justac00lguy said:
Why would he lose his ability? Plus you don't need to vote for me to "test" his ability to double vote, unless you're actually voting for me.
Oh yeah, sorry, didn’t mean to imply I was voting to see if his double voting ability worked. My vote is very much for you, make no mistake about that. Just wanted to see if it was worth doing this last-shot effort or not, it really wouldn’t be worth my trouble to type all of this out if you don’t have a chance of being lynched. Since Deku’s ability is indeed not a one-shot by the looks of it, the prospects are looking fairly good.
Although Fig’s “rage-quit” up there does remind me of several people I’ve seen who were mafia and just got frustrated at the end of the day. Atsuma in Mafia 2 was scum and just got totally enraged when he got voted off like on day two, and JuiceJ went berserk in Majora’s Mask when everyone was right about him being mafia. It seems like a common tactic of newbie players, which Fig pretty much still is, but I don’t know. I’m actually willing to lynch Fig tomorrow if he doesn’t end up getting lynched today, as it will be quite easy to play off of everything that’s happened here today. However, I kind of like the prospect of killing you off first before we do that, just because, you know, how one-sided of a game this has been and likely will be for the foreseeable future unless something drastic happens.
So yeah, not defending Fig here, as his defense is fairly pathetic. I quite frankly don’t know what to make of this game, as the lack of votes and activity as a whole is rather unfortunately atypical of recent ZD games. But again, I guess drastic times call for drastic measures.
justac00lguy said:
Thanks for confirming that you have a role.
This really, really irked me, to be honest. This was a reply I never expected from anyone, especially you of all people. For those wondering about the context, this was after I had put forth the suggestion that this was a role-madness game. At this stage in the game, I think it’s clear that it is. We’ve had roles such as the “Bomb” and “Challenger” (whatever it was) that point towards the game being strapped with roles that are hardly ever seen in a game where a plentiful amount of vanilla townies are present. Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s been games with plenty of roles that I’ve seen that weren’t in fact role madness, but the selection of roles we’ve seen thus far makes it obvious to me that this particular game is. Plus there’s the fact that this was originally an anticipated game featuring actual members of the forum – part of the fun of creating this game would have been assigning an “appropriate” role to everyone. So I put forth this idea as a conversation starter…. And I didn’t get an opinion from you at all. “Thanking” me confirming that I had a role seemed incredibly strange to me, as I thought that, if this game were truly role madness, that the comment would make sense to the rest of the townies; a townie with a role would read that and think to himself/herself “well, I have a role, so that doesn’t seem too strange.” You downright acted like this was a surprise to you, and didn’t make much of an effort to expand on anything as our pointless banter went on. But hey, I could get past that, since, at the time, the game may not have been role madness. But now that it seems incredibly likely that it is, I have to think back on it. A mafia member would have no way of concurring with that statement, as they are not a townie and thus can’t sympathize with the idea I laid out above, but would rather see the idea as some sort of accidental role confirmation on a townie’s part. This is what has made me a bit weary of you the entire game.
This is also why I’m kind of suspicious of another person. I’ll leave that alone for now though.
justac00lguy said:
justac00lguy said:
Then we have conflicting role-claims. I’ve been paying attention to the defense you’ve given here, attempting to pass it off as a distraction so that the cop wouldn’t be lynched. There’s a few incredibly large problems with this strategy I just can’t shake off. Conflicting role-claims are the best way for people not to take you seriously, especially the mafia. Let’s divide this up into your two respective claims – Mandy, and Pancake. No one has any idea what Mandy’s role could possibly be, and just claiming her for the sake of claiming and “getting the mafia on you back”, so to say, doesn’t actually do anything. There’s absolutely no reason for either us townies, or the mafia to believe that Mandy could be the cop. Hell, she’s an ex-mod, which could point to some sort of traitor role in a way. Claiming Pancake is also another role that just seems so detrimental and fake at that point in the game, as it was obviously a lover claim, and you’re completely stupid to EVER claim as a lover under any circumstance (you’ve already admitted this was fake, so I can brush it off a bit. It still doesn’t make sense to me, though. However, the one thing that totally irks me the most about this, more than anything else…. There was no need for a softclaim as far as I can tell. No one had claimed that day, and, in fact, Keith was the star of the show; really nothing else went on that day except the vote-war between Dekunut and Keith. If you REALLY wanted to fakeclaim cop, and you REALLY wanted to die just to protect him/her, why not just straight role claim right there, right then? I’m not buying this whole trying to bait the mafia thing just because of this.
