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Mario Mafia/Newbie 10! Game Over! Scum Wins!

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Sephiroth, bussing in a newbie game?
I highly doubt that. The only case in which I could see Acrostic bussing another player is if he had an experienced scum partner that gave him advice to do so, in which case you'd be ready to implicate either Vanderzant or I as scum, which is highly illogical.
 

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@MK: IC's should help explain terms, not be invinceable because Town thinks they're the best at everything. Theres a fine line between the two.

@Acro: Yeah insulting me isn't going to help your case.
 

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Sorry. Last post of the night. Seph, at the moment I would target Meta-Kirby. But a part of me also wants to wait and see how things develop. How about you?
 

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Acrostic, notice how flip floppy you are acting? Sephiroth has stated something to the tune of "don't always trust IC players" and you've run with it. What makes me scummy, per se? What in my playstyle has given you scum vibes? I'd like to see specific posts, please.
 

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@Seph, with a 2 player Mafia game, I'd consider it a bit under "plausible", especially with the multitude of newbies. But I see your point, it's not impossible. I suppose we simply disagree on the likelihood of the event occurring.
 

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Meta-Kirby back in Post #349 you explained claiming situations which unfortunately did not work out so well in the immediate sense whether intentional or not.

Meta-Kirby said:
@Glyph, I definitely appreciate your willingness to go ahead and get Tery lynched, but there are some other crucial steps before we do so.

L-1 101 - What to Do Before a Lynch

Scenario : You've just put Billy at L-1 for whatever reason you believe. But hold up! Billy is vehemently defending himself, and claims to not be Mafia. Here are some crucial things you should look out for at the L-1 Stage:

1) Ask for a claim. "Billy, claim your role and character now":

Role Claim: What your role says you can do. Billy says "I'm a cop, I can investigate a player each night and determine their alignment!"

Character Claim: The flavor of your character. "I am Luigi".

Role and Character Claim: Both combined. "I am Luigi, the Town Cop, I can investigate a player each night and determine their alignment".

Scenario:

Billy claims Luigi, Town Cop.

1) Look for a counter claim: Is anyone else in this game going to claim to be a Town Cop? Rarely are their MULTIPLES of roles (aka 2 cops). Counter claims is when another player steps up and says "You are lying! I am the town cop!" or "You are lying! I am Luigi!". This can catch scummy players in the act of lying.

2) Evaluate flavor: Look at prior flips. On most occassions for non-newbie games, flavor is specifically designed to NOT MATTER.

For example, in my own hosted game of PikMafia (Pikmin 1/2 Based), there were 3 Mafia players - The Red Pikmin, The White Pikmin, and the Pileated Snagret. Only one of these characters is actually a villain in Pikmin. Therefore, you couldn't use flavor to determine whether or not the other two characters were scum or not.

Therefore, the logical conclusion you should make from the prior lesson:

Do not be overly ambitious to lynch. Putting a player at L-1, observing their reactions, and asking for claims is a very wise thing to do before you accidentally rid yourself of a useful townie, power role, etc.. L-1 is a special circumstance that amps up the pressure in a GOOD way, so use it to your advantage!

Please ask questions if you need more clarity!
Notice that soon afterwards in Post 356 we arrive at Terywj's Peach and jailer confession. My comment was one of sarcasm that was based on this previous interaction that came about from reading this thread. As for Sephiroth, I find it ironic that he is seeking a detailed rebuttal when his initial assessment is based on his own presumptions. Regardless, sleep time.
 

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....I fail to see your point. I explained a myriad of situations that you may take prior to a lynch to avoid a mislynch or better predict a scum lynch. The process of asking for a claim, then looking for a counter claim went through, and we realized that there was no counter claim. What exactly about this process makes me scummy?
 

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Wow, thank god I got back up tonight. Replying to what you guys have said now.
 

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I am curious why you have already conceded defeat. I have posted nothing more than probabilities that have no backing. As you have contributed interesting ideas in the past, I am curious to hear your logic for deciding that lynching Terywj would be a bad move. After all, there is no affirmation from everyone that he is not the jailer.
Heh... I kinda have some information I'm not supposed to have. Remember that little fiasco at the very beginning of the game? Where I got more role PMs than I was supposed to? Well one of them was Peach, the jailer. I still have it if anyone wants to see it (unless that's bad). After sinking pretty much 100% of my efforts into bringing down Tery, only to have him present evidence that very strongly established him town... it seemed like a waste to keep accusing him of something he had proven.

@Glyph: What are your personal reasons for dropping that vote? Are you still suspicious? What would you do if the same scenario was posed to you as was to Acrostic?
Yeah, I'm still wary. Not nearly as much, I just don't think Tery is a very good town player. I'm reeeeaally hoping that someone can counterclaim, but I'm not holding my breath either. And I'm not sure I understand that last bit, what scenario?

So I'm still noticing that Glyph has only really suspected Tery, and he's doesn't seem too interested in finding other scum so I'll

unvote: Uber
vote: Glyph


Tell me who you think is scum.
Like I said, I spent all of my efforts trying to prove to you guys Tery was scum, especially when I felt like you guys weren't exactly behind me on my accusations.

