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Old 13th April 2023, 07:56 PM
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I don’t expect to have a long life here. I do hope it isn’t a lynch though

1:2 and 1:18 with super majority in play multi-vote would be a grand circus- don’tcha think?

Pleo and Plum are pingy at this time.
I disagree about Plum.
Do you still?
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Old 12th April 2023, 05:59 AM
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1:2 and 1:18 with super majority in play multi-vote would be a grand circus- don’tcha think?
I can't parse this at all.

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Pleo and Plum are pingy at this time.
I'll take that as a complement.
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Old 12th April 2023, 07:47 AM
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1:2 and 1:18 with super majority in play multi-vote would be a grand circus- don’tcha think?
I can't parse this at all.
Day and post # or what I said?

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Pleo and Plum are pingy at this time.
I'll take that as a complement. [/QUOTE] As you wish
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Old 12th April 2023, 07:59 AM
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I can't parse this at all.
Day and post # or what I said?
Ah, I couldn't parse the numbers as Day and Post. I thought you were computing some weird odds.
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Old 12th April 2023, 03:50 AM
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67 posts parsed, 10 voting actions found.

Cut and paste this into your thread to create a nice pretty vote count:

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Kaiveran (1): Mahaloth (22)
Mahaloth (1): Plumpudding (15)[30], Kaiveran (17)
Vanta Black (1): guiri (65)
Lightfoot (0): Plumpudding (38)[66]
Mendie Taoma (0): Plumpudding (32)[37]
If you want, you can paste this as well:

Voting History:
post #15: Plumpudding voted Mahaloth
post #17: Kaiveran voted Mahaloth
post #22: Mahaloth voted Kaiveran
post #30: Plumpudding unvoted Mahaloth
post #32: Plumpudding voted Mendie Taoma
post #37: Plumpudding unvoted Mendie Taoma
post #38: Plumpudding voted Lightfoot
post #44: Plumpudding illegally voted Sea Serpent
post #65: guiri voted Vanta Black
post #66: Plumpudding unvoted All

And here's a direct link to this page:

compute vote count for Day X
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Old 12th April 2023, 05:26 AM
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I have a ping on LighFoot. Not sure why, but then again that's pretty common. Something about the "looks like I won't survive long" thing.

Kaiveran kinda pings me because of lazy vote on Maha, piggybacking mine, plus some cuddling and stuff.

Sea Serpent pings me.
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Old 12th April 2023, 07:45 AM
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I have a ping on LighFoot. Not sure why, but then again that's pretty common. Something about the "looks like I won't survive long" thing.

~.
My track record for survival has not been great of late. Didn't make it long last game.
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Old 12th April 2023, 10:42 AM
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Sea Serpent pings me.
I did no such thing.
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Old 12th April 2023, 11:56 AM
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Sea Serpent pings me.
I did no such thing.
You made me chuckle right there
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Sea Serpent pings me.
I did no such thing.
I made myself feel pinged by Sea serpent.
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Old 12th April 2023, 05:35 PM
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I did no such thing.
I made myself feel pinged by Sea serpent.
I didn't ping you. Whether you imagined a ping or made the whole thing up is still to be determined.
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Old 12th April 2023, 04:19 PM
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Old 12th April 2023, 10:29 PM
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Okay, I've think'ing a bit: What if town and scum just make up their differences and then ascend?! To what, you ask? GODHOOD! IMAGAAAAD! #mafiasolved
It has happened before, y'know.

Unsure if our noble host the Mightiest of Quinns will tolerate such shenanigans, though.

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I've soft-claimed btw-
Currently too tired/lazy to look into this. Generally not a good idea though. In vino terribilus decisionis. (I don't know that much Latin, okay)

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Well this started faster than I anticipated.
I just spent a week having a pity party and ignoring the world- after [ IRL crap I will let you know Tonight]

Not much to go from so far with joking and drinking.

Naked votes and such.

