My Little Pony: Friendship is Mafia

[Bard The 5th LW]

There is a cult. The cult wins when that cult comprises all of the remaining members.

Don't you mean a colt?

Anyways, I actually think a random vote is more likely to hit a townie than scum, but it might be able to get things going? Who do you propose we random vote in this case?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Well mathematically yes we will hit a townie more than a scum. But the advantage I liked to random voting was crazy accusations that flew against pretty much everyone in Day 1 often got somebody to slip up and reveal their status in response to accusations. But now that we have sat down and discussed it that is unikely to happen and if we just choose someone and random vote them off I agree it is probably more likely to hit townie.
But it does have the advantage of pushing the game along (do we have a deadline at the mo?) and preventing people losing interest so I'm sticking with my FawlCopter stance or whatever his name is.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I'm just gona stick with voting for rpgdemon for now for coming up with that dangerous and pointless plan to expose everyones roles, because to me that either makes him a dangerous fool or a really obvious scum, either of which we could do without. Unless he can give me a compelling reason to change my mind that is, in which case I could be swayed to change to a random inactive, because let's face it, inactives are either scum trying to fly under the radar, or they're people who just don't care about the game and have dropped out, again, both of which we could do without.

Voting inactives out does make sense though, the more we prune the easier it is to see who's still playing and the easier it will be to work out individual agendas.

[Geminex]

To be honest, I was mostly joking when I picked Snake. This much activity from him isn't suspicious as such, I think, it's just snake being snake. I can totally see him getting annoyed over people playing the game wrong, and this isn't even excessively wordy for him. I don't think he's trying to defend smarty at all, he's just being pedantic. In a good way. Sorta. Uhm. If he and smarty are both scum, then it'd make sense to assume that he's doing it to defend the dude, but I don't think the odds of that are great. Smarty? Might be, we dunno. But snake's right, it wouldn't make sense for scum to talk this much. I'm no expert, but, again, unless smarty is scum as well, Scum-snake wouldn't have any motivation to yell at us. As such, unvoting snake for the time being.

Not sure who to vote for. I'm thinking RPGdemon is just being a bit noob-ish, and this post by bookie is making me suspicious. He seemed awfully eager to encourage smarty-lynching.

UNVOTE: Snake

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I'll be loathe on RPG, it's only his second game.Heprobably just noobish.

[Geminex]

Also:

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Also communists hate cults! They all about scientific enlightenment.

Cool story bro.

(To add actual substance, this is my first online mafia game, and, like, my third overall so don't expect too much from me, folks)

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Bard The 5th LW

Don't you mean a colt?

Nope.

[rpgdemon]

Fools are important!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6of3kMxV6z4

More on topic:

Re: Nikose: What is night 0? Does night 0 exist, as a pregame thing?

As for me being the serial killer, heck, I'd believe it. Last game, the only accusation made by directly saying, "You are X" was Fenris near the end, and everyone was all, "IF YOU'RE WRONG, WE KILL YOU." (Unfortunately, the lynch meant that no one could kill him next round, since mafia won). Since that's the case, I dunno if you'd just make that up.

Do you know when you're the serial killer, or is it just a townie for whom people passively die at random each night until they're killed, without their knowledge? Since that would change whether or not I vote for myself to keep the town from getting double-killed each night.


Re: Fenris: Why you hate fun?

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

Re: Fenris: Why you hate fun?

'Cause puns are only good if they make sense.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

Alduin was culted night 0.

RPG is serial Killer.

Snake is probably going to die by mafia kill night one.

Bob the merc is Cult leader.

Vote: Nikose

Because I <3 you.

...No, actually because predicting potential Mafia night kills without the context of power role knowledge is, believe it or not, a tried and true Scum strategy.
...Town, generally speaking, is far more worried about who to lynch than worrying about who may (or may not) die N1. Predicting the activity of what Scum will do, particularly on D1, is an absolute exercise of futility for Town.

Scum, however, benefits by making a prediction that someone will die N1 and then not killing that person N1. If townies eventually collectively buy into a repeated notion that "Snake (or anyone else), if he is Town, will die tonight because X," scum will easily yet subtly guide Town into a mislynch. If Nik is scum his entire ploy would therefore be: "I'll establish I believe that Snake is almost certainly Town now, then express abject disbelief as he continues to survive (all the while knowing he's alive because we're not targeting him), paint a bullseye on his back and let others deal the deathblows."

Also, the problem with Nik's posts is that his lack of elaboration prevents any of us from knowing whether he's actually being serious in anything he types or joking. Which, again, is a vagueness strategy that benefits Scum. Nik could totally play off any comment he makes as "Nik being Nik." I'd rather not spend the whole game questioning the sincerity of every one-sentence statement he makes.

NOTE: Even in typing this I am aware of the likelihood that I am overestimating the crap out of Nikose, and out of everyone playing this game. Assuming Nikose of all people would be playing intelligently and making such gambits as scum is kind of like assuming that a monkey could write a Shakespearean play. (Which, if you're Smarty, is apparently quite easy to believe.)
Nonetheless, I'm sticking by my guns and also suggesting to you all that I think Town Nik would be much more talkative than this; I think there's a greater probability Scum Nik would feel a sense of responsibility towards his teammates and subsequently tone down his usually chatty behavior to benefit his team.

As Town 'Nilla, Nik would totally like be "I AM CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE YOU PUNKS," and he'd create some controversy. I know you Nik! You would!