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Natiko

Town's Friendly Neighborhood Serial Killer
Welcome to MGS Mafia! All the rules of the main thread still apply here.
 

Natiko

Town's Friendly Neighborhood Serial Killer
You have the following safe claims:

Mei Ling
Venom Snake
D-Horse
Paz
Thermal Goggles
 

Chuggernaut

HONK HONK MF
Welcome,

You are Sigint the JOAT Patriot.

You are aligned with the The Patriots.

You are teamed with:
Fanto, Lone_Prodigy, and Ephidel

Nothing to see here! Just a normal DARPA Chief, definitely nothing to worry about. You are a Godfather meaning you will show as town for any alignment checks. You have a 1-shot Bulletproof Vest. Each night you can PM the gamerunner the command ROLEBLOCK: (NAME). Your target will be blocked from doing actions that night. You are also a Watcherand will learn the name of any player that visited your target that night. You also have the ability to vote.

You win when you control a majority of the vote, when all non-Patriots have a bomb planted, OR when all non-Patriots are infected by FOXDIE.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
Well Chugg, I hope you're happy, we're Scum together finally lol.

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You are Fatman the Bomb Planter.

You are aligned with the The Patriots.

You are teamed with:
TheChuggernaut, Lone_Prodigy, and Ephidel

You won't be late for this party. Each night you can PM the gamerunner the command PLANT: (NAME) to plant a bomb on a player. When all non-faction players have a bomb planted on them your faction will instantly win. You are also a 1-shot Vote Bomb and once per game at night you can PM the gamerunner the command VOTE BOMB: (NAME) to turn your target into a vote bomb without them being informed. This means when they are voted out one player EXCLUDING your faction will be selected via RNG to die alongside the player being voted out. You also have the ability to vote.

You win when you control a majority of the vote, when all non-Patriots have a bomb planted, OR when all non-Patriots are infected by FOXDIE.
 

Chuggernaut

HONK HONK MF
I’m going to number my posts and not explain why. I think we should go for targets at night that are actually kind of hard to hit. If we end up with a no kill night, I’ll claim I’m BP, lost my vest, and that I was numbering my posts to make scum think I had an important role. If I do actually get shot later and lose my BP, I’ll claim I had more than one and I only claimed one to get scum to waste another.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
Ocelot is definitely a Neutral, wouldn't be surprised if he also has like 3 different win cons.

I suppose another faction might be like XOF or whatever, Skullface giving people vocal cord parasites or something.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
I'm so totally going to panic if Monkey catches on to me at any point lol.

My one goal is for her to be genuinely surprised by my flip if it happens, that's all lol.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
Ah, actually, Big Boss and friends might be a second Scum team tbh. It's not like Big Boss was a good guy, that's Snake/Otacon and friends, who are probably Town.

Looking at the fake claims we have above, it seems like, similar to Death Stranding Mafia, common items are also flavor names for Town. So someone is probably the Cardboard Box for example.
 

Ephidel

How do you do, fellow mafia?
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Hello!
Nice to meet you and/or play with you!
I'll try not to do anything astoundingly stupid this game!

However it's almost a given that I'm going to at some point
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I literally said to Loki the other day "I don't want to roll scum yet, I'll be deadweight, and they'll hate me for not doing voting stuff the way they do" but clearly the RNG had other ideas
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I'm going to start off by being blunt though. I really can't engage with any of that scum voting pattern wagon splitting stuff. I know people seem to love that stuff, but I just can't. Even if I tried I'd just look awfully fake, and it would send up a signal flare to the admittedly small number of people who might have paid any attention to how I've voted in previous games.

I think my best shot is just to play how I usually do and hope the masses can cover for me.
And if that means at some point you all see me as a brilliant bus target, I'm going to have to accept that.
 

Ephidel

How do you do, fellow mafia?
My role.

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You are Para-Medic the Bulletproof and Lynchproof.

You are aligned with the The Patriots.

You are teamed with:
TheChuggernaut, Fanto, and Lone_Prodigy

You may not be parachuting onto the battlefield, but you sure as hell are hard to kill! You have a 1-shot Bulletproof Vest and are 1-shot Lynchproof. You also have the ability to vote.

You win when you control a majority of the vote, when all non-Patriots have a bomb planted, OR when all non-Patriots are infected by FOXDIE.
 

