A Wizards True Name - Night 4

[Red Skeezix]

For whom the bell tolls, indeed. Day 4 seemed a sleepy trance like day for the wizards, until the very end. Just as they were preparing for another tie, a black cloud settled over Visorslash's face, and he pointed his hand toward McGinty, and intoned the ancient words. Without McGinty's support, texcat was handily lynched. The wizards faced each other and said, there aren't many of us left. Lets hope we got this right. From visor's mouth erupted a malignant laughter, "You didn't get it right. For it is all over". And the five remaining good wizards were slain in a conference room in new jersey.

Scum Wins!

Spoiler: http://www.quicktopic.com/51/H/pmrGQvXHr4G
Scum Board: http://www.quicktopic.com/51/H/FWwDEVMExhYep

[Giraffe]

I don't know, I'm still pretty sure TexCat is scum.

[Visorslash]

Thanks for the game Red.

My apologies to all players for my lack of activity.

And thanks to my scum team who did all the hard work.

[Giraffe]

Yes, very fun game, Red. Confusing at first (I thought we were cooked by all the investigators), but that made it all the more engaging to try to solve.

[Mrs McGinty]

I enjoyed that.

[Mrs McGinty]

Fucking impossible, though.

[Scáthach]

Oh dear. Town did not cover themselves in glory on that one. I'm also annoyed with myself for not voting Giraffe because it is 100% certain that anyone who posts with great certainty that I am town is always scum (I get myself mislynched a lot).

Good game though Red Skeezix. I liked the name gimmick because it was a nice discussion fodder provider. My only complaint would be that as I thought this was essentially an open game (my assumption from the level of detail posted in the rules thread) I really wasn't seriously considering the possibility that Scum could have known any of the first names until people claimed. Knowing that Scum had that extra knowledge would really have changed how town played this I think.

[Visorslash]

Though if they didn't have any knowledge of that kind, and the names they suggested weren't that similar to the town it would have been unfair for them.

In any case, with the daykill and five scum it was in scums favour even with all the investigations.

At least I can go to sleep now, I've been up since 630. Read the end of the scum qt for a laugh.

[Scáthach]

Originally Posted by Visorslash

Though if they didn't have any knowledge of that kind, and the names they suggested weren't that similar to the town it would have been unfair for them.

In any case, with the daykill and five scum it was in scums favour even with all the investigations.

True. But I think Town should have known that Scum had a pool of names to claim from.

Ironically, I started this game thinking it was bizarrely skewed in favour of Town I guess that should have given me a hint that scum might have been given some extra info.

[Mahaloth]

Wow, that was a total annihilation. Good game, scum.

I can't remember playing in a game where we basically got none of the scum. Town was destroyed.

[TexCat]

LOL. I was actually right with my scum guess for once, though there was one more scum than I had thought.

[Giraffe]

The name claims definitely muddied the waters for Town, but having two Town players bobble their name claims made it a near certainty for scum. We effectively got two of the four lynches handed to us. The first was a tie and the last one we had a near majority.

[Mrs McGinty]

Lightfoot fooled me best. I was totally sold.

[Scáthach]

Originally Posted by TexCat

LOL. I was actually right with my scum guess for once, though there was one more scum than I had thought.

You know the sad thing is, I didn't even really think you were scum - it was just Occam's Razor at that point

[Scáthach]

Originally Posted by Mrs McGinty

Lightfoot fooled me best. I was totally sold.

Buftabby for me - I was genuinely baffled as to why TexCat (even as scum) could possibly have thought it was a good idea to have her down as scum in her swansong post. Largely because of my stupid assumption that scum didn't know any first names

[bufftabby]

AHAHAHAHAHA it turns out that my name really was Ark. TOLD YOU SO.

[Mrs McGinty]

A Wizard's True Name: the value of mutual trust in group decision making.

Could be a thesis.

[TexCat]

Wow, yep, incredibly good game scum!

