15, 2009, 02:41:27 am
Shit, I forgot to unvote Org.

That reminds me, I have a randomvote to continue. ExKirby, what do you think the colors mean?

Hey Pandar.

You're WILLING to lynch your randomvote when all you had was a small question for him?


If all you had was a randomvote.. why is you vote still on him?

If you have more, why do I have to distract my own bandwagon just to pull it out of you?

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 15, 2009, 04:19:17 am
Because honestly, I haven't been paying much attention to this mafia. :V
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 15, 2009, 08:42:51 am
Consider my FOS a prod then.  Wake up and talk.  If I can get ExKirby to give more than one line non-answers you might be next on the spotlight.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 15, 2009, 10:31:29 am
Less fussing, more responding.

Is that a proper answer?

Did I miss an issue you still have?

Or do you still call me a liar?



In order, Yes, Yes, No.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 15, 2009, 10:49:32 am
Very well.. a proposal when you get back ExKirby.

1.  Get that vote OFF of me.

2. Get it ON someone else. 

3.  No Lynch and staying on Unvote are NOT options. 

If you don't have a reason to suspect someone, then find a reason.  I still don't mind this being your last day, but we're not done what we need to do this day. 

Oh, and no, 'ok, I'll do it' posts.  Lurk, and you'll get prodded.  Post anything BUT a vote change +   reason and I'll find someone to use that hammer.

Unvote    Vote Pandarsenic

Normally, when asked "Why you are still voting." Those that don't have an answer Unvote.  Why are you content to watch other games without caring if a scum or town dies here?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 15, 2009, 11:59:59 am
Very well.. a proposal when you get back ExKirby.

1.  Get that vote OFF of me.

2. Get it ON someone else. 

3.  No Lynch and staying on Unvote are NOT options. 

If you don't have a reason to suspect someone, then find a reason.  I still don't mind this being your last day, but we're not done what we need to do this day. 

Oh, and no, 'ok, I'll do it' posts.  Lurk, and you'll get prodded.  Post anything BUT a vote change +   reason and I'll find someone to use that hammer.

Unvote    Vote Pandarsenic

Normally, when asked "Why you are still voting." Those that don't have an answer Unvote.  Why are you content to watch other games without caring if a scum or town dies here?
Err... come again?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 15, 2009, 12:02:58 pm
To repeat.

Find someone you think is scum.. vote for them, and tell us why.

We're going to kill SOMEONE today.   If you don't want it to be you then find some scum.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 15, 2009, 04:32:29 pm
Er, now that I've been enlightened as to the whole 'no deadline, 5 votes to hammer' thing, disregard all of my previous arguments. Any decision will have to have almost unanimous town consent to pass which makes it a good deal more difficult for scum. Their best play is probably befriending town and providing convincing arguments; WIFOM here isn't really useful.

My vote is still on Pandarsenic, by the way. I think I was blind when I defended NUKE earlier; I'm finding his reactions to be scummy, too.

Also, (I may not be alone in thinking this) but ExKirby's answers seemed very obviously ambivalent. He doesn't strike me as scum but as lazy town. He'll be a good fallback lynch if we can't find anyone else.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 15, 2009, 09:14:10 pm
Also, (I may not be alone in thinking this) but ExKirby's answers seemed very obviously ambivalent. He doesn't strike me as scum but as lazy town. He'll be a good fallback lynch if we can't find anyone else.

So, I played with him recently as town, and he's not behaving anything like he was then.  I really think he's scum and am waiting for him to do something that makes him more townish.

We really need to kill someone, doods >_>  Knowing we're getting scum is good, but if the entire town gets exhausted before we kill anyone things are going to be bad.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 16, 2009, 01:36:24 am
Also, (I may not be alone in thinking this) but ExKirby's answers seemed very obviously ambivalent. He doesn't strike me as scum but as lazy town. He'll be a good fallback lynch if we can't find anyone else.

So, I played with him recently as town, and he's not behaving anything like he was then.  I really think he's scum and am waiting for him to do something that makes him more townish.

We really need to kill someone, doods >_>  Knowing we're getting scum is good, but if the entire town gets exhausted before we kill anyone things are going to be bad.
What, so when I try a new tactic you all go against me?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Vector on October 16, 2009, 01:46:39 am
So, I played with him recently as town, and he's not behaving anything like he was then.  I really think he's scum and am waiting for him to do something that makes him more townish.

We really need to kill someone, doods >_>  Knowing we're getting scum is good, but if the entire town gets exhausted before we kill anyone things are going to be bad.
What, so when I try a new tactic you all go against me?

No, when you change your behavior I go against you.  I don't trust changing things.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 16, 2009, 02:54:42 am
Whenever you change your tactic, those that are using your meta will be more suspicious of you.

Whenever you use a tactic that causes you to look worse against certain players, those people will think worse of you.


You can change your tactics, but always be prepared for the backlash of suspicion and be ready to stand for it. 


i.e. the fact that you're still not trying to scumhunt is really really bothering me.  That you need to defend is irrelevant, since it just takes typing two posts: one to defend, one to attack.  Ignore folks that don't like it (i.e. the 'deflecting' argument) because they are fools that would vote for you no matter what you do.


Meanwhile, I think Pandar either needs a prod.  If he's actually here but lurking, then a lynch instead.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 16, 2009, 03:16:17 am
I'm here, I'm here.

...

I'm gone again. I'd prefer you not lynch me but I won't throw a fit defending myself if you decide to because I'm tired and I'm going to sleep but first I need to shower and then that'll be like 2 o'clock my time and then I have class at 9 so I'll have to wake up at 8 to be there on time which I clearly won't succeed at so I'll get there like 15-30 minutes late and oh WHATEVER I'm going now.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 16, 2009, 07:55:04 am
That gave me memories of my own college life.

:P
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 16, 2009, 11:27:56 am
I'm here, I'm here.

...

I'm gone again. I'd prefer you not lynch me but I won't throw a fit defending myself if you decide to because I'm tired and I'm going to sleep but first I need to shower and then that'll be like 2 o'clock my time and then I have class at 9 so I'll have to wake up at 8 to be there on time which I clearly won't succeed at so I'll get there like 15-30 minutes late and oh WHATEVER I'm going now.

Well, do make sure you actually post some content when you get back.

Whenever you change your tactic, those that are using your meta will be more suspicious of you.

Whenever you use a tactic that causes you to look worse against certain players, those people will think worse of you.


You can change your tactics, but always be prepared for the backlash of suspicion and be ready to stand for it. 


i.e. the fact that you're still not trying to scumhunt is really really bothering me.  That you need to defend is irrelevant, since it just takes typing two posts: one to defend, one to attack.  Ignore folks that don't like it (i.e. the 'deflecting' argument) because they are fools that would vote for you no matter what you do.


Meanwhile, I think Pandar either needs a prod.  If he's actually here but lurking, then a lynch instead.

There are good deflections and there are bad deflections. The difference is realizing when the deflector is only trying to get suspicion off themself  and onto the deflectee and isn't really scumhunting as campared to trying to see if other people are scum and maybe get the town to actually lynch some scum. It's kind of a hard distinction to be made, but it's only as hard as telling a town player apart from a scum player in a normal game.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 16, 2009, 11:49:27 am
That's true, but I was framing the statement to fight the "I don't want to attack because it makes me look scummy" crowd.  I also get the 'deflection' argument on me since I get more aggressive the move votes on me in a rush to try to get my words  out before a lynch.

Moral is: even if others think you are scum for it, do it anyway.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 16, 2009, 02:48:38 pm
Feh. I slept through my lectures today anyway.

... Don't wanna post content. ;_; Soon, though. Srsly.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 16, 2009, 02:53:52 pm
Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - NUKE9.13
ExKirby - Pandarsenic, Leafsnail, Vector
dakarian - Org
Pandarsenic - Apostolic Nihilist, dakarian
Vector - Mr.Person
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 16, 2009, 04:47:27 pm
there's a line between when a person is just dealing with RL and when a person is active lurking while riding their RL to keep from posting.

I still believe the former.  However, you're on the line now.  Besides, I'm making it clear that I dislike "Oh, sorry I wasn't around" non-content posts in general. 

Ex I STILL waiting for his attempt to scumhunt.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 16, 2009, 05:07:51 pm
You'll probably get my rough impressions of people in my reread over anything specific, but I had another speculation: Our colors might, perhaps, be related to the sanity or other hidden traits of the role. For instance, blue might be sane cop, sane doctor, etc., and say, pink cop might be naive cop or 0% cop and 0% doctor.

That sort of thing.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 16, 2009, 05:12:28 pm
Are we still suspicious of NUKE9.13 for his jump on Org, King of Easy Lynches?

Also, something seems off about Dakarian and Apostolic Nihilist, though I couldn't tell you what or why. :I
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 16, 2009, 06:18:36 pm
We are nonexistant.

You are voting for absolutely no reason what so ever and don't seem to worry about it.  I have a vote on you because you're stalling like CRAZY.

the passive accusation is even worse. 

As for the colors.. we just won't know until they start coming to effect.  I've taken to the stance that they are best left alone for now. 


Imo, the rough impression is..ok, but i'd rather have a direct attack against someone with a vote to match. 
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 16, 2009, 06:24:37 pm
I'd vote Nuke but that would-

Wait, no deadlines, Hammer only.

Right.

Unvote anyone I was voting because I honestly don't know if I'm voting someone now. NUKE9.13, why would you do that?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 16, 2009, 06:29:34 pm
@Pandar

Better.. though what are you referring to?


@Web

Either I missed some recent posts or Nuke needs a prod badly
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 16, 2009, 06:30:38 pm
Pages 2 & 3 on largest-size pageview, possibly just 3, he insisted Org was scum based on an old scumtell.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 16, 2009, 09:20:03 pm
 :P

Dont be mean Web. Just playing Last Stand.....a little to much.....

Old scumtell is old.

I am the king. I rule with an iron fist.

I actually think Pandar might be right about the colors. Or they are nothing. :I

I am not lurking actively, more of a passive lurking, if you will.

I will stick to my convictions.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 16, 2009, 09:31:34 pm
heh.. call Org's name and he calls to protect himself.

Even though the topic is how the one who attacked him was wrong.

Hyperdefensive I see Org.  Also good to know that you are trying to lay low and not just 'busy'.


@pandar

So basically you are trying to lynch someone based on MY argument, even to the point of using MY words for it.

A tip: Next time you want to hide your scumminess, put your vote on me.  I instaattack those that mimic my arguments to support me.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 16, 2009, 09:32:42 pm
Are we still suspicious of NUKE9.13 for his jump on Org, King of Easy Lynches?

Also, something seems off about Dakarian and Apostolic Nihilist, though I couldn't tell you what or why. :I

Unvote. Perhaps it's the fact they're voting you, Pandarsenic? Where I come from, OMGUS'ing people, even with a FoS, is very scummy. Maybe if you went into detail as to why you think they're scum?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Org on October 16, 2009, 09:42:11 pm
heh.. call Org's name and he calls to protect himself.

Even though the topic is how the one who attacked him was wrong.

Hyperdefensive I see Org.  Also good to know that you are trying to lay low and not just 'busy'.


@pandar

So basically you are trying to lynch someone based on MY argument, even to the point of using MY words for it.

A tip: Next time you want to hide your scumminess, put your vote on me.  I instaattack those that mimic my arguments to support me.
What. I actually was just going through and answering posts. I was not laying low, what I meant was that I could be posting some but have other things to do. :I
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 16, 2009, 10:03:00 pm
You didn't have much to say during most of the debate

Yet when your name shows up here you are. 

Interesting. 
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 16, 2009, 10:11:33 pm
Terribly sorry about not being as active as I'd like.
Unvote.

In response to Pandarsenic's comment about me seeming 'off'; it's probably because of Dakarian's blatant defense of me. That's not to say it's unappreciated — it was quite timely. I'm going to be more suspicious of him because of it, though. It seems like he's trying to buddy with me, but I'm not sure.

I guess it makes sense why he'd want to defend me from a town point of view — if he thinks I'm town, then lynching me simply wastes a day; but it also makes sense from a scum POV, so I'm conflicted towards him right now.

Dakarian's prior arguments against NUKE hinged on a few miscomprehended sentences, but I don't think he's just quite cleared yet.

ExKirby's behaviour is radically different as opposed to previous games. It would take significant effort to eliminate habits. I assume he's been plunged into a situation he's unfamiliar with, probably a role. Vigilante or SK, perhaps? He may even be scum. We need more information out of him at the very least. You obviously aren't a vanilla townie. Your accusations had no substance and nothing backing them up, most simply bandwagons. Unless—ah. Apparently 'jester' is a possible role. That would explain your sudden change in behaviour and the reason why you refused to back up your statements. Have anything to say?

Pandarsenic; I found you suspicious and I pressed. There's someone else I need to deal with now, but your suspicions still stand.

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 16, 2009, 10:26:35 pm
heh.. call Org's name and he calls to protect himself.

Even though the topic is how the one who attacked him was wrong.

Hyperdefensive I see Org.  Also good to know that you are trying to lay low and not just 'busy'.


@pandar

So basically you are trying to lynch someone based on MY argument, even to the point of using MY words for it.

A tip: Next time you want to hide your scumminess, put your vote on me.  I instaattack those that mimic my arguments to support me.
Old Argument or not, the point remains and is valid. If you're not using it, I will. >:c

Mr.Person: If you think I'm aware of who's voting me, you're sadly mistaken.

Apostolic: Not that - I try not to look for scum pairs. However, his defense of you could be buddying, might not be. Meh, just WIFOM. Best not to touch that.

AN, is Jester on the Roles In Play list?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 16, 2009, 10:27:19 pm
EBWOP: Wait, we're only told about colors. Never mind.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 16, 2009, 10:31:30 pm
Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - NUKE9.13
ExKirby - Leafsnail, Vector, Apostolic Nihilist
dakarian - Org
Pandarsenic - dakarian
NUKE9.13 - Pandarsenic, Mr.Person

I wonder if any other game in Bay12 will last longer than this one?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 16, 2009, 10:43:16 pm
The hammer dramatically changes the style for one thing.  The town can't just rely on the deadline to decide for it.  Now we have to actively think "do we want this person dead?". 

Note I havn't actually aimed to kill yet.  That's keeping me from wanting the lynch just yet. 

OTOH, half the day was spent with the game mostly dead.  The town's only JUST started to wake up and get active. 

So this may last a long time, but it's not being wasted, that's for sure.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 16, 2009, 10:57:19 pm
Aaaand Pandarsenic dodges my question. Very nice. Webadict, I'm voting Pandarsenic, not Nuke. Try again.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 16, 2009, 11:11:07 pm
Go fuck a goat. I answered your question. It's quite clearly "No, I would have to know they were voting me to react to them voting me."
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 16, 2009, 11:30:50 pm
Go fuck a goat. I answered your question. It's quite clearly "No, I would have to know they were voting me to react to them voting me."

Well, I really wanted to know why you thought they were scum, since you never mentioned that.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Pandarsenic on October 16, 2009, 11:38:43 pm
Also, something seems off about Dakarian and Apostolic Nihilist, though I couldn't tell you what or why. :I

something seems off about Dakarian and Apostolic Nihilist, though I couldn't tell you what or why. :I

Dakarian and Apostolic Nihilist, though I couldn't tell you what or why.

though I couldn't tell you what or why.

Also, I couldn't tell you what or why.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 16, 2009, 11:40:43 pm
Epic.  100 points :D
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 17, 2009, 12:30:42 am
Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - NUKE9.13
ExKirby - Leafsnail, Vector, Apostolic Nihilist
dakarian - Org
Pandarsenic - dakarian, Mr.Person
NUKE9.13 - Pandarsenic

Fixed?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 17, 2009, 07:05:44 am
Yes I needed a prod.

Panda: I had no reason to suspect org. My reason for voting for him was to create discussion, suspicions, draw out scumtells, ect. The reason I felt it necessary to do so is that the 'RVS' is absolutely useless these days; accusations are ignored and mafia and town all behave the same way.

Anyway
One of the reasons I have been constantly postponing posting is that nothing is happening. Nothing interesting, anyway.

Who do I find suspicious?
Dakarian- Well. Seemed quite rushed in the early part of the day. Accused me of lying- kind of odd thing to do. As in, why would I lie like that? Only if I was a true idiot might I contemplate hoping that no one would check to see if I was telling the truth and would just bandwagon leafsnail to lynch. And calling out for people to claim colours; odd. I guess he might of just not considered that the mafia could quite possibly know what the colours mean. But that seems a little silly. He is very active though. Not trying to avoid attention, certainly. Still, if I was an investigative role, I would investigate him.
Apostolic Nihilist- His 'Day one is useless' argument. It is wrong, so very very wrong. He might just not know that, though.
ExKirby- Nervous. Hiding behind AN's argument. Which is wrong. ExKirby is not that new to mafia, so he should know that day one is useful. I guess he might not, though.
My fellow lurkers- Bad lurkers! Bad! Get out here and answer each of the following questions!
-Would you believe that ExKirby did not know day one is useful?
-Who do you consider the most suspicious player right now?
-Why were you lurking?
-If you were the doctor or equivalent, who would you protect tonight? (if the day ended right now with a no lynch)

My own answers:
-70% no.
-Dakarian, probably.
-Well, I meant to post something once or twice. But the posts were contentless, so I spent hours having them in a tab, trying to think of a good reply whilst reading webcomics or something. Eventually I would give up and close the tab. Then web poked me, and I realised I was really lurking. Oops.
-ExKirby. I bet the scum would love the wifom of killing the most suspected player.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 17, 2009, 08:47:08 am
Quicknote:

You wonder why I seem rushed with my accusations...