justac00lguy said:
I sat back yesterday as I wanted to deliberately try and get Mafia to target me last night, and as such I didn't want to get lynched as I wanted to try and give the Cop some more time. I guess I failed, but it looks like Mafia already had their target set. Now though, well...
Vote: Fig
I have to say, I find off-the-bat voting at the start of the day, ESPECIALLY when the previous day was functionally useless in discussion and the lynch turned out to be a dud, somewhat suspicious. I would completely understand if the “Keith-lynch” day had featured the suspicion towards Fig, and some votes had been thrown around at him. I’ve done this exact thing myself during the later stages of a game where one or two mafia members remain, and I’ve already brought forth full suspicions against them. But this immediately struck me as odd, that you would jump into something so quickly. I have two main problems with this – 1.) It stinks so much like an early bandwagon to take advantage of the lack of discussion and mafia kills in this game. In a game where there are absolutely no player interactions to analyze because of the lack of a mafia death, and where nearly zero meaningful conversation occurred in the previous day, it is incredibly easy for the mafia to drive discussion, as their knowledge of the game still dwarfs the townie’s knowledge, again, due to no kills. The fact that others jumped on so quickly also does make me think about other things that I don’t want to delve into right now. 2.) Where was all of this during the previous day? Your vote is mysteriously absent from either the Keith or Dekunut bandwagon, and your posts, ESPECIALLY to what seems most suspicious about Fig (his “confirming” Axle and Mandy), amounts to little more than cheeky one-liner spam. You obviously didn’t have anything to say about whether or not Keith and Dekunut were town or not. And sure, I can buy that if you take another option and vote for someone else and bring them out into the open. But you didn’t do that, and this is what it looks like to me – a mafia member completely content to let either Keith or Deku die without any input from himself, because the lynch will happen anyway. After Keith is dead and Deku is confirmed, there’s no conversation yet, and thus nothing for you to sit by and watch. So you immediately pounce on Fig the next day, taking advantage of that fact.
justac00lguy said:
See the thing is that I had to do something, my last two investigations failed and we've lost some important roles.
justac00lguy said:
Anyway Fig, you're best just voting for yourself near the end of the day to give us peace of mind in the case that your claim is right. If Fig does flip Town then feel free to lynch me the following day.
I’ll be brutally honest, I was perfectly willing to sit on my hands and not do anything, much like this entire game has been for me, until I read both of those. I hate typing out crap for mafia games, but those just motivated me to do so, particularly the former. 1.) I’m incredibly weary of you not getting results two nights in a row. I can believe one stray role-block got to you once, as I’ve been roleblocked once in this game, but two of your investigations failed? In a row? So you conveniently can’t give us any info… again, this just stinks to me. But yeah, it was the former that just really bothered me. If your role is so important and critical at this point in the game, it’s not all that smart to just cave in after this and not try to put up a defense. It sounds like a mafia member that KNOWS his team can take a hit, and just wants to accomplish this one last goal of lynching Fig before that.
So how about…. We lynch you today, and if you’re town, we go after Fig tomorrow. If you’re mafia, we look into the possibility that this whole thing is just you throwing Fig under the bus, and we look at Fig further tomorrow and/or decide that he’s town.
Sorry man, but again, desperate times, desperate measures. You’ve said so yourself, we’re going to have to make some gutsy moves in this game that don’t quite make sense if we have any hope of stopping this mafia-dominated performance so far.
Or I could be crazy. Summer calculus classes do that to you.