M82: Magic the Gathering Mafia [Game Thread]

[Kakarroto]

Gary stared confused at the card Mark played.

"Is that German? What does that card even do?"



Mark smiled.

Kakarroto (2) Bonatogether sweetandcool
Vecna (1) ghug


Non-votes: BunnyGo, damo666, Foxcastle, Hamilton Brian, Kakarroto, rdrivera2005, Vecna, worcej

Currently Kakarroto is scheduled to die.
43.5 hours remain day 1

[Translation for the card]

Sunring (1)

artefact

[tab]: Increase your manapool by 2 colourless mana. This ability is cast like an interrupt.

Illustration: Mark Tedin
(c)1994 Zauberer der Küste, AG. All rights reserved.

I mean, it literally does translate to sunring....but that still aint the right translation.

ok, what should it be then? Ring out of the sun? Fire ring? Ring of fire? Sauron's eye? Fiery hole of burning pain?

[Kakarroto]

Also I was hoping to not have to insult anyone's intelligence by making this explicit because I've played a hundred games with your people but my activity level is low because I'm traveling and wasn't expecting the game to start when it did, not because I rolled scum and am too scared to talk.

well I thought you were silent mostly because of the chance for the vanillizer. Which I thought others were influenced by that too btw. This seems to be one of the slowest games in current time.

[sweetandcool]

I think I want damo, worcej, Rd, or Kak today. Sweet is the closest thing I have to a townread but it's not an especially compelling one.

I wish I understood your thought process that allows you to consider me more likely town.

I'm clearly down for Kak, and am okay with rdr. I like worcej's play so far.

What do you like about worcej's play?

You're just a tone/gut thing, though I also dislike your wagon.

Pushing back against the claims of the game being dead and boring. Mafia wouldn't bother.

[Kakarroto]

but yeah, I should remember to vote. At the start of the game I had a bad feeling of about anyone who posted then, that went away though. From the rest of the game, I haven't seen too much what I'd deemed mafia would write.

I come back and back again to that strange fox post, where he said bona and me were nai but everyone else felt good and when I inquired about that because only one other player had posted at the time and it were only three words and he was so sure about that, even when he phrased it with 'everyone else'.

I mean with all the other posts, fox looks quite good, but that one strange post with that angle just gnaws and gnaws and I remember he also had some strange beginning posts when he was mafia in the pirate game.

So I'll ##vote Foxcastle because of that post

[damo666]

##vote kak

[ghug]

##vote kak

Why?

[ghug]

I wish I understood your thought process that allows you to consider me more likely town.

I'm clearly down for Kak, and am okay with rdr. I like worcej's play so far.

What do you like about worcej's play?

You're just a tone/gut thing, though I also dislike your wagon.

Pushing back against the claims of the game being dead and boring. Mafia wouldn't bother.

Nah. It's not about alignments and he gets townread for being disagreeable.

[Kakarroto]

maybe I hit a nerve?

[BunnyGo]

Do you have anything to imply about the post, or maybe more clearly...what seems crafted? How would you have expected sweet to compose a post if they WEREN'T trying to "appear?"

The strange pauses in the post where Sweet clearly said an opinion, then went back and checked that the opinion was false, but left it in the post so we could see him checking.

It aligns with how I normally write posts. In previous games you will see me make an argument, then change my mind mid-post. Similar to when I concluded ghug was Town in M80. Only difference here is that I tried a strikeout, rather than completing the though and then turning about.

I honestly couldn't care less about the strikeout. No need to mention it again.

[BunnyGo]

I'd go coin flips on damo, kak, or sweetandcool today. Or roll a 6-sided die. Easier.

Why sweet?

[BunnyGo]

but yeah, I should remember to vote. At the start of the game I had a bad feeling of about anyone who posted then, that went away though. From the rest of the game, I haven't seen too much what I'd deemed mafia would write.

I come back and back again to that strange fox post, where he said bona and me were nai but everyone else felt good and when I inquired about that because only one other player had posted at the time and it were only three words and he was so sure about that, even when he phrased it with 'everyone else'.

I mean with all the other posts, fox looks quite good, but that one strange post with that angle just gnaws and gnaws and I remember he also had some strange beginning posts when he was mafia in the pirate game.

So I'll ##vote Foxcastle because of that post

What post?

[Hamilton Brian]

I'd go coin flips on damo, kak, or sweetandcool today. Or roll a 6-sided die. Easier.

Why sweet?

Because I'm ambivalent, in a noncaring way, and they're in the top three wagons. Which means I am excluding ghug.

