Scum Thread Vampires, vampires, vampires... and some other folks, oh my!

heymonkey

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Welcome to BUFFY MAFIA (the high school years!) You're the scum team. Don't worry, you're still stylish. Well, some of you.

Here's your pool of safe fake claims:
Joyce
Anya
Harmony (this is pre-vampire Harmony)
Jonathan
Jenny Calendar
Kendra
Wesley Wyndam-Price
Percy
and then like, randos, because there are always randos


I'll let you post your own PMs and and all. Good luck trying to take the lead in this VERY SPECIAL EPISODE.
 

heymonkey

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Everyone has a PM now so I'm happy to welcome Devastatingly Strange (who has another name here), Benghis Khan, Ty4on, Brazil, and Sorian (DAMN, Sorian).

Go get 'em, tigers.
 

Ty4on

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Here's your pool of safe fake claims:
Joyce
Anya
Harmony (this is pre-vampire Harmony)
Jonathan
Jenny Calendar
Kendra
Wesley Wyndam-Price
Percy
and then like, randos, because there are always randos
*stupid look on face*

:|
 
Which one of you is Sawneeks in disguise?

I'm The Master, a 2-shot strong killer, and I'm looking forward to murdering people alongside you guys.

Let's take our revenge, Benghis.
 
And I'm planning on watching some Buffy over the next few days just so I don't fuck anything up hahaha
 

Ty4on

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Which one of you is Sawneeks in disguise?

I'm The Master, a 2-shot strong killer, and I'm looking forward to murdering people alongside you guys.

Let's take our revenge, Benghis.
I had to take a double check to see if Saw really was in this game
 

Ty4on

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With Sorian on my team I can finally figure out once and for all who will have the highest post count in scum chat.

(Obviously not me as I will be lynched D1 >.>)
 

heymonkey

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Ehm.... You must have made a mistake... I never roll mafia :S

YOU DID TODAY, SIR. YOU DID TODAY.

Role names and all fluff will reveal you as mafia to anyone who knows the show so... figure out some fake claims, friends. The Buffy Wiki is your god now.

And Benghis, you have a power... you are a very bad poet.

(it's not a real power)
 

Ty4on

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It seems we were the first to get PMs, hmm

That means we can figure out who town is by when they got their PM (:

(That's supposed to be a sarcastic upside down smiley)
 

Ty4on

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Weird to segment us odd/even tho

Makes me think I'm countering an odd only town pr
 
Yeah.

What alignment were you in your previous games btw?
Town. This is my second game :P

I'm planning on replicating my playstyle from the last one, as there are 6 players in this one who could eventually notice something off if I changed my behavior completely.
 

Ty4on

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Town. This is my second game :P

I'm planning on replicating my playstyle from the last one, as there are 6 players in this one who could eventually notice something off if I changed my behavior completely.
With just one game under your belt change in your play style is quite neutral.

Approach this sorta as a town game, figure out what you'd like to change to improve your town game so when people ask you can go "I voted there because I believe it's a better thing for town" etc.

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Scumming is an art I'm quite bad at lol.
It's sorta two-fold, you wanna put up a town image of yourself peeps don't wanna lynch. At the same time though we have a specific goal here we wanna achieve and can't just bus everybody on our team.

I'm not sure if meta might've changed a bit here, but in the past invisible scum have done really well thanks to low pressure on inactive players. It has also been important not to stick out.

Another thing that was the case in the last games I played were very late votes. This is beneficial in keeping the pressure off us and holding townies in positions where they can easily be a snap judgement in a quick vote, but does make the lynch less predictable.

Stay calm, overreacting can get you killed as town too. Most stress more as scum so just remember how clueless town can be even when they're on a track that looks like the right one.

I'm not sure why I'm saying this like an authority knowing my skills :p

Listen to Sorian I guess... I think he's won a couple of scum games...
 
With just one game under your belt change in your play style is quite neutral.

Approach this sorta as a town game, figure out what you'd like to change to improve your town game so when people ask you can go "I voted there because I believe it's a better thing for town" etc.

