Mafia V: The Family Strikes Back [Concluded]

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So that was the Wanax's motive...

Very nice.

w00t we won !

we did win didn't we ? :inquisitive:

Yes we did! Kommodus how would you analyze Kage´s curse on all this?

Nice avatar, Sasaki. :tongue:

Very interesting reads from Reenk and Seamus. With a little luck you'll be seeing mine soon.

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Originally Posted by Kagemusha

Yes we did! Kommodus how would you analyze Kage´s curse on all this?

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Hm... interesting question. Well, I'm not a superstitious person, so I'm disinclined to believe in an actual curse per se. However, there may be a rational explanation for the observed phenomenon.

Kagemusha, I suspect that you are often near the top of the suspect lists of many players in most games. This is in part because of your success in them, especially when playing the part of the villain. Therefore, when you die (especially when killed), everyone stops considering you a suspect and considers other possibilities more seriously.

This is one theory as to why the mafia often begin to fail once you are dead. However, it should be noted that in this game, the downfall of the mafia began before your death.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

Nice avatar, Sasaki. :tongue:

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heh ~D

Thanks btw

Took a while for the request to go through for some reason, I'd almost forgotten about it.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

Nice avatar, Sasaki. :tongue:

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It's almost exactly how I pictured The Wanax. Just needs the wide brimmed hat with grapes on it. :grin2:

It's hard to believe we didn't make it to a thousand. :no:

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Originally Posted by Csar

It's hard to believe we didn't make it to a thousand. :no:

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We didn't have a final round.

And you lynched me.:whip:
I just couldn't keep spamming, was away over the weekend etc.
If everybody ina game was more active, 2000 might be possible, but I don't want to imagine how many additional hours of reading that would be per day.:sweatdrop:

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Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

And Dutch_guy why did you act so suspicious.

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I wasn't acting suspicious, 't was simply my regular posting style. However, it did seem Sasaki and Kommodus found it quite suspicious, especially Sasaki, why is that ?

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Dutch:

Nothing out of charcter there.

Sasaki is suspicious of everyone in a mafia game. He'd go after himself just as aggressively if he didn't know his own role from the outset. Actually, for all I know, he may go after himself even more aggressively but stick to PM's until he's cleared himself.

His mom could end up in the queue of other players and the only difference would be he'd go after her FIRST as a mark of respect.

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Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

Dutch:

Nothing out of charcter there.

Sasaki is suspicious of everyone in a mafia game. He'd go after himself just as aggressively if he didn't know his own role from the outset. Actually, for all I know, he may go after himself even more aggressively but stick to PM's until he's cleared himself.

His mom could end up in the queue of other players and the only difference would be he'd go after her FIRST as a mark of respect.

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Haha, well that certainly explains a lot Seamus :laugh:



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Originally Posted by Dutch_guy

I wasn't acting suspicious, 't was simply my regular posting style. However, it did seem Sasaki and Kommodus found it quite suspicious, especially Sasaki, why is that ?

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Hm... I don't remember you ever being particularly high on the top of my suspect list. I guess I'm just waiting for you to actually get selected as a mafioso one of these days; something tells me you'd be quite good at it.

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Originally Posted by Dutch_guy

I wasn't acting suspicious, 't was simply my regular posting style. However, it did seem Sasaki and Kommodus found it quite suspicious, especially Sasaki, why is that ?

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I didn't like the way you told me via pm that you thought craterus was guilty, voted for him, and then jumped on the Reenk wagon with Craterus to tie up the vote, saving Seamus.

Also: Don, Crazed, Craterus, Xiahou, and Ignoramus were innocent.

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Originally Posted by Csar

It's hard to believe we didn't make it to a thousand. :no:

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It's OK, I still think that the quality of the posts in this game is the best ever. Of course, I'm biased as a Mafia and I never played GF2, but at least it's up there with that game. :2thumbsup:

I thought you were in GF2. I would have to place it over this game though, because there were two times I logged on expecting to see the game over and it wasn't, while this game was over before I thought it would be.

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Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

I didn't like the way you told me via pm that you thought craterus was guilty, voted for him, and then jumped on the Reenk wagon with Craterus to tie up the vote, saving Seamus.

