My sincerest apologies for my lack of posts, I spent the weekend sick and overwhelmed by uni stuff, since finals start in like, two weeks. This didn't start at a very good time for me. But enough about my
obviously false excuses I'm using to cover up from my clearly well planned and deeply scummy activities. It's time to defend myself poorly while leaving enough holes in my arguments to allow Cirque du Soleil to come through!
Iqovian: Do you trust common methods, or do you prefer to be innovative and unconventional in your scumhunting?
If the method is tried and true, the scum have tried it and likely know counters. I try and be innovative, but people usually misinterpret that as acting scummy and I get lynched. Of course they interpret most things I do as scummy, so there's not much change there.
You know what might help you "innovation" a bit? Posting more and trying to figure out who's scum. Stop lurking, get off your lazy bum, and get to work peon.
Of your three posts, you've said:
1. I want to be confirmed town
2. Playing with a ventrilloquist is annoying
3. You've played email mafia and not forum mafia
4. I'll address this one personally here in a second.
5. You explain what a ventrilloquist role would entail
6. You have no trouble bussing a scum-buddy.
7. You don't have reads. So you won't do anything to get them.
8. See the above quote.
Now, onto #4, this struck me as HUGELY scummy:
The Iqovian your opening post in this game was wholly passive. Is this kind of play normal for you?
Well there's no one to shift any of the large amounts of blame I'm sure to accrue onto yet, and I can't read any of you. So there isn't that much to say, yet.
So you have no one to shift blame onto? You know who shifts blame Iqovian? Scum.
While I'm touched that you'd read this much into me, I'm pretty sure that you're putting more effort into this than I am. Which is easy, since I am evidently a 'lazy bum'.
Alright, everything that's not #4 can easily be explained by my being a newbie, and a fairly quiet person. Not very good, but I never claimed to be.
#4 however,
was a joke. I made a joke in my first post to try and lighten the mood, I don't think that's a lynchable offense. And right now, I clearly have plenty of blame to shift, that I have accrued in my role as a townie.
[snip]
This is an incredibly suspicious post. Iqovian hasn't posted as much as other people and that is your only reason to vote for him, disregarding his joke completely flying over your head. There are also other people who you've called out in your post for not posting as much, some of whom have posted even lesss but you seem much less concerned about it- is Iqovian just an easier target, given that he's newer to this style of Mafia than everybody else?
The Iqovian is certainly new, but don't you think this quote here...
The Iqovian your opening post in this game was wholly passive. Is this kind of play normal for you?
Well there's no one to shift any of the large amounts of blame I'm sure to accrue onto yet, and I can't read any of you. So there isn't that much to say, yet.
... is somewhat strange? Why would town want to shift blame onto someone else?
What do you make of that quote?
Thank you, that quote was a joke. I make jokes. They are rarely good, but I must practice.
And, in regards to Cheeetar:
It looks like a joke to me.
Iqovian, what did you mean by that statement?
Aside from making a joke, it meant, essentially, 'the game has just started and I have nothing on any of you, nor do I have any reason to go after any of you. I am going to wait until the petty accusations start flying', which they have, hooray!
The Iqovian, Tiruin you guys still about? Got any read on the game yet?
I'm still about, but since I haven't been following this actively I don't really have any good reads. Aside from mindless distrust of Nerjin now.
The Iqovian
At this stage of knowing absolutely nothing about the other players, any questions I pose will be horribly generic @everyones which will do nothing but display my own ineptitude.
Or land myself in hot water, like with Cheeetar's rolefishing fiasco.
You seem very concerned with not making a slip. Why so cautious? Also, tell me about Cheetar's supposed rolefishing.
Firstly, it wasn't Cheeetar's rolefishing, it was rolefishing directed
at Cheeetar that was the problem.
And I'm cautious about not slipping up because doing so usually ends me on the business end of the Spanish Inquisition. The more I second guess myself before posting, the less others can guess me afterwards.
The_Iqovian:
Well with a ventriloquist in forum mafia, it might work as an ability, maybe something like
(?-Use/Day) Ventriloquist's Doll [target]: Speak through the target. Target must copy you directly and cannot recant for [arbitrary time period].
I'm sure I've left that wide open for exploits, but you get the gist. If someone who knew how to balance a game worked on it, I'm sure something vaguely tolerable could work.
Aha! That works well for me, thanks.
Assuming we're not absolutely reliant on Imp for our wincon, and it's Imp's fault (the claim isn't based on something Birdy or I provably did), join the masses trying to lynch him, and furiously work in scum chat to get them out of it.
Assuming I wasn't vital for our wincon, what would you do differently if you felt the claim was Birdy's fault? What would you do differently if you felt that it was your fault?
If the claim that they were about to use was based on something Birdy or I provably did, then even if you were lynched it could still be traced back to us, which would land two of us in hot water as opposed to just one. If we could prove that you were merely supporting a claim of ours, I think that the person who originally made the claim should be thrown under the bridge; you could get off on a sob story of being a poor townie who was tricked by the dastardly scum into supporting a false claim, and the other survivor gets brownie points for finding them out and exonerating a poor, innocent townie.