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Post Post #10 (isolation #0) » Tue May 24, 2022 2:54 pm

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Let's go!

VOTE: Alianna
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Post Post #25 (isolation #1) » Wed May 25, 2022 8:34 am

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In post 22, whiskey delta wrote:How long has everyone been playing? Outta curiosity

I used to play a lot but it’s probably been about ~3 years since I did last. My home website went the way of the dodo sadly
I started playing forum mafia around 2014, played and hosted a couple of games, but on a non-mafia site. Returned to playing only last year.
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Post Post #41 (isolation #2) » Thu May 26, 2022 11:04 am

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Alright, let's start talking.
In post 16, hutmeil wrote:I guess since this is Day 1, all the current votes are senseless.

My notes:

Alianna
- was informed that furtiveglance is Town?? (Mason or Friendly Neighbor?)
- asks who wants to be nightkilled (sus)
hutmeil
, what do you make of
Alianna
's claim from post ?
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Post Post #56 (isolation #3) » Fri May 27, 2022 2:10 am

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In post 53, takotsubo syndrome wrote:
In post 16, hutmeil wrote:I guess since this is Day 1, all the current votes are senseless.

My notes:

Alianna
- was informed that furtiveglance is Town?? (Mason or Friendly Neighbor?)
- asks who wants to be nightkilled (sus)
Well this is just a disgusting post to start off the game.
It's really low effort. Anyone can make post to make it seem like they're doing something. I wanted to check if
hutmeil
is capable of more than that, but I guess for now we have to assume that they're not.
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Post Post #57 (isolation #4) » Fri May 27, 2022 2:13 am

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In post 42, Alianna wrote:What do you make of my claim in post 11?
I wouldn't want my answer to spoil any potential answer from
hutmeil
, which I'm still counting on getting.
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Post Post #97 (isolation #5) » Sat May 28, 2022 4:16 am

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In post 59, hutmeil wrote:
In post 41, Greeting wrote:Alright, let's start talking.
In post 16, hutmeil wrote:I guess since this is Day 1, all the current votes are senseless.

My notes:

Alianna
- was informed that furtiveglance is Town?? (Mason or Friendly Neighbor?)
- asks who wants to be nightkilled (sus)
hutmeil
, what do you make of
Alianna
's claim from post ?
I'm neutral on this since we don't have much info.
So, you named two possible roles - Mason or Friendly Neighbor. Check the wiki article on Friendly Neighbor, specifically the role PM. Do you still think this claim is possible? Why/why not?
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Post Post #98 (isolation #6) » Sat May 28, 2022 4:19 am

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Oh, you got there already. Never mind. Of course this can't be Friendly Neighbor, because the role works on Nights only and there is no Night 0 in this game or any Newbie games for that matter.

hutmeil
gets a town pass for the time being.
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Post Post #101 (isolation #7) » Sat May 28, 2022 4:24 am

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In post 80, takotsubo syndrome wrote:
In post 55, Roden wrote:
In post 53, takotsubo syndrome wrote:
In post 16, hutmeil wrote:I guess since this is Day 1, all the current votes are senseless.

My notes:

Alianna
- was informed that furtiveglance is Town?? (Mason or Friendly Neighbor?)
- asks who wants to be nightkilled (sus)
Well this is just a disgusting post to start off the game.
Disgusting? Sure. But is it scummy? Ehhh...I think newbscum tries harder to look townie. Pretty sure it was just meant to be a joke post since it was during RVS.

Then again, they disappeared afterward. I understand that not much is going on right now, but it's been almost three days since their last post. Let's get some pressure going, maybe?