But the only reason you have your analysis of those people (including me) is BECAUSE of my 'rushed accusations'.  Everyone I havn't touched yet is lurking and those I have are active.

That's not a coincidence.  That's scumhunting. 

RVS didn't work.  Randomquestion didn't work.  Randomaccusations.. .oh, that works well, especially when you include a bandwagon.

Yes, the claim of you lying is included.. it got you to explain yourself instead of lurk.  It also meant I wouldn't have to bring it up uselessly later on because you already explained it. 



Now what I don't like are 'what would you do as a doctor' questions.  How is THAT useful to the town?  On the other hand, I HAVE seen it useful for the mafia, since they learn who the town feels is 'most trusting' (you tend to protect those you believe are pro-town). 

Passive accusations aren't much better. 

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 17, 2009, 09:22:55 am
Quicknote:

You wonder why I seem rushed with my accusations...


But the only reason you have your analysis of those people (including me) is BECAUSE of my 'rushed accusations'.  Everyone I havn't touched yet is lurking and those I have are active.

That's not a coincidence.  That's scumhunting. 

RVS didn't work.  Randomquestion didn't work.  Randomaccusations.. .oh, that works well, especially when you include a bandwagon.

Yes, the claim of you lying is included.. it got you to explain yourself instead of lurk.  It also meant I wouldn't have to bring it up uselessly later on because you already explained it. 



Now what I don't like are 'what would you do as a doctor' questions.  How is THAT useful to the town?  On the other hand, I HAVE seen it useful for the mafia, since they learn who the town feels is 'most trusting' (you tend to protect those you believe are pro-town). 

Passive accusations aren't much better. 



So what about the question: "Who do you think is town and why?" Do you think that question is good for scum? It's pretty much the same thing, but it's a good question, imo. Also, your claim that everyone who's active is someone you've prodded and everyone's who lurking is someone you haven't prodded is, of course, a lie. Now why would you make such an outrageous claim like that when you know it's not actually true. Sure, the people you've prodded are active, yes, but there are active people you didn't prod.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 17, 2009, 09:52:33 am
'who you think is town' I don't like but now we're getting more personal than regular theory.  There's town uses for it is viewed properly.  Worst case is that you cause the cop to give up their innocent inspections (when past day 1). 

I 'personally' don't like it because I'd rather a town focus more on 'who is scum', but changing up the questions isn't so bad.

Role questions, though, are less useful for town, help to show the mafia who might get hit with that power (if the town is thinking it, the doc is thinking it.  Yes you could misdirect them but now you're also misdirecting the town too).  An added fear is if the real role answers the question in a way that gets the mafia's attention.

As for the claim.. it's hyperbole and brovado.  I didn't do much research.  I WILL say, though, that the town was going into silent-lurk before I shook the tree.  Point was to demonstrate the rational behind my attacks, which Nuke put up to question: to scumhunt while waking up the town. 

I'm not fully sure it's not true with a slight stretch.  I CAN actually feel I can bet that the activity of the day is by either me accusing a person, someone who noticed something during my accusations, or someone who found something odd about what I said.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 17, 2009, 11:07:53 am
So dakarian
Who do you think is town?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 17, 2009, 11:58:24 am
Me, DUHH!!

No one is confirmed as a townie, or even to the point of being 'town' but that's dodging the real question.  I DO put people into 'possible' catagories that will change as things go on soooo.

Note, this is without a deep analysis. 

Nihilist I'm currently considering for possible 'novice town'.

Org was a Reformed Townie: I townie done with acting silly and trying to be aggressive.  He's gone active so I'm reevalating.  That's not a bad thing: it's just to keep me up to date.

Don't know Person, but I like his last post. 

The rest are either worrying me or flying under the radar. 
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: ExKirby on October 17, 2009, 02:40:18 pm
Yes, Apolic. I'm the Jester. Well it doesn't really matter, does it? I'm screwed beyond belief anyway! "Whee, let's all go fo the easy lynch!" Seriously. One game, I get day 1 screwed for following people's advice. Here, I do the opposite and stick to who i think is scum and I'm screwed. Sheesh, this community is not being fair on me.

*sigh* Sorry if I seem a little more offensive as per usual-the people on the IB Forums have made me overly sad. Leafsnail, if you want the details, PM me.

Oh, and Vote Me.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 17, 2009, 03:03:23 pm
Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - NUKE9.13
ExKirby - Leafsnail, Vector, Apostolic Nihilist, ExKirby
dakarian - Org
Pandarsenic - dakarian, Mr.Person
NUKE9.13 - Pandarsenic
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 17, 2009, 03:10:21 pm
Wait what you are the jester?
Is that what you are saying?
Jester that makes everyone else loose when lynched?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 17, 2009, 03:20:50 pm
A jester in a game of this size shouldn't make everyone else lose when lynched.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 17, 2009, 04:08:34 pm
...my suspicion was right? I doubt that. It's possible he's scum trying to get the votes off of himself.
If he's dead tonight by NK then we'll know the truth. Scum shouldn't want him to win, so they should probably kill him... unless he is scum.
Unvote.

Sadly, this means we're back virtually nothing.
Also, just to reiterate: My argument wasn't so much, "Day 1 is useless," as it was, "Day 1 lynches based on random question answers are useless,"

I'll answer NUKE's questions simply because.

-Would you believe that ExKirby did not know day one is useful?


 I think ExKirby is scum pretending to be jester. He wasn't sure how to act, someone called him out on his scummy behaviour and then he said he was a jester to cover it up. A jester roleclaiming as jester doesn't make much sense as it only serves to get the votes off of you -- you want people to lynch you. Scum roleclaiming jester, however, makes much more sense.


-Who do you consider the most suspicious player right now?


ExKirby. See the above paragraph for why.

-Why were you lurking?

Because everyone else was! That's an atrocious reason, actually. I was lurking because no one else was posting and I didn't really see any point in tearing apart everyone else's random vote answers sentence by sentence.

-If you were the doctor or equivalent, who would you protect tonight? (if the day ended right now with a no lynch)


Definitely not ExKirby. Besides that, it doesn't really matter — he's who scum should go after unless they want to lose.

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 17, 2009, 04:12:46 pm
Yes, Apolic. I'm the Jester. Well it doesn't really matter, does it? I'm screwed beyond belief anyway! "Whee, let's all go fo the easy lynch!" Seriously. One game, I get day 1 screwed for following people's advice. Here, I do the opposite and stick to who i think is scum and I'm screwed. Sheesh, this community is not being fair on me.

*sigh* Sorry if I seem a little more offensive as per usual-the people on the IB Forums have made me overly sad. Leafsnail, if you want the details, PM me.

Oh, and Vote Me.

You aren't being offensive.. just overreactive.

I applied PRESSURE on you.  That's really all that was, even right down to the near lynch.  I forced you to talk.  You DIDN'T just follow the crowd and because of it, I pulled off you and went for Panda.  Now you have 3 people on you and not really THAT close to a lynch.

I actually put you in a "wait an see" section: not townish but not ready to lynch.  I definitely wouldn't have put the hammer on you. 

Not following the crowd will bring you suspicion (though if you realized, EVERYTHING brings suspicion..or should) but should not bring a lynch.  In fact, I notice now that the folks with their vote on you are...well... one person is trying to use half-formed meta on you while another, unless I'm reading it wrong (did a quick read) doesn't realize he's still voting for you.  You aren't under direct threat to be killed.


In other words, your change up worked..  risky.. dangerous.. but it kept you alive.


You're outburst though.. ruined you.  Why?  Because I don't think you're the joker.


Joker has their requirements CLEAR as day: they need to be lynched to win.  Let's put aside the whole 'town dies/no town survives' deal and think about it.  You are complaining that te town is trying to kill you while holding a role who's only goal.. ONLY GOAL is to be town killed?  Shouldn't you be happy?  Shouldn't you be going "MAN!  Dakarian dropped his vote.. how can I make him attack me again?"  Shouldn't you be hoping to 'get screwed'?


Instead you tell us you are a jester?  Why?  If we believe you, you will not only avoid getting lynched-the key to you winning-but you'll die by the mafia-who, if they believe the 'jester wins, all else lose' theory would REALLY want you dead.

So either you forgot your role saying you WANT to die, you're VERY good at reverse psychology, or, what I believe, you paniced and tried to scare us with that Jester role.


If you ARE the jester.. you just won.  However, I honestly believe, all that will happen is that you die.

Unvote,  Vote  ExKirby

Fake Edit:

#*&$ Apostolic If he's jester he WOULDN'T want to stop the lynch.  he's LYING!
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 17, 2009, 04:23:08 pm
You're right, he wouldn't want to stop the lynch. However, I suspect it's possible that ExKirby orchestrated this; he could be more clever than we're giving him credit for. What's the best way to draw attention to you and gather more votes? By doing something jester would never do — roleclaiming. We all know he's either scum or jester, so he eliminates the possibility that he's jester by roleclaiming him.


Anyone seeing this will immediately think, "Hey, obviously scum just trying to get votes off himself," and then vote for him.
After all, no jester would roleclaim jester (I'm assuming ExKirby knows this much) so now everyone should think that he's scum. It's the best move to make as jester.


We'll know for sure by tomorrow; scum should want to eliminate him by NK so he can't win. If he isn't killed, then he's scum and we lynch him D2.

Actually, Dakarian; I don't see how you didn't realize this while writing that huge post. You seemed a bit eager to hammer him, don't you think? There's a high chance that he's jester.

Why do you want ExKirby to get rid of him right now and probably let him win, when we could just wait until tonight? Do you not want to waste your NK on him?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 17, 2009, 04:27:17 pm
— Actually, Dakarian's actions make sense if we consider one thing.

ExKirby is actually scum.
Dakarian lynches ExKirby, who claimed jester. ExKirby flips scum. No one would lynch their scumbuddy D1. Dakarian is cleared of suspicion.

Is this possible? Yes. Is it likely? No.
It is, however, the only way to absolutely ensure that jester loses.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 17, 2009, 04:36:18 pm
If I believed he was the jester and I was the mafia.. WHY in the WORLD would I want him lynched?  If the 'jester wins, else loses' kicks in, mafia loses if the jester dies. 

No.  If I was mafia, I would run from that vote.  Instead, I would just let him stew since it's a non-power role and his presence would upset the town. 

You say he's smart.  If he is and he's the jester, why would a smart man try to stop a bandwagon with this mess?  3 votes already on him and it wouldn't take much to get the rest of us going. 

That's a crazy gamble.  It's less crazy for a mafia to claim jester and let the town go nuts with the WIFOM.


Seriously.. "I'm the jester, so I'll get people to vote for me by claiming I'm the jester?"  Even if he's smart enough (can't say he isn't) that's balliser than a mafia screaming that he's mafia to get people to stop voting for them.   He may be that smart, but I don't think he's that crazy.

Fakeedit:

Apostolic.. simply put.. Stop feeding the town WIFOM.

"He's claimed jester, but that's what he wants us to think"

"Dakarian is trying to kill the 'jester' when scum would rather kill the jester..but that's what he wants us to think"

"Dakarian is trying to kill scum.. but that's what he wants us to think"

WIFOM kills towns dead.  Suspect me if you must but stop trying to 'outguess' me.  It doesn't help anyone.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 17, 2009, 04:41:05 pm
Fair enough. Let's lynch him and see what happens.
ExKirby.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 17, 2009, 04:48:57 pm
Eep
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 17, 2009, 05:10:44 pm
Nothing
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: dakarian on October 17, 2009, 05:23:20 pm
Eep!
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 1)
Post by: webadict on October 17, 2009, 07:44:29 pm
HEY! I SAID NO TALKING AFTER HAMMER! DO I NEED TO MODKILL YOU? EDIT YOUR POSTS RIGHT NOW TO CONTAIN NOTHING!

Vote Count (5 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - NUKE9.13
ExKirby - Leafsnail, Vector, ExKirby, dakarian, Apostolic Nihilist
dakarian - Org
Pandarsenic - dakarian, Mr.Person
NUKE9.13 - Pandarsenic
[/quote]
ExKirby has been lynched.

ExKirby was a Green. (Town)

It is now Night.

Any posting after this will result in death.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Night 1)
Post by: webadict on October 19, 2009, 01:07:01 pm
Pandarsenic has been killed.

Pandarsenic was a Violet (Town).

Still alive:
NUKE9.13
dakarian
Mr.Person
Vector
Leafsnail
Org
Apostolic Nihilist

It is now Day 2.

Vote Count (4 to Lynch)

Currently none
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 19, 2009, 01:12:44 pm
Right.  So we only roleflip colors rather than roles.  Great.

Green... could correspond to Doctor?  Violent... VT?  I don't know.  Anyone have any ideas?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 19, 2009, 01:44:39 pm
I'm firmly in the 'color=useless to use' camp now.

If color is being used to hide role, then it's not going to bite us in the back in some "OMG everyone is voting for red!" way.  I don't believe the mafia have some color matching chart, but it certainly won't benefit us to look deep into the matter for now.

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 19, 2009, 01:58:49 pm
Goddamit exkirby.
Can we pick some karma offa him for trying to lose? I mean seriously. Not cool.

Anyway moving on.
Leafsnail why do you reckon pandarsenic got NK'd?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 19, 2009, 02:06:09 pm
Not sure.  He hasn't posted for a while.  I think the scum might've been going for a safe bet that wouldn't reveal much about them, or something.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 19, 2009, 10:14:25 pm
Guess we'll need to wake some people up again.

Vote Mr.Person


Vector
Org
Apostolic Nihilist

WAKE UP!
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Vector on October 19, 2009, 10:20:09 pm
Yar.  Just here to tell you that I'll be back soon, but have to reread the thread to get anything productive done.  Will return after finishing the last polish on my essay and a little math work.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Vector on October 19, 2009, 11:02:07 pm
Er... wouldn't that mean that this game could theoretically drag on forever, very easily? Especially once we get down to the lower numbers. I guess that just means all players have to be active. Lurkers are something we cannot tolerate, then.

Yup.  I tend to agree.  Apostolic Nihilist, get out here.  Your jig is up.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 20, 2009, 12:02:52 am
That was probably one of the worst lynches possible. Their colours didn't reveal anything whatsoever.
Green & Violet are both quite benign and they're both quite fitting for town roles. Given the number of roles we have in play, I doubt they were both vanilla, but it is possible.

I'm going to claim my colour, just for information purposes. Maybe someone better with patterns than I can figure something out.
I'm yellow, town-aligned.
I can't find any sort of relation between the four colours we know, assuming they're all town, so we can pretty much rule out colours as being useful for the time being. It'd help immensely if we knew ExKirby's/Pandarsenic's roles.

I have to admit, voting ExKirby was a bad move on my part. I should have stayed firm (even if I was wrong); but it interests me as to why Dakarian pushed for the lynch so much. I mean, he was quite annoyed when he realized I had unvoted ExKirby at the last minute (this is probably just frustration though; the game was dragging out for longer than any of us would like).
It's quite a huge risk, if you think about it.
There was a slight chance that ExKirby was jester, and would win upon his lynch.
There was a slight chance that ExKirby was town, and nothing would happen.
There was a large chance that ExKirby was scum.

However, if we had simply waited one day, we could have confirmed it.
The mafia would've almost surely taken out the jester with a NK. They don't want him to win anymore than we do.
...Why would Dakarian vote to lynch him? If he was scum, he knew for sure that ExKirby wasn't scum, so he was either Town or Jester. That doesn't make much sense... what's the point of voting him!?
*combusts*

Okay. I've been operating under the assumption that Dakarian (or rather, anyone) actually cares about the jester winning. If they don't, then that changes everything...

So I ask you, Dakarian: Why did you take a humongous risk when you could've simply waited one day and received the same results with no risk whatsoever?

I'm going to let him answer for himself instead of trying to stuff words down his throat.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Org on October 20, 2009, 05:50:17 am
I really do wonder if Color=roles....

Although that would mean everyone is a power role. Meh.

Yeah, sorry, just a bit too busy yesterday and had not much to add.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 20, 2009, 08:15:05 am


There was a slight chance that ExKirby was jester, and would win upon his lynch.
There was a slight chance that ExKirby was town, and nothing would happen.
There was a large chance that ExKirby was scum.

However, if we had simply waited one day, we could have confirmed it.
The mafia would've almost surely taken out the jester with a NK. They don't want him to win anymore than we do.
...Why would Dakarian vote to lynch him? If he was scum, he knew for sure that ExKirby wasn't scum, so he was either Town or Jester. That doesn't make much sense... what's the point of voting him!?
*combusts*

Okay. I've been operating under the assumption that Dakarian (or rather, anyone) actually cares about the jester winning. If they don't, then that changes everything...

