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Game Thread [Day 5] Zelda an Orcarana of Time as Remembered by Someone Who Only Played a Little Bit of it Well Over a Decade Ago Mafia

Spiritual Mask Salesman

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SMS seems kind of weird but I wouldn't peg him as scum yet. He was one of the first to vote johnny, and I still don't quite understand the reasoning. Lots of helpful posts, but also counterproductive ones.
Johnny was flip flopping votes without proper reasoning behind them. Weak pushes can sometimes be a scum tell, the scum player doesn't really care to be explaining the vote, they just want to be voting to push the potential mislynch.


Listen, the reason I haven't said much is because I don't have much to say. You guys are way better at this than me. I have been trying to formulate good responses, but have not reached many conclusions. I have read every page of this thread and am still not sure who the scum is, so I don't feeling like spouting useless what ifs to up my post count. And truth be told i m a very quiet person IRL too. You guys can trust my name claim and the fact that my few posts have been helpful, at least I hope so.
Quantity vs Quality is great and all, but Mafia is first and foremost a social game. Explaining your mindset comes with the territory. Players need to share their thoughts because it's the primary way other players can form reads on them.

You don't have to draw conclusions, but you need to posit the reasoning at least in some detail, and it doesn't have to be too long. If the logic behind it doesn't add up, it might be cause for concern, but nobody can figure that out if players are playing very reserved. Not saying much is also something that could be a scum tell since scum don't want to say much and mess up, so if they can get a pass without posting a lot that is probably ideal.

It's also noteworthy that if a townie posts very little, this can be bad in the end game where experienced scum players could easily exploit that and get people to vote that playerbecause they are a huge unknown regarding the process of elimination. Very little content, no accurate reads, it can be enough to spoil a town win.

I'm not trying to argue with you or anything, for the record. I'm just trying to explain why not posting much is generally bad play because it causes a break down in attempts to solve the game.

Mikey and ex are my only scum leans. Both have been aggressive and defensive, but I don't think its both bc they seem to be after each o5her as suspects.
Like, this is a start. Are there any posts in particular where they did this and it was memorable to you?

I definitely agree Ex has been all over the place with being both aggressive but also being on the defensive. I don't know if that means he is scum though. Out of the two though I'd trust Mikey over Ex.

What exactly are your concerns on Mikey? His miller claim? Voting patterns?
 

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@Ragnarokio: would MYLO/LYLO be announced?

I'll let you know if not lynching scum will definitely result in town losing but not if it may result in town losing.
 
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I'd be down for an ISO so we can see your thoughts. At one point @Morbid Minish was also saying she was scum leaning Reki, I think?

#1 (Post 7) - Avatar Talks. No actual substance.
#2 (Post 45) - Questions votes; Questions why Mikey didn’t claim Miller in his first post. No actual substance.
#3 (Post 169) - More questions. The only substance speculating on Minish and Chevy’s interaction. Non committal townish stance on Chevy for “transparency”.
#4 (Post 187) - Questions Viral calling Minish overtly scummy. Says needs to reread KJ.
#5 (Post 189) - Questions Chevy calling Minish confirmed town.
#6 (Post 210) - Does a light ISO on KJ. Gives him town cred for being consistent on jokes he took flak for. Says his dislike on Chevy and town reads on Mikey, SMS, and Johnny is consistent and it’s progression makes sense, but says it’s odd that KJ is having back and forth with Chevy. Gives him flak for mechanical speculation leading into fishing about my feigned posting restriction. Settles on him being the scum side of null. Decides not to vote KJ for now.
#7 (Post 213) - Agrees with Minish’s gut wanting to go for Mikey. Asks Kirino who he’d shoot.
#8 (Post 259) - Votes Kirino; no explanation.
#9 (Post 269) - ISO’s Kirino. Main focus on the vote still sitting on me after redirect. Says the questions are for reaction gauging.
#10 (Post 284) - Unvotes. Says needs time to think things through.
#11 (Post 286) - Votes Mikey at deadline because Miller.
#12 (Post 288) - Questions post deadline talking.
#13 (Post 293) - Explains Mikey vote. Jokes with KJ.
#14 (Post 321) - Expresses acceptance with aligning with SMS. Needs to do more digging.
#15 (Post 323) - Sees Jinjo as a fair target for low info/removing strong player/framing Ex. Finds it weird Ex would mention this. Gives him town cred for doing it in his third post of the day.
#16 (Post 335) - Explains Ex frame logic. Soft claims a night effect. Expresses good feels towards Viral and Minish.
#17 (Post 422) - Statements for Ex. Questions Oocoo’s questioning of Ex. Questions Chevy going for Mikey on aggressiveness.
#18 (Post 427) - Asks (presumably Chevy) what they thought of Viral’s vote previous day.
#19 (Post 463) - Ponders a Viral bus on KJ. Sheeps Min on people suspecting Ex for lie detector. Says SMS has no reason to risk being caught unclaimed.
#20 (Post 611) - Feels better about Viral and Mikey. Ponders who to vote for. Calls Johnny’s willingness to vote Kirino careless.
#21 (Post 627) - Says Johnny is solvable later. Redirections happened overnight.
#22 (Post 633) - Explains rushed EoD. No substance.
#23 (Post 689) - Says it’s time to town core; selects Mikey and Minish/Numbers. Claims role is useful still and won’t answer questions about it. Claims Rolename Cop, Secondary target alignment Cop (Johnny; second target not revealed). Also claims delayed Vig (Jinjo, second target withheld). Unclaimed passive. Prompts SMS to explain how he’s been helping town with his role. Calls Ex’s LD reveal convenient.
#24 (Post 692) - Asks Ex for his Top 2.

