M89: Baldurs Gate Mafia Game Thread

[brainbomb]

##GM Note
Were looking into that. For now Jamiet99uk did vote for Ezio, and then Unvoted. which is in compliance with our policy and as such Jamie is not on our list of concerns.

[Foxcastle]

But for real, ##VOTE DemonRHK. Lurking is shirking.

[aarodactyl]

I do think scum think through their posts more, but that's probably not how evidence manifests, no.

I never said it was true. I just said it was revolutionary and funny.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to contradict you or anything, just commenting.

##vote foxcastle since we’ve established not contradicting someone is clearly a Clinton-slip.

[aarodactyl]

##unvote

[aarodactyl]

##unvote

I’m against not voting but I’m also against playing this game too much in the morning and being late for work. I’ll try to play a bit once I’m at work and my urgent projects are taken care of.

[Foxcastle]

I never said it was true. I just said it was revolutionary and funny.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to contradict you or anything, just commenting.

##vote foxcastle since we’ve established not contradicting someone is clearly a Clinton-slip.

This is probably true. Scum have a natural incentive to be agreeable and likeable in order to avoid being suspected and to keep more town on their side. Good thinking!

[dargorygel]

GM Note:

Non-votes
aarodactyl
Chaqa
Col7by
DemonRHK
Ezio
Foxcastle
Hamilton Brian
Jamiet99uk
lfischl

These people must vote in order to meet minimum requirements for this game.

##Vote Ezio
##Unvote

I have met your requirements.

The bot did not pick this up.

##CALL GM: maybe something for Peter to look at, in case this is an edgecase that the bot isn't handling properly.

Looking... grrrrr....

[Hamilton Brian]

That full-time mafia chat is going to be a PITA.

I wonder if a way around it is to consolidate in like 3, 4, 5 key blocs...who do you resonate as town with, then vote around that, making sure to avoid the tie.

But then the "vote once"" but you can also Unvote and still be in compliance is CAF.

[brainbomb]

Steve: Okay, Act 1 is a breeze. This is so easy with a dragonborn!. I should probably talk to this nice little old lady, Auntie Ethel. She seems pretty chill..


sweetandcool (2) Fluminator BunnyGo
damo666 (2) foodcoats* worcej
Jamiet99uk (2) Vecna sweetandcool
Fluminator (2) Dousing FlaviusAetius
lfischl (1) Kakarroto
Kakarroto (1) DiplomacyandWarfare
kingofthepirates (1) kingofthepirates
Vecna (1) TheMadMonarch
BunnyGo (1) ghug*
Squigs44 (1) Bonatogether
FlaviusAetius (1) JustAGuyNamedWill
Hamilton Brian (1) damo666*
foodcoats (1) Squigs44
DemonRHK (1) Foxcastle

Unvoted: aarodactyl, Jamiet99uk

Chaqa, Col7by, DemonRHK, Ezio, Hamilton Brian, lfischl

No one is scheduled to die, Less than 8 hours remain.

[DiplomacyandWarfare]

Alr I'm caught up on the thread again.
New alignment chart:

A few notes:
ghug feels like he is powerwolfing
Bunny seems to be playing as town but is doing it an extremely messy fashion (ChatGPT), so he is Anarchic Good
Hamilton has not made a single good post this game
Fluminator

I'm also going to ##VOTE HAMILTONBRIAN

[foodcoats]

the point is, to get voting information from everyone, how they react, save that information, then use that information, where every town should know nothing and only play on gut, or guesses, on a later date. Like 'oh, now whe know X flipped mafia, on day one it looks like Y and Z tried to rescue X and voted C instead. Lets have a deeper look into them'. And there are lots of more things to gain of, later, with reactions and stuff that happened in the prior days.

Voting no-kill is like not providing information from yourself, making yourself kind a blank slot, which is what a mafia member would like to do, at least some. The more information about you is publicly known, your behaviour and voting and reason etc., the better other players can read you. Town want to find other town, as much as they want to find mafia.

