Post 3360 of the Game Thread
Wall of the Commentary
Episode III: Revenge of the Puns
Gosh, this is a pretty long commentary edition!
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:Day Twelve- Supertownies are super-scummy: Part One
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:Right on cue, Sasaki comments first.
I have to admit, this kind of post usually triggers my scum button. It feels like a nervous statement of the obvious, which scum do a lot.
But it's not. Maybe Sasaki is playing games with your head.
Case in point.
It's more obvious he's baiting you on purpose here, with the "us" and the "fellow" townies stuff.
Quit playing games with my head....
And here, Renata knows she's a Sith. Watch her activity level suddenly spike.We should probably be lynching someone who was not a replacement and who has not recently been the aim of a known-not-town attack, for best chance at getting one of the big bads. For that first part, the list is:
a completely inoffensive name
AntiKingWarmancake
Autolycus
ByzantineKnight
Captain Blackadder
Chaotix
Csargo
Diamondeye
Diana Abnoba
Frozen in Ice
God Emperor
Greyblades
Ignoramus
Jarema
Joooray
Kagemusha
Khazaar
Nightbringer
Psychonaut
Renata
Robbiecon
Seon
wideyedwanderer
Unfortunately for my suspicions of their changed behavior, neither Sasaki nor TinCow is in that group in their current incarnations. So
unvote: Sasaki
That's 22 people not counting myself, just about getting to be a reasonable size to start looking at posts and votes as a whole.
Still, she says she stopped being busy IRL so, this could be not a fair cop. But hey, it's stuff that usually triggers my scum meter, and she's doing it just after she became scum.
Even if it isn't a reliable trigger, it's an effective one by sheer dumb luck this time, perhaps.
Yeah. The case on Diana was simply that she was posting once a day or less.
Why would she keep doing this if it was racking up votes for her, if she had any say about it?
Flawed reasons, but at least its a different suspect.
Correct!
New suspects = awesomesauce.
This is like voting ACIN for having a completely inoffensive name.
This one was just painful to watch. It is wrong in so many different ways.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...post2053231224
Ironside antagonizes Chaotix. This might turn Chaotix even more towards the town and less friendly with the Sith... who knows.
Oh Tincow, the combination of skill and luck you're displaying shows me that you are indeed strong with the Force.
Right as Renata turns Sith, Tincow is accidentally all over her.
Beefy is thinking critically here, and it's good to see him roll up his sleeves and get into the fray.
Some just don't let it go. It's a good thing Double A doesn't have a vig kill ability...
Seon- voice of reason???
Look at what you've gone and done, townies. How could you let this happen?
Picks up on Chaotix' nervous reaction to Ironside's pressure.
Before he edited it out, he had posted a paraphrased version of investigation results that show Joooray is on the Dark side of the spectrum, but still not recruited.
This is basically an innocent result. He's not Sith. But once again, people make the mistake and think OMG DARKSIDE MUST KILLZ.
Correct!
Not even following the game too closely and she can see this. It's obvious, isn't it?
The exchange between Chaotix and Ironside is funny to watch. Chaotix is acting super nervous here.Pfft. You just told the town you're trying to create discord and you're not working in the town's interests.
If it was at all in doubt before, which is unlikely since you're a confirmed Sith, then you have removed it.
I'm going to take the same route I did with Beskar: just ignore him and he will go away.
He's trying too hard to discredit a known, dead Sith, IMO. He's already died in disgrace, trying to further tarnish that image only tarnishes your own. It smells desperate.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...post2053231296
Cecil XIX takes a wild stab at a suspect, and gives it his all.
Nice attempt.
So wrong.
His own case is undermined by the data he uses on Sasaki, which proves that kill numbers were high before and after Sasaki rejoined, and on the night Sasaki could send in orders, kills were lower than average.
It is a bad case, but a valiant attempt by a new player.
In other words:I would say at this point, lynching Joooray is a bad idea. Thinking about it over the past couple of days has made me change my mind.
Basically, this is our situation:
There is the town, there are the Sith, and there are any number of Dark Jedi.
The Sith are out to kill us. Period. The Sith are also clearly out to kill the Dark Jedi.
The Dark Jedi just want to survive. They are Neutral. Since the Sith are trying to kill the Dark Jedi as well, right now their best chance of survival is to team up with the town.
And if the town and the Dark Jedi get rid of the Sith together, they have both satisfied their victory conditions.
But if we lynch one Dark Jedi, if we take the policy that Dark Jedi should die, then we turn a potential ally into a certain enemy. There is no way any Dark Jedi will want to help the town if we start killing them- they're out for survival, so they'll basically become a bunch of serial killers we have to deal with.
So... I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd much rather have them on our side than against us.
I am a Dark Jedi, and I am allied with the Dark Jedi Grandmaster.
Please don't kill me or my Dark ally. We'll play nice.
Obvious Dark Jedi is obvious.
1. Rhetorical questions posed to no one in particular.Has Joooray been scanned? What does that even really mean? We've been down this route three times already and our fingers have been burned by it every time. On top of that is Ironside saying he's "EVIL", that's reason enough to not go after him. Nope, not buying it, not doing this again.
vote: Diamondeye
He should have gone last round, he's been interacting weirdly, posting scummily and acting inconsistent.
2. Reminder of bad things that happened before.
3. Focusing on the Sith behavior, as if that automatically means you should do the opposite.
None of this tickles anyone's nose hairs?
By now, pevergreen has probably seen the Jedi Holocron data Joooray sent him. He realizes how enormous his task as a coordinator truly is, and nearly resigns in defeat.
He basically asked me in private if he could drop out. This isn't pevergreen's strong area, and he's already low on enthusiasm since he died so early.
Such a bad thing to announce publicly.
Imagine if they could recruit him tonight. What a world of hurt the Jedi would be in.
Don't let the Sith become Grandmaster. Holy poop on a stick, DON'T.
Playing with fire here. You guys are lucky Renata is Sith now. If they had picked Joooray, woe be upon ye. I'm cereal.
Mafia are usually on top of everything the townies "should" know and understand.
This is a good reminder, but the source is just so, so scummy. He's trying to look as townie as possible.
That's not what it said.... this is like the third or fourth time the exact wording of the result was replaced by paraphrasing which made the result look worse than it was.
Townies aren't learning. The scum know what the score is. The fact that they deeply understand this game should be a warning sign, an indicator of their guilt.
Alas, no....
I have no idea who to vote for now; I seriously think the town's in trouble. The inability to scan Sith makes scanning almost useless, and there are so many suspicious players that the chances of getting the right one is next to 0.
But as I have to vote:
Vote: Diana Abnoba - still suspicious in my mind.
No, scanning isn't useless!
What did the Grandmaster say about this? That the Sith Lord/Dark One had the ability to fool scans.
What use is fooling a scan into thinking you're guilty?
He's going to come out smelling like a rose! He's going to be hiding as a totally non-recruitable Light Sider!
And that's exactly what Kagemusha scanned as!
That's what Psychonaut scanned as!
You guys already found the two masters of the Sith, you just don't know it yet.
Use your logic: In Capo III, Dons scanned as innocent.
That made it possible to narrow down who they were because almost everyone else scanned as guilty after all the killing.
Here, Sith scan as total light siders, because that's how they're tricking the scans. But that's not going to be the popular scan choice! To really blend in, they should scan as Dark Side, recruitable, because more than half the players are, and it's the perfect way to hide!
But the town just doesn't get it... and understandably so.
Your scans still work, you just need to combine them with reasoning and FAITHFUL reporting of those scans.
Investigators aren't enough in my games. You must use your brains as well. I hate having the town wait for detectives to save them.
Supertownie Sith Lord to the rescue.
Trying too hard.
There was no variance... it was reported wrong.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...post2053231414
Joooray gives another heroic defense.
I heart Joooray.
Tincow seems a bit schitzophrenic on this issue. He's for/against/for/against the Dark Jedi at various points.Joooray is clearly either Dark Jedi or Sith. Victory conditions clearly state that Dark Jedi are not part of the town. While they appear to be not quite as bad as the Sith, they're still not on our side.
Vote: Joooray
Being afraid of 'turning the Dark Jedi against us' is a bit misleading, as they're not on our side in the first place.
This is maybe the only thing he's done all game which would falsely trigger my scumdar. So he's doing well.
