Mini #73: Prosaic Mafia (The End)

[Breakdown]

The object of the game isn't to kill all the confusing people, and judging by his couple hundred other posts outside this thread bigben doesn't seem to really be acting out of the ordinary. If he is scum, hats off to him, cuz there isn't anything in his behavior that makes me want to lynch him, not yet anyways.

I was planning on switching my vote back to Phoebus once you spoke up, but with the way you've been acting in your last couple posts really makes me wonder if you're not the better choice. There's nothing damning against you, no, but I'm just getting a bad vibe off of you.

confirm vote: tehgood

[massive]

The thing is, it's near impossible to tell about bigbenwd. He votes in random patterns, he interjects accusations against people with no reasons attached to them ... Sure, you COULD say that he's not doing anything out of the ordinary, but WE DON'T KNOW. This is his first game here; everything else outside this thread is just window-dressing and doesn't really apply.

Let me just say this: for 90% of the players here, if they were doing what bigbenwd is doing, I'd vote for them.

I've already said I think that tehgood's "agreement" of bigbenwd's role-claim was suspicious. Problem is ... everyone is suspicious. I can go either way; if a substantial bandwagon moves against tehgood and there's no good roleclaim associated with it, then I could be persuaded to switch. But until then, I'm on bigbenwd all the way.

[Talitha]

I'm still on tehgood.... first he mentions how bigben's roleclaim sounds like his role, then he turns around and says that bigben is scummy.
Yes it's probably a self-preservation move, but it all just sounds a bit fishy to me.

[tehgood]

I said that bigbenwd's role PM being vague was similar to mine - I never mentioned anything about my role being similar to his...

@breakdown - my last couple posts have been defending myself against rabid claims of me being buddy buddy with bigben

still, he seems the most supicious right now - neither Phoebus nor Primoris seem scummy.

Massive, however - he is looking a bit off, just his last 2 posts.

F.O.S Massive

confirm vote bigbenwd

[bigbenwd]

i post like this random and all cuz thats how i think, and as i cannot edit my posts, many of my posts will be spur of the moment, then i'll take a moment look back, and decide on something else lol, but looking at talitha's post really made me think about tehgood, and i handt really before so

fos:tehgood

[tehgood]

AHH!

BIGBEN!

First: use proper punctuation, etc (I'm a hypocrite).

Second: You look like scum. Scum Scum Scum Scum.

confirm vote bigbenwd

[Talitha]

Hmmm... what is it.. 12 hours until deadline?
I'm not going to change my vote, but it looks like bigben is going to be the one lynched.

A small piece of mafia advice for bigben: If you are pro-town and you believe tehgood could be anti-town, smart play would be to put your vote on tehgood... no-one would hold it against you and it might give you a fighting chance...
If you are anti-town please ignore this advice

[tehgood]

Gah. I'm not anti-town.

Yea.. please don't lynch me, I actually wanna play this game

But I don't suppose there is anything that could PROVE that I am pro/anti town... just assumptions based on that I agreed that my role PM was vague.

tehgood

LET ME LIVE!

[massive]

Hrm. I'm considering possibly switching my vote to tehgood. He confirm-voted in big bold letters in two posts within a post of each other. Maybe now would be a good time to give people a better reason not to vote for you?

[bigbenwd]

vote: tehgood

when is this deadline now?

[Norinel]

(Sorry for the delay. Bigbenwd's vote after the deadline has been ignored, not that it would've affected the lynch.)

End of Day Vote Count:

bigbenwd- 4 (Flying Dutchman, massive, Primoris, tehgood)
tehgood- 3 (Talitha, Breakdown, Stewie)
Primoris- 1 (Phoebus)
Phoebus- 1 (Darkblade)
Stewie- 1 (bigbenwd)

Not voting (1)- gashlycrumb

Day 1:

Bigbenwd's lack of interest in sticking with one target comes to the attention of the town, who swarm him, yet seem reluctant to finish him off as night begins to fall. Attention turns to tehgood for a moment, yet not enough to save him. He dies easily, but the traditional house search reveals only that he may have been too afraid to commit. Too afraid to get out at night, at least.

bigbenwd (Townie)- Lynched Day 1

It is now night, send choices.