So I ask you, Dakarian: Why did you take a humongous risk when you could've simply waited one day and received the same results with no risk whatsoever?

I'm going to let him answer for himself instead of trying to stuff words down his throat.


First off, thanks for not stuffing those words.

I voted for him because I honestly, truly, believed he wasn't the jester.  I also thought "only an utter and complete fool would be town and claim jester".  I was right on one of those matters. 

Why not wait?  Ex wasn't exactly a person that was 'out of the blue' for me.  At that point, I had him on 'suspect but not enough information'.  I expected him to go mostly silent while I tried to prod the rest of the town then return back to him later.  The claim on jester sealed him as being desperate in the face of a lynch and his claim elminated most of his chance of being anything else but scum (even you say he had a large chance of being scum.  Note you NEVER get to 100% on anyone). 

I didn't wait because I didn't doubt that I had a scum in my sights, and I dislike 'putting aside scum for later'.  Note that the theory only failed because Ex did one of the most anti-town things you could ever do: lie about your role.  I can't and won't plan for moves like that because such things just shouldn't occur and because trying to plan for it destroys the entire point to claiming.


So, in short, I didn't wait because I felt there was nothing to wait for: Ex lied about his role and that turned a 'maybe scum' into 'obvscum'.


But I accept my action: I had planned on my vote being the hammer and believed I was right.  Now, Nihilst...why is it that you seem so sure that it was one of the worst things to do, so sure that what we did was wrong before the lynch and yet you flung the hammer? 
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: webadict on October 20, 2009, 08:30:15 am
ExKirby would like you all to know it was sarcasm. Yeesh.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 20, 2009, 08:40:17 am
I would like him to know that he would still be alive if he didn't do that, since the bandwagon was ending at the time.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 20, 2009, 09:58:39 am
But I accept my action: I had planned on my vote being the hammer and believed I was right.  Now, Nihilst...why is it that you seem so sure that it was one of the worst things to do, so sure that what we did was wrong before the lynch and yet you flung the hammer? 

I had doubts — plenty of them. I also weighed the probabilities, and realized that ExKirby was probably scum. Furthermore, I felt sort of bad for disrupting your hammer at the absolute last minute.

I was expecting us to get more information out of his death than just a colour and alignment -- at the time, it was probably one of the better moves that we could make. At the very least, we would end up with a dead townie, a colour, and a role; conceivably, this could help us decipher the pattern (if there is one. I'm beginning to doubt that there is).

It probably would've been a better move to stall for time.


...I'm starting to feel bad for ExKirby. He always ends up like this. I should probably be mourning for town, but...
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 20, 2009, 10:12:06 am
Funny thing was, for his complaint about being singled out, his tactic worked.  I DID take his actions as 'not enough to lynch'.  I suspected but it's common for me to do so before feeling better about a person.  If he kept silent, that bandwagon would've dissolved on its own. 

Bah, even with the outburst, if he declared anything else, I would've just pegged it for geniune frustration.  Metawise, he DOES get a hard time here.  The caught lie ruined any argument I had on him being town.

Meh.  Enough of this.  Person.. you're the only one left not to comment and my vote is on you.  Make it count!

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 20, 2009, 10:29:59 am
ExKirby would like you all to know it was sarcasm. Yeesh.
I would like ExKirby to know that, in my opinion, that was really stupid, unnecessary, and for doing so he should perhaps reconsider his mafia-subsection participation.

I doubt dakarian is scum. It was obvious that ExKirby was not town (the fact that he was aside), and if dakarian was scum, he would therefore know that ExKirby was the joker and thus not lynch him. I still agree with Apostolic Nihilist that we should have left him for the scum to NK, but whatever.

Not sure.  He hasn't posted for a while.  I think the scum might've been going for a safe bet that wouldn't reveal much about them, or something.
Well, it does tell us something about the scum: They think stupid. Killing active or fairly active players works is always better than killing lurkers.
Also, if you are right, it probably means the scum (think that) killing a more active player would be bad for them. This probably means that they were or thought they were in conflict with them day 1.
Or something.
Anyway old Apostolic Nihilist holds my vote for now on account of... stuff. I consider his behaviour sufficiently odd that I consider the likelyhood that he is scum higher than any other player.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 20, 2009, 10:43:10 am
Apost has indeed been suspicious, but I'd also like to ask where Org is.  Why do you think Pandar was NK'd?  What do you think about Exkirby's lynch?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 20, 2009, 10:44:37 am
You agree with Nihilst's reasoning but you find him scummy on....stuff.


Unvote,  Vote Nuke9.13

No really.. explain yourself.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 20, 2009, 12:15:12 pm
So, what, all scum lie all the time and never makes a single rational statement?

Come on.
"I agree with Apostolic Nihilist."
Was not what I said
I said:
"I still agree with Apostolic Nihilist that we should have left him for the scum to NK, but whatever."
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 20, 2009, 12:27:08 pm
the emphasis was on the second half..

What's your reasoning for thinking he's acting scummy?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Vector on October 20, 2009, 12:30:06 pm
At the very least, we would end up with a dead townie, a colour, and a role; conceivably, this could help us decipher the pattern (if there is one. I'm beginning to doubt that there is).

So, I'm starting to guess at a pattern, but I think that's going to have to wait until later-game or something.  The only problem here is that we're going to have to continue using it only as a tool to mildly sway predictions, rather than as a matter of absolute certainty.


Anyway old Apostolic Nihilist holds my vote for now on account of... stuff. I consider his behaviour sufficiently odd that I consider the likelyhood that he is scum higher than any other player.

Grargh, ninja'd.

Care to expand on what "stuff" means?



So... Apostolic Nihilist.  Are you going to actually start hunting, or are you going to sit there being defensive while entire town dies off?

Lookin' pretty scummy there, young man.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 20, 2009, 04:01:19 pm
At the very least, we would end up with a dead townie, a colour, and a role; conceivably, this could help us decipher the pattern (if there is one. I'm beginning to doubt that there is).

So, I'm starting to guess at a pattern, but I think that's going to have to wait until later-game or something.  The only problem here is that we're going to have to continue using it only as a tool to mildly sway predictions, rather than as a matter of absolute certainty.

Ok, so why didn't you tell us your pattern prediction?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 20, 2009, 04:24:04 pm
Unless that includes actually finding the mafia or it's shown that it does NOT affect role I'd rather it NOT get voiced.


Now, Person.. how about something not involving color?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 20, 2009, 04:33:31 pm
Ok, so why didn't you tell us your pattern prediction?
Presumably because an incomplete hypothesis could only hurt Town. If we start trying to wrap our assumptions around a pattern that isn't even necessarily correct, we're limiting our options.

Mr.Person, you've been lurking quite a lot throughout this game, yet you post in other mafia threads quite frequently. Any specific reason why?

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Vector on October 20, 2009, 07:24:47 pm
At the very least, we would end up with a dead townie, a colour, and a role; conceivably, this could help us decipher the pattern (if there is one. I'm beginning to doubt that there is).

So, I'm starting to guess at a pattern, but I think that's going to have to wait until later-game or something.  The only problem here is that we're going to have to continue using it only as a tool to mildly sway predictions, rather than as a matter of absolute certainty.

Ok, so why didn't you tell us your pattern prediction?

1.  I need more data.  I've got 4 data points, but I don't feel confident in killing based on it.
2.  Some of the hypothesis is based on my own sense of structure and symmetry.  I don't trust Webadict to use a similar mindset.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Org on October 20, 2009, 08:14:14 pm
Apost has indeed been suspicious, but I'd also like to ask where Org is.  Why do you think Pandar was NK'd?  What do you think about Exkirby's lynch?
Wait. What. How does that make sense? Oh, maybe you mean why, as in why would scum kill them.... Maybe because he is good in mafias most of the time.


I think he may just be a noob, though he has been in a few mafias. Needs to stick his head down and try not to do scummy looking stuff.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 21, 2009, 04:50:33 am
MrPerson stop lurking it is annoying!

For that matter, everybody, stop lurking, it is annoying!

Anyway. Apostolic Nihilist hasn't really done anything that is obviously scummy. But from the way his posts read and the actions he has made I feel that he is acting in a way unfamiliar to him. Of course, in mafia, we all act, all the time, but seeing as we spend less time as mafia and have more need to act, our acting as mafia is less refined. It is not a solid accusation. However, it is enough that, given no better targets, I consider him a worthwhile lynch.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 21, 2009, 02:47:14 pm
{unvote}
Well, you're quite right. I'm acting in a way unfamiliar because my usual town strategies (I don't even think I have a usual town strategy. I've only played a few games) don't work well under the 'hammer' rules. I'm not generally an aggressive person. As town, I have to be aggressive, so I'm mostly forcing myself to say and do things I don't really think, which can lead to this strange discontinuity between my posts. It's quite disconcerting, looking back.

Just a question (to everyone), but do you think that the people who continued voting ExKirby after he 'revealed' that he was the jester are suspicious?
Leafsnail both posted a reaction to it, but didn't change his vote.
Scum should have approached the situation more cautiously. If they knew he wasn't mafia, then he had to be town, which means he could very well be the jester.
Leafsnail's argument was, "We won't lose even if he is jester, so let's lynch him,"
Everyone's initial reaction should be, "Well, claiming jester makes ExKirby look even scummier." That's what Dakarian's was, and that's what mine was.
Care to explain, Leafsnail?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 21, 2009, 02:55:17 pm
Claiming jester makes him look scummier, of course.  That's a given - a jester wouldn't claim, a jester would probably just lurk until deadline.  I was, however, pointing out that on the off-chance he was a jester, it still wouldn't lose us the game.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Vector on October 21, 2009, 03:43:08 pm
Honestly, I seem to remember being one of those people.  His jester reveal makes him even more suspicious, and at that point he was almost worth killing just to teach him a lesson (... almost).

You, on the other hand, I don't trust.  I've seen you in two other situations as town, and you're not playing town.  The disconnect and "forcing yourself to be aggressive" so people will think you're town is ridiculous, and I call bullshit.  We've got reads on you, and you've insta-changed into a different player.

I also think you're trying to spread blanket suspicion for an innocuous act--that is, offing someone who is either 1. lying town 2. SCUM or 3. the dumbest jester ever.  Those are all reasonable lynches (except for the jester one, that is... but as I said, there's other reasoning for that).
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Vector on October 21, 2009, 09:08:39 pm
... Yeah, AN is lurking.  Folks need to get out here and claim, dude.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 21, 2009, 09:25:05 pm
Ok guys.. enough with the Exkirby matter. 

Now we move on to the Nuke matter. 

Voting for a lurker is easy, and not that necessary when the person truly hasn't posted, since we can Prod them instead. 

Then you throw a 'soft attack' on Nihilist with plenty of wish wash. "He's not acting scummy, but he's not acting normal, but we always not act normal in mafia, but not as well as we could."

Then you say he's suitable for lynching for that.. then forget to actually vote for him.

Easy killer + passive aggressiveness + WIFOM creation + suggestion without follow through = Ugly Mafiascum.

I'd vote for you, but I'm already voting for you so instead I'll just hope you get lynched.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Vector on October 21, 2009, 09:27:29 pm
... Yeah, AN is lurking.  Folks need to get out here and claim, dude.

Wait, WTF?

Sorry, I was thinking about the potential benefits of color-claiming for the town.

Substitute "talk" for "claim." >_>
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 22, 2009, 06:50:38 pm
Mr.Person.
We need to get the discussion going again.
What do you think of NUKE's accusations toward me? What do you make of ExKirby flipping town?

You haven't made many posts at all recently and furthermore your most recent posts have contained little of substance.
Vector: Mr. I've made 7 posts in the past four pages. Mr. Person has made 3. I'm hardly lurking as much as he is right now, so it's interesting that you're targeting me.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 22, 2009, 06:52:19 pm
Web: a prod or a replace on Nuke. 

it's hard to drive a discussion when your targets go awol.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: webadict on October 22, 2009, 07:22:39 pm
That's his second prod this game... >:(
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Vector on October 22, 2009, 07:38:06 pm
Mr.Person.
We need to get the discussion going again.
What do you think of NUKE's accusations toward me? What do you make of ExKirby flipping town?

You haven't made many posts at all recently and furthermore your most recent posts have contained little of substance.
Vector: Mr. I've made 7 posts in the past four pages. Mr. Person has made 3. I'm hardly lurking as much as he is right now, so it's interesting that you're targeting me.

Ah--I say you're lurking based not on post density, but because you've been active in other threads after I asked you questions and yet you haven't showed up over here for a couple of days.  As far as I know, Mr. Person hasn't had anyone targeting him for the past little bit.

My allegations are not that you are lurking.  They are a couple posts up, if you would bother to read and address them.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 22, 2009, 08:42:03 pm
Mr.Person.
We need to get the discussion going again.
What do you think of NUKE's accusations toward me? What do you make of ExKirby flipping town?

You haven't made many posts at all recently and furthermore your most recent posts have contained little of substance.
Vector: Mr. I've made 7 posts in the past four pages. Mr. Person has made 3. I'm hardly lurking as much as he is right now, so it's interesting that you're targeting me.

Although I'm not getting the vibe, vague feelings are the bread and butter of mafia games. Thus, I can't say I disagree with him.

I'm not so much disappointed ExKirby flipped town as I'm disappointed that his role didn't flip. I am glad he didn't flip "You all lose" jester, though.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 22, 2009, 08:48:46 pm
Nuke is AWOL but I've seen enough to believe he's a scum that's disappeared.  Not all who get replaced are town.

Bah, just do a mass prod.  A good few people are trying to forget about this one.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Org on October 22, 2009, 08:59:00 pm
That's his second prod this game... >:(
-Karma :I

Yeah, Mass prod.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 22, 2009, 09:19:40 pm
Honestly, I seem to remember being one of those people.  His jester reveal makes him even more suspicious, and at that point he was almost worth killing just to teach him a lesson (... almost).

Lynching him was probably one of the most pro-town things we could have done then, given the information we had. Discussion was all I was trying to start, as it's sadly lacking.


You, on the other hand, I don't trust.  I've seen you in two other situations as town, and you're not playing town.  The disconnect and "forcing yourself to be aggressive" so people will think you're town is ridiculous, and I call bullshit.  We've got reads on you, and you've insta-changed into a different player.

I really am forcing myself to be aggressive, and it looks horribly scummy. I'm finding it difficult making accusations with so little to go on and it shows. I've never played a hammer-enabled game before and other circumstances prevent me from having as clear a head as I'd like.
I was prodded a bit earlier and panicked a bit, so I said some strange stuff which caused a downward spiral, resulting in the position I rest at now. I can't really deny how suspicious I look at this point. You're all perfectly justified in lynching me, but I'd rather we go after scum.



I also think you're trying to spread blanket suspicion for an innocuous act--that is, offing someone who is either 1. lying town 2. SCUM or 3. the dumbest jester ever.  Those are all reasonable lynches (except for the jester one, that is... but as I said, there's other reasoning for that).

I wasn't trying to spread blanket suspicion. I was asking if others felt the same as I did.
Actually, looking at it again, I'm sure I had it completely wrong. If someone had unvoted then they would've been more suspicious because of it -- ExKirby was very obviously scum to any town player, but to the scum they would've had to consider the possibility of him actually being jester more seriously.

As per request.
It's important to note that I didn't respond earlier because these allegations are a bit difficult to defend against — you say you don't trust me, which is logical considering my actions.

Er, could we get an updated votecount, by the way?
Also, {for future reference} if anyone's about to hammer me, give me some time to make a last statement. I want to clear stuff up that I can't really do now.

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Night 1)
Post by: webadict on October 22, 2009, 09:40:58 pm
Vote Count (4 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - Vector
Org - Leafsnail
NUKE9.13 - dakarian
Mr.Person - NUKE9.13, Apostolic Nihilist

I guess I'll mass prod now...
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 23, 2009, 09:34:03 am
I'm gonna unvote and vote Nuke to try and get him out here to say something.  He needs to defend his actions, and an AWOL player can''t do that.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 23, 2009, 09:45:10 am
Sorry.
I am here
I will post directly.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 23, 2009, 10:03:27 am
Evidence of lurking spotted.

Keeping silent until 2 attacks fall on him then a 11 minute response time.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 23, 2009, 10:09:09 am
My friend, it takes more than 11 minutes to write a big, sorry-I-was-lurking, all-questions-will-be-answered post.
I am writing. Do not worry. I just realised I got prodded a few hours ago and have just got round to doing something about it now.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 23, 2009, 10:31:28 am
Since you're replying to me regularly, you havn't been spending the last 30 minutes writing that post as you want to pretend you are.

Instead, you've been prodded before and, though you are a regular in other games, avoided this one. 

I alone aim at you and you ignore me.  A second places their vote, thus starting a bandwagon and in 11 minutes you post.

You say you'll post directly but instead you are Refreshing in order to read my post and, thus, respond to THAT in 9 minutes. 