Also: Don, Crazed, Craterus, Xiahou, and Ignoramus were innocent.

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Originally Posted by Kommodus

Hm... I don't remember you ever being particularly high on the top of my suspect list. I guess I'm just waiting for you to actually get selected as a mafioso one of these days; something tells me you'd be quite good at it.

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Well, Kommodus, you probably didn't directly point a finger at me, but It did seem so in one of either Reenk's posts or one of Sasaki's. A post which I can't seem to find, whilst looking back.

Anyway, sorry for the blatant finger pointing on my part.

Sasaki,

Well, partly our PM correspondence (and at the same time your correspondence with Craterus) gave me that idea, that said, those mentioned weren't exactly cleared innocents at the time - now were they ? Yes, a strong case could be made in their favour, but nothing more.

Anyhow, great game guys, and kudo's to both Sasaki and Kommodus for always suspecting those who were mafioso. Good job, to say the least. Kommodus' method has yet to fail him, at least it seems that way, and while Sasaki's constant noise-making is irritating at times, it's ultimately quite a good tactic.

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Originally Posted by Dutch_guy

Well, Kommodus, you probably didn't directly point a finger at me, but It did seem so in one of either Reenk's posts or one of Sasaki's. A post which I can't seem to find, whilst looking back.

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You're right, actually - late in the game, when I sent a PM to Reenk indicating Seamus was my prime suspect, I told him I suspected you to a lesser extent.

You see, Sasaki was forwarding his private discussions with you to me. He included some commentary indicating you were a bit eager to agree with him about Craterus's possible guilt.

By the time Seamus was lynched, however, I don't think I had any strong suspects besides him.

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Originally Posted by Dutch_guy

Sasaki,

Well, partly our PM correspondence (and at the same time your correspondence with Craterus) gave me that idea, that said, those mentioned weren't exactly cleared innocents at the time - now were they ? Yes, a strong case could be made in their favour, but nothing more.

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Yes, but going off a two mafioso theory your actions fit Seamus's partner rather nicely. Also, lots of ordinary things seem suspicious when I'm considering someone for mafioso.

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Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

Yes, but going off a two mafioso theory your actions fit Seamus's partner rather nicely. Also, lots of ordinary things seem suspicious when I'm considering someone for mafioso.

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What, like breathing?

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Originally Posted by Pannonian

What, like breathing?

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It was a very enjoyable game, thank you everyone.

Even if I did screw up the detective role. :embarassed: Sorry for that. Still, you managed very well without any of my help, though I was tempted to weigh in when Reenk was under suspicion. :smile:

I made a feeble attempt to subtley indicate my status by seeming to change my view on Sasaki's guilt once I had investigated him, but I just made my situation worse. When you hunt someone down Sasaki, there's not a lot a chap can do to get you off the scent!

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Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost

Still, you managed very well without any of my help, though I was tempted to weigh in when Reenk was under suspicion. :smile:

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That would have been somewhat helpful...

I agree that its usually best for the detective to keep their head down initially.

CR

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Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost

It was a very enjoyable game, thank you everyone.

Even if I did screw up the detective role. :embarassed: Sorry for that. Still, you managed very well without any of my help, though I was tempted to weigh in when Reenk was under suspicion. :smile:

I made a feeble attempt to subtley indicate my status by seeming to change my view on Sasaki's guilt once I had investigated him, but I just made my situation worse. When you hunt someone down Sasaki, there's not a lot a chap can do to get you off the scent!

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Heh heh yes, sorry about that. Well what can you do. I'd expected you to claim if you were the detective.

Kudos on not weighing in on the Reenk thing though, makes the game much more fun.

Good point about not weighing in on Reenk making it more fun- it certainly was.

Interesting note; if Reenk was widely thought to have been mafia after his execution, Seamus could've gained protection that way. Here Reenk became thought of as the detective and left Seamus in an interesting conundrum.

Now we just have to wait for GH's commentary. BG's execution does seem to confirm his habit of occasionally posting clues in executions.

CR

I think Banquo was not allowed at all to post any clues that he was detective after he died. At least that's the message GH gave me in Mafia IV where I was detective.

