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

[Bonatogether]

I also admit that I was coasting super hard because I have a failsafe PR claim and let that get to my head, so I begrudgingly appreciate my hand being forced as a sort of reality check

[President Eden]

For a community that loves over-analyzing thins y’all HATE reading

reading is inefficient dopamine production compared to spewing in thread for +1s

[Bonatogether]

I also admit that I was coasting super hard because I have a failsafe PR claim and let that get to my head, so I begrudgingly appreciate my hand being forced as a sort of reality check

The coasting is why I scumread you in the first place lol

this pisses me off so much

[sweetandcool]

For a community that loves over-analyzing thins y’all HATE reading

Reminds me of the kettle calling the pot black.

[President Eden]

I also admit that I was coasting super hard because I have a failsafe PR claim and let that get to my head, so I begrudgingly appreciate my hand being forced as a sort of reality check

ok so you’re now pretending to be past the point where s&c acknowledges Dousing’s scan result yet you still haven’t said anything about s&c

curious!

[Bonatogether]

What is?

I hardclaim Vanilla Town.

I think it makes sense to mass claim at some point today, but I think sweetandcool should claim first.

Fine. It's unfortunate that I am the bodyguard. Since I have no special info.

My narrative is that I screwed up and forgot to guard N1 (I wouldn't have thought to guard ghug, so oh well). Then since Dousing was so against me, and I was becoming a controversial figure, I thought Mafia might kill someone in an attempt to cast more suspicion on me. So I started to be extra insulting towards Dousing (pretty easy when they still haven't even considered for a moment I could be town) while drumming up the probability of them being town.

I wanted Mafia to kill Dousing, so that I could successfully guard and at least vouch Dousing as town. Then during N2 Bona mentions newbs don't get NK, so I realize my plan is unlikely to succeed.

That's when I realized damo is acting like Vanilla Cop, and that they had scanned me. I figured I would do my best to tout Damo as town and also imply that they were Vanilla Cop. Then I could get my self killed by guarding them. But Mafia surprised me by hitting snowy instead.

Then today we have all of this role claiming. As I just said, I thought no matter how much I was suspected, it would absolutely have to come down to Chaqa vs Dousing. Consequently, I wanted to confuse Mafia and I wanted to see if any of them were foolish enough to hop on a Dousing wagon. Plus, a small part of me was entertaining the idea that more than one of the role claimers were lying.

I would have thought about my play against Dousing a bit more, but I wanted my reaction to look really emotional and convincing. Again, not too hard since I am extremely annoyed that Dousing has wasted the whole game not even considering I could actually have a power, and I'm extremely annoyed I've been outed.

newbs don't think like this (possibly bar aaro)

[Bonatogether]

Ya'll can go through my prior posts if you want to see if my narrative fits. Sadly, even it fitting probably isn't enough since a caught Mafia would probably claim a role. And what better role to claim than Bodyguard?

Still, I will attempt to explain one last thing, which is my psychology.

I have been very genuine the entire game. But I've been observing and learning from players, and I learned something very important from President Eden and Snowy.

First, I made an accusation towards President Eden and they never responded. I realized that was clever because while they did nothing to absolve themself, they also didn't give an opportunity for a further case being made against them.

Then, near the end of D2 Snowy makes a massive post. Up until then, I suspected them of Mafia because they hadn't said much. And then when people called them out on it, they started to post a little more, but weren't very convincing. Then they made a massive post and seemed really engaged! I realized people were being reticent for a reason and that one major reason would be because they have a town power role.

That's why I started thinking about power roles near the end of D2 and during N2. I had a hard think and realized I really needed to find a way to predict the next kill, since I could think of only two good uses for bodyguard. Either I needed to protect a confirmed town power, or I needed to be the sacrificial lamb that confirms a town (that is, correctly guess the Mafia kill and die instead).

So that explains most of my psychology this game.

considering

[sweetandcool]

I think it makes sense to mass claim at some point today, but I think sweetandcool should claim first.

Fine. It's unfortunate that I am the bodyguard. Since I have no special info.

My narrative is that I screwed up and forgot to guard N1 (I wouldn't have thought to guard ghug, so oh well). Then since Dousing was so against me, and I was becoming a controversial figure, I thought Mafia might kill someone in an attempt to cast more suspicion on me. So I started to be extra insulting towards Dousing (pretty easy when they still haven't even considered for a moment I could be town) while drumming up the probability of them being town.

I wanted Mafia to kill Dousing, so that I could successfully guard and at least vouch Dousing as town. Then during N2 Bona mentions newbs don't get NK, so I realize my plan is unlikely to succeed.

That's when I realized damo is acting like Vanilla Cop, and that they had scanned me. I figured I would do my best to tout Damo as town and also imply that they were Vanilla Cop. Then I could get my self killed by guarding them. But Mafia surprised me by hitting snowy instead.

Then today we have all of this role claiming. As I just said, I thought no matter how much I was suspected, it would absolutely have to come down to Chaqa vs Dousing. Consequently, I wanted to confuse Mafia and I wanted to see if any of them were foolish enough to hop on a Dousing wagon. Plus, a small part of me was entertaining the idea that more than one of the role claimers were lying.

I would have thought about my play against Dousing a bit more, but I wanted my reaction to look really emotional and convincing. Again, not too hard since I am extremely annoyed that Dousing has wasted the whole game not even considering I could actually have a power, and I'm extremely annoyed I've been outed.

newbs don't think like this (possibly bar aaro)

I AM new dammit! I've only played a few crappy 30 minute real time games on BGA, which I hated.

[Bonatogether]

i've lost track of who claimed who did what

[Bonatogether]

of course it had to be a Bodyguard claim… by far the easiest fake of the bunch

thinking

[President Eden]

i've lost track of who claimed who did what

I did your mom

[Chaqa]

yea I immediately called it BS lol
but I townread him anyway so I figured he would be a safe enough target
it helped that he was sussing me too, that way at least he would know I was good even if my claim got doubted eventually

Why on Earth you targeted a townread for a RB instead of a scumread?

I didn’t like my odds of hitting scum by EON1 and defaulted to the safe play of rbing somebody who I thought would confirm me later

I shot my shot N2 because I figured snowy was mafia and generally suspected enough that he would carry the kill

Assuming Bona plays ball then I’ll be aiming for mafia the rest of the way. But I do think in a semi-open setup like this that it’s correct to confirm yourself at some point, and I frankly wasn’t invested enough to feel confident aiming N1, so I figured that was as good a time as any to get my self-confirm out of the way

I believe this. Eden is a play-it-safe basic bith

[Chaqa]

spicy

##VOTE Bonatogether

There's a driver

[Chaqa]

Well, potentially.

[Bonatogether]

Not me second guessing whether Eden is scum now

it's like a shitty horror movie where it keeps swinging the characters back out of the danger and back in with no warning

[President Eden]

spicy

##VOTE Bonatogether

There's a driver

what.

[President Eden]

LMAO NO WAY

[Bonatogether]

It’s kinda odd that Bona didn’t just claim they are rb’ed on D2

[Jamiet99uk]

ratio

yea whatever kid just confirm I rb’d you n1 already

i wasn't rbed at all this game

OHHH

[sweetandcool]

Not me second guessing whether Eden is scum now

it's like a shitty horror movie where it keeps swinging the characters back out of the danger and back in with no warning

I'm pretty sure I'm doomed. Chaqa, Eden, Dousing, Bona and I. One, but probably more are lying.

I have no defense and there are three mafias who just need a misskill here.