It turned out I was wrong, but if you can seriously look at the posts I made against him and not see what I was getting at, then I've failed as a debater.

It is one thing to tunnel. It is quite another to role fish. What was Glyph possibly looking for past the initial townie claim is something that could never help town at all.


Vote Glyph
Again, that was for my own justifications. I knew Peach and jailer went together, so I wanted to make sure Tery's story lined up with that.

Screw you Acro and Vandy. I was going to make a case on Glyph! :mad:

Here was my post that I was going to use. Feel free to do with it what you will.

"

More parrotting and proof that he wanted this lynch to end fast.

Shall I give you another shovel?"

Meh I'll look for scum #2, you theifs!

Unvote
Yeah, I wanted Tery lynched pretty badly. I was certain he was scum, and I know for a fact a lot of you guys felt pretty strongly too. I was just trying to get something to happen (which apparently is bad in this game, thanks MK for pointing that out.)

In this case, I hope it's justified for me to go ahead and use my vote then.
vote Glyph
He doesn't really post much, so I want to make sure that when he does, he has more motivation to answer my questions. Post #407.

I also feel as though I was baited into chasing after Tery so aggressively by Glyph. Perhaps he saw me as being gullible and overly-hotheaded enough to take the bait and make the chase for him, so he can somewhat keep his hands clean. A clever play if that's the case.
A further question for Glyph: Who are you getting the strongest town reads from, at this point in time?
Tery, even though it hurts to say, its pretty much guaranteed town. MK I have yet to have an issue with, and same with Acrostic (he voted for me but with good reason)

So, to reiterate:
-I was trying to get Tery to admit to Peach AND jailer because I knew the two were associated, and had he missed one or the other I would have known he was scum.
-I still feel that the points I raised against Tery are based on very sound logic, and if you can show me otherwise I'd love to discuss it with you.
-I haven't really pursued any other scum because of how dead sure I was on Tery. Yeah, I messed that up pretty bad, but I'll be more broad in my searches from here on out.

If I missed anything, just re-ask me. There were quite a few points I had to address, so I may have missed one or two along the way.
 

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Terywj (1) , UberMario
UberMario (1) Ranmaru
Glyph (3) Vanderzant, Acrostic, Grump

Not voting (4) Terywj, Glyph, Seph, Meta-Kirby

With 9 alive it takes 5 to Lynch!

Deadline is 17th Dec

 

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Tery, even though it hurts to say, its pretty much guaranteed town. MK I have yet to have an issue with, and same with Acrostic (he voted for me but with good reason)
So basically after I revealed my role, it's a negative thing to know that I am Town? Cool?

So all these shenanigans were because X1 sent you one too many PM. Great.

Anyway.

Glyph said:
So, to reiterate:
-I was trying to get Tery to admit to Peach AND jailer because I knew the two were associated, and had he missed one or the other I would have known he was scum.
-I still feel that the points I raised against Tery are based on very sound logic, and if you can show me otherwise I'd love to discuss it with you.
-I haven't really pursued any other scum because of how dead sure I was on Tery. Yeah, I messed that up pretty bad, but I'll be more broad in my searches from here on out.
Again, I have the silly PM (much like you did :p) so I'm pretty sure I can read from it and answer the role claiming question.

I feel that it was only because of my playstyle that you figured you were so locked onto me. But that's my own issue and not yours. As Meta-Kirby reiterated before your posts had good logic and support. Just not pointed at the right person.
 

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So basically after I revealed my role, it's a negative thing to know that I am Town? Cool?
Nooooo, I'm upset because I worked so hard only to find out I was entirely wrong. Your town alliance is good.
 

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@Ran: The difference between MK/J and Uber was that Uber was posting in the thread, while MK/J were not. I chose to pressure Uber not because he is a newbie, but because while he seemed to have no activity excuses, all he had posted was:





So imo he really did warrant a wake up call wagon to get him posting. Where as with J/MK, they wouldn't of responded at all (as they are/were absent)



Yes if you had continued to coast without posting for the entire Day, I would of happily lynched you. Is lack of content a valid reason for a Day 1 lynch? You betcha!

Quite commonly in a mafia game on Day 1, if little scum tells are found or most cases lack evidence to fully support a lynch, then what's called a 'policy lynch' is often implemented. This usually entails lynching the most inactive player or lynching the player who is contributing the least. While these two criteria may not neccesarily indicate mafiosi alignment, it is important that Town remove players who are going to hinder scum hunting for town.

For example, if the deadline was in 20 seconds and we quickly lynched Meta-Kirby, and he flipped town, and then I was killed during the night and flipped town, (despite what your initial impression may be) this isn't necessarily a bad situation for town.

True, we may not have lynched scum, but we are leaps and bounds closer to finding them. Not only do we have the lynch info to work with, we also have removed a player who had posted no content, and who had just as good of a chance of flipping scum as town.


