Scum Thread Vampires, vampires, vampires... and some other folks, oh my!

[Blargonaut]

okay... that got me sweating.

My brow hasn't sweated from Mafia in quite some time

condolences, Include

If it's any consolation, you were a top contributor and thus deserved to be Night-killed with honour and dignity as the scum faction bestows upon its priority target selections

GG

 

[Swamped]

^

Yes indeed

 

[Swamped]

Blargonaut's confirmation of the message between him and Gorlak just proves that GoG spoke to Gorlak right, not that GoG is town?

I think I'm confusing myself lol and don't want to accidentally perjure myself!

 

[Brazil]

Blargonaut's confirmation of the message between him and Gorlak just proves that GoG spoke to Gorlak right, not that GoG is town?

I think I'm confusing myself lol and don't want to accidentally perjure myself!

Right. She could be scum with a chat power. Her investigative shot claim is meaningless, and could be just fluff on the side to add some veracity to the claim, or even dodge a possible second tracker (lol) since she visited DCPat on the day he died.

 

[Brazil]

So I voted for GoG, but who will you two vote for? Let's not all pile on her.

... You? :P

 

[Blargonaut]

I think I made a huge mistake

 

[Blargonaut]

 

[Brazil]

I think I made a huge mistake

It's all good. The only thing you've confirmed is that she talked to Gorlak. There are still ways to get her lynched, and you'll end up with a lot of brownie points for confirming her once she flips.

 

[Blargonaut]

I'll lay out my case against myself in the game thread, so you two can react to it genuinely

Because I'm thinking I should be modkilled too

 

[Blargonaut]

It's all good. The only thing you've confirmed is that she talked to Gorlak. There are still ways to get her lynched, and you'll end up with a lot of brownie points for confirming her once she flips.

NO BRAZIL

LAWFUL GOOD

 

[Brazil]

Wait, what

No, wait, what

 

[Blargonaut]

brb self-destructing

 

[Brazil]

Don't do anything drastic :lol

What are you saying?

 

[Blargonaut]

mods I hope you love puzzles

 

[heymonkey]

Do not make me work more today. I already got roused from bed and was late for a meeting. monkey is le tired now.

 

[heymonkey]

okay... that got me sweating.

My brow hasn't sweated from Mafia in quite some time

condolences, Include

If it's any consolation, you were a top contributor and thus deserved to be Night-killed with honour and dignity as the scum faction bestows upon its priority target selections

GG

this, though, thumbs up

 

[Blargonaut]

This is what it's all lead up to, really

all of Cthulhu led up to this moment, it never ended until now

No, it came back for me, don't you see Brazil

Don't you see, Cthulhu [Mafia] was always there for me

me, Brazil!

This is what Cthulhu [Mafia] wanted

To see if I could game the system

like Cthulhu wanted

 

[Brazil]

Why must protagonists always have such messy backstories

 

[Blargonaut]

[DISCLAIMER: I'm being dramatic for the spectators' amusement]

 

[Blargonaut]

Why must protagonists always have such messy backstories

Truly one of the nastiest foibles of long-running narratives, yet the experience of either catharsis or eucatharsis felt after the conclusion of such lengthy character arcs is usually unmatched by shorter works

 

[Brazil]

This entire situation is probably not easy on @heymonkey and @cabot , so I'd just like to say that I've been throroughly enjoying this game, from the flavor to the balance, and even including the timely vote counts and general mod interventions, as well as the actual players. You're great, and I mean it.

 

[Blargonaut]

I feel like I got a 5-star GTA Wanted rating and the military just showed up

 

[Blargonaut]

Off what Brazil said, I indeed would like to apologize tovyou Dr. and cabot for this quite hellish escalation

Please know I didn't think my quoting of Gorlak's PM would lead to anything like this

Hosts, if it helps you make a final decision about the enforcement of Rule 3 upon me, I will be completely honest and say that that PM of me-Gorlak correspondence that I quoted, is in fact real.

Before nuking myself out of GAF, I saved all my PMs before leaving; so when GOG/Gorlak mentioned that particular PM, I thought it would be cute to get a little reading-letter-crying.gif moment out of posting it, in its entirety, while also tactically working to confirm their collusion.

Honest-to-goodness, it is 100% an outside PM quoted word-for-word and posted with the intent to affect and shape gameplay, and so would warrant a modkill of me as per my understanding of Rule 3, IMO. I would gladly accept your decision to do so to me, no hard feelings.

