This is your first game of mafia?
@Imp: If you have won any other games, were town or scum and what game was it?
I have never before played Mafia, not by forum, in person, or any other means. Nor Epic Mafia, nor Mafia by any other name.
The question you and a few other people may be working towards asking is this: Imp, if you've never played Mafia before, why and how are you playing like you are?
The answer to that one is I'm very much not new to situations requiring me to evaluate and manipulate crowd behavior to pick out the intentions of those in the crowd, and help direct the behavior of the group. At one time I worked as a restaurant manager (and caught employee theives as well as picked out people intending to harrass other customers, walk out on their bills, and otherwise ready to explode and needing tlc; I've been ready to stop that stuff right at the beginning of trouble because I noticed hints of it starting to happen before situations exploded, and I am simply always watching), at one time I worked as a telemarketer (you think we're supicious of each other in this game? Try that job for a few years, EVERYONE REALLY REALLY HATES YOU, and you're expected to work through that to convince people to spend money the way you suggest despite it being so very, very easy just to hang up), and I've actually been in a few real life situations where I and others around me could have died if the situations were not handled by someone, and hey, I'm someone and I really don't want to die or watch others die. I was an abused child and went through years of therapy; I've played a lot of D&D, as well as ran quite a few games; I've played a LOT of all sorts of games in general, some of which have involved deception and detection of that in one way or another as part of play, and I'm around 40 (life experience quantity) and utterly fascinated by psychology and behavior, both my own and others, and am highly interested in a lot of the rest of life too.
In shortest - I'm a newbie playing like this because I'm me, and currently absolutely fascinated by this new to me game. It's getting my all, rawr!
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Lukeinator:
Imp ... lynching people for not having a lot of time on one night.
*snort* Good, you've got some spirit. First off, I voted for you, but I can't lynch you, most 100% certainly not by myself. Second, Pick any 'night' (we're talking real life nights right?) that you didn't have a lot of time on. Write your inactivity and lackluster attempts to scum hunt completely off for that ONE NIGHT - now, what about all the other nights that we've had since the game started?
Or do you just mean that 'by Monday night' I specified? Ehh, get active, guy. Just start doing something, anything; in this game the only player who looks lazier than you right now is Griffinpup. Grrrrrrrrrrrr, Griffinpup.
Big clue - I can't lynch you by myself, no matter what. However, I've stated that I'm going to try and get everyone to agree that you should be first lynch - IF YOU DON'T START HUNTING - because you're acting like silent-hiding scum. Now, do I -really really really mean it-? For now, I leave you to guess. Am I using pressure to try and get you to stop hiding/attempt to convince, persuade, and/or provoke you to be active?
YESCourse, if you stop acting like silent-hiding scum, then you won't look like one. The true Townies won't have to wonder anymore about what a great hiding spot your position has been and continues to be. Won't have to wonder about how little you've been contributing to the scumhunt. So stand up and get to helping. Whoever Town is, Town need -everyone's- help. If you're Town, act like it. As is, you seem Scum or a Townie so terribly passive, you're a waste of a lynch but a needed lynch none-the-less. Am I convinced you should be our first lynch? Again, for now, not going to confirm that. You really want to find out? Keep acting like a little-scared-hiding Scum. But that won't be good for Town, if you are Town.
I don't care who you hunt. Hunt me, sure. I recommend you don't -only- hunt me, but you SHOULD be suspicious and actively hunting, period. That you are not makes me extremely suspicious of you. Needlessly? Nope, there's need. But your behavior can help a lot, if you change it.
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zombie_urist:
About that Griffinpup - we've had to do without that player, be he Town or Scum, for almost a full week of discussion now. I don't know what 'soon' means, but his continued absence is making my strategies and plans feel all weird. Is there any chance you might consider a modkill, considering the sheer length of time his spot has been utterly silent? This game really feels to me now like there's only 8 players, not 9.
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Squill:
I'll make sure to do some questions at some point, but for now I'm just answering questions while I'm at my computer.
"At some point"? Umm... which one are you waiting for, exactly? How many is "some questions"?
Also....
Until I notice something that seems suspicious, I'm just going to try and avoid causing more confusion than is necessary.
Do you mean you feel that Town is better served by your active attempts to avoid confusion, rather than your active attempts to try to scum hunt?
How do you feel about your scumhunting in this game? Are you satisfied with how much your actions are helping Town as a whole?
And... lunch break's over. Back to work I go.