(Edit: gashlycrumb and Primoris are being prodded.)

[Norinel]

Night 2:

The town wakes again, this time seeing that Breakdown is no longer among them. His house is also near the outskirts of town, with a still visible hole in its untouched lawn from a moving sign. Inside, they find Breakdown's body in his barely furnished living room, surrounded by boxes that would never be unpacked.

Breakdown (Outsider)- Killed by the Mafia Night 2

It is now day, 5 to lynch.

[Flying Dutchman]

Well, nothing much to go on, so:

Vote: tehgood

[massive]

Why the heck would anyone kill Breakdown? That seems arbitrary.

Right now, and I hate to say this, but Talitha seems most suspicious to me. I did a re-read, and when she joined the game, it seemed like she just jumped on a reason, ANY reason to stay away from the bigbenwd bandwagon and move on tehgood. The problem is, I also find tehgood suspicious (and I think I was the one who outlined the whole "my PM too" reason for tehgood's suspiciosity in the first place), so I'm in "one or the other" mode now.

[Primoris]

I'll try to be more active from now on, but I was just so sure about bigbenwd and had nothing more to add.

I've just noticed (altought I've read it earlier, I forgot that particular rule because it had nothing to do with me) however, the Serial Killer can not, not kill. If he/she doesn't send in a choice, the choice will be random. But there was only one kill! Did the mafia chose not to kill? Because the Serial Killer must kill. Or is the Outsider our Serial Killer? That would be good for us townies!

I don't really know what to vote for, I think we can at least safely assume that Phoebus' claim that he was vigilante may be correct. According to my observation in the above paragraph, he's likely not the SK.

I could be all wrong, maybe the Outsider is nothing special, but I couldn't find any info on the role. Would be logical though, some strange person living at the outskirts of the city, would fit a SK.

[tehgood]

Well, since the only thing against me is that I readily agreed with bigben that my role PM was vague...

and bigben was a townie...

yea..

well, the logic presented by massive DOES make sense - talitha was avoiding the bandwagon at all costs - she just jumped on me with little or no reason.

vote talith

tehgood

[Talitha]

Well that's interesting. The two people under the most pressure late yesterday now pointing the finger in my direction.

You're right. I did try to stay away from the bigben bandwagon. Why? Mainly because what he said about his role PM rang true. I know the mod did not want us to use that kind of information so I haven't mentioned it, but it's hard to ignore when it's there in black and white. To me, although he was voting and posting erratically (have you noticed how he posts around the rest of the forum??), he was one of my least suspicious people. and he was an easy target for the mafia because of it.

vote: tehgood

[Stewie]

I agree with talitha. Thegood said the pm was vage way after I did.

Vote: thegood

[massive]

I wasn't trying to point fingers at you, really. I was just looking to see what tehgood would say in response to me giving him an outlet. Hook, line, and sinker, as they say? I'd vote tehgood but I think he's close enough (three by my count).

[bigbenwd]

gah i told you all you were wasting your time and that i was town, but noooo, nobody could beleive that i was mereley a stupid noob who is just figuring out how to play this game online that everyone wants to kill *sighs and dies*

[Talitha]

Oh, hmmm, right.. Nice work massive!

Might be time to think about a role claim tehgood.

[tehgood]

Woa.

Contradiction here.

You just said that you didn't vote for bigben because you thought that his role PM rang true.

However, I just said I had essentially the same, vague, powerless role PM.

And you vote for me.

WHAT?

tehgood

[Talitha]

Yours didn't ring true...

[tehgood]

wow... so much controversy over such a little thing..

I agreed with bigben.

bigben is lynched.

I am turned into a lynch target.

I fall into a trap.

I can't roleclaim any more without being modkilled: I have NO powers, and I am pro-town... mod decided not to elaborate.

tehgood

[massive]

Then why hint about how it was just your role PM that was similar to bigbenwd's, and not your role? (Top of this page for those interested.)

vote tehgood