[ENDGAME] Triskaidekaphobia Mafia

#1301

I guess the jist of what I'm seeing is... That SVS isn't John Cavil this time.

#1302

Missing: rabbit8

#1303

Night 4: Toothsome, Part 2

Bearing in mind the booming body count and the burning sense of paranoia they were feeling beaten by, the group was now backsliding into bouts of banter, botheration and blaming. Equally bitter they felt about the police chief having broken off any questioning for a while now and making a bad progress with profiling the remaining baddies - even worse was to hear his faulty, thought they, reasoning that, since everyone was accounted for in the cells, none of them could be blamable for this third victim's - *insert his name here* - butchering. So they bunched up once more inside the police station and inadvertently launched into a bowl of speculations.

'Best thing we can do', Jay took the initiative, 'is to profile ourselves and get to the bottom of it, via process of elimination.'
'Beginning with you', Epignosis snapped.
'But I already told you, I'm entirely trustworthy', Jay answered back, 'my credentials are solid.'
'Boy, don't start with that all over again', Epignosis said. 'We don't trust anyone. I don't trust anyone.'
'Barking up the wrong tree, I see', Jay rolled his eyes. 'We should clearly test each other again, Dr. Halloway made it clear that the bad seeds would not withstand the evaluation.'
'Baptism by fire!' shouted Quin.
'Been there, done that!' Epignosis emphasized, 'It. Does not. Work'
'Bring it on, then', Jay got slightly brassier. 'What's your phobia?'
'Bah', Epignosis dismissed it.
'Better tell us something or...’ SVS cautioned.
'Bah', Epignosis repeated.
'But didn't your wife falsify her forms by filling in your details?' Spacedaisy asked 'Think I heard Dr. Halloway talk about it with his secretary, after Elohcin was arrested. She must have written something, to fake it. What is it, then?'
'Bugs or something', Epignosis shrugged. 'No biggie.'
'By God!' Scotty rudely intervened, 'could you stop it with this endless, pointless exchange and figure something else out? I want to go home already.'
'What's the rush?' Jay inquired.
'I don't feel so well', Scotty explained, looking indeed slightly troubled as he was holding his hands around his stomach.
'Wait, aren't you the person who came to tell us that dead guy from outside disappeared?' Epignosis recalled.
'Yeah, probs, why's that?' Scotty asked.
'Well, maybe you had something to do with it', Epignosis pressed.
'Com'on, that's rich', grimaced Scotty, although you couldn't tell for sure if it was because of the accusation or because he was starting to feel real indisposed.
'You didn't interact too much with Elohcin back at the Center, did you?' Jay got on board and interrogated Scotty further.
'Why, I hardly knew the lady', Scotty rebutted.
'Almost as if... acting independent from her... and us', G-Man started piecing things togheter.
'Guys, really, com'o- ugh!' Scotty complained, only to suddenly be shaken up by a spasm.
'What's wrong with you?!' SVS got spooked.
'I feel there's... I hav-', Scotty struggled to speak, 'I have to go, I have a flight to catch.'
'A flight?' Epignosis frowned. 'I thought you said you had to go home.'
'Uh.'
'Tell us your phobia, right this instance', Jay demanded.
'No. It'll sound weird.'
'Speak, now', Jay reiterated.
'Guys, pleeaase', Scotty's spasms worsened.
'He's an accomplice, he's got nothing!' Quin exclaimed.
'You just wouldn't believe me anyway, it's so fucking weird', Scotty wailed.
'Tell us', Spacedaisy urged him.
'I... I have a recurring fear that the undigested food in my belly will become sentient, staging a coup and ripping through my gut to freedom.'
'You... what?!' the crowd shrieked.
'My entrails would spill out and I'd die of blood loss', Scotty kept babbling.
'Balderdash!' Epignosis shouted, jumping to his feet.
'Oh heck', was the last Scotty could utter, before being tackled by several of the men.

Meanwhile, Lt. Sock troubled the police chief with some information.