We have until Friday to sort ourselves out for a true candidate.
I am of a mind that some of the odd exchanges are just banter. It bears attention to which are discarded and which were 'serious'
Oh hey, there you are. It just occured to me I shouldn't jump into people's menchies until I'm actually caught up with the thread. My b.

That said, I'd appreciate some of your own takes on this.

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I don’t expect to have a long life here. I do hope it isn’t a lynch though

1:2 and 1:18 with super majority in play multi-vote would be a grand circus- don’tcha think?

Pleo and Plum are pingy at this time.
Agree on Pleo, disagree (slightly) on Plum.

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Namesake beer is this Although it does not look particularly cheap. Who would have thought?


Serious vote.
Why, just because he's Rushin'?

Or is this some super secret special reaction test that I'm ruining?

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I’m supportive of stating my second vote preference - it’s pretty common to state who else you’d be willing to execute, but unsure about the last part of Pleo’s suggestion… is it that we should change our vote to pile onto the generally most suspected player, even if they’re not our first preference?
Never vote for anyone you don't think is Scum. But we know there are two Scum. It's better to be voting for your second choice of Scum then to let someone you don't think is Scum get executed because you were voting for your first choice.

(Multi-voting makes this process easier to do.)
Yep, this is pretty much what I surmised in my previous post. Still strikes me as kinda LAMIST though.

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I'm looking through the chances of multiple scenarios. Too much math to post here, but our overall chances of winning is roughly one-third, assuming optimal play by all players. Mostly likely play-out of the game is we execute two Townies in the first two Days, investigator reveals a scum on Day Three, and we have 2 Town vs 1 Scum on Day Four. That's basically a 50-50 shot at that point.

We're basically in end-game right now, but without the accumulation of information from earlier parts in the game. Small games are inherently difficult to balance.

Having multi-vote would help us out. Even if we can't officially do it, we can still state who our second vote would be. However we do it, we need to vote off players that most Townies think should be voted off. That is, allowing scum to affect our vote is especially bad (since we're at end game).
1. "" Too much math to post here "" == Pleonast is asking for trust and faith, and to be followed blindly. There would be more motivation here, if he were Scum. I think Town would be more free with "showing their work". Or, mention it in passing.

2. As I mentioned before "Assuming optimal play" is IMHO next door to pingy. We are not going to get optimal play. This is like all of those infomercials that have like 4 or 5 of the cookery device ready to go, with none of the prep, and none of the clean up, the device looks amazing, until you take two seconds andr realize, you are only going to buy one device of the 5, and even then, the prep, set up, and clean up after, is going to take even longer, than the rapid fire assembly line style process of the 5 devices on the counter. Sizzle, no steak.

3. A hypothetical situation is given, with us losing two town, and cop revealing themselves [[Perhaps too early? Or when Scum can most use the info?]] and then a proclamation that we will then, no, wait, are now, no wait, we already lost the game. Not unlike "The Day After Tomorrow" where every 20 minutes The End Of The World was moved up half of the time stated, until the title time frame was given. This sets a clock that I don't like, don't believe in, and think only Scum profit from.

3.1 Dammit, I just lost "The Game". And if you play that game, you did too.
My lord and savior xkcd thankfully freed me from that mental prison long ago.

4. a middling block of text in the middle. Part of me wants to say it was over analyzed and put in, just to smooth over the rest of the post. On one hand, seems meaningful, and on the other, meaningless.

5. Last paragraph seems like the biggest fishing expedition ever. Tell me who you suspect, and if I, or my partner are on deck, that would give us more than ample time to change what we are doing.

5.1 Which, come to think of it, it almost seems like there is a slip here. That or, Crazy like a fox / double bluff. Yes, it would suck if Scum did do that. ... and then we proceed to watch it happen it exactly that way.

6. More "The Day After Tomorrow" fast forwarding. I could have sworn, when we started this post we were at day 1, and now, after reading this last line, it's like we are in night 4.

6.1 It just feels like undue pressure to something, quick. Ready. Fire. Aim. "" Do what I am telling you to do, if you don't already have a plan, and don't think twice about it. You can trust me. ""
There's the pseudo-loose-cannon that I know and love. Racc' Em Up™!

