Contest Pokémafia Spectacular! - Game Thread

[Stryke]

stryke's also in college now though so idk if that applies here

Classes haven't started yet but I am working 7 days a week at two jobs as well as doing a summer class so uh. Yeah I guess I like to stay busy.

screaming into my hands that i'm so tiny brain that it affects people's reads of me. help. i was determined to be helpful and contribute to solving and now here we are

loosely ordered within tiers
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if i had a vote rn (WHICH IS NOW SOMETHING I REMEMBER I DO NOT HAVE) i would actually be inclined to put it on stryke atm since there's already a decent amount of pressure on herbe. i remember rnp previously commenting that a very common mafia!stryke strategy is to fly under the radar as much as possible, and seeing as stryke didn't make it onto this list that's some pretty under-the-radar behavior and would like some posting from him

if stryke's town he usually fucks around a lot and i recall a few scum games of his where his strat was "people will forget i exist if i'm quiet enough"

sorry for weird quote placement but i'm on mobile rn

anyway, if i could i would pressure stryke rn but i can't.

Damn part of the reason I made my read on RNP was because I thought I had changed over the course of a year too-- I've been trying to be a little more on top of this game and make more contributions of my own ☹. The more things change, the more things stay the same, I guess.

I was kinda wondering why I didn't get included in qenyas list though... Am I really that much of a non-entity in this game so far?

reposting because i think stryke won't get the ping if it's inside quote tags

Wisper - 5 moves. used Beauty N0
Jack - 5 moves, one high-appeal no-op, three related. used Cute or Tough N0
RNP - 5 moves, one high-appeal no-op, others unrelated (claimed them, ish, in post #125). used Clever N0
myuma - 5 moves. used Clever N0
Herbe - 5 moves, info that not all townies have 5 moves. didn't use Clever N0
Stryke - 5 moves. no info about N0 move. (@Stryke wanna give us a hint?)
qenya - 4 moves, all related. used Beauty or Cool N0
mewt - 5 moves, no high-appeal no-op, info that not all townies have 5 moves. didn't use Clever N0
sande - 4 moves, all related. used Beauty or Cool N0
ZM - no info (rip)

I used my +4 Cute move.

Anyway we already got two competing lynchwagons (along with a potential third if I don't get my ass in gear and post more lol), so I still need to gather my thoughts a little more on everything so far, but I'm still at work, so it may a bit. I think I'll put a tentative vote on Herbe for now, though.

 

[Herbe]

is eod in like two hours

 

[Herbe]

rip stryke ;-; good to have you in thread

ugh remind me next game that i am bad at mafia actually and my whole "dont focus on acting townie when im townie just be natural" schtick doesnt work when im Bad At Being Town, i gotta get better at this game

that all being said i don't think im the worst mis-execute so /shrug is how it is

 

[sanderidge]

hi stryke!! sorry to call you out for inactivity based on stuff from more than a year ago hfnsgh. hope stuff is going decently well for you though!! sounds really really busy ;w;

also, for the info collecting, i used my +3 Cool move! i don't have Beauty; that's the one i'm missing

 

[Stryke]

hi stryke!! sorry to call you out for inactivity based on stuff from more than a year ago hfnsgh. hope stuff is going decently well for you though!! sounds really really busy ;w;

All good! I understand the rationale, I'd probably do the same if I was in your position

Also wait did you say EoD is like. Soon?

 

[Stryke]

I mean I can lurk I just can't really make like long posts. I will try to gather my thoughts faster though!

 

[M&F]

is eod in like two hours

correct! we're calling it at basically three hours from now, unless we're tied

so let's recap the vote totals at present:
-qenya (4) - RedneckPhoenix(*3) (#139), Herbe (#151)
-Herbe (3) - qenya (#176), myuma(*2) (#179)

 

[RNP]

i'm at work rn, posting from the bathroom, but herbe has given me little reason for pause (seriously, it's been years, weird tone is excusable). either qenya is lying about moves and junk (which seems likelier as we proceed, given that my italicized flavor is NOT just rehashed) or mf just decided haphazardly to not do the thing mf does best

 

[RNP]

er, reason i mention being at work being that i may not be around for EoD

 

[qenya]