VOTE: Hutmeil
smells more like something newb-scum would do and could get away with it.
If it is a joke it seems like a role-fishy joke to me.

it's obvious that FG & aliana have a hx together so I didn't find it so incredibly suspicious..
The post itself sucked, but the follow-up was promising. When I was a Newbie, I only had a general idea of how the roles worked and I can see a bit of a townie mindset right there.
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Post Post #102 (isolation #8) » Sat May 28, 2022 4:28 am

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In post 78, furtiveglance wrote:I have early townleans on whiskey delta and hutmeil. I don't think anyone else has earned one yet.
Why
whiskey delta
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Post Post #144 (isolation #9) » Sun May 29, 2022 8:59 am

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In post 103, furtiveglance wrote:
In post 102, Greeting wrote:
In post 78, furtiveglance wrote:I have early townleans on whiskey delta and hutmeil. I don't think anyone else has earned one yet.
Why
whiskey delta
?
I agreed about hutmeil. That's it pretty much
You mean you agree with
whiskey delta
's evaluation of
hutmeil
and that makes
whiskey delta
town? Why is that alignment indicative at all?
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Post Post #182 (isolation #10) » Mon May 30, 2022 6:49 am

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In post 146, takotsubo syndrome wrote:I also am going out on a limb and stating that I have never seen roden go out guns blazing like he is right now.
That is true to be fair.

The
hutmeil
scumread sounds like it's in bad faith too. I questioned him and this went down a townie route.
Roden
's vote is still parked there.

VOTE: Roden

This is E-2.
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Post Post #183 (isolation #11) » Mon May 30, 2022 6:52 am

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In post 171, 72offsuit wrote:
In post 71, Alianna wrote:Also, irrelevant, but this is the slowest D1 I have ever endured. It's taken us around 3 days to get near the end of the third page. The other games I've been in reached this point in a matter of hours.
Slight townlean from this post.
I think town is much more frustrated with inactivity than scum. Scum thrives on town apathy.
The frustration feels genuine to me.
I disagree. Newbies very well can fake frustration and be hyperactive, even if they claim it's on purpose (, ). I am keeping an eye on that slot.
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Post Post #240 (isolation #12) » Tue May 31, 2022 9:51 am

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In post 188, Malakittens wrote:UUUUUUUUUUUUUH

where he did write its not in ypour scum meta

i personally havent played scum w/ you so this feels off compared to my other games that had town!you in it.
My thoughts exactly. I do not know all of
Roden
's meta, but this doesn't match his town games that I know of.
In post 187, Roden wrote: What makes the Hutmeil scum read bad faith? Can you explain that?
I called out
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on their low effort post (). The response and the thinking process is towny (). I am far more inclined to believe that this is genuine progress on their part and, in my opinion, it should warrant an early townread. Your vote on them in was justified. However, you didn't seem to have taken into account their posts in between your vote and post , where you attacked them for discussing PRs. How else were they supposed to explain themselves, when being asked about it, if not by discussing the existing PRs claims when that is what caused the discussion to happen in the first place?

This is why this read is in bad faith,
Roden
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Post Post #241 (isolation #13) » Tue May 31, 2022 9:53 am

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Also, this is not
Mala
's scum game. I have played with her when she was scum and she blatantly doesn't enjoy playing as scum. She's very likely town here.
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Post Post #242 (isolation #14) » Tue May 31, 2022 9:57 am

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In post 228, Tidus of the X wrote:Furtive seems towny to me for keeping it below E-1(it's a pretty towny thing to do to stop the potential to hammer until the town's decided where I first played)
Care to expand on that? What do you think of
Roden
, the second major suspect?
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Post Post #261 (isolation #15) » Wed Jun 01, 2022 8:01 am

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UNVOTE: Roden

No one eliminate him unless we get a counterclaim.