Seriously, though, this is a great in-depth case post for D1, and I kinda touched on some of these in my last post but the bluish highlighted bits especially align with my current thoughts.

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NETA

Sorry Pleonast, was unaware you had stated pronouns.

You would think I would be on top of that.

Sorry.
I am terrible at remembering others' pronouns, so no worries. My preference is also so slight as to be nearly non-existent. I've recently made it explicit in solidarity with those who do have strong preferences.
Ah yes, welcome to the "People With Special Pronouns Who Constantly Forget Others' Pronouns" club. It's a small club and it sucks, but hey, it's home!

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Care to share what you see?
The grouping of Maha with Sea Serpent for the last game, then multiple people questioned them, they came back with fluff and no response. Feels like either distancing or smudge on Sea Serpent, so keeping an eye on them.
Meh. I personally think it's mostly still-fresh salt spilling over from last game. We can't expect everyone to let go of old BS on the same timescales, after all. I can kinda-sorta understand the Sea Serpent angle but I tend to think he's pretty pure so far, and hasn't dwelled on Vanta's attacks like he would have if it was wolf theater. Granted, it's mostly gut feels and I am kinda biased towards SS's general style.

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Sea Serpent pings me.
I did no such thing.
@Sea Serpent
Ah yes, this is a bit of a terminology mix-up; "ping" in the IM/UR universe doesn't usually mean "mention" like on the outside, it means "to catch one's attention", usually in a suspicious manner unless they specify with "townping" or "scumping" or similar.

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Sea Serpent knows what he did!

Hint: There was one player whose extinction would end the game. A player trying to go for everyone winning would have applied first aid to that player. That is all. And really it was just a D1 thing. I have wiped my brain and do not hold grudges, except deep inside.
Had Kai been protected that Night, and Maha shot elsewhere, that person’s opponent would have lost. Had Kai been protected and Maha shot Kai, Kai would have died the following Night. The plan was fine, Sea Serpent did the right thing, Maha just went awol.
If we really wanna relitigate this, the proper thing to do would have been to have SS protect me, Maha forced to kill MHaye or Hooker, and whichever team's MM got screwed by the kill, they just axed the other team's Godfather at the end for their alternate wincon.

But that didn't happen, and that's not what we should be talking about, is it?


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So why beat a horse that is NOT this game. You did bring it up more than once.


Can we address THIS game. Thank you
Yes ma'am.

This game: My #1 suspect is Pleonast. #2 is Mahaloth, for vanilla claim, and also a bit because of the Pleo non-vote joke vote.

The theme may be cheap beer but it's never too early to WIFOM.
It's an easy thing to say, but still, props to LF for saying it.

Mahaloth's been a tough nut to crack for me so far, not saying you're wrong about it specifically, but moving on can only help to develop that read since he won't be able to hide in reactions anymroe.

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Sorry Pleonast, was unaware you had stated pronouns.

You would think I would be on top of that.

Sorry.
Salads appear on all ground I walk. I think I need an update on preferred pronouns, if people have them, since I've been away for a while. Otherwise I'll just call people 'they' I guess-
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Here's a guide to my most preferred ones, but they/them is also fine. (Honestly it's just "headless" they/them that inflects as singular, initially intended to write my character in stories because mixing multiple "they" entities of different multiplicities gets real confusing, real fast.)
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Old 12th April 2023, 06:46 AM
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Sorry Pleonast, was unaware you had stated pronouns.

You would think I would be on top of that.

Sorry.
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Sorry Pleonast, was unaware you had stated pronouns.

You would think I would be on top of that.

Sorry.
I am terrible at remembering others' pronouns, so no worries. My preference is also so slight as to be nearly non-existent. I've recently made it explicit in solidarity with those who do have strong preferences.
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NETA

Sorry Pleonast, was unaware you had stated pronouns.

You would think I would be on top of that.

