MAFIA 79: The Price is Right! [GAME THREAD]

[Dousing]

I've been backed into a corner and I'm going to lash out

##VOTE KoalaAttack

[Dousing]

I think the count is

3 votes - Dousing
1 vote - Jamiet99uk
3 votes - KoalaAttack
1 vote - [no kill]

at this point

[President Eden]

I've been backed into a corner and I'm going to lash out

##VOTE KoalaAttack

I like this guy, he’s funny

[Dousing]

It's taking all of my energy not to make a Goodfellas reference rn

[Bonatogether]

Bob Barker is reportedly a terrible person.

who is that

[Bonatogether]

Where are the other players?

I've finished reading my Role PM. Now it's time for someone to show up.

i was playing stellaris

[Bonatogether]

Howdy all! So are we just waiting for somebody to die? Is it the day right now? What type of town do we live in? A nice country village, big city, campground, etc? I imagine if we are dealing with some mafia goons then we are probably in the big city.

saying mafia goons is an actual scumslip

[Bonatogether]

Also, I seem to have a delete button and an edit button (though only for a limited time). Is this new?

i think it was previously disabled on the forum games subforum

[Bonatogether]

I see. Please discuss, shall we eliminate Bob Barker or Drew Carey first?

We may choose to eliminate one of these people:

1. Dousing
2. ghug
3. damo
4. Chaqa
6. Foxcastle
7. sweetandcool
8. Koala
9. bozo
10. Rdrivera
11. bonatogether
12. snowy801
13. Eden

##vote eden

[Bonatogether]

Do we vote on the first day? seems a little rash...

it's an ezio alt

[Bonatogether]

Hi everyone, I am the Gandalf Koala, and like any good Gandalf I love tradition and keeping my promises. Therefore, without further ado, let me cast an awesome spell:

##VOTE KoalaAttack

In other news, I hope we catch all the Orcs and also the traitorous Smeagol Gollum among the Hobbits.

PS: While GandalfKoala has no clue what a Forum is, RealKoala agrees 500% that Post Edit / Delete is a very problematic feature for Mafia.

im going to nk you

this is a scumclaim

it isn't hard so chaqa doesn't have an excuse to dk me

[Bonatogether]

full disclosure i haven't read the setup because it looked long

[Bonatogether]

This is what a Bruce Forsyth used to look like:

[img]https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p01gcb6g.jpg[/img

##VOTE Jammy Dodger because I hate pictures.

based ghug

[snowy801]

1. To remind people of the time I was clever and won a game

2. To note that that kind of thing does happen. I wonder what Jamie's response would have been if someone else made the first vote on Koala and I made that point about another player—would he have said "Foxcastle, that was your play, and so it says nothing about Other Player"? I think he would have been more likely to say that it was a weak argument rather than non-applicable.

The thing Jamie didn't point out is that it's not a very good play in this game. Assuming they're both mafia, if Jamie knows he's bussing Koala, he's either the other goon, in which case he's killing off his only real teammate (this might be reasonable if he knows that the second goon is a great player), or he's the traitor, in which case he knows he doesn't know who his other teammate is and so it's a pretty big gamble.

So I think Jamie's response is actually kind of weird, but it's actually unlikely that the ploy I described is happening.

It should say...

Assuming they're both mafia, if Jamie knows he's bussing Koala, then he's the other goon, in which case he's killing off his only real teammate, or he's the traitor, in which case he knows that his other teammate doesn't know who he is and so it's a pretty big gamble (this might be reasonable if the second goon is a great player).

foxcastle confirmed traitor self-conscious about his effort to fake townslip

jamie/koala/foxcastle

cya next year

Kinda sounds like I should read the setup

[Bonatogether]

Yes. There's no way he could know at this stage whether or not I would be bussing.

Of course not. The question is merely whether this action in absence of further evidence resembled known prior bus votes.

Foxcastle's argument was that it resembled known prior bus votes cast by Foxcastle.

Do you find that argument convincing for some reason?

local smoothbrain uses multisyllabic words, international sigma doesn't understand: tonight on the 8 o'clock news hour

[Bonatogether]

the lack of a bot is going to be fascinating

that's irritating

i can't frankenpost on you

[sweetandcool]

Howdy all! So are we just waiting for somebody to die? Is it the day right now? What type of town do we live in? A nice country village, big city, campground, etc? I imagine if we are dealing with some mafia goons then we are probably in the big city.

saying mafia goons is an actual scumslip

What's a scumslip? Are you saying it is a faux pas to say "mafia goons"?

[Bonatogether]

There is only a 25% chance of randomly guessing a mafia member. I will vote no-kill because those are low odds. Unless someone can make a convincing argument for the elimination of a player.

learn to gamble

[Bonatogether]

Okay, I will vote randomly. I decided to vote for the person whose position on the list corresponds to the number of characters in the username of the person who first responds to me. Looks like it is #VOTE dousing

monkey brain

[Bonatogether]

Not sure.

@Foxcastle what was your motivation?

1. To remind people of the time I was clever and won a game

2. To note that that kind of thing does happen. I wonder what Jamie's response would have been if someone else made the first vote on Koala and I made that point about another player—would he have said "Foxcastle, that was your play, and so it says nothing about Other Player"? I think he would have been more likely to say that it was a weak argument rather than non-applicable.

The thing Jamie didn't point out is that it's not a very good play in this game. Assuming they're both mafia, if Jamie knows he's bussing Koala, he's either the other goon, in which case he's killing off his only real teammate (this might be reasonable if he knows that the second goon is a great player), or he's the traitor, in which case he knows he doesn't know who his other teammate is and so it's a pretty big gamble.

So I think Jamie's response is actually kind of weird, but it's actually unlikely that the ploy I described is happening.

It should say...

Assuming they're both mafia, if Jamie knows he's bussing Koala, then he's the other goon, in which case he's killing off his only real teammate, or he's the traitor, in which case he knows that his other teammate doesn't know who he is and so it's a pretty big gamble (this might be reasonable if the second goon is a great player).

reading the setup is a scumslip