I now present General Hankerchief's commentary for Mafia V! :rifle:

Sit back and relax. You'll be here for a while.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Round 0
Mafia: Reenk Roink and Seamus Fermanagh
Detective: Banquo’s Ghost

This would be a good game. When I selected the mafia out of my little hat, I knew that it would be. Seamus was a fairly new addition to the Mafia family, and had so far proven to be a very intelligent, logical player, much like Kommodus. I wondered how he would be in the mafia role. Reenk was an… interesting character. He would give me some laughs.

Our Detective, Banquo’s Ghost, had only played once before, in Mafia III, where he was lynched in the first round. Hopefully for the sake of the game he would do a little bit better this time around.

The “realism system” I mentioned had to do with PM timing. In two previous games (Mafia III and Cosa Nuova) the hosts had given the Detective time to post what he knew after they found out that he would die. Hopefully, this system would combat it. The idea was that if such a scenario happened, whoever sent me the first PM would have the edge. (so say, Banquo had revealed and Seamus decided to kill him off. If Banquo PM’d me first, he would get the result before I posted the kills and would have time to say what he knew in the thread. If Seamus sent the first PM, then Banquo would get no result.)

All three players understood the system and PM’d me their selections.

I almost forgot to put Sasaki in the original status list; he PM’d me informing me of my mistake. I quietly added his name to the list. This would be the first of several minor errors I would make during the course of the game.


Round 1
Reenk kills UltraWar
Seamus kills Sir Moody
Banquo investigates God’s Grace

Throughout the course of the game, the PMs were always sent in the same order: Reenk – Seamus – Banquo. Banquo thought that he was getting them in early, but I didn’t say anything.

Reenk for the most part wrote the kills as they appear in the thread. I made some minor tweaks here and there. The first kill was the only one I really played around with. I had a lot more freedom in writing Seamus’ kills. This is a good example of his usual PM to me:

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Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh PM

Understand timing of system.

Please kill Sir Moody.

Killing should be a drive-by shooting with Tommy gun where he just happens to be the one randomly hacked down from a small group. Fits my selection of him.

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The Bible passages didn’t come on until later.

The Wanax thing confused me – I figured out that it was Reenk just being Reenk. Even if he wasn’t, then surely the villagers would provide an origin. Ignoramus PM’d me early on connecting The Wanax to Craterus and posted his suspicions a couple of rounds later. But Banquo provided an origin in the thread. The villagers, especially Sasaki, thought that it was just Banquo being a newbie mafioso and trying to distract the villagers.

However, as voting went on Reenk got in trouble for abstaining (courteously) (again). Hepcat also got some votes. Due to timing, I didn’t want this round to go into a tie as I wanted to allow ample time for people to vote over the Thanksgiving weekend. This may have been a little unfair, but it kept the game moving along. In the rush to break the tie, Hepcat came out with the most votes.

Executed: Hepcat


Round 2

Reenk kills Pannonian
Seamus kills Evil_Maniac From Mars
Banquo investigates Sasaki Kojiro

All three had motives for their targets. Reenk and Seamus thought they were getting rid of the Detective, and Banquo, perhaps not realizing that this was Sasaki’s normal behavior, was suspicious of Sasaki attacking him.

Seamus again didn’t give me much to work with (nothing wrong with that btw) so I added in something I thought EMFM would like – Vogon poetry. It was half-homage to Cosa Nuova, half-filler. This started the speculation of what I put in the kills. For the first few rounds I answered what I could, but after a while I gave up.

This marked my second error in the game. Seamus wanted an “unblinking eye” from EMFM’s corpse. First, I forgot to add it, second of all when I did I cut out the entire eye instead of the eyelid. Seamus informed me of this mistake and I retconned it in a later kill.

This was the long round over Thanksgiving break. Votes were thrown a number of ways, but eventually it came down to Banquo for the Wanax thing, and Divine Wind for making some suspicious posts early on and then disappearing.

(Oh, btw, props to Silver Rusher for strongly advocating the lynch of Banquo. Had to get that in, buddy. :tongue:)

After about 4 days of voting, we were (of course) tied, so I called a re-vote and kept the round going for another day. I was rather surprised that nobody picked up on his change of behavior towards Sasaki, whom he had investigated. Banquo got in trouble early, so I was expecting a reveal to save himself. However, he was silent (the culprit: he went away for the weekend), and the votes fell his way. After Round 2, the Detective was gone.