@Glyph: You should have questions to ask or things to say to people besides your #1 scum suspect though.

Ofc, everyone thinks differently, so as a townie you need to build connections with as many players as you can (i.e. asking questions, engaging in an argument) in order to better grasp their alignment. Just as there are 'scum tells', there are also 'town tells.'

@Ranmaru: I encourage you to use your vote more if you can. It is your best tool for scum hunting and applying the pressure to your suspects. A "vote now, explain later" approach has it's merits for town, I use it frequently.

Acting rashly is not scummy, in the same way that being mean is not scummy, or telling lots of jokes is not scummy. This is what I believe Acrostic was talking about earlier on (when he addressed you and Seph). Your style seems to be fairly passive so far, and while it isn't a bad thing, you can always work on it.

Ok, for the record, I totally missed this post. Sorry Vandy. Thank you for replying, I appreciate it. Yes, I guess I am passive by nature so I can understand Tery's conservative feel for this game. I will keep what you said in mind. In fact, I think I will use my vote right now. (later in my post you will see what I mean)


@Everybody: Am I grossly overreacting?

@Glyph: What would you say if Tery flipped town (assuming she was lynched tonight)? Any responses to MK's most recent post?

@Acrostic: When you get back, who's your most prominent scum/town read at the moment?

@Ubermario Bandwagon: Now that he's been becoming a bit more active, what are your reads on him?

@All: Now that we have 2 L-2 "wagons", one can effectively ask about the significance of a hammer vote and the timing. If it came down to your one vote, would you hammer as soon as you had valid reasoning? How about not until the deadline? Would you refrain from hammering at all?
Uber is still not so active. I would keep my vote on him, but he won't see it much now anyways. Actually, I will unvote him, and vote him later.

Grump, what do you think of Meta-kirby? Do you think he is town?


Don't sweat it man, I'm not really mad. Just playing around a little. :)

And MK, excuse me, I got swept up in the moment. You're right, there is a lot more information we can get out of this.

So Tery, what exactly IS your role?

@Grump: Only new thing I hadn't really noticed before was Ranmaru defending Tery early on in the game. Could be really useful information if Tery flips scum, but not overwhelmingly so. It was early enough that Tery didn't have quite as strong as a case built against him.
Yep. :] I was looking to see that Meta might have been the person to cause Tery to reveal his role... But you were the one who asked. And yet, you asked even further questions.

Okay, does that make you vanilla? Jailer? Tracker? What are you?
Yet again, fishy. Now, I would probably vote you, but I don't think you were asking to endanger him. I think you may have asked because Meta said that one should claim once in L-1. But, Tery was still at L-2. That, is costing Town. (In the long term) Scum, might want that.

I will put a FOS: Glyph

But I won't follow the trend. I think we shouldn't vote Glyph at the time.


And what does that role do , tery?
Now, my gut tells me you might have wanted to know Tery's role. (for a purpose other than seeing if he was scum) Of course, once Glyph saw your post about claiming, he asked. (That way, you wouldn't need to ask)

So, I'm going to vote you.

Unvote: Uber
Vote: Meta-Kirby
 

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Yet again, fishy. Now, I would probably vote you, but I don't think you were asking to endanger him. I think you may have asked because Meta said that one should claim once in L-1. But, Tery was still at L-2. That, is costing Town. (In the long term) Scum, might want that.

I will put a FOS: Glyph

But I won't follow the trend. I think we shouldn't vote Glyph at the time.
Like I said, I was trying to ensure that Tery was both Jailer and Peach because I knew they were associated. Had he messed up one or the other (say, he had claimed to be Peach and Vanilla), I would have known he was lying and scum.
 

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Right...

But that doesn't explain why you asked the original question:

"And MK, excuse me, I got swept up in the moment. You're right, there is a lot more information we can get out of this.

So Tery, what exactly IS your role?"

So I assume, that you read MK's post, and asked Tery his role asap, even though he wasn't that close to a lynching. That, is why I put an FOS on you.

Basically, you wouldn't HAVE to ensure Tery was Peach AND Jailer if you didn't ask what his role was originally.

Although, you also could have been using Meta's post as an excuse to ask Tery that question as well, but I could see that you worked up a strong proposal against Tery in the first place, so I know your intentions were pure. But that could still be a probability.
 

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Like I said, I was trying to ensure that Tery was both Jailer and Peach because I knew they were associated. Had he messed up one or the other (say, he had claimed to be Peach and Vanilla), I would have known he was lying and scum.
C'mon, man, X1 has Mario as a Vanilla in the OP. I mean I'm bad, but I'm not that bad. ;)
 

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Also Glyph I don't think you SHOULD show the PM. That, is game breaking I think?

But yes, please answer my previous post. (I don't want you to focus on this one, my last one is more important)
 

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Right...

But that doesn't explain why you asked the original question:

"And MK, excuse me, I got swept up in the moment. You're right, there is a lot more information we can get out of this.

So Tery, what exactly IS your role?"

