The Godfather, Part 3 [Concluded]

[ULC]

I'll Vote:Sasaki as well

Only a man of his caliber would find it humorous to kill people in such a way

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Vote:sereikhaan

CountArach isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer

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no I'm not laughing at my own write up.

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I killed the other guy

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lol

[Andres]

If you don't vote out of tradition, you have to give a reason

[Sasaki Kojiro]

He changed his name and I can never remember how to spell it.

[Andres]

He changed his name and I can never remember how to spell it.

It seems to me that you deliberately misspelled his name to provide you with a cheap excuse to vote him.

Besides, it doesn't matter how many times he changes his username, he'll always be 'khaan.

[ULC]

It seems to me that you deliberately misspelled his name to provide you with a cheap excuse to vote him.

Besides, it doesn't matter how many times he changes his username, he'll always be 'khaan.

It may just be me, but I don't see how misspelling khaan's name provides him with an excuse or even implies he used it as an excuse, to vote for him.

[taka]

Vote: Ichigo: Guilty

[seireikhaan]

Vote: Shlin28

For invoking the execution method of Evil.

[TevashSzat]

Vote : Sasaki

It's a tradition

Isn't it usually Ichigo who does that?

Vote: Andres for breaking tradition

Also, aren't the writeups done by the mafiosos? I suppose someone should try to examine them for clues......I would but I don't really want to spend that much time overly analyzing something. Anyways, for what I read, the writeups seem well written with no blatant grammatical errors or anything like that

[shlin28]

Vote: Shlin28

For invoking the execution method of Evil.

RETALIATION VOTE!!! Vote: Serei-

*remembers his position*



Its the first day, so lets just lynch a random person and get on with it.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Some thoughts on the night's targets and opening votes:


Both cast election votes for Shlin28 relatively late in the election process, taking the prize from Reenk. Of course, Reenk also changed his vote at about the same time. Will having voted for Shlin prove unhealthy?

Both Tratorix and CountArach (the last a capable analyst) often curtail participation once they end up dead, so that plays into standard operating procedure for Mafiosi.

So far, even to include the sharks, this game develops on very classic lines.....



Writeups in the first games could be, but weren't always, written by the killer. The Host always reserves the write to edit to control the narratie of the game. Clues are possible, but unlikely unless we've got more than one night to work with. There may be "tells" over time, or "signatures" to be evaluated, but GH's writeup did not include a business card with the name of the murderer left at the scene.



Both Taka and Tev are pretty quick to get into the posting mix after this first night phase....

[TinCow]

The first death writeup does not seem like GH's writing to me. Note the grammar and spelling errors (bolded):

Tratorix was driving home after the election results when he noticed a poster featuring a particularly attractive girl calling for change we can believe him.

...

After a while, though, Tratorix started getting bored and was going to get back into his car when he noticed another poster across the street also calling for change we can believe him, but featuring another attractive girl.

...

When he first reached the dusty poster, he couldn’t see anything. Only after brushing off all of the dust did he realize that it was actually a picture of some unknown masked man eating a baby, just like Tincown had accused shlin28 of.

...

As Tratorix lied on the ground, gasping for air and slowly bleeding to death, he heard a rustling noise. He wasn’t able to turn his head very fast on account of his knife wound, but he managed to see a dark figure running out of the alley.

The second write-up does not seem to make the same errors. They seem to be written by two separate people to me, probably one by each mafia killer, though the second one could be GH. Despite the grammar and spelling errors in the first write-up, it is well written well and employs interesting and diverse vocabulary. This seems to indicate that it's either a person for whom English is not a first language, or an experienced writer that was careless and didn't proofread.

Based on a quick perusal of the alive list, I'll go with the first person that strikes me as fitting one of those profiles:

Vote: 187Beefyz

[Tratorix]

The first death writeup does not seem like GH's writing to me. Note the grammar and spelling errors (bolded):



The second write-up does not seem to make the same errors. They seem to be written by two separate people to me, probably one by each mafia killer, though the second one could be GH. Despite the grammar and spelling errors in the first write-up, it is well written well and employs interesting and diverse vocabulary. This seems to indicate that it's either a person for whom English is not a first language, or an experienced writer that was careless and didn't proofread.

Based on a quick perusal of the alive list, I'll go with the first person that strikes me as fitting one of those profiles:

Vote: 187Beefyz

Doesn't GH usually do the write ups himself and just get suggestions for the kill methods?

[GeneralHankerchief]

In my Mafia series.

This is not my Mafia series.

[Tratorix]

In my Mafia series.

This is not my Mafia series.

Ah, touche.

[Thermal]

Change we can believe him is said twice, I doubt that is mere coincidence. The poster has a picture of a man eating a baby, showing this poster cannot be seen as factual, perhaps in this long twisted line of clues shows we cannot trust shlin28

vote: abstain
for now....