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Scumming is an art I'm quite bad at lol.
It's sorta two-fold, you wanna put up a town image of yourself peeps don't wanna lynch. At the same time though we have a specific goal here we wanna achieve and can't just bus everybody on our team.

I'm not sure if meta might've changed a bit here, but in the past invisible scum have done really well thanks to low pressure on inactive players. It has also been important not to stick out.

Another thing that was the case in the last games I played were very late votes. This is beneficial in keeping the pressure off us and holding townies in positions where they can easily be a snap judgement in a quick vote, but does make the lynch less predictable.

Stay calm, overreacting can get you killed as town too. Most stress more as scum so just remember how clueless town can be even when they're on a track that looks like the right one.

I'm not sure why I'm saying this like an authority knowing my skills :p

Listen to Sorian I guess... I think he's won a couple of scum games...
Those are great tips. Indeed, in the game I played, the last two surviving (and winning) scum were the ones that hid in plain sight the entire game. I think we need to diversify our styles, though. It wouldn't hurt to have someone out there playing more aggressively. Maybe not on D1, but still.

Late votes were also a thing in the other game and they were really stressful from a town perspective.

I'll try meditating haha
 
And something I just thought of: Terra will definitely stick out on D1. He throws a lot of questions around even on D1, and he's terribly persistent. So a good strategy for D1 regarding him would be to answer his questions succinctly and try to stay off his radar.

Hopefully another town will antagonize him and it ends up being a thunderdome-light situation.
 

Ty4on

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And something I just thought of: Terra will definitely stick out on D1. He throws a lot of questions around even on D1, and he's terribly persistent. So a good strategy for D1 regarding him would be to answer his questions succinctly and try to stay off his radar.

Hopefully another town will antagonize him and it ends up being a thunderdome-light situation.
I haven't yet read any of his games in detail yet, but I agree that it'll be a thing to look out for. That's how you really should play to weed out scum in plain sight.

Those are great tips. Indeed, in the game I played, the last two surviving (and winning) scum were the ones that hid in plain sight the entire game. I think we need to diversify our styles, though. It wouldn't hurt to have someone out there playing more aggressively. Maybe not on D1, but still.

Late votes were also a thing in the other game and they were really stressful from a town perspective.

I'll try meditating haha
If someone active who otherwise sticks out starts lurking though it'll stick out like a sore thumb too lol

I use it like a general tip and I know it's been effective. Someone like Sorian as an example is a known quantity and will be visible regardless of what he does.
 

Ty4on

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I know the basics of Terra that he is active in prodding and good at reading people and has experience. Caught a few posts when I mentored Coolest Spot.
 

Ty4on

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Reading it I looked forward to play town with him >.<

I'll try not to suck this game
 

heymonkey

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I have faith in you, Ty! I think/hope this is gonna be fun no matter what happens.
 
Town. This is my second game :P

I'm planning on replicating my playstyle from the last one, as there are 6 players in this one who could eventually notice something off if I changed my behavior completely.
Here hold my beer. I'll show you how to go from one playstyle to another one game right after another. Wooooo!
 
And something I just thought of: Terra will definitely stick out on D1. He throws a lot of questions around even on D1, and he's terribly persistent. So a good strategy for D1 regarding him would be to answer his questions succinctly and try to stay off his radar.

Hopefully another town will antagonize him and it ends up being a thunderdome-light situation.
I have spent the last 4 games on gamefaqs as scum and I rolled scum here. I basically idled out in three of them so I am confident that as long as I come bringing fire, terra will read me town. Also anyone from the previous game I had here is going to expect me to be crazy.
 
Also while we have time we should all get an idea of what we want to safe claim and who we want to safe claim as. It's better to have that ready instead of getting stuck in a spot where you have to come up with it on the spot.
 

Ty4on

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I have spent the last 4 games on gamefaqs as scum and I rolled scum here. I basically idled out in three of them so I am confident that as long as I come bringing fire, terra will read me town. Also anyone from the previous game I had here is going to expect me to be crazy.
Did you play in that recent game Terra was in?
 