You were lurking and hoping my words would go unnoticed.  Now you're scared enough to throw quick defenses rather than actively hunting or even commenting over today's events.

You solidify the noose around your scummy neck with every minute.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 23, 2009, 10:36:59 am
...
1)Tabs. I have a tab open in which I am typing
2)Preview. It is a big post and I want to see what it looks like all the time. When doing so I see replies.
3)Fine, you do not have to believe me. But I am typing up a big post and I will post it shortly.

I will deal with the rest of your post in my big post.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 23, 2009, 10:53:07 am
That explains why a town would do what you do.

But I do not believe that is why YOU are doing it.  I also believe you had a darker motive than just being tidy with your posts.

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 23, 2009, 11:06:41 am
Now we move on to the Nuke matter. 
Let us. I will happily deal with your questions and accusations.

Quote
Voting for a lurker is easy, and not that necessary when the person truly hasn't posted, since we can Prod them instead. 
True. Nevertheless. My vote for MrPerson was based on instinct which stems from the days when mods wouldn't prod people. I was not attempting to start an easy bandwagon, but to give MrPerson an incentive to post. You should consider it from the pre-karma system point of view.

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Then you throw a 'soft attack' on Nihilist with plenty of wish wash.
I fail to see how a 'soft attack' is bad. We can hardly expect the scum to conform to every scumtell in the book, or even any scumtells. We could wait for people to slip up by themselves and say 'Oh also I am scum whoops I didn't mean that'. Or we could wait for power roles to solve the game for us.
But both would be flawed. Small things, things that could easily mean nothing, must be considered to. Gut feeling is a tool that must be employed, not to lynch people, but to raise questions against people. And when there are no other leads, those that your instinct tells you are scum should be the first to go. Naturally, once more solid evidence is provided, your instinct should be as good as ignored, for it is so often wrong. But it is not more often wrong than right.

Quote
"He's not acting scummy, Once again. We cannot expect the scum to voluntarily enact scum tells. No one is acting particularly scummy, in my opinion.
but he's not acting normal, Indeed. He is acting nervously, not thinking things through completely, not making the right connections, perhaps because he can't, being scum.
but we always not act normal in mafia,
 but not as well as we could."
We are always acting in mafia. Yes. I feel you are deliberately misinterpreting me here- You must admit we always act in mafia. And you must also admit that one is more commonly town than scum. And you must surely agree that it is easier to act as town (as in, town acting like a townie) than as mafia (acting like a townie) anyway, even without the added practice we get at acting as townies.

To repeat my point;
-Apostolic Nihilist is behaving oddly, as if he is acting
-However, when playing mafia, one is always acting.
-Yes, but AN is acting worse than is normal. Scum act worse than townies. Therefore, 'bad acting' is scummy.

It is, as you said, a pretty weak accusation. However, as I said, a weak accusation is better than sitting around doing nothing.

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Then you say he's suitable for lynching for that.. then forget to actually vote for him.
-I said (and once again, I feel you are deliberately misinterpreting me), that, in the absence of better targets, he is suitable for lynching. Yes. Surely you must agree that, given one person who is slightly more scummy than everyone else, it is better to lynch the slightly more scummy person, rather than at random or, heaven forbid, not at all?
-I did vote for him, before (How did you not realise this?). I then switched votes to MrPerson to get him to stop lurking. At that point I considered MrPerson a better target than AN. Once again, you must agree, that given a slightly scummy person, and someone scummier still, it is best to vote for the scummiest?

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Easy killer- Now hold up. Lynching is never easy. I have not bandwagonned blindly, you will notice. I have not appealed to emotion, or done any other scummy tricks to make people bandwagon. I have merely stated my opinion, and my vote to go with it. If you refer to my org vote, well, did that go well? Could it possibly be expected to go well in the hands of anyone but webadict? No. It could not. And I know this. Besides, I have explained, it was random behaviour intended to raise discussion.

+ passive aggressiveness I fail to see what is wrong with this. Extrapolate, please.

+ WIFOM creation Um. When? Extrapolate, please.

+ suggestion without follow through See above; weak attack is better than no attack at all.

= Ugly Mafiascum.
I'd vote for you, but I'm already voting for you so instead I'll just hope you get lynched.
Well I hope I have answered your major issues. Please inform me of any issues with this or any other items that you feel I have not dealt with and I will explain them. I can, because I am town.



Well, you're quite right. I'm acting in a way unfamiliar because my usual town strategies (I don't even think I have a usual town strategy. I've only played a few games) don't work well under the 'hammer' rules. I'm not generally an aggressive person. As town, I have to be aggressive, so I'm mostly forcing myself to say and do things I don't really think, which can lead to this strange discontinuity between my posts. It's quite disconcerting, looking back.
Thank you for that. Of course, admitting the existence of the problem does not justify it. It does help me, however.
See, see, see, he admits it. He recognises the necessity of acting and admits that his acting here is of a lower quality.

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Just a question (to everyone), but do you think that the people who continued voting ExKirby after he 'revealed' that he was the jester are suspicious?
No. They have justified themselves. I think they were wrong in doing so, but not exceedingly scummy. After all, the scum does not want to lynch the jester either.



Web: a prod or a replace on Nuke. 

it's hard to drive a discussion when your targets go awol.
Others are less active than me. I apologise for my awolitude, but if you cannot find someone else to question, you are suffering from Tunnelvision!



That's his second prod this game... >:(
May I point out that this was 9 replies after my last reply? I am not questioning the mods decision, but, for example, org posted before my previous, and after this post. Did he get prodded?

On that note, org is active lurking, the very definition. Active enough to avoid prodding (though less active than me :/), but his posts are contentless. Here are his last two posts, by the way:
Apost has indeed been suspicious, but I'd also like to ask where Org is.  Why do you think Pandar was NK'd?  What do you think about Exkirby's lynch?
Wait. What. How does that make sense? Oh, maybe you mean why, as in why would scum kill them.... Maybe because he is good in mafias most of the time.
I think he may just be a noob, though he has been in a few mafias. Needs to stick his head down and try not to do scummy looking stuff.
Ok so he answered the questions. A purely reply post. Nothing wrong with them, but a little questioning post later on might be good.

That's his second prod this game... >:(
-Karma :I

Yeah, Mass prod.
However, here is his next post!
Zero content.
Indeed, :I

[Note: My vote on org is to provide motivation for him to be more active. I am not attempting to shift attention to him.]



Evidence of lurking spotted.

Keeping silent until 2 attacks fall on him then a 11 minute response time.

Ah, right, I misunderstood this. Sorry. I posted 11 minutes after leafsnail because partly coincidence, partly leafsnails post brought colour mafia up on the main FG&R page under the mafia thingy, reminding me to post. The fact that he voted for me was irrelevant (although you only have my word for it)



Since you're replying to me regularly, you havn't been spending the last 30 minutes writing that post as you want to pretend you are.
(See post below)
Instead, you've been prodded before and, though you are a regular in other games, avoided this one. 
This one is pretty boring. Not an excuse, but a reason, at least. You want a carefully kept secret of mine? I lurk less as scum. I find it more exciting, thus, I post more.
I alone aim at you and you ignore me.  A second places their vote, thus starting a bandwagon and in 11 minutes you post.
I did not ignore you. I responded to you. And as I said, that leafsnail voted for me was irrelevant.
You say you'll post directly but instead you are Refreshing in order to read my post and, thus, respond to THAT in 9 minutes. 
(See post below)
You were lurking and hoping my words would go unnoticed.  Now you're scared enough to throw quick defenses rather than actively hunting or even commenting over today's events.
I am sorry that you did not consider my previous responses adequate. Do tell if I have missed anything in this, certainly not quick, defence
You solidify the noose around your scummy neck with every minute.
I am not scum.



That explains why a town would do what you do.

But I do not believe that is why YOU are doing it.  I also believe you had a darker motive than just being tidy with your posts.
*shrug* If you are so convinced I am scum, you are treading a dangerous road. Hopefully I have cleared up the issue now. If not, explain why, and I will explain my actions as best as possible.



I am voting Org, in case you missed it.
My reasons for lurking (not excuses):
1)This game is boring
2)I am european. I have a sporadic wireless internet connection, and was not available at all last night (europe time). When I last left, I had not been prodded, and there had not been many replies since my last post, so I didn't feel I was lurking.
My apologies.
Also my apologies for my huge wall of text.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 23, 2009, 01:48:47 pm
@Nuke

About the Lurker vote

It's not a strong scumtell for that reason, but I note it for the records

About your soft attack on Nihilist

Fluff.  You gave me a mess about how scumhunting works with a dash of WIFOM:

 "Naturally, once more solid evidence is provided, your instinct should be as good as ignored, for it is so often wrong. But it is not more often wrong than right."

Contradictory phrase is contradictory. 

Your statement wasn't a mere question.  You said Nihilist was suitable for a lynch: that's a declaration to kill.  Still, instead of pursuing someone you felt could be lynched you pressure lurkers.  You look wishy washy and the accusation sounded passive for the ending suggestion.

@The Apostolic accusation

Simply put: Vague.  A vague 'he's acting odd and not quite town'. 

Weak accusations =! "I consider him a worthwhile lynch."

On the other hand, "Someone needs to die, oh well you'll do" = scummy.

And no.. what you did is FAR from the only thing to do.  There's always actual scumhunting.

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-I said (and once again, I feel you are deliberately misinterpreting me), that, in the absence of better targets, he is suitable for lynching. Yes. Surely you must agree that, given one person who is slightly more scummy than everyone else, it is better to lynch the slightly more scummy person, rather than at random or, heaven forbid, not at all?

If I took that advise, I'd be requesting the town to kill you RIGHT NOW instead of debating with you. 

So no, I don't subscribe to the "anything not 100% town will do" theory.

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-I did vote for him, before (How did you not realise this?). I then switched votes to MrPerson to get him to stop lurking. At that point I considered MrPerson a better target than AN. Once again, you must agree, that given a slightly scummy person, and someone scummier still, it is best to vote for the scummiest?

So though most of your post was about Nihilist, you REALLY wanted Person dead instead.  So the vote wasn't just to wake up a lurker: Person looked more scum than Nihilist when you made that post.

So, why is Person scummier than Nihilist?

About the rest:

I never had Org on my mind when I wrote that so I find it funny you brought it up.  I refer to the 'willing to kill Nihilist' matter, which you confirm by your belief that 'slightly scummy is enough to lynch'.

Passive Aggressiveness is what tends to separate a half decent scum from a half decent town.  Scum tend to be passive while town tends to be aggressive.  Half decent scum want both: aggressive to pretend they are town but passive enough to avoid the spotlight. 

So they do things like make suggestions on who to kill without getting their hands dirty.  They vote flip.  They attack then back off.  Passive Aggressiveness.

When it comes to you, the post in question REEKED of it.  No direct attack on Nihilist.  No direct questions on Nihilist.  No specific evidence.  Not even a vote.  Can you honestly tell me you were being aggressive?

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Thank you for that. Of course, admitting the existence of the problem does not justify it. It does help me, however.
See, see, see, he admits it. He recognises the necessity of acting and admits that his acting here is of a lower quality.

Finally something, but it required a heavy push to get it out of you.

However, I must disagree due to Meta knowledge.  Nihilist has made a name for himself in being very perceptive but also very passive.  To be blunt: one quick breeze and he shakes like a leaf, even when he has the scum in his grasp.  He's now changing his attack style to accommodate. 

So he DID explain his 'change of acting'. 


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No. They have justified themselves. I think they were wrong in doing so, but not exceedingly scummy. After all, the scum does not want to lynch the jester either.

Explain.

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Others are less active than me. I apologise for my awolitude, but if you cannot find someone else to question, you are suffering from Tunnelvision!

Nice try.  Calling it tunnellvision because I didn't forget about you just because you lurked?  Sorry.  Lurking isn't a defense. 

Trying to discredit the person instead of the argument.  Noted.



From here you attack Org for active lurking.  Good..but one problem:

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[Note: My vote on org is to provide motivation for him to be more active. I am not attempting to shift attention to him.]

Pre-defending yourself.  Noted.


About why you lurked:

I WOULD believe it if you hadn't ignored my attacks for 2 days, ignored the OTHER times the thread showed up on the top, ignored the request to prod, ignored the other attacks I've done, and ONLY decided to show up as soon as a second vote kicks in.

My.  VERY coincidental.


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I lurk less as scum. I find it more exciting, thus, I post more.

Self-meta:  Nulled.
Spoiler: Term defined (click to show/hide)

In short: Using your own meta to defend yourself does NOT work.



Summary:

- You're willing to remove someone who just barely seems scummy even if there's no strong evidence towards that person.

- You made a post vaguely suggesting Nihilist yet don't vote for him.  You vote for Person to 'pressure' him but now say that Person got the vote because he looked scummier.. but have not explained why.

- The post in question is being passive aggressive: a nasty scumtell

- You attack me by saying I'm Tunnelvisioned, when all I've done is wait for you to return so I can actually debate with you.  This is the first true debate we've had.  Don't attack the person, attack the argument.

- You 'dissapeared' for a few days, missing my accusation (which you were online to have seen) and, even when prodded, only show up once the vote is made on you.  You now seem VERY interested in the game.


You aren't looking good to me at the moment.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 23, 2009, 02:15:49 pm
No Dakarian, you really do have a nasty case of tunnelvision. That's ok, but you not wanting to admit that is a tad scummy. However, I won't say you're scum, not by a long shot.  I'd like to hear from Nuke and how he responds before I jump in with anything meaningful.

For reference, I highly doubt Nuke is scum. I'll freely admit I was lurking earlier, so kudos to him for picking up on that. Scum would probably vote for a different lurker, I'm NOT an easy lynch.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 23, 2009, 02:25:39 pm
If you believe my argument is wrong then feel free to debate it.  We've met before and you were the one to convince me that my argument is wrong so you KNOW I can be turned (which is counter to Tunnelvisioning which is when you attack someone long after they've eliminated all reasonable arguments.  For that matter, HOW do you Tunnellvision before any argument?). 

"not wanting to admit it's scummy".  No one presented the argument that what I'm doing is scummy or not.  If what I'm doing is ok then it's ok.  If it's not then don't say it's ok "but". 


Him voting on you, in itself, is a null tell.  What I don't like is the confusion he just put down as to which he felt should be lynched.  The prior post suggested Nihilist and that your vote was just to pressure a lurker.  His recent post suggests he thought you were more scummy than Nihilst. 

Thus I want to know how that mixes together?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 23, 2009, 02:41:05 pm
Oh, woops, I made a mistake. I meant to phrase that line more like... "You not wanting to admit you're tunnelvisioning is a tad scummy", there's nothing wrong with tunnelvision in and of itself.

All I'm saying is that you're focusing a bit too much on Nuke, but like I said, that's not scummy, so continue as you were. After all, there's some good questions you've posed to Nuke, I want to hear if he answers them correctly. Overall, I'm getting scum vibes from Dakarian, but I have no idea where they're coming from, so I'm going to ignore them. Blah blah, listen to your gut, I know, but since I have no real reason for him being scum, I'm not going to vote him. I will reread his posts, however.

Vector: For all your talk of getting people out here to talk, you seem to have composed very few questions and stated no suspicions at all. What's up with that?

Org: Seriously, start posting right now, or I'll personally get out here and start pushing your ass all the way to Lynchville.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 23, 2009, 02:56:28 pm
*pulls out Webadict card*

NEVER ignore a scum vibe.  Follow it.  Try to figure out where it's coming from and its source.  At WORST, if you can't figure it out then say "I'll have to wait until later" and be sure to come back to it.

As for Nuke.  He's still in Debate mode and we finally got him talking.  A bandwagon would be too early at the moment.  I'm glad, though, that he's taking it seriously now.


Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 23, 2009, 04:03:09 pm
Oh my.
Dakarian, I fear you have misunderstood much of my post.

About your soft attack on Nihilist
Fluff.  You gave me a mess about how scumhunting works with a dash of WIFOM:
 "Naturally, once more solid evidence is provided, your instinct should be as good as ignored, for it is so often wrong. But it is not more often wrong than right."
Contradictory phrase is contradictory.
I fail to see how this phrase is contradictory. I am saying here that instinct (which drove me to vote AN) is wrong, say, 40% of the time.

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Your statement wasn't a mere question.  You said Nihilist was suitable for a lynch: that's a declaration to kill.  Still, instead of pursuing someone you felt could be lynched you pressure lurkers.  You look wishy washy and the accusation sounded passive for the ending suggestion.
Ok right hang on.
Here is the way I see it.
Day begins.
-We have no information from powerroles, and the deaths have revealed little.
-No one was acting especially scummy yesterday (in my mind, at least)
-No one spontaneously starts acting [very] scummy.
-However, AN, I felt, was acting scummy. Not very scummy, and it is quite possible that I am wrong.
I vote for the most scummy person I can think of, this being AN.
IF nothing changed for the rest of the day, IF we had to stop talking and make our minds up right then as who to lynch, I would choose AN at that point. That was my meaning and if you do not realise this, then (no offence) you are stupid.
But that did not happen; the game moved on. MrPerson was lurking, and I voted for him to make him stop lurking.

