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Pearls, do your psychotic half-sister a favor and let her talk.
O-kay!
French Doom Man
Betrayed by whom?
His brothersI wrote a paper on the relationship between
senryu poetry and the criminal underworld, but never got to unleash appropriate poetry! (Aside from the sign-in thread.) Alas. (Also
senryu writing is hard.)
Anyway. This game was a blast. Objective 1: Draw a NK as soon as possible. Mission Accomplished! Objective 2: Make sure town wins. Uh... see Light.
For Objective 1, I figured the best way to draw a NK was to make it seem like I had a powerful role. But roleclaiming doctor who can't protect self on Day 1 would make me look like a lunatic. So that's why I had those ramblings about Night 0 and roles who "knew things" - I wanted to send the impression that I thought that this would be a very role-heavy game with powerful abilities left and right, and maybe you should take my opinion seriously because I found something Night 0.
I briefly considered fakeclaiming Beautiful Princess because wow, would that be incredibly in-character for our serial perjurer or what, but Excal told me potential LYLO would be announced. The proper way to address a BP claim is probably to wait until potential-LYLO "should" roll around and if it doesn't, lynch the claimed BP. Since that would be a sure wasted lynch, I decided against it (if I wasn't killed, it'd only be because I misled town about the number of scum). Plus when I left I wasn't sure I'd be the lynch target anyway and I didn't want to claim unless I was sure. [In favor of the fakeclaim, I had a rare role where a town rolecop would immediately see I was town - vote while dead is an ability never in the hands of scum in a sane game.]
If I'd stayed above suspicion more on Day 1 I had some more flavor fluff to throw on. For starters, we need to be alert to solve this case, so if everybody drinks this coffee I'm sure the mafia will be dead within no time! Also, after succesfully soliciting a butterfly picture out of Beatrice, I was hoping to found my own secret organization even better than the Doom Legionaires - the mysterious "Butterfly Club." Of course as a requirement if this is your Butterfly Club Day 1 you must bring a butterfly. My unfortunate demise meant I held rule 1, not talking about Butterfly Club, a little too strongly. It was pretty obvious I was angling for Gaston to join but alas, distractions arose. On the Gaston note, if Gaston had died before me, I'd have claimed to have married him the night before in a secret ceremony. And then gone to visit his wealthy father but shockingly be unable to find him! So I guess it sure is lucky Gaston married before dying so that someone could oversee his family's estate.
On the later days... I couldn't entirely shake my suspicions of Dr. Wily. Thought he was a Bulletproof Serial Killer or something who'd decided to vig for town out of pity. The masons worried me because, as noted, it seemed like they made town too overpowered... but... but... they're self-confirming, and if they were all scum it was the most psychotic scum gambit ever.
Mr. Burns, well, I figured that if he did something to me night 0 and he was scum, it was either rolecop or roleblock. But scum who knew anything about voting in Chicago would never ever NK me, so that means it couldn't have been rolecop. And if he was town then he should be given time to compile some investigations / protections / whatever to bring forward as a confirmable record before deciding the case. This pretty well worked out, don't think there was any harm in pressing the case on Burns later rather than sooner. Also: There totally needs to be a role named "Retro Rocket" in some future mafia game. I'm not sure what it'd do, but the mental image of Mr. Burns with his legs straddling a rocket inexplicably moving the reverse direction of its thrusters was great.
Day 4, y'all put Bowser at L-1 before I could release a butterfly. :-( While Bowser never read suspiciously to me [I didn't understand the "He split his vote which is scummy!" argument] Gig and Bea read actively towny and Joker already had a death sentence, so I couldn't even do a Vote / Unvote safely.
Day 5 Shenanigans: Eh, I can't agree with Beatrice about blaming Gig here. When Gig placed his vote it was "More Potential LYLO" and all of me / Gig / Bea thought the game was surely Town's. Actually mildly surprised at how seriously Gig/Bea argued,it was clearly a "at worst lynch both of us, win" case. I was convinced that scum's gambit of shooting Dr. Wily would backfire horribly, but then... nobody is accusing the masons [Kinda necessary for scumGig / scumBea to win]?! Then Excal changed it to "almost certain LYLO" which I knew was a sign that something was deeply, deeply wrong. Obviously one possibility was the masons were scum, but Gig had already placed his vote, so that was water under the bridge. Otherwise... um... the only thing I could think of was that Beatrice was scum and had the power to reignite the potato. But everything about Beatrice screamed town, including her questioning of the mod as to what could possibly stop a Townie / Scum / Dahlia endgame. So. Uh.
Excal may have said too much when he noted to me on how people would be surprised at what the masons "really were" around Day 3 or so, but even that's unclear, and could mean it was a third-party alliance that'd decided to play for a town victory. Which would also be good with us. Oh, well. Looking at the role PMs... I'm confused? Ciato, if you thought that the town masons were confirmed, I'd understand, because that's what the PM sounds like. If I read that I'd assume a confirmed masonry too because that's the default kind. But you thought that an all-town masonry was a "retarded assumption" but... didn't tell us? I do think that the flavor behind unreliable masons was perfect for a villains game, at least, just I wish this was more clear.
Anyways, good game to all. Beatrice gets a special nod for both playing a fantastic game for Town as well as being hilarious - I found myself thinking in her weird set of terms. Hooray for the [Robotic?!] Black Rose of Xanatos. On a last acknowlegements note: the place I stole icons from did request credit, so my fine selection of Dahlia faces is from
pocketmolecule. The Dahlia "Alas poor Yorick" picture with lightning bolts in the background was conveniently posted just recently
here (found both of the above from
the LJ community). My messenger butterflies carrying my commands across the river Styx were from Wikipedia, notably the
Pieridae family - which includes the small whites that are my favorite. And apparently agricultural pests as well that eat cabbage. Huh.
