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Yikes, L-1 already, that's completely nuts, especially in this setup! If we lynch him we won't even discover his alignment!
vote: Ythillfor placing the L-1 vote andFoS: Clammy and SensFanfor placing the second and third baseless bandwagon votes.
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I just finished a game today (Mini 618) so I was in endgame mode - got confused.please explain how you managed to be so mistaken about the vote count.
Please explain why my vote L-3 would have been more likely to come from scum.
Bandwagons are great, on scummy people. Darox hasn't done anything even remotely scummy yet, so the BW is uncalled for. I can see it getting to two or maybe even three, but 4 is crazy, especially 4 straight posts in a row. The ease with which you withdrew your vote comes off a tad suspicious as well - once your vote was questioned, you pulled it. Your claim that you BW voted for info and to end the RV stage seems legitimate though, and you're correct that you accomplished both.Me wrote: It's Sens and Y that come off scummy for 3rd and 4th BW votes so early.
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In my post, deserved votes was there to say that the votes that were placed on you were deserved - that is, you deserved to be voted for."Deserved votes" is subjective.
Putting someone closer to a lynch without a solid reason helps scum for obvious reasons - it makes it that much easier to lynch said person.Nobody has yet been able to explain how my vote helped scum. Can you?
Working from the assumption that someone is scum when they've done nothing suspicious is anti-town. You're basically saying here, and correct me if I'm wrong, that since we don't know anyone's alignment but our own, we can lynch anyone without a good reason and it's not a problem?But you expect us to believe that my action was "anti-town" because it risked the life of someone who's alignment you supposedly don't know?
Are there words you'd prefer to be used? Those words denote one's suspicions - I've explained why I'm voting for you.Yos (and others) keep saying that my action was anti-town, that it was scummy. These are buzzwords, not cases.-
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Um... no, but that's not the same as saying "Vote:X so we can lynch scum." Essentially your comparison implies that you didn't mean to say that the vote itself is scum, which of course you didn't, but saying "I'm voting for this person so we can lynch scum" ... no matter how you read that sentence, within the context of a mafia game (not a cooking lesson), you vote for someone to lynch them, or at least because you consider them scummy, so if your reason for voting someone is "so we can lynch scum", it is obviously going to appear as if you're voting for that person so you can lynch scum.Ythill wrote: If I had said, "Wash that pan so we can cook bacon," would you assume that I was saying the pan was bacon?
Using inebriation as an excuse for poor posting or reading... just wait until you're sober and do a good job.Ythill wrote: In a flurry of drunken cross-posting, I seem to have glazed over a couple of relevant points.
If that stupid or reactive player is a cop or a doctor or something else useful for the town, it's still totally disadvantageous to pressure them into claiming. I don't see your point.Ythill wrote: Right, because someone is going to claim @ L-3 on page 1, with no cases against them. A player stupid or reactive enough to do that would be doomed anyway. Try coming up with something more realistic.
Again, regardless of whether or not they're "worth their role", forcing a protown role to claim is pointless and can only harm the town. If someone doesn't "deserve" to be the cop or tracker or any other useful role, it doesn't mean they won't be helping the town every night.Ythill wrote: Nobody worth their role was going to claim in that spot.
WIFOM, and by your own logic above, roles are randomized - it's just as likely that a poor player will be scum as it is that a good player will get the role - so you can't have any idea what scum will or will not do.Ythill wrote: I said that scum wouldn't vote late and hammer and only eluded that town wouldn't lynch someone so quickly, so you are misrepresenting my argument.
Scum can ALWAYS rush a lynch when the town isn't looking - there's no guarantee that every protown player is sitting at their computer clicking the refresh button to see what the vote count is at. Your use of the "Hypothetical situation" argument is invalid, as you earlier stated that it's not anti-town to lynch for someone we don't know is town - which is an entirely hypothetical situation.Ythill wrote: When you talk of others following onto the wagon, you state, as evidence, a hypothetical situation and completely neglect the fact that, if a wagon were to get too close to lynch that early, townies would have started unvoting.
The how and when are what's scummy about the wagon - if the wagon came after Darox did something blatantly scummy, I'd be fine with it and would probably be on it.Ythill wrote: You are looking at the idea of wagoning in a vacuum, neglecting to consider when and how it occured.