Ty4on

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I think Geno was scum. Terra bragged about figuring out much of the scum team there.
 

heymonkey

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Also while we have time we should all get an idea of what we want to safe claim and who we want to safe claim as. It's better to have that ready instead of getting stuck in a spot where you have to come up with it on the spot.
especially since you jerks aren't awesome enough to get my witty PMs and buffy knowledge

NO ONE APPRECIATES ME
 
Also while we have time we should all get an idea of what we want to safe claim and who we want to safe claim as. It's better to have that ready instead of getting stuck in a spot where you have to come up with it on the spot.
I've set aside some time later today to dive deep into the Wiki.

The things we do for murder.
 

Ty4on

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Me and Geno were scum and we bussed Geno hard day 1. If i hadn't of gotten myself modkilled it would have been a very different game.
:'(

I always roll town so I don't have that much experience as scum, think I had something like 12 town games before rolling scum and this is my third time lol.
Bussing wise tho I can fall into the trap of panic bussing and I view the threat of being lynched too much in a binary way.
 
Don't worry about it. If you see one of us make a mistake and you aren't currently engaged in discussion with someone else jump on it. If you are in a heated discussion with other people it's a lot easier to ignore minor slip ups from your team mates.
 

Sorian

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Sorry all, been super busy but I promise to make time once the game starts.

For the like 3rd time in a row, I'm just a mafia goon.

I guess I lied to you a few weeks back Ty, this new job is giving me less time instead of more -_-
 

Sorian

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Also two goons and the mix that we have tells me this game will be fairly vanilla. Maybe one surprise in there.
 

Ty4on

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I guess I lied to you a few weeks back Ty, this new job is giving me less time instead of more -_-
Aww :(
Also two goons and the mix that we have tells me this game will be fairly vanilla. Maybe one surprise in there.
Ya. Especially with two roles being nerfed to even/odd making it more like a single role split in two.

I'm kinda wondering what the strongman is countering. Is a jailor likely? They get very powerful late game, but we have a role cop to slightly reduce the chance of them surviving and my block gives us a chance of fighting them after losing the strongman.

Role cop bring nerfed could be a way of preventing scum from scanning every town role because there aren't many.
 
Also two goons and the mix that we have tells me this game will be fairly vanilla. Maybe one surprise in there.
I'd bet little amounts of money on a neutral role of some kind. Maybe one with a protection-focused power, that my Strong kills would be a counter for.
 
Now that I read it again, it says "you can't use both in the same night", but I don't know if "you" is "me" or "us", haha.
 

heymonkey

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Strong is a modifier. It would replace the typical faction kill for the evening. I'm not giving you jerks an extra kill. Go watch Buffy.
 

Sorian

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Congrats, though, i hope, on new job?

More pay and I don't have to work overnights anymore so that's a plus.

I doubt the neutral will specifically be protection based, it could be but nothing specifically points to it.
 

heymonkey

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Hey dudes, I'm glad to see there's some good robust discussion in here already and I love the analysis. But I will ask you to keep your preplanning to a minimum since you got such a headstart, k? Certainly discuss a little but let's not put game-levels of effort in here, okay? Not to rain on your parade, but.
 
Hey dudes, I'm glad to see there's some good robust discussion in here already and I love the analysis. But I will ask you to keep your preplanning to a minimum since you got such a headstart, k? Certainly discuss a little but let's not put game-levels of effort in here, okay? Not to rain on your parade, but.
So you want us to reserve game talk until the game starts?

Also, this is exactly what I love about watching Corrik play.
 

cabot

Why.
I disagree with Monkey's clampdown, but she is the buffy to me being some random side character in buffy.

So I guess what I'm saying is mostly worthless.



Oh well. Good luck or something.
 
As soon as Terra and Geno started talking about Corrik, I went ahead and read some of his games on GFAQs. I had something extremely antagonistic lined up for him in case I played the other game.

But it wasn’t meant to be hahaha
 

Ty4on

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As soon as Terra and Geno started talking about Corrik, I went ahead and read some of his games on GFAQs. I had something extremely antagonistic lined up for him in case I played the other game.