I posted loads of hints in Banquo’s execution scene that he was the Detective. That thing that Beirut whispered in his ear was “why didn’t you reveal?” Kudos to Crazed Rabbit and later on, Kommodus for catching it.

Executed: Banquo’s Ghost


Round 3
Reenk kills Sasaki Kojiro
Seamus kills theRTWGuru

Reenk’s kill of Sasaki had me laughing out loud for about 10 minutes. It definitely was the funniest kill I ever received (sorry Kommodus). It also had me wondering why Reenk would effectively prove a huge force of nature innocent, but I figured he had his reasons.

I was kind of sorry that the pains of thinking up and writing the realism system had gone to waste, but evidently the mafia didn’t know that. Seamus went after Guru (who had previously done a weak “reveal” and was quickly called out on its flaws) just to be safe. I finally got the unblinking eye thing right.

I’m kind of glad that Seamus told me what the passages meant, as I am no Bible expert myself. The only one I really got was the Destroyer of Hope reference, which was the last one he wrote. This definitely fit the kill.

The Bible reference created a furor in the thread, replacing that of The Wanax. Just about everybody got named, but oddly enough, Seamus did not. However, he did not know that the Eye of Sasaki, now proven innocent, was now fixed on him.

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Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro PM

Kagemusha is more likely to be innocent and now I have my eye on Seamus.

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Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro PM

oh man Seamus is acting suspicious. Have to figure out how to confirm though.

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(there were a lot of other suspects, but they shall remain anonymous :laugh4:)

However, Zalmoxis fell under suspicion for odd voting patterns, and ultimately got the lynch this round.
Executed: Zalmoxis


Round 4

Reenk kills Kommodus
Seamus kills Proletariat

Seamus’ kill intrigued me this round. I know he and Prole know each other outside of the Org, and I wondered if something he put in the kill (the fact that she likes sushi, perhaps? I have no idea) would give himself away. However, nothing ever came out.

Divine Wind PM’d me around this time to say that he wouldn’t be able to play anymore. Complying with his request, I killed him off via seppuku. I didn’t want to have to mod-kill too many people in order to keep the game running, and I knew that the Wrath of God would be rearing its ugly head fairly certain.

By killing Kommodus, Reenk earned his wrath thanks to those amazing systems later on. His thoughts have already been stated on this matter. Personally, I was wondering what the heck was up with him. This was the second round in a row where he had a good player proven innocent. I guess the moral here is “never try to figure out a Wanax.” :tongue:

However, the little red herrings he planted in his kill were the most effective since the infamous AggonyDuck frame-up courtesy of Lemur in Mafia II. The philosophy discourse combined with the schwedentrunk got Sigurd Fafnesbane to post a strong argument against Husar. He tried to defend himself as well as start a counter-bandwagon on Csar but came up one vote short.

My progress report on the mafia so far: 4 rounds and everything was humming. Reenk and Seamus had the Detective out of the picture (and believed they did, too, which is a big help), weren’t attracting that much (public) suspicion, and only voted together once. Things were looking good, but as we have seen time and time again eventually the trap would close in on the mafia in the later rounds. This would occur in the next round.

Executed: Husar


Round 5

Reenk kills AggonyDuck
Seamus kills doc_bean

Two safe kills this round. This would be the last quiet round before everything hit the fan. I was annoyed about the lack of activity of some players, and made it known. If certain select people did not vote this round, they would be gone.

Apparently Reenk was so convinced with the success of his last kill that he decided to put The Wanax away for around. But he reassured me that this would be a one-time deal:

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Originally Posted by Reenk Roink PM

Hey GH, The Wanax will lay low this round, employing yet another brilliant stratagem to further obfuscate the villagers... :wink: Don't worry, he'll be back (contingent on my survival next round). :yes:

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However, he was nailed by Kommodus’ newest anti-mafia system. K wasn’t as supremely confident in his method as he was in Mafia IV, however, and this caused a split in votes between Csar and discovery1, who had been making mostly goofy posts in the course of the game.