What did I say about townies and their bad votes?
I swear I make a "smells like scum" or "I've got a feeling about him" envoking post every game. I only voted for ignoramus because pretending to be a vigilante is a classic mafia move and voting for jJoooray would be an even worse choice than him what with being head of the order and all.
Unvote, vote: ironsides Sorry guy but you admitted your sith and admitting you're mafia rarely works out well unless your playing a game where you cant be lynched, like beefy's Noble sons. I just dont get why you would sell out just to pin a dark jedi lable on chaotix, couldn't you do it without revealing?
Greyblades is acting like a townie here.![]()
Day Twelve: More unnecessary two-parters, Part Two
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:pevergreen redeems himself as a townie leader.Double post!
Ok, I just learnt a whole bunch about this game.
Summarise:
Super uber great dark one guy: Not aligned with sith, has to kill them and be only one alive to win. He can ressurect sith. Anyone that is ressurected is sith, and remains sith.
Certain lightsaber forms take you to the dark side. Form 7: Juyo II is one of the two.
Certain powers take you to the dark side.
Certain powers move you to the light side, others enable you to push someone else to it/prevent them from going to dark side.
There is a power that lets you use dark side abilities without turning to the darkside.
There is a power that lets you learn dark side powers you are attacked with.
There is absolutes at the end of the spectrum, if you hit it, you can't be converted. Otherwise you can. Very few will ever hit it.
Joooray is not a good lynch anymore.
This information is ALL vital to pass along. And not focusing on chaotix or Joooray increases the likelihood that the Sith will have to kill them instead of the real Jedi, and increases the likelihood that both Dark Jedi Master and Grandmaster will work with the town.
Very powerful chess move here.
That Jedi Holocron really came in handy.
It's at this point that pevergreen drops his load of information and sits down, exhausted, and not sure he can continue being a leader. He read the holocron, congratulated me on the game design, and then said he hated me.
All of these were strong compliments.
Dark Jedi have the choice of going either way.
3 factions in the game
Town (jedi)
Sith (sith master and apprentice)
Sith (dark one)
Dark jedi are between one and two.
We know what joooray is, and i think he will come towards the light side. If we take him out, we risk an unknown becoming the grandmaster, possibly a sith. Sith can become the GM.
The force is strong with you.
Correct!As of this moment, Joooray is a Dark Jedi, and a very powerful one. Do you have an actual planned course of action to convert him back to the light side within the next few turns? He either needs to be redeemed now or eliminated. Leaving him in limbo, able to go either direction depending on how the wind blows, is a very bad idea.
At this point God Emperor points out that Andres is being suspicious.
He's a dead Jedi.
More totally townie behavior. At this rate the Sith can only be Tincow, Sasaki, or Psychonaut. I like those odds.
Oh, and Renata now is looking awfully supertownie.More like "very little light side in him", wasn't it? Without knowing how a Sith apprentice or random dark jedi would scan, you can't be certain that isn't exactly how they'd turn up. In fact this from pever:
suggests strongly that that's the case. Cecil, the "chosen one", was probably at the light side extreme. He'd have turned up entirely light. The Dark One and the Sith leader at the other end, no light at all. Everyone else, including some of the bad guys/neutrals, somewhere in between.
I do think there is a point that the Dark One himself or the Sith leader would be less likely to show up as something iffy than as something more clearly townie, which probabably does make Diamondeye unlikely to be either of those things.
Even sharing some game-crucial information. Gosh, now it's between Tincow, Sasaki, Psychonaut, and Renata for the title of who's acting the most helpful to the town. All good players, half of them Sith.
Too much info here, pevergreen. I disagree any of this was necessary to reveal.the dark one is immune to all but 1 type of scan, that is only available to the grandmaster. Theres a bunch of GM powers.
As to keeping an eye of Joooray...don't ask the impossible. I know the roughly what he can do, and how much of it. If he attacks someone, we will know.
The darkside powers are quite obvious that they are darkside (like the force coversion - converts to sith, thats darkside. Theres a few defence ones that are darkside, but jedi dont have a way to learn them.
Jedi powers
Universal powers
Sith powers
You have to be jedi to get jedi ones, sith to get sith ones (with a few exceptions) and anyone can get universal.
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No? Nothing? Not even a titter? Tough Star Destroyer.
He wasn't pretending. That's pure, decent, unadulterated townie behavior right thar.
Kage, no....So if we now have two kind of results saying Jooray is "not strong with light side" and that "he is susceptible to the Dark side, and may already be turned to the Dark Side".
How can we monitor him? If he is susceptible ro the Dark side, wouldnt he be a perfect candidate for the Sith to convert, while the new result says he could even be turned to dark side? I cant understand why he should be kept alive. Vote: Jooray
He's so scummy! Come on guys, aren't you seeing this? He's way too focused on Dark Jedi. The consensus from the townie leadership is that the Dark Jedi are fine for now.
Kage wants them dead. He likes playing dangerously.
Good questions. But Kagemusha misunderstands nothing.You misunderstand the concept of recruitment in this game. The Sith won't recruit until one of them dies, and when they recruit, at least the Sith Lord can pretty much recruit almost anybody. That's what the holocron says.
Have you even bothered to read my last posts? Or why do you bring up these old scan results? Have you read what I said about the the interpretation of scan results?
The fact that he's "misunderstanding" ANYTHING implies that he's a scumbag.
Where's a good old fashioned OMGUS reaction? Vote the traitor!!!
Triggers Sasaki's scumdar for like the third time this game, always based on his ENTIRELY scummy posts.
Come on, guys, he's RIGHT THERE! HIT HIM!!! HIT HIM!!! He's making errors! Bad ones! Get him!!!
Now Kagemusha has slipped into lecture mode.
Kagemusha has become a super-saiyan.
So, Tincow, Sasaki, Kagemusha, Psychonaut, and Renata are all acting like supertownies, among the remaining living suspects.
Of them, three are scumbags. All three Sith.
Super-townie. It's super-scummy. I did it in Swords and D20's Three when I lectured people about No Lynch on round one due to townie power roles.
Renata told me it was scummy. She was right.
All three Sith are guilty of it here. That's why it is an indicator. There are dozens of Jedi, only three Sith, and the Sith:Jedi ratio in the "supertownie" column is 3:2 presently.
Toss in Joooray and Chaotix if you want. They're on top of this game, and they're neutral, making it 5:2 scummy versus townie in the "supertownie" category.
Townies don't know what they're doing, with a few notable exceptions. Sith and neutrals are ALL OVER this game.
And now I see three Renata posts and a Kagemusha post. The Sith are now dominating the discussion.
Diana takes the lead. She's got Force Breath and Force Ghost, and started the game with neither and was a lowly initiate with the weakest (and thusfar, least effective) protection power in the game. She already begins the game on the dark side of the spectrum.
Lynching her will make her fall further to the dark side, but that's ok because she hasn't vigged anyone yet.
Points for being different. He's going after a super-townie kind of player. Tincow could have been recruited by now, too.Lynching inactives isn´t the worst idea, looking at people who have been replaced even though they should have been wogged probably isn´t either. The so called solid information (investigations) hane´t been all that sucsessful. Maybe it´s time for a new aproach Vote: Tincow
The townie info network flexes its muscles to spare Joooray.
Will Joooray be grateful? More important, will he be LOYAL?
An awfully brave thing to say to a group of Jedi. I killed one of you with Force Lightning.
This kind of honesty helps him out. I think the Jedi Order is ready to accept Joooray's plea for atonement and redemption.
I think Renata has more posts this round than all previous rounds combined. Not sure on that, but it's a massive spike in activity.
This really is an unusual shift, right after her conversion. Bad timing, or tell?
Diana is far in the lead now. She will be lynched, and she will survive.
I predict some vig will try to take her out, possibly succeed, and then she'll be a Jedi Force Ghost.
A better outcome than her being converted, possibly. This kind of delay also keeps the rest of the Jedi alive and well for longer, weakening the Sith's position. Just kill Kagemusha, guys.... you'd be all set.
Once he's gone, you own the remaining Sith team. But you will never win if you don't punish kagemusha for his damningly obvious Sith behavior.
I really think he pushed the envelope on purpose because he has cojones made out of unobtanium, but I swear to all that is holy, I'd have been crawling all over him for at least half of the posts he's made this game.