Sorry.
I am terrible at remembering others' pronouns, so no worries. My preference is also so slight as to be nearly non-existent. I've recently made it explicit in solidarity with those who do have strong preferences.
OOG

There is a reason I claim Demigirl, over Transfemme.

Finally. I got to a point where it was "Would I be ok, being a girl? ... Would I honestly be ok, if I wasn't?"
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Old 12th April 2023, 04:18 PM
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Sorry Pleonast, was unaware you had stated pronouns.

You would think I would be on top of that.

Sorry.
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Old 12th April 2023, 08:02 AM
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You touched on some of the things that gave me my ‘ping’
1- I don’t recall if Pleo is one of the ‘numbers’ people, but yes that caught my thoughts.

2- and 3-Seemed off as well.

5- I didn’t read it quite that way the first time, but it needs re-read.
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Damn guiri- you too?
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Old 12th April 2023, 12:54 PM
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Damn guiri- you too?
Me what? I was pinged by Vanta’s apparent avoidance of the questioning. I don’t hold grudges, and don’t care about the last game, their behavior pinged me in this game and I found a possible scummy motivation. The explanation seems okay though.
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Me what? I was pinged by Vanta’s apparent avoidance of the questioning. I don’t hold grudges, and don’t care about the last game, their behavior pinged me in this game and I found a possible scummy motivation. The explanation seems okay though.
re-explaining a scenario from a previous game In game.- you were specific
I may have forgotten the
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I see sea serpents by the seashore.

(Got caught up in other things whoops. Good things tho. Best week I've had in a long time.)
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I see. If you sea sea serpents by the seashore it must be that you are the one seen on the seashore because sea serpents do not seem to seek sealessness, preferring to be seen in icy seas for to see, you see.
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Oh, and...

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I see. If you sea sea serpents by the seashore it must be that you are the one seen on the seashore because sea serpents do not seem to seek sealessness, preferring to be seen in icy seas for to see, you see.
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Hmm, I think that about do's it for now.

how i'm feeling now

I currently like: Sea Serpent (just like the cut of his jib, Pleo response especially gives my gut warm fuzzies), Mendie (#28 and the list-post matches my fond memories of wolf-hunting procyonids, mindmeld takedown of Pleo)

I slightly townlean: plumpudding (I've seen convincing fake "drunk" gambits before, but the general thrust of the spam seems to indicate hunger for leads), Vanta Black (more presence and marginally more content than LF)

I have no idea about: LightFoot (here now, but precious little in the way of actual content), Mahaloth (one OMGUS saga does not a read make)

I am mildly suspicious of: guiri (gut read on that opening), Pleo (weird assumptions, and their big theorypost + P1 convo might pair them with guiri)



I'm gonna hit the hay for now, not sure how much I'll be on top of things tomorrow (workday) but I'll definitely be here Friday for EoD.
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Hmm, I think that about do's it for now.

how i'm feeling now

I currently like: Sea Serpent (just like the cut of his jib, Pleo response especially gives my gut warm fuzzies), Mendie (#28 and the list-post matches my fond memories of wolf-hunting procyonids, mindmeld takedown of Pleo)

I slightly townlean: plumpudding (I've seen convincing fake "drunk" gambits before, but the general thrust of the spam seems to indicate hunger for leads), Vanta Black (more presence and marginally more content than LF)

I have no idea about: LightFoot (here now, but precious little in the way of actual content), Mahaloth (one OMGUS saga does not a read make)

I am mildly suspicious of: guiri (gut read on that opening), Pleo (weird assumptions, and their big theorypost + P1 convo might pair them with guiri)



I'm gonna hit the hay for now, not sure how much I'll be on top of things tomorrow (workday) but I'll definitely be here Friday for EoD.
I won/t argue with a gut read, but weird assumptions and game theory is scummy? Feels like you suspect a Pleo case will get some traction. And, apart from almost always randing scum, town-reading/snuggling Mendie seems to happen every game. You're my #2.

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Good basic practice.