I will be back tomorrow. We still have some time until deadline.
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Post Post #372 (isolation #16) » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:42 am

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I see no counterclaim so
Roden
is basically confirmed Cop. If there is a Doctor, please protect
Roden
tonight and
do not claim
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Post Post #373 (isolation #17) » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:51 am

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furtiveglance
, what is your read of
Tidus of the X
now? You voted them (), then quickly unvoted them claiming that it was a mistake (). And yet they are coloured orange on your readslist (), which seems to indicate that they're high on your suspicion level. As a matter of fact, according to this list, if we take
Roden
out of the picture,
Tidus
should be the one you're going after next.
In post 245, furtiveglance wrote:It's a massive problem that 72offsuit and Tidus of the X aren't talking more. They've entered my scumpool by process of elimination.
From my perspective, you seem to switch on/off on null/scumreading them. Could you please clarify what is your read of them now?
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Post Post #374 (isolation #18) » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:05 am

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While reading the thread, someone said that I'm focusing a lot on newbies. That's true. My general theory is that if a newbie player is town, they have a mindset and an agenda which should be easily spottable and not so easy to fake. That is why I questioned
hutmeil
, that is also why I'm questioning
Tidus of the X
and
furtiveglance
(although I think he has some experience). The fact that we have a lot of new faces is probably the biggest perk of Newbie games in general, it is almost impossible to know everyone and everything is taken at face value.

As for the SEs, I already know
Mala
and I don't need to focus on her for now as she's already got herself a townread. I thought
Roden
was scum, but turns out he went on the offensive as a defensive measure which unfortunately backfired on him, and since he's our PR, it also backfired on us as a team. I don't know what to think of
72offsuit
to be fair. Admittedly, I've decided to deal with them later if both of us are still alive in the game.
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Post Post #441 (isolation #19) » Fri Jun 03, 2022 4:16 am

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We're running out of time and I've received no answer to . I'll have to assume that your reads are capitalising on the fact that
Tidus
' ISO is short and he hasn't contributed much rather than getting to read into his few posts and trying to make out something of them. The most likely answer for that is that
Tidus of the X
is inactive newbie limbait and you wanted to make sure that you can always dig up that read whenever it was convenient for you to do so. And there is not enough time to build a wagon on
Tidus
at this point so the timing for you is bad.

It's easy for scum to go after players like this since you usually cannot count on them effectively defending themselves. That also explains why you're going after
hutmeil
. And in my opinion, someone being less active than most is not a reliable scumtell at all, and is mostly used by opportunistic scumbags to push innocents out.

Now you're desperately trying to get people to jump aboard the
Alianna
wagon, and as much as I am hesitant about
Alianna
, she is not as desperate to get anyone eliminated solely to preserve herself. As a matter of fact, she's quite hesitant to vote at all (). Which is why I'd rather have her stay and have you go instead.

VOTE: furtiveglance
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Post Post #494 (isolation #20) » Mon Jun 06, 2022 1:33 am

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In post 490, 72offsuit wrote:VOTE: Greeting
In post 491, whiskey delta wrote:VOTE: Greeting

E-2
Why do you think I'm scum?
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Post Post #498 (isolation #21) » Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:23 am

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@
whiskey delta


From my perspective it looks like everyone started ganging up on me one second after I went with the
furtive glance
wagon in . I gave him a chance to explain himself and he didn't take it, his reads became erratic and chaotic towards the end. Suffice it to say, I went from being his biggest townread to being his biggest scumread. And everyone just went in for the ride, yourself,
Alianna
,
72offsuit
. If your biggest argument is that you have a hunch then sorry to disappoint, but your hunch is wrong.

If you're seeking to blame me for yesterday's miselim, Day 1 was ending, I didn't feel like going after
hutmeil
and the other two wagons were
Alianna
and
furtive glance
. I picked the scummier one and I'm not sorry for that. If I'm scum then why did all of you follow when I was supposedly miseliminating a townie? Sounds like someone who jumped on that wagon after me knew what was coming (aka they were scum) and were hoping to pin the miselimination on me.

As for your theory, I would say that there's a higher chance that it's true than not overall, if we take all mafia games played on this site. In most games I've played the scums have tended to spread their votes amongst wagons. Which would indeed mean that there is one scum in {
whiskey delta
,
Alianna
,
Greeting
,
hutmeil
} and the other would be in {
Malakittens
,
Tidus of the X
and
72offsuit
}.