 

[cabot]

Well this is fun.

 

[Blargonaut]

Well this is fun.

 

[Swamped]

I love all of you. The moderators, townies and especially my scum buddies. Everyone working so hard.

 

[Blargonaut]

It's good to be here together at the end of all things

 

[Blargonaut]

 

[cabot]

remember I was mod once.


What a time.

 

[Brazil]

remember I was mod once.


What a time.

I can assure you that this is really awkward.

 

[Blargonaut]

What do you think they're saying about us in there

I mean, in the modchat which I'd love to assume is encased in absolute fire right now

 

[cabot]

we're discussing our favourite colours.

 

[cabot]

ty says he loves you all.


He's a sap.

 

[Brazil]

<3

 

[Brazil]

I'm gonna be out for the next couple of hours.

Hopefully I won't come back to more premature flips :(

 

[cabot]

sorry to say....

there was some mild death.

 

[heymonkey]

I will be completely honest and say that that PM of me-Gorlak correspondence that I quoted, is in fact real.

I KNEW IT

I said had a very Gorlakian vernacular. :D

also.

sorry about the deaths. also i am now more tired.

 

[Swamped]

Ahhhh Brazil what's our game plan now?? They are making us claim!

VT?

One of us could claim (backup) self-watcher to complement DCPat. But we were both supposedly visited by Kyan so that might be a bit risky. Especially because I scumread him.

 

[Swamped]

Nicole just claimed Kendra. We know that has to be a lie because kendra is one of our safe names. I wonder if we can exploit this...

 

[Brazil]

Alright, I'm here. Let's see the size of the mess, haha.

 

[Brazil]

Nicole just claimed Kendra. We know that has to be a lie because kendra is one of our safe names. I wonder if we can exploit this...

Yes. One of us can counterclaim. She'll flip as town and it won't mean a thing to us as she was lying.

 

[Brazil]

We have to play this somehow, haha. Let me do some sick math.

 

[Brazil]

I'm inclined to doing it myself. I'm in hotter water than you, I think.

 

[Swamped]

I'm excited lol

 

[Swamped]

I'm inclined to doing it myself. I'm in hotter water than you, I think.

I kinda wish I could do that gambit, but you're right XD Go for it.

I don't think you should claim a role though. Make them think you could be a PR. What do you think?

 

[Brazil]

I kinda wish I could do that gambit, but you're right XD Go for it.

I don't think you should claim a role though. Make them think you could be a PR. What do you think?

I think, at this point, it'd be harder to explain a PR claim balance-wise. Town had a doctor, a self-watcher, a JOAT (with 3 powers, apparently), and a tracker. So far, we've lost a roleblocker and two goons. As far as town is concerned, we're talking about a really weak scum side.

Besides, it's a proven fact that I didn't move on D4. That actually lends credit to a vanilla townie claim.

I had considered a second self-watcher fake claim at some point in the game, but that's out of the window now that Kyan visited us.

 

[Brazil]

I think I'm going to counterclaim, but not vote for her yet.

Do you think I should go all-in with a vote right off the bat?

 

[Swamped]

I think I'm going to counterclaim, but not vote for her yet.

Do you think I should go all-in with a vote right off the bat?

Yeah I think you should. Now it's not the time to second guess one's self!

If you really were a VT named townie called Kendra, the first thought you'd have is that Nicole must be scum, right?

 

[Brazil]

Yeah I think you should. Now it's not the time to second guess one's self!

If you really were a VT named townie called Kendra, the first thought you'd have is that Nicole must be scum, right?

Yeah, you're absolutely right. I'm overthinking :P

What a messy day, haha. Let's win this for our fallen comrades.

 

[Swamped]

Tell her she "should have stuck with the safe names the mod gave them" lol

 

[Brazil]

Tell her she "should have stuck with the safe names the mod gave them" lol

I'll steal that.

 

[Swamped]

Ahhh nobody has last names!

If they push you about that, just say you read the wiki or something, but your PM is just Kendra

 

[Brazil]

Ahhh nobody has last names!

If they push you about that, just say you read the wiki or something, but your PM is just Kendra

That's alright. I had to check the wiki to see if there were other Kendras in there, and I mentioned my last name because SweetNicole did it first :P

 

[Swamped]

Yeah absolutely :D

Don't mind me, just the typical end - of - game scum freakout lol

 

[Swamped]

What should I claim? Unnamed VT?