Here's a guide to my most preferred ones, but they/them is also fine. (Honestly it's just "headless" they/them that inflects as singular, initially intended to write my character in stories because mixing multiple "they" entities of different multiplicities gets real confusing, real fast.)
Thanks! I can see why 'they/them' can get confusing. In Norwegian we now have a standard non-gendered pronoun in 'hen'. My brother (we have talked about 'brother' and they are fine with that) and their boyfriend are both trans and I have to admit I trip up at times, by just being so used to addressing they (my brother) as him, but I do try to make a conscious effort of addressing people by the pronouns they identify with rather than my own preconceived notions I guess.

Anyway, back to the game. I'm not gonna park my vote on Sea Serpent. I like serpents in general, both marine and terrestrial. I may not like them as much as octopuses, crows, goats and tortoises, but they are cool.



I will have to go back and read I think. It's Day 1, never much to go on, but I like to have at least some kind of reasoning behind my votes.

Kai or someone else, could I get a condensed run down on Pleo? I not sure I quite get it.
A mix of now showing his homework, posting game theory, possibly encouraging or requiring players to vote the most (=least) popular candidate over their own personal convictions, and some fatalism regarding us being at end game while only in D1. I think that's the case.

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#2 is Mahaloth, for vanilla claim
for implicit claim of not being vanilla town.
That's a stretch, right?

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In fact, lettuce break the ice by revenge piling on him for funsies.

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Did you unvote somewhere? The vote counting robot did not pick it up so it seems you're still voting Mahaloth:

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Vanta Black (2): guiri (65), Pleonast (111)
Mahaloth (1): Plumpudding (15)[30], Kaiveran (17)
Kaiveran (1): Mahaloth (22)
Pleonast (1): Mendie Taoma (73)
Lightfoot (0): Plumpudding (38)[66]
Mendie Taoma (0): Plumpudding (32)[37]
Sea Serpent (0): Plumpudding (101)[109]
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#2 is Mahaloth, for vanilla claim
for implicit claim of not being vanilla town.
That's a stretch, right?
No, it's an example of reading intent
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That's a stretch, right?
No, it's an example of reading intent
Reading back over the "don't claim vanilla D1" explanation, I thought Vanta was (naively?) applying the general rule to avoid unforced early game vanilla claims as it reduces the pool for town powers to hide in. Scum know who they are, and know which vanilla claims are true, so the pool of players left to hunt town powers in shrinks.
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No, it's an example of reading intent
Reading back over the "don't claim vanilla D1" explanation, I thought Vanta was (naively?) applying the general rule to avoid unforced early game vanilla claims as it reduces the pool for town powers to hide in. Scum know who they are, and know which vanilla claims are true, so the pool of players left to hunt town powers in shrinks.
Assuming a player thought an early unforced vanilla claim is bad, how do you get from that to being suspicious of someone who does make the early unforced vanilla claim? To me, that leap is what indicates that Vanta Black is not vanilla.
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Reading back over the "don't claim vanilla D1" explanation, I thought Vanta was (naively?) applying the general rule to avoid unforced early game vanilla claims as it reduces the pool for town powers to hide in. Scum know who they are, and know which vanilla claims are true, so the pool of players left to hunt town powers in shrinks.
My interpretation was similar.
In this game there is only 1 PR - which changes the perspective a tad.

maybe

It could be a form of self preservation in early game to prevent undue attention from the killer in the Night as well.



I think I need to stop not stating what I see as the obvious and sharing with the rest of the class.
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So there's this cop/doc/kill thing I think is very helpful. We don't have a doc or a vig but do have a cop so it could provide some guidance there.

Investigate: Mendie, she's making entirely too much sense in this game!
Protect: Plumpudding, no particular reason, just a gut feeling
Kill: Well obviously at some point unless something changes this has to be Pleo for me.

I don't really like doing a town-to-scum listing this early in the game but I haven't changed my feelings on Mahaloth, and would like to see more content from LightFoot, who has posted a lot but without a lot of content.

Will be back later, probably, but this is where I stand for now
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So there's this cop/doc/kill thing I think is very helpful. We don't have a doc or a vig but do have a cop so it could provide some guidance there.

