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Title: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: dakarian on December 21, 2009, 03:33:01 pm
A simple story:

2 Mafia, one a mafioso, one a Roleblocker

1 Doctor, and 7 townies.

No tricks.  No role-based wins.  It's just the town's skills in hunting mafia against the mafia's skills in hiding from them.

Rules:

Votes are in Red.  Unvotes not required, but highly recommended.

PMs Not allowed.

Quoting the PM is not Allowed.

48 hour days, 24 hour nights.  Weekends and holidays will not count.  Deadline in effect.  Extensions will be offered 24 hours before deadline.  Day Endings will be offered if over 50% of the town votes on the same target.

Bold is used to contact me.  There will be no Italics

Lurkers will be hunted down severely. 

It is now Day 1. 
 
Survivors:
 
Leafsnail
Mephansteras
JanusTwoface
Zai
Pandarsenic
webadict
Eduren
dorf
Vector, who replaces dirtybirdy
 
Deadline: Wednesday, 9pm EST
 
Good Luck, Have Fun, Kill All.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Mephansteras on December 21, 2009, 03:40:05 pm
Hmm, looks like we have a few people I haven't seen much of.

dorf and dirtybirty, how much mafia experience do you have?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dorf on December 21, 2009, 03:48:27 pm
This is my first game ever.
I'm reading up on past games and have the MafiaWiki open, as we speak.

Why do you want to see more of me, anyway, Mephansteras?

(Am I doing it right?)
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Mephansteras on December 21, 2009, 03:52:20 pm
You're doing fine.

And to answer your question, the more we see people and hear them talk the better the town can scumhunt. Which is why this game is going to be so strict on activity. Inactivity is scummy and hurts the town and the game, so I imagine lurkers will be in great danger of getting lynched.

Don't you agree, Eduren?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 21, 2009, 04:00:56 pm
This is my first game ever.

Should be interesting then...  At least there aren't many roles to mess with you.  One doctor on the town team to protect people and one scum roleblocker to mess with the doc.

(Am I doing it right?)

Looks good so far to me.  Which could mean that you are either naturally skilled at mafia, you've been reading strategy, or you have a more experienced scum buddy helping you out...



Hmm.  Random votey goodness...

webadict, is there any particular reason we shouldn't lynch you today?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: webadict on December 21, 2009, 04:12:11 pm
This is my first game ever.

Should be interesting then...  At least there aren't many roles to mess with you.  One doctor on the town team to protect people and one scum roleblocker to mess with the doc.

(Am I doing it right?)

Looks good so far to me.  Which could mean that you are either naturally skilled at mafia, you've been reading strategy, or you have a more experienced scum buddy helping you out...



Hmm.  Random votey goodness...

webadict, is there any particular reason we shouldn't lynch you today?
Yes. I'm not mafia.

Mephansteras: If you had two apples and everyone was starving, who would you share your other apple with?

And what if you had three apples?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 21, 2009, 04:15:30 pm
webadict, is there any particular reason we shouldn't lynch you today?
Yes. I'm not mafia.

That's definitely a good reason not to lynch you, but only if it's true.  Why should I believe you?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: webadict on December 21, 2009, 04:22:06 pm
webadict, is there any particular reason we shouldn't lynch you today?
Yes. I'm not mafia.

That's definitely a good reason not to lynch you, but only if it's true.  Why should I believe you?
I guess you can't until I find the two of them, now can you?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Mephansteras on December 21, 2009, 04:25:15 pm
Mephansteras: If you had two apples and everyone was starving, who would you share your other apple with?

And what if you had three apples?

They're apples, I'd split them up so everyone got an equal share of apple.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 21, 2009, 04:28:26 pm
I guess you can't until I find the two of them, now can you?

Hmm...  I guess that's fair enough for now.  Don't think you've escaped my suspicion though.  unvote.

Zai, why don't you come join in the fun.  Your name appears to be the most abbreviated in the OP.  Does that mean that dakarian was paying more attention to it when sending you the Mafia role PM perhaps?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dirtybirdy on December 21, 2009, 05:06:30 pm
So Leafsnail, why do I get the feeling that you are mafia again as in NSBM2?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 21, 2009, 05:10:24 pm
Zai, why don't you come join in the fun.  Your name appears to be the most abbreviated in the OP.  Does that mean that dakarian was paying more attention to it when sending you the Mafia role PM perhaps?

This dost not makest sense, fair square. As we all know, Dak splittests up the roles fairly by doing it most randomly. But evenest if Dak didst not, I think he wouldst pay most attention to you and Meph.

Lurkers are shit. Dost thou not agree, dirtybirdy? Surely thou wouldst never lurk. Surely thou art better scum than that. Isn't that right, Scum?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dirtybirdy on December 21, 2009, 05:11:08 pm
Hmm, looks like we have a few people I haven't seen much of.

dorf and dirtybirty, how much mafia experience do you have?

This is my 3rd game online.  However I did play with classmates in real life maybe some 4-6 times. Not exactly sure now.  It was fun and always different.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 21, 2009, 05:37:32 pm
So Leafsnail, why do I get the feeling that you are mafia again as in NSBM2?
Perhaps it's because you're a paranoid MAFIA MEMBER!?  In all seriousness, I'm more of an anti-Pandarsenic in terms of alignment.  I've flipped mafia twice in total.

Eduren, you haven't come down here yet.  What do you think about my placing an FoS rather than a vote on you?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 21, 2009, 05:43:26 pm
Hmm, looks like we have a few people I haven't seen much of.

dorf and dirtybirty, how much mafia experience do you have?

This is my 3rd game online.  However I did play with classmates in real life maybe some 4-6 times. Not exactly sure now.  It was fun and always different.

Dost not ignore me, fowl Scum!

So Leafsnail, why do I get the feeling that you are mafia again as in NSBM2?
Perhaps it's because you're a paranoid MAFIA MEMBER!?

Dost thou admidst to being the partner of Scum? The only way Scum could THINK you were fellow scum is if you WERE fellow scum.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 21, 2009, 05:47:09 pm
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Dost thou admidst to being the partner of Scum? The only way Scum could THINK you were fellow scum is if you WERE fellow scum.
Damn!  You got me!  Well, looks like the game's over now.

On a more serious note, I said nothing of the sort.

Hmm, perhaps I could try adopting some way of speaking... nah.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dirtybirdy on December 21, 2009, 05:53:13 pm
Didn't see your post. I suppose lurkers have their reasons for lurking though it's not my style of play. Nonetheless, you seem almost angry Zai for no apparent reason...that to me is scummy. 
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 21, 2009, 06:04:53 pm
Didn't see your post. I suppose lurkers have their reasons for lurking though it's not my style of play. Nonetheless, you seem almost angry Zai for no apparent reason...that to me is scummy. 

How dost I appear angry? Explaineth, Scum! Only serious scumhunters needeth apply! I am serious, not angered! Only scum findeth anger in those who attacketh them via random vote! Why dost thou do so, Scum? This game is not for the weak-willed, Brown Bellied Scum! Quit now if thou think 'tis too much for thee!
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 21, 2009, 06:22:27 pm
JanusTwoFace is two-faced scum.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 21, 2009, 06:23:55 pm
JanusTwoFace is two-faced scum.

How original of thou!
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 21, 2009, 06:26:36 pm
Just because that joke gets made all the time doesn't mean he isn't Mafia. Which he is, by the way.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dorf on December 21, 2009, 06:34:29 pm
Unvote.
Pandarsenic's quick ok-i-posted-so-don't-lynch-me-please reply and weak argument seem suspiciously scummy to me...

Tell us, where were you all this time? And why didn't you vote for your pal Zai for his (obviously) scummy way of conversing?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 21, 2009, 06:38:23 pm
ok-i-posted posts only happen when I'm threatened, which I wasn't.
It's not a weak argument, it's no argument, it's just a statement of fact.
I was playing Monster Hunter.

Fuck Plesioth. Seriously, fuck him, fuck Plesioth and his screwed up hitboxes.

And I don't attack over simple poststyles, though they might be obfuscations. I attack scuminess. Which Janus has in spades.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 21, 2009, 06:52:33 pm
Unvote.
Pandarsenic's quick ok-i-posted-so-don't-lynch-me-please reply and weak argument seem suspiciously scummy to me...

Tell us, where were you all this time? And why didn't you vote for your pal Zai for his (obviously) scummy way of conversing?

lulwut FailScum

1) No one was voting Pandar, so there couldn't be a "don't lynch me" reply from him, and there wasn't
2) There was no argument and it's pretty much still Random Voting Stage anyway; if anything you're misinterpreting his "reason for voting" Janus as an argument
3) People have lives. The game just started 3 hours ago, without much warning. People will be where they will be. You only get to say "where the hell were you" after a day has gone by.
4) I get to play however the fuck I want. I've been changing things up recently. And if the way I was talking is so scummy...why did you vote Pandar instead of me, FailScum? At least be consistent. If I'm so fucking obvious as scum, then why'd you vote for someone else, and with shittier logic?

inb4 "lol silly scum defending another person against obviously terrible arguments is so scummy. gee i hope no one notices I'M the real scum lol"

It looks to me like you're overcompensating as newbie scum to me, dorf.

[PPE:] Ninja'd somewhat
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 21, 2009, 08:05:38 pm
JanusTwoFace is two-faced scum.
Nope.  Not scum.  No matter the number of faces.

Zai, why don't you come join in the fun.  Your name appears to be the most abbreviated in the OP.  Does that mean that dakarian was paying more attention to it when sending you the Mafia role PM perhaps?

This dost not makest sense, fair square. As we all know, Dak splittests up the roles fairly by doing it most randomly. But evenest if Dak didst not, I think he wouldst pay most attention to you and Meph.

Hmm...  You're probably right.  unvote

So far as suspicions go:
- Eduren has not posted yet (I know it's only the first few hours). 
- webadict isn't posting overmuch.  How do you like them apples?
- dorf for odd reasoning against Pandarsenic.
- Leafsnail for only FoSing then not posting much more.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 21, 2009, 08:07:53 pm
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- Eduren has not posted yet (I know it's only the first few hours).
- webadict isn't posting overmuch.  How do you like them apples?
- dorf for odd reasoning against Pandarsenic.
- Leafsnail for only FoSing then not posting much more.
JanusTwoface, I find this list very interesting.  It definately looks like you're making a scumhunting effort, yet you aren't really putting any pressure on anyone with it due to the fact that you've made four weak accusations at once.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 21, 2009, 08:21:01 pm
Four weak accusations?  What would you have me going off of then?  I'm putting out everything that I've seen that's even somewhat suspicious.

So Leafsnail, why do I get the feeling that you are mafia again as in NSBM2?
Perhaps it's because you're a paranoid MAFIA MEMBER!?  In all seriousness, I'm more of an anti-Pandarsenic in terms of alignment.  I've flipped mafia twice in total.

Eduren, you haven't come down here yet.  What do you think about my placing an FoS rather than a vote on you?

What about this then?  The first half looks like a classic case of trying to use Gambler's Fallacy to protect yourself.  You've only flipped scum twice, so why should this game be any different?

And if you're so anti-Pandarsenic as you claim, why are you not even coming close to thinking about putting pressure on him?

Hmmm scum?  How about it?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 21, 2009, 08:28:51 pm
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What about this then?  The first half looks like a classic case of trying to use Gambler's Fallacy to protect yourself.  You've only flipped scum twice, so why should this game be any different?
It's not a defence.  Just an observation.

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And if you're so anti-Pandarsenic as you claim, why are you not even coming close to thinking about putting pressure on him?
For Pandarsenic, we say "Scum is always scum".  I'm sortof like the opposite.  That's what I meant by "anti-Pandarsenic" rather than "I HAVE A PERSONAL GRUDGE AGAINST PANDAR AND WILL RANDOMLY TRY TO GET HIM LYNCHED".

Now, I find your reply interesting for a couple of reasons.  Firstly, it's an overreaction to a single vote on you.  Secondly, you only launched a proper attack when I pointed out how weak your original ones were, and even then, only on me, and on a post I made before your first post.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 21, 2009, 08:42:53 pm
I'm doing one for everyone.  You just bumped yourself to first because of your response.

Unvote.
Pandarsenic's quick ok-i-posted-so-don't-lynch-me-please reply and weak argument seem suspiciously scummy to me...

Tell us, where were you all this time? And why didn't you vote for your pal Zai for his (obviously) scummy way of conversing?

Hmm.  This seems like you're trying a little hard.  Granted, Pandarsenic didn't post anything of depth, but it is/was random-vote-stage.  Perfectly normal thing to do.  And *all this time*?  Really?  He posted 3 (RL) hours after the game started.  Out of 48 hours.  Oh no, what is this craziness!

And then nothing else?  Hmm.  I see, hoping that you could get a quick vote off and then lie low?  Hmm, shiny.  Or scummy.  As it were.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 21, 2009, 08:46:31 pm
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I'm doing one for everyone.  You just bumped yourself to first because of your response.
Aaaand you aren't bothering to follow up your accusation.  At all.  You're just leaving to bash someone else.  You created a weak analysis of a few people, posted a tiny little bit more in the hope that I would leave you alone and then went on to someone else.  This looks like classic "Hey, I'm helpful!" scum.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 21, 2009, 08:52:11 pm
Mephansteras: If you had two apples and everyone was starving, who would you share your other apple with?

And what if you had three apples?

I already said you've been quieter that normal this round.  But what sort of question is this?  Are you really going to go with such an obvious question trying to find Mephansteras' scum team? 

Unless of course, you're both the scum here.  That way, when we lynch you (you know it's going to happen), then Meph will be safe.  Because who would ever be that obvious?

For that matter, why haven't you called out half of the town for being scum?  Isn't that your usual play style?  Being absolutely convinced that you know who the scum are to the point that you get them all lynched?



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I'm doing one for everyone.  You just bumped yourself to first because of your response.
Aaaand you aren't bothering to follow up your accusation.  At all.  You're just leaving to bash someone else.  You created a weak analysis of a few people, posted a tiny little bit more in the hope that I would leave you alone and then went on to someone else.  This looks like classic "Hey, I'm helpful!" scum.

I'm not bothering to follow up which accusation?  I'm following up the four that I posted.  So sue me if there's not not much more to go on just yet.  My goal is to generate more context for later in the game.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 21, 2009, 09:03:43 pm
You aren't following it up though.  You're just defending yourself slightly from what I've posted, and are now posting a little more info on each accusation.  That's not what I meant, really, and the fact that you're doing all this just to defend yourself looks very odd.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dorf on December 22, 2009, 02:33:55 am
Unvote.
Pandarsenic's quick ok-i-posted-so-don't-lynch-me-please reply and weak argument seem suspiciously scummy to me...

Tell us, where were you all this time? And why didn't you vote for your pal Zai for his (obviously) scummy way of conversing?

lulwut FailScum

1) No one was voting Pandar, so there couldn't be a "don't lynch me" reply from him, and there wasn't
2) There was no argument and it's pretty much still Random Voting Stage anyway; if anything you're misinterpreting his "reason for voting" Janus as an argument
3) People have lives. The game just started 3 hours ago, without much warning. People will be where they will be. You only get to say "where the hell were you" after a day has gone by.
4) I get to play however the fuck I want. I've been changing things up recently. And if the way I was talking is so scummy...why did you vote Pandar instead of me, FailScum? At least be consistent. If I'm so fucking obvious as scum, then why'd you vote for someone else, and with shittier logic?

inb4 "lol silly scum defending another person against obviously terrible arguments is so scummy. gee i hope no one notices I'M the real scum lol"

It looks to me like you're overcompensating as newbie scum to me, dorf.

[PPE:] Ninja'd somewhat
Heh, I predicted this.
What I did was still RVS. I voted Pandarsenic for, obviously, bullshit reasons, hoping that someone (you) would then try a little too hard in finding valid arguments where there aren't any.
And you did just that.