The maths in my head said it's
Alianna
and
72offsuit
. But I don't really think that
Alianna
and
72offsuit
would be paired.
72offsuit
seemed to be quite confident to bet his money on the
Alianna
wagon, he started it, went through with it and did not hesitate to try and have her chopped down.

If
Malakittens
is scum then that means she has really upped her scum game and she deserves to win, because I kinda have a green town check on her which I don't feel like looking back at.

Who's left from that three?
Tidus of the X
. Eh, could be.

I will need to think deeper tomorrow, because I also have a feeling that if
Alianna
is scum, and I certainly have a feeling that she might be, then her partner was on the
furtive glance
wagon to save her, because losing a fellow scum Day 1 is something the scums usually can't afford. Which would mean that this game is in the minority of games where all scums are to be found in one wagon and {
Malakittens
,
Tidus of the X
and
72offsuit
} are all towncleared. This is also a mental note to myself to remember where to pick up my thoughts from when I open this thread tomorrow.
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Post Post #510 (isolation #22) » Tue Jun 07, 2022 10:06 am

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In post 501, whiskey delta wrote: It was a high stress time and every vote being laid was pivotal. I think scrutiny is fair, especially given that FG replied to you directly in . Depending on how you view Mala's that makes your vote the one that tied the FG and Alianna wagons. I would say it is more than a hunch at the moment, but I am not totally convinced yet either. At least one of you, hutmeil, and Alianna must be Town so that is good to remember.
Wait a minute.
In post 439, Malakittens wrote:Ngl I don’t wanna elim alianna.

FG


This just stinks
Bc I really want one of 72 hut & Tidus sorted

I won’t be back before deadline most likely in going to sleep
Was this supposed to be a vote on
furtive glance
? I didn't even notice it. This does in fact change things.
In post 501, whiskey delta wrote: I agree that 72/Alianna does not make a likely pair. Considering Mala's vote was not counted, hutmeil and Alianna functioned as the tying and tiebreaking vote that pushed FG to E-1. There is definitely potential for hutmeil/Alianna in that lens.

Any perspective on how you arrived to your TR on Mala would be greatly appreciated.
I have played a few games with
Malakittens
and my overall impression is that she's generally not a deepwolf. In the last game we played together, KTaNE, it became apparent to me that she just doesn't like playing as scum very much and doesn't try very hard if she rolls scum. If you're interested specifically at the moment when we were talking about deepwolves, you should look at the Day Phase in that game when
Mala
was eliminated (Day 3).

But now that you've pointed it out, she did in fact want to go after
furtive glance
and her vote just wasn't counted as valid.
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Post Post #511 (isolation #23) » Tue Jun 07, 2022 10:20 am

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Thing is, my gut says
Malakittens
is town, but logic would suggest that could have been an attempt to start a wagon on
furtive glance
after all, but it just didn't get counted.
In post 506, whiskey delta wrote:So the more I think about the game the more I think an Alianna elim makes the most sense today.

I can’t get over how she was E-2 and still the FG wagon eventually took the lead. That has to be significant. If all three major D1 wagons were Town then we’re in trouble. If Alianna is scum her partner has to be within Greeting/Hutmeil/Mala who all voted to save her over FG.

Thoughts?
Right now my money is on the scum team being
Alianna
+ someone on the
furtive glance
wagon. I know it's not me for sure and nothing else. I guess if we eliminate
Alianna
then we can put this theory to test. If she flips red, then her partner should be
hutmeil
(more likely) or
Malakittens
(less likely). If she flips green, then it's got to be some combo like
72offsuit
/
Tidus of the X
,
72offsuit
/
hutmeil
or
Tidus of the X
/
hutmeil
.

Or... it's you. What
hutmeil
said in about you is actually right. I don't know if I should trust you either. You're clearly aspiring to be town leader, but your voting history isn't really better than mine and yet you're actively trying to throw me under the bus right now.