[bufftabby]

Peeker and I once played on a scum team that took no hits, and won with some last-minute voting shenanigans (by yours truly). I hope he has GiraffeBoard access in the afterlife; he would have enjoyed seeing this.

[Scáthach]

Originally Posted by bufftabby

Peeker and I once played on a scum team that took no hits, and won with some last-minute voting shenanigans (by yours truly). I hope he has GiraffeBoard access in the afterlife; he would have enjoyed seeing this.

It's funny isn't it - it's nice to win as Town and all, but real satisfaction comes with winning as scum and completely fooling people

[LightFoot]

Visor had too much fun making us crazy in the last seconds

I did want Town to get one to rebalance the game- sort of

[Scáthach]

Btw, how many mafia players are still around? I really want to do a rehash of Gaderene's mysery mafia (everyone knows their alignment but not their role, they must figure out their role via the results of their night action), but frankly you need a lot of players for that to be any fun....

[LightFoot]

Originally Posted by Scáthach

Btw, how many mafia players are still around? I really want to do a rehash of Gaderene's mysery mafia (everyone knows their alignment but not their role, they must figure out their role via the results of their night action), but frankly you need a lot of players for that to be any fun....

if it can be pared down great but getting large turn out is tough these days

[Colby11]

I disliked the reactions I got from this game. I was attempting to make things hard for scum to figure out.

But in the end, all was lost.

Good job town, way to be bleeping idiots... Like the people that I work for

[Giraffe]

Originally Posted by Colby11

I disliked the reactions I got from this game. I was attempting to make things hard for scum to figure out.

But in the end, all was lost.

Good job town, way to be bleeping idiots... Like the people that I work for

Sorry, Colby. We scum knew you'd just had a moment of confusion / obfuscation, but of course happily exploited it.

[LightFoot]

Originally Posted by Giraffe

Sorry, Colby. We scum knew you'd just had a moment of confusion / obfuscation, but of course happily exploited it.

and as I noted on the scum board- Town lynched Colby

[Swammerdami]

Great new game design by Red Skeezix !

Outstanding play by Scum !

Originally Posted by Mrs McGinty

A Wizard's True Name: the value of mutual trust in group decision making.

Could be a thesis.

Yes, I think it's anti-Town not to go along with a plan agreed by Town majority. Here it led to two misLynches from which Town could not recover.

[gnarlycharlie]

i'm surprised that there were more scum than i expected. not surprised that Lightfoot, bufftabby and SisterCoyote were scum. the latter two just tried too hard to make my lack of a scan a big deal while conveniently forgetting guiri's claim that i knew my first name.

thanks for the game, Red.

[guiri]

Well played scum.

Thanks for a good game Red!

[LightFoot]

Originally Posted by gnarlycharlie

i'm surprised that there were more scum than i expected. not surprised that Lightfoot, bufftabby and SisterCoyote were scum. the latter two just tried too hard to make my lack of a scan a big deal while conveniently forgetting guiri's claim that i knew my first name.

thanks for the game, Red.

you always think I am Scum
but that knife cuts both ways

Town forgets more than scum does so what was your particular tripper?
or was it just because it was you being questioned and you knew you were Town?

[SisterCoyote]

I would just like to note for the record that when Bill came up "Ito Freehold" I figured I was also "Ito Freehold" but it was too damn late as I'd already set up the Ark by then.

Someone set me up the ark!

Great game.

[SisterCoyote]

Originally Posted by gnarlycharlie

i'm surprised that there were more scum than i expected. not surprised that Lightfoot, bufftabby and SisterCoyote were scum. the latter two just tried too hard to make my lack of a scan a big deal while conveniently forgetting guiri's claim that i knew my first name.

thanks for the game, Red.

You realize I would have been after you for that as Town, too, right?

[gnarlycharlie]

Originally Posted by SisterCoyote

You realize I would have been after you for that as Town, too, right?

if you were town you would remember how guiri and i successfully handshaked (shook) on N1.

[TexCat]

The funny thing is...scum like SisC knew the handshake was worthless because they had a list of all the names. They could handshake just like us.