Unvote
You just went up on my list, Zai.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: webadict on December 22, 2009, 02:45:46 am
Mephansteras: If you had two apples and everyone was starving, who would you share your other apple with?

And what if you had three apples?

They're apples, I'd split them up so everyone got an equal share of apple.
Incorrect sir. You avoided a meaningless question by using an unoriginal answer. For that, I shall say that the scum team is...

Zai and Mephansteras.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 22, 2009, 03:42:08 am
I'm thinking Zai and Janus maybe.

Zai's attempt to buddy me is a little weird; he went to unusual lengths to defend me. Janus... Janus eats gunpowder and shits scum, basically. I shouldn't even have to explain it.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 22, 2009, 03:42:45 am
Also, I'm sleeping now so anyone wants to whine about my lack of posting in this game or any other can go screw a goat, I'm too tired to post elsewhere.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 22, 2009, 07:29:57 am
I'm thinking Zai and Janus maybe.

Zai's attempt to buddy me is a little weird; he went to unusual lengths to defend me. Janus... Janus eats gunpowder and shits scum, basically. I shouldn't even have to explain it.
Interesting buddying, Pandarsenic.  Jumping on people without applying pressure is very unlike you.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 22, 2009, 10:34:50 am
There's no buddying in my post. Try again.

Zai, I'm still uncertain about; I'm leaving him to Webadict, assuming Webby himself isn't scum.

Janus, though? Definitely mafia.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Mephansteras on December 22, 2009, 12:28:10 pm
Still waiting to hear from Eduren, so my vote will stay there for now.

Web is doing his normal grab-and-smash approach to scum hunting. Nothing new there.

Any particular reason you're voting for Zai, web?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: webadict on December 22, 2009, 12:29:01 pm
Still waiting to hear from Eduren, so my vote will stay there for now.

Web is doing his normal grab-and-smash approach to scum hunting. Nothing new there.

Any particular reason you're voting for Zai, web?
^THIS IS SCUMMY!
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Mephansteras on December 22, 2009, 12:34:32 pm
How so?

My vote on Eduren is a basic RV stage vote, and will stay on him until he speaks or I get a clear enough read on someone to decide that they are actually scum.

You are doing your normal thing. Deciding that I'm scum based on my answer to a random pointless question is a basic tactic of yours. But I'm not scum this game, so you're really not going to get anything out of me with it.

And I do want to know your reasons for voting Zai. You rarely give reasons, but those you do give tend to be good.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 22, 2009, 12:46:13 pm
Mephansteras, that really smells scummy to me.

As usual, it's all my wintuition I'm going on, but it does. Not as sure of you as I am of Janus though.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 22, 2009, 01:15:56 pm
Now, irrelevant questions is a scumtell for Meph, seen most clearly in Bay 12 Mafia.

However, Pandarsenic, I'm seeing something very strange in your posts.  It's something about the way you keep attacking people without pressuring them, almost as if you're trying to get them lynched rather than trying to determine if they are scum.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 22, 2009, 01:40:34 pm
You aren't following it up though.  You're just defending yourself slightly from what I've posted, and are now posting a little more info on each accusation.  That's not what I meant, really, and the fact that you're doing all this just to defend yourself looks very odd.

Dude... Since there are no roles (excepting the doctor), I can't use my usual logic-like game so I'm forced to be more aggressive than usual.

That being said, I think you're trying a little to hard to damn me.  I'm not trying to defend myself, I'm trying to get other players to post so that we can read them.  I've definitely gotten responses out of you (Leafsnail) and Pandarsenic, so that's good.

Eduren, now's about when we start wondering if you've forgotten about this game...

Psuedo-edit:
However, Pandarsenic, I'm seeing something very strange in your posts.  It's something about the way you keep attacking people without pressuring them, almost as if you're trying to get them lynched rather than trying to determine if they are scum.
That too.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 22, 2009, 01:57:19 pm
Heh, I predicted this.
What I did was still RVS. I voted Pandarsenic for, obviously, bullshit reasons, hoping that someone (you) would then try a little too hard in finding valid arguments where there aren't any.
And you did just that.

Unvote
You just went up on my list, Zai.
Heh, I predicted this.
inb4 "lol silly scum defending another person against obviously terrible arguments is so scummy. gee i hope no one notices I'M the real scum lol"

Zai's attempt to buddy me is a little weird; he went to unusual lengths to defend me.
It's not buddying. It's pointing out fallacies in people's reasons for voting; it doesn't matter who they're voting for. You people need to get over that; I used this idiotic idea of yours to get me lynched in BYORP (now uPP), but it's nonetheless idiotic. It's just pointing out flaws in people's thinking. If someone's being stupid, I point out their stupidity.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 22, 2009, 02:33:18 pm
Janus is still scum.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dorf on December 22, 2009, 02:39:48 pm
How does one get prod'd?
It seems odd how Eduren didn't even make a sound yet. Especially because he's been online today!

Zai looks very twitchy lately, doesn't he? Seems like he realized that he overdefended Pandarsenic. And now, when he tried to correct the situation, he dug an even bigger hole!

Pandarsenic: you're really not helping yourself with the repeating empty accusations...

Thus, I say Zai + Pandarsenic seem the most scummy to me, atm.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 22, 2009, 02:52:36 pm
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That being said, I think you're trying a little to hard to damn me.  I'm not trying to defend myself, I'm trying to get other players to post so that we can read them.  I've definitely gotten responses out of you (Leafsnail) and Pandarsenic, so that's good.
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I'm not trying to defend myself, I'm trying to get other players to post so that we can read them.
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I'm not trying to defend myself
Then try, scumbag.
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Dude... Since there are no roles (excepting the doctor), I can't use my usual logic-like game so I'm forced to be more aggressive than usual.
My accusation is lack of aggression, not excess aggression.  Heck, the post you just made looks like an apology and an attempt not to annoy anyone.  In addition, you seem to be buddying me by agreeing to a post I made and pushing a lurker.  Very, very scummy.
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Janus is still scum.
Yeah, but try and say something useful about it.
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Thus, I say Zai + Pandarsenic seem the most scummy to me, atm.
And yet there seems to be a blindness towards me and Janus.  Why?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 22, 2009, 04:08:46 pm
You've played with me before, yes?  I don't do aggressive well in general.  That was me being aggressive.  This is also me being aggressive, just so you know...


vote Pandarsenic

Also, webadict is scum.

See I can make vague claims without bringing up any sort of evidence as well as either of you.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Eduren on December 22, 2009, 05:39:53 pm
Explanation: Tomorrow was spent at a relatives for an early christmas. When I got home at midnight, I checked my unread replies and due to dakarian putting this in a separate thread, all I saw was that the game was "In Setup" and figured I could go to bed and start in the morning.

Now gimme a sec to get my reads.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dakarian on December 22, 2009, 05:48:37 pm
Current Vote Count:
Eduren[1]: Mephansteras, JanusTwoface
Zai[1]: webadict
Leafsnail[1]: dirtybirdy
dirtybirdy[1]: Zai
JanusTwoface[2]: Pandarsenic, Leafsnail

Not Voting: dorf, Eduren

Deadline: Wednesday, 9pm EST
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 22, 2009, 05:59:00 pm
This is my first game ever.

Should be interesting then...  At least there aren't many roles to mess with you.  One doctor on the town team to protect people and one scum roleblocker to mess with the doc.

(Am I doing it right?)

Looks good so far to me.  Which could mean that you are either naturally skilled at mafia, you've been reading strategy, or you have a more experienced scum buddy helping you out...



Hmm.  Random votey goodness...

webadict, is there any particular reason we shouldn't lynch you today?

Hardly any content there, but to be expected. No fault there.

webadict, is there any particular reason we shouldn't lynch you today?
Yes. I'm not mafia.

That's definitely a good reason not to lynch you, but only if it's true.  Why should I believe you?
And
I guess you can't until I find the two of them, now can you?

Hmm...  I guess that's fair enough for now.  Don't think you've escaped my suspicion though.  unvote.

Zai, why don't you come join in the fun.  Your name appears to be the most abbreviated in the OP.  Does that mean that dakarian was paying more attention to it when sending you the Mafia role PM perhaps?

General weakness.

JanusTwoFace is two-faced scum.
Nope.  Not scum.  No matter the number of faces.

Zai, why don't you come join in the fun.  Your name appears to be the most abbreviated in the OP.  Does that mean that dakarian was paying more attention to it when sending you the Mafia role PM perhaps?

This dost not makest sense, fair square. As we all know, Dak splittests up the roles fairly by doing it most randomly. But evenest if Dak didst not, I think he wouldst pay most attention to you and Meph.

Hmm...  You're probably right.  unvote

So far as suspicions go:
- Eduren has not posted yet (I know it's only the first few hours). 
- webadict isn't posting overmuch.  How do you like them apples?
- dorf for odd reasoning against Pandarsenic.
- Leafsnail for only FoSing then not posting much more.

Straight up denial, probably a habit learned from seeing what happens if you don't. Null tell.
You're probably right quote = ??
List of players is WIFOM for if you flip scum.

Four weak accusations?  What would you have me going off of then?  I'm putting out everything that I've seen that's even somewhat suspicious.

So Leafsnail, why do I get the feeling that you are mafia again as in NSBM2?
Perhaps it's because you're a paranoid MAFIA MEMBER!?  In all seriousness, I'm more of an anti-Pandarsenic in terms of alignment.  I've flipped mafia twice in total.

Eduren, you haven't come down here yet.  What do you think about my placing an FoS rather than a vote on you?

What about this then?  The first half looks like a classic case of trying to use Gambler's Fallacy to protect yourself.  You've only flipped scum twice, so why should this game be any different?

And if you're so anti-Pandarsenic as you claim, why are you not even coming close to thinking about putting pressure on him?

Hmmm scum?  How about it?
Weak pseudo-hunting.

I'm doing one for everyone.  You just bumped yourself to first because of your response.

Unvote.
Pandarsenic's quick ok-i-posted-so-don't-lynch-me-please reply and weak argument seem suspiciously scummy to me...

Tell us, where were you all this time? And why didn't you vote for your pal Zai for his (obviously) scummy way of conversing?

Hmm.  This seems like you're trying a little hard.  Granted, Pandarsenic didn't post anything of depth, but it is/was random-vote-stage.  Perfectly normal thing to do.  And *all this time*?  Really?  He posted 3 (RL) hours after the game started.  Out of 48 hours.  Oh no, what is this craziness!

And then nothing else?  Hmm.  I see, hoping that you could get a quick vote off and then lie low?  Hmm, shiny.  Or scummy.  As it were.
More convincing but not convinced.

Mephansteras: If you had two apples and everyone was starving, who would you share your other apple with?

And what if you had three apples?

I already said you've been quieter that normal this round.  But what sort of question is this?  Are you really going to go with such an obvious question trying to find Mephansteras' scum team? 

Unless of course, you're both the scum here.  That way, when we lynch you (you know it's going to happen), then Meph will be safe.  Because who would ever be that obvious?

For that matter, why haven't you called out half of the town for being scum?  Isn't that your usual play style?  Being absolutely convinced that you know who the scum are to the point that you get them all lynched?



Quote
I'm doing one for everyone.  You just bumped yourself to first because of your response.
Aaaand you aren't bothering to follow up your accusation.  At all.  You're just leaving to bash someone else.  You created a weak analysis of a few people, posted a tiny little bit more in the hope that I would leave you alone and then went on to someone else.  This looks like classic "Hey, I'm helpful!" scum.

I'm not bothering to follow up which accusation?  I'm following up the four that I posted.  So sue me if there's not not much more to go on just yet.  My goal is to generate more context for later in the game.

Incredibly unconvincing. Also, why are you so scared of Webadict? Half the time he can't convince anyone even if he's right. Even if he's killed for it.

Now, irrelevant questions is a scumtell for Meph, seen most clearly in Bay 12 Mafia.

However, Pandarsenic, I'm seeing something very strange in your posts.  It's something about the way you keep attacking people without pressuring them, almost as if you're trying to get them lynched rather than trying to determine if they are scum.

This warrants response; you don't think I'm pressuring Janus? I'm seeing how he responds to me. Results aren't good. He's trying too hard to just dismiss it.

You've played with me before, yes?  I don't do aggressive well in general.  That was me being aggressive.  This is also me being aggressive, just so you know...


vote Pandarsenic

Also, webadict is scum.

See I can make vague claims without bringing up any sort of evidence as well as either of you.

Aaaand he breaks. He's been trying so hard to avoid the OMGUS, then the caught himself and specifically DID do the OMGUS. It's gone from scumtell to nulltell back to scumtell.

Scum for the day is found. I'm going to the mall. Laters all.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 22, 2009, 06:15:42 pm
Which doesn't really change my mind at all.  I vote for you because you're yelling 'Janus is scum' over and over without actually backing it up.  I finally put enough pressure on you to get you to respond so you have to respond or look even *more* scummy.  And scummy you are.

Also, I am amused that the one quote of mine you consider to be useful was a defense of your posting.  So the only useful thing I can do is defend you?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 22, 2009, 07:20:04 pm
Seems like he realized that he overdefended Pandarsenic. And now, when he tried to correct the situation, he dug an even bigger hole!

lulwut Bullshit. Explain or I switch to you for making things up.

I didn't "overdefend" Pandar. I simply pointed out what was wrong with what you said. You even brought me into the matter, practically baiting me as if I wasn't already going to point out how bad your reasons were. I'm not trying to "correct the situation" and I sure as hell didn't dig a hole.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dirtybirdy on December 22, 2009, 08:52:06 pm
unvote. So, dorf I noticed that you haven't voted yet, but you're flinging accusations all around. This seems scummy to me.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: webadict on December 22, 2009, 09:12:53 pm
Actually. I changed my mind. I want to lynch eduren.

Everyone vote for him.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 22, 2009, 09:30:56 pm
unvote. So, dorf I noticed that you haven't voted yet, but you're flinging accusations all around. This seems scummy to me.
It's typically a good idea to explain why something seems scummy to you, not just point out what seems scummy to you.

And yeah, Web. I'll be sure to do that.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 22, 2009, 11:01:24 pm
Janus is failscum, or he's terribad at seeing when I'm scum because I don't fling shit out like this when I'm scum.

lolwifomlol

Janus, I did back it up and you're exposed like a fat nudist in a public park. Give it up already.

Also, no denial of my reasoning for why you voted me? You're getting sloppy, Good Sir Scumface.

Also, everyone can see dorf's accusation on me was just an oddly sincere-looking randomvote now, or so it seems at least. Meh. It wasn't hard for anyone to attack him and look a little more townish. 3 people verbally beat down his argument.

The point remains, though, that you've slipped up spectacularly, Janus.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: webadict on December 22, 2009, 11:20:44 pm
unvote. So, dorf I noticed that you haven't voted yet, but you're flinging accusations all around. This seems scummy to me.
It's typically a good idea to explain why something seems scummy to you, not just point out what seems scummy to you.

And yeah, Web. I'll be sure to do that.
... Why so sarcastic?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 22, 2009, 11:28:27 pm
unvote. So, dorf I noticed that you haven't voted yet, but you're flinging accusations all around. This seems scummy to me.
It's typically a good idea to explain why something seems scummy to you, not just point out what seems scummy to you.

And yeah, Web. I'll be sure to do that.
... Why so sarcastic?
Why not? Does it hurt your feelings?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: webadict on December 22, 2009, 11:37:05 pm
unvote. So, dorf I noticed that you haven't voted yet, but you're flinging accusations all around. This seems scummy to me.
It's typically a good idea to explain why something seems scummy to you, not just point out what seems scummy to you.

