Mini 210: Secret Ballot Mafia- The Ballotbox is Closed!

JereIC · Post Post #150 (ISO) » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:00 am

You quickly gather in front of the Voticutioner, write a name on a piece of paper, and then slide it into the massive machine's magical vote counting box. The box grows heavier and heavier with paper, until suddenly it passes some fine-tuned point, and it detects a majority has been reached against one player. You hear a great creaking of ancient gears and arcane technology, and somewhere somebody sees an exhausted hamster stagger out of the machine, only to be forced back by army ants. Then all at once, you hear a sound like a cannon going off, and the machine stops.

"Did it break?" somebody asks.
"Is there a tie?" somebody else asks.
"Did you guys notice I'm standing on a see-saw," asks rajrhcpfreak, "and does anyone else hear that sound like a giant anvil falling out of the sky, and about to hit the other end of this see-saw?"

Before anyone can answer, the anvil, shot into the air by the Voticutioner's own cannon, hits the other end of the see-saw, launching rajrhcpfreak into the air and directly towards the Pit O' Snakes. He flies into the snakes, who are quite rattled to have another intuder (rattled, get it? like a rattle snake? ah, you'll laugh later).

"Aaaaaiiiiiieeeee!" rajrhcpfreak yells out, "There are so many snakes! They're wriggling all over me, biting into my flesh and picking my pockets! How is a simple townie supposed to survive so many snakes? I curse my townie brethren who sent me to this torture, and the scum as well who started it!" He is quickly enveloped in snaky doom. The town goes to rest for the night, and so do the snakes, who are cold-blooded.

rajrhcpfreak, townie, was lynched! Now it is night, get your choices to me if you have 'em.

JereIC · Post Post #151 (ISO) » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:43 am

Well, good morning everybody! Everybody but halfpint, that is, for whom it was a bad morning following a no-doubt worst night. Y'all find her stabbed to death in her condo, along with a pendant stapled to the wall which reads "Go Happyfunville Townies!"

Halfpint, townie, was stabbed night two. The rest of you should get your day on!

Five to start voting.

halfpint · Post Post #152 (ISO) » Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:10 pm

So sad.

inHimshallibe · Post Post #153 (ISO) » Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:10 pm

Aww, halfpint

. Now, where were we Yesterday?

ChocoCid · Post Post #154 (ISO) » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:23 pm

Wait... did the mod give us a hint as to who the scum was?

and the scum as well who started it!

Now who was the first person to finger raj?
Unless I'm mistaken, Someone was it, post 80, followed by Pariah and Mathcam.

Now, I'm not entirely sure on whether death scenes typically have game hints, or if that's just flavor.

inHimshallibe · Post Post #155 (ISO) » Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:00 pm

I don't look too much into death scenes. Back to where I left off - I'm willing to go to the vote, voting against Lubabah.

mathcam · Post Post #156 (ISO) » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:34 pm

FOS: inHim

for so eagerly pursuing one target already. That said, I'd been thinking over night that Lubabah was my prime target for the day as well.

Cam

inHimshallibe · Post Post #157 (ISO) » Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:47 pm

For so eagerly pursuing a target already? I'm just saying if I could actually vote now, it'd be for Lubabah. I'll concede it kind of looks like I was pushing for a vote now, but that was not the intention.

mathcam · Post Post #158 (ISO) » Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:03 pm

Well, if you were thinking about trying to get someone lynched quickly today, your earlier "Where were we yesterday?" looks awfully like a leading question, since Lubabah was definitely a leading target at the end of yesterday.

Cam

Someone · Post Post #159 (ISO) » Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:21 pm

Hmm...After reviewing the posts yesterday, I have to say that choco seems a lot more suspicious than he did when I made my order. I'll have to make a post detailing my suspicions...but just know for now that I have my eye on him.

ChocoCid · Post Post #160 (ISO) » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:50 am

Hell, looking at my own posts, I look either scummy or stupid for the first few pages.

Unfortunately I tended to post in a stupid manner over the summer break (any misetings member could tell you this) and i'm looking scummy for it now (as well as having 2 banned accounts over there).
I can't make up for it now except with good play, so I intend to try to do so, which is going to be necessary because right now the mafia is up 2-0 on us.

inHimshallibe · Post Post #161 (ISO) » Fri Aug 26, 2005 12:10 pm

Where are all the peoples?

mathcam · Post Post #162 (ISO) » Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:15 pm

Looks like we might need some prods.