Investigate: Mendie, she's making entirely too much sense in this game!
Protect: Plumpudding, no particular reason, just a gut feeling
Kill: Well obviously at some point unless something changes this has to be Pleo for me.

I don't really like doing a town-to-scum listing this early in the game but I haven't changed my feelings on Mahaloth, and would like to see more content from LightFoot, who has posted a lot but without a lot of content.

Will be back later, probably, but this is where I stand for now

So, I did skim this while at work today, and I wanted to comment, if I do nothing else with the limited time I have left for today. [And by that, I mean, "Thursday" the 13th, even if it is 00:14 on Friday, as I type.] I obviously, didn't think it would be prudent to "Answer" to it, while on the clock, dodging customers at my register.

"" Investigate: Mendie, she's making entirely too much sense in this game! ""

So. About this. I have been trying to work on myself. In some places [Gender Questioning] this is more apparent, than in others [Hopefuly my Mafia play can catch up].

I'm not sure if pointing this out is "good form" or whatever, or if pointing it out, "kills" it, much like a goose laying golden eggs. My desire to have a numbered outline was always there, and I tried in previous games to try versions of it.



I'm just not sure what to add to the claims that I be investigated. We don't need that Wine.


Plumpudding You are razor thin on getting me to switch votes. Of course yours [as of now] would be a policy vote based on the spam. I'm not sure what else, all, to say here, and I recognize it is in poor form to vote you, just for that, but it is up there.

At present, I still feel better served with my vote where it is.


Not that we are taking votes on who to investigate, but, well, there is a reason I bring this thought up, immediately after the above two paragraphs.


Especially with all of the grudge / joke / immediate aftermath of the previous game still in the air, I'm not too sure D1 is going to be much more productive. The odds, and the fact that this is Mafia after all, kinda telegraph to me, that we are going to lose one of our own tonight. In the midst of all of that, I don't really want to change what I have.

Hopefully, we have a solid direction come D2.



Not to put too fine a point on this, but I wonder if we won't have too fine of a point on our game by then.

No _real_ reason to believe that this game is gonna have curveball. Really, there isn't.

But, even in games that are played straight, curves appear. Hurleys get shot. Captains fail to proofread maths. A Cluster of people go off and do the same things, all at once, orchestrated with each other, or not.

[Dammit, I needed a third thing here, and I can't Hi Opal out of it either, --- I'm just saying Real Life has been known to screw games up before. [Games Won and Lost, because either Scum Team voted for someone, all at once, or Townies _not_ voting at all ] I'm not hiding anything, and while I may be known to have my head in the clouds, I am trying to stay with me feet on the ground here. In so many words, Buckle Up / Bumpy Night. ]

Just, I hope Day 2 can be day 2, and not more day 1. That Drinks and Grudges can be checked.

As I mentioned, Real Life is going to get me, here, and now, as it is. Further, I think I'm just over the point of digression.
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Plumpudding You are razor thin on getting me to switch votes. Of course yours [as of now] would be a policy vote based on the spam. I'm not sure what else, all, to say here, and I recognize it is in poor form to vote you, just for that, but it is up there.
Policy vote based on the spam?
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Plumpudding You are razor thin on getting me to switch votes. Of course yours [as of now] would be a policy vote based on the spam. I'm not sure what else, all, to say here, and I recognize it is in poor form to vote you, just for that, but it is up there.
Policy vote based on the spam?
Which is why I haven't voted Plum.

I feel I am missing out on something. But then, that's always the case. The one game that I am not trying to skim, and half of the game immediately refers back to the game last played, that I was not in, save for the drive by tap dancing noses.

Which, I never in a million years, thought I would have to say ever. And in a coherent context, above and beyond the first instance of it.

I'm sure there are games where it is not this way, and I am sure I [Probably as Meeko] have been in games, where Day 1 nets Scum. But, as it is not the rule, I feel today is going to feel bad, in terms of "Feel" and score, regardless. Not really sure what to do with that, even If I understood why we are spending so much time here, on the last game.
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Policy vote based on the spam?
Which is why I haven't voted Plum.