But it wasn’t meant to be hahaha
Links? o.o

I hate browsing FAQ, never got used to it.
 

Ty4on

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Note:
If someone asks how you checked in without posting, say that you just replied to your role PM.
 

Sorian

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I'll probably mention in game that work and time still hasn't been kind to me so there's no risk of one of you mentioning offhand when you shouldn't know.
 

Ty4on

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I'll probably mention in game that work and time still hasn't been kind to me so there's no risk of one of you mentioning offhand when you shouldn't know.
I think the meta also could make peeps suspicious of you for low activity.

You'll be suspicious regardless lol, but if they read the invitation they could draw lines between those two games.
You have a tendency of surviving to lylo as the most suspicious person so maybe it's not such a bad thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll sorta go by the flow reading you. I kinda end up focusing a lot on you D1, but I never really see myself voting for you early or anything.
 
This is the board he seems to play in. Thread post limits are minuscule there. It sounds like a harsh setup to play in.
The biggest reason for it right now is our community is kind of dying a little bit, that's why Terra, me(IfGodCouldDie,) Geno and Corrik have come over here.
 

Ty4on

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The biggest reason for it right now is our community is kind of dying a little bit, that's why Terra, me(IfGodCouldDie,) Geno and Corrik have come over here.
Do you mean that there's only one mafia board left because it has kinda been dying?
 
Do you mean that there's only one mafia board left because it has kinda been dying?
The mafia board is actually only a year old. Mafia used to be played on the contest board and current events. When they finally gave us the ability to create social boards we thought bringing both communities together would be helpful and strengthen the community... It did not.
 

Sorian

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I think the meta also could make peeps suspicious of you for low activity.

You'll be suspicious regardless lol, but if they read the invitation they could draw lines between those two games.
You have a tendency of surviving to lylo as the most suspicious person so maybe it's not such a bad thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll sorta go by the flow reading you. I kinda end up focusing a lot on you D1, but I never really see myself voting for you early or anything.

I'm suspicious if I do or don't post and do or don't find scum so it doesn't really matter.

I just don't want one of you caught out for knowing more than others.
 

heymonkey

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And sorry, Monkey. I’m too anxious, haha.
Oh, it's fine, I don't mind y'all doing some pregaming, especially with the fake claims, but it was starting to be a lot and a three day advantage is a big one. Anyway, you can't throw me over. I'll just eat cabot.

I'm no expert at this game, but I think you all could be scum to be honest.
GASP
 

Ty4on

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Palmer isn't quite right with wolf=scum, it's almost always short for mafia. I think scum was popularized in mafiascum.

/very relevant content

I guess all of us are disqualified from being console mafia replacements... :P
 

Ty4on

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I'm not sure actually tho. Mafia is so big it has a ton of dialects with different terms. Those I've seen use werewolf terms though generally avoid using "scum" entirely unless they're used to using mafia terms.
 
No way, man. No way.

How bad does it look?
She had a fever since Sarurday and we took her to her pediatrician Wednesday and they did blood work. Turns out they called us last night but we were both asleep, because her red blood cell count was down to 44 from 120 in June. My wife is taking her to get a blood transfusion right now and I am waiting for a replacement at work so I can go join them at the hospital. It's not guaranteed to be leukemia, it could also be a form of enimia where and in that case she would require a bone marrow transplant.
 
She had a fever since Sarurday and we took her to her pediatrician Wednesday and they did blood work. Turns out they called us last night but we were both asleep, because her red blood cell count was down to 44 from 120 in June. My wife is taking her to get a blood transfusion right now and I am waiting for a replacement at work so I can go join them at the hospital. It's not guaranteed to be leukemia, it could also be a form of enimia where and in that case she would require a bone marrow transplant.
I'm praying for her and you and your wife, man. Let's hope it's just some minor issue that will easily be solved.
 

heymonkey

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I'll keep y'all in my thoughts. As a fellow parent I know anything with the kids can be terrifying. Here's hoping for health and strength.
 

heymonkey

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Swamped will be replacing Deva; she has the PM and will be in shortly.
 
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