I didn’t want another re-vote, so just decided to keep the voting open until a tie was broken. So I waited…

…and waited…

…and waited until Craterus changed his vote from Csar to Reenk, hoping that someone else would vote for The Wanax. However, I was there to quickly end the voting. The game had to keep moving.

All in all, a grand total of 6 people died this round. There were the two kills, one execution, Masy’s suicide, and the two Wrath of God victims (God’s Grace and Drisos). Hopefully this would have the same effect as in Mafia III, where the WoG suddenly brought activity to previous levels. I didn’t want to have to kill anybody else though, as the mafia had been “given” over a round thanks to suicides and inactivity.

Executed: discovery1


Round 6

Reenk kills Csar
Seamus kills Sigurd Fafnesbane

Between the kills and execution, Reenk “revealed,” confident that the true Detective was out of commission. My initial reaction was that he botched it. The main reason for this was that he gave his evidence peacemeal, even though they were all very well done. I do have to give him credit for using the realism system explanation in his defense, but I wondered why on earth he deleted that Mafia IV post (and just for the record, it was the screenshots of all of his Detective results from that game).

Seamus avoided previous mafia mistakes by siding against Reenk. He would take great pains to make sure that no connection appeared between the two, but yet this would still come back to hurt him.

As a result of Reenk’s reveal, the mafia scrambled and changed their kills to two “innocents” that he had named. It was kind of funny seeing the normally grammar-conscious Seamus PMing me with the title “CHANGE inn Night #6”. :laugh4:

The two original targets were as follows:
-Seamus to go after Don Corleone the same way his namesake was wounded in The Godfather (movie that is).

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Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh PM

General:

I wish to murder Don Corleone.

Murder should recreate the buying oranges/shot in the back scene from the 1972 classic with Marlon Brando – couldn’t resist with that name.

If you need to WoG someone else, have them take Freddo’s role but get run down with a car.

In the bag of oranges is found a note, reading: “Matthew 7:19”

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-Reenk was to go after Dutch_guy. He had already written the kill out, so all I had to do was substitute DG’s name in. Normally I would be pretty good at this, but seeing as how this was the third time I did these particular kills (I had already done Sigurd’s death twice, not including the time I accidentally put Don’s original death before realizing my mistake, and did The Wanax kill, complete with adding in a couple of sentences not to mention manually inserting all the underlines and non-italics for The Analyst and the phasgana :wall:) I rushed things a little bit.

About three minutes after the kills were posted, Reenk PM’d me saying he caught a Dutch_guy reference. This was my third error. Cursing myself, I quickly edited it out and thought I was safe, but then Craterus posted his suspicions. I wondered what to say, but eventually decided to just keep quiet.

Despite Sasaki’s best efforts, Reenk was not the overwhelming favorite to get executed. There was a four-way tie with two hours to go, but then Seamus cast the deciding vote on his partner! :dizzy2:

That one threw me for a loop. Reenk wasn’t the sure lynch. Apparently Seamus had decided to cut his losses and go solo.

I put a minor clue in Reenk’s execution, but nobody caught it.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

He was about to get up but in the pandemonium a bottle of wine fell from somewhere and knocked Reenk out cold.

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Wine – grapes – grapes on a wide-brimmed hat/grape watermark – Wanax. Oh well.

Now that his buddy was gone, I was anxious to see how long Seamus would last. In my previous three mafia games, no Mafioso had ever managed to last more than one round without his partner. Seamus had set himself up as Reenk’s enemy, but ultimately this was his downfall.

Executed: Reenk Roink


Round 7

Seamus kills Kagemusha and Destroyer of Hope

Well, The Wanax lived on even though Reenk had died. This was an extremely weird kill (dressing Kage up as the Trix Rabbit and having him eaten by rabid children). If this was earlier on in the game, I probably wouldn’t have accepted it but at this stage, I didn’t care enough to send an additional PM. This probably had something to do with my inbox nearing critical mass, too.

Sasaki used some elaborate stratagems in this round to bring out the mafioso, which kind of annoyed me since I had no control over what was happening (in case you didn’t know from my Godfather 2 commentary, I’m something of a control freak when it comes to these things :grin:). The first of these things was saying that he had “convincing evidence” that Crazed Rabbit was guilty.

