Game Thread Amazing Fantasy: A Spider-Man Mafia Prequel [NIGHT 10--HIATUS]

[ExLight]

You seem quite confident!! :pp

vro are you really the kingpin

 

[Ragnarokio]

So remind me again, what's the logic for a Day 1 player elimination being better than a no elimination?

Voting patterns based on Day 1 should be informative on Day 2 if town is hit? Realistically how often does that work? In my experience playing, hitting a wolf on day 2 is extremely rare despite this notion that Day 1 voting should help give a clear direction. I just really wonder it it's as valid as it's made out to be.

The oldschool rationale was that if you no-lynch on day 1 then starting day 2 you're in the same position you were day 1 except with an extra dead townie, and that you'll never progress the amount of information the town has without putting pressure on the mafia, which is done via threat of lynching them.

Lol I'm pretty sure we had a theory like that here back in the 2010-2011 mafia era

It was very popular and i remember some people at mafiascum crunching the numbers and founding it worked at a higher rate than random, though i wouldn't know whether or not it was significantly higher or whether there were issues in the sampling or other factors which might bias the sample (although off the top of my head i can't recall any mechanical factors that would incentivize a scum player to vote third)

it's probably because both of them are unknown, rather than any causality with HW

If nothing else HW starting as unknown implies he has some special connection with the zone, though you're right that i was approaching things the wrong way. I was thinking of the unknown zone as a "misc" zone that players could end up for in a variety of reasons, but there's no reason its mechanics/flavour couldn't be more focused than that.

That sounds a lot more plausible.

In other news, does anyone have a camera? I'd rather not need them, but if things go awry at any point I apparently need to be incredibly vain and have pictures of myself on hand. And well, I'm not able to afford my own camera.

I do not have a camera, although if its cheap i could help you buy one, or at least pitch in.

but from my understanding of the potions anyone can become any goblin?

that is my understanding

I am here strictly for business. Business that concerns the few instead of the many. My message, which isn't a truce, was intended for a select few. They know who they are.

If they don't know who they are, then that will need to be remedied fast like a diamond hammer used by a lucky Russian on a BIG ol' piece of Silver.

So the second part here obviously seems like a coded message. Per vro's message, joe hammerhead is now the majority shareholder of roxxon. I'm guessing this refers to the mob boss hammerhead, who's first name is apparently joseph. Silver could then refer to silvermane who is a mafia boss that appears early on in the comics. I don't know about the rest of them though. Its possible that kingpin is trying to directly refer to all the isolated mafiosos he's trying to find here? I'm not entirely sure what the purpose in that is, but it seems clear he's trying to get in contact with them, and that its probably a bad thing for us.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if the mafia couldn't communicate with each other and had to resort to speaking in the main thread to coordinate?

It does strike me that something like this is happening, although either the others aren't interested in or are unable to respond to the kingpin's posts in-thread. Maybe they can communicate with him anonymously but he can only respond publicly?

 

[Ragnarokio]

Can anyone participate in the meeting? Would be nice to have a reporter there or something.

@The Kingpin of Crime please invite rubik to your symposium of evil so that he can write about it in the daily bugle. thank you.

Vote: Storm

this was my first thought as well. I'm not sure how much weight i put on it though. KoD talks kind of like that too sometimes and its possible its meant to be another coded message rather than the sort of weird mixture of "lolrandom" and pop culture reference that i associate with storm

 

[Zinger2099]

@The Kingpin of Crime please invite rubik to your symposium of evil so that he can write about it in the daily bugle. thank you.

This is the greatest thing anyone has ever said.

 

[Asfinyti]

It does strike me that something like this is happening, although either the others aren't interested in or are unable to respond to the kingpin's posts in-thread. Maybe they can communicate with him anonymously but he can only respond publicly?

i mean publicly responding to 'the kingpin of crime' with 'yeah **** it im in' is kind of a bad look so im not really sure you're gonna get what you're looking for here :p

 

[Storm]

I wish i was Kingpin.... sadly im nobody. In dact im about to lose. Ive been told my pink slip is in the mail. Good luck with the Blackout.

 

[Vroendal]

vro are you really the kingpin

That does indeed seem to be a question revolving around me at the moment, yes.
I suppose you would have to determine if I'm a subtle player or not!! The current Kingpin seems to think they are not.

 

[Zinger2099]

i mean publicly responding to 'the kingpin of crime' with 'yeah **** it im in' is kind of a bad look so im not really sure you're gonna get what you're looking for here :p

 

[Vroendal]

i mean publicly responding to 'the kingpin of crime' with 'yeah **** it im in' is kind of a bad look so im not really sure you're gonna get what you're looking for here :p

 

[Storm]

Ill ISO kingpin and try to figure out his references

 

[HangryHangryHippo]

I wish i was Kingpin.... sadly im nobody. In dact im about to lose. Ive been told my pink slip is in the mail. Good luck with the Blackout.

What's your lose condition if you don't mind sharing?

 

[Doc]

wait has it really been day one all week…? I haven’t read anything…there’s 41 pages…

 

[Vroendal]

Welcome to the game, Doc!! ^ ^

 

[Killjoy262]

wait has it really been day one all week…? I haven’t read anything…there’s 41 pages…

Hi Doc!

 

[Doc]

So how much of these 41 pages is spam posting and how much is important? Do I gotta read ALL 41 pages??