So I assume, that you read MK's post, and asked Tery his role asap, even though he wasn't that close to a lynching. That, is why I put an FOS on you.

Basically, you wouldn't HAVE to ensure Tery was Peach AND Jailer if you didn't ask what his role was originally.

Although, you also could have been using Meta's post as an excuse to ask Tery that question as well, but I could see that you worked up a strong proposal against Tery in the first place, so I know your intentions were pure. But that could still be a probability.
MK's post recommended I get as much out of Tery as I could before I lynched him, and seeing as how I was convinced he was scum, I thought forcing him to claim would help to prove he was scum. But it did the opposite, and destroyed my case. In attempt to pick up the pieces, I pushed further, trying to see if he didn't know that Peach was the Jailer. He did, and I pretty much had very little to say against him after that. He played scummy, but without anyone to counterclaim, I won't lynch him.

If I'm reading your post right you're saying I was looking for the wrong information right away, but I'm not sure how when I could PROVE he was scum with that evidence how that could be frowned upon.
 

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I wish this thread wouldn't get so dead during the day, seems like a lot of you guys only post at night heh
 

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Ranmaru, I don't quite understand why you are voting for me? If you look at the timestamps, you can see that the posts were very close together in time. Also, I've iterated on numerous occasions that it was a test. If Tery didn't know what the Jailer did, or didn't give the description as described in the first post, then it would shed suspicion on hs claim. However, it matched, and it validated the claim.
There is nothing scummy about squeezing every last drop of information out of another player. In fact, it saved us here from a mislynch. Your own interpretation makes me wonder.

Vote : Ranmaru
 

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....I fail to see your point. I explained a myriad of situations that you may take prior to a lynch to avoid a mislynch or better predict a scum lynch. The process of asking for a claim, then looking for a counter claim went through, and we realized that there was no counter claim. What exactly about this process makes me scummy?
@Terywj: Read the following and comment. This is my impression of what you may have been thinking. Please confirm/deny certain topics that I may have misinterpreted.

@Meta-Kirby: I found your behavior suspicious. It seemed that in #333 you were supporting Grump who decided to vote against Terywj. In this manner you supported Grump's decision as it was based on what you deemed to be satisfiable, "He's got conjecture, he's got facts, and he's got scenarios." Grump ate this compliment up and didn't question the fact that many of your compliments were nothing but lip service. In your response you did not mention Grump's self-assigned probabilities that contained personal bias (the purpose of using probabilities is to detract from bias as any other field of science or mathematics is to be applied in this sense) and also simply stated what could have already been gleamed from the beginning of the thread which you summarized back in #325.

Meta-Kirby said:
Grump, don't take this post as me doubting you or anything. This next bit is for the sake of newbie/experienced discussion: Tery, take a look at Grump's post. He's got conjecture, he's got facts, and he's got scenarios. Now, take a look at your own post and realize that you have none of this. Now, also consider the possibility that Grump is scum and you are town. As a 3rd party, who would you be more willing to follow? The person with facts and scenarios, or your AtE/Activity Police?
Post #338 and #339 show further potential that you are masking mafia play with IC play that can be used to manipulate townspeople. #338 is more Grump support and #339 is criticizing the worst parts out of Terywj's post response. I wanted to pose the question to town, "Would you consider this treatment constructive play that you would want to receive from an IC?"

Post #349 shows a continuing trend as you tell Glyph, "I definitely appreciate your willingness to go ahead and get Tery lynched, but there are some other crucial steps before we do so..." At this point you are 2/2 for supporting the men who support a Terywj lynch, however you still haven't decided to vote yourself despite having such a bad impression of Terywj that you not only would reprimand him on his play style but also offer encouraging advice to those who believe that he should be lynched.

Consider this situation. I am Terywj and I have an unconvential play style that everyone seems to be hating on me. I am town. Everyone is criticizing me and even the IC has such a bad impression of me that it almost feels like the whole town is against me? What should I do in order to make them believe me? I'm doing my best here but they still don't acknowledge my efforts. (May be true or not true, I don't know but this is how I felt you might have felt Y/N?)

Almost on cue Meta-Kirby offers the advice of role-claiming. Now make no mistake, IIRC Terywj was only at L-3. However the situation at that time probably made Terwj feel like it was L-2/L-1 with intent to lynch. Again this could have been due to very clever manipulation on your part, rather than being just a mere coincidence.

I am not quite sure how to interpret Post #351 nor do I find it to be important (if it is to you then by all means feel free to explain it.) At Post #355 Glyph begins to role fish. Again you offer another piece of advice to Terywj in Post #357 that I found interesting, "Also, be an ***, let loose, and save yourself if you are town. There is no valor in dying as a townie."