Ephidel

How do you do, fellow mafia?
Our additional win conditions are... messy looking?

The bombs I now know are Fanto. Does that mean the Foxdie is LP?
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
I am guessing that LP has the FOXDIE, yeah, otherwise it would be something outside of our control, which would be kind of weird.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
I am going to give a 100% guarantee that there is a second faction in this game lol.

If there isn't, you can only blame Natiko, not me lol. :P
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
Seriously though, we have at least 2 BP vests and only 4 of us in a 28 player game. There's no way there's just some lone Neutrals running around on their own to make up the rest of the Town:Not Town ratio. It's either a Cult style faction, or a second Scum team, and my money is on second Scum team. I can easily imagine an Outer Heaven Scum team of like, Big Boss, Miller, and Huey.

So it would be like, The La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo (us), Outer Heaven (2nd Scum Team), Ocelot (Neutral), and the Good Guys (Town, as per the sample Role PM).
 

Lone_Prodigy

Am I at 10 posts yet?
You are Zero the FOXDIE Infector.

You are aligned with the The Patriots.

You are teamed with:
TheChuggernaut, Fanto, and Ephidel

Okay I don't have a good flavor reason for this one. Sue me. Each night you can PM the gamerunner the command INFECT: (NAME) to infect a player with FOXDIE. When all non-faction players have been infected with FOXDIE your faction will instantly win. You are also a 1-shot Instant Infector and once per game at night you can PM the gamerunner the command INSTANT INFECTION: (NAME) to infect a player with a fast acting FOXDIE without them being informed. This means at the end of the upcoming day phase they will die. You also have the ability to vote.
 

Lone_Prodigy

Am I at 10 posts yet?
I assume there are counters for our roles? A defuse or antidote? Even though they're benign? Since it's role madness we'll need fake claims too.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
LP being Zero just makes my theory even more sound!

Everyone but me has a legit spot in the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo tbh.

I'm just Fatman, a useful pawn who allowed the S3 plan to work out during the Big Shell Incident.

But you 3?

Founding members of the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo!

But where is Big Boss?

On the second Scum team, of course!

And what about Ocelot?

On his own, being a quintuple agent, of course!

I rest my flavor case.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
Am I missing something obvious here or is LP the only one of us who can actually kill someone?
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Oh fuck, let's make this clear for sure. As someone who left out the kill ability from a Mafia team's Role PMs on accident once, we need to find out for sure.

@Natiko, do we have a factional kill ability?
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
(Also, if we don't, it's even more obvious that I'm right! Because of course the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo wouldn't have a factional kill, they would be more covert about it, like our abilities allow for. But Big Boss? He'd just kill people to win, and use child soldiers if he had to!)

Oh my god, Big Boss is a Cult Leader, fuck that's so obvious. And they have a factional kill, because fuck, that's who they are, omg. Yes! Solved it!
 

Natiko

Town's Friendly Neighborhood Serial Killer
Oh fuck, let's make this clear for sure. As someone who left out the kill ability from a Mafia team's Role PMs on accident once, we need to find out for sure.

@Natiko, do we have a factional kill ability?
Your role PMs are correct as is.
 

Chuggernaut

HONK HONK MF
Okay so me and Ephi are here to not die and Fanto and LP are the ways to our win con. So if they both die me and Ephi just get to chill and try not to die
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
Ok, so we know that we don't have a factional kill.

This almost certainly means there is another team that does have a factional kill.

That team may or may not be a Big Boss Cult, but a Big Boss Cult definitely exists either way, I'm sure of it.

So we've got at least 2, and possibly 3 factions to worry about besides Town. I am also positive that Ocelot is a Neutral on his own, he just has to be.

This is a good thing though, because as mentioned above, it makes it easier to Scum Hunt when you know you aren't the only Scum team. Just keep that in mind, there will be other people being legit Scummy out there, because they are also Scum lol. So try to still vote for people you think are being Scummy, it could end up helping a lot with that sweet, sweet Town Cred™.

And as for some quick fake claim brainstorming, no need to consider this a final list or anything, just some early ideas based on those flavor names we got:

Mei Ling - Hmmm, probably some kind of motion detector, since she developed the Soliton Radar system.
Venom Snake - This would be good for a BP Vest claim.
D-Horse - Lol, something funny would be best for this one.
Paz - Tough one, maybe a Miller or something? Would need to commit to it real early to go down that path though.
Thermal Goggles - Watcher perhaps?
 

