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@Zippedpinhead is that OK? I can extend it to also include MacReady doing the test before that line if you want.

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Woah, that's great... you're some kind of magical being huh?
 

RetroMG

Bergentrukung
Staff member
I think Hedin's move is going to go down in history as one of the worst moves in the history of mafia games, at least on this website. Literally just cost us the game over "policy" and "ghosting".
Just truly awful. Awful awful awful.
I'm pissed.
See, and this is the fun part about Hedin's move. It was a super Open Wolf move that he was backed into in order to save the Cult from taking a huge hit... and at least one townie STILL thinks he's town.

It's gonna go down in history, but not the way EC thinks.
 

Alexem

Yeah, I'm town
Ah, so challenge one is pretty much Finders Keepers, then. Never thought I'd imagine Neil Buchanan and The Thing going together, but I'm happy to be proven wrong.
 
Do you have a policy in mind if anyone gets caught creating a thread to ask for help getting the answers? Not that anyone would ever do that. No particular reason for asking, just saying.
It’s in the day start post, any “crowd sourcing” of answers via a reset era thread will be met with an instant loss for your team.


I can’t police the entire internet, so at least via ERA there is punishment attached
 

Faddy

of, having, or involving transitory whims
So wait who is infected?

Hedin, Blarg, Randomless and then who else.
 

Faddy

of, having, or involving transitory whims
partial town victory
i read that as a town win
lets gooooooo
heck the scum team

Nah.

Since scum have their thread on here to plan should town get one too? Or do they need to just collaborate in the open?
 

Chuggernaut

HONK HONK MF
I was thinking Vere but when did they get Kyan?

I guess kyan used his 2nd flamethrower last night.

Give us the full Track and Trace of The Thing

Ambulance started out. Night 1 he got Nat form the away chat. This was random I think. Night 2 he recruited Blarg. Night 3 he won the challenge and got me. Night 4 during the shelter in place we got Hedin and Vere. Not sure how. Night 5 Blarg become the recruiter and got Kyan. Night 6 Rando
 

Faddy

of, having, or involving transitory whims
Night 4 during the shelter in place we got Hedin and Vere. Not sure how

Makes it even funnnier that town were saying that no one was recruited with Shelter in Place. Or was that The Thing Folk saying that?
 

Hawthorn

I'll explain my reasons later
Ambulance started out. Night 1 he got Nat form the away chat. This was random I think. Night 2 he recruited Blarg. Night 3 he won the challenge and got me. Night 4 during the shelter in place we got Hedin and Vere. Not sure how. Night 5 Blarg become the recruiter and got Kyan. Night 6 Rando

There were TWO infections during the shelter in place?!

At least contact tracing is confirmed to be real, take that those who scoffed at discussing mechanics.
 

Chuggernaut

HONK HONK MF
There were TWO infections during the shelter in place?!

At least contact tracing is confirmed to be real, take that those who scoffed at discussing mechanics.

I was coming around on it, but then I became scum so it had to be not real.

Our original plan was to ghost the chats night 4 and then pretend we were elsewhere to mess up contact tracing, but then we got two people that couldn't be contacted traced correctly anyway.
 

Hawthorn

I'll explain my reasons later
I was coming around on it, but then I became scum so it had to be not real.

Our original plan was to ghost the chats night 4 and then pretend we were elsewhere to mess up contact tracing, but then we got two people that couldn't be contacted traced correctly anyway.

That would've been pretty cool. You were going to all publicly tie yourselves to each other like that? Very risky, but I bet it might have worked.
 

Chuggernaut

HONK HONK MF
That would've been pretty cool. You were going to all publicly tie yourselves to each other like that? Very risky, but I bet it might have worked.

Yeah we were already super exposed so we weren’t losing much. Makes it so you can’t be sure who we infected and I think that was the play at that stage
 

Natiko

Town's Friendly Neighborhood Serial Killer
I think it’s pretty normal for game runners to walk away thinking “if only..” either about design or actions that happened. My main goal is always just to see people have fun and I think this game accomplished that even if there are tweaks you would’ve made in hindsight.
 

nin1000

Chilean German Madman
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My passive way of playing this time around paid off.

Do nothing, win the game!

Thanks @Mazre of coming with me in this journey
 

Ephidel

How do you do, fellow mafia?
My passive way of playing this time around paid off.

