Discworld Mafia is go!

[EvilTom]

It's only been 8 hours, give them a break...

[Smodge13]

It's only 2 votes, nothing too serious.

[EvilTom]

You can't call them lurkers yet. They might just be sleeping or working or something.

[Corwin]

Yes, people might have lives! Lynch them for it, give no quarter.

[Smodge13]

It's hardly lynching them for it, it requires 10 votes, 2 isn't even close, basically its aim is to put a minor amount of pressure on them so when they wake up/get home and see they have a vote or 2, it may encourage them to comment even if it is a line or 2.

[Smodge13]

Speaking of Sleep, i'm off for the night,

So, no posts from me for 12 hours.

[Sierra]

Update!

Carthrat (3): Cmdr_King, EvilTom, Corwin
Cmdr_King (1): Yakumo
EvilTom (1): Shale
Finali (2): Excal, Smodge13
Hunter Sopko (2): Finali, Kilgamayan
Kilgamayan (1): Hunter Sopko
Otter (1): Strago
QuietRain (1): Taishyr
Shale (0): Carthrat
Taishyr (2): Quietrain, Bobbin Cranbud
Unoriginal (2): Unoriginal, Carthrat
Yakumo (0): Smodge13

With nineteen alive, it takes ten to lynch.

There are 35.5 hours until the deadline.

[Cmdr_King]

And now, pointless analysis!  Because 12ish hours is a great time for that.

1. Shale: Voted for Dread Thomas, voted on by Rat (retracted)
2. Cmdr_King: Voted for Rat, voted on by Yakko
3. QuietRain: Voted for Tai, voted on by Tai
4. Taishyr: See above
5. Strago: Voted for Otter, has not been voted on
6. EvilTom: voted for Rat, voted on by Shale
7. Yakumo: voted for CK, voted on by smodge (retracted)
8. Kilgamayan: voted for Soppy, voted on by Soppy
9. Final: voted for Soppy, voted on by Smodge and Excal
10. Sopko: voted for Kilga, voted on by Finali and Kilga
11. Smodge: voted for Yakko, finali, has not been voted on
12. Unoriginal: voted for himself, voted on by Rat and himself.
13. Corwin: voted for Rat, has not been voted on
14. Carthrat: voted for Shale, uno, voted on by CK, Evil Tom, and Corwin
15. Excal: voted for finali, has not been voted on
16. VSM: Has posted but not voted
17. IhatethisCPU: has not posted or been voted on
18. Otter: has not posted, voted on by Strago
19. Bobbin Cranbud: voted for Tai, has not been voted on

And that's the record so far!  While I could draw some suspicion from this evidence, right now I'd feel silly.  But, there's still one glaring thing to be done.

##Unvote: Carthrat- For now
##Vote: IhatethisCPU- Don't forget he's playin', folks!

[IhatethisCPU]

I hate you too, guv.

I use a public library's computer, and yesterday was New Years. Hopefully I don't need to expound on why I haven't posted before now.

...Hmm, and I was planning to vote for OK, based on his being entirely too reasonable and encouraging for a townie in the NR Mafia. Since he's not here, I'll opt for the retaliation vote:

##vote Cmdr_king.

[Nitori]

You know, I probably should have requested that the list be updated; I have posted, but under this name, not the name of Finali.

That being said, Otter and CPU are indeed the only non-posters here, although from what I understand, CPU's access is at least quite...spotty.

[Nitori]

And it seems that Quick Reply has been quite the folly for me. Well then, I suppose the best thing here is to remind Otter that the game is up and running.

##UNVOTE: Sopko
##VOTE: Otter

[IhatethisCPU]

You know, I probably should have requested that the list be updated; I have posted, but under this name, not the name of Finali.

That being said, Otter and CPU are indeed the only non-posters here, although from what I understand, CPU's access is at least quite...spotty.

You know, I probably should have requested that the list be updated; I have posted, but under this name, not the name of Finali.

That being said, Otter and CPU are indeed the only non-posters here, although from what I understand, CPU's access is at least quite...spotty.

Very, very spotty.

I'm always off entirely on holidays and Sunday's, and this weather around here isn't exactly conductive to walking into town, when the bus doesn't show up. Would've canceled my sign-up entirely if I'd thought El Cideon'd be able to find a replacement.

On an entirely different note, I never liked Zombie roles, as I've thought that they go against the nature of what actual zombies would do. >_>'

[Cmdr_King]

Hm.  So, at this point, Strago, Smodge, Corwin, Excal, VSM, and Bobbin haven't had anyone voting for them.  A neat factoid for my own future reference, perhaps.

That said, now that he's posted I'm hoping people won't randomly forget CPU is playing, which is all I wanted.  (I mean, gosh, we go after lurkers normally, but if we forget someone is even playing, well, that's lurking penalty free!  Not that CPU is lurking relative to his access.)
Or more simply, ##Unvote: IhatethisCPU

Hm.  On the whole, I think the person I'm most curious about in terms of "talk more" would be VSM I think.  The wait-and-see attitude is well and good but you do need to watch them very carefully.
##Vote: Veryslightlymad

Even though Otter having not even posted yet is indeed disturbing.