Taking this into context with the previous posts being about role claiming and Terywj's dialogue following short, Terywj took your set-up to heart and decided to divulge his role to you and Glyph. Post #360 reveals more prodding even after Terywj has revealed that he has the role of jailer. The interaction in #365 to #368 seems to indicate Glyph:Meta-Kirby bonding. Perhaps it is simply the type of companionship that comes from teamwork. The next page of dialogue from you is disturbing in its own right. As an experienced player you should know that mafia claiming doctor-oriented role is an improbability. Yet you still go at it like his confession could be false: Posts #372, 373, 376, 377, and 379. Note the following posts #380 for patronizing behavior again to Terywj and yet AGAIN Glyph:Meta-Kirby bonding from Glyph in Post #381 in which he felt obligated to simply give his approval for your conjecture that normally shouldn't warrant five posts worth of iteration without considering mafia choice probabilities as indicated by my Post #396 which has been re-posted as follows:

Acrostic said:
Time to come out of the rabbit hole. To begin with, I believe that most of us have consented to the two claims: 1. we are not Peach and 2. we are not the jailer. In fact, if a false claim were to be made in this game, then the last roles that mafia would consider would be Peach and the jailer. Consider this, Peach is Mario's #1 playmate. In any game that involves Mario characters, she is in it. Consider Mario Kart, Smash Brothers, and the Mario series. If mafia were to claim a fake character then they would choose Wario, Waluigi, or some other obscure character to prevent a clash from picking popular favorites like Mario, Luigi, Toad, so on and so forth.

Second, let us consider the notion of probability. There are five town roles in this game, two power roles, and two mafia roles to make a game of nine. That means that if mafia were to make a claim on D1, then the best claim would be to stick to a town role. Picking a town role means that even though other people may claim town, they cannot be sure if the other members of town are town or not. Therefore adhering to a vanilla town role would cause mayhem and mishap, a goal of mafia. Claiming a power role on D1 can be compared to suicide. There is already someone else who is guaranteed to have that role and lynch from a pure probability standpoint comes down to a 50-50 chance. That is not a smart move on the part of mafia to play such a big sacrifice on their first move.
For someone who was previously trying to educate us on flavor and role-picking, you have presented a fairly strong anti-Terywj sentiment without using your votes to represent that type of sentiment. In other words, I construed your dialogue in the aforementioned paragraphs as being manipulative without needing to mark down your words with a vote. It is typical of mafia to attempt to manipulate the town in such a way to get rid of innocent and therefore these past interactions have led me to suspect you as an individual.
 

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Acrostic, your arguments are invalidated by the fact that I am in no way advocating Tery's lynch now that we have the information neccesary to essentially confirm the fact that he's a member of the town. You're arguing on the premise that I'm still continuing to attack Tery, which is clearly not the case. You're accusing me of initiating a normal Mafia game sequence of events. These events help us eliminate suspects. Imagine if I had not stepped in and informed of the claiming possibility , we had lynched Tery, and he had flipped town. It would be much messier.
Also, my post CLEARLY defined claiming as an L-1 situation. It is not my fault that others pressured Tery into claiming at L-3/L-2/whatever the situation was, or the fact that Tery claimed when he did. When something happens, you have to roll with it.
 

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Acrostic said:
Consider this situation. I am Terywj and I have an unconvential play style that everyone seems to be hating on me. I am town. Everyone is criticizing me and even the IC has such a bad impression of me that it almost feels like the whole town is against me? What should I do in order to make them believe me? I'm doing my best here but they still don't acknowledge my efforts. (May be true or not true, I don't know but this is how I felt you might have felt Y/N?)
While most of the thought process you highlighted is true, I essentially revealed my role / character almost out of spite, because I'd rather end up a very probable target for the Mafiosos Night 1 than get us absolutely nowhere with the lynch set for Day 1. As Meta-Kirby explained, if we had gotten me lynched, the loss of a Jailer would be bad. That said, was why I am trying to figure out who could possibly be Mafia rooted so we have the potential of lynching one today (as in Day 1).

I had something else to say, but I completely brain wiped so I'll maybe remember later.
 

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Acrostic, your arguments are invalidated by the fact that I am in no way advocating Tery's lynch now that we have the information neccesary to essentially confirm the fact that he's a member of the town. You're arguing on the premise that I'm still continuing to attack Tery, which is clearly not the case. You're accusing me of initiating a normal Mafia game sequence of events. These events help us eliminate suspects. Imagine if I had not stepped in and informed of the claiming possibility , we had lynched Tery, and he had flipped town. It would be much messier.
No, I'm pretty much accusing you of intentional slander and prejudice in order to obtain information that would help mafia instead of town. The last time I checked, "normal Mafia game sequence of events" don't involve treating one player like **** and patting everyone who was kicking said player's *** a gold star. These events do nothing more than break players who are trying to make a point, but they become so overwhelmed by the surface bigotry that they don't understand why they should continue playing and give up on giving their best effort. It is a tactic that is used by mafia and is often disguised as a "pressure play" when in reality they are crossing the line in order to disrupt the player and make them give up on the game. My previous comment indicated to me that your play was more mafia brand than town friendly.