They violate basically all of my scum triggers that I use every game.
You're so lucky I'm not playing, Kage. *evil stare*
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Day Thirteen, or: How I Made Massive Screw-ups And Learned to Deal With It.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:So today, Robbiecon is slain. But only because I didn't read the Sith quicktopic all the way, I took their orders early, wrote them down, and never checked for changes. So I magically press the delete button and bring him back to life.
So, Robbiecon is proven innocent and Bip Kenner is proven not-Sith (not one of the Sith teams, anyway, since he was attacked by Sith. Could have been the other).
Because it's the endgame and this could have ruined the game for any of the Sith due to MY error, and the town gets massive advantages for this round and any round that robbie and blackadder survive, the only compensation I could offer was a Sith Force Ghost to Renata.
Sorry guys. Leaving it alone would have unbalanced the game, this was the only way. It's what I would have had to do if I noticed egregious cheating.
Anyways, let's read some gosh dang commentary.
Technically the writeup didn't prove Joooray was innocent, but perhaps pevergreen thought that Chaotix or Ignoramus were a Sith Lord attacking him.
If that was the logic, it was all wrong. But Sith dying is better than neutral Joooray dying. So that part is right.
pevergreen continues his subtle leadership style. Very decentralized and mostly hands-off.
A mini bandwagon forms on Diana Abnoba. Not at all unexpected. Why do you guys think she's still alive? She's total lynch bait.
So after some 6 or 7 votes on Diana for no reason, God Emperor tries to go for another option.imo this bandwagon is silly and is growing way too quickly. Iirc she was scanned as having used an ability (?) , which she did not explain what was, else it's about her inactivity. Just two days ago she did not even vote. Those who participated in the zelda mafia at TWC knows that her inactivity there was very similar to the inactivity she shows in this game.
People may ofc vote for her , but we are on day 15. Plenty of stuff in the game thread to go back and look at.
Autolycus is a person I have checked, and his posts are nothing but bandwagons and 'ay ay great leaders' x 3 times. He did not vote day 12 apparently, and imo, that's about the only thing that speaks in his favour. Might just as well show what it is I am thinking of.
'Our leaders' posts:
then there is a post like this which I don't know what to make of
I guess that would make the zelda game(?)... There Diana was Innocent and you were mafia. You didn't kill her, and that cost you your mafia victory . I don't exactly understand why you wish to use that in this game
This post is just... She didn't show up yesterday durring her bandwagon and the thread is closed durring the night phase. There is hardly anything on her, and she as obviously not had the chance to defend herself, unless you think she avoids this thread on purpose?
Basically this is just your mafia style imo. You follow the leads of others and else you just stay quiet to avoid detection. I don't like your playing style in this game and for now I will vote for you, but I will ofc keep searching the thread , which I would encourage everybody to do
Vote: Autolycus
Seriously, though?
Do we consider being a lemming a good thing?
*townie pizza has a grumpy face*
Renata-Sith avoids both the Autolycus and Diana wagons, which are now almost tied.
Psychonaut-Sith goes for the dark jedi. Things are now getting interesting. How does Chaotix react?
"What are you hiding?" seems a bit fake-sounding to me. But hey, I know the answer so maybe it's just obvious in retrospect.
Jack Krauser says: NOW you're talking.
Psychonaut is a Sith Lord, and ACIN is a jedi who desperately wants to kill everyone he can for the lulz.
Both need to die.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...post2053232422
DIY makes a big case on Nightbringer.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...post2053232431
Nightbringer uses Heroic Defense on DIY. It's super effective!
Wild DIY has fainted!
Nightbringer gains 15 exp points.
What's this? Nightbringer is evolving! Press B to cancel.
Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun da dun dun dun dun dun dun dun da dun
Nightbringer evolved into Nightreaper!
Yeah, you read it right. I took that joke all the way to its natural conclusion. Betcha didn't think I knew about pokemon. Well I know all about pokemon! Why can't a dude in his late 20s like pokeman? There's nothing odd about that. In fact, you know what? Instead of doing commentary, I'm going to talk about all my favorite pokemans and why.
1. Pikachu
Because duh, everybody loves Pikachu. Pika Pika!
2. Charizard
Because fire is good and it's totally a flying dragon! The only thing that would be better is a ninja. So I nicknamed him Ninja. Wouldn't it be cool if it was a fire breathing dragon ninja!?
3. Squirtle
HES SOOOO CUTE OMG. I dont want to level him up because I dont want him to faint in battle I would just die.
4. Magikarp
Some guy sold me one and so far it sucks, but I dont have a lot of pokemans so I have to use it until I get moar.
5. Pidgey
Because it knows gust, and I like the animation it uses. It's pretty badass.
6. Metapod
If you use harden a lot you can't die! Well it takes a long time anyway. Plus he's got string shot, so that's pretty kewl too I guess. I have the bestest pokeman team evar!
Fine, I'll go back to commentary. You guys are no fun.
Renata eh? Excellent choice Diamondeye!I had the impression that at least one of your attackers used a Dark power - so the writeup would have it look like, at least. So blaming it on vigilante killers, solely, might be naïve.
I think duels are a bad idea, becuase frankly, in order to take down the Dark One or the Sith Master, I think we'd need to send in someone as powerful as them - ie a Grandmaster or something the like - and we don't want the GM placed even near a tie since it'd be too easy to last-minute lynch him. No, I don't think duels is the way to go, although I understand the argument.
I like the case on Autolycus, but I still have this nagging suspicion about Diana, and we rid her of Force Breath last lynch, so now would be the perfect time if we really want to lynch her. I'll have to ponder this some more...
I attacked Nightbringer last night, not Renata. From his posts, you can already deduct his character name, since he clearly mentions that he is the one being attacked with an emerald lightsaber - and there are only one of those in the writeup.
I do not have the impression that Nightbringer is worth pursuing at the moment. He acts... odd, perhaps, but I think it's merely an attempt to be helpful by trying to construct cases on people, even if it comes off as quite scummy. His powers in battle were not overwhelming even if he survived, my results quite clearly dictate that we were quite equal. I started as an initiate and have only been a knight for a couple of nights (since the great promotion-fest), and I think both the Dark One and the Sith Lord would be able to easily defeat me - even outright kill me in self-defence - without revealing their true identities.
As such, I don't think there's a case against Nightbringer. I'm on the fence between Diana and Autolycus, but one I'd really like to have more attention is - paradoxically - Renata. She's told us herself she hasn't got Force Breath, so it'd be a clean lynch, but I seem to recall pevergreen advising against her lynch.
Vote:Renata. pever, feel free to explain to me in public or private why Renata should be left alone.
Sorry, but this vote pretty much guarantees that Khazaar is not Sith. I love it.
Remember kids, if it is voting for people who are known innocents, you got yourself a townie.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...post2053232494
pevergreen feeds the town some info, but also does this thing where he says "wrong" about things that aren't wrong, without even stating why.
Not sure what's up there.
I know, right?
Tincow uses thinking. It's super effective!
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...post2053232569
Diamondeye takes issue with pevergreen's leadership style.
Coincidentally, he failed to kill Blackadder. This move should have raised some eyebrows, but...
The round almost ends in a tie, but TC decides the round instead.
Diana's death would have given you another Jedi ghost, leaving Autolycus alive.
However, Tincow is trying to catch Sith with active involvement and trying to avoid bad lynches. The effort is commendable.
Wild Autolycus fainted! Tincow gains 15 exp.
Day Fourteen: I need a hero....
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:23 players remaining, and of those, a few aren't bothering to vote or pay attention. Starting to look gloomy for the Jedi. I need a hero.
I'm sorry, this just reads as fake to me. I can't help but say it. The last sentence especially.
Nothing unusual happened that night. No one else had the reaction Kage did.
Because it's not connected to reality, meaning it is either a deception or a brain fart. And Kage isn't one to not pay attention to the game.
Anyone else seeing this? Or just me and Renata?
Not in a game where the Sith can recruit. That would mean that both he and the person he saved were guilty, and it doesn't make sense. He would rather wagon that person, look good, and recruit someone else.
Dark one wouldn't bother saving anyone. So this analysis is flawed, but understandable. It's only natural to consider it a scummy move, but that's the surface. Think deeper.