'Boss.'
'Busy', the Chief ignored him.
'Hey, boss.'
'Busy, I said!’ the Chief's temper blew up. 'What!' he indulged him nonetheless.
'Forensics sent us the report on that victim from the VR Center basement.'
'And?' the Chief pressed him to tell the important stuff.
'It said a lot of the victim's denture is missing from the scene.'
'Well, duh, he got cleaned off of them, didn't he?' the Chief mocked him.
'No, I mean missing. Not found.'

Before the Chief could snap out of his puzzlement and reply further, both he and Lt. Sock were startled by the noises and struggles coming from the group, as they were pinning Scotty on a table and beating him up. But then they halted and leaped back from the table, as Scotty's groan reached an inhuman intensity and his face screwed into mask of agony.

'It hurts! It hurts so bad!’ he yelled.
'What hurts?’ the Host asked, making his way through.
'Ohmygooaaaahh!!’ he howled.
'What the fuck, dude', someone shouted, 'your shirt!'

A red stain and then a smear of blood blossomed from below Scotty's chest, ripping apart through the fabric of his shirt. A small alien form, the size of an abnormal, overgrown tooth, burst through, splattering fluids and blood on everyone, and wriggled away out of Scotty's chest.

Scotty, an automatonocibophobe*, has been lynched.
He was Patient 4, vanilla mafia.
Oh, it is now Night 4. You have 24 hours to send me any PM actions.

*ad lib: fear of food turning sentient inside his stomatch

#1304

That'll do.

#1305

Cool beans. I think we can shut this down in short order.

#1306

Hi. I left my vote on a multiple of 4 and nothing bad appears to have happened.

Well, we did get a night poll.

#1307

I am not good at mafia.

#1308

Counting posts is for bitches.

#1309

Brilliant choice to not lynch me! That in no way resembles the information I got from my Scotty peek though. I'll check with the host to see if I can reveal what I learned now that we know who Scotty really was. I glad I was right about him back on Day 1. Too bad my peek on him caused me to reconsider.

So what's the working theory now? Who should Wilgy jail and who should I check? If either of us guess right, it ends tomorrow. I'll pop in before the wedding to PM my peek choice.

4.01.N

#1310

G-Man wrote:Brilliant choice to not lynch me! That in no way resembles the information I got from my Scotty peek though. I'll check with the host to see if I can reveal what I learned now that we know who Scotty really was. I glad I was right about him back on Day 1. Too bad my peek on him caused me to reconsider.

So what's the working theory now? Who should Wilgy jail and who should I check? If either of us guess right, it ends tomorrow. I'll pop in before the wedding to PM my peek choice.

4.01.N

If you are the cop, I would surmise that you are likely not sane, given that all three power roles have been reported.

#1311

Nailing Scotty here as we did after a night phase with no kill should buy us another mislynch if the need arises. We're at 7 non-mafia versus 1 mafia now in all likelihood. After the night it'll either still be 7:1 or down to 6:1. Both allow for two mislynches before a LyLo phase. We also can now confirm that G-Man and Wilgy cannot both be bad no matter what, so at least one of them has been honest in his roleclaim (potentially both).

If I'm right and we have three opportunities to catch the final baddie, I think it'd be prudent for us to offer our top three suspects or more if you like. I think these are the baddie candidates, starting with the most likely:

S~V~S
rabbit8
Spacedaisy

The most viable alternative to those three is G-Man himself, who I feel only makes any sense as a baddie if Scotty is his team mate (a scenario that is now half-constructed). I don't think he's our guy, but I'll acknowledge that he's at least a logically valid option.

I don't think Epignosis kills Polo instead of G-Man or someone else more threatening. If Quin is bad we're probably going to lose because I see no good reason to lynch him.

#1312

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Nailing Scotty here as we did after a night phase with no kill should buy us another mislynch if the need arises. We're at 7 non-mafia versus 1 mafia now in all likelihood. After the night it'll either still be 7:1 or down to 6:1. Both allow for two mislynches before a LyLo phase. We also can now confirm that G-Man and Wilgy cannot both be bad no matter what, so at least one of them has been honest in his roleclaim (potentially both).

