The fight for Inishmore [Concluded]

[LittleGrizzly]

Ok, I was joking before, but you're seriously just adding ellipses after everything you say.

I may have been slightly more aware of it... and thus using it more but not much more than i usually do anyway!

And I don't buy that you couldn't change your writing style to mask it because it's impossible. It's as simple as not pushing the "." button in triplicate after every thought.

That was kind of my point, it would be absolutely simple for me to not add ... the thing i was saying i would find it very had to mask is my writing style... as in the way a write... in kind of a thinking out loud format i think... TBH its kind of the way i talk as well...

Sorry fairly pointless post as i know your not accusing me... i just wanted to clarify that point incase someone trys to hang me with it later...

[pevergreen]

I know I use an ellipse to articulate a pause in the way I talk.

Say for Horatio at the end of CSI: Miami

So I think...he punched his last time card. *puts glasses back on*
So I think...we've got our man. *puts glasses back on*

[boudica]

Thanks for not lynching me. Boo to those of you who nearly did. It would have been just as much a waste for town as lynching Ares was.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Thanks for not lynching me. Boo to those of you who nearly did. It would have been just as much a waste for town as lynching Ares was.

So your defense is "well, I'm innocent, thanks"?

[Ituralde]

So Ares really did make up those arguments, interesting. Also I would have preferred a double lynch just to be sure. And whether you believe me or not I was actually expecting the vote to be over by the time I logged on this morning and wanted to use the time I had to catch up with the discussion.

We're already down to Night 4, I hope the town gets some support from the detective come the next Day phase, he should have found something to work with. ATPGs idea to get the information to us might actually work, though it is wide open to abuse.

[LittleGrizzly]

Boudica i don't know if your in a position to criticise those who voted for you.... voting atpg has got to be the one of the easiest votes to make... not that it makes you scum but mafia sometimes like going for the easy cases... like atpg...

All this being said watch this turn out to be the game ATPG is scum... better lynch him otherwise i may look stupid... ;)

[boudica]

So your defense is "well, I'm innocent, thanks"?

Defense? Defending oneself in a close lynch vote that one didn't even read up on properly til after the event: I think you'll find is impossible.

I already said I was a fine choice of lynch given my lack of participation, but a bad one given my innocence. I stick by that - and kind of don't really mind - As a relative newcomer to mafia, I was reticent about joining a third game after discovering not so long ago that 2 was my limit - and now I have more RL work on than I thought I would have to boot.

My only shame in being lynched tomorrow would be that I have already served town poorly.

- Also, a bit about my vote for Askthepizzaguy and how I was admonished by Little Grizzley for it. All I can say is that I can only play the posts in the thread in front of me, and though I try not to cross-game - you even 'jokingly' said yourself that this would be the one time that super-keen super-town pizza guy would turn out to be mafia. Now you said you were joking when ATPG thanked you for it, but you still said it and the fact that you (assuming you are a townie) don't want to be caught out, coupled with the fact that we know ATPG will keep on investigating even when he is rotting in the ground IS the reason that ATPG keeps getting lynched.

So far I've voted for a zombie detective without a badge and before that - a 'God-like master' who displays the very scummy qualities that he himself claims in this very thread
If that makes me guilty - go ahead and lynch me

[LittleGrizzly]

It was just a criticism of your choice of an easy lynch, doesn't nessecarily make you guilty....

What i meant was the joke was the lynch him now part... otherwise i would have voted for him with you..

I am slightly worried that i could campaign for ATPG to stay alive and then it turns out he's mafia... would be twisted, but i don't expect it...

anything else...

ohh yeah Vote Boudica

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Defense? Defending oneself in a close lynch vote that one didn't even read up on properly til after the event: I think you'll find is impossible.

I meant towards the reasons people voted you earlier...the fact that the vote got to the point where it was tied is a point in your favor though. I think looking back on this round some time from now will give a better view of your guilt/innocence.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Now you said you were joking when ATPG thanked you for it, but you still said it and the fact that you (assuming you are a townie) don't want to be caught out, coupled with the fact that we know ATPG will keep on investigating even when he is rotting in the ground IS the reason that ATPG keeps getting lynched.

Yakety Yak, in spoilers.

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First of all, boudica's defense satisfies me. (Imagine that! No one saw that coming) I did indeed invite votes on myself, and you really can't criticize someone who does vote for me after I do that. My only criticism with her was that she didn't seem to be paying attention to the facts. On reflection; that doesn't indicate to me that she has a role. If she had a valuable role, for example, she would want to be very careful who she chooses to have night actions performed on.
(...I could make a joke here, but I'll abstain, courteously. )

I'm fine with the lynch Askthepizzaguy early policy at present, however I would like to suggest that it's not wise to do so every game. If I end up with a good role, you could be hurting the town, and it could end up being less fun. Imagine if I did get saddled with a godfather role, for example. Your game would be over on round one, and then... no real reason to assemble 30 people just to slaughter me. It would be amusing in retrospect but also less fun. To me, if I ever got such a role, I'd be squirming the whole game because I'd know I was doomed.

We should mix it up. I've noticed boudica, for example, getting stomped pretty quick by the lynch due to her recent streak of mafia roles, and others like CountArach or Tratorix or Ignoramus getting murdered but not lynched due to previous games where they were less talkative post-death. Just so that everyone gets a fair shake, I think that we should take note of settling into predictable patterns. I'd like to see players like those mentioned survive longer into a game, and have a shot at maybe winning such a game as mafia. You'll also notice right away when some of these players don't get murdered, and probably lynch them for the unusual nature of their survival, and at that point; the players could be asking themselves "when will I get a break?"

Lynching the lurkers every game, shouldn't happen. It should happen enough times to discourage lurking, and to encourage discussion, in my opinion; you may disagree. Lurking is a valid strategy and lurkers will never be talkers. And if we make the lurkers scapegoats every game, they may not want to play anymore. At some point, I'll be changing my methods as well and will hope to survive at least to the mid-game on occasion. For now, I think it is a good tactic in games with lots of pro-town roles to have a volunteer to die, and for the present moment, that would be me. Others may volunteer in the future.

[A Very Super Market]

If the godfather DID get lynched round one on a large game like this, we would be permitted to restart, right?

[Thermal]

Thanks for not lynching me. Boo to those of you who nearly did. It would have been just as much a waste for town as lynching Ares was.

As a 'townie' you really shouldn't need to tell us that... (yes I used ellipses DEAL with it )