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Please pull your head out of your arse and realize that what you did was not a trap, as Yos has explained several times. Putting a 4th vote on someone for no reason and then not expecting people to vote for you for it (and then going even further and calling those who voted for you scummy) is idiocy.ythill wrote: please post your impressions of the people who stumbled into the trap.
Additionally, accusing Yos and I of being scum buddies because we agree (along with most of the rest of the town) that you are worthy of the votes put on you is ridiculous, as is the "fear-mongering" concept.
According to you, your vote was the first to remove us from the RV stage:Y wrote: we're taling about people who moved quickly and decisively from random to serious voting and pursuing cases against someone for a single null tell.
The "single null tell" which wasn't null in the first place may have started the wagon, but what you've said and done since then is what has fueled it.Feel free to confirm that I do not random vote.
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@Ythill:
Trying to make you seem anti-town and pointing out where you've actuallyy wrote: Haha. First, I "accused" you of being scum buddies because you seem smart but, like Yos, you are using slippery arguments and improbable hypothetical situations to make me seem anti-town.beenanti-town are two different things. I don't see a single one of my points as being an "improbable hypothetical situation" - they're all perfectly plausible and justified, so attempting to dismiss them as nonsense is unreasonable.
It seems you're playing more with OMGUS in mind than anything else. I know it's difficult to separate those who are attacking you from those you consider scummy by virtue of the fact that they're in opposition to what you're saying, but attempting to dismiss pro-town behavior as scummy is a hindrance to the town and accentuates/exaggerates earlier actions which, in and of themselves, weren't as scummy as they become once a poor defense is built to defend them (I'm speaking here of the "trap" defense, which I don't buy as a plausible argument).
About the paper:
At this point, I don't think we can make any solid arrangements for paper use, as we have yet to open a time capsule to discover what sorts of things will be recorded. I suppose those who have paper could breadcrumb, but I'm not sure what end we can use the paper towards currently.-
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Two rules which have been broken:
I just broke this one, but we need to stop posting as Y has been lynched.9.) If you notice there has been a lynch, stop posting.
Y broke this one when he died. Can we not break any more rules?10.) Above all, Respect the No-Reveal aspect of this game. If you do not, I will not only modkill you, but I will find a way to further harm your faction.-
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Yeah, I don't really see how that paper helps us - I also have no idea why anyone, scum or town, would write that particular message - it's not advantageous to the scum and it's not helpful to the town.
Somehow I don't know if I believe that - what would the goal of this game be if there are no scum? Simply to discover that there aren't scum? If so, we win.roff wrote: or, the mod could just be using a RNG to kill people-
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Yeah, I did have a good reason for suggesting a no lynch and I'm trying my damndest to remember what it is. It had something to do with the fact that we don't know at this point what type of scum we're up against, or if there are scum at all. But I think it's more or less decided at this stage that there are scum of one variant or another, despite the weird message in the capsule.-
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Hello, sorry I've been so damn inactive. Been hiking for the past few days.
It's been said that I should commit to a position before deadline, and I agree.
unvote - vote: Roffman
It seems the choice is between MLF and Roff today - the "MLF hammered" argument, which is as far as I can tell the only point against him, is not a good one.
I will look further into roff but of the two apparent plays today, a roff lynch seems more justified at this stage.-
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Indeed, but between other games with more significant issues to tackle, modding a HM game, and being generally insanely busy IRL, I haven't had much time to delve deeply into this game.By my math that gives you (between your last content post Aug 7th and the latest Aug 25th) - 18 days of time to post something.
Right. Over the games I've played I've observed that stating "I'm placing this vote in the name of PRESSURE!" accomplishes nothing. If you want to place an effective pressure vote, you have to do it with at least a thin veil over it.This was all you posted.
Nowhere did you mention pressure, it looked to me like you were agreeing with my suspicions.