Nice analysis, Captain Blackadder.Yes that is true it was basically said when Cecil was attacked.
Xando quickly stood in a Makashi stance, and the hooded figure stood in an Ataru stance. They wasted no time. The hooded figure began the attack, and soon overwhelmed the young Padawan. It was all Xando could do to keep up with this menacing attacker, and very quickly, his saber was cut in half, disarming Xando. The cloaked figure prepared to unleash the final blow, but Xando reached out with the Force, and pushed the cloaked figure to the deck plating, surprising the superior fighter.
Xando fled the scene with his life, barely evading his attacker.
Fighting to a standstill means nothing in terms of power.
He's right to be worried. 1 Sith and 1 Neutral are part of that group.
Heh, you guys are right on the money. Tried to take him down, failed, time to lynch him.
Pretty much the deadliest power in the game besides Force Kill so far. It's been pretty effective.
YES! Now we are getting somewhere!Psychonaut sure is strong in that writeup :o The first assasin is being completely destroyed by psychonaut and his relentless blows of furry attacks.. The first assasin even loses a hand vs this sword master
The second assasin seems to esscape by mere luck...
concidering he is one of the people that are 'most likely' to be either the dark one, or the sith more, I would say this is good enough for me.
Vote: Psychonaut
These vig kills are turning out to be more important than the investigations.
Too convenient a target. Double A is too apathetic to fight back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwS66EBUcY
Where have all the good men gone
And where are all the gods
Where’s the street-wise Hercules
To fight the rising odds
Isn’t there a white knight upon a fiery steed
Late at night I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need
I need a hero
I’m holding on for a hero ‘til the end of the night
He’s gotta be strong
And he’s gotta be fast
And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero (hero)
I’m holding on for a hero ‘till the morning light (‘till the morning light)
He’s gotta be sure
And it’s gotta be soon
And he’s gotta be larger than life (gotta be larger than life)
Somewhere after midnight
In my wildest fantasy
Somewhere just beyond my reach
There’s someone reaching back for me
Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat
It’s gonna take a superman to sweep me off my feet
I need a hero
I’m holding on for a hero ‘til the end of the night
He’s gotta be strong
And he’s gotta be fast
And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero
I’m holding on for a hero ‘til the morning light
He’s gotta be sure
And it’s gotta be soon
And he’s gotta be larger than life
I need a hero
I’m holding on for a hero ‘til the end of the night
Up where the mountains meet the heavens above
Out where the lightning splits the sea
I could swear there is someone somewhere
Watching me
Through the wind and the chill and the rain
And the storm and the flood
I can feel his approach
Like a fire in my blood
I need a hero
I’m holding on for a hero ‘til the end of the night
He’s gotta be strong
And he’s gotta be fast
And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero (hero)
I’m holding on for a hero ‘til the morning light (‘till the morning light)
He’s gotta be sure
And it’s gotta be soon
And he’s gotta be larger than life (gotta be larger than life)
I need a hero
I’m holding on for a hero ‘til the end of the night
He’s gotta be strong
And he’s gotta be fast
And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero (hero)
I’m holding on for a hero ‘til the morning light (‘till the morning light)
He’s gotta be sure
And it’s gotta be soon
And he’s gotta be larger than life (gotta be larger than life)
Thanks for your respons PsychonautI don't see the reason why it would be bad to reveal to pever... he is a known innocent, and he doesn't like to share any information.. the thread have revealed that much. But you are right , I didn't play that game. I will just leave it for now.
When reviewing the thread I think that the case on Kagemusha is a decent one, when it is based on his reactions.. but saying that he hasn't been attacked doesn't really mean anything in itself. But heh.. It seems like he is suggesting that we need to lynch him twice. That is at least something I would expect from a dark one/ sith lord.
Unvote; Vote: Kagemusha
I need a hero
I’m holding on for a hero ‘til the end of the night
Not only is Beefy right that kagemusha is evil, he's guessed correctly, without a confirmed investigation result, that Kagemusha is also the Dark One, specifically. With 22 other suspects still alive. And it starts the wagon that removes his force breath ability.
Holy poop on a stick.
Beefy gets the Askthepizzaguy award.
Good call Ignoramus, and very good call Beefy. Way to stick to your guns instead of being manipulated by the master.
Not good cases can lead to awesome cases.I can only speak for myself, but as I stated before pever named you, the basic case against (only unaccounted for starting Master) was not great. It was good enough, however, to warrant some pressure votes. Your reaction to those votes was incredible and sold me on your guilt in a way that the original case never could.
What I learned about Kagemusha is that he's a dangerous, dangerous player, but he does leave a bunch of tells when he's mafia, and it's not just me. A lot of good players caught it early, but basically everyone caught it when he was finally put on the spot.
The case was based on his reaction, which is something substantive. I realize this is getting into bandwagon territory but if you watch how people reacted, there wasn't much steam on this wagon, and there were other suspects. But when Kage was put on the spot, more and more people saw what beefy and the others saw.
Outstanding. Town has redeemed itself. Just in time too.... can you stop Kage and the Sith?
It's fairly true. It's not unheard of, but Force users would be more likely to get those powers than Saber masters.esp?
Anyway I find it very unlikely that someone would get a high level investigation after focusing on sabre combat. I have had a few powers come from outside my specialty but none are the level of IV investigation. Your story just doesn't add up. After your learn't all the sabre powers you should have gained sabre focused force powers and not investigation powers.
Vote Kagemusha
I like the reasons. Everyone seems to be adding their own reasons to this case. It's not just an ignoramus wagon with everyone going "me too" or the dcmort wagon (what the heck was up with that one?).
It's also true that a case based on just that wouldn't be much of one.
I believe this is more of a flinch. Kage's reaction was too defensive and aggressive at the same time.
I don't know if the writeup, which will show him as a calm light-sider due to his Force Trance, will even convince anyone he's innocent.
And then, when Joooray gets attacked with Oblivion, I am pretty sure that people are going to get more suspicious too.
I think Kage is done. But I can't count this guy out, he's escaped before. Let's hope that frustration and desperation force the townies to cross their fingers, stick with their suspect, and hope.
And that's all the force ghosts and basically the entire town.What am I messing up. I have a semi-accurate list of your force powers (only those that you revealed to me) and a case I posted here that was done by another member who didn't know who you were, he did it based off your name.
I know who killed Beskar, it was our Purple lightsaber vig, not Ig. He never claimed those kills to me.
You sent a PM saying you had no powers and re iterated what happened to you that night phase. Hardly a reveal.
A double scan for the dark one, we don't know for sure for the sith.
I'll have to ask purple saber dude what he's been doing, I havent been keeping track of him for the last few days.
How would revealing what you know (not a whole lot outside your role, I'm willing to bet) be stupid.
So you're claiming force ghost? Too bad I know for a fact Sith force ghosts exist. And I know what they can do. I know their special ability.
Vote: Kagemusha
I think that's the final nail in the coffin.
I wonder....
Who will target Kage tonight?
He's dug himself too deep a hole. I don't think I could come up with a big enough lie to escape from this one.See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. You act like the only option you have is not saying a word, or giving a complete role reveal with a huge amount of secret information that is helpful to the Sith. There's a lot of middle ground out there, and you don't seem to care about it at all. That is very scummy. Particularly so when you've already voluntarily said a ton about yourself, such as:
1) You're a Master.
2) You specialize in the saber.
3) You have obtained all saber powers.
4) You have two investigative powers, including one very high level one, and you've been using them.
5) You've been communicating with pever privately.
6) You have Force Breath and Force Ghost
So... you refuse to talk because it might help the Sith... but you give away all of that information in a completely off-hand way? I don't believe it at all. What it looks like to me is that you're scum and you didn't prepare an alibi ahead of time, so you're scrambling.
This is yet another valid criticism. Another chink in the armor.
This is not a no-reason wagon. At least they got him on substance.
You guys did it without the tier III investigation power, too. Based on old-school mafia tactics of questioning and looking for behavioral clues.
As such, this game's experiment is a success. I threw 3 types of investigation at you so far, and you haven't quite gotten the last one yet, but without really needing to use any of them, you got the right guy, and not randomly either.
