Quote Originally Posted by Joooray View Post
Yeah, I've never been very good it making strong cases against others. But making a case out of little while knowing it is wrong is even harder.
As you probably know, roughly 50% of the actual cases I toss at mafia suspects while town are entirely contrived. I take a little bit of actual suspicious evidence and I combine it with other things which look suspicious but don't really conclude one way or another. I combine that with the usual emotional trickery and that usually sells it.

Even as townie you have to embellish and sell your case, otherwise it won't be popular. So one could say I do exactly what I do as townie when I am mafia... which is try to convince people based on a little bit of truth and a little bit of opinion and a lot of selling. That's why it is hard to tell when I am mafia or not (woe be upon me).

It always has to make sense as an accusation, though; if for example the case was I'm defending Sprig, then it has to hold up in the most dire example, which was his near-death experience. I didn't bat an eye. That's one of the reasons your case smelled wrong to me.

It was wrong enough to make me immediately suspect you; that's the kind of thing you have to avoid. If it is a lie you tell, you want to try to make it consistent for the entire game, no matter what it is. If at one point during the game it rings inconsistent, and someone remembers why, then you generally can get called out on it.

But Sprig's gambit fooled me. I don't like to take that kind of risk when I am mafia, and that's why it never registered. I started trying to look at the game from a Sprig is innocent viewpoint, and that's a bad foundation to work from.

Sprig let me implode, and that's a good strategy when mafia against me; get past my senses and then let me toss myself off a cliff.