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Tiruin: kudos for flavor!)
Good morning, my young fellows and as-yet undiscovered fellowettes. I will, for at least the first part of this game, not be using an IC voice, because I think it's necessary that you learn to think through the full import of folks' statements. At the same time, I also promise that I will put your education above my own hubris, and play as clearly and transparently as possible.
Vector: Same question as Ford.
Whoever's feeling the best-rested and most bored.
Actually, maybe you? Out of all of the players I've encountered here, you're the one who seems to have the least qualms about lying.
Shinigami:
Press the hell out of the IC, as it's safe to assume the IC will press the scummy player.
No, it isn't. The IC has a responsibility to teach you how to play, and that doesn't always mean leading by example and doing the dirty work.
(However, I am going to try to personally hold off on my habit of acting intentionally scummy in this game, so you are right that there are some boundaries)
Vector: I feel part of the problem I had pressing you last game was tied to you being gone most of the time and not wanting to cause you overmuch more work (I'm very familiar with the pressure school can exert); and truthfully I considered you to be a bit of a flight risk. How would you advise dealing with these emotions in the future?
I think that usually depends on the player. To be honest, it's appropriate to just ask, very blatantly and openly. There's usually an honor among thieves in this game, an unwritten understanding that you won't say "I am having psychological problems" in order to get out of being pressured as scum when you're really doing just fine. So, trust people until they give you a reason not to.
The other thing is that if I've remained in the game, then that means that I'm ready and willing to play. If you'd tried to pressure me into doing a full reread, I would have eaten you alive (town OR scum). If you'd just decided to ask me questions about my opinions on the proceedings, I would have been fine with it. If a person isn't going to do at least that much, then they should be replaced, anyway.
So, I would say: assume that the other person isn't lying about their problems, but also that they can take care of themselves, and that they're in the game for a reason. And then play, with the understanding that if you cross a line, you'll be warned and you can back off from it. You need to work on developing your confidence.
Griffionday- It is Mylo, you have two suspects and one person you trust. You have less information on the one who is an IC and more scumtells on the non IC. What actions do you take? (Yes I am using the same situation I was in in my last game)
Griffinpup- who do you see as a formidable adversary? Why? (This is based off of RVS Q&A and pregame comments so there isn't much to go on.)
Don't use this sort of qualification of your statements. Defending yourself before anyone has attacked you makes you look nervous and worried; it takes out the tooth, which is what you're going to use to scare your opponents into telling you what you need to know.
Remember, when someone attacks you, or doesn't attack you, you get information from them. Above anything else this is a game of information acquisition and dispersal. So play openly and aggressively, but don't give away all your secrets too soon.
Cheesecake: another hypothedical. It's Day 2, you're mafia. you did the NightKill on Night 1, someone has just claimed Watcher (a power role that lets you see who visited someone else, and who they were visited by, but not what was done). they say they saw you visit the person you NightKilled that night. They also claim that one of the townies visited you. the townie has not responded, but they said ahead of time they would be busy for the next two days IRL. what role do you fakeclaim?
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Vector:your hypothedical is the same as Cheesecake's, but with a slight twist. first off, you're a mafia godfather, not a normal mafia, secondly, the townie who visited you is not afk, but has instead refused to claim and isn't giving an explanation why. what role do you claim?
They've refused to claim, which means that they have some sort of sensitive power role (usually, unless they're a pathological liar like Cado
). Eh... if I'm in a low-power-role setup like this one and they're not claiming, it means that they don't know my alignment or what I did, so they're likely the doctor or something similar. If I was seen killing my target then that means I'm probably going to have to throw myself under the bus, so if I'm not playing with an advanced group I'll probably counter-claim watcher and try to rally the town to get the other guy killed, assuming I'll be dead by the end of the night anyway; I'd have a target or two I'd try to make the town think of as my scumbuddy. Then I'd NK the townie who refused to claim and leave the rest of the game to my partners.
Otherwise I'd claim that I'm a bus driver and that I swapped the dude and my scumbuddy.
Lenglon- You are now officially scum Your intelligence is a great asset. Who will you use it in this RVS?
Haha, ok, um, presupposing I were scum, I'd try to act as much like I would as town as possible. Any differences would be scumtells. I might even flat refuse to open the scumchat, simply because if having the scumchat changed my gameplay then that would be a scumtell.
Lenglon, why aren't you answering his question? You sound awfully nervous, my dear squidling, my best beloved. Why, you're even typing out your nervous laughter! And then there's this...
Yeah, I was frustrated that last BM I wasn't able to use WIFOM properly. I want to try to get into people's heads and figure out where they'd jump when and why. as before I dont plan on sharing anything WIFOM based until i can form it into something solid... and hopefully more accurate than I was last time.
Why aren't you focused on
this BM?