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@The Apostolic accusation

Simply put: Vague.  A vague 'he's acting odd and not quite town'. 
Yes. I said. I admitted this. I actually said this in the post I voted for him.

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Weak accusations =! "I consider him a worthwhile lynch."
On the other hand, "Someone needs to die, oh well you'll do" = scummy.
I never said "everyone vote AN". I did not press my attack with undue intensity. I am not in charge of everyone's votes.

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And no.. what you did is FAR from the only thing to do.  There's always actual scumhunting.
There is scumhunting, yes. If my scumhunting was or is insufficient, my apologies. However, scumhunting must always be combined with the free flow of opinions. That is helpful to people. It indicates (in a world without bluff) whose side you are on, or rather whose side you are not on (I feel so pedantic, but, no, of course I am not suggesting that anyone you vote for is automatically on a different team from you. I am aware of bussing as a scum strategy. I am just making the point that it is useful).

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-I said (and once again, I feel you are deliberately misinterpreting me), that, in the absence of better targets, he is suitable for lynching. Yes. Surely you must agree that, given one person who is slightly more scummy than everyone else, it is better to lynch the slightly more scummy person, rather than at random or, heaven forbid, not at all?
If I took that advice, I'd be requesting the town to kill you RIGHT NOW instead of debating with you. 
So no, I don't subscribe to the "anything not 100% town will do" theory.
Better targets arise over the day.

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-I did vote for him, before (How did you not realise this?). I then switched votes to MrPerson to get him to stop lurking. At that point I considered MrPerson a better target than AN. Once again, you must agree, that given a slightly scummy person, and someone scummier still, it is best to vote for the scummiest?

So though most of your post was about Nihilist, you REALLY wanted Person dead instead.  So the vote wasn't just to wake up a lurker: Person looked more scum than Nihilist when you made that post.
So, why is Person scummier than Nihilist?
I can sort of understand the confusion here. Substitute scumminess in my quote with goodtargetness. I considered it no longer useful to vote for AN, or rather, I considered it more useful to vote for MrPerson.

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I never had Org on my mind when I wrote that so I find it funny you brought it up. I refer to the 'willing to kill Nihilist' matter, which you confirm by your belief that 'slightly scummy is enough to lynch'.
Well, I was guessing about as to what you could possibly mean.
But ok. I have explained away that bit above.

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Passive Aggressiveness is what tends to separate a half decent scum from a half decent town.  Scum tend to be passive while town tends to be aggressive.  Half decent scum want both: aggressive to pretend they are town but passive enough to avoid the spotlight. 
So they do things like make suggestions on who to kill without getting their hands dirty.  They vote flip.  They attack then back off.  Passive Aggressiveness.
When it comes to you, the post in question REEKED of it.  No direct attack on Nihilist.  No direct questions on Nihilist.  No specific evidence.  Not even a vote.  Can you honestly tell me you were being aggressive?
I see where you are coming from, then. However, you confuse aggression with stupidity. I can see how you might mix the two up; aggression in the context 'what town does' is going out and scumhunting. Attacking people, yes. But not pressing the attack to the lynch, and without thinking, just for the sake of attacking. That is stupid. I had no case on AN. It would be stupid and waaay more scummy of me if I were to vote him in the beginning of the day and maintain my vote come hell or high water.
That big post was not intended as an attack on AN, but rather a defence of myself.

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Thank you for that. Of course, admitting the existence of the problem does not justify it. It does help me, however.
See, see, see, he admits it. He recognises the necessity of acting and admits that his acting here is of a lower quality.

Finally something, but it required a heavy push to get it out of you.

However, I must disagree due to Meta knowledge.  Nihilist has made a name for himself in being very perceptive but also very passive.  To be blunt: one quick breeze and he shakes like a leaf, even when he has the scum in his grasp.  He's now changing his attack style to accommodate. 

So he DID explain his 'change of acting'. 
Well then, all the less reason for me to want to press the attack on him. Which you, if I understand correctly, have criticized me for?

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No. They have justified themselves. I think they were wrong in doing so, but not exceedingly scummy. After all, the scum does not want to lynch the jester either.

Explain.
Basically this
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We'll know for sure by tomorrow; scum should want to eliminate him by NK so he can't win. If he isn't killed, then he's scum and we lynch him D2.
We should have done that.

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Others are less active than me. I apologise for my awolitude, but if you cannot find someone else to question, you are suffering from Tunnelvision!
Nice try.  Calling it tunnellvision because I didn't forget about you just because you lurked?  Sorry.  Lurking isn't a defense. 
Trying to discredit the person instead of the argument. Noted.
It is tunnelvision. Between my post and my prod you did no scumhunting towards anyone but me. When I didn't appear for a while, you didn't make a two part post with A)Nuke stop lurking and B)some other scumhunting in the meantime.
I do believe that I did my best to discredit your arguments first, and it was not my intention to discredit you, but rather to bring it to your attention.

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From here you attack Org for active lurking.  Good..but one problem:

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[Note: My vote on org is to provide motivation for him to be more active. I am not attempting to shift attention to him.]

Pre-defending yourself.  Noted.
Are you suggesting suggest this is wrong? Are you seriously saying that if I had not pre defended myself you would not have jumped on me for shifting attention to org?


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About why you lurked:

I WOULD believe it if you hadn't ignored my attacks for 2 days, ignored the OTHER times the thread showed up on the top, ignored the request to prod, ignored the other attacks I've done, and ONLY decided to show up as soon as a second vote kicks in.

My.  VERY coincidental.
I guess so. But alas, it was indeed a coincidence.

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I lurk less as scum. I find it more exciting, thus, I post more.

Self-meta:  Nulled.
Spoiler: Term defined (click to show/hide)

In short: Using your own meta to defend yourself does NOT work.
Ok then. Just saying.

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Summary:

- You're willing to remove someone who just barely seems scummy even if there's no strong evidence towards that person. Settled?

- You made a post vaguely suggesting Nihilist yet don't vote for him.  You vote for Person to 'pressure' him but now say that Person got the vote because he looked scummier.. but have not explained why. Settled?

- The post in question is being passive aggressive: a nasty scumtell The post

- You attack me by saying I'm Tunnelvisioned, when all I've done is wait for you to return so I can actually debate with you.  This is the first true debate we've had.  Don't attack the person, attack the argument. Well I wasn't and haven't attacked you. I think you are town, if a little confused.

- You 'disappeared' for a few days, missing my accusation (which you were online to have seen)and, even when prodded, only show up once the vote is made on you. Well yes. You only have my word that it was not purposeful lurking You now seem VERY interested in the game. Yes. I like defending myself.

You aren't looking good to me at the moment. A great shame

And finally
I feel that a great deal of your arguments against me are based on me being very stupid.
It is pretty meta to say so, but I am not stupid.
Seriously.
I am pretty intelligent.

...
whoops giant post.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Org on October 23, 2009, 04:05:35 pm
Yay,, weekend. School leaves me with not much time, so Ill try to be a bit more active.

Nuke.You are shifting attention to me.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 23, 2009, 04:52:48 pm
@Nuke

About the soft attack: 
 "Naturally, ,

As you phrase it:
Condition: once more solid evidence is provided
Action: your instinct should be as good as ignored,
Reason:  for it is so often wrong.

Contradiction: But it is not more often wrong than right."

If you are right more often than you are wrong, then it doesn't make sense to ignore your instincts.  If you should ignore your instincts because they are often wrong, then it is because you are wrong more often than right.

Why would you ignore something with a 60% success rate?

And why is mafia theory being used to explain why you suggested, but did not press an attack on Nihilist?

About the vote on AN
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IF nothing changed for the rest of the day, IF we had to stop talking and make our minds up right then as who to lynch, I would choose AN at that point. That was my meaning and if you do not realise this, then (no offence) you are stupid.
But that did not happen; the game moved on. MrPerson was lurking, and I voted for him to make him stop lurking.

When I mix it with this:

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At that point I considered MrPerson a better target than AN. Once again, you must agree, that given a slightly scummy person, and someone scummier still, it is best to vote for the scummiest?

Ok.. so:

At the time of that post, you felt that lurking was more scummy than bad acting (which is what, I believe, you are attacking AN for)?

Also, since your vote was on Person and not AN, does that mean that, at that moment, you would've rather lynched Person than AN?


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I never said "everyone vote AN". I did not press my attack with undue intensity. I am not in charge of everyone's votes.

Just a little above this:
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IF nothing changed for the rest of the day, IF we had to stop talking and make our minds up right then as who to lynch, I would choose AN at that point.

So you choose someone to lynch but you don't care if the town lynches them.

Also, does that mean:
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However, it is enough that, given no better targets, I consider him a worthwhile lynch.

Was supposed to be ignored by the town?

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Better targets arise over the day.

So by 'he's suitable to lynch' you REALLY meant, 'we need to push harder for better targets'... right?

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I can sort of understand the confusion here. Substitute scumminess in my quote with goodtargetness. I considered it no longer useful to vote for AN, or rather, I considered it more useful to vote for MrPerson.

Backtrack and a poor one at that. 

And it NOW makes it seem that you had no reason at ALL to talk about AN since it was 'no longer useful' to vote for him. 

So we should just ignore the entire bottom half and just read your post as "Vote Person"?




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I had no case on AN. It would be stupid and waaay more scummy of me if I were to vote him in the beginning of the day and maintain my vote come hell or high water.
That big post was not intended as an attack on AN, but rather a defence of myself.

So you pulled your vote to protect yourself by not looking like you were attacking for no reason.

And you want me to read that as pro-town.....



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Well then, all the less reason for me to want to press the attack on him. Which you, if I understand correctly, have criticized me for?


You're using my information on his Meta to defend yourself against something you did a few days ago?


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It is tunnelvision. Between my post and my prod you did no scumhunting towards anyone but me. When I didn't appear for a while, you didn't make a two part post with A)Nuke stop lurking and B)some other scumhunting in the meantime.
I do believe that I did my best to discredit your arguments first, and it was not my intention to discredit you, but rather to bring it to your attention.

I have a Wide Scan that I use to watch others.  I run that scan DURING a debate to see how others react (Hi Mr.Person! Also, yes, I do notice the SEVERE lack of talk from everyone else).  When lurking happens, I wait and let the host handle things.  It's how I handle lurkers.  Hate it or love it, it's what I do.  If you claim that waiting for lurkers is tunnelling then fine.  Call it Anti-Lurker Tunnelling if you wish. 

Thing is, until you actually crush my argument, you WON'T shake me off.  Again, speak to Mr.Person about how hard I pressed him and Alex until the former calmed down and ended my argument. 


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Are you suggesting suggest this is wrong? Are you seriously saying that if I had not pre defended myself you would not have jumped on me for shifting attention to org?

That's EXACTLY what I'm suggesting.  I think you're losing your cool though.  Careful.



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And finally
I feel that a great deal of your arguments against me are based on me being very stupid.
It is pretty meta to say so, but I am not stupid.
Seriously.
I am pretty intelligent.

What you did wasn't stupid scum.  It was just Passive scum.  In fact, if you DID claim stupidity, it would be a harder argument for me, since the only thing that looked 'obviously bad' is the lurking and you can't lynch just for THAT. 


No.  You aren't stupid.  You just aren't town. 

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Vector on October 23, 2009, 06:05:51 pm
Vector: For all your talk of getting people out here to talk, you seem to have composed very few questions and stated no suspicions at all. What's up with that?

I apologize and promise to pay more attention to this game.  Once I am done with this post, I will go through the thread again.

My excuse is that this week, I had an analysis assignment that took at least 30 hours to finish, as well as homework for my other 5 classes.  The end of NSBM took up most of my Mafia time, so I have been able to post only perfunctorily in this thread (mostly in attempts to keep the game from dying).

I will also submit that it takes me an exceedingly long time to process all the data from a Mafia game, which is why I haven't been able to post my suspicions (because until I've spent a lot of time processing, I don't have any).  I will spend that time today and write a rundown of the thread.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 23, 2009, 06:58:25 pm
Yay,, weekend. School leaves me with not much time, so Ill try to be a bit more active.

Nuke.You are shifting attention to me.
[/quot
Well, I'd like to say something but there's this huge debate going on between Dakarian/NUKE now so I'd rather not butt in. Instead, I'll question Org since he has more time and hasn't said much.

What do you think of this argument that's going on right now?
It's either skilled scum vs. skilled town, or skilled town vs. skilled town, it would seem. If one is lynched and flips scum, the other is likely town -- the reverse would also probably be true simply because I doubt that scum would wage such a huge debate.
Thoughts?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Vector on October 23, 2009, 07:11:05 pm
Actually, scratch that.  I'll probably do the analysis later tonight.  For now I'm going to celebrate finishing the problem set of doom with some Civ.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Org on October 23, 2009, 08:14:45 pm
Yay,, weekend. School leaves me with not much time, so Ill try to be a bit more active.

Nuke.You are shifting attention to me.
[/quot
Well, I'd like to say something but there's this huge debate going on between Dakarian/NUKE now so I'd rather not butt in. Instead, I'll question Org since he has more time and hasn't said much.

What do you think of this argument that's going on right now?
It's either skilled scum vs. skilled town, or skilled town vs. skilled town, it would seem. If one is lynched and flips scum, the other is likely town -- the reverse would also probably be true simply because I doubt that scum would wage such a huge debate.
Thoughts?
Dont really know what to think, but it prob. is scum and towny, or both scum, but I would doubt thatt although it would be a great thing to do if you are a scum to drop attention from yourself I guess.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 24, 2009, 05:57:40 am
Giant Post Here
Spoiler: Giant post. (click to show/hide)
Giant post spoilered for your convenience
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 24, 2009, 02:25:43 pm
Yay,, weekend. School leaves me with not much time, so Ill try to be a bit more active.

Nuke.You are shifting attention to me.
Well, I'd like to say something but there's this huge debate going on between Dakarian/NUKE now so I'd rather not butt in. Instead, I'll question Org since he has more time and hasn't said much.

What do you think of this argument that's going on right now?
It's either skilled scum vs. skilled town, or skilled town vs. skilled town, it would seem. If one is lynched and flips scum, the other is likely town -- the reverse would also probably be true simply because I doubt that scum would wage such a huge debate.
Thoughts?
Dont really know what to think, but it prob. is scum and towny, or both scum, but I would doubt thatt although it would be a great thing to do if you are a scum to drop attention from yourself I guess.
Unvote.
Org.
Listen, this is not a constructive post. This is, "I agree with 2/3s of the things you just said for the reasons you stated, kbai."
What do you honestly make of this situation? It's changed my perception quite a bit, the longer it goes on the less it seems to involve scum on either side.
At the very least, there are other targets to go after.
Org, you're famous for lurking, but you aren't just doing that anymore. You're active lurking.

These are (most, I missed one or two) of your posts from the past 10 pages:
Hurr Hurr.
Oh wait this is color mafia. Huh.

And just because I missed a single thing doesnt seem good enough a reason.

Dak seems suspicious. Freaking out because of the color thing.
When asked to elaborate:
What is assassins?.!

Dakarian, for acting weird and a bit strange, as well as going crazy over colors, which means 3 things,
a)Townie, wants to survive
b)Scum, wants to survive
c)Power role, a or b
I haven't seen those arguments before!
:P

Dont be mean Web. Just playing Last Stand.....a little to much.....

Old scumtell is old.

I am the king. I rule with an iron fist.

I actually think Pandar might be right about the colors. Or they are nothing. :I

I am not lurking actively, more of a passive lurking, if you will.

I will stick to my convictions.
No, I'm pretty sure this is called active lurking.
Apost has indeed been suspicious, but I'd also like to ask where Org is.  Why do you think Pandar was NK'd?  What do you think about Exkirby's lynch?
Wait. What. How does that make sense? Oh, maybe you mean why, as in why would scum kill them.... Maybe because he is good in mafias most of the time.


I think he may just be a noob, though he has been in a few mafias. Needs to stick his head down and try not to do scummy looking stuff.
So, they killed Pandarsenic (a person who was admittedly acting quite scummy) instead of a different target, like Leafsnail. Pandar is good at being mafia but people are also quite wary of him. Leaving him alive makes for an easy lynch later. I doubt they killed him 'just because he was good'; I think they killed him to spread WIFOM or to make the scum players look like newbs. At the time of the Pandarsenic lynch, Dakarian & Mr.Person were the only people voting for him. Inexperienced scum don't NK who they're voting for. You, coincidentally, were not voting for him (neither were many other people, but at least they weren't active lurking.)
Yay,, weekend. School leaves me with not much time, so Ill try to be a bit more active.

Nuke.You are shifting attention to me.
Er, he's not shifting attention to you -- right now, most eyes are still trained on the NUKE v. Dakarian battle that's waging futilely.
In NUKE's (perfectly valid arguments) he says that you're active lurking, which you are.

Explain yourself at once!
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 24, 2009, 06:22:33 pm
Scanning other players based on after the attack on Nuke began.