The investigations were roughly 50/50 helpful and harmful so far. They didn't ruin the game for you, but they didn't win the game for you either. The town network was useful but not overpowered. Everyone had a chance to become powerful, and no one had a plain old vanilla role. The game was balanced and challenging and lengthy enough to build the tension. The game was able to have a half-dozen vigilantes at the same time, while still keeping the deaths low every night, providing for some action-packed writeups. The alignment system hadn't been done exactly that way before. The types of attacks and defenses I thought kept the game interesting and unpredictable. The Jedi Holocron (learn about the game mechanics as you go) system seemed to be rather innovative, I think. Enlightenment (protect someone from recruitment) I am not sure has ever been done before.
Even as I sit here with a likely dead Dark Lord of the Sith on my hands, I can't say for sure he will be dead tonight or even tomorrow, as town is sometimes an indecisive cluster. And what of the Sith Lord and apprentice? Pressure on Psychonaut is making this game look like it could swing back toward the Jedi for the victory. Chaotix is also getting powerful enough to have a shot at a neutral victory.
I don't know what's going to happen next, and nobody does.
I think I need to do another sequel to this game. I'm already excited to think about it...
Day Fifteen: Know the power of the Dark Side
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:I have a good feeling about this. But nice movie reference.
I wonder... in a situation like this, should you always follow through on a lynch on a candidate that survived a lynch?
If so, Ignoramus/Joooray would have died a while back, Diana would be dead, Wideyedwanderer would be dead, and so on. But, Kagemusha would definitely be dead.
I'm not sure it's worth it to always do so.
But, if you're sure on a candidate, you lynch them, they survive, you attack them three times, they survive, and you're still pretty sure, why would you not lynch again?
I think it is a bad choice to not lynch in that situation.
However, I am also not a fan of shutting down discussion or debate. Nightbringer voting for a suspect that isn't Kage is fine here. There will still be a game after Kage's death, whenever that may be.
(as of this writing, Kage's fate hasn't been sealed yet. I predict with a 75% chance he will die, but town has a way of changing its mind after the halfway mark in a day phase. Time passes and people forget their original reasons.)
Joooray was a sitting duck for days and days and days. Kage could have killed him no problem at any time.Hmm.
The sith have used the most powerful technique, and had the foresight to see through Joooray's cloak. Unfortunately, he didn't choose the right defence, even though he knew what it was.
If you hate my guts and refuse to talk to me, then please tell Beefy anything you did last night. I'd rather he know than neither of us know, otherwise, please tell me.
I promise you, once a sith dies, you won't have to put up with me for much longer after that. I just want to take one out.
Joooray finally gets Telekinetic Lightsaber Combat, and does not use it on the night Kage kills him with Oblivion.
So close.... so close.... Joooray, I'm sorry, but you were so very close. I know it hurts, man. That's rock paper scissors for you....
I would. By now, the Sith have probably enough data to figure out who is who anyway.
Town must act as one.
This is pretty funny. Beskar is almost believable here, but you still have to tune him out.
Kind of gives away that he's the gold saber killer here, since the other one came forward.
This is why TinCow wins games; follow-through.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...post2053234059
This post by pever was a good idea. I wish people had listened and gave a comment for each.
I would have INSISTED on it because I'm pushy like that.
Here, pever is pulling his weight as town leader in a much more obvious way. This analysis is spot-on, as is the conclusion that town is killing itself, as is the vote on kage.green lightsaber vig, yellow lighsaber vig, emerald lightsaber vig, force...grip? kill, triple attack on kage, 3 jedi, attack on ig, force energy (possible second sith action), oblivion on joooray (possible third sith action).
Town is killing itsself.
Vote: kagemusha.
Three for three, excellent job pevergreen.
Useful post by ACIN. At this time, ACIN is moving up the ranks of useful townies, because he is paying attention and actually making contributions here.
If only he'd stop killing innocent Jedi.... but hey, if he goes dark jedi and survives the game, it is these actions which win the game for him. High risk.
No, I disagree.Guys, I think the best way for us to win is to not kill. We're down to 19 - and among the 19 are the Sith Apprentice, Sith Lord, and Dark One.
According to the Jedi Holocron, the Sith Master and Dark One are so powerful that even a group of vigs has an extremely low chance of success. The surest way to elimate them is by lynching - nothing but Force Breath can help them there. I'd also advise against revealing info - the Sith would pick us off lick flies.
I thus have every suspicion that Kage must be the Sith or the Dark One, so Vote: Kagemusha.
Lynch the Dark One, and then all the vigilantes vig-kill the same target.
That shows they are occupied during the evening, and aren't the ones doing Sith kills.
The Sith can still fool you here, but they both have to give up one of their attack slots. It's a seriously good strategy.
Also, lynch Master, then vig-kill the apprentice ASAP before she can recruit someone.
I dislike metagaming, and I still disagree. It proves nothing, just like Ignoramus showing interest in the game.
Warman is innocent, and his being alive is simply a result of no one having successfully killed him yet. With two Sith factions, that's also true for everyone.
pevergreen demonstrates why metagaming is so bad.
Everyone he mentions here? Innocent.
And the vote switch is worse.
Don't metagame. Even if you won that way, how hollow would it be? At least vote randomly if you're not going to make a case on someone. That way you can say "oooh wasn't I lucky" instead of "I won because this player is always supposed to be dead, and he wasn't" which is lame.
My opinion, feel free to disagree. Maybe some players want to live sometimes.
5 stars for Tincow.I really think we need to follow through on Kage. His behavior yesterday was super scummy. He had Force Breath and claims Force Ghost, both of which would be expected for the Dark Lord or the Sith Master. He also survived an attack by three vigilantes, which is consistent with what Ignoramus just said about the Holocron.
Odds-wise, it makes him more likely to be a Sith, but not a Sith here.
Very few people have force ghost, half of them are Sith.
Bolded for emphasis. Even with a generic case like having Force Ghost, narrowing it down with specifics (also acting scummy) is why Tincow succeeds with a generic case.
It's generic but also specific. It is very excellent townie play.
And, from my vantage point, the logic holds for more than just Kagemusha. People found Psychonaut scummy yesterday, he's got Ghost and Breath. He is a Sith. Renata has Ghost and she's a Sith, although no one finds her scummy yet.
If you lynch everyone who has Ghost, you will find all the current Sith and lose only a few Jedi.
He is being his stubborn self, but does that mean he's innocent?
He's putting up a good defense. One I think that does closely match how he'd behave as innocent. It just so happens, in this case, he is guilty.
His behavior before he was put on the hotseat is really where you should make your case, because you run into confirmation bias afterward, but honestly I think his defense triggered people's behavior, and not randomly or for bandwagon purposes either. Everyone seemed to add individual and unique reasons why they found his defense to be a cover for Sithness. Even Andres felt Kage was scum earlier on in the game. He just seems to have bought Kage's story/behavior here and changed his mind.
Kudos to Kage on that.
It's a fair assessment. Lynching all the jedi force ghosts is actually okay as long as you do the same for the sith. Preferably in the right order, though...I disagree. In any case, even if we're wrong about Kage, I don't see it causing much damage to the town. He claims Force Ghost, so he'll still be able to vote no matter what. Plus, he's clearly focused on killing and I'm in agreement with those people who say we need to stop the vig actions. So, in the worst case scenario where Kage is Jedi, we don't lose a town vote and we stop a vigilante. That's about as harmless an error as I can see. My money is still on Kage as Dark Lord or Sith Master though.
Beefy sticks to his guns, very admirably. I think he's usually one who can be persuaded or bargained with or otherwise convinced. Here, he shows his iron will.
God Emperor keeps up the pressure after death, helping the town by asking for Kage to be lynched again.the attack on Joooray is the dark one doing that.
the attack on kagemusha... Well I would say Sith. . . We have 3 people attacking him. two of them are the same that attacked joooray some nights ago. The new person.. well if the two other are sith then either they just proved the law of two wrong, or dark jedi are licking boot. And if that is the case Dark Jedi, then you must have been mistaken at some point if you think sith would share victory with you ^^
most suggests that we should go after Kagemusha. With the Dark One attacking Joooray, and Kagemusha fends off 3 sith who uses skills like Ataru, Makashi, Force stasis, Chain lightning, lightning. So if it goes as it should Kagemusha is the Dark one.
Referring to Ignoramus, the strongest and most light-side Jedi there is alive at the moment.
So, can't win em all, GE.