I also don't want to hear from someone that my argument is invalid due to ex-post facto reasoning when they use a hypothetical situation as a replacement, "Imagine if I had not stepped in and informed..." If I recall correctly, Terywj was at L-2 along with UberMario. However if you look at the following people who were not voting: Meta-Kirby, Terywj, Acrostic from X1's Post #389 then this situation is simply not likely. I would argue that you relying on a hypothetical example, a hypothetical example that isn't even probable is a far weaker basis than the actual posts that I have mentioned in the past. Finally you have not explained how my post centers on the assumption that you need to continue with focusing on Terywj behavior with quotations and explanations because my post never rested on that assumption. Attempting to claim that it rests on assumptions that it does not is a classical move to break down arguments for people who are not confident in their own material. My argument rests on the notion that scum are interested in finding the doctor-role among town and once they have obtained this information, then they will be satisfied and ready to perform a night kill. Therefore there is no longer any need to pressure other players as they don't need a lynch and they can pretty much lay-off and attempt to pretend to be town for the rest of the day.

Meta-Kirby said:
Also, my post CLEARLY defined claiming as an L-1 situation. It is not my fault that others pressured Tery into claiming at L-3/L-2/whatever the situation was, or the fact that Tery claimed when he did. When something happens, you have to roll with it.
I give you credit for the L-1 situation, however you gave rise to the idea and the support of those who were eager to lynch Terywj. I agree that, "When something happens, you have to roll with it" which is why we are attempting using Terry's claim to source out scum possibilities. I simply suspect you and Glyph as being mafia for having scummish behavior and am also replying to the fact that you regarded me as being "wishy-washy" if I recall correctly when I definitely received and still have major scum vibes off of you at the moment.
 

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Note in Paragraph 2 that the assumption needs to be revised as it was misworded. It should run as follows: Pressure the target player suspected to be doctor-oriented.
 

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No, I'm pretty much accusing you of intentional slander and prejudice in order to obtain information that would help mafia instead of town. The last time I checked, "normal Mafia game sequence of events" don't involve treating one player like **** and patting everyone who was kicking said player's *** a gold star.
Oh right, I forgot that pretense that I'm supposed to give a player the benefit of the doubt when they've done nothing but played blatantly scummy throughout the entire game.
Oh right, I'm not.
Wait a second, I'd love to hear your own sequence of events! What were you going to do? Let him whine and then lynch him, causing a town lynch? Exactly. This isn't a time to be nice, I'm not supposed to be "kind and forgiving" of someone who's playing scummy! It's really an absurd argument to make, and you're falling for Tery's initial AtE reactions.

These events do nothing more than break players who are trying to make a point
So what point was Tery trying to make again? "I'm bad at this, lynch me, I feel so useless, I'm so bad, lynch me, I'm gonna get lynched, I'm playing terrible". Is there a point to this rambling? Of course not! It's necessary to dig deeper and deeper until they BREAK because then you get to the TRUTH; the TRUTH being that town was SAVED by this action.

It is a tactic that is used by mafia and is often disguised as a "pressure play" when in reality they are crossing the line in order to disrupt the player and make them give up on the game. My previous comment indicated to me that your play was more mafia brand than town friendly.
Lol? I'm not supposed to pressure people as a member of the town? What is "crossing the line" exactly? ***** please, there is no such thing as "crossing the line" until you get modkilled. In DGames Mafia (Avril Remix), Omni made a point to tell me how god awful I was playing at every turn. Am I supposed to turn around and say "Woah! That's scummy, because you aren't allowing me to play my best effort! And that's mean!"

No, you're supposed to break people down for the truth. How the hell else are you supposed to find mafia? Wait till they say something stupid? Of course not. To me, you're acting like I'm scummy for forcing the town to step back, evaluate the situation, get to the FACTS, and move ON.

I also don't want to hear from someone that my argument is invalid due to ex-post facto reasoning when they use a hypothetical situation as a replacement, "Imagine if I had not stepped in and informed..." If I recall correctly, Terywj was at L-2 along with UberMario. However if you look at the following people who were not voting: Meta-Kirby, Terywj, Acrostic from X1's Post #389 then this situation is simply not likely. I would argue that you relying on a hypothetical example, a hypothetical example that isn't even probable is a far weaker basis than the actual posts that I have mentioned in the past.
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My hypothetical situation would have come true, dude. L-2 is a grave situation as well, especially on Day 1. I would have voted Tery, then it's a matter of another individual switching their vote.
By the way, using large words and legal terms does not validate your argument. If anything, it throws a complex unneccesary loop into understanding what you are actually trying to say.

Finally you have not explained how my post centers on the assumption that you need to continue with focusing on Terywj behavior with quotations and explanations because my post never rested on that assumption. Attempting to claim that it rests on assumptions that it does not is a classical move to break down arguments for people who are not confident in their own material. My argument rests on the notion that scum are interested in finding the doctor-role among town and once they have obtained this information, then they will be satisfied and ready to perform a night kill. Therefore there is no longer any need to pressure other players as they don't need a lynch and they can pretty much lay-off and attempt to pretend to be town for the rest of the day.
So are you arguing that claiming is not an integral part of the process and does not warrant action before a lynch? You're attempting to say that I'm not supposed to ask someone to claim if they are acting scummy, because that's just not right? I'm supposed to allow non-confident players the benefit of the doubt?
No, no no no no no . This is how scum slips through your hands! You look at a weakling, you say "aww, how cute, i bet he won't bite!", you turn your head, and they BITE YOUR FACE OFF. This was my OWN newbie strategy when I was playing my first game (Scum Wars Mafia) and it benefited me greatly. I have the experience which tells me that it's a common tactic, and you have the ignorance to claim that pressuring, claiming, and deceitful play is not an integral part of the game; however, it is, and that's where your argument falls to pieces.