I'll wait for everyone to weigh in before I cast my vote. It's still only Day 2, but each vote is more valuable with every townie going down and we are not having another miselimination today.
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Post Post #574 (isolation #24) » Wed Jun 08, 2022 8:58 pm

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This is a prod dodge. Hello,
BlueBloodedToffee
. I will cast my vote later today.
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Post Post #599 (isolation #25) » Thu Jun 09, 2022 11:52 am

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I am back. To be fair, I cannot move on without this elimination.
Alianna
has a high chance of flipping red. If it's not
Alianna
, then I am thinking that this game definitely has a deepwolf mastermind and there's only one suitable candidate,
whiskey delta
.

Or maybe, it's just
Alianna
and
whiskey delta
, who knows.

VOTE: Alianna
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Post Post #600 (isolation #26) » Thu Jun 09, 2022 11:56 am

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In post 581, whiskey delta wrote:UNVOTE:

VOTE: Mala

Into the darkness I go.
I've been thinking about this as well, but I'd rather see the
Alianna
flip first.
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Post Post #601 (isolation #27) » Thu Jun 09, 2022 11:59 am

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In post 554, Malakittens wrote:
In post 514, Alianna wrote:
In post 410, whiskey delta wrote:I can’t with you anymore.

See you post game ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not going to base an entire scumread off this, but this feels really sketchy, as if they knew Roden was dying because no doc.
Oof I dig that
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How would you know there's no Doctor in the game,
Alianna
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Post Post #649 (isolation #28) » Fri Jun 10, 2022 7:24 am

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The way the
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wagon was building so slowly looks like we hit the jackpot. She is not claiming, so all that is left is for someone to hammer.
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Post Post #650 (isolation #29) » Fri Jun 10, 2022 7:32 am

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In post 608, whiskey delta wrote:It’s literally a coin flip whether or not there is a doc and Roden was dead man walking as soon as he claimed. It’s a stretch to TMI that

@Alianna - where is your head right now?
irks me so badly.

I understand the assumption here was "
Roden
killed N1 = no Doctor". But there is another possibility. If we are at A1 and not C1, the scums have a Roleblocker. It is technically possible for them to have blocked a Doctor if there was one. Or, for instance, the Doctor could have had a brain fart and didn't submit their action. This is a Newbie game and people should be expected to mess up from time to time.

The fact that
Alianna
went after the first possibility almost instantly bothers me.
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Post Post #661 (isolation #30) » Sat Jun 11, 2022 1:09 am

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In post 660, BlueBloodedToffee wrote:1 day 15 hours left.

We just waiting for another flash wagon?
I think we hit the nail on the head with this elimination and that's why the wagon isn't building up. If the team is
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whiskey delta
, then the latter will do everything he can to derail this. He suddenly stopped responding to you too and that kinda sounds like admission of guilt.
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Post Post #691 (isolation #31) » Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:27 pm

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This... is very disappointing. I am really disappointed of myself in this game. We are getting screwed like hell and this is our last chance. I only ask that no one cast votes unless they are absolutely certain, because this is ELo ("eliminate or lose") and it takes just three votes for someone to go down. The plus side is that here {
Malakittens
,
whiskey delta
,
Tidus of the X
and
hutmeil
} we have exactly two scums. I am going to analyse all four that's left and hope that it's not just a 50% chance at this point.
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Post Post #698 (isolation #32) » Mon Jun 13, 2022 7:54 pm

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In post 697, hutmeil wrote:
In post 695, whiskey delta wrote:“I think mod would want at least one SE on the scum side”

That’s not how role assignments work (or they shouldn’t). It’s supposed to be random.
I disagree. This is a newbie game. If all 3 SEs are Town, scum would be at a great disadvantage which is not good for the game. If I were the mod, I'd want to keep the game balanced and not lopsided. Are you trying to save Greeting?
As someone who has hosted a game on MafiaScum, I can assure you that all draws are random and must be randomised in accordance with sitewide guidelines. Hosts are held accountable for their games by the moderation team, and Newbie games hosts have higher requirements than hosts for other games, because these games are meant to provide a very standardised experience for new players to learn from.