[Chaotix]

Bear in mind, Ares, that since the mafia are doing the write-ups, it is very likely that they are going to intentionally put false leads into them. I wouldn't take into account any mention of names other than those who were killed in the write-ups. There may be one strategy we can use, however: look for whom the write-ups avoided mentioning, later in the game.

As for a vote...

Vote: Andres

For starting off the round by voting with no evidence whatsoever, and thus paving the way for more nonsensical votes and bandwagons.

[glyphz]

Vote: 777Ares777
The 'random vote on the person who posted in front of me'

[glyphz]

Gah!
Unvote: 777Ares777
Vote: Chaotix27

Beaten by mere seconds

[TinCow]

Bear in mind, Ares, that since the mafia are doing the write-ups, it is very likely that they are going to intentionally put false leads into them. I wouldn't take into account any mention of names other than those who were killed in the write-ups. There may be one strategy we can use, however: look for whom the write-ups avoided mentioning, later in the game.

I would not put any faith into any of the actual content of the write-ups, as that is easily faked. However, disguising one's own writing style can be exceptionally difficult, even if it is intentionally done. I believe we'll find far more success in that than in any other analysis of the write-ups.

[Chaotix]

Yes, most of what is said in the write-ups is generally going to be useless. Even writing styles, however, can be faked. In this game in particular, a smart mafia is definitely going to try to change their writing style- probably a small change from American to British English, or vice-versa. It's going to be the small nuances of each dialect that are missed in the sudden change that will be our clues, I think.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I would not put any faith into any of the actual content of the write-ups, as that is easily faked. However, disguising one's own writing style can be exceptionally difficult, even if it is intentionally done. I believe we'll find far more success in that than in any other analysis of the write-ups.

You've repeatedly said that you were worried about having to do your own write up if you were mafia in a game that required it because you would have to put work into disguising your style. Now you are voting based on a few grammar errors--

unvote:'khaan

Vote:TinCow

also, only post graduate types think ending a sentence with a preposition is bad grammar

[TevashSzat]

I would not put any faith into any of the actual content of the write-ups, as that is easily faked.

QFT

All that will lead to is WIFOM.

Person 1: You weren't mentioned so you must be scum
Person 2: But if I were scum, I wouldn't be so careless
Person 1: But if you were scum, you would be leaving yourself the opportunity to say you weren't careless

And it can just go on and on.....

@Tincow

Your idea seems very promising. Does anyone here know who in the game speaks English as their first/primary language. I spose that may be useful later on

[Sigurd]

@taka:
Is that a positive result of an investigation?

I believe the write-ups are supposed to be written and posted unchanged (I wish that was true in Ephesus - It would have been sooo much more fun).

The texts seems to be written in a editor with spell check. Very few errors beside what TinCow has already put forward.
I noticed one little thing though. The second write-up had neighbors instead of neighbours suggesting it was written by an American. When pasting the text into a Norwegian editor, the dictionary changed to English(UK) though.
So... was the neighbor thing deliberate, or a slip up? American vs Eurpean?

vote: Ichigo

[seireikhaan]

Your idea seems very promising. Does anyone here know who in the game speaks English as their first/primary language. I spose that may be useful later on

Well, I do... But the last time I tried to analyze writeups on this sort of thing, the mafia won.

[CountArach]

Death by too much sex? Humane enough?

I do believe I have died that way once. Certainly I have gone out while having sex with a prostitute.

CountArach isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer

I'll make sure not to cut myself on your wit...

Ah well, I was going to enjoy the nostalgia of an old game reborn. I'll try to stick around just to spite those mafia who assume I will become inactive.

Now, IF we can verify whether the write-ups are mafia-done or GH-done then we can determine what that points to. I find the use of a complex chemical interesting for one.

[Sigurd]

Now, IF we can verify whether the write-ups are mafia-done or GH-done then we can determine what that points to. I find the use of a complex chemical interesting for one.

From the OP:

When sending me their kills, the mafia need to PM me them in the exact form they will appear. Unlike in my Mafia series, I will do very little editing, so you will need to disguise/uniformize your writing style.

[seireikhaan]

I do believe I have died that way once. Certainly I have gone out while having sex with a prostitute.

Death by prostitute

[CountArach]

From the OP:

Thanks Sigurd, I should probably have checked there first.

Alright in that case I'll be back later today with my analysis of the write-ups.

[Thermal]

Gah!
Unvote: 777Ares777
Vote: Chaotix27

Beaten by mere seconds

the post before this post in the 'vote for the person in front of me tactic' is yourself, so i think you should be doing a suicide vote Glyphz