This was possibly one of my favourite games on MS. Not necessarily because it was totally gripping the entire time, but more because it was a little piece of history that i'm proud to be part of. This was one of the first games i signed up for, and it's spanned about 6 months. When i read back at various points, i could actually see myself getting gradually better, as the game progressed. Yep, when this game started, i was a newb mafioso who defended his godfather blatantly. Now, i'd like to think i can bus with the best of em.
After the Livingod lynch, i didn't really expect to survive Day 2. But, i decided to follow a policy of 'take each day as it comes'. I don't think there was one day in the game where i wasn't at least 60% sure i was going to be lynched. I will say that, from my perspective, the repeated No-Lynching was good for the town. With only 3 of us left after Day 1, we needed mislynches, and fast. The longer the game wore on, the harder it was to keep trying to fit in, and pretend to search for scum. Maybe its just because i wasnt really used to being mafia in a long game, but meh.
Eventually i got sick of waiting for N9V to die, hence i stupidly decided to pressure him myself. Luckily it wasnt noticed as much as it should have been, and he was lynched.
In the duration of the game, i saw so many scumbuddies come and go. lol
I guess this could be an indication that nobody wants to be on a team with me. :p
either way, it was nice being the veteran of the group to an extent. I was getting slightly more confident by Day 5. We had closed the gap to some extent, and although Fonz was annoying me with his constant bussing, we were looking stronger. Every mislynch was a task, the reward for which, was an NK.
Then YB came along, and basically, committed suicide, with a role that we never really got the opportunity to exploit, which sucked. That night, Fonz said we should bus each other, but i wasnt too confident. Luckily, in targetting a confirmed innocent, we knocked off the Doc, and good old Stoofy, modkilled the Roleblocker for us.
Fonz claimed a guilty on IH, which gave us another NK, and we killed the Cop. Then Fonzie was sacrificed, in order for me to kill TCS-Tracker.
At this point things werent looking too good for me, with 2 confirmed innocents, and only 3 other potential mislynch targets for me, of which i needed to lynch 2 consequtively.
I'm not sure what the Scotmany-Amb pm thing was about, but it got a mislynch on Scotmany, which i distanced myself from nicely. I then had a tough choice of who to NK, Theo or Kelly. Kelly had asked some tricky questions about my analysis of the game, which i didnt really want to answer, but Theo was clearly more favourable towards K-Scope. In the end, i killed Kelly, in an attempt to make it look like Scope killing the person who was least likely to save him.
And then, the final day. Obviously, i was delighted to see that, with 4 players left, Panzer was desperate to see Scope hang. As long as Panzer retained this view, i couldnt be lynched. The occassion where K-Scope asked me to lynch Panzer with him, i hoped would convince Theo that Scope was opportunistic scum, but it obv didnt work. Either way, it felt good at the time.
And then, we lost Panzer, which i was genuinely upset about. For those of you who don't know, he was talking to me about the game in scumchat, commenting on how K-Scope was obv scum etc, WHILE STOOFER WAS IN THE ROOM ASWELL. lol.
Even after the modkilling, he IMed me, saying that he still thought Scope was obv scum, which was a pretty big compliment.
Even so, Theo was away, and i wasnt greatly confident of victory at this point. However, K-Scope couldnt really have made himself look any scummier, so i guess the fact that i couldnt get him lynched, is a sign that i still have more improving to do. Anyway, it was pretty cool that the 2 people who had been arguing for the duration of the game, were able to survive till endgame. I'm also glad that, if i was going to be discovered, it was Theo who did it.
So yeah, a great game. I'm not too disappointed about losing, simply because i feel grateful to have survived so long!
Thats not to say that nobody suspected me, but generally the only suspicion of me was inferior to their suspicion of someone else, so i tended to get away with it. Only K-Scope suspected me from the start, and i found out towards the end, that this was only based on gut, and so wasnt a convincing case. Even so, i'm pretty grateful to K-Scope too, for covering me in weak OMGUS, so i had less genuine attention from others.
And of course, i'm also grateful to The Fonz, who was by far, my best scumbuddy over the duration of the game, and who gave me alot of fuel to use against Scope and Scot, before he died.
Even so, whilst i think we fought hard, great effort by the town, and especially, congrats to Theo for winning it in the end!
BM