The Spoiler above are the notes I took on each of Reki's posts. The main crux of Reki's activity is asking questions and then doing nothing with the answers, seemingly. They have only laid down two votes through the course of the game so far, one seemingly for pressure on Kirino which was removed after a question was answered and one that was semi policy on Mikey that ended up not counting. So officially Reki has only one vote on record and it's not even a hard stance on somebody they think is scum. That's a first major flag for me. Going back to the doing nothing with the answers thing I mentioned earlier, I think that's the main thing that has been irking me about Reki's posts. It's a convenient way to seem active without having to actually take many hard stances at all. Coupled with an extreme lack of voting record and Reki has been coasting in the game.

But let's dig into the harder stances Reki has made. Their unofficial vote on Mikey was semi policy, directly stating Millers need to be taken care of sooner or later, preferably sooner. Yet Reki has made no further mention of needing to take care of Miller Mikey, in fact going in the opposite direction of placing him in their Top 2 Gonna Bet my Bottom Dollar on Them and questioning Chevy when he was expressing interest in going after Mikey. I'm hard pressed to gauge anything else as a hard stance. But in the vein of inconsistency, in 627 Reki made a point to say Johnny was solvable today, and this is Reki "trying to save Johnny" (despite not voting for literally anybody else), yet in 611 they made a point to call Johnny's behavior out without bothering to say he's solvable until literally the last minutes of day. Then there's the claim of redirections happening Night 1 that Reki never bothered to return to. This started with Reki saying something happened to them but they can't elaborate yet. Johnny asks about it later in the day to which Reki says give them a bit. Maybe tomorrow. In Reki's last post of the day we are told redirection shenanigans happened and they can't elaborate further. Today we hear nothing of that. Reki has claimed two abilities and two targets for night 1. We can ascertain that Reki targeting Johnny wasn't redirected or else he wouldn't be solvable today. The other target is Jinjo. With a killing ability. On the night Jinjo died. Seems like that one wasn't redirected either. Just saying.

Which brings us back to the Ex frame job that I've talked about in previous posts. Reki literally spells out why they think Jinjo would be a good scum kill target. Knowing they targeted Jinjo with a kill ability. Seems kinda like that might have been a pertinent time to claim if you're a supposed town vig. But what do I know. I'm just a clay pot.
 

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Not Voting (8) - Minish, Mikey, Uwu, SMS, Exlight, 15377, Reki, Kirino

~46 hours to deadline
 

Morbid Minish

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I'm not lynching Mikey, Ex, Uwu, or Numbers today.

So it's down to Reki, Kirino, and SMS.

Numbers laid out a really great case detailing what I've felt off about Reki for. I'll still ISO later but I think he got the gist of it.

Kirino I always have a hard time reading because he just always sounds so logical to me. But I don't recall him putting forth any new, interesting takes.

SMS is 3rd party so a safe lynch but I don't particularly like lynching 3rd party at this point. Especially since we're unsure of his exact powers. And there were 2 kills last night.
 