If I'm right and we have three opportunities to catch the final baddie, I think it'd be prudent for us to offer our top three suspects or more if you like. I think these are the baddie candidates, starting with the most likely:

S~V~S
rabbit8
Spacedaisy

The most viable alternative to those three is G-Man himself, who I feel only makes any sense as a baddie if Scotty is his team mate (a scenario that is now half-constructed). I don't think he's our guy, but I'll acknowledge that he's at least a logically valid option.

I don't think Epignosis kills Polo instead of G-Man or someone else more threatening. If Quin is bad we're probably going to lose because I see no good reason to lynch him.

I wish so badly that I was bad, because if I was then this would be my proudest and best mafia game in my mafia history ever. But alas, I am civ. And I suck.

I could vote Spacedaisy tomorrow. She claimed indy as a way of discrediting G-Man's peek of Scotty. To be frank, I don't think there are indies in the game at all.

I don't think SVS is bad.
And I've had enough of the rabbit memes.

#1313

Please note that, for once, the poll might not be entirely banter.

#1314

Back for a minute to strategize. I tried to check SVS night 3, so I can't check her again tonight. Figure out the consensus top two and Wilgy can jail one and I can check the other. Or does it make sense for Wilgy to jail himself?

4.02.N

#1315

G-Man wrote:Back for a minute to strategize. I tried to check SVS night 3, so I can't check her again tonight. Figure out the consensus top two and Wilgy can jail one and I can check the other. Or does it make sense for Wilgy to jail himself?

4.02.N

S~V~S and rabbit.

#1316

I'm jailin myself. It'll force mafia to clean out people who aren't confirmed and it will let me keep you alive at least 1 more turn.

#1317

Scotty/DrWilgy interaction:

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I think Wilgy was half-kidding in his caps lock "KNOW" declaration because of something I'd said earlier in the game. Scotty opting to say anything about it like it was serious looks like non-team mate behavior to me.

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So does this. Scotty is poking into minor details to try to provide a reason to throw shade at Wilgy.

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Scotty was scurred of our fake peek nonsense (Wilgy and I) and "strongly suggested curtailing it).

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Cop hunting.

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Using Wilgy's jailor claim to crap on G-Man. I think this makes both of them look better.

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A bit vague in Wilgy fashion.

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Response to Scotty's comparison to the Arrested Development game.

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Idle chatter about the fake peeks.

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A little anti-Scotty sentiment.

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He puts Scotty at the back of the lynch priority list which isn't super great.

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Overall I think they're not team mates. Scotty's posts indicate that to me more strongly than Wilgy's posts make me question it.

#1318

Scotty/Epignosis interaction:

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Day 1, Scotty fishing for clues about Epi's suspicion of him.

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He provides commentary on Epi but not really a "read". That's not the most ideal thing. I could see his acceptance of Epi's suspicion as being an attempt to calm the aggressor's motivation to go after him though.

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This question really doesn't serve a purpose.

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Scotty drew up this rather arbitrary hypothetical team pairing Epignosis with G-Man.

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Epi was unimpressed with Scotty's reluctance to engage Day 1 with any bravery.

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Earlier in the game I asserted there could be some potential for an Epignosis/Scotty team given his Day 1 vote going to INH (who I felt was always less likely to be lynched even if at the time neither had votes). I am no longer inclined to follow this thread, but I'll put it here again for the sake of thoroughness.

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He maintained his suspicion of Scotty through his spat with me.

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Epi references Scotty's rejection of the independent peek to cast suspicion upon G-Man. There is some potential for coordination between he and Scotty on this one I think.

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Epi was the first to vote Scotty while the larger wagons were on G-Man and S~V~S. He did this knowing I would be likely to join his vote, so I think that's a good look.

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There are a couple small reasons to wonder about Epignosis, but they aren't conclusive. I'm inclined to judge him based on other factors, which at the moment lead me to a civilian read.

#1319

Scotty/G-Man interaction:

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This was in response to S~V~S agreeing with my initial suspicion of Scotty for suggesting I invited a self lynch. Scotty rather laboriously listed all three of these names in this post and I'm not sure what that indicates. He felt like he had to say them all.

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Scotty takes a light accusation from G-Man and kind of jokes around with it, which isn't great. He does ask G-Man to take a current stance on him though, which isn't always typical of team mate behavior. It's bold to ask one's team mate to conclusively state their perspective of you, because it puts pressure on them.