Will post in thread when I get home!

 

[Brazil]

So far, we've had 2 confirmed named townies, 4 "semi-oblivious high school students", 2 "semi-oblivious high school teacher", and 2 players who I think are unnamed but haven't revealed the exact flavor of their PM (SweetNicole and hom3land).

4 named townies in total would be good math. But this is clearly overthinking territory.

 

[Brazil]

And with that, I'm officially fully into it. May the Mafia Gods bless us.

 

[Brazil]

Just for clarification, I dove deeper so that if (when, hopefully) Nicole flips, Girlofgotham will probably try to RB me, clearing the way for you to shoot our next target.

 

[Brazil]

If the plan gains traction, I think ideally you'd place the fourth vote on Nicole - not the hammer, not the reactionary one.

If I managed to convince melon, hom3 and maybe Gog to vote against her, though... Oh, man, that would be the dream.

 

[Swamped]

Second guessing everything... Did I lay it on too thick?

Look at you Brazil! Townier than town. Fingers crossed they follow through with their votes.

 

[Swamped]

If the plan gains traction, I think ideally you'd place the fourth vote on Nicole - not the hammer, not the reactionary one.

If I managed to convince melon, hom3 and maybe Gog to vote against her, though... Oh, man, that would be the dream.

Yeah sounds good. Let's see the state of things when we wake up tomorrow. I'll likely put a vote in the morning as I'll be busy at day end.

Right now I scumread gog and Nicole.

 

[Brazil]

I’m looking forward to Gog’s reaction to all of this. Well - that, and I hope that she’s not taking what happened too hard :/

I think you were fine. You raised some points that no one else did - good scumhunting, haha. Just remember that you were consistently scumreading me for a couple of days. If Nicole flips, you’ll probably have to be one of the strongest voices against me. Actually, most will probably turn on me if Nicole flips, but there are still arguments to be made. Let’s clear this one obstacle first, though.

We can do this :P

 

[Swamped]

Aw thanks Brazil ^_^

I hope gog doesn't take it too hard either. But, you haven't really lived until you've gotten duped by scum.

Looks like not much happened overnight.

 

[Swamped]

Yeah I will likely push hard against you. Let's hope town doesn't get amnesia regarding gog though.

Fingers crossed for a Nicole lynch today

 

[Swamped]

Put my vote down. And now, we wait...

Btw I have a gambit we could do next day phase...let me think it through. Sometimes it's better to just play things safe. But there's a reason I claimed the name Jenny Calender. Apparently she is in a relationshop with Giles, who was our tracker...

More to come later...

 

[Brazil]

Oh wow

So you do know Buffy! Haha.

Looking forward to it :D

 

[Brazil]

@cabot you're missing my vote :(

 

[Swamped]

I don't know buffy lol, just read the wiki. Also realized my plan won't work because I voted for Kyan and 'scumread' him lol!!!!

So forget everything I said...XD

 

[Brazil]

Aw :(

I think we have a fair shot at mislynching Nicole today and someone else tomorrow even without any crazy gambits, though. Let's see what happens now.

 

[cabot]

I blame monkey. Naturally.

I've fixed the vote.

 

[Brazil]

I blame monkey. Naturally.

I've fixed the vote.

Thanks :)

 

[Brazil]

A Girlofgotham lynch today would make our lives that much easier, haha. Too bad she's not one of the current votes against Nicole.

 

[Brazil]

I love you Nicole, I'm sorry :(

 

[Swamped]

We're going to hell for lynching an admin

 

[heymonkey]

you're all terrible people.
vampires.
terrible vampires.

 

[Brazil]

We're going to hell for lynching an admin

It was self-defense.

 

[Brazil]

Who do you think we should go for, Swamped? melon? That's the simple route, I guess.

 

[Swamped]

Yeah Melon is good, reduces the pool a bit.

Orrrr... Another way to think about who to kill is who is least likely to vote for gog? Kill that person lol.

 

[Brazil]

Yeah Melon is good, reduces the pool a bit.

Orrrr... Another way to think about who to kill is who is least likely to vote for gog? Kill that person lol.

Yeah, that could be good too, haha. That person might be Stan. I'll reread some stuff and see if he's the one.