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Hey @ExLight do you know what you redirected with the mirror shield?

To everybody in general, is the mafia win con in the OP how you guys typical word it?

I'm really only looking at Reki and SmS today. Reki for my previous post. SmS because I feel like he is far more invested than his original "I just need a tri force piece so I can bounce" claim. I might just be reading too much into a bored 3p but feels like he has an agenda that hasn't been outted yet.
 

Spiritual Mask Salesman

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I'm really only looking at Reki and SmS today. Reki for my previous post. SmS because I feel like he is far more invested than his original "I just need a tri force piece so I can bounce" claim. I might just be reading too much into a bored 3p but feels like he has an agenda that hasn't been outted yet.
I mean, idk what else to do because if I don't try to be somewhat invested, I'm just going to dip and be inactive. I can win with either faction so it isn't like my wincon conflicts with anyone else in the game.

I suppose if you are all worried I can just kind of let my activity slip and if you all want me to use my double vote a particular way you can ping me? Sounds boring though, I'd rather just not be in the game at that point.
 
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Hey @15377, did you cooperate with Ex's LD request?

Gonna get to the rest of stuff but I wanted to ask that once again before you're out.
 
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I mean, idk what else to do because if I don't try to be somewhat invested, I'm just going to dip and be inactive. I can win with either faction so it isn't like my wincon conflicts with anyone else in the game.

I suppose if you are all worried I can just kind of let my activity slip and if you all want me to use my double vote a particular way you can ping me? Sounds boring though, I'd rather just not be in the game at that point.

Nah, I understand them feels. I feel like everybody would be remiss if we didn't keep a watchful eye though. Also just because you can win with anybody from your perspective doesn't mean everybody can win with you from theirs.

@Reki, I didn't. I have my reasons for being unconcerned with being cleared.
 
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Missing top town from Mikey and 15377. Please folks, it'd be appreciated, we need to cooperate for it to work.

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@Reki, I didn't. I have my reasons for being unconcerned with being cleared.

Here's the thing;
  • If you're evil, you fear the LD because you don't know how it works and how much of a threat it is. Turns out it wasn't that powerful, but you don't know that. So you obviously wouldn't want to cooperate* and would try and shade the plan.
  • If town, normally you just cooperate. If you're "unconcerned" because you've got other ways to do so, then you cooperate anyways as to not stick out, because players that can be confirmed are always a tasty choice for NKs. So you don't even give a hint as to that, evils normally scan the thread looking for crumbs. There's literally no downside to putting that sentence out there. But you didn't and now you've got me here pondering about the why, wasting time if you're not a meanie.
*In your case it was interesting because I remember discussing with Uwu not wanting to do it, yet for some reason didn't notice you weren't doing it either. Turns out, that reason was that you talked quite a bit about it, even suggesting how to best use it, but ended up not cooperating.

That's somewhat contradictory, don't you think? Like soft-shading.

SMS is 3rd party so a safe lynch but I don't particularly like lynching 3rd party at this point. Especially since we're unsure of his exact powers. And there were 2 kills last night.

Considering how close we are to LyLo and the risk of two flipping again next morning, if there're no clear leads going into EoD SMS could be considered, though.

I've had bad experiences letting Neutrals play kingmaker at endgames. Let me tell ya, it's not funny.

I mean, idk what else to do because if I don't try to be somewhat invested, I'm just going to dip and be inactive. I can win with either faction so it isn't like my wincon conflicts with anyone else in the game.

I suppose if you are all worried I can just kind of let my activity slip and if you all want me to use my double vote a particular way you can ping me? Sounds boring though, I'd rather just not be in the game at that point.

If it helps I do like you chiming in despite your claim so, please keep doing so.

I thought you were gonna start talking a bit more after your last target question, since it seems like nobody has/is willing to claim to have targeted you so far.

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In regards to 15377's ISO, want to admit that you have a good point in that my contributions have been lacking. Not gonna dispute that and I understand how that looks suspicious from your or other's players perspectives.

But I do think some of the points you present don't add up in the way you seem to think they do, so I'll be talking about them one by one if you don't mind.

Which brings us back to the Ex frame job that I've talked about in previous posts. Reki literally spells out why they think Jinjo would be a good scum kill target.