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This bit is probably the most interesting this interaction. If they're not team mates, then G-Man presenting an independent peek on Scotty (which we now know was incorrect) poses a challenging problem for Scotty -- does he refute that peek outright and attack G-Man for "lying", or does he shrink back and just play defense? This post here, and particularly the highlighted portion, look to me like a player who wasn't sure how to deal with G-Man's peek until the Elohcin red peek and her confession gave him an avenue. He didn't outright attack G-Man, at least not until later in the game, and instead he was pretty collected about it. This is what I would expect from a baddie talking to a non-team mate, especially when it's a claimed cop who just exposed his true team mate. Attacking that civilian would be playing with fire and I don't think Scotty wanted to take the risk -- not until Wilgy's jailer claim gave him a way to do so.

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He's still favoring the "tomfoolery" explanation instead of the "G-Man is bad" explanation.

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Encouraging the notion that G-Man should be lynched if he isn't night killed. This might lend credence to the notion that the baddies abstained from a kill, but that theory is also probably unnecessary with Wilgy's claim in play.

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He is starting to push a little harder against G-Man, but still respecting both sides of the discussion. He either "got lucky" or it was a "big red bus". Scotty is trying to subtly promote the growing anti-G-Man sentiment in the thread without ever committing fully to it. It's hard as a baddie to commit to the lynch of a known cop. That'll get anyone in trouble.

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Again. Trying to edge the thread in the anti-G-Man direction, but always with a caveat (highlighted). I think this kept happening because Scotty realized he needed G-Man to be viewed as suspicious, but it was hard to promote that agenda without being illogical.

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He jumped at the opportunity when Wilgy's half-false jailer claim provided a way to implicate G-Man. At the time, the most likely lynches were G-Man himself and S~V~S. Like I said in the Wilgy write-up, I think this is a good look for both Wilgy and G-Man. It is also a bad look for S~V~S.

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G-Man joined S~V~S and I in casting suspicion upon Scotty for the first post in this quote sequence.

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I'm not alarmed by this positive interaction.

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I do sometimes see this generic "please tell me more about why you suspect my team mate, mister townie" thing, so there's that.

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G-Man provides one positive observation of Scotty but still seems to arrive at a net-negative read, even if slightly.

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GTH bad read on Day 1 (if S~V~S is bad he was 3 for 3 on Day 1). I am hesitant to believe that G-Man would isolate his only two team mates (Scotty and Elohcin here) as mafia reads on Day 1, especially when he provides only three mafia reads overall. Good look.

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He pressed me for a vote for either Scotty or S~V~S on Day 1. Nice look.

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This was in response to S~V~S asking G-Man why he voted for her instead of Scotty. He doubled down on his suspicion of Scotty and tried to get S~V~S against him too. The good looks continue.

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On Day 2 he eased up a little bit against Scotty, but still suggested Elohcin was his preferred alternative to lynching me.

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Original post in which G-Man reveals his independent peek on Scotty.

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If there's anything that concerns me about G-Man, it's that he didn't really react much to Scotty rejecting his peek. I'd expect that to develop into a more active conversation between those two than it did.

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His explanation for his decision to peek Scotty on Night 1 is consistent with his words on Day 1.

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G-Man's response to my assertion that Scotty might actually be mafia instead of civilian or independent based on Elohcin's role description. Whether I was right about Scotty being the player named to Elohcin is less important than his alignment. G-Man was hesitant to adopt this mindset, but primarily because of that Elohcin-specific theory. He seemed to trust his peek despite Scotty's protests.

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It'd be good to know if anything has come from this, G-Man.

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There are some iffy moments after his independent peek on Scotty. I do think though that the evidence in his favor is strong enough for me to discard that stuff without worrying about it much. I still feel fine about G-Man.

#1320

Scotty/Quin interaction:

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Inconsequential Day 0 banter.

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"But Quin, I was counting on you to help me mislynch Polo! It was supposed to be easy to mislynch Polo!"

Good look.

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He offers a two-sided take on Scotty early in the game.

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I'm not sure why he felt like he could justify reading Scotty at "good" at this point.