 

[cabot]

What would happen if you modkill an admin?


I was considering it.

 

[Brazil]

Alright.

hom3land - Could vote for Girlofgotham. Did so on D6.
faircure - Could vote for Girlofgotham. She seemed to only agree to not lynch Girlofgotham because of the roleblock possibility.
melonrabbit - I don't know. She said she wasn't convinced that Girlofgotham was scum, but was planning on rereading her.
StanleyPalmtree - He'll definitely vote for me.
Girlofgotham - :P

We need two votes from townies so we can turbo. It's feasible - we gotta be online at the same time, though.

Our choices are either melon or Stan. I can see a world in which melon votes for Gog, but I'm not sure Stan would do the same considering how hellbent he was on scumreading Nicole and I.

If we kill Stan, Gog will be left with no choice but to vote against us. And I don't think it makes sense for a hypothetical Gog-led scum side to kill townie Stanley, who's clearly still a strong possibility for a mislynch.

If we kill melon, Stan will vote against me, but there's a chance that Gog will vote against him, spreading votes between three players. That'd give us a big margin of error regarding hom3land and faircure. That way, even if one of them voted against me, we'd still be able to take Gog down with a 3 votes total.

Keeping Stan alive makes me nervous, but I think we gotta kill melon. And, perception-wise, it wouldn't make much sense for scum!Brazil to keep Stan alive, so that's another bonus.

 

[Brazil]

What I was thinking regarding our NK is this:

I really believe Girlofgotham will try to roleblock me. If she doesn't, she could go for either Stan or you. I really don't think she'll get it right - if she does, though, I'll stand up in front of my monitor and give her some applause.

I plan to be ready, though: I think I'm going to do a big pre-typed post right as the day starts full of defensive arguments and victim-playing. In that post, I plan to raise my suspicions regarding you, Gog and Stan, in a "scum is in that group" kind of way. This is obviously worst case scenario territory, but that way I'd have a first row seat on the Swamped bus.

Do you feel differently regarding Gog's RB?

 

[Brazil]

What would happen if you modkill an admin?


I was considering it.

Cold war.

 

[Swamped]

That's an awesome analysis. I will kill melon, and fingers crossed it goes through. I think you're right that after seeing Nicole's flip she will go for Stan or you.

We can do this! And definitely feel free to bus me. I think we're in the same time zone so we could certainly coordinate a turbo lol

 

[Swamped]

^ 'she' leading GoG will RB you or Stan.

 

[Swamped]

KILL: Melonrabbit

 

[cabot]

Command received.

 

[Brazil]

Oh my God why did cabot send a ‘command received’ message when he hadn’t before

The waiting is the worst :(

 

[Swamped]

So nerve wracking lol

 

[Brazil]

Nevermind the pre-typed post thing. Nothing says "scum in MyLo" more than someone who's trying to control the narrative from Day start.

I've typed some stuff, though. Here's hoping I have the time to post them :P

 

[Brazil]

As in, thoughts to sprinkle out in multiple posts.

 

[Swamped]

Nevermind the pre-typed post thing. Nothing says "scum in MyLo" more than someone who's trying to control the narrative from Day start.

I've typed some stuff, though. Here's hoping I have the time to post them :P

I think that's a good idea! Why apologize if you're town, right?

 

[Swamped]

If anything, you should just lightly put the blame on Nicole lol

Thinking about how I should approach this day phase...

 

[Brazil]

Yeah, Imma throw some shade at her hahaha

 

[Brazil]

If Gog misses, I don't think there's much risk for you.

 

[Brazil]

Alright, deadline's upon us. No regrets. C'mon Mafia Gods, throw us a bone.

 

[Brazil]

I think our main strategy for the day needs to be hard faux-scumhunting. We need to look at different angles. We need to throw shade at Gog, but also at Stan and each other, so that no one will wonder, "Why haven't they committed to Gog with a vote yet if that's clearly where they're going?"

 

[heymonkey]

y'all nervous?

*plays ominous music*

 

[Brazil]

y'all nervous?

*plays ominous music*

I had a job interview in the morning, and while I was heading there, I realized that I was completely at peace with the interview, and that the agony in my stomach was entirely the game's fault.

 

[Brazil]

The worst part is knowing that if Sorian or Blarg or Ty were in my place they'd be super chill right now :P