And yeah, Web. I'll be sure to do that.
... Why so sarcastic?
Why not? Does it hurt your feelings?
No. Does it make your point any less valid?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 22, 2009, 11:38:53 pm
Does it hurt your feelings?
No. Does it make your point any less valid?
What's my point?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: webadict on December 22, 2009, 11:50:05 pm
Does it hurt your feelings?
No. Does it make your point any less valid?
What's my point?
That you won't consider voting for eduren.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Eduren on December 23, 2009, 12:03:39 am
And yeah, Web. I'll be sure to do that.
Why not?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 23, 2009, 12:24:56 am
What's my point?
That you won't consider voting for eduren.
I never said I wouldn't consider voting eduren. But you really should try to provide some reasons sometime. Especially if you want the rest of us to follow your lead.

And yeah, Web. I'll be sure to do that.
Why not?
Why not what?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 23, 2009, 05:47:45 am
And yeah, Web. I'll be sure to do that.
Why not?
...

What?

Eduren, for chrissake, post something useful.
Quote
Which doesn't really change my mind at all.  I vote for you because you're yelling 'Janus is scum' over and over without actually backing it up.  I finally put enough pressure on you to get you to respond so you have to respond or look even *more* scummy.  And scummy you are.
My points were perfectly legitimate, but you ignored them in favour of the blanket "I AM TOWN" defence.  You just did exactly the same thing with Pandarsenic.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dorf on December 23, 2009, 06:58:52 am
Seems like he realized that he overdefended Pandarsenic. And now, when he tried to correct the situation, he dug an even bigger hole!
lulwut Bullshit. Explain or I switch to you for making things up.
I thought I did. Are you now trying to get me to paraphrase my arguments until you come up with enough false discrepancies?

"Explain or I switch to you for making things up."
Really?
You are willing to risk the whatever townie credibility you have by attacking someone who is only trying to get some talk going, so we can find the scum? And possibly even exonerating you?

unvote. So, dorf I noticed that you haven't voted yet, but you're flinging accusations all around. This seems scummy to me.
Geez, I yawned. You clearly aren't with it. If you were, you'd noticed that I've voted and then unvoted for pursuit of scumdom, which is something you clearly aren't doing, since you haven't said ANYTHING useful from the get-go.

That is actually quite scummy. I mean... Why aren't you saying anything? Perhaps, because you're scum and you just want to get a townie (any townie) lynched without rising any suspicion?
Guess what. You look like a newbie scum that is afraid to even say anything, because you're afraid we'll lynch you.
EVEN MORE! Looks like when you noticed that I've put some pressure on Zai, you immediately went for a diversion, so you'd rescue your scumbuddy Zai.

Therefore, I'm changing my FoS to dirtybirdy + Zai.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 23, 2009, 09:56:04 am
dorf, instead of calling random people scummy and OMGUSing like a motherfucker every time someone looks in your direction, you could go after actual scum, like Janus.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: webadict on December 23, 2009, 09:59:13 am
Webadict looked around, staring at the others, and then sat back down. He begins writing some notes. After a minute or so, he stands up and yells at Zai, who seems to be too busy shanking the nearest townsperson to notice.

What's my point?
That you won't consider voting for eduren.
I never said I wouldn't consider voting eduren. But you really should try to provide some reasons sometime. Especially if you want the rest of us to follow your lead.

And yeah, Web. I'll be sure to do that.
Why not?
Why not what?
"See? He even GAVE you reason and you didn't pick it up!"

He sits back down, then switching his vote to dorf. No reason is given.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dorf on December 23, 2009, 10:26:37 am
dorf, instead of calling random people scummy and OMGUSing like a motherfucker every time someone looks in your direction, you could go after actual scum, like Janus.
Don't worry, you're in third place, so I'm narrowing down.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 23, 2009, 10:30:38 am
dorf, instead of calling random people scummy and OMGUSing like a motherfucker every time someone looks in your direction, you could go after actual scum, like Janus.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 23, 2009, 11:47:33 am
Unvote dirtybirdy. Didn't get much of a satisfactory response from him, but there's bigger fish to fry right now.

dorf, instead of calling random people scummy and OMGUSing like a motherfucker every time someone looks in your direction, you could go after actual scum, like Janus.
I think you could use just a bit more emphasis on the "OMGUSing like a motherfucker" piece there.

FailScum Dorf isn't actually doing much of anything important here. He's overaggressive but not aggressive enough at the same time; he says he's got the scumteam picked out, but refuses to vote for these people, instead presumably waiting for someone else to vote for them first so he can climb aboard the bandwagon as voter #2. No need to vote for them first, after all; putting actual pressure on scum instead of just slinging accusations around is so last century.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dorf on December 23, 2009, 01:26:16 pm
presumably waiting for someone else to vote for them first so he can climb aboard the bandwagon
Correct.
I will wait a little bit longer to see if there's a bandwagon I can get behind, if not, I will seek justice further.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Zai on December 23, 2009, 01:32:51 pm
presumably waiting for someone else to vote for them first so he can climb aboard the bandwagon
Correct.
I will wait a little bit longer to see if there's a bandwagon I can get behind, if not, I will seek justice further.
...This is a joke, right?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 23, 2009, 01:36:08 pm
presumably waiting for someone else to vote for them first so he can climb aboard the bandwagon
Correct.
I will wait a little bit longer to see if there's a bandwagon I can get behind, if not, I will seek justice further.
Rofl.

Unvote.

Vote Dorf.  Thanks for saying this - this is fairly obviously not a newbtell but a scumtell.  Newbs have no reason not to vote their suspicions but newbscum will often be ridiculously over cautious in this manner.

Janus - you're not off the hook, but Dorf is completely obv scum now.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Mephansteras on December 23, 2009, 02:24:00 pm
presumably waiting for someone else to vote for them first so he can climb aboard the bandwagon
Correct.
I will wait a little bit longer to see if there's a bandwagon I can get behind, if not, I will seek justice further.

Unvote.

Vote dorf. You're looking much too eager to find someone to lynch, and not nearly concerned enough about whether or not the person you lynch is actually scum or not. This is not town behavior, dorf. Your actions so far seem to be more of the "Oooh, if I accuse enough people then I can take credit if a scum gets lynched and I can just hide behind my accusations if they flip town!"

It's not enough to lynch people, dorf, you have to try to lynch scum
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dakarian on December 23, 2009, 02:56:12 pm
Current Vote Count:
Eduren[1]: JanusTwoface
dorf[5]: dirtybirdy, webadict, Zai, Leafsnail, Mephansteras,
JanusTwoface[1]: Pandarsenic,

Not Voting: dorf, Eduren

Deadline: Wednesday, 9pm EST 

50% majority has been reached.  Requests to end day may be accepted with 3 requests and 0 objections.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Eduren on December 23, 2009, 04:56:10 pm
Since I am going to be gone at deadline, Extension please, just in case.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dorf on December 23, 2009, 06:31:39 pm
presumably waiting for someone else to vote for them first so he can climb aboard the bandwagon
Correct.
I will wait a little bit longer to see if there's a bandwagon I can get behind, if not, I will seek justice further.
Rofl.

Unvote.

Vote Dorf.  Thanks for saying this - this is fairly obviously not a newbtell but a scumtell.  Newbs have no reason not to vote their suspicions but newbscum will often be ridiculously over cautious in this manner.

Janus - you're not off the hook, but Dorf is completely obv scum now.
From what I've seen, bandwagoning is sort-of common (then again, I've only seen a limited amount of games) and I don't see why me wanting to join a bandwagon that complies with my suspicions is scummy.

Vote dorf. You're looking much too eager to find someone to lynch, and not nearly concerned enough about whether or not the person you lynch is actually scum or not. This is not town behavior, dorf.
The way I see it is I did what I was supposed to - trying to lure out the scums.
Of course I want to lynch the right person. The only reason I didn't vote for anyone so far is because I'm still deciding which scum on my list will get my vote. So now you're trying to tell me that of all the people that have actually voted mindlessly, you're going after me?

Your actions so far seem to be more of the "Oooh, if I accuse enough people then I can take credit if a scum gets lynched and I can just hide behind my accusations if they flip town!"
I feel that mere accusations, at this point, don't carry much weight. I take my FoS' a bit more seriously (than Leafsnail, at least) and I'm inclined to vote on them later, if I gather enough proof.
But final votes... Those I take seriously, with some sense of certainty and am prepared to take full responsibility for them, as well. 

Looks like I will be lynched by the time I wake up tomorrow, so I'll give my vote and general thoughts now.
I'm going with Zai.
He defended himself and others, but never really attacked anyone or was aggressive. He wanted explanations of other people's attacks toward him, but never questioned the explanations (whether they came or not).
But when I was merely feeling out Pandarsenic, he jumped on me like a lion? Might I add that one of his arguments were that the game is still in RVS, yet this was enough evidence for him to put a FoS on me?
And while he was saying how bad and weak my reasons toward him are, he went all OMGUS on me. But why? You clearly proved to others that my arguments hold no merit. So what are you afraid of?
Yet when you saw that I got in a fight with enough people, you took the opportunity and finally voted for me.

I don't mind sacrificing myself, if the scum goes down with me. Atm, there are enough of us for such tactic.

Final thoughts before bed:
I must say I really enjoyed this, however short of an experience it may be.
I'm already signing up at other games so we'll be seeing more of each other! :)
 
Also, I am the Doctor.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Mephansteras on December 23, 2009, 06:38:43 pm
presumably waiting for someone else to vote for them first so he can climb aboard the bandwagon
Correct.
I will wait a little bit longer to see if there's a bandwagon I can get behind, if not, I will seek justice further.

Perhaps it is the phrasing of this that is more damning then the action. There is nothing wrong with going 'ah, yes, I agree with these people that so-and-so is scum for x,y, and z and will now vote him'.

Going "Oooh, bandwagon! Let's lynch someone!" is very bad. What you said there looks much more like the latter.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 23, 2009, 06:55:11 pm
Quote
Also, I am the Doctor.
This looks like desperate scum trying to draw out the real doctor.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 23, 2009, 08:00:52 pm
I am Sparticus!

More seriously, I'm hesitant to lynch dorf on the chance that he's telling the truth. Of course, that's exactly what scum dorf would want us to think and there's no way to prove it (short of roleflip).

On the other hand, if you actually are the doctor, you're next to useless now that the roleblocker knows who you are...

That being said, I know I'd know if I were scum and dorf is acting scummy. Ergo, a dorf lynch is preferable to a me lynch.

PS. On phone so do not expect any more long replies till tomorrow (game time).
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 23, 2009, 08:07:36 pm
I still think your scum Janus, and thanks for that post.  It reaffirmed my suspicions.

But dorf is being lynched today, false doctor claim or not.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: dakarian on December 23, 2009, 09:28:14 pm
Final Vote Count:
Eduren[1]: JanusTwoface
dorf[5]: dirtybirdy, webadict, Zai, Leafsnail, Mephansteras,
JanusTwoface[1]: Pandarsenic,
Zai[1]: dorf

Not Voting: Eduren

Dorf, Doctor, has been lynched.

Is it now night.  Night roles, send me your choices.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: dakarian on December 25, 2009, 10:46:50 pm
Daytime has come.

Webadict, Townie, has been killed in the night.

Survivors:

Leafsnail
Mephansteras
JanusTwoface
Zai
Pandarsenic
Eduren
dirtybirdy

Deadline: Monday, 9pm EST.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Eduren on December 25, 2009, 11:02:23 pm
Vote Zai.

Why? Because you didn't take me seriously. Web tried to apply pressure to me and you didn't take him seriously. You took neither of us seriously. You were acting way too cautious. You did not want to look at my more than scummy behavior yesterday.

Also, third-vote lulz.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: webadict on December 26, 2009, 01:19:46 am
"You maniacs! You blew it all up!"

Seriously, lynch the doctor EVERY TIME why don't you? Stupid morons.

I'm off to bed ghostland. The rollercoaster is basically empty!
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 1 KISSed for your enjoyment
Post by: Leafsnail on December 26, 2009, 11:45:09 am
I am Sparticus!

More seriously, I'm hesitant to lynch dorf on the chance that he's telling the truth. Of course, that's exactly what scum dorf would want us to think and there's no way to prove it (short of roleflip).

On the other hand, if you actually are the doctor, you're next to useless now that the roleblocker knows who you are...

That being said, I know I'd know if I were scum and dorf is acting scummy. Ergo, a dorf lynch is preferable to a me lynch.

PS. On phone so do not expect any more long replies till tomorrow (game time).
Janus, why did you move to distance yourself from the outcome of yesterday's lynch?  Perhaps you knew he would flip innocent?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Zai on December 26, 2009, 12:24:13 pm
Vote Zai.

Why? Because you didn't take me seriously. Web tried to apply pressure to me and you didn't take him seriously. You took neither of us seriously. You were acting way too cautious. You did not want to look at my more than scummy behavior yesterday.

Also, third-vote lulz.
lulwut is my only response to this.

For now, at least.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 26, 2009, 10:04:20 pm
Janus, why did you move to distance yourself from the outcome of yesterday's lynch?  Perhaps you knew he would flip innocent?

It's how I play.  If there's no need for me to cast a vote, I won't.  Since dorf was really the only one in the running for a lynch (besides myself), there wasn't a point.  For that matter, I had a feeling that Pandarsenic and/or was either going to be damned by you for joining a bandwagon or for distancing myself anyways.



Comments on yesterday's dorf lynch

- DirtyBirdy votes, looks like a random vote, never unvotes
- Webadict votes but doesn't give any reasoning (specifically points this out)
- Zai votes for being too aggressive but not aggressive enough (fair enough, but odd wording)
- dorf makes an odd comment about bandwagoning
- Leafsnail, jumping on him for the bandwagon comment (previously on me)
- Mephansteras, same thing (previously on Eduren)

Basically, I think that dorf made a badly phrased comment and paid dearly for it.  We knew going in to this that he was a newer player, but we lynched him anyways.

Personally, this makes me look twice at Leafsnail and Mephansteras.  Even before the comment, dorf already had enough votes on him to be lynched (barring any other changes).  Yet they still voted for him, enough to cement the lynch.

What I'm really surprised at is that Leafsnail backed off of me to attack dorf and didn't even seem to seriously consider dorf's Doctor claim.  Granted (as I pointed out yesterday), a Doctor isn't *terribly* useful in this game type, especially once he's claimed, because the scum roleblocker knows who he is.  But still, you backed off of me pretty quickly.

For Mephansteras, I'm almost as surprised.  You specifically asked dorf and dirtybirdy about their mafia experience in the very first post.  Dorf responds quickly (his first game ever) and then here you are as the 5th vote based primary on wording.  It just looks suspicious.  And you're quieter than I'm used to seeing you when you're playing.  Also unusual behavior.



FoS Mephansteras
vote Leafsnail
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Leafsnail on December 27, 2009, 06:59:44 am
Quote
That being said, I know I'd know if I were scum and dorf is acting scummy. Ergo, a dorf lynch is preferable to a me lynch.
AKA "I'm scum who knows that I don't need to vote him in order to seal his lynch".  It looks like you're making a conscious effort not to bandwagon rather than anything else - if you actually thought dorf was town, you would've defended him yesterday.  Ergo, Janus is scum.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Leafsnail on December 27, 2009, 07:52:08 am
Incidentally, I will be away until the 31st (leaving later today).  It's a slightly longer abscence than I previously anticipated.  I'll be able to play again on the 31st, so a replacement shouldn't be needed.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 27, 2009, 09:55:34 pm
Chirp chirp chirp...

Mephansteras, Zai, Pandarsenic, Eduren, dirtybirdy.

Anything to say?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Zai on December 27, 2009, 11:57:37 pm
...Zai...

Anything to say?