Finds it weird Ex would mention this. Gives him town cred for doing it in his third post of the day.

Let's look at the actual exchange;

I meant the NK. Kinda useless speculation, but I could see Jinjo being picked for; low-info kill/getting rid of a strong player/her push of ExLight, either to frame or get rid of.

Dunno what to make of ExLight bringing up the "framing" point only in their third post of the phase. If you pick that kill to go for that argument, and you get mentioned as suspicious as early as Mikey did, you mention that one at the very start of the day. You'd have that super present in your mind. Probably?
I'm not sure if I'm following what you mean
are you suspecting me because I mentioned it early?

it wouldn't be the first time mafia tries to do that to me so it's always on my list of things to look after when they try to pull those
I dunno what it means/if it means anything too.

But if you were evil, knew of the NK, prepared to be suspected and had some shade thrown your way early as Mikey did, I'd think you'd mention the framing point in your very first post of the phase, not the third. So it looks slightly good for you, maybe.

Bolded the parts where my doubts on the matter were expressed. I was trying to start a conversation on the point, because I thought it could be a bit of an - admitedly dumb - towntell, but wasn't in any way sure of that. That's why you see all these "Dunno" and "Maybe". So no, I didn't give Ex town-cred for that. I was pondering on the chance and looking for takes on it.

Your answer to this would probably go along the way of "Even more lack of hard stances, huh?" to which I'd say, sure, I'm a flip-floppy player that needs people to talk with to figure things out.

Their unofficial vote on Mikey was semi policy, directly stating Millers need to be taken care of sooner or later, preferably sooner. Yet Reki has made no further mention of needing to take care of Miller Mikey, in fact going in the opposite direction of placing him in their Top 2 Gonna Bet my Bottom Dollar on Them and questioning Chevy when he was expressing interest in going after Mikey.

Promise I'm not trying to be cheeky here but you're really close to connecting the dots in Mikey's claims/agenda that literally explain this. I can't spell it out, sadly, but it's mostly in the thread. So please, give a quick read to the posts in which he lays it out.

And yes, I say that as someone who wanted Mikey dead earlier and still believes that the blunt fishing was shady and a bit rude.

yet in 611 they made a point to call Johnny's behavior out

I think nobody can dispute what Kirino brought up at the time, which was that Johnny's push was lacking in substance/conviction. At the time I only knew of the name, and we've been told we can't trust that to make alignment conclusions, so I made that question to see if I could figure out what they were trying to do.

The votes came in after this, but I was away from the PC.

Then there's the claim of redirections happening Night 1 that Reki never bothered to return to. This started with Reki saying something happened to them but they can't elaborate yet.

In Reki's last post of the day we are told redirection shenanigans happened and they can't elaborate further. Today we hear nothing of that.

It's in my claim post. If I can't elaborate it's for a reason, so you bringing up that I've been admittedly coy about some stuff is a bit rich considering how much we know about your role and your recent "I have my reasons", don't you think?

The other target is Jinjo. With a killing ability. On the night Jinjo died. Seems like that one wasn't redirected either. Just saying.

Knowing they targeted Jinjo with a kill ability. Seems kinda like that might have been a pertinent time to claim if you're a supposed town vig. But what do I know. I'm just a clay pot.

Here;

delayed, preventable

You're also not explaining how it makes any sense for evil!me to claim to have targeted someone with a killing power the same night they died.

Overall I think you point out at parts where you say I've been inconsistent/shady, yet don't make a case as to why that could come/be convenient from a mafia perspective. Like, the Mikey failed vote is weird, sure, but doesn't make any sense for me to attempt if I knew a partner was going to flip anyways. Someone who also shaded me at the very end for the Kirino vote.
 

ExLight

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I like killing ex today
the only reason I haven't really wanted to kill them was because of their self-death clause thing
their lie detector thing is also lol
I mean, yea, yall have to lynch me at some point
You keep coming off as more and more scummy to me

You want to lynch me because I lied about these things but not because I'm literally a time bomb that causes us to lose during -Lo? Are you in your own world again?
 

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I mean, yea, yall have to lynch me at some point
You keep coming off as more and more scummy to me

You want to lynch me because I lied about these things but not because I'm literally a time bomb that causes us to lose during -Lo? Are you in your own world again?
:shrugs: I'm not the most invested person in this game, even with killing a wolf day 1
 

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