Cam

ISO · Post Post #163 (ISO) » Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:42 pm

I am here.

Personally, I'd like to see if Choco actually changes before voting him, if that's what we decide to do.

I'd definately like to see something from KingEnigma.

I'm a little confused...what makes Lubabah suspicious?

Other than that, if we get stuck, I'm still happy with my list from yesterday.

JereIC · Post Post #164 (ISO) » Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:22 am

Looks like Lubabah, Astronaut, and KingEnigma will get a prod this afternoon...

Astronaut · Post Post #165 (ISO) » Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:30 am

Well, I'd deserve the prod, no doubt about that.

Sorry for the lack of participation.

I wasn't particularily excited about Choco's play yesterday, and what in the end made me not want to vote him was the fact that he participated as much as he did. As to his comment on his own play today, I really don't know what to make of that one.

The comments on Lubabah could be worth looking into, but I think a full re-read is needed before I start voting.

inHimshallibe · Post Post #166 (ISO) » Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:31 pm

Silly MeMe and her organized forum

... I'm dying here from the lack of game.

ChocoCid · Post Post #167 (ISO) » Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:17 am

More people should used watched topics, obviously.

inHimshallibe · Post Post #168 (ISO) » Mon Aug 29, 2005 4:35 am

Yeah, this game setup can really drag the days out when there are players MIA, because we can't do any voting unless we want to end the day.

To make a comment, I now find Pariah's opening posts strikingly suspicious.

JereIC · Post Post #169 (ISO) » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:29 am

SpeedyKQ replaces Pariah! Yay SpeedyKQ!

SpeedyKQ · Post Post #170 (ISO) » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:46 am

Hey everyone.

So I gave it a readthrough, and I agree that the town was smart to go for a unanimous decision. I wonder if we could use our own voting-like mechanic to get around this drawback. Instead of typing "Vote: player" (bolded) we could type "

Choose: player

". We'd have to manage our own "choose counts" rather than have the mod do it, but once we reached a majority, we could vote to end the day, and vote unanimously for the chosen lynchee. If we reach a mod-imposed deadline, we would vote unanimously for whoever had the most "chooses." What do youz think?

I'm really bothered by those who voted to start voting before the town had come to agreement on who to lynch. They might as well have just said "I think I'd like to let the scum choose our lynchee today, thanks." ChocoCid and raj fell into this category, and raj wasn't scum, but still I'll

FOS ChocoCid.

I'm also bothered by KE's insistence on never claiming. There is very little downside to having bandwagoned players claim, if they will otherwise be lynched anyways. Also I don't like KE's unwillingness to join the unanimous vote. In this setup scum will thrive on splitting the vote and it will become more important as our numbers dwindle.

FOS KingEnigma.

inHimshallibe · Post Post #171 (ISO) » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:06 am

To make the "choose" system work, we need to be able to trust everybody in the town. We were able to accomplish this last vote, so I think we have something to work upon for this vote.

YAY SPEEDYKQ!!!

ChocoCid · Post Post #172 (ISO) » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:23 am

That's a pretty fair assessment, I guess, but you also have to realize that having only one-two people say "let's go ahead and vote" isn't really that big of a deal, as it would have taken 4 more to actually start the vote and the same thing applies as in normal mafia- if the scum is stupid enough to all go "VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE" right then (note: 4 scum seems kind of high, but i'm just using this as an example anyway) the town's going to pretty much be set from that point on, so it's really not a big deal.

Your point would be a lot more valid if it had been 4 or so people doing it, but I'll accept that assessment at face value.

Without really knowing what went on last night other than "townie killed", I don't see much to go on other than what's posted in this thread, and we have no way of knowing who didn't follow the majority.

Astronaut · Post Post #173 (ISO) » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:38 am

Appreciate your input, SpeedyKQ!

The choose-voting would work, I'm pro. I'm also slightly suspiscious of ChocoCid, though perhaps not because of the same reasons that you are. Calling for vote now isn't really that big a deal.

ChocoCid · Post Post #174 (ISO) » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:43 am

You also have to realize that I was incredibly active and could unvote at pretty much any time in case I thought things were going the wrong way.
I can understand your suspicions of me because I was of the opinion that telling everyone your vote is against the secret ballot, but of course anyone can lie about it so I guess it really doesn't matter and I probably was wrong to be so vehement about it.

At the current point in time I'm still suspicious of KingEnigma for pretty much all the reasons everyone's stated for being suspicious of him.