Not tonight. Tomorrow, maybe.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Mephansteras on December 28, 2009, 06:04:08 pm
Sorry, many family obligations over the past few days.

Anyway, I knew that dorf was a novice player. The problem I faced was that his mistake could easily have been a novice town or scum mistake. However, I was already leaning towards him being novice scum (he was a bit overcautious) so after he made a giant mistake I decided it was best to vote for him.

I'll go back through and review things. I should have a better idea of who's scum once I do that.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: dirtybirdy on December 28, 2009, 09:24:49 pm
Can we have an extension I'm sleepy.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: dakarian on December 28, 2009, 10:35:58 pm
partial extension offered.  1 more to extend day to the next day.

Deadline: midnight tonight.

Mass prods sent.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Eduren on December 28, 2009, 11:39:01 pm
Extension please.



lulwut is my only response to this.

For now, at least.
Well, its been a few days, so...
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Zai on December 29, 2009, 12:23:44 am
Extension up the wazoo.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 29, 2009, 02:00:24 am
Hmm...

So today we have:
- eduren votes Zai
- Leafsnail votes me,
- Zai lolwuts
- Nice long post by me
- Leafsnail attacks me some, won't be back till New Years
- I call out Mephansteras, Zai, Pandarsenic, Eduren, for not posting dirtybirdy
- Zai says he'll post tomorrow (he doesn't)
- Mephansteras has family obligations and says he'll have a better idea (doesn't yet)
- dirtybirdy shows up long enough to request an extension
- Eduren and Zai second (and third) extension

Basically, I'm not even sure who's the most scummy any more.  There's so much lurking going on that it's basically impossible to read anyone.  Whoever the scum are must be laughing their asses off right about now.

Specifically:
- I still think Leafsnail is scummy, for the same reasons as earlier.
- Pandarsenic is absent (did his computer die?)
- Zai and Mephansteras both said they'd look into things and haven't done so yet
- DirtyBirdy, Eduren, and Zai went about extensioning.  And that's it

So yeah.  At this point anyone could be scum.

A little activity perhaps?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Eduren on December 29, 2009, 03:24:02 am
Zai's continued silence is only cementing his scumminess.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 29, 2009, 03:28:34 am
My computer did indeed die. I'm running off Google Chrome installed to a flash drive so Extension Please because I want to respond to this when I have my laptop back so I can reread the whole thread. I've completely lost my grounding on this game.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: dakarian on December 29, 2009, 08:34:42 am
Christmas holiday made everything messier as far as activity goes. 

Extension accepted:

Current Vote Count:
Zai: Eduren
JanusTwoface: Leafsnail
Leafsnail: JanusTwoface

Not Voting: Mephansteras, Zai, Pandarsenic, dirtybirdy

Deadline: Tuesday, 11pm EST

Note that Leafsnail has been given leave until the 31st due to the holidays.  Everyone else MUST post by 11pm (even if you posted before this post.)

Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Mephansteras on December 29, 2009, 11:12:42 am
Sorry, internet died on me during the day yesterday and the post that I tried to put up didn't go through. Finally got things fixed up.

Right now I'm most suspicious of Pandarsenic and JanusTwoFace. Neither of you voted for dorf, despite both of you finding his behavior scummy. Janus is especially suspect, since you noted that there was a good chance that he was scum instead of newb doc but didn't vote. Could be because it wasn't necessary, could be that you knew he'd flip town. You two have also been in a huge fight all day 1 to the exclusion of really looking at anyone else. I find this very suspicious.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Zai on December 29, 2009, 12:15:25 pm
Zai and Mephansteras both said they'd look into things

I never said I'd do that, Janus.

But I apologize for my overall lack of content today. I've become addicted to playing Sword of the Stars in my free time while I'm "off" from work for the holidays, and just can't stop. And I have some work to do before I go back. So those are both eating up my time.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 29, 2009, 12:39:06 pm
Right now I'm most suspicious of Pandarsenic and JanusTwoFace. Neither of you voted for dorf, despite both of you finding his behavior scummy. Janus is especially suspect, since you noted that there was a good chance that he was scum instead of newb doc but didn't vote. Could be because it wasn't necessary, could be that you knew he'd flip town. You two have also been in a huge fight all day 1 to the exclusion of really looking at anyone else. I find this very suspicious.

I've already explained why I didn't vote for dorf.  Just as you've already tried to explain why you were the 5th (and final) vote on the same new doc claim.  Apparently you think me way of doing things is scummy and I think the way you did things is scummy.

So far as this 'big argument', most of my argument was with Leafsnail rather than Pandarsenic.  And I like to think that I've branched out somewhat today in accusing basically everyone as scum.  (See replay #99 (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg942035#msg942035))

Zai and Mephansteras both said they'd look into things

I never said I'd do that, Janus.

...Zai...

Anything to say?

Not tonight. Tomorrow, maybe.

Granted, it was only a maybe, but the complete lack of any sort of useful content is just as problematic.  And then you FoS me, which seems to be the popular thing to do these days.  Looks like a bandwagon from someone that doesn't want to commit to.

Since we have until 11pm to actually decide on someone and it's looking unlikely that anyone believes me about Leafsnail, I'll unvote.  I'll think about who to vote and be back later.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Mephansteras on December 29, 2009, 12:49:33 pm
Yeah, I saw your reasoning. I just don't like it much.

I still want to hear from Eduren more, he hasn't given us much content at all this game.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 29, 2009, 04:47:12 pm
It's pretty obvious I felt dorf was more newblet than scum by the end.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 29, 2009, 05:01:40 pm
It's pretty obvious I felt dorf was more newblet than scum by the end.

How is this obvious to anyone but you?  You didn't post at all between his 'bandwagon post' and the end of the day that I can tell.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Eduren on December 29, 2009, 07:28:44 pm
I was waiting for Zai to acknowledge me but it doesn't look like he'll do that anytime soon.


Dirtybirdy's absence worries me.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 29, 2009, 09:12:00 pm
Well, I'd obviously prefer not to be lynched myself.  That doesn't help anyone, least of all me.  Right now, it looks like I'm going to get lynched mostly by inactivity, which really sucks.

Zai, Mephansteras, dirtybirdy, Eduren?  Any of have someone scummy enough to lynch that isn't me?  At least ideas?

Leafsnail / Pandarsenic, I don't think you'll be around before the deadline and it seems like you're leading everyone around anyways.  But if you have anyone other than me you'd like to lynch, I'd like to consider it.

I'll be online until the deadline (in about 2 hours).

Behold the power of inactivity...
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Eduren on December 29, 2009, 09:29:53 pm
Zai, Mephansteras, dirtybirdy, Eduren?  Any of have someone scummy enough to lynch that isn't me?  At least ideas?
Nobody even listens to me, do they? I want to lynch Zai, I have since the start of the day.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: dirtybirdy on December 29, 2009, 09:50:12 pm
Alas I have returned.  Between shopping & playing around with my new yoga ball. I have to remember to save up some energy for this game. Pls forgive me. 

Hmm... well... one thing is for sure.  Playing mafia online is a heck of a lot different that real life mafia.  Perhaps it's because I don't really know anyone truely.  To me it's like a random pick everytime you play.  But then again, this is me thinking aloud. I'll stop thinking aloud now. Maybe? Well... I dunno...I'm torn at the moment.

I've got two people in mind as possible scum. Which is never a good thing to pick scum teams. Scum teams are inevitable wrong by nature. Nonetheless... I'm most suspcious of Zai because of the way he/she tip toed around answering Eduren legitimate claim by simply laughing it off for a couple of days. I think that's pretty scummy. Also, when reconfronted with this...umm.. all that was done was a "cloud of confusion" which I think is another scum tell. So, in conclusion... I vote for Zai.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 29, 2009, 10:09:55 pm
I was thinking that there are more scummy people than Zai, so I went back to look at what he's posted.

Spoiler: Zai's content (click to show/hide)

Yeah.  That's it.  So basically, he's posting a decent amount during RVS.  Then he votes dorf just before that whole bandwagon hullabaloo and never shows up again.  That's problematic in itself, because he voted early enough to not look suspicious and could just ride out the lynch without looking suspicious.  Not damning in and of itself, but it does have potential.

Then on day 2 he's posted absolutely nothing of content.  Eduren called him out on it and still nothing.  If he's not scum, then it's still not helping the town at all.  We still have 1 more lynch (this one) before LYLO, so at worst we're down an unhelpful scum player and at best we're down to one more scum.



Psuedo-edit:

DirtyBirdy, you're making me suspicious.  I'll give you some leeway as a newer player, but playing confused isn't much more helpful than not posting at all (which you've also been doing a fair amount).  A solid FoS to DirtyBirdy for that.  If I survive until tomorrow, you deserve further scrutiny.

(Side note: Yes, it's very different than RL Mafia.  Very much so.)

On the other hand, I'd much rather Zai lynched than myself and at least with your vote we won't tie.  vote Zai.  Thoughts, anyone that's around in the next hour?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: dakarian on December 29, 2009, 10:19:17 pm
Current Vote Count:
Zai[3]: Eduren, dirtybirdy, JanusTwoface
JanusTwoface[2]: Leafsnail, Mephansteras

Not Voting: Zai, Pandarsenic

Deadline: Tuesday, 11pm EST

There is one hour remaining to the end of the day.

Sidenote: everyone (excluding Leaf who's on Vacation) has posted so we're back to full activity.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 29, 2009, 10:43:47 pm
WHOA WHOA WHOA

WE NEED AN EXTENSION HERE.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Zai on December 29, 2009, 11:08:35 pm
Extension if we can have another. I think my addiction has been satisfied for now, so I can continue to debate my scumminess tomorrow.

Vote Zai.

Why? Because you didn't take me seriously. Web tried to apply pressure to me and you didn't take him seriously. You took neither of us seriously. You were acting way too cautious. You did not want to look at my more than scummy behavior yesterday.

If you haven't noticed, I haven't taken the game itself seriously. Damn right I didn't comment on your behavior yesterday. But neither did anybody else after that.

And do you mean to say that you were acting like you were scum on purpose? That's WIFOM in and of itself. For all we know, you're scum retconning your stupidity for a lynch on someone else.

And cautious? If I was cautious, I wouldn't have been talking with an "accent" at the beginning of yesterday. If I was cautious, I would have kept the "accent" going after the first several posts using it; inconsistency is bad. If I was cautious, I wouldn't have ignored the game on Day 2 until now.

I've got two people in mind as possible scum.
Then why do you only mention one, dirtybirdy? If you have suspicions as town, you better fucking well tell 'em before you get offed in the night.

Also, when reconfronted with this...umm.. all that was done was a "cloud of confusion" which I think is another scum tell. So, in conclusion... I vote for Zai.
I have no idea what you mean by a "cloud of confusion," but I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshit.  There's a few things in this game you could call me scum for, but that's not one of 'em. You're acting more confused than I have.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Eduren on December 29, 2009, 11:35:01 pm
Zai. Since you are close to lynch, do you mind telling us your suspicions? That way, if you really are town, you'll have done something today.

Otherwise, that bandwagon formed entirely too quickly for my tastes but the remedy is Extension if we can.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 29, 2009, 11:36:50 pm
We are NOT instantbandwagoning Zai.

JanusTwoFace, I seem to recall you being scum? And what's this, third vote on Zai for the quickwagon?

I'd rather force NL than quicklynch a townie. Get your goddamn extension requests in. Everyone.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: dakarian on December 29, 2009, 11:37:56 pm
3 extensions.  0 objections.  Extension granted.


New deadline: wednesday 11pm EST
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 29, 2009, 11:52:24 pm
Another pre-emptive extension request.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Zai on December 29, 2009, 11:55:45 pm
Mainly dirtybirdy and Janus. Dirtybirdy because of reasons I think I've already said (? I'll check what I said Day 1 about him tomorrow), but I may just be getting a similar "newbie scum" vibe to what I got with Dorf, and we all know how that ended. Janus because I never trust him when he's trying to be useful; he did that in a couple of games as scum, the only specific one I can remember being the first Vote Mafia. I don't recall about what he did Day 1, but today he spread vague accusations until he noticed a firm bandwagon forming close to the end of the day, and promptly jumped on it.

More content tomorrow if I'm not dead yet. [PPE:] And I won't be dead yet. But I need sleep; my brain's already slowing down.

Oh. And for the record (just noticed dirtybirdy said he/she in reference to me), I'm a guy. Says so in my profile, so it must be so!

[PPE2:] lulwut Pandar. Trying to get a "full day" in now that the lull in activity has ended?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 30, 2009, 12:16:04 am
Better than not having a day. I mean, shit, I just got back.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Mephansteras on December 30, 2009, 04:44:47 pm
dak, what is the current deadline?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Zai on December 30, 2009, 05:55:33 pm
Tonight at 11 PM EST is the deadline right now, Meph. And I believe the current vote count is me tied with Janus for the lynch.

I will hopefully be able to do things later; I'm about to leave for the next few hours, so now isn't an opportune time to start reviewing stuff. I'll vote later; I'm fine with a no lynch if I don't get back in time, if that's what happens with ties.

MOD: What happens when there is a tie for the lynch?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: dirtybirdy on December 30, 2009, 07:04:27 pm
If you have suspicions as town, you better fucking well tell 'em before you get offed in the night.


Kinda bold to put your business of who you're going to off in the night scum.  But anyway, I do have 2 people in mind as scum with you at the top of the list.  Often times, I think people get caught up in making scum teams myself included. I should just focus on a main target.  so I choose you because you're oozing with scummyness.  The other person is Leafsnail, but it's only a gut feeling.

Also, when reconfronted with this...umm.. all that was done was a "cloud of confusion" which I think is another scum tell. So, in conclusion... I vote for Zai.
I have no idea what you mean by a "cloud of confusion," but I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshit.  There's a few things in this game you could call me scum for, but that's not one of 'em. You're acting more confused than I have.

yeah whatever scum bag. I'm not confused, just new. It's different not impossible.

 
Also, I don't think it's a good move for a no lynch.  We've got to figure something out. Doesn't a no lynch hurt our chances of defeating scum?


Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 30, 2009, 07:23:38 pm
Exactly what I expected...

Since the extension:
- 3 meta posts (2 from Pandarsenic, 1 from Mephansteras)
- 2 posts from Zai attacking me
- 1 not terribly useful post from DirtyBirdy
- Nothing from Leafsnail (pre-arranged) or Eduren (not so much)

Spoiler: More comments on Zai (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: About the quickwagon (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Response to DirtyBirdy (click to show/hide)

Please read the spoilers.  I mainly put them there to keep my posts from Wall of Texting, not so that they would be skipped.

Basically, the main question is: lynch or no-lynch today?  See the third spoiler for the numbers game.  Could someone double check that?

Right now, it looks like we have a tied vote.  I think in Dakarian's games this means a no-lynch.

Dakarian, could you confirm this?

I am in favor of either a Zai lynch or (failing that) a no-lynch.  Since the current votes point towards a no-lynch, my vote stands.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 30, 2009, 08:54:43 pm
NL is not a good idea but it's better than quicklynching a townie.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Zai on December 30, 2009, 09:01:45 pm
This is exactly your problem Zai.  This is the second time this game you've promised to post tomorrow (and there is a third one after that), and you have yet to deliver without being prodded into action by a potential lynch.

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

I never promised jack squat. Stop saying I did Janus. I said "Tomorrow, maybe" in response to you asking if I had anything to say. And if you'll notice in past games as well, I (almost?) never come through on my promises. It's nothing new, silly scum. Indeed, the only time I can remember even partially coming through on a promise was in Bay 12 Mafia, where I did that ridiculously long "summary" as scum. However, I don't take kindly to people saying that I said things after I already explained that I didn't and that person already admitted that I didn't, Janus.