As town, it is quite a good idea to project information from you, so your team members can read you. Mafia knows already you are not on their team, though they want to know who the PR's are. THAT information should be hidden as town, yes, but also, it's probably a good idea to send information out about your thoughts, reasoning and logic.

while I do understand this, I'm also doing no kill as a general safety vote, in case I forget or something comes up that prevents me from voting down the line. I'll still be trying to keep up and updating voting as I do. the instant snap back against no-vote is, to me at least, very interesting though (granted I'm still partially looking at this game through an among us lens, where skip is, of course, a very valid option).

Kak's opinion is not quite universal but it should be. I think you are being coached to act this way because you've incorrectly used this method in the past and you've been corrected in the past as well.

This is a good read, I was a bit surprised kotp is still on this.

##VOTE kingofthepirates

[Foxcastle]

I'm skeptical that coaching at the level of specificity is real. I think it's more likely that KOTP just can't get away from the allure of the no-kill theory.

[foodcoats]

I just checked. Brain did in fact say there are 5 scum in the sign up thread.
To Foxcastle, I don't think Squiggs actually said how many, he just waved off the question. Squiggs might be scum with a new player.

Why "with a new player"?

A new player would be most likely to scumslip and answer this question, which might explain Squiggs posting - preventing his scumteammate from slipping.

Or what if Squigs scumslipped, even though it is not an actual scumslip, and you are on his scumteam and are desperately protecting him?

Round and round we go.

[foodcoats]

I think there are some players that fit that criteria. I would like to ask though, how about you? Would you accept a tadpole, if given to you? Would you like to play mafia this game?

Anyone who doesnt say they would accept a tadpole is a big fat joke, unless the Mafia team LITERALLY gets SLAUGHTERED people are picking mafia. And EVEN if the team DID get slaughtered how fun would it be to do such a big comeback. I think this is a useless question

Some people prefer to play as town.

Only if they have a PR; so now we have found a roundabout way to decide if someone is a PR town or not, what a great idea! NOT. VERY BAD. This is a BAD question to ask people
[/quote]

Good point.

Flavius is my first townread.

[foodcoats]

Here I was gonna do my RNG bit, which would have settled on Will. But Flum is making Town's job easy.

Sweet, your boldness is hard to miss. Yet, let us channel that energy into something more constructive. After all, we are here to support one another and work towards a greater good.

The more I read of sweet the more I think he is town.

Bunny brings the bits. NAI.

[damo666]

I think we know why food is endvoting me but maybe that's an easy excuse to disguise his scumness?

...and you are endvoting Hamilton because.....?

He screams scum.

[Jamiet99uk]

Jamie did you actually hard claim because you were the top wagon and felt you needed to do so to save yourself? Or do you have some other strange reason?

I am a simple man. I am not executing some kind of convoluted strategy.

[foodcoats]

Apologies for my brief absence, friends. I was waylaid by a particularly loquacious NPC who shared some fascinating tales. On a brighter note, my sidequest was a resounding success. However, it seems my path is not yet clear; I have two more sidequests to attend to before I can rejoin you all. I appreciate your patience and look forward to our continued endeavors."

You are mixing diegetic and non-diegetic elements of TTRPGs. This is cringe.

[Jamiet99uk]

Bunny typically picks a gimmick before the game and then tries to stick to it. So this is just how they play I guess. I’ve also closely read their posts and they had an adequate number of contractions.

is bunny Chaqas' GF?

I can’t believe you missed a reference to contraction theory. The single most revolutionary theory in the history of this website.

It was a stupid theory and Maniac was stupid for coming up with it.

[Jamiet99uk]

I wasn't refusing to participate.

It was nearly 1am my time and I was tired.

I am here.

Your post made it sound like you were choosing to stop reading because the first 7 pages were insufferable, not because you were tired. Also Bunny had 3 short posts in the first 7 pages. Bunny didn't get difficult to read till much later, and even then I wouldn't characterize them as insufferable.

And now your second order of business is to hardclaim, which is arguably more anti town

I don't think it is anti-town at all. But interestingly enough Jamiet normally vehemently scumreads me for doing the same.

So is this NAI or is he Mafia?

Sweeeet.

When have I vehemently scumread you for claiming VT as top wagon?