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Welcome to the scum chat!

1. The scum team is: EvilChameleon, AllThingsPurple, Bojack Horseman, and jman1954goat
2. Your fake claims are: Westley, Rodrigo Belmonte, Sam Vimes, Geralt of Rivia
3. You may post your role PMs in this thread.
4. Important game mechanic! At the beginning on each day I will be randomly selecting one of you to flip with a random town role should you be killed. You will not be told who gets selected each day.

Have fun!
 
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Hey team!

Here is my role:

Welcome to Fantasy Star Mafia!

You are Prince Humperdinck and you are a Two-Shot Role blocker.

You are aligned with the Villains of the Fiction Section (that is MAFIA).

You win when mafia takes up 50% of the remaining players.

All you want to do is marry Princess Buttercup, murder her, frame the neighboring country, go to war, and win more territory and will stop anyone who gets in your way. At night you can role block another player by submitting the command: Block: Target. You have two shots of this power.

In addition to your ability, you and your teammates have a factional kill each night that can be used by submitting the command Kill: Target.
 
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jman1954goat

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Im so stupid I posted this as a joke in the thread before I received my role PM

mine says I'm mafia. :)

This was before i got my role I would have never posted this if i knew I was actually mafia

Im freaking out.
 
Im literally trembling right now Purple

I will start working on Fake Claims right now to calm my nerves.


who's westley?

I Never use Mod provided Fake claims

I will start working on finding a character to use.

Westley is the hero of the Princess bride, my character is the villain.
 

jman1954goat

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I am, Mr. Wednesday a Jack of all Trades

I have 1 Heal, 1 Switch, and 1 Nexus (all powers targeting me that night get redirected to other players)
 

EvilChameleon

Are you scum?
Welcome to Fantasy Star Mafia!

You are Randall Flagg, The Man in Black and you are a Godfather.

You are aligned with the Villains of the Fiction Section (that is MAFIA).

You win when mafia takes up 50% of the remaining players.

Everything revolves around your machinations but you prefer to stay in the background as much as possible and thus will show up as vanilla town in any checks against you.

You and your teammates have a factional kill each night that can be used by submitting the command Kill: Target

Oh boy.
 

jman1954goat

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The first Thought was Claiming Daenerys Targaryen and Saying I was a Mason in my opening Post.

I am in a unique position to claim mason since my first post comes 12-18 hours in the day.
 
I'm not really a gambit kind of guy, so I'm not sure what to advise. Danaerys could make sense as a miller I guess if the flavour was using the show.
 

jman1954goat

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actually thats a bad idea since one of us might randomly flip with a town role

in general that will make fake claims A little awkward
 

jman1954goat

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I'm not really a gambit kind of guy, so I'm not sure what to advise. Danaerys could make sense as a miller I guess if the flavour was using the show.
Its easier to make Gambits when your on your own. If I was neutral I would 100% fake claim Miller.

I am worried about messing this up for the rest of the team though.
 
Oh boy here we go!

Loving this team already. We're either going to be the best or a glorious mess, and I am here for both of those scenarios.

Jman don't worry, I think we're going to have a great time and I'm super pumped.
 
I think we just gotta try and play our usual game, I nearly always get town read early when I am town so gotta try and channel that energy. Shit post a lot early. Maybe put a joke vote down early and leave it there for a while, be contrarian and try and get Launch onside, I think of all the people playing he's the one who would town read me vocally if I can pull it off.
 
You are Mr. Teatime and you are a Two-Shot Ninja.

You are aligned with the Villains of the Fiction Section (that is MAFIA).

You win when mafia takes up 50% of the remaining players.

As a post-graduate assassin you are uniquely qualified to stealthy kill someone without anyone seeing you. At night in lieu of the factional kill you may send the command Shadow Kill: Target and remain undetectable for that action. You have two shots of this power.

If you choose not to use your ability or you are out of shots, you and your teammates have a factional kill each night that can be used by submitting the command Kill: Target.
 

jman1954goat

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14 town and 4 scum seem fair? Or is there probably a neutral in the mix?
This is a bastard game so I am expecting some neutral tomfoolery.

Just like when were town and a neutral doesn't really change how we hunt.

the presence of neutral should not alter our game plan in any way.
 

jman1954goat

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I don't plan to Bus anyone unless you are red checked or make some obviously slip other players pick up on first.
 

jman1954goat

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Since we have a Tracker I think nobody should use abilities unless they really need too.

I most likely will submit no night action night 1 unless something specific comes up.