Kagemusha's night defenses are indefensible.People are attacking me using force lightning and i am a on the dark side of force? Last night i did what i could in order to protect myself and i am sure i was scanned by multiple people.
If you look at what i have been doing trough out the game and think about what Sith Lord or the Dark one should be supposedly doing. You should understand that i am not either of those roles. If mafias goal is to kill us all, why as mafia i would concetrate on scanning people and giving out information to the town. I cant quite recall how many nights i have been scanning people, but pever can tell that it has been long time. Not right from the start as i havent had an investigation ability for that long, but ever since i got that ability.
Why would i waste my time pretending i am someone able to investigate, when as Sith i could just say i cant scan people and concentrate on killing people. That would be absolutely crappy tactics for mafia. I am now the third eldest master on this ship and one no one can kill me quite easily. You can lynch me and i cant act as force ghost afterwards helping town ofcourse, but if the Sith are as hard to kill as they supposedly are. Who is going to get rid of them, if you lynch all the powerful pro town people? Also Tincow i dont get where you are getting that i am focused on killing when i havent made a single vigilante attack.
Some of you think that i am quite the crafty player, Tincow clearly being not one of them as you think i would give myself up so easily as mafia, but do i have to be killed as default just because i am who i am. In my opinion i am quite more valuable to the town with cleared by scans and helping the town to win the game, rather then lynched because some of the town people seem to be paranoid about me.
He would have to claim Force Sever or Force Plague or make one up. And if he does, they will know these are advanced dark side powers, while Kage scans as advanced light side.
The contradiction is the smoking gun everyone misses, because no one asks which defenses he used.
Missed opportunity, everyone. Missed opportunity.
Tin "The Hammer" Cow, everyone.Cleared by scans? Now you're contradicting yourself. Yesterday you knew as well as the rest of us that the only scan that would provide evidence about the Dark Lord and Sith Master was the GM investigation. You said as much by repeatedly asking for Joooray to clear you last night with an investigation:
Last night Joooray was killed and thus cannot clear you with an investigation. Yet somehow you now think you are "cleared by scans"?
No Sith among the inactives. A war between townies and further townie/vig-related deaths will only help the Sith win.Well i don´t think revealing names will hlep the sith much unless they need to target a specific player. Since I´ve been attacked twice already I think the opposition knwos who I am anyway. I´m Jedi Master Kel Dih-Mar I doubt I will survive a third attempt so I see no reason not to reveal. I think we should really lynch inactives, there´s bound to be one bad apple between them...
Vote: Warman
Revealing that he's Kel Dih-Mar, a new Master, reveals also he's one of the weakest Jedi in the game, and that helps the Sith.
Oh gawd.I have to wonder Tincow. Why are you so thirsty of my blood? I said i would be valuable once cleared by investigations. Do you want to see my posts scummy so hard that you start making up things? If the town wants i can be assigned my personal force ghost that will watch my every move until i am cleared. I cant but just wonder why nothing else seems to make you happy then my death, maybe the force ghosts should point me towards you direction in order to find out your true motivations. Maybe you are doing the bidding of your master so the town will further destroy itself?
Entertaining and forceful, but I know I'd be voting for this. This kind of defense will push some of the more indecisive people away, though, so it is worth it.
Still, it just reeks so bad. The OMGUS is so pungent it makes my eyes water.
Seon drinks Kage's wine.Actually, I wonder whether or not Kagemusha's guilty. Most of the kills done so far by Sith Lord and the Dark One relied on force powers, or at least I think. Kagemusha seems to be a master of blades, unlike anything witnessed so far. If the Sith Lord or the Dark One had this much skill with the blade, then surely he would have used it more often.
Don't apologize, you're doing fine.The problem is Kage, that we don't know enough about the sith.
I had a case pointed out to me earlier, and I spent over an hour going through writeups and PMs and posts, all to conclude that...it was still possible.
The fact is, we don't know what the sith can or can not do. We know they can't learn light side powers once becoming a sith. It is unlikely that investigations are a light side power though. If we go back and look at the night actions for each night, the sith could easily be investigating, and posing as someone.
Without the dual-GM investigation, no one is 100% jedi, unless force ghosted. Even a sith can become a force ghost, but thankfully, no sith force ghosts yet.
We have 19 people alive, and 3 confirmed anti-town roles alive, who knows how many dark jedi.
Unvote: Warman, Vote: Kage
I'm sorry, but I believe this is the best course of action that leads to a non-sith victory.
Except if he's town, that's pretty much a necessary thing. And he is town.
So you prepared to kill basically anyone at this point who is powerful, without a second thought? What happens when all the powerful pro town people are dead? The Sith and the Dark one will kill the rest with ease. With this rate of night kills. You cant afford to lynch wrong people. You and i both know that i asked for you to get me scanned the same time i revealed at you. Why didnt you have that done? As i said in pm already.I cant understand your motivations and dont trust your judgement either at this point. I have to ask from you also as from the write up it reveals that the ones that attacked me were using dark side powers and also some of them atleast were cloaked. Did you set that attack up? If you did, then i have to think that you are played by the Sith or the Dark One, as your actions have got quite a lot people already killed.
I can count for each and every night action of mine. Tell when i have acquired what power and you have knowledge of lot what i ahve been doing. Still you dont even give me a change to redeem myself in the eyes of the town. Have it occurred to you that maybe you are yourself influenced by the mafia who may be playing you a fool?
Oh, this post however is a masterpiece. I like this defense, it attacks pevergreen's weak point, which is his view of himself as a townie leader and his lack of confidence in his own decisions.
Very nice jab. That one probably stung a little.
The rhetoric about accounting for all his night actions is pretty forceful, but in his case, ultimately inconclusive.
If he could point to a night he defended someone with Meld, or vigilante killed a Sith, he'd be in like Flynn. That's why he has such powers, to really and ultimately fool the town hardcore.
Sadly, he didn't use these powers to clear himself. I really think he could have found his way out here with a simple, calm defense and "I defended so and so night 12, while the Sith were killing. That proves I'm not the dark one" when it doesn't prove that, but it would meet EVERYONE's expectations for such.
That's the move which could have won the game for him. That's why I made it possible. I wanted to challenge everyone's assumptions about how a mafioso will behave, but it was not to be.
There's just no denying this logic.
Kagemusha's point is very valid, dangerously so.From the people so far suggested,I think i was wrong with Tincow yesterday as it would seem he is somewhat objective, or then fooling me with a great act. But i think the best case right now is to Vote: Khazaar.Apart the case Nightbringer has shown. Late yesterday when majority were voting me he decided not to join the wagon, but instead decided to vote Diana Abnoba, who has been unresponsive for ages.EDIT:
That is only because town is so disorganized. For example why wasnt anyone protecting Jooray last night? For example Ignoramus.Maybe pever or Beefy could answer that? If we are not accounted for at slightest, nor we have any coordination in our night orders.I dont believe we can win. That is not an excuse to kill powerfull pro town people, unless it really is an excuse and the mafia are playing the town from inside out.
This might almost be convincing, except lecturing the townies how to behave is one of my scumtells. Every Sith has done that this game.
Pretty much in agreement here.Yes, I think this is obvious by now.
If what you said is true, that would mean the sith Lord himself is one of the three who got beaten so easily. I consider that an impossibility.
vote: Kagemusha , FOS: God Emperor
Zan Finnay's ability to wishstand three attackers with ease points to him being the Sith Lord. It was the Dark One who killed the Grandmaster, as evidenced by the mechanical breathing. Giving scanning results to the town is no defense: A Sith master wouldn't scan his starting apprentice in the first place; it's a harmless way to build townie cred.
But the Sith Lord himself WAS one of the three who got his butt handed to him.
I hope Kage smiles about that. He outranked Psychonaut by 4 full ranks. That's like a Grandmaster pwning a Jedi Initiate.
Psycho never had a chance against this guy with the saber. Only his tier III force powers have a chance at beating Kage.
Town does need to stop killing itself. Those weak vig attacks won't do anything against any of the Sith right now. They need to be fully boosted and using the right form AND using an ability that can see through Cloak for Renata alone. They can't even hit Psychonaut while he's using Trance.I have said for multiple days now that the town is killing itself, and that it needs to stop.
I know you asked to be scanned, but you know scans can't prove anything. You're demanding proof that you yourself have stated cannot be obtained.