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He was interested in Epi's suspicion of Scotty but not INH.

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I don't know what this read is.

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GTH civilian read on Day 2 (Elohcin also civilian).

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Quin did spend some energy standing up for Scotty when I was suggesting he might be an anti-town independent and later a mafioso.

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Eventually Quin took the stance that Scotty is not independent, but he never seemed to progression that assertion into "Scotty is bad".

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This doesn't make Quin look like a glistening model of town muscle and grit. There are some issues. It comes down to deciding whether Quin was guilty of being wrong or guilty of being [/i]guilty[/i]. I'm still inclined to lean toward the former, but there's more potential for a bad Quin here than I expected to find.

The best look for him is Scotty's attempts to mislynch Polo and his indignation when he lost Quin's support on that.

#1321

Back again between the wedding and reception. I was told that I could not say the name I was given for Scotty directly. Lucky for me, I snuck it into one of my posts in a manner of speaking. Looks for my post with the

in it. I had hoped to draw a reaction out of Scotty with it but I understand why he didn't, knowing now that my peek was wrong.

Gotta jet. Reception in 20 minutes!

4.03.N

#1322

Scotty/rabbit8 interaction:

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The topic of the conversation is rather inconsequential (whether independents are allowed in Heist games). I somewhat appreciate rabbit's line of questioning though.

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Did Scotty stick his two team mates together in this sentence? This is probably a good moment to read rabbit -- usually this is one and one, not two baddies. He also kind of scapegoated rabbit for the Vomps vote.

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Answer to the question about the Vomps vote.

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Scotty was one of his three named suspects on Day 4.

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The content is limited, but I do think the stuff we have here is a nice look for rabbit. *Quin's head explodes*

#1323

I was waiting for my supertowning reputation in this game to crumble once you got to me.

I also town read Elohcin consistently. Call it a WIFOM, but town-reading both my teammates if I was bad in the way I did seems self-destructive.

I'm bad, but not alignment wise. I just suck.

#1324

G-Man wrote:Back again between the wedding and reception. I was told that I could not say the name I was given for Scotty directly. Lucky for me, I snuck it into one of my posts in a manner of speaking. Looks for my post with the in it. I had hoped to draw a reaction out of Scotty with it but I understand why he didn't, knowing now that my peek was wrong.

Gotta jet. Reception in 20 minutes!

Could someone else please find the post G-Man is referring to? I need to finish these analyses.

#1325

I already did the Scotty/S~V~S interaction.

Despite her self-vote antics last night, I still think she is a high-probability team mate of Scotty and Elohcin.

#1326

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
G-Man wrote:Back again between the wedding and reception. I was told that I could not say the name I was given for Scotty directly. Lucky for me, I snuck it into one of my posts in a manner of speaking. Looks for my post with the in it. I had hoped to draw a reaction out of Scotty with it but I understand why he didn't, knowing now that my peek was wrong.

Gotta jet. Reception in 20 minutes!
Could someone else please find the post G-Man is referring to? I need to finish these analyses.

I'm looking, but I can't find it.

#1327

G-Man wrote:Bummer sig. Rest in peace.

My GTH reads need adjusting now. I must contemplate.

2.01

linki: you show me your peek and I'll show you mine

Here.

#1328

Scotty/Spacedaisy interaction:

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When Scotty suggested I "invited a self-lynch", he was sort of piggy-backing a point first made by Daisy. I think Scotty was trying to be opportunistic and it was a transparent mistake -- the perceived "opportunity" existed because SD said it first. I generally find that baddies are more likely to piggy back civilians/people not on their team, because it associates them falsely and can garner trust/facilitate pocketing.

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Similar vague half-scapegoating as he did with rabbit. The same can be said of S~V~S.

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White knighting for SD when I was willing to lynch her and not Polo. Nice look.

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This came before Daisy claimed indy herself, which supports the claim.

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Thoroughly confused by the shenanigans from Wilgy and I.

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It was Daisy's vote that killed Scotty. She could have gone for G-Man or S~V~S instead. Nice look.

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I'm most inclined to believe Daisy's indy claim, especially with Scotty confirmed as not indy.