[Kakarroto]

but yeah, I should remember to vote. At the start of the game I had a bad feeling of about anyone who posted then, that went away though. From the rest of the game, I haven't seen too much what I'd deemed mafia would write.

I come back and back again to that strange fox post, where he said bona and me were nai but everyone else felt good and when I inquired about that because only one other player had posted at the time and it were only three words and he was so sure about that, even when he phrased it with 'everyone else'.

I mean with all the other posts, fox looks quite good, but that one strange post with that angle just gnaws and gnaws and I remember he also had some strange beginning posts when he was mafia in the pirate game.

So I'll ##vote Foxcastle because of that post

What post?

Bona and Kak are mysteries to me. They could be AI for all I know. Everyone else is pretty familiar, though.

Ok, I have to say I misread the AI for NAI and he meant something different, that was my mistake. Or he mistyped and he actually meant nai not ai. But for now the AI thing itself is fine.

Bona and Kak are mysteries to me. They could be AI for all I know. Everyone else is pretty familiar, though.

soo ... worcej with his one post? Or do you weigh in the absence for other players?

I'm saying that I've played enough with worcej to have a mental picture of him in my head.

still that he puts worcej fully in one basket with only one 3-letter post doesn't change the angle, which comes much more from a mafia than a town.

[sweetandcool]

The strange pauses in the post where Sweet clearly said an opinion, then went back and checked that the opinion was false, but left it in the post so we could see him checking.

It aligns with how I normally write posts. In previous games you will see me make an argument, then change my mind mid-post. Similar to when I concluded ghug was Town in M80. Only difference here is that I tried a strikeout, rather than completing the though and then turning about.

I honestly couldn't care less about the strikeout. No need to mention it again.

But I'm really wishing I lived in a world where the strikeout worked.

[sweetandcool]

Man, I really hope we don't strikeout with a misskill today, that would be a real bummer. Nobody likes strikeouts except pitchers.

[Kakarroto]

well, I think I'll most likely be the vote today. I've practically softed vanilla (or at least a role that's worth losing to the vanillizer if he strucks as I've mentioned before) so don't expect any wild claims from me.

This and the slow day looks like mafia is very content with how the day went. Maybe none of them are currently in any danger.

Also it seems people don't believe in my townyness so it's pretty hard to change that. I can only hope you look closer to fox after I flip, although, even when I have strokes of genius, my maf-reads on D1 are a bit on the weak side. So don't blindly follow that, but don't forget it please.

At least now I think we don't have a vanillizer in the game, or if then they had chosen some strange wording. I suggest, if you are afraid, stay away from memes, sayings or somewhat unusual phrasings. Like: "I'll be back." or "Time to duel!" (Maybe it's time to d-d-d-d-d-duel?)

So at least communication should be better with the ongoing time when people don't have to pay attention to their words.

[sweetandcool]

well, I think I'll most likely be the vote today. I've practically softed vanilla (or at least a role that's worth losing to the vanillizer if he strucks as I've mentioned before) so don't expect any wild claims from me.

This and the slow day looks like mafia is very content with how the day went. Maybe none of them are currently in any danger.

Also it seems people don't believe in my townyness so it's pretty hard to change that. I can only hope you look closer to fox after I flip, although, even when I have strokes of genius, my maf-reads on D1 are a bit on the weak side. So don't blindly follow that, but don't forget it please.

At least now I think we don't have a vanillizer in the game, or if then they had chosen some strange wording. I suggest, if you are afraid, stay away from memes, sayings or somewhat unusual phrasings. Like: "I'll be back." or "Time to duel!" (Maybe it's time to d-d-d-d-d-duel?)

So at least communication should be better with the ongoing time when people don't have to pay attention to their words.

Gah, these "resigned to my fate" posts always get me.

What are your reads other than Fox?

[damo666]

##vote kak

Why?

Don't like his vote on absent Fox. Didn't want to stay on you after your eloquent defence.

[Kakarroto]

anyway, I wanted to say, bunny and rd can't be maf together. Both endvoting sweet in that way is no maf-behaviour, especially rd I can't see doing that if both are mafia. Honestly, I don't think maf-rd would even follow town-bunny in that way. So maybe rd is just town this game.

[sweetandcool]

EXACTLY! It looks crafted in a way that suggests he's trying to appear like sweet while also not screwing up again like he did with his statement about kak in the opening.

Do you have anything to imply about the post, or maybe more clearly...what seems crafted? How would you have expected sweet to compose a post if they WEREN'T trying to "appear?"

The strange pauses in the post where Sweet clearly said an opinion, then went back and checked that the opinion was false, but left it in the post so we could see him checking.

You forget that I love townslipping. I do it every game, and it even helped catch Ham D1.