I'm fairly certain at this point that Janus and Dirtybirdy are the two scum. DB refused to explain something he used as a point against me with a "wutevr scumbag lol i don't explain wut i say becuz i try 2 act like web but fail misrbaly". DB needs to do something useful rather than just say lol u scum. Oh wait. Looking back at his last post, I see he failed at using the quote function.

For the record this is what I am referring to:

If you have suspicions as town, you better fucking well tell 'em before you get offed in the night.


Kinda bold to put your business of who you're going to off in the night scum.  But anyway, I do have 2 people in mind as scum with you at the top of the list.  Often times, I think people get caught up in making scum teams myself included. I should just focus on a main target.  so I choose you because you're oozing with scummyness.  The other person is Leafsnail, but it's only a gut feeling.

How did I know you would (effectively) say that I was threatening you? That's just stupid, dude. First, at the point of this quote, I'm going to be lynched, so how could I be in control of who my nonexistant remaining partner would kill? Second, if you don't say something that you should as town(such as your known role in a closed setup, like in Vote Mafia, or who you think is suspicious), the mafia will likely move you further up to the top of their list on who to kill. Third, not saying who you think is Mafia is inherently anti-town, as you're withholding what should be useful information for the town (but in your case, DB, you just vote for someone and say "i tink dis is scummy lol"; explaining why, possibly the most important part, is obviously not something you are capable of).

If I'm "oozing" with scumminess, then why do you only use 2 points, one of which is using a term that you didn't explain and refuse to?

Wait. I think DB just slipped as newbie scum. Me and Janus both referred to him as acting confused. Me and Janus are both up for the lynch. But DB only replied to me about it, calling me a scumbag for it. If I'm a scumbag for saying that, why isn't Janus? Why am I the only one getting "attention" from DB? Why does DB ignore Janus? Is it because they're both scum, so DB, being the newbie that he is, ignores his scumbuddy's comments, focusing instead on ? Or is he simply tunnelvisioning?

Regardless, DB. If you're going to be attacking people, you better fucking be willing to debate about it, especially when town is all vanilla with no power roles. Right now you're just saying 'SCUMBAG LOLOLOLOL" and refuse to explain anything. If you're just going to do that, you shouldn't even be playing in this game, of all the games you could have joined. I'll admit I ignored the game for a while, but I'm at least attempting to counter points now. You better too. Not explaining is anti-town. Right now you're just helping the mafia. You just say "i tink dis is scummy." As I've said in previous posts, explain why.

It is for all of this that I vote for dirtybirdy.

And for the record, this was typed up before looking back through the game; I just got on and saw what new things had been said. I'll hopefully be able to look through now that I'm back home.

[PPE:] Wait a second.

Since the extension:
- 2 posts from Zai attacking me

What? Where is this elusive second post? I made 3 posts, but in only one of them did I "attack" you ("s because I was simply stating who I thought was scum; I didn't even vote because I had another day to look over and decide). However, I did "attack" DB in 2 of those posts. Are you confusing your scum buddy with yourself now, Janus?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: dirtybirdy on December 30, 2009, 09:43:34 pm
Simplified for your leisure: Just to reiterate... I'm voting Zai because...

1.  of the way he tip toed around answering Eduren legitimate claim

2. you acting in a cloud of confusion by merely laughing off his comments for a couple of days when reconfronted

3. suggesting a no lynch b/c I think it's a bad town move (personally) don't know about all that statistic stuff

4. suggesting in so many words of me being offed in the night (or could this be WIFOM?)

other notes:  don't know why you think I haven't explained myself...which I have. But I'll repeat as I see fit. Which this post is basically another repeat. 

my comment about whatever scum bag was not an avoidance of anything.  It was in response to you saying that I was more confused than you.  Well... I'm NOT confused just simply dealing with the differences of real life mafia versus online mafia.

As for Janus, I didn't see anything to respond to. He seems to say that I am the focus of suspicion because I'm New? that's odd.  To me that's typical bay 12 mafia... go after the newbie. (big surprise)
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: dakarian on December 30, 2009, 10:07:27 pm
Current Vote Count:
Zai[3]: Eduren, dirtybirdy, JanusTwoface
JanusTwoface[3]: Leafsnail, Mephansteras, Pandarsenic
dirtybirdy[1]: Zai

Deadline: Wednesday, 11pm EST

2 more extensions needed to extend day.

Note: ties result in a no lynch.  Note that just about all games have taken that stance for some time now.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Zai on December 30, 2009, 10:26:08 pm
Oooookay. So. After looking back through Day 1 and 2(that was a really small amount of posts compared to BYORP and Bay 12), I notice how oddly Janus acts, so I went back through to pull out stuff I don't think fits:

Leafsnail and Janus fight. It's pretty dull stuff.
In response to Leafsnail's post here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg931645#msg931645) about attacking only him, Janus says here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg931696#msg931696) that he is doing one (an "attack") on everyone; he just did Leaf first. What's truly funny about this is that he attacked me for not following up on something I "said", when he himself didn't follow up on what he actually said. +1 strike against Janus for this (basically: being a hypocrite).
Janus votes Pandar (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933074#msg933074), but fails to comment on how his vote is misrepresented in the following vote count (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933202#msg933202). But this is pretty understandable.
Dorf claims Doc after half the players vote him. Janus says here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg935262#msg935262) that he's hesitant to lynch him because of the WIFOM surrounding Doc claiming. Then he says in the same post that a dorf lynch is preferable to him being lynched, despite the fact that there is only 1 vote on him at this time.
Day ends and Dorf dies.
Janus votes Leaf. Then in this post (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg942035#msg942035), he lies about me saying I would do something (adjectives and adverbs are so easy to "accidentally" skip over) and says that anyone could be scum with all the lurking.
Janus makes 3 comments here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg943440#msg943440) about self-preservation. He only wanted me, Mephansteras, dirtybirdy, Eduren to say who we thought were scum if it wasn't him, and he didn't want to get lynched. And then he wants to hear if Leaf or Pandar had any other suspicions besides him. He seems so concerned with self-preservation that he appears to forget about getting his own suspicions filled up. Only scum need to feel a need for such self-preservation; when they die, half their team is dead. When a townie dies, there's many more people left on their team so the loss isn't as big, and a townie can still be useful in death by telling their suspicions (coughtalkingtoyouDBcough).
Once again, Janus comments here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg943578#msg943578) about how he prefers people besides himself to be lynched, despite him not trying to find scum. Instead he just supports bandwagons (Dorf on the sideline and then voting me) that aren't on him.
Janus exaggerates here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg945107#msg945107) about me attacking him.

[PPE:] No, DB. You did not ever explain what that "cloud of confusion" was in reference to me until just now. I did not "suggest" for you to be NK'd; I was saying that you should tell who you think is scum because you might get killed before you get to the point where you see fit to tell your suspicions. But know this in the future: you should almost always tell your suspicions because you never know if or when you'll get NKed. I did not suggest a no lynch; I simply said I was fine with one occuring at that point in time. And your first and second points are pretty much one and the same. I didn't tiptoe around "answering" Eduren's "claim"; I ignored him like I ignored the game in general for a period of time while I did other things until last night.

Regardless. Unvote DB. I think the stuff between us is mainly because of misunderstanding. Janus gets my vote for now due to his lying and his reoccurring "theme" of self-preservation, which only scum need worry about. And probably more reviewing to come. Not necessarily today, though.  ;)
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: Pandarsenic on December 30, 2009, 10:30:08 pm
Well, shit, guys. Zai is pretty much totally right. Which means my hunch on Janus was perfectly accurate. Again.

That's GG for one of the scum, I'm pretty sure.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: JanusTwoface on December 30, 2009, 11:01:39 pm
I doubt it will be enough to change anyone's opinions, but I'll go ahead and continue my rant about Zai.

Zai, you constantly complain about how I misread your maybe.  Why that's a problem is that you're taking one annoying behavior (saying that you'll get to it later) and defending it with another (purposefully lurking).  You don't come out until someone actually gets around to push you.  Even if you are town, that's not useful townie behavior.  Even if you say maybe, it's implied in every worthless post that you make that you'll come back and do a better job or you might as well just not even by playing.

As for self preservation, why in the world would I want to get lynched, regardless of alignment?  I don't have a power role that would help the town by proving that I was telling the truth.  I want to live no matter what my role / alignment is.  If I were scum, of course I would want to live.  As it is, I know that you're making a mistake lynching me.

Oh, while I'm complaining, you (Zai) have twice come in to request an extension *after* the day was scheduled to end.  I already talked to Dakarian about this, and that's his mod style, that the day doesn't end until he posts to say it ends, but it's really annoying.  If you're going to lurk and put things off, at least be man enough to request early in the day.

Everyone's more or less lurking (until pushed).  I'm not just talking about this game, I'm talking about the whole Mafia subforum.  Every game I've been in, it's a problem.  I know it's Christmas, but this has been going on since well before Thanksgiving.  Everyone lurks until or even past the point where they are attacked.  It's kind of ridiculous.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 2 - KISS me once and KISS me twice...
Post by: dakarian on December 30, 2009, 11:04:35 pm
Final Vote Count:
Zai[3]: Eduren, dirtybirdy, JanusTwoface
JanusTwoface[4]: Leafsnail, Mephansteras, Pandarsenic, Zai


JanusTwoface, Mafioso, has been lynched.

Night roles, send me your choices.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dakarian on January 01, 2010, 03:23:28 pm
It is now day.

Mephansteras, Townie, has been killed in the night.

Survivors:

Leafsnail
Zai
Pandarsenic
Eduren
dirtybirdy

Deadline: Tuesday, 9pm EST.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Leafsnail on January 01, 2010, 04:23:47 pm
It is official.

Hell has frozen over.

We've actually lynched a mafia member, in a (basically) mountainous game, before lylo.

Now, I was away for most of the end of the day, so I'll need a but of time to read back through the thread.  To start off with, though, dirtybirdy, why did you ignore Janus yesterday while attacking Zai for the same thing?  Who do you think is our final mafia member?  Similarly, Janus seemed to ignore you, for the most part.  Why do you think he did this?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 01, 2010, 07:23:46 pm
I told you ALL it was Janus, day1, and you didn't believe me.

My wintuition, guys. You must listen to it.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Zai on January 01, 2010, 08:08:07 pm
I laughed so hard at Janus's last post the other night. He should have just stopped talking; I might have left my vote on DB if he had and we would both still be alive. He killed himself by continually pushing the one person whose vote could change (Leaf was gone, Pandar was sticking to his guns, Meph was idling on Janus, and everybody else was voting me).

Ugh. I would have reckoned that the remaining scum would be in the people voting me, because if they were voting Janus, they could have easily switched to me to ensure their fellow scum didn't die. But Pandar and Leafsnail were gone for much of yesterday, so Leaf might not have been able to get on in time, and Pandar might have...been Pandar and just use the time to brag about being right. This leaves me with 4 subjects of interest, but that's everybody that's left that isn't me. =/

I'll look back through for things on each of you before I back up a vote because I'm really not too sure right now; Janus was the only one who really stuck out to me when I looked back yesterday. In the meantime, Eduren and DB need to talk, and Pandar needs to say something useful.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Mephansteras on January 01, 2010, 08:19:52 pm
Aaaaarrrrgggggg....


Oooh, ice skates!
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 01, 2010, 09:02:11 pm
Actually, I was on for most of yesterday.

And really, the only person I've pushed this whole game was Janus. What the hell kind of scum would obfuscate by immediately bussing his partner? That's more kinds of retarded than I can count. I know I'm creative scum but jeopardizing my team in a way that absolutely retarded is just wasteful. I know, WIFOM, but the point stands.

If we have 5p with 1 scum, we could use our Free Lynch to exam the odd interactions between Janus and dirtybirdy, but really I need to go over the whole game and how Janus and the rest of the players interacted.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Zai on January 01, 2010, 09:44:35 pm
Okay.

Eduren is the last scum.

This post (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933182#msg933182) here seems rather fine and normal if you mentally replace "tomorrow" with "yesterday." Only one thing is off: he says to give him a second to let him get his reads, but then he  never does, or at least never posts them.
Web votes Eduren for whatever reason here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933542#msg933542), not explaining why as per usual.
I use sarcasm in this post here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933581#msg933581) because Web really needs to start explaining his votes like he used to way back when.
We go back and forth in these (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933758#msg933758) posts (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933764#msg933764) right (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933777#msg933777) along (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933779#msg933779) here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933792#msg933792).
Then eduren pops in here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933814#msg933814) asking why I won't vote him.
The only thing I could think of that he could be talking about is why I won't vote him, but since it didn't make sense why he would want me to vote him, I ask him here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933848#msg933848) what he means and Leafsnail does similar here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg934196#msg934196).
Then Web makes a post here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg934417#msg934417) saying Eduren gave me reason to vote him and I didn't pick up on it but then he himself...immediately changes his vote. (Once again, why the fuck would I give any credence to what Web says to do when he doesn't give any reasons and oftentimes changes his vote without giving reasons?)
Then here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg935017#msg935017) eduren requests an extension without saying anything else.
-Day 1 ends, Day 2 begins-
Eduren votes me here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg937929#msg937929) for...not voting him the Day before.

But...why the focus on only me just for this? The only other people to vote him were Web and Janus, and Janus's vote was a random vote from scum and he later changed his vote. Web's was unexplained and he also later changed his vote. What about everyone else, Eduren? Why am I the only you picked? Because I was the only one you could get a quote from "saying" that I wouldn't vote you? As I said in this post here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg933848#msg933848), I never said I wouldn't consider Eduren. I just didn't mention that when considering voting for him, I didn't consider him scummier than Dorf or DB, which should have been quite obvious considering I was still voting DB and I was arguing with Dorf. And what made you so sure you were so suspicious to begin with? All you did for the most part is extreme-lurk and...want people to vote for you, if we can believe that.

My theory: Eduren is scum. He's legitimately gone for a while, and when he gets back, he says he's going to get his reads. Failing that, he concocts on Day 1 a plan to continue lurking and hope he doesn't get lynched for it. Web votes him and he takes notice. I sarcastically say that I'll be sure to [vote for eduren]. Web and e both take notice and e asks why I won't vote for him. I then change my vote and Web changes his. Then day ends, we lynch Dorf. That night, I think you killed Web because then a quote out of context from him would seem oh so much more credible than if he was alive due to us being able to trust a dead townie but not a live one. Then Eduren goes after me as soon as Day 2 starts because I "was way too cautious" because I didn't "take [either him or Web] seriously". And continues to go after me. While nobody else went after e either. But that doesn't matter, because he's scum and can go after a single person for something everybody did or did not do!

While convoluted, I think it's good. I'm at least right about eduren being scum. There is no way he's so stupid as town to tunnelvision over something so trivial.

So eduren. Who are you voting for on this day of days?

Pandar, vote. DB, talk. And vote.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Eduren on January 01, 2010, 10:21:45 pm
Dirtybirdy.

Why? Because Zai, Pandar, and Leafsnail quarreled too much with Janus. Sure they could have been faking it, but there are clear indications that those three were not in collusion with Janus. By process of elimination, that leaves DB and I. Since I know my innocence, logic only leaves DB as my prime suspect.

Of course, that won't be enough to prove I'm right, so I have to prove that he is the scummier of us. But I am going to bed, so that will have to be in the morning.

DirtyBirdy: Who is the last scum?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dirtybirdy on January 02, 2010, 06:31:00 pm
It is official.

Hell has frozen over.

We've actually lynched a mafia member, in a (basically) mountainous game, before lylo.

Now, I was away for most of the end of the day, so I'll need a but of time to read back through the thread.  To start off with, though, dirtybirdy, why did you ignore Janus yesterday while attacking Zai for the same thing?  Who do you think is our final mafia member?  Similarly, Janus seemed to ignore you, for the most part.  Why do you think he did this?