I guess I don't see the contradiction. If you could elaborate, I'd appreciate it.But your newest vote has you contradicting yourself (I assume you had seconded my above argument since you quoted me) by jumping on the Roff wagon with this as your reasoning-
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I didn't think Clammy was particularly scummy - but when a game slows down, or I lose interest in it, bandwagoning someone to get a response is useful. It's not contradictory to vote for someone that someone you bandwagoned voted for, at all. Do you think my vote will be more useful on Clammy than on Roff at this stage?Isn't that contradictory that you would vote to "pressure" someone and then turn around and follow his vote?-
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Actually that's a good point. Until the mod posted that votecount I didn't realize that it only took 4 votes at the deadline to call it a lynch. Now that Knight has unvoted, my vote counts, though, so I'll leave it where it is.Actually at this stage your vote on Roff was useless you put the fith vote on someone who was going to be deadline lynched (4 votes) in a few more hours.
The primary reason I switched from Clammy to Roffman wasn't because of anything Clammy said or did to convince me I shouldn't be voting for him - it was because I was asked to choose a side before the deadline hit, and that made sense to me - I've been pretty inactive here, so I wanted to make sure I had a stake in the game that counted for something.-
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Hmm... you could be right, but I don't know why they'd want us puzzling over it.Surely the person who wrote that would have known it'd be cut off... either they wanted to induce this kind of puzzling over it, or they were gambling on getting more paper somehow.
Question: Do you think the coroner would be able to tell us flat out through the paper that we'd killed a scum, and tell us who it is, or would they have to do it in a roundabout fashion without being specific?-
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Massclaim tomorrow works just as well. However, just as a sidenote, my role is quite strange, unlike anything I've seen in another game, quite specific and related to the theme of this game, so I'm not 100% sure the massclaim will help us separate friend from foe. Knowing the roles, though, will most likely help, as I'm quite unsure how mine can be usefully applied for the benefit of the town.-
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Perhaps the "no scum faction" message we got was a result of the ivy seed being placed in the 2002 capsule?
Any thoughts? It always sounded to me like that message was built into the game setup, in other words, designed by the mod to get us scratching our heads. Perhaps, depending on which capsule the Hort put the seed into, that would determine what day we got that particular message.The capsule begins to crumble. A twisting bundle of ivy curls out of the metal, as if freshly grown. A small piece of paper also flutters to the ground, following the heavy thud of a key.
Also, I believe the claim, though it says nothing about alignment. After all, his claim i s verifiable in 2005.-
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Mmm, I'm not convinced that pacman is scum, but I wanted to make sure everyone realized that lynching him won't cost us anything power-role-wise since he's already done all that he can.
I'm not sure I understand why his role necessarily indicates that he's scum, if you could elaborate TSPN, that would be nice. What was "false" about his seed?
It's clear there are some strikingly non-traditional roles here - I'm quite curious what the lynched players' roles were, and almost wish the game was not no-reveal for that purpose.
That's theonething about Yos' claim that makes me wary of it's validity - while it's certainly nowhere near out of the realm of possibility, a simple cop in a game with a role like "horticulturist" seems out of place. However, it would be a bold move to claim cop and clear scumbuddies. Then again, since it's no-reveal, it's easy enough to slide that past the town - we have no way to prove Yos' claim definitively.
The roles are certainly going to complicate this game. I think a massclaim might be in order sometime on the horizon.-
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In fact, I almost wish we'd massclaimed yesterday or perhaps even Day 1. Though there's no way to prove claims true or false, we could sort out how to utilize roles and speculate on them further. Had I known more roles than mine were out of the ordinary, I would have proposed it.
I think, if we do mass-claim, we should include, as pacman did, both exactly what our role is, and how we used it (if we have), and perhaps even whether we have paper or not, and what we've written if we have. A complete, comprehensive claim might be productive here. We have no idea what stage in the game we're at, truly - we could be nearing lylo, for all we know.-
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I can use the tally every night, but haven't used it either night yet. However, N-1, I attempted to use it on 2002, but was informed that I wasn't going to be told about the papers placed in the 2002 capsule (since people were placing them that night). Also, I was told that capsules may or may not actually open on the date they are intended to open on, which is interesting now that I'm rereading the PM. I forgot to use my power on N-2 - I might have been V/LA, can't really remember, but either way I've got nothing. However, I think I should use it on 2005 tonight to attempt to verify that at least one piece of paper is in that capsule (to verify pacman's claim - though I have no idea if the seeds will show up in my results?).-
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That's exactly what I'm wondering, and that's why I've been saying throughout the game that I want to claim - so people can help me understand what good my power is.what would be the point in counting is my question?