[edit for length]
You can tell us what you did each night, but the fact is unless you appear in the writeup, it can be faked. Even then, unless you appear performing two actions, you can still be lieing.
If we prolong the game long enough for the grand master to obtain the only way to prove innocence/guilt, then we have a chance, along with good old fashioned in thread stuff.
That's the tell, though; if you can't attack someone with Investigation II combined with the vig, they are a grandmaster or they are Sith. That's how investigation II can catch sith.
Investigation I allows you to find people using cloak or above (when it fails, thats the most likely reason) and people who were using active powers in the game opening (half of them were Sith). If someone claims to be inactive but Investigation I says otherwise, they're lying, and therefore probably Sith.
Investigation II can catch Renata being not light side and see through her cloak. That combined with a vig kill can also attack Renata. Investigation II can locate people using Trance when combined with a vig kill, as it will fail to penetrate Trance. The only people using trance are Psycho and Kage. In that sense it's the most useful and widely available investigation of them all.
Investigation III will tell you outright that Kage is dark side, which contradicts his strong with the light side story. Nailed immediately. Tells you outright for the Lord and Apprentice that they are Sith without any doubt.
Investigation IV tells you dark side and non-recruitable. That means they are Sith, but this investigation can be fooled. It is useful to use on Renata when combined with Investigation II, or on Psychonaut BEFORE he got Trance. It will become useful again after Kage and Psycho are dead.
All 4 investigations can root out the Sith. All 4 were useful. All 4 were not game-enders for the Sith because how to use them was not known, and not all were always available to everyone.
I wouldn't have revealed this part. That's not necessary for the town or the Sith to learn.This may be true, but you don't automatically gain every single power once you become grandmaster. Neither Joooray, nor I believe Ig, have the force powers required to do the scan. We have to wait for Ig to aquire them.
Its like saying a jedi master can use a roleblocking power. Why can't everyone roleblock now? Because not everyone has the force power.
Nice shot, Cecil. This is nearly a smoking gun, because very few people had such powers on night one, including other Knights.
Nice pressure, Jarema.
Good pressure, but those attacks weren't all that strong. Saber and lightning are the two easiest to defend powers in the game.
Saber can be stopped with push, an initiate ability.
Lightning can be stopped with a saber alone, with the right stance. It also has a myraid defenses.
Jedi's killing powers were really only useful to kill Sith apprentices or Sith with the wrong defenses selected, or when combined with investigation II to find Trance users.
They were otherwise nearly meaningless. However, Final Judgment is formidable and very much useful to the Jedi GM.
Day Fifteen: But wait, there's more! Part Two.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:Nice shot, guys. Don't fall for that WIFOM stuff.This is WIFOM. Requesting to be scanned was irrelevant because the GM was killed last night. Since it was not publicly known that Joooray couldn't find the Dark Lord with his powers, the Dark Lord would have expected that he was able to do so. Thus, Joooray could have been killed to prevent you from being IDed as the Dark Lord, or he could have been killed to prevent him from clearing you as the Dark Lord. It is impossible to know which is true, so it is simple WIFOM that should be discarded.
Chaotix actually has some useful dark side powers now. Even if they didn't kill Kage they would all but prove kage has insanely powerful defenses.
Chaotix could finish Kage for good even if Kage doesn't get lynched here.
Finally, after lots and lots of failures and some successes, Chaotix is just one step away from being Grandmaster and is gaining real power with the Dark Side, thus making him legitmately dangerous.
Go Chaotix, go!!!
Not conclusive, but still a good defense.
He's correct about Chaotix being purple saber.
Yes. Sasaki sticks to his guns on Kage as well. Most of the so-called leader players are in agreement that Kage is scum, and their senses are well-attuned this time.
Chaotix is strong with the Force.Pfft.
I don't have to defend myself to you. You are a Sith and you are scrambling for an excuse to start a bandwagon to counter the one on you. I'm just taunting you to see what your reaction might be, and it is exactly what I expected.
It's plain and obvious that two of the attackers had similar strength to what you should have. Simply put, it is clear in the write-up that two of them used two attacks each- one used dual green lightsabers, and the other used a combination of lightsaber and lightning. This is in addition to the third attacker, who only attacked with lightning and therefore only used one action on you.
It didn't take any inside information for me to deduce that. How do you think I figured out Zan Finnay was the Sith without knowing it was you?
His case seems to be mostly intuition and gut feeling, but it was still remarkably accurate.
He's also attacking Chaotix who killed the same Sith twice and has guessed that Finnay was Sith.
Chaotix is now ranked right up there with anyone for townie MVP.
Tincow rightfully points out bad rhetoric Kage is using.
1. Three enemies of the town: CorrectThere is only three enemies of the town; The Dark One, Sith Master and Sith Apprentice.
The vigilantes have begun organizing; See: The attack on Kagemusha.
I believe none of the attackers against Kagemusha are among the three anti-town. One of them gave the impression of being a Dark Jedi, though.
This is the first reasonable thing you've said in ages, Seon, but not enough to convince me of his innocence. Vote: Kagemusha.
Also, speak up, Seon... Do any force ghosts know anything about Seon?
I believe we can conclude that Psychonaut was among the attackers... I don't know about the other two for certain.
I was (obviously) the one who killed ByzantineKnight.
2. None of the Kage attackers are anti-town: Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong....
(Good job Psychonaut)
3. Good sticking to your guns on Kage.
4. Good to question other suspects as well, don't waste time. Good job.
5. Psychonaut was indeed among the attackers. Nicely done.
6. Revealing your kill on ByzKnight was a good move, I think.
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Seriously, this was a very persuasive observation made by Sasaki. Kage mirrors his Shadow Fort behavior quite nicely.
I also think you can look at his behavior in the Daggers game and find similar stuff, Sasaki.
Good follow-through.
ByzKnight has a right to criticize here.No offence to your vigilantes uniting thing but it doesn't seem to have worked out very well so far... vig kills have managed to kill 2 sith yes, but each of them has been replaced in turn so no real effect on the sith... and then they have also made a significant dent in the townie population...
Also, its usually not such a great idea to say you organized a kill on a townie... jus sayin'
But I disagree, revealing this was a good move.
Renata wisely keeps her head down. She's catching no flak for it because Kage is distracting the town.
Diamondeye sticks his head out for the Sith to cut it off.
Well, at least he won't kill any more townies...
Heh, this is why Kage has Meld.One thing makes me question the Kagemusha case. That Force Meld ability that he claimed doesn't seem like it would be something that either the Sith Lord or the Dark One would learn. Now he could have made up the ability so hopefully the force ghosts can confirm that they've seen other instances of that. He also might have heard about that ability and just laid a fake claim on it to cover his tracks. So that makes me wonder, has anyone told him about the ability? If not, then maybe he has it. Maybe it would it would be possible to get him to use it on someone and then confirmed that he used it. Of course, this is all based on the assumption that Force Meld would not be a Dark Side power, which is a potentially dangerous assumption.
He could fool everyone with Meld. He didn't bother with it because he wanted to gain information.
See, even now, Tincow could have been convinced by Meld.
Meld is your ticket to freedom.
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God Emperor mistakes Frozen for being in league with Ironside.
This kind of case is easy to get wrong in a game of recruitment. Remember, Ironside started as a Jedi, and early game is easy for Jedi to vote wrong (Frozen).
ACIN's style clashes with more traditional townie strategies.
Khaan becomes a townie hero.
Don't sell yourself short Beefy. You were right on Kage before Chaotix' case brought more attention to him.Well the Sith Lord was an chancellor and representitive of his people at one point in the movie.
About Seon, I've had couple of conversation with him, and I think his clean.
@pever
Beefy is beefy. Always
pevers been doing more then we think he is. If the town win, pever is the one to thank.
Why would the Dark one only be strong with the Force, and not the Saber? Jedi GM is strong with both.Frankly, I think it is very unlikely that Kage is sith.
The simple fact in my mind is that he displayed that he was a saber master last night, which neither the Sith Lord or the Dark One has done as far as I can tell. The dark one has used force obliterate (or whatever its called) and the Sith Master has been crushing and gripping people.
It is possible kage is an apprentice, but we haven't really seen a Sith killing with a saber at all, as i think it is clear one with his abilities would.
