Contest Pokémafia Spectacular! - Game Thread

[RNP]

post 'em.

 

[JackPK]

i am surprised though because my moves do share a consistent theme despite having different effects. whereas these don't seem to

curious which applies to other people

Mine are a mixed bag; I have the no-added-effect high-appeal move, one other pattern-breaking move, and then the other three all share a consistent theme.

 

[qenya]

post 'em.

hm... mulled this over briefly... not totally opposed but i think not right now. d1 claims rarely a good idea. would rather wait until we can collectively pool enough information to identify liars, which i doubt is possible toDay. (and ofc telling you one would give away the gist of all of them, given the shared theme.)

since other people have shared their strategy already though i will do the same: i ignored the thing about cleverness as WIFOM and just used my move with the highest appeal, which happened to be +6. sadly it was one of the ones opposed to cleverness (either coolness or beauty) which is how come i'm not joining you up with the extra votes :(

and if the vote is purely based on "her role format is slightly different from some other people who've posted!" consider: why would i be truthful about that if i were mafia

 

[RNP]

post 'em.

hm... mulled this over briefly... not totally opposed but i think not right now. d1 claims rarely a good idea. would rather wait until we can collectively pool enough information to identify liars, which i doubt is possible toDay. (and ofc telling you one would give away the gist of all of them, given the shared theme.)

since other people have shared their strategy already though i will do the same: i ignored the thing about cleverness as WIFOM and just used my move with the highest appeal, which happened to be +6. sadly it was one of the ones opposed to cleverness (either coolness or beauty) which is how come i'm not joining you up with the extra votes :(

and if the vote is purely based on "her role format is slightly different from some other people who've posted!" consider: why would i be truthful about that if i were mafia

just the flavor then, if you're so worried.

 

[RNP]

it also interests me which of the types you are missing.

 

[qenya]

post 'em.

hm... mulled this over briefly... not totally opposed but i think not right now. d1 claims rarely a good idea. would rather wait until we can collectively pool enough information to identify liars, which i doubt is possible toDay. (and ofc telling you one would give away the gist of all of them, given the shared theme.)

since other people have shared their strategy already though i will do the same: i ignored the thing about cleverness as WIFOM and just used my move with the highest appeal, which happened to be +6. sadly it was one of the ones opposed to cleverness (either coolness or beauty) which is how come i'm not joining you up with the extra votes :(

and if the vote is purely based on "her role format is slightly different from some other people who've posted!" consider: why would i be truthful about that if i were mafia

just the flavor then, if you're so worried.

you mean like the move names? uh sure i don't see the harm in that, they don't seem relevant to the effects. body slam, petal blizzard, frenzy plant, stun spore. (i guess this gives away that cuteness is the theme i don't have, but eh, i find it hard to imagine how that would be possible or useful to take advantage of.)

how about you?

 

[RNP]

your moves don't have non-mechanical descriptions?

 

[qenya]

your moves don't have non-mechanical descriptions?

oh! yeah i have a little italicised line of flavour text beneath each one. but that's mostly just rephrasing the in-game effect of the moves in in-universe terms - the only one that even references the move itself is stun spore which describes it as "a shimmering shiny" (MF accidentally a word there perhaps?)

kinda feels like MF didn't have as much time to integrate the flavour and the roles as she did for the gym leader mafia, now I think about it

 

[qenya]

i am sleepy now so if you have further questions i'll look at them tomorrow

fwiw i was null on you earlier but this conversation is making me feel more positive, i believe that you're trying to figure out setup

 

[RNP]

hrmmmm. vote's staying for now. this all rubs me the wrong way

 

[Herbe]

mrmrmrmrmrmr wish i had actually posted this read instead of waffling on about whether i would be right or wrong but tbh my vibe on qenya was a light red gutread and im just gonna go ahead and take the chance to actually make a qenya vote

i dont think the lack of a certain type is what does it for me cause like i said my role has a specific wording that suggests that not every townie has every type of move and i hate to be Like This but its really hard for me to nail down the specifics of why i feel like this. which is frustrating! would love to have an actual reason to point to and like if you Cajole me ill try to pull one together but im mostly just glad that the one person i was light redreading, one person i had an opinion on actually has another vote on them. and im mad that i didnt express my opinon Before this so im not gonna keep quiet at this point

 

[Stryke]

Interesting. I also have a move from every type, which I believe makes 6 of us who have revealed their move distribution.