#1329

After all that I still think S~V~S is the most suspicious by a pretty wide margin. If anyone disagrees with that, please say so and say why. Time is limited and anyone might be dead shortly.

#1330

Scotty is the Agent of Fortune?

#1331

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:After all that I still think S~V~S is the most suspicious by a pretty wide margin. If anyone disagrees with that, please say so and say why. Time is limited and anyone might be dead shortly.

After this game, we can have a long talk about how you read me and personal bias re game style IF you are a civ this game. And I don't want to hear about how I am a crap civ becasue my standards of civ behavior aren't yours. That post about how I was marching to my own drummer, I meant that.

#1332

I have gone back over Gman's posts because I am trying to ascertain if somehow his check got redirected. I believe he may have received my role name instead. I cannot divulge it, clearly. Earlier I was willing to be lynched because I did not feel I deserved a win, but my concern me is that the numbers may be getting a little grim. I can't stop you from voting for me, but it wouldn't be in the civs best interest because I can win with anyone and it would waste a lynch.

#1333

S~V~S wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:After all that I still think S~V~S is the most suspicious by a pretty wide margin. If anyone disagrees with that, please say so and say why. Time is limited and anyone might be dead shortly.
After this game, we can have a long talk about how you read me and personal bias re game style IF you are a civ this game. And I don't want to hear about how I am a crap civ becasue my standards of civ behavior aren't yours. That post about how I was marching to my own drummer, I meant that.

There are a bunch of people in this game who play nothing like I play that I do not suspect. I suspect you.

How you play is not the variable of interest. How your interactions look with confirmed mafia is of interest. I could be wrong, it happens at least once in every game. But this stuff you're telling me does not help me to read you.

#1334

My top suspect is indeed S~V~S. The attempt to lynch G-Man looked like a Hail Mary rather than an honest attempt to sort out who is good and who is bad.

#1335

14 posts

#1336

Thanks.

#1337

Day 5: That's Going to Sting

They were done.

No more of this swirling madness of strange therapy, virtual immersions, fearsome experiences, creepy murders, worrisome disappearences and sinister returns, police force incompetence and now voodoo alien magic could they suffer through in one ceaseless adventure. They all mutually agreed to take off, each their own separate ways, and never speak of this ever again. The police Chief himself didn't really object to releasing them, since there were no current leads on the assassins and there was also the issue of how to handle a corpse ravaged by ingested beings inside their bloody old station.

The group was aware that one more scoundrel was probably still lurking among them, but they considered what had happened to Elohcin and Scotty as a sign that they were vigilent enough and that the remaining scum was too reluctant to act on his own anymore. They also deviced an ingenious method for each one of them to leave separately, roughly 15 minutes apart from each other, either on their own or driven with the help of a police car or a taxi, as to make sure no one would be followed.

Therefore, after a couple of hours, only the Host remained in custody, since he still had to respond for the murders that had happened in his building, during his crazy experimenting. Still, Mrs. Julie arrived shortly after to bail him out, at least until further prosecution. They head out back to the Center, intent to shut down the entire VR project and hand over all the research material and profile evidence to the police. Yet their own naiveté in believing that things would be so simple surfaced as soon as they walked inside the building, only to find their offices raided and the few members of the medical staff that were on duty beaten unconscious or tied up and screaming. The rest was as they feared: the VR devices stolen, the forms of all 13 patients ripped from the contact sheets.

They were not done.

***

Jay arrived home some time after midnight, feeling exhausted. He had no strength left to process the events that happened and the interactions established in that group, despite doing so in his head even on the way home, after departing from the whole scene. He dragged himself through the darkness of his condo and crashed in bed right away. The following morning, he didn't like the sound of the apartment buzzer waking him up, along with heavy, incessant thumps in the door, but shortly after regaining his senses a bit, he thought it could be the police or someone from work. For a moment, he even considered that it could be the last attacker. He fearfully approached the door, trying not to make any sound that could be detected from the outside.