No, I think kage is simply a scummy town. I have stated my opinions about khazaar already, but i would like to support god emperors case on Frozen in Ice.
I don't see much in the use of the term Mr. Purple Lightsaber, but his vote history and behavior (as spelled out by god empereror) do strike me as very scummy.
I am going to keep my vote on khazaar for now, but if more people vote for Frozen in Ice I would much rather see him go than kagemusha, and will change my vote accordingly if I must to make this happen.
If anything, Kage being strong with both indicates something off.
More townies are fooled. Kage is strong with the Dark Side, but they don't wagon the same suspects and thus Kage doesn't have an escape route.Kagemusha is simply too strong in mastery of the blade to be a Sith Lord or the Dark One (unless of course, one of them is proficient in both skills). Otherwise, there would have been much more people who fell by the blade.
Instead, I think I am going to gun for... Vote: Frozen in Ice.
Better is if there's a clear alternative to Kage.
I think Tincow is right, in that his strategy is more useful than ACIN's, especially over several games. It will catch more Sith.
ACIN however is in it for the fun, and he's not being murdered, so he's having fun. His strategy succeeds as well....
Csargo is another potential person Kage can turn against the town's interests here. If only Kage could convince them all to rally against a single suspect....
Incorrect conclusions about Investigation III aside, Double A joins the ranks of those voting in the town's best interests. Good call, AA.
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Clever but incorrect interpretation, Cecil XIX.
Way to think outside the box, though.
No, because you can lynch the GM.
Game isn't broken, just horribly skewed in the Sith's favor if you have a Sith removing the Jedi GM slot from the townies.
I predict we will have a Sith GM soon, too.
Sith always want to have townie cred. When they show it to you, you should be rightly skeptical.Not entirely true. People aren't always killed when they are attacked.
Unless the Sith can investigate, and giving those results to the townies doesn't harm you, as they're largely useless, and it gives you townie cred.
Correct!I guess Force Powers are just better at killing people, and thus the Sith/Dark One use them more often than sabers, even if they are proficient with sabers.
Tally so far:
Kagemusha, (8): Tincow, Ignoramus, Beefy, Cecil, Chaotix, Diamondeye, Yaseikhaan, Double A
Khazar: Nightbringer,
Warman: Khazar
Chaotix: Kagemusha
Frozen in Ice: Seon
Abstain: Warman
That looks very good for the town....
Warman hasn't been a town hero so far, but he is one of the only two strong light side Jedi remaining.
The only worse lynch is Ignoramus.
Just past midnight, the town starts to lose its head and actively campaign against itself.vote Frozen in Ice or Khazaar then, please. What reason is there for getting rid of warman when these two have been scumming it up?
ACIN, I would also like to appeal to you to vote for one of these two. If you disagree with the reasons for doing so i understand, but you too dont seem to see much in the case against kage.
Nightbringer isn't happy to see Kage die, and neither are a bunch of other unconvinced townies. Their actions could lead to the town's defeat.
Will Kage get the death he so richly deserves?
Here ACIN loses all credibility. He's the one who murdered God Emperor.
I have no idea why ACIN is acting this way. Either information warfare (will only confuse the town, the mafia pretty much know who murdered who) which is bad, or he's deliberately sabotaging the town, which is bad.
I believe he's just playing for his own amusement, not to help the team.
Thumbs down on this post.
It could be he's trying to bluff his way into getting his suspect lynched, but IMO he's just trying to mess with everyone in an unproductive way.
In response to ACIN, who seems committed to his own ends, not concerned with the town. I know he contacted a suspected Sith and asked if he could help them out or something. Have to check my quicktopics but it's there.
ACIN is acting scummy because he's not interested in the team.
Case in point.I am concerned with avoiding to be accused of something because lets be honest, I'm not a real "team player" when it comes to being a townie and one game I got lynched early simply because I voiced how I wanted the town to be more decentralized instead of following the "leaders". So, can you blame me for keeping my mouth shut from then on?
Can't agree with this more.Kage, if you want to save yourself at this point you really need to provide proof that directly exonerates you. Rhetoric about what should have been done in the past, or could be done in the future, to prove your innocence is pointless because the past is past and asking for more time to be proven innocent is standard mafia behavior. Indeed, you asked for one more night last night, and no evidence appeared to exonerate you. While it's possible that's not your fault, there's no reason whatsoever to think that you will be properly cleared if we let you live again. Something could happen tonight to prevent it, just like it did last night. In fact, the Sith would actively try and do just that, even if you're not one of them. Letting you live for that reason is just a silly move for the town to make. In addition, I am personally pretty sick and tired of people avoiding lynches with Force Breath, and a large part of the reason why I am still voting for you is that I just want a final result for once. You were a very solid vote yesterday and, while you have done a far better job of defending yourself today, it makes a mockery of the lynch system if Force Breath keeps vetoing the will of the majority. The only thing that will make me change my vote at this point is if you can point to yourself appearing in a night write-up in some manner that proves you are not Sith.
Regardless of where you stand on Kage, he asks too much here.
The part where he says the case is flimsy I disagree with.here is a link to God Emperor's argument for voting Frozen in Ice. I encourage you to read this WeW and to vote along with it. The case against kage at this point is quite flimsy and i can't understand why it is still getting so many votes. We need to lynch frozen in ice!
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@above
There is some new evidence, that we have no evidence of any sith or the dark one being masters of the light saber. This, combined with some other factors makes me think Frozen in Ice is a much more likely sith.
Even without knowing the answer, I still think I haven't seen a better or more thoughtful, complete case than the one on Kage, all game.
Even over the course of several games, I feel this is the best I've seen in a long time, importantly, from several independent sources with independent reasoning and many are proven innocent.
The point. Kage's tactics still ignore that Meld doesn't prove anything because he has a second action.
Tincow is reasonable because he asks for the indisputable proof.How can we lock you in with force meld and investigating? Force meld only proves what one of your abilities has been spent on, not the other, and we already know investigating cannot currently discover the Dark Lord. How can we possibly clear you with that?
If you claim to have been investigating on a night when all three scum used two power each on the same target, prove it. You've given pever multiple investigation results. Show me one of the ones you gave him that occurred on a night when the write-up shows three separate scum, each using two abilities.
Though, for the record, since investigation results can be forged, he would need to be melding and vigilante killing on the same night to "prove" his innocence. And that vig kill would have to be declared.
And, three other Sith would need to be using 2 powers. It's nearly impossible to pull off, even with reanimation on Sith.
Stop talking about lynching Kage. TinCow, I'm not convinced Kage is bad. The only person this fervent on getting rid of Kage is you, who is obviously a powerful jedi, but why are you so fervent about this? Are really that sure, or are you Sith trying desperately to remove another major obstacle in killing all the town?
The endgame will exonerate Tincow, that's for darn sure.
(@'s added for clarity)@ ACIN-
You misunderstand the point of this latest round of conversation. I don't need to do anything to get Kage lynched, the votes are a landslide on him. I responded to him because I wanted him to know why I was personally still voting for him, and to tell him what he could specifically do to make me change my vote. I'm not trying to prove he's guilty anymore, I was just trying to be friendly and provide him with an honest explanation and some advice on what he could realistically do to get me to change my vote.
@ Kage-
1) It would take more individual night actions to 'clear' you than your survival would allow you to contribute. Plus, you can't actually be 'cleared' anyway.
2) This question is confusingly worded, but if you mean why wouldn't force far sight and force persuasion clear you, the answer is because no one has both of those abilities.
3) The Force Ghosts have told us (via ATPG's holocrons) that we have pretty much no chance of killing the Dark Lord and the Sith Master at night.
The fountain of patience, ladies and gentlemen.
Yikes. I need to do a tally.... this swing towards Frozen based on absolutely nothing could kill the town.All of Nightbringer's posts have struck me as off, which makes me think that that's just how he acts. Nightbringer has unabashedly been himself, and I think a Sith would try a little harder to blend in, which is why I grew suspicious of you last day phase. Scum typically try to a lay low while contributing enough to discussion to make it look like they aren't trying to lay low. Scum will also vote in most, if not all, day phases, as you have. Kagemusha sounds like a good lynch, and it appears he is in the undisputed lead, so I'll cast my vote elsewhere. Vote: Frozen in Ice.
Well, it doesn't matter. Lynch went on Kage. And that's the end of that chapter.
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