What I am thinking as of this moment is that either
Malakittens
has been pulling the strings for most of the game and I have allowed myself to be pocket her with reciprocation or that we have two Newbies, like any pairing from {
Tidus of the X
, yourself,
whiskey delta
} who are kicking ass. And to be fair, I do not think one is more likely than the other.
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Post Post #699 (isolation #33) » Mon Jun 13, 2022 8:03 pm

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In post 692, hutmeil wrote:I will push through with my WD vote. But I want to hear from everyone first.

Think about this. WD is on both Town (mis)lynches from D1 to D2. Same with Greeting.

D1 - furtiveglance (5): Roden,
Greeting
, hutmeil, Alianna,
whiskey delta

D2 - Alianna (4): BlueBloodedToffee,
Greeting, whiskey delta
, Malakittens

WD has been moving from wagon to wagon both days as I've said earlier. He's been on my scum list since D1.
In post 22, whiskey delta wrote:How long has everyone been playing? Outta curiosity

I used to play a lot but it’s probably been about ~3 years since I did last. My home website went the way of the dodo sadly
WD asked this early in the game. I believe, scum strategy was to elim the strongest players first.

As for Greeting, she's been in my neutral list for a while. However, she's been posting safely so she fits my "not being so active but active enough to not get called out” theory. She also on both mislynch wagons so she's shifted to my SR. Meta-wise, I think mod would want at least one SE on the scum side. The other 2 SEs are dead, so that leaves only her.
My vote history is bad and there's no use of me denying it. My performance in this game has been below my own expectations. Sorry, team.

But, if you take a more detailed look than at just the final vote tallies, you'll find this post:
In post 675, hutmeil wrote:
In post 674, BlueBloodedToffee wrote:You don't want to?
Hmmm, how can I hammer someone in my TR-neutral list. My conscience is holding me back lol. You make a good point though that she's not scumhunting hard enough.

But if Mala is purposely delaying, I guess I'll hammer.
How many hours are there left?
You were just as much willing to hammer
Alianna
, just
Malakittens
beat you to it. And if you did hammer instead of
Malakittens
, the list would include not just me and
whiskey delta
, but yourself as well. But you conveniently left that out, didn't you? I guess now you could be explaining that you didn't really mean to hammer
Alianna
, but I'm not sure if anyone is buying it.
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Post Post #711 (isolation #34) » Tue Jun 14, 2022 11:51 am

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At this point, I'm inclined to think that the solve is
whiskey delta
and
hutmeil
(more likely) or
Tidus of the X
(less likely).

This is most likely my final shot at solving this game. If we get it right, it's highly unlikely that I make it to Day 4, so I'll do my best at laying down everything I've got on this theory. If we don't get it right, at least I will know that I tried.

Spoiler: Long wall of text
From the very start of the game,
whiskey delta
was very active. I can tell that he's experienced in playing mafia and I have reasons to believe that he's the one behind the wheel for the entire game.

Looking through his ISO, I can see that his interactions with both
hutmeil
and
Tidus of the X
were kinda murky.
In post 191, whiskey delta wrote:hutmeil is admittedly my leap of faith read in this situation. I am more convinced by what others have said than anything hutmeil has done in particular, but again if Roden turns up red then I would take them off the table as well.

Tidus hasn't said much which looks ~bad but at the same time I feel like scum would try harder to look productive. 148 isn't much but might be a >Townie reaction.
Both of these really don't give that much information.

Post is
whiskey delta
's first meaningful interaction with
Tidus of the X
. The response in is kinda town-ish though.
In post 257, Tidus of the X wrote:Actually, now that you say that, it doesn't make sense to scan greeting when everyone is saying he looks town, it would nonly confirm him even more as town. I remember reading somewhere that it's a better idea to scan null reads because you have absolutely no idea which alignment it could be, so that's something against his claims.

