A mafi(y)a game

[Kagemusha]

Forgot to unvote and vote:JHT

[GeneralHankerchief]

My question from the other day was designed to catch people off guard. If you're townie, you have to do a little bit of thinking to put yourself in the mafia's head, but it's not that difficult once you put your mind to it. You most likely have a list of suspects; you most likely also have a list of people you're pretty sure are innocent. Ideally you, as town, want the mafia to kill either one of your suspects or one of the folks that don't fit in either category, as this makes life easier when you're narrowing things down. Meanwhile, if you're scum and you're trying to answer that question, you have to do a lot more mental gymnastics. You have to place yourself in the heads of the town, which you should be doing anyway, but you're now being asked to think like mafia thinking like town thinking like mafia. Do you say your partner? Do you say the person you have picked out as lynchbait? Do you say your target for the night? It's a lot easier for mafia to trip and fall all over themselves if they're not super careful.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Also, my fixation on Double A for a good part of the game can be explained. First of all, while I didn't consider him (and by extension BSmith) mafia until this phase, I also didn't want him alive if we got to the endgame simply because there'd be absolutely no data to go on. He wasn't worth a lynch because there were always more inviting targets (Zack, etc), and I wasn't sure if he'd get Wogged or not. I didn't want a Mafia X repeat to happen.

Also, in terms of Double A's complete inactiveness generally not reflecting typical mafia behavior, there is specific precedent for him doing so: Pirate Ship II, when he was in essence the mafia godfather in that game and went inactive mid-game because he was too busy playing video games by his own admission. As I'm going through the process of creating and balancing Pirate Ship III, I have to admit that this example was pretty darn fresh in my mind. Also, there's probably a subconscious part of me that hasn't quite forgiven him for doing that, but that's an issue for another day.

[johnhughthom]

Ummm...

I'm a power role?

[Csargo]

My question from the other day was designed to catch people off guard. If you're townie, you have to do a little bit of thinking to put yourself in the mafia's head, but it's not that difficult once you put your mind to it. You most likely have a list of suspects; you most likely also have a list of people you're pretty sure are innocent. Ideally you, as town, want the mafia to kill either one of your suspects or one of the folks that don't fit in either category, as this makes life easier when you're narrowing things down. Meanwhile, if you're scum and you're trying to answer that question, you have to do a lot more mental gymnastics. You have to place yourself in the heads of the town, which you should be doing anyway, but you're now being asked to think like mafia thinking like town thinking like mafia. Do you say your partner? Do you say the person you have picked out as lynchbait? Do you say your target for the night? It's a lot easier for mafia to trip and fall all over themselves if they're not super careful.

So what did you gather from the three of us you were mainly interested in?

[GeneralHankerchief]

Not much. TexCat's answer seemed the most initially suspicious to me, but this suspicion got dimmed when her reaction was mirrored by the others' and then further dimmed when she got nightkilled (). Not all probing tactics are created equal, I guess, but I'm not going to apologize for trying.

[Kagemusha]

Is it just me? I have bad feeling in my gut about this jht lynch. Im not feeling this as right move. unvote

[Askthepizzaguy]

Is it just me? I have bad feeling in my gut about this jht lynch. Im not feeling this as right move. unvote

Guilty results on Autolycus and Khaan and innocent result on JHT.

You should lynch inside this group to help determine whether the cop is sane or insane.

Most likely the cop is insane, or the cop is not a cop and is simply guilty himself.

Getting random cold feet and being indecisive is not a good look.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Okay.

Let's force the issue.

Unvote: BSmith
Vote: johnhughthom

[Kagemusha]

Okay.

Let's force the issue.

Unvote: BSmith
Vote: johnhughthom

What are you scared off? unvote and vote: GH

[Csargo]

Okay.

Let's force the issue.

Unvote: BSmith
Vote: johnhughthom

Odd choice.

[Kagemusha]

Guilty results on Autolycus and Khaan and innocent result on JHT.

You should lynch inside this group to help determine whether the cop is sane or insane.

Most likely the cop is insane, or the cop is not a cop and is simply guilty himself.

Getting random cold feet and being indecisive is not a good look.

Dont really care how i look, but let us test this intormation. vote: Autolycus

[Csargo]

Guilty results on Autolycus and Khaan and innocent result on JHT.

You should lynch inside this group to help determine whether the cop is sane or insane.

Most likely the cop is insane, or the cop is not a cop and is simply guilty himself.

Getting random cold feet and being indecisive is not a good look.

Riedquat seemed extremely confident about Zack, and Zack flipped scum. Couldn't you just ask whoever what result they got on Zack?