Effulgence Mafia Game Thread

[Alicorn]

Because I have ever heard of information theory, I WILL ALSO ZAP POSTS THAT GIVE THE APPEARANCE OF MAYBE QUOTING even if the quote is a complete fabrication. I have a plan in mind for a less porous and labor-intensive handling of this infochannel next time but for this game this is what we have to deal with.

[pistachi0n]

jalapeno_dude said:
So either my roleblock failed for some reason (and I wouldn't get any feedback either way), or Alphabeta already had Chris powers (from Night 1? Do we know BlueSkySprite was targeted then), or he was lying about saving michaelblume on Day 3.

Alphabeta was the only one who voted for DanielH on Day 2, and there were 2 votes for DanielH. I assumed that was because he targeted BlueSkySprite because he thought she had some interesting power based on her reaction to people wanting to kill her.

[anthusiasm]

Okay, so I think the reason I voted for Paradox is because thus far we've had a policy of killing people who don't post a lot, since it's to the Mafia's advantage to stay out of the limelight. You've admittedly made your suspicions very clear but you haven't post as much as some other people have (or at least that's the impression I've been getting). So yeah, my reasoning was about fifty percent that and fifty percent bandwagoning. I'm suggestible. ETA: Wait, I totally started the bandwagon this time. Disregard my last two sentences. Whoops.

Anyway, at the moment I find Paradox and jalapeño_dude equally suspicious to the point where I'm not sure I'm comfortable voting for either of them until further notice.

[BlueSkySprite]

Okay, good point. Here are my suspicions for all players
anthusiasm - probably a vanilla townie.
BlueSkySprite - I have no suspicions of myself
jalapeno_dude - From the list of actions, most of which we have no crypto for (which means it could be curated afterward to only include a lack of information) he has never targeted a killer, so we have no idea if he can stop them. I am very annoyed that he decided to use his power to block Alphabeta, our town's last investigative role who could tell what template people are rather than trying to use it on a wide variety of people to block the kill, and also stopping AB from investigating people. Claims to be a Matilda, but this could be just a safe claim. Mafia also often has roleblockers. Suspicious.
kuuskytkolme - definitely town, confirmed by mods.
Paradox - Claims to be a Miles. Some suspicion, actually less than jalapeno_dude.
pistachi0n- probably a vanilla cultist. Distrust, but probably not a killer.
Shoal- probably also a vanilla cultist. Distrust, but probably not a killer.
Thatwasademo- Claims to be an Ivan and not understand powers. Could also be a mafioso who is confused about powers. Mild suspicion, between Paradox and jalapeno_dude.

So the people I am most suspicious of are, in order: jalapeno_dude, Thatwasademo, and Paradox.
Therefore, I change my vote to jalapeno_dude
I could maybe be convinced to change my mind, but I think that this suspicion is very reasonable.

[anthusiasm]

Right, I'm going to kill jalepeno_dude because I'm also pissed about him blocking Alphabeta, his power is suspicious, and even if he's innocent his power isn't all that helpful anyway, EDIT since he doesn't think he can stop the Mafia.

[pistachi0n]

My thoughts is that they are both mafia. I am voting for Paradox because the consequences of us being wrong and killing Paradox are less than if we kill jalapeno_dude, but I still think it's a win-win.

[Shoal]

kill paradox because i think it might be close to half and half and THE COIN seems to be better at this than the rest of us. (and because I think Miles would probably have had powers. and because I have no way of telling if anybody's cryptoclaims were safeclaims or realclaims.

[BlueSkySprite]

I'm pretty sure THE COIN is actually random chance though? And at least one killer-aligned person seems to have vote manipulating powers, which means that if it's at about a tie, the killers can push it over to whichever one isn't a killer.

[pistachi0n]

What if they're both killers?

[BlueSkySprite]

Then I think it's still probably better to decide ourselves which one is more useful to the killers rather than trying to put it to random chance and letting them manipulate the vote to kill whichever one they value least.