I feel I am missing out on something. But then, that's always the case. The one game that I am not trying to skim, and half of the game immediately refers back to the game last played, that I was not in, save for the drive by tap dancing noses.

Which, I never in a million years, thought I would have to say ever. And in a coherent context, above and beyond the first instance of it.

I'm sure there are games where it is not this way, and I am sure I [Probably as Meeko] have been in games, where Day 1 nets Scum. But, as it is not the rule, I feel today is going to feel bad, in terms of "Feel" and score, regardless. Not really sure what to do with that, even If I understood why we are spending so much time here, on the last game.
I am not even gonna mention that we have stopped referring back to that last game since days ago.
So since I can't mention it I can't thank you for linking to the tap-dancing noses.
But if you haven't read the short story--you should.
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I read up to mid this page earlier but didn't get to finish my post about it and we are absolutely slammed at wotk holy shit

Igive me your blessings to not pass out from hyperthermia

In the meantime
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I am trying to focus - re reading is in my immediate future.
and perhaps trying to decipher "drunk"* posting
that is weirding




*is it really?
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...Day One ends at 2 pm US Central time (1 pm Eastern) Friday, April 14.

GO!
Isn't...2pm Central...3pm Eastern? This has confused me (and I am trying to figure it out in Mountain which aargh math just post a countdown timer what?
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And I'm not even drunk, unfortunately.
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Plum When /if you sober up can you please decipher your last string of "drunk" posts.

I don't have the patience to look- but it seems to me that the majority of Plum's posts are nonsense under the guise of intoxication.
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Mendi is town. Bang.!

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Plum When /if you sober up can you please decipher your last string of "drunk" posts.

I don't have the patience to look- but it seems to me that the majority of Plum's posts are nonsense under the guise of intoxication.
It is my contention that eventually all of Plumpudding's posts taken as a whole will form some sort of pattern of coherent opinion on the game.* I am struggling to believe Plumpudding is scum because scum would be more careful. There is content there though.

*As always I could be dead wrong
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Ugh, in my earlier post
compost=Compost

And in another the post directed to Mendie there is a hanging 2 that should not be there wtf
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compost=Compost

And in another the post directed to Mendie there is a hanging 2 that should not be there wtf
COMCAST

I'm not even drunk. Maybe I should be.
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compost=Compost

And in another the post directed to Mendie there is a hanging 2 that should not be there wtf
It's what happens when you don't say Hi to Opal.

Plumpudding gets my Eye. No, wait.

We should "Dick" plumpudding around. No, that's worse.

Uh, I'm just saying that if we were voting, I'd vote for an investigation of Prof.Plum.

eh, close enough.
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Plum When /if you sober up can you please decipher your last string of "drunk" posts.

I don't have the patience to look- but it seems to me that the majority of Plum's posts are nonsense under the guise of intoxication.
It is my contention that eventually all of Plumpudding's posts taken as a whole will form some sort of pattern of coherent opinion on the game.* I am struggling to believe Plumpudding is scum because scum would be more careful. There is content there though.

*As always I could be dead wrong


For using others as an excuse for a vote and for the asterisk here.
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It is my contention that eventually all of Plumpudding's posts taken as a whole will form some sort of pattern of coherent opinion on the game.* I am struggling to believe Plumpudding is scum because scum would be more careful. There is content there though.

*As always I could be dead wrong


For using others as an excuse for a vote and for the asterisk here.
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Policy votes are a good way for scum to excuse voting for townies

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It is my contention that eventually all of Plumpudding's posts taken as a whole will form some sort of pattern of coherent opinion on the game.* I am struggling to believe Plumpudding is scum because scum would be more careful. There is content there though.

*As always I could be dead wrong


For using others as an excuse for a vote and for the asterisk here.
So...

(1) I had not yet voted and
(b) If I don't use others as an excuse to vote then what do I use? and...
(iii) why object to asterisks?
 


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