Chuggernaut

HONK HONK MF
Yeah, I was going to go for the Venom Snake claim, but maybe it would be better if Ephi took that and I went Thermal Goggles.
 

Chuggernaut

HONK HONK MF
Probably safer then my weird number post game. We have to play a weird game where we don't look too townie as to not get night killed. Me and Ephi will be fine, but it would suck to have Fanto and LP picked off by another team
 

Ephidel

How do you do, fellow mafia?
Honestly, I would feel... iffy? taking a prominent character as a fake claim.

Pending an ITAfest I expect my voteproof to be more visible than my bulletproof (... I probably just jinxed myself there).

If I claim it's going to be because I'm about to be voted out and it's the polite thing to do as town to warn my fellow townies they're about to blow their chance to get proper flip results by doing so.

They'll probably call my bluff but hopefully afterwards they'll stick me on the back burner for a bit.
Hopefully?

... But taking a lead character?
Maybe when nobody counter claims they buy it but I feel like that's just going to scream "keep looking at me, maybe I can do other bs too"

Being a protagonist would probably look better on you (and godfather means you'll actually flag as town).

I'd probably feel better off taking the horse and spinning some bs about outrunning my deaths or shitting so people slip and miss me.
At last people might laugh at that.
And after that, hopefully focus on other people instead of the horse of potentially known quantity?
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
I'd probably feel better off taking the horse and spinning some bs about outrunning my deaths or shitting so people slip and miss me.
At last people might laugh at that.
And after that, hopefully focus on other people instead of the horse of potentially known quantity?
This is good, yes lol. Also good point about Venom Snake, that's a conspicuous claim that will attract attention, probably best for the Godfather to handle it if anyone.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
Just going to leave this here so that in the event one of us goes down, we can post this before we die lol:

To begin with -- we're not what you'd call -- human. Over the past two hundred years -- A kind of consciousness formed layer by layer in the crucible of the White House. It's not unlike the way life started in the oceans four billion years ago. The White House was our primordial soup, a base of evolution -- We are formless. We are the very discipline and morality that Americans invoke so often. How can anyone hope to eliminate us? As long as this nation exists, so will we.

Or you could always just post this one:
I hear its amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hari Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
Feign said:
The train thing is important for reasons that will be very clear by the end of Day 1 and that's all I'm saying for now.
Just making a note of this in case he's trying to hint at a power of some kind. I realize this is Role Madness, but still, if something happens with votes it might be something he did.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
Tempted to use the roleblock and virus kill on Feign just for fun
Wouldn't be a bad idea tbh. Liquid's crew (I'm almost certain this is the second Scum team's flavor btw) probably won't kill him tonight, and I highly doubt there is any counter to our FOXDIE, so if we want to make sure he dies as soon as possible, he would be a good target. Roleblocking might be unnecessary because that might just be bait talk from him, but making sure he dies soon is still worth it imo.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
If I end up exploding from this, I am quite sorry
I've been debating whether or not to bus you for the last few hours tbh lol, like others in there have now started saying, that thing between you and Ty4on looked bad, you escalated it a lot out of nowhere and it felt really forced to me. Also didn't like your posts about Feign's claim. I could make a great (and obviously correct) case for you as Scum right now lol. :P

I'll probably bring that up in a read list and move you to someone I'd vote for, Monkey will probably like that, but I'll also just have a bunch of low-count posters in there too that I'll actually vote for, and unless it was like a totally done deal, my final vote of the day wouldn't land on you.
 

Chuggernaut

HONK HONK MF
I've been debating whether or not to bus you for the last few hours tbh lol, like others in there have now started saying, that thing between you and Ty4on looked bad, you escalated it a lot out of nowhere and it felt really forced to me. Also didn't like your posts about Feign's claim. I could make a great (and obviously correct) case for you as Scum right now lol. :P

I'll probably bring that up in a read list and move you to someone I'd vote for, Monkey will probably like that, but I'll also just have a bunch of low-count posters in there too that I'll actually vote for, and unless it was like a totally done deal, my final vote of the day wouldn't land on you.

