Effulgence Mafia Game Thread

[Shoal]

I have found a link at the very bottom of the page that says "Bookmark topic". Could this be the sought subscription thing?

[jalapeno_dude]

The killers know each other. They can safely pick people out cause they know they won't hit a friendly.
We can't do that.

Modrony, how do you know this? I don't see this stated in the opening post or the previous thread...

It's how the game usually works.
Could be different here, but I doubt it.
Bad guys use the night-time to kill one of us and they can't do that without knowing each other, can they?

@God and @AssistantGod: Is this how the game works?

@Shoal: nope, as far as I can tell bookmarking and subscriptions are different things (they have two different panels in the User CP), and bookmarking the topic doesn't do what we want.

[PlainDealingVillain]

Hello, I am PlainDealingVillain (or PDV, or Villain, though I am not currently a villain). As my name suggests, I am morally questionable but honest about it. I am honest about most things, lies are annoying and inconvenient. And I definitely did not kill Cricket.

And while we could definitely try to deduce signal from the finger-pointing noise, the more we try to do that the more noisy finger-pointing gets, and that's going to have very mixed results. So I'll vote no lynch as well.

[Nemo]

The killers' win condition is the death of all non-killers. They have the option to not kill anybody.

Everything else is a secret!

[jalapeno_dude]

PlainDealingVillain, has your villainy always been of a non-murderous nature?

@Alicorn: Try this?

[Alicorn]

I have now tried that. I don't see a suddenly appeared subscribe button, do you? Edit: Nevermind there it is it works hurray thanks!

[PlainDealingVillain]

I am pretty sure I haven't killed anybody. Except by not donating money to charities, which shouldn't count.* I'd rather stick to being unashamedly selfish and occasionally making unpleasant people's lives intensely unpleasant.



*though it sort of does in my head.

[DanielH]

I’m glad I don’t feel compelled to roleplay Pen speaking¹, because I doubt my ability to convincingly replicate the specific grammatical mistakes.

@no.head.chicken²

@Alicorn
Ok, that’s fair. I was thinking that roleplaying for backstory and roleplaying for strategy would be at least mostly different when I asked. I think it is strategically sound for the non-killers to vote No Lynch today, and I either am not a killer or value the appearance of not being a killer enough that I also think it’s the right choice for my character. I will admit some of the decision was based on wanting everybody to get at least one chance at a nighttime, because that’s when all the exciting stuff happens and I’d be disappointed if I had an interesting character and died before I could do anything with it. However, if I had sufficient strategic reason to vote for lynching somebody, I would have done let that take priority.


¹ There are a number of reasons I might feel this way. For example, I might not have the Pen role, or I might feel that we are currently writing instead of speaking and I could use my ingot power, or I might not feel compelled to roleplay at all and merely be defending others’ rights to do so.
² High five!

[jalapeno_dude]

However, if I had sufficient strategic reason to vote for lynching somebody,

"and thought I could get away with it"

I would have done let that take priority.

Right? Your analysis is (deliberately?) leaving out the fact that it seems almost certain that we're going to vote No Lynch regardless of what you personally do.

[DanielH]

If I knew for sure that I wanted, say, Mari (who I'm using as an example because she's not playing, thus minimizing true or false information from finger pointing) dead, that would be a strategic reason to try to lynch her. If I expected that voting against her would hurt me in some way, it would not be sufficient strategic reason. I stand by the first quote.

I was the second person to say No Lynch. That was not obvious when I said it. I don't stand by that second quote, though, solely because I failed to proofread it carefully enough and it is grammatically awkward.