Will do ISOs on oreomunsta and Zubz since I realized I have no formed opinion on both of them.
oreomunsta ISO
Day 1
The true hero shows up on the scene! It's oreo, dressed as the almighty Android!!
No lynch on D1 is still a stupid idea to me. Why give scum such an uncontested first kill?
Also, while I do find Cool's opening move weird, I don't think that makes him a good lynch target. If it's Marvel, there's no way a Deadpool character wasn't thought up of, and I could see a Deadpool-esque role act in a miller role, and desire to be lynched quickly.
I've gone down this rabbit hole with monkey before, and it didn't end up good for town since she acted shady, but was still a gooder. To lynch a monkey, or not lynch a monkey? She's playing as I've seen her play town before, but she caused a lot of wifom grief for town in the late game.
I'd like to lynch someone who seems like they're playing it safe, but it's hard to say who until later in the day
Talking about some sort of meta town isn't gonna go anywhere, lol. This is an entirely different kind of game from the get go. It's not the new mechanics that make me say that, it's the number of people.
Worrying about how town used to be isn't going to help when things ramp up and there's too much to follow or track.
Where is that Jurassic Park glass of water gif when you need it? D:
Hmm... okay, that event was a shitshow, but after it, I'm leaning towards two options.
Vere seems to have thrown that event and made a lot of losers out of the players in it. I'm still not grasping all of the implications from that event, but I'll get back to it.
I'd be more interested in pursuing one of the players that lurked and hopped into the event out of the blue. It's a little rich coming from someone like me, who's also a low-poster, but it'd be an odd coincidence to suddenly just have an event come up the first time you check the thread :D
Vote: Rynam
... I'm hoping I did the vote right. I kept fucking it up in sneakers mafia ><
So, our options, then, are lynch melonrabbit, lynch Splinter, or no lynch on either. A tie will lead to no lynch, but that's not really a decision, so much as a circumstance
Vote: Splinter
I like melon more so far due to higher activity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Truth be told, I'm not really feeling a strong reason to go for either. Good job Thanos for not making it easy on us.
Giving my post a bump for those who are jumping back in while I go to sleep. Night! o/
His most active phase. Is against no lynch in his opening post, which gives him some townie points considering the flips in this game. Only votes later for Rynam after he shows up just to join on the event, while admitting that it's a bit hypocritical considering he's also a low activity player.
Moves that vote for Splinter during the Thunderdome, basing his vote on activity again. Doesn't come back for D1.8 lynch.
Day 2
This may be my first game where town pulled a scum lynch off the bat - that's Mahvel, baby!!
I have a suspicion that we saw as many deaths over the night as there are scummies left. It could very well be that scum do not have to come to a consensus in this game. If there were about 5 at the beginning, then giving them each a NK is a great way to balance a lower scum ratio in this game. The nice part is that this is somewhat testable... if we keep seeing high numbers of NK's, then that's strong support for my theory. It'd be unlikely for scum to not go for the NK's over a concern that I may be right.
Thoughts?
Yeah, pretty much. A scum team would have to be pretty dumb to not use multiple NK's just to disprove what I'm saying, so I do predict a constant multiple amount of NK's.
It's hard for me to predict role effects, but I think the multiple NK angle might give us something to work with. If I'm wrong, that'd be a happy error for town, since hopefully less NK's :]
So what would you take factional to mean? To me, it just means from the mafia faction. Is it because it only says kill, as in singular, that makes you think consensus still applies?
Hmm fair enough points. I'm gonna pocket my theory, though, and see what happens over the next few nights.
Also, hi hi buddy monkey! \o/ We haven't tried to lynch each other in forever. Really should make the time to catch up and accuse each other of scumminess
All his contributions this phase were mechanics speculation about the number of kills, which turned out to be wrong later. Monkey comments that she found this scummy, but that she also knows that oreo likes to talk about mechanics.
Day 3
Hey everyone! I'm sorry I haven't been very active at all the past few days. Will do my best to catch up over the last few pages to see what's up.
I'm actually surprised I haven't been lynched due to low activity :/
Yoshi is one of my Smash mains ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm trying to find the results of N2, to see if my multi-mafia NK theory held up
Just found the N2 results. Looks like I'm wrong about the mafia multi-kill theory :( Salva's Town Compulsory Hider role sounded hilarious, though.
This game is chaos. I have a fuggin physics degree, and this shit is harder to keep up with lol
Some fluff and a follow up on his D2 theory about the night kills.
Okie doke, I just read through some of the last few pages, and my most pressing thought is that ITA's look hella fun :( I'll be asleep during the next one, unfortunately.
I'd give Natiko a pretty easy pass for now for their call on Include.
Scum leans for now are
@Kalor (for hom3's sins) and
@CoolestSpot for their vote on Natiko that seems wishy washy.