That's it - I can count papers in a given capsule. I also have one sheet which I haven't used yet.Tally man can only tell us what we know at the begining of each year when a capsule is opened.... how many papers are in that capsule. again your claim seems like it is lacking something..... what else is there IcemanE?
I explained why I didn't on night 2 already. I actually did use it the first night but it didn't go through, as I explained.On top of that you haven't even used your night action....... not really believable. If I had something other than townie I would be using that as much as I could to aide the town.
As far as I can tell, my power is useful because I can investigate any capsule at night to find out how many papers are in it. So, I suppose if someone said they placed a paper in a certain capsule, I could check at night to make sure there's something there... but that's about the extent of it, I think. Remember that papers added during the night I use my power aren't tallied (that's why my N-1 action didn't work), so it's possible to catch someone in a lie.
Do you think it's a good idea for us all to reveal how (if) we've used our papers, so I can verify that tonight?
Pacman - does your role specify or mention anything about only you being able to use the seeds?
Also, I'm inherently suspicious of the vanilla claims - it seems like the type of game where everyone has a power role of some sort or another - I mean, tally man, horticulturist... these are atypical roles to say the least.
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However... Yos' cop claim... now that I think about it, why would we have a morticiananda cop in a no-reveal... a mortician makes much more sense, and actually a cop doesn't make much sense at all for a game where we aren't allowed to reveal our roles even after death. Shucks, now I've got to rethink everything.
I'm thinking we might lynch pacman today, because not only is he scummy, but Darox can investigate him tonight... but we don't have a doc to protect him... gah, this bites.-
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Before we do anything I want some direction as far as what date I should use my ability on tonight.
Maybe I missed something, Yos, but when did Rotten Snitch suddenly become "the lynch"? You seem to imply that in one of your posts.
As far as doubting your claim, I'm just throwing out options. Especially in a no-reveal game like this, I think it's important to never rule someone out completely based on role claims.-
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Heh? When have I doubted your claim until that post? I remember saying I don't necessarily trust the results of your investigation.and it looks to me like you've been trying to do so all day.
Right, right, but you also say this:I laid it out in my analysis post just above; Based on my reread of the roffman lynch, and Darox's claim that Roffman was scum, I think Rotten Snitch looks linked to him pretty strongly; it looks like he was trying to defend Roffman without looking like he was doing that for most of the day.
That's why I asked why you said he was "the lynch", as if it were agreed upon by the town, when in fact it seemed you were the only one who was thinking that way.Um...pacman, we're lynching Rotten Snitch today. Unless he's your scumbuddy?-
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No, someone else said that.First you tried to imply that I might not be sane
I said I thought your results may or may not clear your targets, since it's no reveal, and I have no bearings whatsoever on the structure of this game (though the massclaim certainly helped).
Thanks for telling me what my goal is.then either way, if you can plant enough doubt in the town's mind, you accomplish your goal, which would be to discredit my investigations.
That's not my goal. My goal is to try to understand and get a grip on what's happening in this game - part of the aim of a massclaim is to find which roles you believe, and which might be fabricated. I'm still sorting through that.
While that's not technically a question, I'll do it. Give me a day or two, busy man.Speaking of that, I would like you to answer my question when you get a chance; in case you missed it:
About him being "the lynch", you seemed to assume the role of the town by saying "this is who we're lynching today" when in fact, at that point, it was really just you saying that.-
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Yes, you should.Are we to believe you have failed to get any real results for three consecutive nights?
I was hoping to catch someone in a lie today - that's why I picked the 2004 capsule, but no one did anything with it last night.
Which means I have no way to prove my role, which sucks.
It seems it's going to be me or pacman today, and I agree that it should be one or the other of us. Clearly I don't think it should be me, and honestly I think it should be pacman - how are you going to verify anything about him tomorrow? His seed is going to be there regardless, and whether or not it's there, it still won't prove his alignment.
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