I was kinda wondering why I didn't get included in qenyas list though... Am I really that much of a non-entity in this game so far?

oh shit im so sorry dude! i'm afraid so, literally didn't even notice i'd missed you. guess you're almost by definition in the "no strong feelings" section

 

[qenya]

is eod in like two hours

correct! we're calling it at basically three hours from now, unless we're tied

so let's recap the vote totals at present:
-qenya (4) - RedneckPhoenix(*3) (#139), Herbe (#151)
-Herbe (3) - qenya (#176), myuma(*2) (#179)

missing stryke's vote on Herbe (#201)

 

[qenya]

rip stryke ;-; good to have you in thread

ugh remind me next game that i am bad at mafia actually and my whole "dont focus on acting townie when im townie just be natural" schtick doesnt work when im Bad At Being Town, i gotta get better at this game

that all being said i don't think im the worst mis-execute so /shrug is how it is

handshake emoji on all of these tbh tbh

 

[qenya]

thank u for the extra data folks. adding it on, and for simplicity since people have started volunteering their exact themes anyway, might as well add that mine was beauty (petal blizzard, +6, my highest appeal move as i said)

Wisper - 5 moves. used Beauty N0
Jack - 5 moves, one high-appeal no-op, three related. used Cute or Tough N0
RNP - 5 moves, one high-appeal no-op, others unrelated (claimed them, ish, in post #125). used Clever N0
myuma - 5 moves. used Clever N0
Herbe - 5 moves, info that not all townies have 5 moves. didn't use Clever N0
Stryke - 5 moves. used Cute N0
qenya - 4 moves, all related. used Beauty N0
mewt - 5 moves, no high-appeal no-op, info that not all townies have 5 moves. didn't use Clever N0
sande - 4 moves, all related. used Cool N0
ZM - no info (rip)

total tallies...
Clever - 2
Cute - 1 or 2
Beauty - 2
Tough - 0 or 1
Cool - 1
...plus Herbe's and mewt's (which weren't Clever) and ZM's (which might have been)

conclusion: it's very possible for Clever to have been the Most Popular Theme or whatever it is even disregarding RNP's role. so this tells us literally nothing useful. oh well i did my best.

 

[Herbe]

so since we Are tied is EoD delayed
also my move was Beauty (it was a plus 4 that got knocked down to 3 appeal cause blehh!! opposite!!!)

wanna go pspspspsps and get all the folks who havent shown up yet to show up

 

[Herbe]

or just like arent around at this very moment uwu joinnnnnn

 

[qenya]

tbf i think everyone has showed up at this point... myuma and wisper said they'd probably miss EoD, jack has life stuff, sande can't vote, ZM is dead... mewt has been around but hasn't voted yet i guess

 

[qenya]

also my move was Beauty

Clever - 2
Cute - 1 or 2
Beauty - 3
Tough - 0 or 1
Cool - 1
unknown - mewt (not clever), ZM

i realise we never asked @M&F what happens if there's a tie (in the absence of roles affecting it). i assume you just rand it?

 

[Herbe]

tbf i think everyone has showed up at this point... myuma and wisper said they'd probably miss EoD, jack has life stuff, sande can't vote, ZM is dead... mewt has been around but hasn't voted yet i guess

 

[qenya]

40 minutes to EoD

 

[qenya]

ok with 10 minutes on the clock i'm gonna go ahead and claim just in case Shenanigans occur

my moves are all roleblocks, each with extra features; petal blizzard is my high-appeal (+6 Beauty) one that's made up for by the drawback of only blocking the effects of moves that also have high appeal. i targeted RNP on N0 per standard tcod roleblocker practice (and also because i was suspicious about the cleverness thing), and if his move was +7 Clever then it definitely went off. so that's why i was dubious about herbe's suggestion that RNP manipulated the most popular type.

... and that's also why i've been collecting information about the "actual" most popular type, because if it became apparent that the most popular type was manipulated despite the roleblock, that would be extremely revealing - my best guess in that case would be that someone else on the scumteam had the role, with RNP learning about it from scumchat. but it's looking like occam's razor is holding true so far and cleverness probably actually did just win fair and square. so yeah. my list from earlier is unchanged and this was all a colossal waste of energy. smh