NUKE9.13

Currently in my spotlight (havn't gotten to your recent post yet)

Mr.Person

Declaring me as a Tunnelvisioning Town.  Believes nuke to be not scum (due to the vote on Person)

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All I'm saying is that you're focusing a bit too much on Nuke, but like I said, that's not scummy, so continue as you were. After all, there's some good questions you've posed to Nuke, I want to hear if he answers them correctly. Overall, I'm getting scum vibes from Dakarian, but I have no idea where they're coming from, so I'm going to ignore them. Blah blah, listen to your gut, I know, but since I have no real reason for him being scum, I'm not going to vote him. I will reread his posts, however.
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UGLY.  You say I'm being a little bit scummy by focusing too much on Nuke, but likes my questions and wants Nuke to answer. He said I'm town but 'gettting scum vibes' so decided to ignore them.  Wanted to do a reread.


Vector

A "oh sorry I'll post more" nonpost.  Promised some content last night.. none showed.

Leafsnail

"woke up" Nuke with a second vote on him.  Has not posted since.

Org

Current target of Nuke.  Cause: active lurking

One post to Apostolic replying to the question of how me and nuke looks:  just isn't sure.


Apostolic Nihilist

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What do you think of this argument that's going on right now?
It's either skilled scum vs. skilled town, or skilled town vs. skilled town, it would seem. If one is lynched and flips scum, the other is likely town -- the reverse would also probably be true simply because I doubt that scum would wage such a huge debate.

Dangerous: 

The smaller issue:
-Most scum cannot or will not perform a strong attack on one another like this.  However, you've declared both of us Skilled.  Understanding the skill level of the player is very important since a Newbie-Town-Tell is a Semi-skilled-Scum-Tell. 

Thus the problem: if we're both skilled then Skilled Scum is more likely to do crazy tricks like this. 

The point: don't take everything off the table that easily.

BIGGER issue: If one is lynched and flips scum, the other is likely town -- the reverse would also probably be true simply because I doubt that scum would wage such a huge debate.

Given your theory, the first part makes sense (though don't fully confirm based on it).  The reverse: If someone lynched is town the other is scum, is dangerous.  This CAN be a scum vs town fight or a town vs town fight and lynching one because of the other's flip is a quick way for the town to die. 

Note I'm not at the 'lynch Nuke now' quite yet (I make it VERY clear when I'm at that point).  Gotta push him more before then. 

After that, a large post against org.. will need to look into that seperately.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 24, 2009, 07:01:54 pm
1. Wow.. just completely messed up those quote tags.

2. The argument against Org is that he's active lurking. 

Another vote would just turn it into a bandwagon.  I will admit that he DOES need to get in here and scumhunt. 


As far as the rest:

Leafsnail needs to post more.


Person is VERY passive.

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Org on October 24, 2009, 07:52:29 pm
Yay,, weekend. School leaves me with not much time, so Ill try to be a bit more active.

Nuke.You are shifting attention to me.
Well, I'd like to say something but there's this huge debate going on between Dakarian/NUKE now so I'd rather not butt in. Instead, I'll question Org since he has more time and hasn't said much.

What do you think of this argument that's going on right now?
It's either skilled scum vs. skilled town, or skilled town vs. skilled town, it would seem. If one is lynched and flips scum, the other is likely town -- the reverse would also probably be true simply because I doubt that scum would wage such a huge debate.
Thoughts?
Dont really know what to think, but it prob. is scum and towny, or both scum, but I would doubt thatt although it would be a great thing to do if you are a scum to drop attention from yourself I guess.
Unvote.
Org.
Listen, this is not a constructive post. This is, "I agree with 2/3s of the things you just said for the reasons you stated, kbai."
What do you honestly make of this situation? It's changed my perception quite a bit, the longer it goes on the less it seems to involve scum on either side.
At the very least, there are other targets to go after.
Org, you're famous for lurking, but you aren't just doing that anymore. You're active lurking.

These are (most, I missed one or two) of your posts from the past 10 pages:
Hurr Hurr.
Oh wait this is color mafia. Huh.

And just because I missed a single thing doesnt seem good enough a reason.

Dak seems suspicious. Freaking out because of the color thing.
When asked to elaborate:
What is assassins?.!

Dakarian, for acting weird and a bit strange, as well as going crazy over colors, which means 3 things,
a)Townie, wants to survive
b)Scum, wants to survive
c)Power role, a or b
I haven't seen those arguments before! I dont get it. Sarcasm?
:P

Dont be mean Web. Just playing Last Stand.....a little to much.....

Old scumtell is old.

I am the king. I rule with an iron fist.

I actually think Pandar might be right about the colors. Or they are nothing. :I

I am not lurking actively, more of a passive lurking, if you will.

I will stick to my convictions.
No, I'm pretty sure this is called active lurking. Its a joke, if you will. Sorta. Not really.
Apost has indeed been suspicious, but I'd also like to ask where Org is.  Why do you think Pandar was NK'd?  What do you think about Exkirby's lynch?
Wait. What. How does that make sense? Oh, maybe you mean why, as in why would scum kill them.... Maybe because he is good in mafias most of the time.


I think he may just be a noob, though he has been in a few mafias. Needs to stick his head down and try not to do scummy looking stuff.
So, they killed Pandarsenic (a person who was admittedly acting quite scummy) instead of a different target, like Leafsnail. Pandar is good at being mafia but people are also quite wary of him. Leaving him alive makes for an easy lynch later. I doubt they killed him 'just because he was good'; I think they killed him to spread WIFOM or to make the scum players look like newbs. At the time of the Pandarsenic lynch, Dakarian & Mr.Person were the only people voting for him. Inexperienced scum don't NK who they're voting for. You, coincidentally, were not voting for him (neither were many other people, but at least they weren't active lurking.)
Not sure how to answer this, except that it means that even you did not vote them, as you said. As I have said many many times before, I can only sporadicaly check and post, at least once a day, unless I do not think I need to add anything. Specially weekdays  :P

Yay,, weekend. School leaves me with not much time, so Ill try to be a bit more active.

Nuke.You are shifting attention to me.
Er, he's not shifting attention to you -- right now, most eyes are still trained on the NUKE v. Dakarian battle that's waging futilely.
In NUKE's (perfectly valid arguments) he says that you're active lurking, which you are.
It seems so.
Explain yourself at once!
:P I do active lurk. but atleast I participate. Some people dont.

Bolded answers
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 24, 2009, 08:12:21 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I pressed you and pushed you and you feel like puddy.  You try to play like you're firm and strong but you end up soft and willing to say whatever may help shake me off of you.  You try to make me look like a Foolish, buddy me up by declaring I'm Town, and change your stance on that post in order to make yourself look like you are aggressivly hunting... or testing the waters...or lurker hunting... or correcting a mistake... or just talking nonsense.


Well I'm settled.  You're scum.  I took my time to get to this post because, at first glance, I thought you were looking better and that I would have to pull back and dive deeper into my wide scan.  The scan was useful but now that I've read your post.. no.. you're scum.  I'm settled now.


@everyone

I firmly believe that Nuke is scum.  I've done my argument with him.  I know that the last batch of posts are large but please look over them.  Once you have, please do the following:

1. If you find anything wrong with my argument and my reasonings, then please post them.  That way, I can either further clerify the matter for you or understand the faults of my statement and reevaluate based on them.

2. if you believe my arguments but still have a concern or doubt please voice a question or accusation towards Nuke so he can reply to you about it and, thus, you can fully decide how you feel about him.

3. If you believe my arguments and cannot find any new questions or doubts then vote for him. 

For myself, I will say that I do want him lynched.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Org on October 24, 2009, 08:30:15 pm
I read through that and it does seem he is backtracking. And the fact that he is acting a bit strange with the scummy business does seem....well, scummy. Unvote Vote Nuke. I agree with dakarian's points. he does seem to be a bit active lurking, although more active than myself.

Clarify is spelled with an a, not an "e", by the way.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 25, 2009, 12:24:19 am
Found it!



Quote from: dakarian
Nuke is AWOL but I've seen enough to believe he's a scum that's disappeared.  Not all who get replaced are town.

Bah, just do a mass prod.  A good few people are trying to forget about this one.


Does not match up with what you've said Dakarian.

Quote from: dakarian
But you ARE backtracking.  Before you said that AN was scummy.  Then you say that Person was more scummy.  Now you say you didn't mean 'scummy'. 

I don't argue with scum: I lynch scum.  I argue with you because I question.. I wonder "perhaps".  I question you to learn about you, to decide whether you are town or scum. 

When I assume you are scum, I'll stop speaking to you.

Quote from: dakarian
I pressed you and pushed you and you feel like puddy.  You try to play like you're firm and strong but you end up soft and willing to say whatever may help shake me off of you.  You try to make me look like a Foolish, buddy me up by declaring I'm Town, and change your stance on that post in order to make yourself look like you are aggressivly hunting... or testing the waters...or lurker hunting... or correcting a mistake... or just talking nonsense.


Well I'm settled.  You're scum.  I took my time to get to this post because, at first glance, I thought you were looking better and that I would have to pull back and dive deeper into my wide scan.  The scan was useful but now that I've read your post.. no.. you're scum.  I'm settled now.


@everyone

I firmly believe that Nuke is scum.  I've done my argument with him.  I know that the last batch of posts are large but please look over them.  Once you have, please do the following:

1. If you find anything wrong with my argument and my reasonings, then please post them.  That way, I can either further clerify the matter for you or understand the faults of my statement and reevaluate based on them.

2. if you believe my arguments but still have a concern or doubt please voice a question or accusation towards Nuke so he can reply to you about it and, thus, you can fully decide how you feel about him.

3. If you believe my arguments and cannot find any new questions or doubts then vote for him. 

For myself, I will say that I do want him lynched.

So, you thought he was scum before, yet then later you claim you wanted to give him a chance. Why? What specifically did he say that made you think he was town? In fact, Dakarian, you've never said what's making you think Nuke is scum now. You say "the Apostolic Nihilist post", but we can't read your fucking mind, so please direct us (me) to what you're talking about. You have this nasty habit of not saying the evidence against the accused. Seriously, I can't figure out what makes you believe Nuke is scum. I did notice he's being somewhat defensive in his posts, but again, that's the tunnelvision you have going on. I also can't figure out if you're scum who's making a bullshit case against Nuke, or if I just missed something major. So please, Dakarian, just tell me: What made you think Nuke was scum originally? I'll reread everything from there, I just want to know where to start.

@Org: That's not good enough, I'll get to you later. Just know this: I'm going to interrogate the SHIT out of you, Bandwagon Mcgee.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 25, 2009, 06:07:01 am
I read through that and it does seem he is backtracking. And the fact that he is acting a bit strange with the scummy business does seem....well, scummy. Unvote Vote Nuke. I agree with dakarian's points. he does seem to be a bit active lurking, although more active than myself.

Clarify is spelled with an a, not an "e", by the way.
What what
Active lurking is posting posts with no content. I believe my posts had content. You have yet to seriously participate in this game.

Dakarian: Very well. Do you want me to, once again, defend myself, or will you not read it? If you won't read it, well, we've already said all there is to say, and I doubt that another giant post is going to sway anyone else's opinions by this point.
One new point you brought up was an accusation of buddying. Well, I am not. I believe you are town. That is my opinion. If I were an impartial bystander, I would still believe you are town.
Please note that I am not giving up. Just because you are convinced I am scum does not mean that everyone else is, and, indeed, if anyone else thinks I am scum, please give a short summary of why, and I will indicate why you are wrong. Also, should I reach L-1, please give me a moment to say my last things before I go.

MrPerson: Don't be silly. You are misinterpreting dakarian there; it is clear that his first quote was indicating that, unless I return, he believes me scum. Once I returned, he decided to make sure I was scum. Apparently my posts went some way to convincing him I was town again, but then I messed up and slid back into 95% scum territory.
That is obvious.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 25, 2009, 06:16:17 am
I'm sorry I'm lurking, everyone.  There is a reason.  The reason is as follows - I suppose I might as well claim.

My colour is indigo.  I am a Survivor, with my only goal being to live to the end of the game.  For this reason, I have been lurking - my normal tactics tend to get me NK'd pretty quick, so I've been laying low.  I'm happy to work with the town, though.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Night 1)
Post by: webadict on October 25, 2009, 08:08:05 am
Vote Count (4 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - Vector
NUKE9.13 - dakarian, Leafsnail, Org
Org - NUKE9.13, Apostolic Nihilist
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 25, 2009, 10:06:15 am
The post that started the whole mess  (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=42742.msg823878#msg823878) was soft enough:


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Anyway old Apostolic Nihilist holds my vote for now on account of... stuff. I consider his behaviour sufficiently odd that I consider the likelyhood that he is scum higher than any other player. 

 
My reponse is to pressure vote him to first ask why he agreed to Nihilist then thought him scummy.  He answered the first part but I mostly wanted the second part: what is the 'stuff' he's reffering to.

In response, I get this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

He moves his vote to you for lurking, but then goes on about Nihilist.  The post reads that Nihilist seems to be acting in a way he's not used to.  He then believes that, though it's not a strong belief, that Nihilist would be ok to lynch.


It's that post which forms the basis of the argument against him. 

Now about my belief and his lurkiness.. Person, you've seen my Everyone post in Bay 12.  I have only just thrown it out now.  Until then, I'm talking to the person being accused.  I'm prodding and pushing until I get them to crack and see what's inside.  Even 'OMG you scum' aids to the pressure. 

When I write to Everyone, I'm no longer trying to pull from the target.  I'm now trying to convince the rest of the town to lynch him.  It's HERE when I'm fully convinced.  Before there was always doubt.

And thinking I would kill due to lurking?  Meh.  You pressure lurkers.  You pump lurkers.  You make sure lurkers who don't get replaced know that they'll die if they don't return.  You wake them up!


WHY he's mafia? 

He wants to play aggressive but he's not.  He attempted to join me after Nihilist (providing the second vote with vector)but came late and based his vote on 'stuff'.  It takes a town's worth of pressure to get him to respond and it's a vote switch to lurking hunting combined with a very vague and soft accusation.

His reasons change when pressured.  He voted you to wake up a lurker.. No he felt Person was scummier than AN

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Once again, you must agree, that given a slightly scummy person, and someone scummier still, it is best to vote for the scummiest?

But wait.. it's not 'scumminess' it's 'goodtargetness'

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Substitute scumminess in my quote with goodtargetness

Which now makes him sound like he's after 'good targets' rather than 'scum'.

He stated that Nihilist would make a good lynch if no one else looks better (the 'slightly scummy' mess) .. then it's "if we had to stop right now I believe he should die"... then he "had no case against Nihilist and was just defending himself" ...  then it's "he would've chosen AN again..for goodtargetness,  not scummyness"  ...now it's

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I was indicating that I was merely putting down my vote in favour of his death, rather than choosing him as the person to die.

Considering that the debate is about how he felt at the time of writing the post in question, I shouldn't be getting a mass of different answers.


Oh sorry.. that's not the last... this is the last

Quote from: dakarian
Was supposed to be ignored by the town?

Quote
Yes. It was an indication of my own motivation. Pre defence. Open flow of opinions.

It was all just babble.




He passive aggressive and he can't explain his own reasonings to his actions.  He bends his argument to try to best win the argument rather than focus on explaining why he did what he did.  He doesn't want to show who he truly is.  He just wants me to stop attacking him, no matter what it takes.

That is why he is scum.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Org on October 25, 2009, 10:47:42 am
I read through that and it does seem he is backtracking. And the fact that he is acting a bit strange with the scummy business does seem....well, scummy. Unvote Vote Nuke. I agree with dakarian's points. he does seem to be a bit active lurking, although more active than myself.

Clarify is spelled with an a, not an "e", by the way.
What what
Active lurking is posting posts with no content. I believe my posts had content. You have yet to seriously participate in this game.

Dakarian: Very well. Do you want me to, once again, defend myself, or will you not read it? If you won't read it, well, we've already said all there is to say, and I doubt that another giant post is going to sway anyone else's opinions by this point.
One new point you brought up was an accusation of buddying. Well, I am not. I believe you are town. That is my opinion. If I were an impartial bystander, I would still believe you are town.
Please note that I am not giving up. Just because you are convinced I am scum does not mean that everyone else is, and, indeed, if anyone else thinks I am scum, please give a short summary of why, and I will indicate why you are wrong. Also, should I reach L-1, please give me a moment to say my last things before I go.

MrPerson: Don't be silly. You are misinterpreting dakarian there; it is clear that his first quote was indicating that, unless I return, he believes me scum. Once I returned, he decided to make sure I was scum. Apparently my posts went some way to convincing him I was town again, but then I messed up and slid back into 95% scum territory.
That is obvious.
Sorry, jeez.

How is it not enough that I think its true of his points? Is it because I am third person voting him and I should NOT go with what I think Person?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 25, 2009, 12:18:40 pm
In my defence.
My reasons have remained the same. Dakarian has misunderstood several things, which leads to his claims of reason changing.
I will now indicate the reason for the post, which is the same reason I have been trying to get across for a while.