I have to admit it is quite impressive that we've managed to locate a scum member before lylo.  I take it must be a rare occurence? Welcome back leafsnail.  I see you're off to a spicy start.  hehe.  As for your comment about Janus, I wasn't ignoring him.  I already addressed this accusation with Zai earlier who alleged that I was ignoring Janus.  I didn't ignore him, I just didn't find his comments worth noting.  It appeared in my eyes that he was making a sly comment about me being new. I just took it as a bay12 mafia thing about going after newbies. (shrugs) I was focused on Zai earlier for other reasons. 

As for why do I think Janus seemed to ignore me. I dunno perhaps you should ask Janus. I don't know him like that to know his motives.  But anyway.... as for who is  the last mafia member I need more time to catch up on my readings now that we know Janus is confirmed scum . So to be continued....
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Eduren on January 03, 2010, 05:17:35 am
Dirty. You haven't really done much this game. Many of your posts have been devoid of content and the only time that you tried to go after somebody(Zai), you parroted other peoples suspicions. Not only that, you never applied any pressure. You never asked him to explain his actions or give his thoughts. You have frequently been cautious and have been playing the newbie card way too often.

If that was just it, I would accept the newbie explanation. But this, plus a possible connection to Janus, makes you my guy.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Leafsnail on January 03, 2010, 09:27:48 am
If I'm honest... I don't think Zai can be scum.  I know scum members can bus each other, but his vote was the final, critical, "hammer" vote.  Similarly, Pandarsenic had a chance to stop Janus's lynch (here (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg945328#msg945328)) although he would have looked far scummier doing this, so he isn't quite as town as Zai in my eyes.  Then again, Pandarsenic did spend the whole of the first two days attached to Janus like a limpet...

So, I reckon that, to most intents and purposes, one of Eduren and Dirtybirdy is scum.  Personally... I think they both seem pretty scummy.   However, dirtybirdy completely ignored Janus yesterday, and also wrote a purely self defensive post today.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dirtybirdy on January 03, 2010, 09:54:38 pm
Well I have had a moment to go back
and do my own analysis. As far as
I can conclude, I'm sticking with
my original claim that Zai is scum.
In hindsight, when I go back to look
at who had ties with Janus (confirmed scum)...it points back to Zai.

For instance, when there was a 2 way
tie between Zai and Janus...zai had
the option to seal the deal by simply voting on Janus at that point.  However, rather than moving forward to avoid a sticky situation of a no-lynch (anti-town in my book)...he opted to vote for a completely different person... me (dirtybirdy). 

I speculate that this was done as to not wanting to place the final vote on his own scum buddy.  Furthermore...one of his posts varifies that he is perfectly fine with a no lynch. (another anti-town move). Hence my vote remains with Zai.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Zai on January 03, 2010, 11:17:26 pm
lulwut

Had I been on a scumteam with Janus, with both of us up for the lynch yesterday, tied, I could have just as easily forced a no lynch. But instead, going by what I did, I guaranteed a lynch on my team. I could have gone back and concluded Eduren was scum, as I have today, or even just left my vote on you DB, leaving us to start the day today with 4 town and 2 scum today instead of the 4t:1s. 4:2 is 2 days of lylo. Assuming another mislynch in both situations, we would be down to 2t:2s against 2t:1s. 2:2 is done; scum wins due to vote ties and NK. 2:1 is lylo and town has a 50% chance of voting for scum (nobody's going to vote for themselves ;); this is the highest chance we can get to without a CT). Assuming we found scum in the hypothetical situation (No Lynch) and mislynched in the current, we'd be down to 2:1 in both situations.

I effectively brought us a better chance for town to win, my friend, which would be EXTREMELY contrary to my goal as scum. In case you can't tell the difference: I brought us a regular day and then lylo if mislynch instead of 2 days of straight up lylo: 2/5 chance of voting scum 1st day and you HAVE TO and then 1/2 chance of voting scum next day and you HAVE TO. Today we have 1/4 chance of voting scum, and if we mislynch, we go up to 1/2 chance and we HAVE TO.

Not to say that today does not matter; we need to hit scum today or tomorrow. It just doesn't matter as much as if I had forced a no lynch and 2 days of lylo.

Really, is that all you can muster up against me? Me "being fine with a no lynch" (which I was in control of; that's the funny part) and me originally not voting for Janus? You didn't vote for Janus. Does that mean you're scum?

Also, I like how you say you went back to look at who had ties with Janus, when you've specifically avoided doing just that by lurking. And voting who he votes (or says is suspicious, in the case of Dorf). Isn't that more of a "tie" than...killing him? o,0

But really? You actually think Janus and I, on a scum team together...would vote each other, guaranteeing one of our's death? We'd probably have made a No Lynch to force the 2 days of lylo by finishing the day without me changing to Janus. Could you please explain to me, DB, why it would be necessary for one of us to die instead of for a NL (which would have increased our odds to win today immensely)?

And Pandar needs to get his ass in here.

If DB doesn't reply to all of this, he's scum and I'll be changing my vote and it'll be good game all.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Leafsnail on January 04, 2010, 07:41:26 am
DirtyBirdy, that is, quite frankly, pathetic.  Yes, Zai might've allowed a No Lynch, but you were also allowing one, and, what's more, you were shielding a member of the scumteam with your vote.

I think I know why he was voting you instead of Janus for so long.  Because you, DirtyBirdy, were and are the partner to the late JanusTwoFace.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dakarian on January 04, 2010, 09:49:47 am
Current Vote Count:

Eduren[1]: Zai
dirtybirdy[2]: Eduren, Leafsnail
Zai[1]: dirtybirdy

Not Voting: Pandarsenic

Deadline: Tuesday, 9pm EST
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Leafsnail on January 04, 2010, 09:52:20 am
It is official.

Hell has frozen over.

We've actually lynched a mafia member, in a (basically) mountainous game, before lylo.

Now, I was away for most of the end of the day, so I'll need a but of time to read back through the thread.  To start off with, though, dirtybirdy, why did you ignore Janus yesterday while attacking Zai for the same thing?  Who do you think is our final mafia member?  Similarly, Janus seemed to ignore you, for the most part.  Why do you think he did this?
I'm voting DirtyBirdy.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dakarian on January 04, 2010, 01:22:54 pm
You saw NOTHING
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dirtybirdy on January 04, 2010, 07:11:21 pm
Hmm...if you knew Zai of the problems associated with a no lynch... it still doesn't explain why you were ok with a no lynch on day 2. Care to explain that?

As for why my vote was not on Janus...I was focused upon you at the time.

Then you said something about why I voted what Janus voted or something like that.  Don't know why Janus votes the way he does...but I cast my vote prior to Janus so I don't know how there could be a correlation there.

Let's face it originally you were ok with a no lynch, but when talk about a no lynch being anti town came into play you began bussing your partner. 

If you controlled the vote to cause a no lynch, it would have been clear that you were protecting Janus.  However, by placing the final vote on Janus you become a townie hero...thus diverting attention away from the fact you were merely sacrificing your partner who was inevitably going to get lynched. A sacrifice for the team so to speak.

As for me, I'm not buying into the trap one bit. I'm convinced your scum for the previous discussed reasons. As for now...I'm off to bed. I'll be on tomorrow evening.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Eduren on January 04, 2010, 07:27:50 pm
So you think it is Zai because he 'bussed' his partner? Do you have anything else?

If it isn't Zai, who else is scummy?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Zai on January 04, 2010, 10:27:49 pm
Then you said something about why I voted what Janus voted or something like that.  Don't know why Janus votes the way he does...but I cast my vote prior to Janus so I don't know how there could be a correlation there.
lul Because you have to vote in a certain order as scum team for there to be a connection. Right.

If you controlled the vote to cause a no lynch, it would have been clear that you were protecting Janus.  However, by placing the final vote on Janus you become a townie hero...thus diverting attention away from the fact you were merely sacrificing your partner who was inevitably going to get lynched. A sacrifice for the team so to speak.
Except that if I had made a no lynch...we'd be at LYLO, and neither me nor Janus would have flipped (unless I got NKed). So there wouldn't have been a need for that "sacrifice" because nobody would know Janus was scum, so it wouldn't be clear that I was protecting him. So this theory completely falls through. Keep trying.

I'll vote later; I'm fine with a no lynch if I don't get back in time, if that's what happens with ties.
lulul

DB's main problem with me now ("suggesting" a No Lynch) was because of this quote. This quote only; I just searched and couldn't find me saying anything else about a NL. And this quote even carries a conditional. In no way was I "suggesting" a NL; I may have allowed one to happen at some point, but that's not a suggestion because I was in control of that. Of course, going back through stuff ever so lightly, I then voted DB. But then after DB posted his shnack of explanations, I reviewed further and decided Janus was indeed scum, which ended any and all prospects of a NL.

But oh looky what I have found in review of said post:

Since the extension:
- 2 posts from Zai attacking me

What? Where is this elusive second post? I made 3 posts, but in only one of them did I "attack" you ("s because I was simply stating who I thought was scum; I didn't even vote because I had another day to look over and decide). However, I did "attack" DB in 2 of those posts. Are you confusing your scum buddy with yourself now, Janus?

Oh snap! A link between DB and Janus! Wow! That's crazy! And is more of a tie than DB has between me and Janus! I think I'll unvote Eduren and save him for tomorrow. Dirtybirdy gets my vote for everything I had in that post, everything else since, along with him being an Extra Tunnelvision Deluxe Pro model which will be Eeeeextra Anti-town tomorrow if we're both still alive, even if he's town, which will happen if scum doesn't get lynched today and is smart; we can't afford tunnelvision in lylo.

[Note:] Please ignore any and all extra frollicky goodness in this post. The happy music I'm listening to is affecting me greatly. I'm literally swaying back and forth as I type from the good vibes.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 05, 2010, 08:38:03 pm
Extension please

Laptop returns Thurs
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Eduren on January 05, 2010, 09:19:33 pm
Extension
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Zai on January 05, 2010, 10:07:45 pm
I request extension until Pandar does something useful. Which sounds like it'll be Thursday. So probably until Friday, but definitely 'til Thursday.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dakarian on January 05, 2010, 10:10:49 pm
3 extensions made, 0 objections offered.

Extension granted.

New Deadline: Wednesday, 11pm EST.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Zai on January 05, 2010, 10:15:47 pm
I request another extension for Thursday.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dakarian on January 05, 2010, 11:04:55 pm
I realize now that the requests were for the thursday extension. So

New Deadline: Thursday, 11pm EST.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Leafsnail on January 06, 2010, 10:39:49 am
DirtyBirdy is still scum, and I feel it's he who should answer soon.

Although perhaps he knows he's already been beaten.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 06, 2010, 03:37:45 pm
Just for reference, my laptop returns ~4:30 Thursday.

Hopefully my roommates can sign for it since I'll be in class then.

We might as well as for an extension to Friday in case something goes wrong. :I
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dakarian on January 06, 2010, 04:56:51 pm
New Deadline: Friday, 11pm EST
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dakarian on January 06, 2010, 09:23:05 pm
1 replacement for dirtybirdy is needed.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death need 1 replacement
Post by: Zai on January 06, 2010, 09:42:51 pm
1 replacement for dirtybirdy is needed.

...Fucking Christ.

Did he request it or is it forced? I'd assume forced, since you posted several times after the time it says he was last on in his profile.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death need 1 replacement
Post by: Vector on January 06, 2010, 09:57:51 pm
I'll probably replace, though I can't say anything definite until tomorrow.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death need 1 replacement
Post by: dakarian on January 06, 2010, 10:05:05 pm
It was by request. 
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death need 1 replacement
Post by: Zai on January 06, 2010, 10:18:52 pm
...Totally not scum.

Any reason why that's not too private? Such as "i go vacation startin on 2moro" or "life sux i 2 busy"?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death need 1 replacement
Post by: dakarian on January 06, 2010, 10:27:07 pm
Best I can get was 'too busy'.  I take note that she posted about literally once a day each day in the afternoon.  I got word of the request on monday about the time of her post. 

Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death need 1 replacement
Post by: Vector on January 06, 2010, 11:20:18 pm
Screw it.

I'm in a freaking many games, but I think a reasonable handful of them are on the verge of ending.  It'd also really suck if this thing died due to replacement requirements.

I'll replace Dirtybirdy.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death need 1 replacement
Post by: dakarian on January 07, 2010, 01:24:00 am
Dirtybirdy has been replaced by Vector
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death need 1 replacement
Post by: Eduren on January 07, 2010, 04:32:59 am
I take note that she posted about literally once a day each day in the afternoon.  I got word of the request on monday about the time of her post. 
Learn something new every day...
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Leafsnail on January 07, 2010, 11:00:41 am
Well, Vector, you've subbed in at an interesting time.  Man, what is it with you and horrible replacement positions :P?

Go ahead and have a read of the thread.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Vector on January 07, 2010, 12:56:45 pm
To be honest, I love subbing in on positions that look horrible.  They're a challenge  :)

I'll take a look at this at some point today, though at the moment priority should go to catching up on the most recent day of BYOR: Panda and a handful of RL things that need to get hammered out.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Zai on January 07, 2010, 02:04:28 pm
It'd also really suck if this thing died due to replacement requirements.

It wouldn't really. (S?)He's up to be lynched anyway; we were just waiting on Pandar to do something useful so that there wouldn't be too much of a lack of posting from him if we go to lylo with him still alive (if DB/you aren't the last scum and Pandar's not NKed).
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 08, 2010, 03:17:13 pm
Computer is back, I'll be getting in gear again by evening today.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Zai on January 08, 2010, 04:11:55 pm
You better.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Vector on January 08, 2010, 07:31:03 pm
Extension, then.

Sorry for not showing up and saying anything sooner; I've been somewhat busy.  Really need to take a thread-trawl on this one at some point today, but I also need to buy textbooks and such.

Where by busy I mean "making my economy explosively large in Colonization."  John Adams is bomb, by the way.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dakarian on January 08, 2010, 10:59:41 pm
Considering how little has been said and considering that Pandar hasn't been able to comment yet, I'm going to do something unusual

Deadline: Saturday, 11am EST

The deadline stays unless I hear 2 more requests.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Vector on January 09, 2010, 04:47:56 am
Gah.

Request extension to Monday.  Both Pandarsenic and I are three hours earlier than the board time, and I doubt that either of us will be able to post on time (i.e., 8 AM on Saturday morning).

Unvote.

Pandarsenic, get the hell in here and die.

Spoiler: On Pandarsenic (click to show/hide)







Any more questions?
Title: Still Alive: Eduren, Leafsnail, Pandarsenic, Vector (f. dirtybirdy), Zai
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 09, 2010, 05:12:17 am
Time for a complete archive of interactions with Janus I feel are particularly "noteworthy" as well as occasional other notes about still-living players (emphasis on Janus, so don't be offended if you aren't mentioned :I ).

DAY 1
Begins talking casually with dorf, accuses webadict.
Pisses around a bit and then votes Zai.
Bounces from him to Eduren after my TOTALLY CORRECT FUCKING TOLD YOU ALL accusations, FoS party for several people, Eduren being the only one from then still alive now.
Leafsnail jumps on this, accusing Janus of faux-scumhunting, which is precisely what it was.
Janus reflexively counteraccuses Leafsnail a bit and pokes at dorf's randomvote on me.
>Not in a post, but at this point his LACK of any pursuit on Eduren has become very noticeable to me. Keep in mind he's still voting Eduren.
Oh hey, Leafy observes this a post later: http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46678.msg931704#msg931704
Janus soon thereafter posts "OH HEY WHERE IZ EDUREN."
>Thus far I'm not feeling Leafsnail as the scum partner. His interaction with Janus feels too genuine.
Eduren shows up with legitimate explanation for his absence.
My post reminds me that the list of players he made is clear WIFOM. However, since only Eduren was alive from that list... well, more WIFOM. We won't touch that for now.
Eduren asks for an extension instead of voting dorf on the forming bandwagon. Janus makes a point of avoiding the bandwagon too.