@AllThingsPurple you should probably not use Roleblock night 1 unless you have a really good read

@BoJack Horseman Ninja Kill probably can be saved for later unless you get suspected Day 1

we just got to have least suspected player use night Kill and if we all get Sussy looks early we go ahead and use Ninja early
 

jman1954goat

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I don't mean to sound Bossy just sharing my strategy suggestions

If you disagree feel free to let me know and tell me my strategy flaws.
 

jman1954goat

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I'm studying mystery mafia as a guide how to my play since it was a recent game with 3/4 of us and we were all town.
 

jman1954goat

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Well I don't have to actually do any work until tomorrow.

I hope people don't shitpost too long it annoys me just as much as scum as it does as town.
 

EvilChameleon

Are you scum?
I'd like to have our target selected and locked in with more than an hour to go in the day, if possible. Things get a little dicey near the end of these days sometimes.
 

jman1954goat

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. Things get a little dicey near the end of these days sometimes.
I mean Half of my Voting strategy is to throw the vote into Choas at the last moment to see how people react.

I will try to do so in a way that gives us an advantage but just warning the squad my votes might get wacky in some of these end of day scenarios.
 
Yeah I think especially D1 we want to see how it plays out. Need to get a feel for the room first.

If you want to let us know your plans/thoughts EC to keep us in the loop then by all means post them.
 

EvilChameleon

Are you scum?
Right now I'm going to play this game as I usually do, but if things get dicey I will subtly switch to something more advanced.
 

jman1954goat

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Nobody should be the Last hammer vote on Geno ever in case he is a Bomb or something wacky.

I don't buy for a second he is just a pure jester.

Geno has given me something to talk about for a bit when I make my appearance sinK am grateful.
 

jman1954goat

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Alright I will suss Geno's Jester claim. Wax on about the pros and cons of killing him now vs mid game vs post game. Maybe throw a vote there as a test.

Still need more juice to work with in my opening post so as always I will keep waiting for people to do stuff before posting.
 
Any chance Geno is a power role doing a gambit and we actually need to night Kill him?

It would be a risky gambit given there is a reasonable chance he could end up being the vote today.

If he is neutral ideally we want him to stay in as long as possible.

We know he's not scum, so he's either town or neutral and the claim doesn't make much sense as town.
 

jman1954goat

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It would be a risky gambit given there is a reasonable chance he could end up being the vote today.

If he is neutral ideally we want him to stay in as long as possible.

We know he's not scum, so he's either town or neutral and the claim doesn't make much sense as town.
He could be a good alternative Day vote of we get into a situation were in of us is on the chopping block.
 

jman1954goat

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Holy shit lightbulb. What if I claimed Nexus day 1 ?

that stops all cops from checking me.

only downside is if vigilante wants to take a shot at me for claiming.
 

jman1954goat

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Does anyone remember the name of any past games that have had a nexus?

I dont . Mr.Hedin can't remember either

I would love to read how the role works and towns reaction to it.
 
I'm a naturally risk-averse person so I personally wouldn't go near that kind of gambit lol

Geno claimed and look how much suspicion that got. A D1 claim would just raise eyebrows if you ask me, almost like you're asking for people to look into you. Just my two cents.
 
Also, on the Geno claim, don't know what to make of it. I'm sure there's something funky at play.

Could they be a scum-only kill jester? Like they only win if we kill them instead of town? And they're baiting us in?

Or are they simply a normal jester and claimed knowing we would probably target them as a strong member of the community, but now they're jester, we won't want to do that.
 
Also, on the Geno claim, don't know what to make of it. I'm sure there's something funky at play.

Could they be a scum-only kill jester? Like they only win if we kill them instead of town? And they're baiting us in?

Or are they simply a normal jester and claimed knowing we would probably target them as a strong member of the community, but now they're jester, we won't want to do that.

Its hard to know, I don't know what town geno is even like. My experience with scum geno tells me there is something more up.
 

jman1954goat

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I'm a naturally risk-averse person so I personally wouldn't go near that kind of gambit lol

Geno claimed and look how much suspicion that got. A D1 claim would just raise eyebrows if you ask me, almost like you're asking for people to look into you. Just my two cents.
I thrive in the spotlight I think it could have worked.

doesn't matter how only reason to take claim is to avoid red checks but we may have a good cop kill lichens up anyway
I pretty sure nexus is nearly always a scum role, I wouldn't claim it.
Can I go with my of claim of nexus generator which is a 2 shot turn another into nexus?

This is not a day 1 claim but a I'm in trouble / mass claim time claim.
 

jman1954goat

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We have a few players willing to vote Geno.

If town sentiment flips to a Geno kill without us having to lead the wagon

Chef's Kiss
 
I'm back and reading all this by the way.

Was going to jump in but I'm just letting it play out at the moment. Let town talk themselves into it.
 
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