There still is, however, a chance he could be cop, there are currently no counterclaims after all

Sorry, no, I don't have an alternative. Currently not very good at reading alignments other than the obvious stuff
My opinion is that it was a good choice to get a green check on me early in the game, but unfortunately we could not get that due to that horrible Day 1 wagon. But this is something that fits what a newbie townie would say. Newbie townies in general are more likely to go after the "obvious" solutions such as assuming that it's best to get all the scum reads check out. Truth is, even the loudest players in the game involved in scumhunting can keep flying under the radar for the entire game (aka
whiskey delta
).

There is, however, something worrying about the pairing of
whiskey delta
/
Tidus of the X
. There has been an attempt at an interaction in , and
Tidus
' responses to that interaction have been kinda underwhelming. I cannot, however, make anything AI of
Tidus
' responses in and . I hate to say this, but these responses weren't good at all, but more importantly, they were consistent with his overall performance in the game so far. Which, to me, makes the
WD
/
Tidus
pairing far less likely.

hutmeil
- follow-up.

Please note that for the duration of all of Day 1 and Day 2 there was virtually no interaction between
whiskey delta
and
hutmeil
. To me this looks like both of them were distancing from one another so that we could not find any connection between them. It does make sense and is a pretty valid strategy as scum.

I also have a read on
hutmeil
's part which seems to be proving this theory. In , I noted his nullread of me as caused by me asking supposedly too much questions, while he didn't seem to notice the same thing about
whiskey delta
. And here's the read on
whiskey delta
:
In post 260, hutmeil wrote:
whiskey delta

I like how he generates discussion. But something is off and I can't put my finger on it.
What was I doing asking questions if not generating discussion? And what was
whiskey delta
doing that supposedly worried him? Does not make sense. Looks like a slip.

Late on in Day 1, operation to put the blame on me for
furtive glance
's miselimination started to take place. In spite of the fact that he jumped on the wagon himself. In and , attempts and hopes were made to get me to take the bullet. It wasn't enough, so the plan was to back off and go after
Malakittens
instead.

Looking back, was quite clever. At the time it made me get a soft townread of
whiskey
's slot. Maybe if he were bolder with pursuing this, he would have even convinced me to after
Mala
. Still, the way the gamestate is, I see this post as laying grounds for a
Malakittens
elimination Day 3.
Mala
and
whiskey delta
are definitely not both town-aligned, and neither is
Mala
and
hutmeil
and this is another reason for
whiskey delta
to be our elimination for today.

Now, going back to , me and
Malakittens
are both listed as townreads. Which makes sense from a scum point of view. Going after obvious town is a known scum tell around here and I would expect
whiskey delta
to know that. In my experience, it's almost always inexperienced townies who do this. This would also explain why I am still not dead as of now. My vote history is bad and in his eyes, it was probably easy to use it to miseliminate me when there is nothing else. And this is our last chance at getting it right, which gets the pressure going.

Another thing, who brought up the voting history right now? His partner,
hutmeil
, in . And, as I pointed out in , this was a double-edged sword, because
hutmeil
's voting record looks less bad only on paper.


I am town, I believe
Malakittens
is town, plus she doesn't seem aligned with either
WD
nor especially
hutmeil
whom she's been gunning after since the beginning of time. So the pool has got to be {
whiskey delta
,
hutmeil
,
Tidus of the x
}. And I think both
WD
and
hutmeil
know they're time is up, and they are gunning against each other to make the other one look cleaner Day 4.
Do not be fooled by this.


I am pretty much sold on this solve, so I will not hesitate to cast an actual vote. Do not follow me on this too easily,
WD
needs to be given a chance to explain himself and respond to this post.

VOTE: whiskey delta
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Post Post #714 (isolation #35) » Tue Jun 14, 2022 12:51 pm

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In post 712, whiskey delta wrote:No rebuttal honestly. I played like shit and deserve this elim.

Hammer away. Sorry Town
In post 713, whiskey delta wrote:VOTE: Greeting

If we’re both Town then scum can choose which to hammer since you are apparently confident enough not to worry about a speed hammer in ELO. If not then good game. Wish I had pushed you harder D2
I spent literally hours reading this thread back and forth
and I just do not see another solve. It's not me, not
Mala
and it definitely is not a pair of
hutmeil
and
Tidus of the x
.