If you remember, he had Seamus pegged from Round 3, and mostly posted Rabbit’s “guilt” to get a reaction out of his suspect. However, Seamus didn’t spring for the quick lynch, which temporarily foiled his plans.

But then Kommodus’ system named Seamus, as did AggonyDuck’s gut, which is possibly even more reliable. Cue in Reenk desperately trying to shift the attention to Rabbit and Xiahou. This almost worked, and left us with a seemingly-endless 3-3 tie between Seamus and Rabbit.

It was a noble effort by Reenk, but sadly it was misplaced. The reason: The main effect of it instead raised HIS standing among his buddy. Reenk got placed in a good light, especially among Sasaki, and now the general opinion was that he was in fact the Detective. Obviously this did not bode well for the person who put the deciding lynch vote on him, AKA Seamus.

This brings me to the biggest lesson learned during Mafia V: If you’re going to use a risky strategy, follow through with it. This has now been the downfall of the mafia in my two biggest games: Mafia III and Mafia V. In Mafia III, Kommodus voted against his buddy, Gertgregoor, but failed to follow up on it and made the kills look like there were two Mafiosi. Here, the goal should have been to portray Reenk as a mafioso and hail Seamus as the hero and the person who lynched a bad guy. Instead, there was still a Wanax kill, Reenk came off looking innocent, and Seamus was doomed. Eventually Craterus cast the deciding vote, thus saving the Frontroom and ending Mafia V. I put in a fairly obvious clue in the execution (the Job reference) but it didn't matter since the game was over.

Executed: Seamus Fermanagh


Game end

Well, I’m sure NOBODY was expecting the game to end when it did. I bet that most (all but two) players were pleasantly surprised when the final scene went up. I hate to see a story unfinished so I wrote a final confrontation with a robo-Wanax getting into a showdown with the remaining villagers. Not to mention an ending stolen from Stephen King’s excellent book in the Dark Tower series, Wolves of the Calla. I highly recommend the book and the series.

A very well-played game to our two mafiosi, Reenk Roink and Seamus Fermanagh. You guys almost had it; one more round. Excellent job at covering the connection between the two of you. I really do think that if you had not gone with that strategy at the end that the game would have been yours.

Also, a mention should go to our Detective, Banquo’s Ghost, for his noble effort. As in the Backroom, he posted with honor and logic at all times. :bow:

Finally, I’d like to give my congratulations to the townspeople. Judging by the last few games, they have become a force to be reckoned with, in my opinion replacing the Detective as the mafia’s biggest threat. You guys are what makes this game so difficult for the mafia, and your interaction is what makes Mafia games great.

So here’s to you, townspeople. You earned this victory. :medievalcheers:

Great write up GeneralHankerchief! :2thumbsup:

Let me explain the end of game strategy a bit more.

As said, I knew I had done a fairly convincing job with my reveal, despite the flaws. Only Sasaki was really pushing for my death, and he had no vote. Kommodus actually tried to get the villagers to save me. Essentially, the tandem of Crazed Rabbit and Xiahou were the only threats, but I could have easily negated it with my own vote on someone else, and there was always Seamus in reserve.

The reason I decided to let myself die was mainly because I did not want to fail Kommodus’ test. He had Seamus in sights, and so did Sasaki. By dying, I could gain the trust of these guys, and I did. However, Kommodus and Sasaki pushed for Seamus to go despite me trying to dissuade them as a friend.

I actually did try to be a Wanax again. I sent weird PM’s to Kommodus about him being deluded and showed great hostility to Sasaki for killing me. Well, it didn’t work: Seamus still got taken down and was down three to one, and Sasaki said it was “obvious” I was detective. :wall: I even wrote blatantly obvious posts claiming my Wanaxness, but they flew over the head of people. :wall:

So then I used my detective status to convince the townies of the tandem, and it worked, though not enough.

I don’t know what we could have done differently in that case, since Seamus and I were fingered by that horrid spreadsheet of Kommodus...

In retrospect, I should have done two bible quote killings following Reenk's demise.

I had thought that nobody would buy Reenk's reveal, and that I'd be somewhat cleared by acing him. I forgot that the recently lynched detective is more credible than a living one. Ended up boxing me in -- though it may not have mattered as Sasaki really had his sights on me and Kommo's system would still have picked up my off-moves.