Game Thread Trivia Mafia II - Day 1

[lain]

do you mean that it is a doctor-like ability?

lain claimed to submit an action targeting exlight i think, probably on night 1?

i'm not sure if it was technically an action. the skill just said it would work on the next player to die.

 

[DarthCreeper10]

do you mean that it is a doctor-like ability?

ig I've never played a game with doctor before

 

[lain]

does it prevent them from being killed on the same night that you use it?

 

[Ragnarokio]

deadline is approaching and i'm not sure we're going to get anything else substantial out of the day

darth not protecting HHH is weird. Its possible they killed HHH and are lying about why they didn't protect them, using their being new to the game as a smokescreen. It seems like it might be more effective to just say they used the action earlier in the game though, so i don't know how likely this is as an explanation. Darth's a hard read.

Lain hasn't particularly pinged me this game. Fae seem to have forgotten about it a handful of times which might be less likely to happen as scum than as town because fae'd be communicating with another player, but its also possible that ex was scum and so faes been alone the whole game, or that fae is just less engaged for any number of reasons.

its probably close to a 50/50, but I think I'm going to choose lain over darth. I believe that if darth was scum, and especially if their partner was alive when they received their doc shot, that they would have used or at least claimed using it differently.

Sorry to the town if I'm wrong about this.

Vote: Lain

 

[DarthCreeper10]

does it prevent them from being killed on the same night that you use it?

i'm guessing? not sure

 

[DarthCreeper10]

also lain do you have anything on rag before deadline?

 

[Mellow Ezlo]

Whoopsie daisy I fell asleep before deadline! Day ended hours ago.

Lain was lynched. He was Joseph Grimaldi, Dancing Comic.

With that, the game has ended. The remaining players are:

Ragnarokio: Luna, Hex Girl
DarthCreeper10: BoyWithUke, TikTok Star

Ragnarokio and Rocinante are the winners!

Please share your thoughts on the game below. I'll post role PMs and night actions in a bit.

 

[OGSniper]

Eesh, I kinda suspected Rag a bit later in the game. Would have been a lot better if everybody had some decent activity and if there was more players. Overall, it was an awesome game with some pretty cool mechanics. I enjoyed it, even if I messed like usual and got killed. Good game everyone.

 

[Mellow Ezlo]

First off, allow me to apologize for my hosting this game. I missed deadlines, slacked off on questions and night actions, didn't do many vote counts. Also got lazy with the flavour, which is very rare for me as a host. I'd be lying if I said the inactivity in this game was a bit demotivating for me, but also being rather busy IRL caused me to sort of forget this was running half the time. I mistakenly set the deadlines for when I was at work and did most of the hosting from my phone, meaning I didn't have my regular notepad with notes about night actions and such. This led to only one mistake, which I fixed, but is still a problem for a game host.

Which brings me to my next point. I feel like this game's mechanics were discouraging for many people and, paired with the lack of reveals, caused it to be quite inactive as a whole. My last trivia game, with the questions being in real time and alignments being revealed every death, was far more active. Granted, I also had far more people playing that time around.

I don't think I'll do another trivia themed game. I haven't found the best way to handle that mechanic and while it was more fair for people this time in terms of having opportunities to answer questions, the rules also weren't very clear on how the questions were to be handled from a player's perspective. I made a lot of mistakes this time that I regret.

That's not to say the game wasn't good, though. There were some great discussions happening and Ragnarokio genuinely played well considering her scumbud was almost entirely awol for most of the game.

I'll post setup notes and such later too. I tried to balance this game as much as I could, but with the distribution of actions being based on some rather obscure knowledge, that is really hard to do. I also think no reveal games are generally scum sided more than town sided just in principle, and I made the scum team rather powerful, but with Rocinante being inactive that didn't matter too much. I also had a lot of people forgetting to answer questions or submit actions, which is not really surprising considering the obscure nature of some of the questions along with the general inactivity of the game.

 

[Ragnarokio]

gg everyone i had fun

 

[Ragnarokio]

we framed exlight and roleblocked lain (who coronered exlight) night 1 which was unfortunate and amusing

 

[lain]

GG! you played well rag I never really suspected you

 

[Mellow Ezlo]

I would like to point out that Jamie was the one to resurrect HHH which Rag didn't know yet she still fake claimed credit for that after he died despite not knowing that fact. Amazing gambit 10/10.

 

[Ragnarokio]

if the resurrectionist was alive and claimed without us countering then we'd have 2 confirmed town alive in a pool of 5, which is hard to win from. Its probably then better for us to counter the resurrectionist claim in order to get a 50/50 against confirmed town. I figured the one who claims resurrectionist first probably looks somewhat more trustworthy so it was worth it to jump on that and then if the real resurrectionist countered it would be easier to lynch them. if no resurrectionist countered it would also probably make me look better, so it was effectively a win-win play.

 

[DarthCreeper10]

I was definitly getting suspicous of rag by the end but I had no real evidence to lynch

gg everyone