If you really were town, you'd be defending yourself and you're not doing that and going on the counteroffensive instead, which means I'm right and I need not worry about this going wrong. I'm just wondering if your teammate is going to bus you or not.

Anyway, I am off to sleep and I won't be around until later tomorrow. It is the only way forward in my eyes, and if it really is the unlikely gamesolve that we're both town then it's game over and I'm beat fair and square, but at least I did my best. Goodnight.
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Post Post #730 (isolation #36) » Wed Jun 15, 2022 10:44 am

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Post Post #733 (isolation #37) » Wed Jun 15, 2022 11:00 am

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Firstly, thank you everyone for the game. I really enjoyed it. The amount of lies and hysterics I had to pull to get this makes me want to consider a career in politics. :lol:

Thank you for hosting, ducky.

Thank you Tidus, I'm glad we played together as scumbags. :D I just wish you were a bit more active and involved. I was really anxious when you didn't respond to me when questioned and seriously worried whether town would catch this, but thankfully they didn't.

For what it's worth, I do not think town played badly. It's just we did better. :cool:

Day 1 was really unfortunate for town and tipped the scales significantly in our favour already. Had we not pushed
Roden
to almost get eliminated, he would have gotten a red check on me and I would be
done
. The game would essentially be almost certainly a town win.

But even with this game being essentially mountainous (lacking any power roles) past Day 1, town still could have made it to the winning line.

Town's crucial mistake was to ignore my abysmal vote record which should have been damning enough to kick me out on Day 3. There were three reasons why it didn't happen. First one was that
whiskey delta
allowed himself to stray away from his better judgement and decided to follow me with his votes instead, which made both of us look really bad. Second one was that the only player who caught on to this was
hutmeil
, and, while he was absolutely correct pointing it out, he lacked the influence to make town look into it. I ruthlessly took advantage of this to shun him. As for the third reason,
whiskey
, you are a good player. Unfortunately, you lost hope towards the end of the game. I believe that if you made Day 3 you vs. me, you could have gotten
hutmeil
to vote me out and I instructed
Tidus
to bus me if I'm ever put at E-2. This would have at least ensured you made it to Day 4.
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Post Post #734 (isolation #38) » Wed Jun 15, 2022 11:02 am

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In post 731, BlueBloodedToffee wrote:At least I know I'm still terrible at this game. Fuck.

Why the fuck was I killed?
I felt threatened by you, so I had you killed.
Tidus
was hoping to miseliminate you, but I did not want to risk you going after me for essentially leading town into a mass suicide.
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Post Post #741 (isolation #39) » Wed Jun 15, 2022 11:39 am

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By the way, my plan was to have
Tidus
build a case on
Malakittens
and convince town and myself to go after her, and for myself to publicly blame both Day 1 and Day 2 miseliminations on my solid townread on her. That didn't happen though. I noticed that
hutmeil
would go after
whiskey delta
instead, so I decided to use
whiskey
's vote history and outspokenness to frame him as a mafia team leader and get that miselim instead. It worked. It would have happened as soon as
hutmeil
got on that wagon as
Tidus
would have hammered if
whiskey delta
didn't self-hammer earlier.
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Post Post #752 (isolation #40) » Thu Jun 16, 2022 4:38 am

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In post 750, whiskey delta wrote:Congrats to the Mafia too.

Greeting, part of why I doubted was because I basically had the same record as you so figured if I could then so could others. I got really preoccupied with other silly stuff that took me out of focus on you but you were convincing enough to make me always question my doubts. Well played.

Tidus, what I said about your game isn’t true. Sorry for saying that. You genuinely had me believing you were just a newb lost in the sauce. I don’t think anyone will make that mistake anymore ;)
I think you put up a good effort, your mistake was to choose to follow me over your own instincts.

I hope we get a rematch someday, I'd actually love to roll Masons or mafia with you! :wink:

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