This is all correct:
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The post that started the whole mess was soft enough:
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Anyway old Apostolic Nihilist holds my vote for now on account of... stuff. I consider his behaviour sufficiently odd that I consider the likelyhood that he is scum higher than any other player.
My reponse is to pressure vote him to first ask why he agreed to Nihilist then thought him scummy.  He answered the first part but I mostly wanted the second part: what is the 'stuff' he's referring to.

In response, I get this:

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MrPerson stop lurking it is annoying!

For that matter, everybody, stop lurking, it is annoying!

Anyway. Apostolic Nihilist hasn't really done anything that is obviously scummy. But from the way his posts read and the actions he has made I feel that he is acting in a way unfamiliar to him. Of course, in mafia, we all act, all the time, but seeing as we spend less time as mafia and have more need to act, our acting as mafia is less refined. It is not a solid accusation. However, it is enough that, given no better targets, I consider him a worthwhile lynch.
Now then.
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Anyway old Apostolic Nihilist holds my vote for now on account of... stuff. I consider his behaviour sufficiently odd that I consider the likelyhood that he is scum higher than any other player.
My reason for making this post was to indicate my opinion, and my opinion was that AN was more scummy than anyone else at that time. Yes, had we had to decide who to lynch right then I would have said AN. I thought that sharing my opinion with people would help ease and encourage conversation. Because, you know, that's what you do. When there's nothing to say, you still say something, so that more things to say will spawn from it.

Then this post
Quote from: dakarian
You agree with Nihilst's reasoning but you find him scummy on....stuff.
Unvote,  Vote Nuke9.13
No really.. explain yourself.
Well, I thought the emphasis was on 'you agree with nihilst's reasoning but you find him scummy' rather than 'on...stuff'

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So, what, all scum lie all the time and never makes a single rational statement?
Come on.
"I agree with Apostolic Nihilist."
Was not what I said
I said:
"I still agree with Apostolic Nihilist that we should have left him for the scum to NK, but whatever."
Thus this response.

Quote from: dakarian
the emphasis was on the second half..
What's your reasoning for thinking he's acting scummy?
Fair enough.

MrPerson stop lurking it is annoying!

For that matter, everybody, stop lurking, it is annoying!

Anyway. Apostolic Nihilist hasn't really done anything that is obviously scummy. But from the way his posts read and the actions he has made I feel that he is acting in a way unfamiliar to him. Of course, in mafia, we all act, all the time, but seeing as we spend less time as mafia and have more need to act, our acting as mafia is less refined. It is not a solid accusation. However, it is enough that, given no better targets, I consider him a worthwhile lynch.
And then the fated post.
Firstly
MrPerson was lurking. Voting for lurkers can get them to post again. Therefore it is 'Good' to vote for lurkers. As it was I had very little reason to vote for AN, so I considered MrPerson a 'Better' 'target' than AN.
Secondly, I responded to Dakarian. It was explaining to dakarian my reasoning behind a vote I had made previously, so that dakarian could understand why I voted for AN.

This is the reason for this post and my actions.
The various reasons that dakarian claims I have held are all reflections of this, as I will now indicate:
Quote from: Dakarian
His reasons change when pressured.  He voted you to wake up a lurker..
Yes, that is why I voted MrPerson, as indicated
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No he felt Person was scummier than AN:
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Once again, you must agree, that given a slightly scummy person, and someone scummier still, it is best to vote for the scummiest?
I can understand the confusion here. However;
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But wait.. it's not 'scumminess' it's 'goodtargetness'
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Substitute scumminess in my quote with goodtargetness

Right. Let us do what I suggested.
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Once again, you must agree, that given a slightly good target, and a better target, it is best to vote for the best target?
So no, I did not consider MrPerson scummier, I considered him a better target than AN.

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Which now makes him sound like he's after 'good targets' rather than 'scum'.
It should be self-evident that scum are good targets. But whatever.

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(1)He stated that Nihilist would make a good lynch if no one else looks better (the 'slightly scummy' mess) Yes
(2).. then it's "if we had to stop right now I believe he should die" This is the same thing. If we were to stop right then (when I made my AN vote, no one would look more scummy.
(3)... then he "had no case against Nihilist and was just defending himself" This refers to the end of post 3, in which I was, yes, defending myself against dakarian. By means of explaining my reasoning.
(4)...  then it's "he would've chosen AN again..for goodtargetness,  not scummyness"  Well, no, I never said that. I did say that, at the time of post 3, had we had to stop right then, I would have voted for AN. The reason being reason 1 here.
...now it's
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I was indicating that I was merely putting down my vote in favour of his death, rather than choosing him as the person to die.
Which is a quote in reply to a quote of a quote, so not very reliable for anything. As it happens, the vote to which I am referring is post one. I think this was a response to the accusation that I was being all like: "someone needs to die, oh well, you'll do", which suggests I control who dies. It was not a reason for my actions, it was an explanation of what my action was.

Quote from: dakarian
Was supposed to be ignored by the town?
As in, was the town not meant to go, hmmn, you have a point there, we should lynch AN
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Yes. It was an indication of my own motivation. Pre defence. Open flow of opinions.
It was all just babble.
It was not babble, it was, and I quote from the quote he was talking about 'an indication of my own motivation', pre defence (actually just normal defence), and more open flow of opinions. Which it was and have always claimed it was

If anyone can still find a situation where I have one reason that contradicts another reason for anything, please do tell.



I read through that and it does seem he is backtracking. And the fact that he is acting a bit strange with the scummy business does seem....well, scummy. Unvote Vote Nuke. I agree with dakarian's points. he does seem to be a bit active lurking, although more active than myself.

Clarify is spelled with an a, not an "e", by the way.
What what
Active lurking is posting posts with no content. I believe my posts had content. You have yet to seriously participate in this game.
Sorry, jeez.
'Sorry, jeez'? Am I meant to read this as sarcasm, the actual meaning being: 'Man, you are way exaggerating, the thing you want me to apologize for is totally not so bad'
Because it is bad. Active lurking, which you are totally doing, is bad. You are not playing the game. You are either scum trying to avoid attention, or stupid town who is giving the scum a lower standard to adhere to. And now you are trivialising it.
I am already voting for you, but if I wasn't, I totally would, just for that.

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How is it not enough that I think its true of his points? Is it because I am third person voting him and I should NOT go with what I think Person?
You should vote in the manner that you like but seeing as I am not scum I would like to know which bits of dakarians argument in particular you are convinced by so that I can show you why it is wrong. Just voting for someone saying 'myeah I sort of agree with this' is slightly better than just voting for them without saying anything, but not much.
Also, kind of a weak thing to do, but I fear that it may be partly true: OMGUS.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 25, 2009, 12:33:21 pm
No comments on my claim?  Hmm, considering the town tunnel at the moment, I could probably claim SK without anyone noticing.

Fun fact: If the scum were anyone other than NUKE9.13 and Apostolic Nihilist, they could hammer with me now and win.  Hmm, isn't that nice to know?

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Apostolic Nihilist - Vector
NUKE9.13 - dakarian, Leafsnail, Org
Org - NUKE9.13, Apostolic Nihilist
So, if the scum weren't Apost and Nuke, they could hammer Org (scum player votes, I follow), Nuke (scum player hammers) or Apost (scum players vote, I follow) and win with me tomorrow.  So, if noone hammers, I suppose we now know who the scum are.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Org on October 25, 2009, 12:48:59 pm
Sorry, jeez was meant to be sorry for me mistakenly saying something that I may have messed up on what said mmeaning of the word meant, jeez saying that you dont have to go off on it so much yeah I messsed up dont raeg man.

@ AN: What I agree with is the following:
That Nuke is as bit confusingly explaining his defence(if you are saying scummy=goodtargetness why not just say goodtargetness and save us from being confused?) and that lurking is not good(I am a hypocrite, but so is everyone else.) I try to stop lurking, mkay? And did you read the bolded stuff waaaaaayyyyyyyyyy above this(or below when posting)? prob on another page back.

Edit:Off topic, I know, but does anyone know where to get a safe download of C++?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 25, 2009, 12:56:49 pm
No editing, and wtf Org?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Org on October 25, 2009, 01:00:11 pm
No editing, and wtf Org?
Fuck
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Org on October 25, 2009, 01:18:02 pm
God damn, I didnt think about no editing. I feel so stupid should have just added what I said in a new post.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 25, 2009, 01:22:55 pm
No comments on my claim?  Hmm, considering the town tunnel at the moment, I could probably claim SK without anyone noticing.

Fun fact: If the scum were anyone other than NUKE9.13 and Apostolic Nihilist, they could hammer with me now and win.  Hmm, isn't that nice to know?

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Apostolic Nihilist - Vector
NUKE9.13 - dakarian, Leafsnail, Org
Org - NUKE9.13, Apostolic Nihilist
So, if the scum weren't Apost and Nuke, they could hammer Org (scum player votes, I follow), Nuke (scum player hammers) or Apost (scum players vote, I follow) and win with me tomorrow.  So, if noone hammers, I suppose we now know who the scum are.
or dakarian and org are scum, or leafsnail and org are scum, or leafsnail and dakarian are scum.
Those also work, right?
I hope it is one of those, because otherwise, yes, I am dead, and the town has lost. Unless, of course;
Someone unvote me.
So that we can lynch leafsnail.
Logic: If we lynch a towny today, the town loses. If we lynch a survivor, tommorow we will be at 3:2, which is lylo again, but hopefully power roles will have enough information then to save us. Risky, but less risky than the current situation. And as leafsnail has claimed survivor, we can be sure he is either that or scum.
100% safe, right?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Org on October 25, 2009, 01:31:31 pm
No comments on my claim?  Hmm, considering the town tunnel at the moment, I could probably claim SK without anyone noticing.

Fun fact: If the scum were anyone other than NUKE9.13 and Apostolic Nihilist, they could hammer with me now and win.  Hmm, isn't that nice to know?

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Apostolic Nihilist - Vector
NUKE9.13 - dakarian, Leafsnail, Org
Org - NUKE9.13, Apostolic Nihilist
So, if the scum weren't Apost and Nuke, they could hammer Org (scum player votes, I follow), Nuke (scum player hammers) or Apost (scum players vote, I follow) and win with me tomorrow.  So, if noone hammers, I suppose we now know who the scum are.
or dakarian and org are scum, or leafsnail and org are scum, or leafsnail and dakarian are scum.
Those also work, right?
I hope it is one of those, because otherwise, yes, I am dead, and the town has lost. Unless, of course;
Someone unvote me.
So that we can lynch leafsnail.
Logic: If we lynch a towny today, the town loses. If we lynch a survivor, tommorow we will be at 3:2, which is lylo again, but hopefully power roles will have enough information then to save us. Risky, but less risky than the current situation. And as leafsnail has claimed survivor, we can be sure he is either that or scum.
100% safe, right?
What is lylo?

And can survivors not vote or does it not count or what?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Vector on October 25, 2009, 01:35:20 pm
No comments on my claim?  Hmm, considering the town tunnel at the moment, I could probably claim SK without anyone noticing.

Fun fact: If the scum were anyone other than NUKE9.13 and Apostolic Nihilist, they could hammer with me now and win.  Hmm, isn't that nice to know?

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Apostolic Nihilist - Vector
NUKE9.13 - dakarian, Leafsnail, Org
Org - NUKE9.13, Apostolic Nihilist
So, if the scum weren't Apost and Nuke, they could hammer Org (scum player votes, I follow), Nuke (scum player hammers) or Apost (scum players vote, I follow) and win with me tomorrow.  So, if noone hammers, I suppose we now know who the scum are.

A good point.  Thank you for the claim, particularly the color.  Once we kill our first scum, I will have more confidence in the examined pattern.

That said, Webadict's right.  The colors really don't do anything.  If I'm right about the detected pattern, I'm not able to act upon it for fear of being incorrect.  What a nightmare of foolishness.

Also, I'm going to continue to apologize for my lack of suspicions and such.  I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out anything in this game.  It feels like obsessing over colors is the best I can do  :-\
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 25, 2009, 01:37:45 pm
To be true, I was hoping for that second post after your claim in order to see what's going on.

Well, let's go ahead and assume you are honest in order to play with the *leafsnail is survivor* card.

So, assuming that:
So, assuming you are a Survivor, ..yah, that'll make the scum team pretty clear.. or else we clearly lost.

Thing is, that assumes you are the survivor and the mafia believes you.

As to whether you are survivor...the claim is a big lean to support it, but I won't go 100%ing you.  If you aren't, you are making a BIG gamble. 

Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 25, 2009, 01:46:28 pm
What is lylo?

And can survivors not vote or does it not count or what?

Lylo = Lynch or LOse

It means that if the town lynches another town then the mafia will win.  Normally it means that the next day will end up with equal numbers of town and mafia (i.e. 4 town, 2 mafia.. town lynches a townie so it's 3 town 2 mafia, mafia kills at night, it's 2 town/2 mafia...game over).

Survivors are...well.. ugg.  ALL a survivor cares about is living to end.  Mafia or town win doesn't matter so long as they live. 

The problem with them showed up in a Paranormal game:

Day: 2 townies, 1 survivor, 2 mafia. 

Townies locate a mafia and vote on them.  Survivor (known at the time) is urged to join.

Survivor says "no".

Why?  The mafia contacted the survivor through PMs.  They threatened that if the survivor votes for the mafia then the mafia will win and so will the survivor.  If the survivor votes AGAINST the mafia, the town may win but the mafia will nightkill the survivor.

Result: Both Mafia come out and vote for a townie. Survivor joins them.  Mafia wins.



Now to this game: Leafsnail just declared himself Survivor.  If he is the survivor and we lynch a townie, we will be in exactly the same situation now as in that other game and the Survivor already said we WILL lose. 

In fact, given the vote setup, teh mafia can end the game RIGHT NOW by jumping on a townie and killing them. 
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 25, 2009, 01:50:05 pm
Exactly.  Which is why, since I have received no communications from the mafia and they don't seem to be trying to hammer, I think that Nuke must be scum.  After all, if the mafia member is out there and Nuke is town, why aren't they hammering him for an easy win tomorrow?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 25, 2009, 01:52:53 pm
or dakarian and org are scum, or leafsnail and org are scum, or leafsnail and dakarian are scum.
Those also work, right?
Dakarian and org can't be scum with Leafsnail as survivor.  Otherwise, we'd jump on AN and kill him with Leafsnail.

If leafsnail is scum, ALL bets are off and anyone can be scum with him.  That's NOT off the table.

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Someone unvote me.
So that we can lynch leafsnail.
Logic: If we lynch a towny today, the town loses. If we lynch a survivor, tommorow we will be at 3:2, which is lylo again, but hopefully power roles will have enough information then to save us. Risky, but less risky than the current situation. And as leafsnail has claimed survivor, we can be sure he is either that or scum.
100% safe, right?

You're playing a dangerous card there.  If Leafsnail is survivor, the only combo that works is Nuke and AN since all other combos could end game.

Thus if Leaf dies survivor, he loses, but you two get hanged and the town wins.


Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 25, 2009, 02:39:52 pm
I'm fine with lynching the survivor. Vote Leafsnail. It's a safe lynch, and unless there's a gambit involved in here somewhere, Leafsnail should know not to claim survivor until lylo, because otherwise you get lynched.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 25, 2009, 03:01:24 pm
I'm fine with lynching the survivor. Vote Leafsnail. It's a safe lynch, and unless there's a gambit involved in here somewhere, Leafsnail should know not to claim survivor until lylo, because otherwise you get lynched.
Circular logic much?  "We should lynch Leafsnail because surivors always get lynched before lylo so we should lynch him".
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 25, 2009, 03:10:29 pm
So um
Does anyone have an issue with my logic? Dakarian, org, the town can only be better off from his lynching, unlike my lynching, where you cannot be completely sure (without investigations and such) that lynching me won't cause the town to lose.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 25, 2009, 03:22:52 pm
I'm fine with lynching the survivor. Vote Leafsnail. It's a safe lynch, and unless there's a gambit involved in here somewhere, Leafsnail should know not to claim survivor until lylo, because otherwise you get lynched.
Circular logic much?  "We should lynch Leafsnail because surivors always get lynched before lylo so we should lynch him".

You're just a safe lynch, that's all. We really, really don't want you alive at lylo, since the mafia will force us to lose. Really, lynching you right now is like lynching a third mafia member.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 25, 2009, 04:34:08 pm
NSBM taught me that a new day means another chance for the mafia to pull away. 

Also, your words have shown that you believe he's the survivor.  Since the ONLY way for you to escape is if leaf is mafia then that's that.

So no.  I'm not removing my vote.  Instead I'll wait for the last vote to finish you off.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 25, 2009, 04:44:10 pm
NSBM taught me that a new day means another chance for the mafia to pull away. 

Also, your words have shown that you believe he's the survivor.  Since the ONLY way for you to escape is if leaf is mafia then that's that.

So no.  I'm not removing my vote.  Instead I'll wait for the last vote to finish you off.

It's strange that Leafsnail isn't voting, if I was him, I'd have waited and claimed survivor with the hammer vote. I'm just confused as to why he claimed now. I also don't see why he isn't voting, if he really was a survivor, he's probably just vote how the mafia want him to.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 25, 2009, 04:47:46 pm
Leaf is voting for Nuke.  He was the second vote.

