Swords and Sorcery Mafia Without the Swords [Concluded]

[Jabbz]

Notice

Resolution will possibly be 30 minutes late, stuck taking my kid to a meeting. No posting after :00 at penalty of mana burn and or modkill.

Night two ends in

[Renata]

I thought it was normal for doctors not to be allowed to protect themselves. This also sounds a lot like Atheotes panicking, for some reason...

It is, but there's other ways to keep yourself safe in this game.

[Renata]

Also it doesn't look like panic to me; it looks like "I'm screwed so I may as well enjoy it" troll.

[Montmorency]

That ethereal detachment about Atheotes, though.

[Renata]

Guess I don't have any maybe-final words beyond Sooh and Atheotes except to reiterate that Csargo went down a lot in my estimation day two.

[Renata]

And that I hope this game is as easy as it looks right now because that would be a nice change for me.

[Montmorency]

Night Action: I investigate BSmith's N1 actions.

Final requests:

1. Don't write off GH.
2. Don't lynch Sooh unless there is very good cause. If either of atheotes-Sooh is scum, then beyond what's already explored consider that Sooh chose to reveal a protect on Renata after atheotes had claimed watch on Renata with no attendance by Sooh. All else equal, no other info forthcoming, consider who has more town equity in that timing.
2.a. Also, following the claims list below, it's possible that Lewwyn's redirect from Choxorn to Sooh transferred some effect that caused the failure of Snerk's scan.
2.b. Atheotes has just been so shady, you guys. 'I'm going to say I'm scared of vigs so I'll protect myself instead of performing a clearing action that could convict Sooh, because of course if I live through the night it's because that's how I used my cast and not because I'm mafia myself- sorry I have no other results for you tho! Oh, and if anyone gets scum results on me, it's because I redirected from myself to Sooh!'
2.c. Watch for a scenario in which atheotes pulls out a disruptive claim that guarantees he won't be lynched this coming day. If there are 2 scum left and town is lynched D3, and scum is lynched D4, then deep scum has to last for 3 lynches. There are enough well-regarded townies around for most players to claim plausible survival.
3. Beyond my comments on protective powers, mete out your night actions judiciously now. I suspect that with actions every night, very few townies will have the mana to cast more than one last spell, if even, after N4. And in cases of the former, if the casting reduces mana to 0 that would entail concomitant suicide.
4. Yaassss town slay


Updated list of claims (N1):

Monty: Commuted
Winston: Failed watch on Monty; can multicast
Arakhor: Watched Zack, no visitors
Snerk: Failed scan on Sooh; confirms existence of alignment spell
Zack: Scanned Winston non-corrupt
Lewwyn: Redirected from Choxorn to Sooh
Renata: Jailblocked Montmorency, no success
Atheotes: Watched Renata, only Al Sipsclar visited
Csargo: Scan ("Detect Corruption") on GH, not corrupt
Sooh: Protected Renata
Choxorn: Vigged Al Sipsclar

[Jabbz]

Night two ends. No posting. Resolution to follow shortly.

[Jabbz]

No Posting

As dawn rises for the third time since this ordeal began, the members of the Council strode forth purposely from wherever they had secreted themselves during the night. The success to date has given them hope for their future. None expected that they would manage to find not one, but two of the corrupted without once having to put one of their own through the Ritual of Purification. With the addition of another Corrupted being killed during the first night, the Council was rightfully emboldened.

Still, if the Light and Purification belong to the Council of Mages, so too does the Night belong to Corruption. As you assemble, you notice one person is missing. After a short search, one of you finds his charred corpse laying in a hallway. It appears the kill was conducted shortly after he left his hiding spot for the night. The loss of yet another mage, a man that was well known by all cut into their satisfaction for the previous day’s work. No one was yet safe and the search must continue, because too much is at stake to get careless.

Atheotes has been killed. He was a Guild Member

Day three has not yet started. No posting until all PM’s are sent and I post acknowledging the game has resumed.

[Jabbz]

Day three ends in
All PM's are out. Posting may resume.

[Zack]

No corruption on Sooh.

[Zack]

Csargo

[Montmorency]

Sheesh.

Good news everyone: on N1, BSmith scanned Winston and detected no corruption.

[Arakhor]

Atheotes was town after all that posting?? And Sooh is apparently clean too? Huh.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Pretty sure redirects only work one way, so we either have the Occam's Razor explanation of atheotes lying about his night action, or something weird afoot.

[Arakhor]

Who killed Atheotes anyway? He was blatant lynchbait, so it makes no sense for the mafia to target him.

[Zack]

I don't know why anyone is surprised at atheotes' flip tbh. I guess if you've never played with him, maybe.

[Zack]

Pretty sure redirects only work one way, so we either have the Occam's Razor explanation of atheotes lying about his night action, or something weird afoot.

Occam's razor would be my peek on sooh was redirected.

[Montmorency]

Pretty sure redirects only work one way, so we either have the Occam's Razor explanation of atheotes lying about his night action, or something weird afoot.

He said he was considering it. He made other suggestions. Night-phase WIFOM.

[Renata]

Interesting. Hard to tell if mafia hit a protection or if it's something like Sooh choosing to godfather herself.

Who wants to out the Atheotes vig?

[Montmorency]

Occam's razor would be my peek on sooh was redirected.

Doh. yes.

[Renata]

I think it's been well established that I cannot read atheotes.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Occam's razor would be my peek on sooh was redirected.

Didn't think about that one, Sooh's not off the hook then.

[Choxorn]

I watched Renata, nobody else targeted her.

[Montmorency]

I don't know why anyone is surprised at atheotes' flip tbh. I guess if you've never played with him, maybe.

Winton Hughes, atheotes wolf team. Maybe Visor. Al spewed town or mafia, depending on your interpretation.

My money's on sooh/atheotes. Visor >rand wolf if he has low wim.

wew lad

[Zack]

All of those were before atheotes' posting yesterday?

[GeneralHankerchief]

Vote: Sooh

At the heart of the matter there's still the discrepancy between atheotes and Sooh's night actions, and atheotes just flipped town.

[Montmorency]

Hard to believe, two m/m wagons in a row. It could fit in the interpretation of Visor not voting Sooh to self-pres, I suppose, but at that point it's more NAI.

[Zack]

Snerk wouldn't be a bad lynch either.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Snerk wouldn't be a bad lynch either.

This one post of Snerk's did bother me after EOD2:

We still should have lynched Renata tho

This was after I gave him minor town points for posting something similar after the D1 lynch. Reads to me as more deliberate this time though, and it could be NAI depending on Snerk's general sense of humor.

I also can't in good conscience positively weigh this against the big night action dispute with Sooh/atheotes, but the post is there nonetheless.