I give you credit for the L-1 situation, however you gave rise to the idea and the support of those who were eager to lynch Terywj. I agree that, "When something happens, you have to roll with it" which is why we are attempting using Terry's claim to source out scum possibilities. I simply suspect you and Glyph as being mafia for having scummish behavior and am also replying to the fact that you regarded me as being "wishy-washy" if I recall correctly when I definitely received and still have major scum vibes off of you at the moment.
Let's evaluate the situation closer here:
Let's pretend that I am scum. For what purpose do I have attempting to save Tery, who, (if I am ACTUALLY scum) I know is a town member? Why would I not simply capitalize on Tery's meekness and unconfidence and roll with the fact that he's basically giving up, ensuring at least one, probably two town deaths at the start of D2? Especially in a newbie game, I would be more confident to do this on my own accord, because the majority of members have yet to be exposed to a mislynch scenario, to which I would simply say "this is a part of the game, deal with it" in a much kinder fashion on the start of D2, allowing me the option to effectively WRITE OFF the fact that I got away with 1-2 town deaths on the first day.

See where you argument falls apart? You're blaming my actions for breaking down a member and releasing information to scum. Okay? As scum, I would MUCH RATHER have 2 town deaths than information that single player in the game has a power role (even though I already know the role exists in the game, unlike many games). As scum, I would not actively seek out to get information out of Tery to prevent a mislynch, I would rather allow it to happen, then write it off as a casual newbie mistake.

Use logic, please. My actions and scum's intent do not align, and you have no pursued the psychological aspects, but allowed another player's incompetence to electrify your heart and exaggerate what any scum member might have received from our pursuit of the truth.
 

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So basically, I've been used.

In retrospect, Glyph does have valid reasoning IIRC. Not solid, but valid at least. While I'm unsure as to if we can believe his miss-role PM theory (it does seem to be a mighty convenient excuse), I think my recent baiting merits suspicions in different corners at the moment.

Since we apparently cannot do ISO's on Smash Forums, I'm going to have to look back for future points since a lot has happened since my apparent tunneling. Or do we have ISO's of some sort?

My previous hunches that Vandie may have been using his IC powers in bad ways is now applied to MK, under the assumption that he used his aura of "authority" to paint me into the limelight and used his puppet strings from outside the heated discusssion. Under the policy of Lynch All Liars, would puppeting be considered a form of lying?

Apparently, it wasn't just me that MK was trying to push, but Glyph as well (stated in post #459).

In addition, Ranmaru has also picked up on this. Ranmaru was defending Tery early in the game, as noticed by Glyph, which would imply that Ranmaru is NOT scum since Tery wasn't scum either. I'm not going into the WIFOMages here. But later in that same post, Ranmaru notices that MK had also pushed for a claim.

Now the funny thing, Ranmaru never explicitly attacked Tery. Glyph actually apologized and retracted his vote. I was against claiming from the start, and retracted my vote as well when I found out he was innocent (barring a counterclaim, which we don't have). Glyph could have simply faked his false-role PM to incriminate Tery if he [Glyph] was scum, and he probably would have gotten away with this if pulled off at the right time. But he immediately backed off.

MK, however, never defended Tery from the start, and refused to vote (possibly so it wouldn't be recorded in the vote counts). But he was insistent on attacking Tery. This is odd, since MK has recently stated to me that votes should not be so personal, but they should be passed out semi-freely as a means to draw out discussions, apply pressure, and garner reactions. How very curious.

/unvote
Let's see what MK has to say.

Also, post #461 is funny. It reeks of OMGUS. He didn't really critique the viewpoints of Ranmaru, just said they made him "wonder". No argument points = my suspicion points.

Meta-Kirby: Acrostic, your arguments are invalidated by the fact that I am in no way advocating Tery's lynch now that we have the information neccesary to essentially confirm the fact that he's a member of the town.
Of course you wouldn't advocate his lynch publicly now. In fact, according to the vote counter, you never advocated it to begin with. To claim that Tery should be lynched, despite this power-role claim, would be scum-tell through the roof. I don't believe you're that stupid :p

Acrostic, on the other hand, may be using this "puppeteering" to his own advantage, expecting me to get mad at being used, therefor pursuing his own target. The only thing that separates Acrostic and MK, at this point, is the fact that Acrostic is voting, though not on MK.