He claimed because he was lurking and was noticed and his claim condemns Nuke and AN.

He already said he'll vote with the mafia if the mafia aren't one of the ones already targeted.  His belief is that either we missed and, thus, it will bring a mafia wagon he could join or his theory is true and he can ride the town to a win.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 25, 2009, 05:12:35 pm
NSBM taught me that a new day means another chance for the mafia to pull away. 

Also, your words have shown that you believe he's the survivor.  Since the ONLY way for you to escape is if leaf is mafia then that's that.

So no.  I'm not removing my vote.  Instead I'll wait for the last vote to finish you off.

It's strange that Leafsnail isn't voting, if I was him, I'd have waited and claimed survivor with the hammer vote. I'm just confused as to why he claimed now. I also don't see why he isn't voting, if he really was a survivor, he's probably just vote how the mafia want him to.
Firstly, I am voting.  Secondly, I realised that now the mafia can either hammer with me and win, or Nuke is scum and we can lynch him for a town victory.  You're acting weirdly though.  Before, you wanted to lynch me as a survivor, but now that Dakarian has challenged you on this, you want to lynch me as scum.  How come?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 25, 2009, 05:16:09 pm
I want to lynch you because you can't be town. Why do you even care? You're supposed to be a survivor, why do you care if I'm scum or town?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: dakarian on October 25, 2009, 05:20:54 pm
There's a SLIGHT chance Person is scum that didn't notice instawin, he also looks the worst individually.

AN is more likely based on your theory. 


However, either way Nuke is scum. 
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 2)
Post by: Apostolic Nihilist on October 25, 2009, 09:37:53 pm
There's a SLIGHT chance Person is scum that didn't notice instawin, he also looks the worst individually.

AN is more likely based on your theory. 


However, either way Nuke is scum. 
I don't really see anything fallacious with Dakarian's reasoning.
NUKE looks ridiculously bad right now and Mr.Person isn't much better. They're both trying to push a Leafsnail lynch, but at best it'll simply buy them more time. We can go the safe route here and lynch Leafsnail, or we can take out NUKE now. I'm not really sure what to make of this, but hey.

NUKE & Mr.Person seem like the likely scum team.
Mr. Person alone seems suspicious too, and I really don't like the active-lurking sort of thing he's been doing.
There's been little contact between NUKE & Mr. Person, and what little there was, was riddled with deflections to other people.
"Hey, Mr.Person, stop lurking! Also Org and Vector, you too.", etc.
So I'm not really sure if this is the right choice, but...

This is lylo, right?
Which means my vote will probably either win or lose the game for town?
...
Well, I'm going to Unvote and vote NUKE.
I apologize if I've lost us the game!
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Night 1)
Post by: webadict on October 26, 2009, 09:03:03 am
Vote Count (4 to Lynch)

Apostolic Nihilist - Vector
NUKE9.13 - dakarian, Leafsnail, Org, Apostolic Nihilist
Leafsnail - NUKE9.13, Mr.Person

NUKE9.13 has been lynched.

NUKE9.13 was a Blue (town).


It is now Night.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Night 2)
Post by: webadict on October 27, 2009, 08:39:06 am
Apostolic Nihilist has been killed!

Apostolic Nihilist was a Yellow (town)!

Survivors:
dakarian
Mr.Person
Vector
Leafsnail
Org

Vote Count (3 To Lynch)

None
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 3)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 27, 2009, 08:45:17 am
Sorry for the backstab, guys, but a Survivor's gotta do what a Survivor's gotta do.  I will vote Mr.Person, as I'm fairly certain he's town.  Scum, hammer him to death and win now.  Unless you are scum, of course, MP.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 3)
Post by: dakarian on October 27, 2009, 10:02:53 am
Mr.Person
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 3)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 27, 2009, 12:39:04 pm
Well, it's game over when Dakarian's partner arrives.

Barring a dramatic scum claim from MP :P.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 3)
Post by: dakarian on October 27, 2009, 01:00:27 pm
He won't be claiming that.  Vector's my partner.


So once Vector gets here, we'll be done.  Good game everyone ;)
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 3)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 27, 2009, 01:04:24 pm
Well, it's game over when Dakarian's partner arrives.

Barring a dramatic scum claim from MP :P.

Actually, vote Dakarian.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 3)
Post by: Vector on October 27, 2009, 01:07:06 pm
Mr. Person.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 3)
Post by: Org on October 27, 2009, 03:41:21 pm
Wait...Dakarian is scum? Dakarian
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 3)
Post by: webadict on October 27, 2009, 06:09:24 pm
Vote Count (3 To Lynch)

None
Mr.Person - Leafsnail, dakarian, Vector
dakarian - Mr.Person

Mr.Person has been lynched.

Mr.Person was a White (mafia).

It is now Night.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Night 3)
Post by: webadict on October 27, 2009, 09:25:16 pm
Leafsnail has been killed!

Leafsnail was an Indigo (survivor).

Survivors:
dakarian
Vector
Org

Vote Count (2 To Lynch)

None
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 4)
Post by: Vector on October 27, 2009, 09:42:04 pm
DIE, Org.  Die now.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 4)
Post by: Vector on October 27, 2009, 09:47:39 pm
ARGH Dakarian, I know you're online.  Come hammer and get this thing over with, scumfriend.  We must have a ludicrous victory for our most awesome of scum teams!!
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 4)
Post by: dakarian on October 27, 2009, 09:52:30 pm
Senseless, simply senseless.

I might as well explain things to the folks reading.

I am NOT mafia.  I am, in fact, Town.  What I am is a Mason marked with the color of Red.  My partner, Vector, is also a Mason, marked in orange. 

When Leafsnail made his claim two days ago, I fully believed his theory, based on his correct assumption that a true mafia would out themselves and lynch Nihilist or Nuke.  Since the mafia had not, I believed that it was the icing on the cake for finishing off Nuke. 

Note I would've done it anyway had leaf stayed silent.  Oh well.  Sorry Nuke.

When the day ended with a town kill, the game was sealed for mafia.  Leaf would betray the town and join the mafia with the final vote.  A pity too, since Vector figured out the color system by then: white and black were mafia..the colorless.  In any case, Me and vector's only hope was if Leafsnail was tricking us and was Mafia. 

His post when the next day began removed that theory and brought one hope:  His vote on Person and speech showed he was still acting as a Survivor: and either taking the BIGGEST GAMBLE EVER AS MAFIA or simply waiting for the mafia to join him. 

The hope: He picked Mr. Person, one of the mafia, and the mafia had been too passive and scared to trust him and, thus, make themselves known.

Sidenote: This game does not allow PMs to anyone but Mafia to mafia or mason to mason.  Thus the mafia couldn't speak to leaf.


Thus I gambled.  I came in and voted mr. Person with the intention of pretending I was the mafia.  When leaf mentioned about my partner, I went to reply about Vector, both to keep up the image and send a message to vector to join in.

And Blessing to him, Vector joined in.  Note that after Vector's post, it was Hammer, thus the other posts are actually in violation (though moot, the two mafia folks were STILL being too passive).

Now we come to here.  Personally, I thought killing Leaf was meh.  Leaf did all he could to play his side well.  He tried to work with the town till we failed.  He then turned to the mafia.  Killing him was nothing more than a petty kill.

It was also the final nail.   Leaf was still a survivor.  He was still willing to go to either side so long as he lived.  Town would vote for Org, Org would vote for Town.. Leaf would then decide based on his feelings.  The best option then would be to kill Vector.  I've crossed Leaf several times so far in several games, and he probably didn't like what I did the last day to boot.  Though I did hope that Leaf would forgive me for the sake of the rest of the town players, I would understand Leaf choosing Org over me.  If I died, I imagine Vector would bring more sympathy to the town cause.

But no.. you chose the petty kill.  Leaf did what he could and you killed him for it.  Now you're left with BOTH town masons, fully confirmed townies to each other, and one Black Mafia.

So be it. 

My vote is on Org.  Vector will be here shortly.  This game is over.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Day 4)
Post by: webadict on October 27, 2009, 09:58:10 pm
Vote Count (2 To Lynch)

Org - Vector, dakarian

Org has been lynched!

Org was a Black (Mafia).

Winners: Town (dakarian, Vector, Apostolic Nihilist, ExKirby, NUKE9.13, Pandarsenic)


dakarian - Red (Mason)
Vector - Orange (Mason/Death Miller)
Apostolic Nihilist - Yellow (Doctor)
ExKirby - Green (Townie)
NUKE9.13 - Blue (Cop)
Pandarsenic - Violet (Tracker)

Mafia:
Mr.Person - White (Godfather)
Org - Black (Roleblocker)

Survivor:
Leafsnail - Indigo (Survivor)
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: ToonyMan on October 27, 2009, 09:58:44 pm
Awesome.

EDIT:

Also, Mr.Person...love having Org as your scum partner?  XD
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: webadict on October 27, 2009, 10:01:04 pm
Awesome.

EDIT:

Also, Mr.Person...love having Org as your scum partner?  XD
Actually, mafia had it won until Mr.Person didn't hammer.

Also, Org should've killed Vector or dakarian. Their posts before lynching made it obvious they knew each other's alignments or were in league.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 27, 2009, 10:03:52 pm
Oh fuck, Vector was a death miller.

Org, why the FUCK did you kill Leafsnail? You're a moron. Sure, I should of also claimed mafia, but it wouldn't have done any good, since Leafsnail had already voted. I might of been able to weasle a NL out of him, in hind sight, but oh well. But seriously, why did you throw your only win chance away?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: dakarian on October 27, 2009, 10:05:58 pm
Wait, so Nuke was a cop?  Meh.  Vector was a Death miller!?  Now that's an ugly chance of a WIFOM.

As for Mr.Person loving Org.. why did Person fight so hard with the Survivor?  He could've ended game right there by hammering Nuke.  Leaf voted for him because he wasn't sure he was mafia.

For that matter, why didn't Person speak up to Leaf?  Why just vote for me?  He should've seen what I was up to.

Sidenote: I had suspicions about Person..though it was nuke/person.  I actually didn't see anything in Org. Leaf didn't either it seems.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: Vector on October 27, 2009, 10:07:48 pm
Oh fuck, Vector was a death miller.

Org, why the FUCK did you kill Leafsnail? You're a moron. Sure, I should of also claimed mafia, but it wouldn't have done any good, since Leafsnail had already voted. I might of been able to weasle a NL out of him, in hind sight, but oh well. But seriously, why did you throw your only win chance away?

Hm, surprising.  I didn't know I was a death miller--it wasn't noted in my role PM.  Bastard mods... *grumblegrumble.*
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 27, 2009, 10:08:23 pm
Because I figured no matter what I said, in the end, Vector would still hammer the lynch on.

I didn't hammer Nuke because I'm paranoid.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: dakarian on October 27, 2009, 10:09:59 pm
@Mr.person

Leaf wasn't after the mafia.  He thought you were town.  ALL you had to do was argue him and, AT LEAST, he would've pulled back.  Then it would be who looked the scummiest. 

You JUST voting for me looked like you were town just giving up.  My claim that vector was my buddy sealed my claim since it showed I knew someone. 

Org kept playing the 'town' card there too BUT the hammer was thrown anyway so that's moot. 


But yes, the big issue was not trusting Leaf and killling off Nuke.

fakeedit:

Person.. Leafsnail was ONLINE and reading the forum.  If you said anything he would've read it before Vector spoke up.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: Mr.Person on October 27, 2009, 10:19:24 pm
@Mr.person

Leaf wasn't after the mafia.  He thought you were town.  ALL you had to do was argue him and, AT LEAST, he would've pulled back.  Then it would be who looked the scummiest. 

You JUST voting for me looked like you were town just giving up.  My claim that vector was my buddy sealed my claim since it showed I knew someone. 

Org kept playing the 'town' card there too BUT the hammer was thrown anyway so that's moot. 


But yes, the big issue was not trusting Leaf and killling off Nuke.

fakeedit:

Person.. Leafsnail was ONLINE and reading the forum.  If you said anything he would've read it before Vector spoke up.

I don't check who else is online because that's just sad, really.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: dakarian on October 27, 2009, 10:54:57 pm
Even if you didn't know who was online and who wasn't, you should've tried anyway.  Even though it was a certain loss for town, I tried to win anyway knowing that, chances are, vector wouldn't get in in time. 

You should've thought the same: "Even if, chances are, Vector would come in before Leaf, I should try to win and prove myself as scum"
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 28, 2009, 07:19:13 am
Yeah, Mr.Person, if you had counter claimed, I would've totally unvoted you, and at least heard arguments from either sides, and probably eventually settled for a NL.  Org... I understand you were annoyed that I got MP lynched, but WHY DID YOU KILL ME?  I mean, yes, I might've sided with the town, but surely "guy who might have sided with someone who he's keen for revenge on" is better than "two townies who are confirmed to each other"...

MP, I actually voted you because I thought that lynching me, the survivor, would be correct town play, and felt that Dakarian siding with me made him more likely scum.  Of course, that's what he wanted me to think, I guess.

Funnily enough, this is the reason I didn't push for a NL.  Sure, if I pushed a NL, the mafia had no reason to kill me, but then again, they would've had no reason not to kill me, so I thought that getting a town lynch was safer.  Not sure if I deserved to lose, but as least I took my killer down with me :P.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: dakarian on October 28, 2009, 08:31:36 am
Meh, you played it well.

I was acting pro town in siding with you.  I figured your statement was a last-ditch effort to help the town (with a dash of "mafia can instawin here" thrown in for hedging).  When it failed, it made sense to side with the mafia.

Honestly, it made sense to think of Person as town instead of me.  I was already voting on Nuke so I couldn't take advantage, but Person wasn't so he could've ended day and game by just voting for Nuke.  That he didn't and, instead, charged after you seemed like he wasn't scum. 

Thus when you voted for him, I paniced.  I voted at first as town in the hopes of a quicklynch (that's why there's no chatter in it).  Afterwards, I realized I looked like Scum so I decided "why not?" and ran with it, knowing that if you suspected I was town you'd pull the vote.

To be blunt, you didn't deserve to lose, but mafia didn't earn the win.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: NUKE9.13 on October 28, 2009, 10:09:32 am
Man, we totally should have lynched leafsnail. It made sense. Not lynching leafsnail was the wrong course of action, and the win is purely because of org's stupidity.
Goddamit org
If you hadn't been so stupid
I would have been able to make a better point about lynching leafsnail.
Also AN
What the fudge
You voted me to prove you weren't scum. But that would just prove you were, in the wifomless logic that was being employed. Numbskull.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: webadict on October 28, 2009, 10:11:53 am
I was hoping Vector would be killed or lynched with dakarian defending him :P
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 28, 2009, 10:14:06 am
If Org had NK'd Vector...

Actually, if Org had NK'd Vector, that would suggest the prescence of an SK.  Hmm, what claim is closest to an SK :o?  Yeah, I might've been doomed if that were the case.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: dakarian on October 28, 2009, 10:30:05 am
Heh.  Nah.  I had a feeling web was hiding role effected, but didn't go full Bastard.  As such, I didn't really know Vector's full role but I trusted that I was a true Mason (aka: everyone linked to me was town).

So if Vector died I would've just said Death miller and ran strait for org.  My fear was that Leaf would take one look at the one that messed with him twice (the loss in Religion + the fake mafia now) and wipe me out. 

Overall, though, it does seem that Survivors are even more anti-town than it seems so long as two Mafia still exist.  Perhaps it is the town's best interests to just kill them on sight...Which would've meant I would've joined Nuke in taking out leaf.

Now that I think about it, the big reason I didn't was the Pandarsenic factor.  NSBM had an effect on me it seems :P.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 28, 2009, 10:43:00 am
Quote
the loss in Religion + the fake mafia now
The fake mafia?  Which one was that?

But if you were aiming at scum rather than town, I woulda joined you in trying to find the final scum member.  Survivors are only really anti-town at lylo, when trying to guarentee a victory for themselves.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: dakarian on October 28, 2009, 10:59:22 am
The day before Final Day, when Person got killed.  I faked being mafia at that point with Vector as my scumbuddy.

At least, that was the impression I was after :P.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 28, 2009, 11:07:25 am
I meant the day before when we lynched Nuke.  I actually thought Nuke was scum then.

But yes, Dak, that might have been the only situation when it made sense to claim scum when you weren't ;D.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 28, 2009, 11:09:19 am
Oh, and I had nearly as much of a heart attack reading "Town wins" for this one as I had when reading "Scum wins" for NSBM :P.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: Org on October 28, 2009, 04:15:00 pm
At least I got my chicken...
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: ToonyMan on October 28, 2009, 04:17:19 pm
At least I got my chicken...

Was it really worth losing for it?
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: Org on October 28, 2009, 04:21:20 pm
Leafsnail died.
Title: Re: Color Mafia (Game Over! Town Wins!)
Post by: Leafsnail on October 28, 2009, 04:23:57 pm
Really?  Didn't notice.