[Hunter Sopko]

It's a mildly handy list, if you don't get dead-set against crossing names off, I suppose, CK

Otter probably has a reason. It's too against his nature.

[Cmdr_King]

Well it hardly does any good if I'm the only one voting for them.

And yeah, Otter must be doing something, because he's well aware of the whole Talk More concept.  Doesn't mean it's not weird.

[QuietRain]

Well, it's pretty close to what happened in NR Mafia.  The water mammal is silent for a span at game start and then comes in with his usual gnashing teeth and slashing claws designed oh-so-well for getting talk going and ferreting out the scum (and the occasional not-so-careful townie along the way as well, but hey, what's a little collateral damage among townies, right?!).

*puts on protective water-mammal-repelling armor for the first onslaught*

[Hunter Sopko]

Well, it's pretty close to what happened in NR Mafia.  The water mammal is silent for a span at game start and then comes in with his usual gnashing teeth and slashing claws designed oh-so-well for getting talk going and ferreting out the scum (and the occasional not-so-careful townie along the way as well, but hey, what's a little collateral damage among townies, right?!).

*puts on protective water-mammal-repelling armor for the first onslaught*

##Unvote: Kil
##Vote: QuietRain

Sarcasm duly noted, usually doesn't help first day to make statements like that. Enough for my first serious vote, at least.

[QuietRain]

I get a serious vote for my sarcasm?  I admit to amusement.  *shrug*  I'm hardly going to argue the point.  I'm a sarcastic wench by nature.  But let's be honest, the only sarcastic line was about collateral damage.  The rest of it is personal opinion on the effectiveness of the water mammal's ability to ferret out scum successfully.  Please note, he was the only one who even looked at me twice in the NR mafia when I was scum.  He's good.  He also misses on occasion and shreds the random townie who takes a misstep.  So, if that warrants a serious vote from you, Soppy, then so be it.  I think sarcasm is a rather silly method of choosing your votes, but it's day 1 and there is no such thing as a good voting method Day 1 that I've seen so far (barring obvious scum stupidity that gets them lynched early).

[Carthrat]

Whoo day1. Things of note are the miniwagon on me, Otter not posting, CMDR posting up a List of Facts, and just recently Soppy voting for QR seemed weird to me.

Oh, and, of course, Unoriginal's stupid jokevote on himself. Asissted suicide ftw.

[Cmdr_King]

Eh, it's something new I'm trying.  I figure that thinking aloud more and seeing how people react gives me a lot more to work with than I've had in previous games.  Granted, I have an amazing ability to draw roles that don't net me information without insane Xanatos Gambits, which may or may not be the case in this game.  But whatever.

[Veryslightlymad]

Heya, Commander. What would you like to know?

My thoughts on Otter are that he's simply not around for the day. Possibly tied up in a giant birdcage in some crazy asian girl's basement and after a night of New Year's revelry.

No one rings "Scum", yet, probably because there are too many Joke votes.

[Hunter Sopko]

It's sarcasm without contributing anything, really. It's not like we don't know all that about Otter. What exactly was your aim? I know you have voted already, but you could have changed it to get Otter to talk or something. If this were any other day than the first, I would have held back the vote, but my move is pretty justified for Day 1.

[Cmdr_King]

Well, really, I'm just thinking that... if you want to hold back on balls-out activity until something happens, then it's really better to try and get people talking than just saying you're hanging back for a while.  After all, lurking in the joke phase can be just as dangerous as lurking at any point in the game, so you want to be as active as you can manage at all times.

[Sierra]

Update!

Note: In accordance with Finali's new screenname, please refer to him as Nitori when voting/unvoting. This is how he'll appear in the vote tally.

Carthrat (2): Cmdr_King, EvilTom, Corwin
Cmdr_King (2): Yakumo, IhatethisCPU
EvilTom (1): Shale
Hunter Sopko (1): Nitori, Kilgamayan
IhatethisCPU (0): Cmdr_King
Kilgamayan (0): Hunter Sopko
Nitori (2): Excal, Smodge13
Otter (2): Strago, Nitori
QuietRain (2): Taishyr, Hunter Sopko
Shale (0): Carthrat
Taishyr (2): Quietrain, Bobbin Cranbud
Unoriginal (2): Unoriginal, Carthrat
VSM (1): Cmdr_King
Yakumo (0): Smodge13

With nineteen alive, it takes ten to lynch.

There are 26.5 hours until the deadline.

[QuietRain]

It's sarcasm without contributing anything, really. It's not like we don't know all that about Otter. What exactly was your aim? I know you have voted already, but you could have changed it to get Otter to talk or something. If this were any other day than the first, I would have held back the vote, but my move is pretty justified for Day 1.

I didn't change my vote because I think voting for the water mammal before he's even logged in since game start is rather irrelevant.  I already made my one joke vote and until I see someone worthy of actually giving a serious vote to, I usually just leave my joke vote where it was given. 

And my aim was just to comment that I didn't think it was that odd for him not to be a postaholic in the beginning hours of the game based on the fact that he did the same thing in the last mafia game I was in with him.  And also to state that once he did get posting, his content would usually make up for the lackluster start. 

Basically, random water-mammal babbling while waiting for actual post content to start.  But we have to start somewhere, hmm?