Post #338 and #339 show further potential that you are masking mafia play with IC play that can be used to manipulate townspeople. #338 is more Grump support and #339 is criticizing the worst parts out of Terywj's post response. I wanted to pose the question to town, "Would you consider this treatment constructive play that you would want to receive from an IC?"
On the plus side, I WAS very careful to back up my claims with logic, and Tery wasn't really defending herself much. Are you perhaps using this as excuse to manipulate the populace to aim their sights at MK?

@Vandie: In your opinion, has MK been using his IC powers in the best neutral way possible? Or would you say he's been tilting things to his favor, if he was scum?
 

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I'm still waiting to here what everyone else would have done in a situation other than lynch him outright.
 

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@All: I've got a competition on for these next 3 days so I might not be incredibly active as I need to rest a lot :).

I'm going to have a nap and I'll re read in a few hours hopefully.

Name searched so far, and @Grump my intial impression of MK was that he has been posting a lot of IC stuff, and like I mentioned earlier this should only be treated as completely null or scummy (with reasoning). I don't think either MK or myself should be in anyway considering "more townie" for the info we post as IC's, if that makes sense. Partially why I think IC's should use italics (and I think MK has been doing this somewhat iirc) is italicise posts that are used to explain concepts, because most of this stuff should be ignored (unless used as a scum tell, again with reasoning) when trying to read an IC's alignment

So unless people are taking the IC stuff we're spewing out as evidence for us being town, then no I don't see how MK is potentially absuing his position as an IC. To reitierate, you need to look at his actions he has made (i.e. has he caught up with the thread yet? why was he pressuring Uber? Why is he voting whoever? etc.) as these will tell us his alignment.
 

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Sorry dudes I have something written up I was just hanging with my gf but I was reading/skimming info.

I will either post tonite or early tommorow. : ] (I'm sure you guys know I WILL post)
 

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In retrospect, Glyph does have valid reasoning IIRC. Not solid, but valid at least. While I'm unsure as to if we can believe his miss-role PM theory (it does seem to be a mighty convenient excuse), I think my recent baiting merits suspicions in different corners at the moment.
Again, I can produce the PM for you guys, and Tery would be able to confirm it.

Glyph could have simply faked his false-role PM to incriminate Tery if he [Glyph] was scum, and he probably would have gotten away with this if pulled off at the right time. But he immediately backed off.
And what would have happened after Tery was lynched and flipped town? Uh oh, suddenly my claim of Jailer (a role held by one person) is confirmed to be someone else's! Guess who's lynched the next day.

It would have been foolish to lie about a counterclaim, for anyone.

I retracted my vote because Tery convinced me he was town, I don't understand how that merits scummy behavior.
 

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Hmmm, after seeing some of the previous posts today [I apologize for not participating, I was literally out since this morning], I'm going to go ahead and:

Unvote: Terywj

"Vote": No vote


I'm going to read more about Glyph before determining whether I view him as scummy or not, because I want to see why the bandwagoning changed so drastically in one day, compared to the previous few days (which were mostly consistent).
 

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Heh... I kinda have some information I'm not supposed to have. Remember that little fiasco at the very beginning of the game? Where I got more role PMs than I was supposed to? Well one of them was Peach, the jailer. I still have it if anyone wants to see it (unless that's bad). After sinking pretty much 100% of my efforts into bringing down Tery, only to have him present evidence that very strongly established him town... it seemed like a waste to keep accusing him of something he had proven.
Ok, that clears up the role fishing part I guess.

Glyph said:
Like I said, I spent all of my efforts trying to prove to you guys Tery was scum, especially when I felt like you guys weren't exactly behind me on my accusations.

It turned out I was wrong, but if you can seriously look at the posts I made against him and not see what I was getting at, then I've failed as a debater.
Yet you still seem to not be pursuing any other leads several posts after Tery has claimed... why is that? Surely you must have thoughts on other players, and possibly feel they might be mafia too (especially as we now know there are 2 mafia who are not Tery).

You've basically had all eyes set on Tery until he claimed. Sure, your reasoning was sound for finding Tery suspicious, but I don't like how you haven't really made any strong connections with other players.

I'll ask again, who do you find most likely to be scum and why?

Also I wouldn't post any other role pm's you have recieved, as that could possibly fall under the rules as quoting mod communication and thus earn you a modkill.

@MK: Either answer now or after Acrostic has posted, but I'm interested in what you think his alignment is. I'm thinking T v T to be honest. Also, not sure if I'm beating an unneccesary hammer, but do you have any thoughts on the play between where you stopped your re read and where you replaced in?

Grump is still making me slightly uneasy despite the good observations he's making. In his #468 he really doesn't draw any conclusions. One to watch out for in endgame imo.

Once Glyph tells me his scum picks I'll probably post some of my own. Still don't like his cautiousness

And I think UberMario is still the play and that isn't changing any time soon.
 

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Yeah, I really think T v T is the case here, which is partially why I'm frustrated by the whole thing. Acrostic has good intentions, but not for the right reasons or towards the correct individuals.
 

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I've been on the defensive recently, but I'll do some digging and get you guys my scum ideas in the morning.
 
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