Fair is fair.
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First off, the luck and lack thereof:
Lucky stuff:
Hilt dying. This gave me two kills. I knew Yeroc had just posted a different picture of Tatsu and wasn’t Tokka; he had not been acting in line with Hilt all game in any way. All I had to do was start the wagon and only two more votes were needed, since tHe-Man never lost an excuse to hammer. It was incredibly handy that the Tokka picture fit so well with the Rahzar picture (and looking now, actually was the picture).
KirbyYoshi being inactive (kinda). KirbyYo being inactive at first was troublesome for me. I was planning on using KirbyYo as a stepping stool to get a double lynch, pinning it as “either KirbyYoshi or (person gunning for him) is mafia” and then getting two night kills and two free lynches from it. I’d already set this up with Yeroc and tHe-Man. In addition to all this… KirbyYo kept mentioning that I was scum from the beginning! Would have been dangerous to have him around.
Unlucky stuff:
Mafia partners being Chill and KevinM.
Chill was inactive from the start and his power would have been insanely useful, especially late game. I voted to kill him off when I got the chance, still playing my “newbie” card. I was expecting someone to comment on this near the end of the game, but no one really did, so I gained nothing from it that I know of.
KevinM wasn’t bad at all, but he was a prime suspect for a lot of players which made him dangerous. It was dangerous to talk to him, dangerous to defend him, dangerous to attack him, dangerous to ignore him. Anything you did in excess was a pretty big deal if it was associated with him. The guy is like a lynch bug light. I tried to play my votes safely and defend everyone without solid evidence and just treated him as I would if we were both town and hoped for the best. My “defense” of him later caught the eye of Hilt, and Hilt probably would have gotten me killed if he stayed alive. I was intending on playing it more as an aggression against tHe-Man’s super aggression, but the timing of KevinM’s death was… unfortunate for that.
KevinM being killed by Dastrn (kinda). This was supposed to happen, but not at that time. Originally the plan was to switch actions between KevinM and tHe-Man (which would have meant Dastrn would have killed tHe-Man), and this would have set up for more double kills in our favor if I kept switching actions from KevinM. This would have cemented Mayling’s tracker claim, so maybe this was lucky. KevinM wasn’t online much when I was, and I was away from my PC all that Night save for the beginning of it. I sent my actions to M3D before leaving on a plane for the weekend and was unable to discuss it with KevinM further.
Specific Actions and Strategy
I basically came in wanting to play the newbie card so I could survive to mid-game and by that time attach myself to someone that struck everyone as town as well as an obvious town that was going to get himself killed. My choices were Gheb and Yeroc by mid-game. Read through a bit with that in mind and my posts become decidedly more hilarious. The plan was to protect Yeroc as much as possible and, inevitably, see him killed. I would be considered linked with him in some way and “the next lynch” if Yeroc was mafia, and then Yeroc would turn up town and I’d be clear for another day. tHe-Man chose himself as a foil for this, making him a strong play if Yeroc showed up town. Taking Gheb as my buddy all game made it pretty easy to avoid getting into trouble, since Gheb’s opinion was pretty respected all game. I was ecstatic when he was cleared.
First Night, I wanted to kill Iggy. He was my choice because he was a lurker, but not inactive; knowing Iggy this was either him being a game-changing poster that would have no problem steering a conversation in one direction or another or he would have a power role added to that. KevinM suggested we kill McFox because he was simply a good mafia player; I agreed as I didn’t know any of the players’ styles here (and KevinM got the final call as Leo anyway).
Why I killed tHe-Man:
tHe-Man was a wild card that could be easily manipulated, but not controlled. I knew all he needed was a target and he’d take the path of least resistance; all game he’d say “This guy this guy this guy…. And possibly this guy as well” and then switch to straight up attacking whoever was a more likely lynch. Path of least resistance type of play. Problem with that is, as the game dwindles it would inevitably turn into a stand-off between tHe-Man and myself. The moment that became apparent, I had to kill him. I had been setting up for a KirbyYo lynch due to inactivity in as many posts as I could so it’d give an opportunity for someone to mess up during the day we lynch KirbyYo. If I hadn’t killed tHe-Man, I would have died within two days easily.
What happened with Mayling:
I honestly wasn’t suspecting her claim. If she had left out the “princess” part, I would have been sunk. Ditto with KirbyYoshi not being inactive; I thought he was Tokka, Scamp was controlling votes, and Gheb was the nurse.
Unfortunately for Mayling, she said too much and allowed me to send walls and walls of text, turning it into a stand-off. Her claim of “princess” made this much easier; I was basically stalling time for a modkill. KirbyYoshi hadn’t been posting but HAD been active on his account, so I was just waiting for him to die so I’d get a free kill. I made one slip the entire game, and that happened to be me saying “we don’t have much time” to Mayling. Luckily, the end of the night was just a week ahead of when I said it was and there wasn’t much time from a night kill!
What I had planned on doing:
I had planned on killing Scamp by switching results between him and Gheb and targeting the Night kill on Gheb. I figured Scamp was switching votes (meaning he had two votes). This actually would have worked, since apparently Gheb couldn’t vote. I was unaware of this since he broke the rules and voted for me. GRRR! >:[
That would have resulted in another easy night kill. So… even if Mayling hadn’t claimed princess I still would have won, but I could have made a mistake and changed my mind and killed Gheb instead (I did think he was the medic, after all).
I hope you all read into this an insane amount so I can switch it up in future games to mess with you all.