Finally posts some reads. His read on Kalor is pretty safe since it's based on hom3's shot at Kawl after his green check, while his Coolest one is more interesting but we got no follow up thus far.
I'm about to turn in for the night, but will be more active in my free time so no more days-long gaps of inactivity from me :)...
Unless I get knocked out during the ITA. GL town :/
Day 4
What was the deal with AlexEm at the end of the last day phase? Don't understand much about what happened there apart from him not doing well to some pressure questions (?)
Sounds good, and thanks monkey for that. Odd how the vote didn't change off him after he voted himself, but I didn't check to see how much more time was left in that day
Fair enough. I'll concede, though, that it's way easier for me to make these statements in hindsight than it would have been if I was in that day end mess :D
If Blarg is indeed town, he's a great distraction to keep town from scumhunting
Takes a bit of time catching up with the thread and throws a bit of shade into Blarg, after decelerating him during N3. Only post directed towards Blarg.
Thanos's fist, be nice to Thanos. You need him, and he needs you.
You are like two parts of a whole
Damn, events are the best thing ever :]
I try to go on in my spare time, but that's only for a few hours in the evening. I don't know how some players can almost go all day and keep up with the chat :[
Mafia is basically a second job lol. One in which we don't get paid for, and if we're underperforming, we die o_____o
I, for one, was down with the pick
Event praise and some cool fluff.
True that. I've got no excuses, so gonna try to amend that :]
As per an earlier message of yours, I think using ITA's on the other low-posters sounds like an alright idea. The ITA's are low probability, whereas lynches are more valuable if used on more active players
Agrees that ITAs should be used on more low activity posters, but never uses them.
Happy birthday Zubz! Despite being a grandpa, you look amazing. Those Son family genes are nuts
At this moment, I'm still open to going for a low-activity player.... but I'm also open to Swamped or Sawneeks
Moreso Swamped, so before I lose the chance
Vote: Swamped
I don't get a good vibe from the way Swamped is playing right now. Brazil has made a good arguement for Swamped in earlier posts that I agree with.
As for you.... I actually goofed :D I thought it was you who laid down a drive-by vote on melonrabbit, but it was actually briefs_cat. Sorry about that!
Restates that he wants to go for low activity players, but follows Brazil's read on Swamped and votes for her instead.
Day 5
Okay, confession time. I'm a decelarator.
I targeted you Blarg to test out your claim back at N3. Decelerating just delays stuff by a day.
Blarg isn't lying, and Geno should have gotten his vest now
After N1 I theorized that scum could have multi-NK abilities... D2 put a halt on my theory, but now I'm wondering if I was half-right, and that the multi-NK comes into play on odd nights. By that logic, we may be in trouble tonight :<
Oh shit, hang on, you might be right :S Okay, I delayed Blarg's action on N3. So whoever should have received that gift should have received it today... Yeah.... Does that make me the reason that Zeke died? T~T
Brazil noted this on the last page.... So what's up with this?
I've only used the ability once on Blarg on N3. With the vast variety of roles in the game, I don't want to constantly risk blocking town. Blarg was suspicious enough to me to risk it that one time
*delaying, not blocking, I mean
Right. I don't think my power to delay is that great for investigating. It takes too long to get a result, and case in point, I might have had a big hand in some town players' deaths :<
Role claims that can delay an action by one day. Gets confused with what action he actually delayed after targeting Blarg during N3. Discovers that he apparently delayed the vest Ezekel got.
I'm back! And I'm ready to vote. This gone goes out to Kalor, for your desire to hit a strong town contender
Vote: Kalor
I was wrong about Swamped, though :< Makes me start doubting going after quieter players right now..
Votes for Kalor for his ITA shot and apologizes for pushing for Swamped.
Conclusion: Much more absent from the game that I remembered. Not a lot to go on at all and I think even LP managed to put more content into the game than he did. All most days he pushed for low activity players, adding that ITA should be used against them if possible, despite being one of them himself and never following it through since he never shot or really voted for one of them.
What really got into my mind now is that, on an initial read, I read his role claim as a townie move since it's a pretty NAI role and he came out with him unprovoked. But now I realized that his confusion on what he actually delayed could have been a distraction from the fact that he most lilkely played a part at killing Ezekel by delaying Blarg's vest. After all, as a scum role, delaying Blarg is a great idea; lessens the chance of hitting protection at Night and Blarg has also been open about his targets, so Scum can then find out which player will be defended the following Night. With the Day Kill scum have available, they could also confirm the kill on that player by targeting him during the day.
I think it's possible that scum! oreo got afraid of getting found out, maybe by LuxCommander, and decided to outright claim that.
Gotta add that I can't really see scum fake claiming a role like that but not coming up with D1 and D2 targets. I mean, that would be a really bold move considering he could just name some vanillas or dead players in a game this big.