Choose Your Own Adventure Mafia [Concluded]

[BSmith]

It was a 3-2 lynch. Only a very few could consider bussing that.

Under normal circumstances I would agree with you 100%, but this was not a normal circumstance. Now that we have the results of the write-up we can see that Chaotix likely switched the names of the attacker and the victim.

Even before the reveal that Arjos was scum this was the most likely possibility for the mistake, and as a result Arjos would have gotten a ton of attention/pressure, if not lynched outright. Regardless of whether he was lynched or killed the next day, or if it took a day or two, Arjos was dead meat because of that mistake.

I would absolutely want to make as much lemonade from those lemons as possible. The best way to do that would be to immediately write off Arjos and try to get some town cred for his lynch when it is revealed that he is indeed scum. All the better if I can talk about doing just that in thread to really reinforce that credibility. I believe that Arjos himself even called for his own lynch because he was a distraction (a noble effort at WIFOM, but also in line with a team bus).

On top of this we have the little gem in the latest update that seems to indicate that Arjos was replaced on the scum team by someone else. A reward to help re-balance the potentially game breaking mistake that the host made. If the scum team knew of this in advance - and I am sure there was discussion about the mistake with the GM as soon as it happened – then there is even more incentive to get rid of the distraction, gain town cred, and move on.

I think bussing is quite plausible under these conditions.

Aww, BSmith, after all this time away from Mafia games, I had forgotten about the comedic potential of your posts.

I am a lot of things in mafia, but I doubt comedic relief is one of them. You probably have me confused with someone else.

That said though, your attempt at dismissing my statement off hand raises yet more red flags.