DAY 2:
Eduren accuses Zai for not voting for Eduren. Yyyyyyyeah.
Leafsnail jumps on Janus for the exact thing I mentioned above.
Eduren pushes Zai moar.
Dirtybirdy bandwagons Zai. Janus places third vote on Zai with a large post about how Zai is Soooooo Contentless.
>At this point, I doubt Leafsnail or Zai are scum. Leafy and I independently arrived at the Janus-is-scum conclusion and if Zai was Janus' partner, it would only be in a panicked state that he would resort to 3rdvoting his partner for a bus. Neither were in any real danger that day. Add to that the multi-day fight between Zai and several others, and he's too contentious to be a VERY likely scum candidate. It's important to keep in mind they wouldn't have to keep the roleblocker alive specifically because first, Doctor was lynched d1, and second, the final scum can't roleblock while killing. Even if he needed to. Which he wouldn't.
Zai puts the finishing touch on the Janus lynch, putting it at 4-3.

Verdict: We have a free lynch and I don't want to go through the complications of post-substitution dirtybirdy=>Vector.

Unless that's a success (doubtful, but removing a major liability at Lylo), a further full examination of everyone else is on the menu.

Just a reminder: If I get killed, then tomorrow YOU WILL analyze the other two players. You will analyze them start to finish, leaving nothing out. You will not piggyback off arguments, you will not quickvote. You will be thoughtful, and you will choose accurately.
If you do not understand, then reread this until you do.

--

Oh, a reminder for anyone watching who, like webadict, likes to say "X was obvscum" after the game: If you didn't say it in the dead chat then you didn't predict it. Get your bets in.



[Pre-post edit] The vote on Vectorbirdy was formerly because I couldn't read the Dirtybirdy/Janus dynamic. However, (1) Extension please. I'll humor you, Vector; and (2) I am now quite certain of Vector. Systematic refutation of his failcusation to follow.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 09, 2010, 05:25:22 am
Fuck it, I'll just number them. I'm not dealing with quote organization for all that.

Point 1: "Hi, I'm going to compare your actions to something totally different!" Dissimiles don't work in Mafia, Vector.

Point 2: "Dorf's randomvote (stated to be such by him, confirmed by his deathflip) and Janus' wine list." Janus' attacks on everyone are poorly supported, Vector. It's why he was so clearly scum. And really, 'lack of defense for his attack' and 'already knows what's happening?' Don't make us imagine the worst for you. You're going to accuse me, you will give me something concrete to refute. This is the Duke Nukem Forever of accusations. You're trying to present a little pseudo-idea and have us fill it in. So, what do you mean by 'lack of defense for his attack' and what, precisely, do you say is happening here? I wish to tell you how wrong you are. And I'm aware that demanding something to actually respond to is also something I did in BYOR2, so don't try to call my meta on that.

Point 3: "Janus' OMGUS, which Pandarsenic declared as the final nail in JanusTwoFace's coffin, is actually evidence of Pandarsenic's guilt!" Stick your head in a blender.

Point 4: "MY GOD! JANUS IS TRYING TO BUDDY PANDARSENIC TO GET SOMEONE WHO REALIZES HOW SCUMMY HE IS OFF OF HIM! PANDARSENIC MUST BE SCUM BECAUSE SCUM ONLY BUDDY THEIR PARTNERS!" Seriously. Head, blender. Do it.

Point 5: "The 'big argument' thing." I think that may have actually been Janus trying to get people to ignore my WoT damning him at that point, and to instead look at his argument with Leaf, who (while correct) did not organize a big explanation of the many and varied forms of JanusTwoFace Being Scum like I did. I dunno. Maybe he was trying to spam out WIFOM in his dying breaths.

Also, just a reminder for all of the above: Until JanusTwoFace's lynch, I never (that I can recall?) voted anyone beside Janus. Take what you will from that.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dakarian on January 09, 2010, 05:28:20 am
2nd extension heard, no objections.

New Deadline: Monday, 9pm EST.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Leafsnail on January 09, 2010, 07:16:34 am
Vector, bear in mind that if Pandarsenic is Janus' scumpartner, he was effectively bussing him, and bussing him consistently over the course of 2 days, long before he was in real danger.  Why would he be doing this?

Quote from: Vector
The first contains what is clearly an attack on Janus (and dirtybirdy).  The second contains no attacks whatsoever, so I believe that in this case we can characterize Janus's statement as an "overreaction," rather than a connection between him and dirtybirdy.
But even when they're talking to each other, they don't seem to want to accuse each other.  They just sortof ignore eachother (even though Janus was one of the ones up for a lynch).

Also, I'm beginning to wonder why someone would kill Meph in the night.  Yeah, he's a good player, but the fact he wasn't around towards the end of the day means he'd be more of a suspect than Pandar or Zai, so it seems like a rather odd choice.  I can't think of any reason why Pandar or Zai would off him instead of the other one or myself.  And before you shout "WIFOM!", would you mind explaining what exactly the WIFOM would be meant to achieve?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Vector on January 10, 2010, 09:59:07 pm
I'm going to apologize for my initial post, which I made while severely sleep-deprived.  I'll try to clarify.

...

Wow, just went back and looked at it again, and I sound positively insane.  So, to address what has been said by Pandarsenic and Leafsnail:

Fuck it, I'll just number them. I'm not dealing with quote organization for all that.

Point 1: "Hi, I'm going to compare your actions to something totally different!" Dissimiles don't work in Mafia, Vector.

Point 1: "Hi, you're a guy who consistently does whatever the 'no one would ever do that' strategy du jour is.  I can see you pulling a full-game Janus bus for the ginormtastic WIFOM it would spew."


Point 2: "Dorf's randomvote (stated to be such by him, confirmed by his deathflip) and Janus' wine list." Janus' attacks on everyone are poorly supported, Vector. It's why he was so clearly scum. And really, 'lack of defense for his attack' and 'already knows what's happening?' Don't make us imagine the worst for you. You're going to accuse me, you will give me something concrete to refute. This is the Duke Nukem Forever of accusations. You're trying to present a little pseudo-idea and have us fill it in. So, what do you mean by 'lack of defense for his attack' and what, precisely, do you say is happening here? I wish to tell you how wrong you are. And I'm aware that demanding something to actually respond to is also something I did in BYOR2, so don't try to call my meta on that.

To translate, this is what I'm saying:

Janus posted an extremely weak list of scumcusations, i.e. pretty much everything anyone had done that was even mildly scummy.  On the other hand, he completely ignored the fact that you had attacked him with no evidence.  Certainly, Janus was being as scummy as hell.  I still find it suspicious that he said absolutely nothing about your unsupported attack, when it would have been a better move than trying to screw with a couple of lurkers.

In the same post, he also says that dorf's reasoning is odd--though he realistically should be following dorf's reasoning against you.  The entire situation around that post is extremely odd.

Point 3: "Janus' OMGUS, which Pandarsenic declared as the final nail in JanusTwoFace's coffin, is actually evidence of Pandarsenic's guilt!" Stick your head in a blender.

I'm saying that, without considering your reaction to JanusTwoFace (given that I don't feel like getting lost in the WIFOM), I feel like I'm seeing an avoidance dance on his part and then finally a token vote.  *shrug* I have a particular interpretation of the situation.

Point 4: "MY GOD! JANUS IS TRYING TO BUDDY PANDARSENIC TO GET SOMEONE WHO REALIZES HOW SCUMMY HE IS OFF OF HIM! PANDARSENIC MUST BE SCUM BECAUSE SCUM ONLY BUDDY THEIR PARTNERS!" Seriously. Head, blender. Do it.

*Inserts head in blender*
*Presses frappe*


Here's the thing.  What I kept on seeing in JTF's behavior is that he'd attack you... but then immediately refute his own arguments.  Sure, maybe he was buddying.  It's damn stupid buddying, but it could be buddying.

On the other hand, I feel like it's token attacks that are repealed because he knows he's the one who's supposed to get bussed.

Point 5: "The 'big argument' thing." I think that may have actually been Janus trying to get people to ignore my WoT damning him at that point, and to instead look at his argument with Leaf, who (while correct) did not organize a big explanation of the many and varied forms of JanusTwoFace Being Scum like I did. I dunno. Maybe he was trying to spam out WIFOM in his dying breaths.

Also, just a reminder for all of the above: Until JanusTwoFace's lynch, I never (that I can recall?) voted anyone beside Janus. Take what you will from that.

Yes, that's one of the reasons why I feel like it was a tunnel-bus to self-clear.


Vector, bear in mind that if Pandarsenic is Janus' scumpartner, he was effectively bussing him, and bussing him consistently over the course of 2 days, long before he was in real danger.  Why would he be doing this?

As I've been saying, I think it's a D1 bus.  Why?  Well, precisely for the reason you've posited: "Why would he be doing this?"  It's a treasure-trove of WIFOM, and I know Pandarsenic can't resist them.  I've watched his scumgame, and he's a WIFOM-player.  He consistently attempts to do precisely what won't be expected, and what people call impossible.

On the other hand, this is a Near-Mountainous game.  Hmm... that might change things.


Quote from: Vector
The first contains what is clearly an attack on Janus (and dirtybirdy).  The second contains no attacks whatsoever, so I believe that in this case we can characterize Janus's statement as an "overreaction," rather than a connection between him and dirtybirdy.
But even when they're talking to each other, they don't seem to want to accuse each other.  They just sortof ignore eachother (even though Janus was one of the ones up for a lynch).

The bit where Janus and Dirtybirdy ignored each other?  Well, I can't say anything about that, because it seems to have happened, and I wasn't responsible for it.  I'm just refuting Zai's perception of Janus's purported "slip."

Also, I'm beginning to wonder why someone would kill Meph in the night.  Yeah, he's a good player, but the fact he wasn't around towards the end of the day means he'd be more of a suspect than Pandar or Zai, so it seems like a rather odd choice.  I can't think of any reason why Pandar or Zai would off him instead of the other one or myself.  And before you shout "WIFOM!", would you mind explaining what exactly the WIFOM would be meant to achieve?

I don't know why Pandar would kill Meph.  I don't know why anybody playing this game would kill Meph.  So... possibly "for WIFOM," possibly because of some weird thing going on based on who is attacking whom, possibly it was an asspull.

If it's "for WIFOM," I assume it was to spread confusion everywhere.  That's WIFOM's general purpose, as far as I know.



Eduren, is there any reason why you've been absent in the last little bit?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Eduren on January 10, 2010, 10:14:14 pm
Eduren, is there any reason why you've been absent in the last little bit?
Well at first I was waiting for Pandar to come back and have his say. Then I wanted to let you get your bearings and have your say.

I really don't see Pandar doing the game-wide bus that you are proposing.

Just for clarification, my vote for DB has transferred to Vector.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 10, 2010, 10:16:27 pm
Yeah, Vector's trying too hard to push this idea because he can't avoid a lynch any other way.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Vector on January 10, 2010, 10:35:56 pm
Yeah, Vector's trying too hard to push this idea because he can't avoid a lynch any other way.

I'm scared that if I back off, you'll slip through our fingers.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Leafsnail on January 11, 2010, 11:39:05 am
Quote from: Vector
As I've been saying, I think it's a D1 bus.  Why?  Well, precisely for the reason you've posited: "Why would he be doing this?"  It's a treasure-trove of WIFOM, and I know Pandarsenic can't resist them.  I've watched his scumgame, and he's a WIFOM-player.  He consistently attempts to do precisely what won't be expected, and what people call impossible.
Yeah, but you're making a serious scum mistake

Just because it could be true doesn't mean it is.  Yes, Pandarsenic might be pulling off an extremely elaborate bussing attempt, but that doesn't mean he is.  I see no reason to think that he was doing anything other than attacking a scummy player.

So yes, you've made a pretty good case as to how Pandarsenic could be scum.  But you haven't really made any attempt to say why he is scum and why you're voting him.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Vector on January 11, 2010, 03:46:26 pm
Quote from: Vector
As I've been saying, I think it's a D1 bus.  Why?  Well, precisely for the reason you've posited: "Why would he be doing this?"  It's a treasure-trove of WIFOM, and I know Pandarsenic can't resist them.  I've watched his scumgame, and he's a WIFOM-player.  He consistently attempts to do precisely what won't be expected, and what people call impossible.
Yeah, but you're making a serious scum mistake

Just because it could be true doesn't mean it is.  Yes, Pandarsenic might be pulling off an extremely elaborate bussing attempt, but that doesn't mean he is.  I see no reason to think that he was doing anything other than attacking a scummy player.

So yes, you've made a pretty good case as to how Pandarsenic could be scum.  But you haven't really made any attempt to say why he is scum and why you're voting him.

... First off, maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't call it "extremely elaborate."  Bussing is generally simple.

My problem here is that I can't point to any one of his posts and say "I see it right there!  He's scum!!"  (This might be partially because he doesn't have that many).  Mostly, I'm going "Okay, Zai and Leafsnail look like town.  That leaves eduren and Pandarsenic as potential scum, and out of those two this game looks more like Pandarsenic's playstyle than that of eduren."

I see Pandarsenic doing what he always does--mentioning the technique he's using, and then saying "But why would any scum do that?  That's stupid!"  I've probably had this exact same confrontation with him 5 times, and each time he was scum.

That's enough evidence for me.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Zai on January 11, 2010, 07:08:18 pm
Prediction: Pandar's going to be alive tomorrow if Vector/DB isn't scum. Eduren too. So it'll be Pandar, Eduren, and me or Leaf. A Pandar game-wide bus is pretty out there, but should still be looked into further tomorrow if the game continues on. Not really worth the effort too much in the next 2 hours, and I don't want to bother with another extension. But Eduren would require more looking into as well, as he relentlessly lurked Day 1 and then started to vote me for what he did, and hasn't done much since then, though he gets some support from me for the seemingly townie move of asking "wel hu do u think is suspicious? mite as wel be useful in deth if u r town".

And I'm sorry, Vector, but I didn't think you would be able to change our minds too much anyway. And you didn't.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dakarian on January 11, 2010, 07:55:27 pm
Current Vote Count:

Vector[4]: Eduren, Leafsnail, Zai, Pandarsenic
Pandarsenic[1]: Vector

Deadline: 1 hour
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Vector on January 11, 2010, 08:33:19 pm
Yeah, well.  If he's still alive, then lynch the bastard tomorrow.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 11, 2010, 09:04:31 pm
quote author=Vector link=topic=46678.msg966105#msg966105 date=1263242786] I've probably had this exact same confrontation with him 5 times, and each time he was scum.

That's enough evidence for me.
[/quote]

FIVE TIMES? I've done that FIVE TIMES?

I need links, that sounds very unoriginal for me.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: Day 3 - KISS of Death
Post by: dakarian on January 11, 2010, 09:41:10 pm
Final Vote Count:

Vector[4]: Eduren, Leafsnail, Zai, Pandarsenic
Pandarsenic[1]: Vector

Vector, Mafia Roleblocker, has been lynched.


The game is over.  The town wins!
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: dakarian on January 11, 2010, 09:44:47 pm
I think this is the first non-bastard game I hosted where the town won. O.o

Mafia Chat (http://www.quicktopic.com/43/H/BKcdxs9rWdviH)

I realize now that I only gave one person access to dead chat.  I just keep forgetting about it. :P  As such the only message there is:

Quote
Dorf: The Doctor is in the house! \o/

Meh
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Mephansteras on January 11, 2010, 09:52:05 pm
Huh. Why did I get night-killed, anyway?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 11, 2010, 09:54:04 pm
Bitches don't know about my scumhunting.