Eh you do you. I'mma keep town reading you forever.

Also that's kind of funny because I'm pretty sure I'm right about both of them.
 

Lone_Prodigy

Am I at 10 posts yet?
Day's still young and it's a big game, someone else will get into the spotlight. Call it out if you see it but add it to a list of things to notice.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
I'm putting together a read list now, so I'm fine taking suggestions on how to handle it. I just feel like it's something Town Fanto would call out, but idk how to go about it.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
@TheChuggernaut this is what I have put down for you in my reads right now:

Chugg, man, I was just getting some bad vibes from him once he started going at it with Ty, and I didn't really like his Neutral speculations about Feign either, that whole sequence from him felt a bit forced and overplayed. I've been hardcore fooled by Chugg plenty of times, but I've also sniffed him out early too, so I don't want to let this slide if I'm on to something, I need to trust my instinct on that feeling and call it out.

I can also completely wipe that clean, switch Ty4on to a Scum read, and throw you in my Would Not Vote list, I can easily bullshit that together if you'd rather not have the pressure coming from me, I understand.
 

Chuggernaut

HONK HONK MF
@TheChuggernaut this is what I have put down for you in my reads right now:



I can also completely wipe that clean, switch Ty4on to a Scum read, and throw you in my Would Not Vote list, I can easily bullshit that together if you'd rather not have the pressure coming from me, I understand.

I mean I would personally not like to hard bus this early, but I'll deal with it if you think it's the best choice. You have to do what you have to do
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
I mean I would personally not like to hard bus this early, but I'll deal with it if you think it's the best choice. You have to do what you have to do
Well, I'll go ahead and change things up here then, like I said, I can still make a believable case the other way around too.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
I was about to come talk to Ephi in here too now that I quoted her lol.

We've been kind of quiet in here today, but we should def be talking about things as much as possible together, that's of course one of the main benefits of being Scum is being able to bounce things off your teammates and work together in the game thread.
 

Ephidel

How do you do, fellow mafia?
I'm having fun!
Still working on finding my feet though ^^;

Might need to make some more friends to gaslight though, it's tricky when you don't really know folks yet
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Chuggernaut

HONK HONK MF
Thought you asking me about reads was a good idea. We should probably try to do that more tbh. Feel like it’s something we did a lot so hopefully it comes across as natural, and will make people question us being on the same together when one of us flips.
 

Chuggernaut

HONK HONK MF
I'm having fun!
Still working on finding my feet though ^^;

Might need to make some more friends to gaslight though, it's tricky when you don't really know folks yet
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Glad you’re having fun. Don’t worry, you’ll get there and you’ll too get to enjoy mind melding with someone as town in one game and cruelly stabbing in the back the next game. Glad to have you on the team.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
Thought you asking me about reads was a good idea. We should probably try to do that more tbh. Feel like it’s something we did a lot so hopefully it comes across as natural, and will make people question us being on the same together when one of us flips.
Yeah, that's what made me ping you, it felt like the thing I would naturally do if we were both around at night, especially after Town reading you lol.
 

Ephidel

How do you do, fellow mafia?
And I will answer his ping but not right now, I'm just on break at work so I'm not actually caught up yet. It will be a few more hours before I get a chance, I don't get to use my work time for mafia sadly.
 

Lone_Prodigy

Am I at 10 posts yet?
"prevents people from dying to bombs"

Fanto's bombs do not kill. The vote bomb I guess could be defused even though it technically does not target a player for death.
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
LNAO Just got to the modkill.

I didn't even realize he directly quoted all that, god damn. That's a shame, but also, what did I just say last night to Ephi?? I knew most of that claim was bullshit and he was just WIFOM'ing Scum hardcore lol.
 

Ephidel

How do you do, fellow mafia?
If I don't ask I'm just going to keep wondering.

@Natiko

Is a player informed when they have a bomb planted on them?

Is a player informed when they are infected with standard Foxdie?
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
If I don't ask I'm just going to keep wondering.

@Natiko

Is a player informed when they have a bomb planted on them?

Is a player informed when they are infected with standard Foxdie?
Hmm, good quesiton, my PM specifically states that the person I give the Vote Bomb too won't be informed, but it doesn't make the same claim about the normal bombs.
 
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