A little curious now to hear from the people who haven't already mentioned it, but does everyone else have moves of all 5 types? If it's just qenya who doesn't, there might be more to this at best and a bit suspicious at worst. Lilligant isn't exactly a Pokemon lacking in moves with Cuteness, either.

 

[mewtini]

Lilligant isn't exactly a Pokemon lacking in moves with Cuteness, either.

i don't think that this is relevant? u-pick flavor doesn't tend to be game or role-altering.

i do have a move of each type, but i'm kind of wary of sussing based off of this alone.

 

[mewtini]

i dont think the lack of a certain type is what does it for me cause like i said my role has a specific wording that suggests that not every townie has every type of move

mine does as well fwiw.

 

[JackPK]

i dont think the lack of a certain type is what does it for me cause like i said my role has a specific wording that suggests that not every townie has every type of move

mine does as well fwiw.

mine does not have this wording; does anyone else's? not sure if this is an indicator (very well may not be) but I'm curious whether/how many more people will claim to have it and claim to not have it

 

[sanderidge]

guys i really hate to do this to you but i did not know there were five types and thought there were only four. it turns out i do not in fact have all contest types because i don't have five moves??

 

[sanderidge]

i thought four made sense because that's the limit of a moveset in the games + somehow i didn't realize there are five contest types. rip. lmao.

 

[sanderidge]

not me bursting into the thread like "wait shit guys i didn't realize my role is done exactly the same way as qenya's and now i don't sus her" after two people vote her... unfortunately that is exactly what i am doing

anyway, like qenya i do not have moves of every type and my moves are all extremely related to each other; if i gave away one ability it's probably extremely obvious what my other three do. i also have no moves that are geared towards appeal only - my strongest move (imo) actually only gives 1 appeal, and my most risky move has 7.

i dont think the lack of a certain type is what does it for me cause like i said my role has a specific wording that suggests that not every townie has every type of move

mine does not have this wording; does anyone else's? not sure if this is an indicator (very well may not be) but I'm curious whether/how many more people will claim to have it and claim to not have it

my role mentions absolutely nothing about this!


initially i was soooomewhat maaaybe inclined to sus qenya because she was the only one with a really different setup so far, but on reading herbe's vote i'm back to neutral on qenya and kiiiind of sussing herbe because this move + the rnp towncore post both feel extremely abrupt to me. on the other hand i don't think i've ever actually played a game with herbe before and idk if this is just how you play + i believe we are all doing our best to figure stuff out. i feel bad for going "this feels badly informed!!!" because i would have so much anxiety posting anything after that if someone called me out like that... hgjksdnfgh. on the other hand my townread of rnp has gotten a lot stronger (and if it turns out he's mafia he's played me like an orchestra lmfao)

anyway i acknowledge that the timing and content of this post are extremely sus and that this is probably going to make people look worse on me (and probably also on qenya... i am so sorry...) but i am doing my best to be helpful about offering information and i also would like to believe that MF wouldn't make a setup where the mafia is findable if everyone just shares a couple details about their moves. (even though i was hoping to believe the opposite like 20 minutes ago. lmfao.)

 

[sanderidge]

tfw you log in to see that you're assigned not clever at day phase ✌

i am once again assigned not clever

 

[RNP]

here's what i'm suspicious about:
all of my moves are named after actual moves a solrock could use. i assume mf did research on that since some of them are kind of stretches, when easily one could have just said "fuck it" and put whatever moves on whatever pokemon as long as they're the right type.

namely, i have Solar Beam, Confide, Incinerate, Morning Sun, and Wonder Room. which are all sorta explained, kinda halfway, kinda like the roles were made first and then assigned random moves solrock can learn.

qenya's pokemon, lilligant, can't learn frenzy plant OR body slam. two of the moves that qenya claimed.