Bow before me and Zai, everybody.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: ToonyMan on January 11, 2010, 10:10:07 pm
Well that was short.  My thinking is the shorter the game the more likely town to win.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 11, 2010, 10:11:37 pm
Janus gave himself away to me and his postmortem wasn't good at hiding his shared alignment with db/Vector. Leafsnail caught on and Janus soon after cracked and OMGUS'd me, sealing his doom.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Zai on January 11, 2010, 10:37:35 pm
Quote from: DB in scumchat
Zai would be too obvious of a night kill for the first night. Besides he/she just annoys the hell out of me.

I laughed at this.

Quote from: Janus in scumchat
If I do get lynched, then I'd like you to kill of Zai for me although at that point, it's completely up to you.

Too bad~

Good game all. Scum might have won had things gone different Day 2.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 11, 2010, 10:45:54 pm
They were complacent about me and I wasn't letting off of Janus. Once I got my computer back... >:3
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Vector on January 12, 2010, 12:07:05 am
Blaaaaaahhhhhhhhhrrrrgh.  Sucktastic replacement situation >_>

Well, that's the third/fourth scum game I've lost.  Too bad...
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 12, 2010, 12:22:03 am
To be fair, I doubt anyone could've escaped at that point. But yeah.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Vector on January 12, 2010, 12:24:57 am
To be fair, I doubt anyone could've escaped at that point. But yeah.

Hey, thanks.  I appreciate it.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Eduren on January 12, 2010, 12:58:03 am
Bitches don't know about my scumhunting.

Bow before me and Zai, everybody.
And forget that It was I that turned everybodies attention to DB?

I get no respect, no respect at all
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 12, 2010, 01:04:08 am
Well, I'm more referring to SERIOUSLY GUYS I CALLED JANUS FROM THE FUCKING START.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Eduren on January 12, 2010, 01:54:45 am
Ill give you that.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: JanusTwoface on January 12, 2010, 02:48:04 am
Why oh why didn't I just keep my mouth shut?  That's a problem I always seem to have as scum.

Of course, if I'd not been posting, who knows how long that day before my lynch would have lasted...

And forget that It was I that turned everybodies attention to DB?

I get no respect, no respect at all

Really?  Here's a summary of your posts during the game.  All 16 of them.

(For the record, Zai mentioned DB first on Day 3 and Pandarsenic was the first to actually suggest that something was unsual about the interactions between us.)

Spoiler: Eduren's posts (click to show/hide)

Only 8.1% of the total posts.  A little low for someone that survived the entire game.  Of those, almost a third were extension requests, a third were vaguely useful / weak attacks, and the last third were out of context or worthless.

Bitches don't know about my scumhunting.

Bow before me and Zai, everybody.

Spoiler: Pandarsenic's posts (click to show/hide)

Many more posts (28), only a very few (6) have decent content.  Spent the entire early game insisting I was scum without any evidence (turns out he was correct, whoop-de-frickin-doo).  I know his computer was broken a good chunk of the game, but he wasn't any more helpful before that anyways.

Ah heck.  Here's everyone's posting records (might have missed 1 or 2, but it should be close).


Meh.  Just a pet peeve of mine.  Need more activity on this subforum in general.

While I'm at it:  If you're going to request a day extension, *please* do it before the day is scheduled to end... Zai, you did it twice and I'm sure you're not the only one.  I know that dakarian is rather lenient with deadlines and that the day only ends when he posts, but still...  It's kind of frustrating.

I know that people get busy.  That's why we have a system in place for prods and extensions and what not.  Just drop in and say it...  That's all I've got.

Done with pet peeves now.

Granted, I played a relatively poor game as scum, but that was a learning experience.  I know to try to try even harder to not draw attention to myself as scum and just let inactivity go.  No matter how much that sucks...

Anyways, sorry DirtyBirdy / Vector, good game town, congradulations on being randomly correct (and pushing it for-freaking-ever :P) Pandarsenic.

This was interesting at the very least.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 12, 2010, 03:03:22 am
Reading "insists I'm scum" over and over again was funny.

Also, credit for my strat goes to Toony because that was a Toony Tunnel, pure and simple, with exactly the results I wanted.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Eduren on January 12, 2010, 03:12:18 am
Janus: Really? Did you really need to tell me that?

Look I know I am a horrible player. Almost everybody in this board has called me out on it. But its not very often that I am right and can manage to convince some people. So that's what it was, half patting myself on the back and half joking.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Leafsnail on January 12, 2010, 07:42:53 am
Ok, Alexhans, come down here.  You said we'd never win a mountainous game, and we even lynched the doc day one to make sure it'd be mountainous afterwards :P.

Good work, town, and valiant effort from Vector at the end (the fact of the matter was that I would've been fine with ending the day before you replaced in, but nevermind).  Bay 12 daygame can sometimes work ;D.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: dakarian on January 12, 2010, 09:48:07 am
@Janus

It wasn't so much your activity but the way you used that activity;  A scan...



Leaf caught your first scumtell: Your quick unvoting on your randomvote was ok but you second vote (the eduren one) was too soft.  Your scumlist was simply full of lurkers for the most part.  Dort was the exception but instead of pushing on him with a vote or attack (or explaining 'odd reasoning' you went after a lurker.  Lurker hunting isn't always scummy, but it left you open for a first attack by Leaf.


You then attack Leaf.  The OMGUSness wasn't an issue since you already had him FOSed, but leaf does have a point: that attack was pretty good.  That's the problem: if you had that reasoning from the start you should've focused on Leaf from the start instead of throwing out a 'lurker scumlist'.  Now that leaf already started the attack, your counter was just reactionary.

Then came "I'm doing one for everyone.  You just bumped yourself to first because of your response."

Reactionary, and it turns your entire 'attack' into an attempt at a defense.  If you were just scanning everyone, it should've been done at the time of the 'scumlist'.  You also didn't give any response to Leaf's defense: did you agree to it?  If so why didn't you acknoledge it?  If not, then why aren't you gunning for him full out? 


By now you're looking like you're attemping a widescan: take everyone's posts and scan for bad actions and strike them all on it.  Widescans are pro-town.  However, your method of doing it messed you up since:

1. Your initial post about your widescan simply talked about lurkers.

2. Your deeper analysis and questions should've been in ONE post, not strung out over several.  It looks like you meant to just do that one scumlist and only started the heavy questions once Leafsnail prompted you. 

3. You're following Leafsnail's orders.  A BIG TIP: Townies will NEVER be happy when you do what they tell you to do.  Doing what they want you to do will make you look suspicious: more so than not doing it originally caused.

(so what DO you do?) Whatever you planned from the start.  If you planned on doing what they wanted before they said it then do it anyway and just know they'll complain HARD.  If you were planning to do something else, then do that.  Your goal is to make the townie believe that you were ALWAYS planning to do what you did originally.  If you change course because they fussed at you then you're going to get slaughtered.


Sidenote: You said you were being more aggressive later.  You actually WEREN'T.  You RVed but dropped it, then did a widescan, but didn't keep pushing on Leafsnail and allowed everyone else to ignore your questions (you struck hard on dorf and Web.. but didn't you notice they didn't reply to you?).  That's NOT aggressive.  That's just throwing out random accusations.  If leafsnail distracted you, then it shows you were more worried about the attack on you than finding scum...which is VERY scummy.



By near the end of Day 1, you've spent most of your time fending off Leafsnail's attack and done little to push anyone else, even though you had done a very early Widescan (which suggests you want to attack everyone at once).  Townie aggression is like Lock-Jaw*: Once on a target, the townie finds it HARD to let go until they either get the person lynched, find the person no longer scummish, or can't find enough to keep commenting on or fully mark them lynch-worthy.  Thus 'aggressive Janus' would've been either started on Dorf or Leafsnail with those accusations rather than conducting a widescan, and kept on them rather than turning to others. 

Aggressiveness is about constant pressure, constant attacks and a desire to KILL. 


At the end of the day when dorf was about to be killed, you wrote this:

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More seriously, I'm hesitant to lynch dorf on the chance that he's telling the truth. Of course, that's exactly what scum dorf would want us to think and there's no way to prove it (short of roleflip).

On the other hand, if you actually are the doctor, you're next to useless now that the roleblocker knows who you are...

That being said, I know I'd know if I were scum and dorf is acting scummy. Ergo, a dorf lynch is preferable to a me lynch.

1. the first line is feeding WIFOM.  If you were trying to make dorf seem like he was using WIFOM, you should've just said "His claim was WIFOM..he could be, but could be not".  It's slightly meh in reasoning, but a valid attack (remember, you don't need GOOD reasoning 100% of the time, just 'townie reasoning')

2. "That being said, I know I'd know if I were scum and dorf is acting scummy. Ergo, a dorf lynch is preferable to a me lynch. "

Let me be blunt:

NEVER LET YOURSELF SAY THAT EVER *EVER* AGAIN!

"I'd rather they die than me."  It shows exactly what your desire is: to live.  Even if you didn't vote for him, you were content to let him die even if he's possibility the doctor.  You've said nothing about why you believe he's scum so it shows you AREN'T sure about him being scum.

Thus it reads fully as "I'm willing to let someone I'm not fully convinced is scum and is possibility the doctor die since it means I live."

Thus, NEVER EVER *EVER* say that you'd rather someone else die than you.  Even if that person is 500000% confirmed scum by 10 sane cops and the HOST.. NEVER say it.  Never even let yourself THINK it.  Self-preservation is the ultimate scummtell since that's the Mafia's true reason for even showing up during the day. 


Sidenote: not voting for a townie that the town believes is scum is a scumtell in itself.  It shows that you KNEW that the person was going to flip town, and only one group KNOWS who is who. 

How to handle it?  Aggression solves that matter.  If you are attacking someone else HARD then it shows that you felt someone else was scummier and, thus, was the reason you didn't vote (note, Pandar didn't vote for dorf because he was flat out tunnelling).  If you were attacking dorf all that time, then you would've have a good reason to vote for him and get him lynched (yes, even if you are the legendary 3rd vote).

Without aggression, though, you're left having to react to dorf.  By then, ANYTHING you do will look suspicious.  The best thing to do is to declare dorf scum or town and vote accordingly.  Don't even SUGGEST wishywashiness, just go one or the other and put your vote accordingly.  You WILL be suspected, but the suspicion will be less and fightable if you keep your stance.

And that's all in Day 1.


Simply put, you played this game very defensively, and the 'aggression' was actually just random hits on random players, which isn't aggressive at all.  The strikes against Lurkers on top of it didn't help matters.



Day 2 was the town realizing what happened in Day 1 and going after you for it.  In truth, the only thing new there was your passive hits on dirtybirdy, which did 2 things:

1. showed you were willing to put some suspicion on her, but not a direct attack: a sign that she was your partner.

2. It disrupted her and showed to the town that she hasn't said much to you.  A sign of distancing.

Aka, Day 1 marked you as scum.  Day 2 supplied the link to your partner.

If you, as scum, believe you are going to fry, focus on one person and ignore everyone else, or attack EVERYONE including your partner equally.  If you treat your partner just like everyone else with the exact same suspicion it'll doom you, but hide your partner.  If you, say, only attacked Zai and zai alone then it would've been harder to read who is with you.



Lastly, the quickvote.  Don't do that, even with hosts that do run hard deadlines or hammers.  It's not breaking ethics to post after deadline in my games because I specifically mark that the day has NOT ended by then. 


Besides, even if I DID run a hard deadline:  Pandarsenic snuck a request in before 11pm.  1 request all by itself warrants a 1 hour extension.  Thus if I was there and 100% hardcore about it, they would've STILL had 1 extra hour, which was enough to get the final two extensions in.

My deadlines are NOT easy to manipulate.  I do that purposely beacuse I DON'T want them manipulated.  Even my '3p hammer' is made soft to make it harder to abuse than a traditional hammer system.


LASTLY, even if you did pull it off, it would've been your death in any case.  the next day would be lylo and the town would easily see that you forced that mislynch.  There wouldn't be a way to avoid a lynching by then.  DB would've followed soon after due to the link in Day 2.


Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Leafsnail on January 12, 2010, 12:35:00 pm
Personally, I thought this post was also pretty bad:
Quote from: JanusTwoFace
Well, I'd obviously prefer not to be lynched myself.  That doesn't help anyone, least of all me.  Right now, it looks like I'm going to get lynched mostly by inactivity, which really sucks.

Zai, Mephansteras, dirtybirdy, Eduren?  Any of have someone scummy enough to lynch that isn't me?  At least ideas?

Leafsnail / Pandarsenic, I don't think you'll be around before the deadline and it seems like you're leading everyone around anyways.  But if you have anyone other than me you'd like to lynch, I'd like to consider it.
Smacks quite strongly of desperation.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: RedWarrior0 on January 12, 2010, 04:56:25 pm
Excellent game. Now dak, can you run one of these for people who aren't beginners but just plain suck at this game anyway (i.e., me)?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Vector on January 12, 2010, 05:02:54 pm
Excellent game. Now dak, can you run one of these for people who aren't beginners but just plain suck at this game anyway (i.e., me)?

This.  Do it with ICs and stuff, two per side.  I think that one IC works okay for beginner's games, but for an intermediate-level game, you're going to want differing opinions.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: dakarian on January 12, 2010, 05:51:45 pm
Boot Camp mafia :D

I have two ideas in my head about that:

1. a game like Red suggested for the less experienced.

2. 3p Panel Mafia:

3 Players + X number of 'panelists'. The game runs 3 game days and is nightless.

Each day, one person is mafia.  The three debate over who the mafioso is.  They may vote as they like and all that. 

At the end of the day, the person is lynched, but their role isn't flipped.  Instead, it goes to the next day.  A new person is given mafia and the debate starts a new.  This continues until all three have had a chance at being mafia.

Note: declaring that you are/were mafia in any of the days (whether true or false) is a critical rule break.

Meanwhile, the Panelists discuss the game in a QuickTopic.  They try to determine who they believe is mafia in each of the days.  At the end of the third day, they vote on who they thought was town and who was mafia in each of the three days.

You recieve points two ways:

During the days, the townies receive a point if they lynch the mafioso, and the mafioso receives a point if they live.

After the three days, you receive a point each time the panelists mark you town (whether you are town or scum).


The basic idea is to filter everything down to the scumhunt.  No room to act passive.  No roles to mess with.  No free lynches.  It's not even so much about guessing.  The idea is to practice how to be town and find scum (or fake town and accuse others hwen you are scum).

Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Zai on January 12, 2010, 05:58:49 pm
Panel Mafia would benefit from more players; with only 3 players you can't get scum links going (or avoid them), which can be crucial in a regular game. And if the game is all about practice in the first place, then why not have a chance to practice everything (non role related, that is) in it?
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: RedWarrior0 on January 12, 2010, 06:12:38 pm
My God, dakarian, I was thinking of a game similar to that. But in mine, it was less for the experience, more for the "prove to the jury that you're town".

And of course, the jurors would be given their own intentions.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: dakarian on January 12, 2010, 06:22:37 pm
Both ideas can work.  In mine, the panelists work plain and true, so there's no tricks.

If yours do something funky then it's different enough to make a game out of it.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: Pandarsenic on January 12, 2010, 07:35:58 pm
I like Panel Mafia, but it would be better with an actual scumteam. Unfortunately, with 5 people, that's 5!/3! (5 factorial) scumteams.

20 scumteams.

20 days.

Nobody has the patience for 20 days.
Title: Re: Near-Mountainous Mafia: End: KISS me goodbye.
Post by: dakarian on January 12, 2010, 07:59:24 pm
Besides, it's easier to lurk your way through it.  With 3p there's no choice but to get into the fight.  Besides, I wouldn't mind bay 12 being broken out of the scumteam habit ;)