But what a surprise, it was only a few close friends. They came to bother him with gifts and loud cheering mood, since it had been his birthday the other day, but they couldn't find him, nor reach him on the cell - he did check later and saw that he indeed had 121 missed calls. One of the gifts was wrapped in a box and, to his great delight, inside was a frisbee. A Brodie Smith Darkhorse Ultra-Star, in fact. It was still early before noon, so his friends invited him to head out and make the party more eventful.

The summery, slightly breezy weather the perfect occasion for Jay and his friends to head out to the park and spread out for a game of Ultimate Frisbee. Intense, fast-paced, strategic and uniquely anarchic, for Jay it was like nothing else. And if there's something that trumps almost any other activity for Jay, besides ping-pong, it was playing Ultimate Frisbee. They set out in two teams and were ten gripping minutes in, when Jay, flanked by two opponents, executed a twist dribbling to evade past them, but then, as he was set to make a pass, he slightly lost his balance and sent the frisbee flying high into the trees nearby.

'My bad', Jay waved at the others and proceeded to go retrieve the disc. He got blinded by the sun a bit, as he tripped whilst throwing, so he didn't quite make where the frisbee had landed. After searching for a few minutes inside the tree area, he spotted the black object close to a big, lush tree it probably ricocheted off. The frisbee had also landed past a ditch, which was too stretched out to go around and slightly too big to jump past it as well, but Jay figured he could have easily take a step forward to lean, putting his foot over the branches, leaves, moss and plastic bottles covering that side of th-

'Oh my heck!' he got spooked by the sight of the wasps' nest inside the ditch. 'Jeeeesus jimminy jumping jimsock jujus! I almost stepped in it. The frisbee must have knocked the nest from the tree and it rolled down here. Phew, good thing I spotted it. That would have been the absolute worst.'

He didn't spot in time, however, the cloaked figure that showed up from behind another tree and gunned him down with fléchettes.

JaggedJimmyJay, a cnidophobe*, has been killed.
He was Patient 5, vanilla civilian.
It is now Day 5. You have 48 hours to lynch someone.
A role has been revealed.

*approx.: fear of flying insect stings

#1338

#1339

I don't approve.

Now I have to do all the damn work.

#1340

I voted S~V~S for now.

#1341

Patient 6 | Paranoid cop (stylised, odds). Every Night, can check a player to determine his alignment, but there is a 10% chance he will get a distorted read (a random role from a different faction) compared to the actual alignment. Odds will worsen (increase) with each civilian death during the game, maxing at 60%, yet improve (decrease) for every mafia death. Receives one free ID on another civilian at the end of D0, but it too will fall within the 10% chance of being a distorted read. The cop will not be self-aware of his sanity during the game - receives a role card that informs him of traditional cop duties, but with a slight questioning of this fact.

Here, G-Man.

Well, at least I was right about something.

#1342

That clears spacedaisy.

#1343

Quin wrote:Patient 6 | Paranoid cop (stylised, odds). Every Night, can check a player to determine his alignment, but there is a 10% chance he will get a distorted read (a random role from a different faction) compared to the actual alignment. Odds will worsen (increase) with each civilian death during the game, maxing at 60%, yet improve (decrease) for every mafia death. Receives one free ID on another civilian at the end of D0, but it too will fall within the 10% chance of being a distorted read. The cop will not be self-aware of his sanity during the game - receives a role card that informs him of traditional cop duties, but with a slight questioning of this fact.

Here, G-Man.

Well, at least I was right about something.

This reads to me as though when the cop gets a distorted peek, he gets a peek of an existing role in the game, not a made up one. With that, I think I can believe SD's indy claim now.

#1344

There's a 70% chance that your read was accurate last night, G-Man. Assuming that each death improves or worsens in increments of 10%

#1345

Bring this game to an end. Kill da wabbit.

5.01

#1346

AWWWWW YEAHHHHHHHHHH

#1347

If this is true my ability to read svs is still somewhat good. This makes me happy.

Maybe we shoulda lynched rabbit when he said he was bad... He did kinda give up earlier.

#1348

I've moved my vote.

#1349

Voting rabbit for obvious reasons.

#1350

Before we assume this game is over, I have a question for the host- does my (the cop's) insanity get worse with each civvie lynch or each civvie death (lynch and NK)?

I totally posted my peek without reading what Quin posted about my real role card.

5.02