Sorry about the temporary absence, I'm moderately V/LA until the 15th (my school likes to have its finals a week later than usual).
Two questions I want to have resolved now:
Mod: In more traditional Mafia terminology, would Bruce be better described as a Weak Doctor (doctor who dies if he targets a member of an anti-town faction) or a Bodyguard/Martyr (dies in place of his target)? Also, what happens if Bruce is Mafia/Gangster and targets a fellow Mafioso?
Bruce is a Weak Doctor. If Bruce is scum, and he targets a scumbuddy, he is safe.
This is important; if Bruce is weak doctor (leaning towards this based on PM wording, but it's somewhat ambiguous), imaginality is largely confirmed town (can only be scum if Grimmy is scum, either of the lying or of the protected a buddy variety).
Mod: If Vicki (myself) is targeted by a roleblocker, is Vicki notified of this?
Yes.
I'd like to know this before I finalize my thoughts on how to best plan actions here.
Ways we can lose at the beginning of Day 2:
1) Mafia and SK each kill a different non-Mafia player (depending on the Mafia win condition, this may or may not require that one of the killed players be the SK).
2) John is Mafia and steals a non-Mafioso's vote, at least one player dies (either by lynch or by kill) before the beginning of tomorrow, and no kills/lynches hit Mafia before the beginning of tomorrow. (In this scenario, if only one kill goes through and it hits town, tomorrow ends in a forced no-lynch at best - in this case, SK likely targets John N3 and, by my initial analysis, the end state is contingent on whether the SK succeeds in this kill).
I considered No Lynch briefly, as it removes the possibility of scenario 1 provided that Mary/Rose nokills or her kill is stopped, but that still leaves us in a bad position.
I want to go over some scenarios to be sure, but I'm thinking we need to lynch Danny/John, because his role poses an immediate threat to the town. I also think we want to set up THREE possible sets of night actions - one for if our lynchee is town, one for if our lynchee is Mafia, one for if our lynchee is the SK.
Grimmy/Bruce needs careful handling if he's a weak doctor (want/need mod confirmation there) - three kills today/tonight is fatal to us, so if he's weak doctor we need to make sure he's protecting a townie. I'm leaning towards having Grimmy target either Tom or imaginality (depending on the outcome of the lynch) and having Tom watch Grimmy...
I seriously need to think this over. There's a part of me that's outright reminded of Quack Mafia, where I'm pretty sure the optimal play is to play as Mountainous...