Do nothing, win the game!
Dude, the message you're taking from your win is why half the thread is wishing Mazre picked Literally Anyone Else right now.

You were cleared and isolated so he took you. He needed that for his wincon.

But you weren't passive. You weren't even lurking. You literally were not following the game, your votes prove that.

People were able to look at Hedin's play yesterday and still think he could be town because of how you were playing.
Think about that for a moment, please.

What even happened?
Before the game started you seemed eager to play. Once it did you didn't even try to do so.

That's unfair on the players playing alongside you and putting in effort and the gamerunners who were spending their time running it.
 

Hawthorn

I'll explain my reasons later
Are you letting people use IMDB for the movie clues or is it supposed to be on the honor system to just guess?
 
Correct, i only got two of these, but I feell better about it now seeing scum team boasting about how good their Google game is.

Msybe I'll throw town some sportsmanship points
 

Natiko

Town's Friendly Neighborhood Serial Killer
Bold of you to assume they aren’t also just trying to Google and doing worse at it.
 
Also they would imply there is more than 1 town present during this game.

We needed to be tighter with the rules that's on us.
Yes, I did not anticipate that the teams would be so split in timezones. Also Very impressed about some of the google game, but I think some of the quick answers where legit known.


What do we need to do to tighten up 20 Questions? we should figure that out.

The boss battle is fairly straight forward. Town has a chance to take that one.
 

Ephidel

How do you do, fellow mafia?
Not trying to be mean, but having all these minigames be turn or time limited to rely on people being around together at specific times feels like it runs counter to the idea that the game usually has lengthy day phases specifically to acknowledge the fact people can't be around together and thus allow for interaction regardless.
 
Not trying to be mean, but having all these minigames be turn or time limited to rely on people being around together at specific times feels like it runs counter to the idea that the game usually has lengthy day phases specifically to acknowledge the fact people can't be around together and thus allow for interaction regardless.
The boss battle is intended to take longer (hence the turn based pokemon style resolve phase). My estimate (unless one team gets insanely lucky with risky attacks) is that it should take hours to finish giving more players time to come in, see how it is going, and post as available.
 

Alexem

Yeah, I'm town
Bear in mind that I've not been privy to exactly what form the boss battle will take. While it looks like ATP and Zipped aren't planning on this being a quick event, I've no idea if they intend to go full Geno.
 

FateShirou

ain't no law when you're drinking the claw
entering main thread make my mac overheat and burnt my lap
can i sue ATP/Zipped for damages?
any lawyers in chat
 
@heymonkey, @Chuggernaut @Natiko Is there any way you could add the scientists (everyone not infected in the game except for HPSauce) into a thread on the Outpost 31 board. @AllThingsPurple and I realized that especially for this game we need it to be fair on champion selection and how/who to attack.

Our Outer team indicated that this might be a bad time to do chat changes so to ping yall if we needed help.
 

Natiko

Town's Friendly Neighborhood Serial Killer
@heymonkey, @Chuggernaut @Natiko Is there any way you could add the scientists (everyone not infected in the game except for HPSauce) into a thread on the Outpost 31 board. @AllThingsPurple and I realized that especially for this game we need it to be fair on champion selection and how/who to attack.

Our Outer team indicated that this might be a bad time to do chat changes so to ping yall if we needed help.
Sorry I only just saw this - let me check. As an FYI I’m faster at responding to discord pings

Edit: Looks like someone has it covered already
 

Ephidel

How do you do, fellow mafia?
I don't actually feel like Kyan's comment is fair.

Now no, I don't believe that the activity in thread is solely down to people's actual availability at this point, I think confusion and a hit to morale have impacted contributions and some of that is on them for not finding a way to rally.

But timezones are not all the same, people have work and real life commitments. People can't just be available because a suddenly announced timeslot demands it. Especially when they weren't expecting it.
 
I don't actually feel like Kyan's comment is fair.

Now no, I don't believe that the activity in thread is solely down to people's actual availability at this point, I think confusion and a hit to morale have impacted contributions and some of that is on them for not finding a way to rally.

But timezones are not all the same, people have work and real life commitments. People can't just be available because a suddenly announced timeslot demands it. Especially when they weren't expecting it.

They could let the game runners know it doesn't work for them though, which no one did.
 
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