Hmph. I was hoping for a more severe response. As is, I don't have much to go on.
notquitethere: Actually, flabort spilling the beans was an unforseen complication. I had to adapt and improvise on the spot, but the scum in this game are too canny to just jump on an easy target.
About the gambit: Basically, there were two "phases" to the gambit. The first was the pm's, the second was my response to flabort outing it.
I'll explain in brief what the gambit was and quote the pm below.
Phase One: phase one was claiming my role to three random players from the player list in order to create a sort of "cell" of people in the know. My role is
Human Reporter (technically just reporter, human is implied by lack of doppleganger in my role PM). The idea was that, hopefully, there would be one scum in my cell, so that they had to make an interesting decision: if they killed me, they were basically claiming that one of the three was a dopp, and if they didn't kill me they were leaving an investigative role alive. I calculated the odds of the gambit being absolutely FUBAR at 5%, assuming a couple of variables that could be different than what I calculated for, and that was a risk I was willing to take.
Phase Two: Phase two was developed when flabort hinted at the pm's in his post. He was obviously intending to draw the question of "what pm's" so that he could tell you all, so I had to think of a way to make this whole thing hopefully not a total waste of my time. As such, when flabort did tell everyone I feigned overreaction, hoping to draw some scum into bandwagoning and then turning it around on them. Obviously it didn't work, since the only person who jumped on was Cheeetar and he was going to do that anyway because he hates my playstyle.
And welcome to my first ridiculous gambit of this game.
I am a human reporter
Why am I telling you this?
Statistically, there is a fairly high chance that two of you three are not-mafia. Hell, maybe even all three of you, if I'm lucky. But that's not the point.
The point is, I'm setting up an interesting conundrum if there is a scum here. You can kill me or have one of your scumbuddies kill me, but there is a higher likelihood then that one of the people in this conversation is scum. Thus, you will risk outing yourself by killing me. The other option is that you don't kill me, thus leaving a known investigative role alive and able to find out who you are.
For quoting purposes, the three people in this conversation are: mastahcheese, Deus Asmoth, and flabort.
4maskwolf out.
here's what bugs me about how you've gone about this:
By revealing the existance of my gambit to the town, you have drawn undue attention onto me, increasing the odds that I get killed regardless. Additionally, many of the players in this game are, shall we say, strongly anti-gambit, most specifically Cheeetar, and you likely knew that you could rely on at least some of these players to try to lynch me on the grounds of the gambit alone.
Additionally, while none of my PM's SPECIFICALLY said not to mention the conversation, there's a reason I used PRIVATE MESSAGES to do this. The fact that I didn't reveal it to the general public SHOULD have made it abundantly clear that the general public was not to know about it at the present time.
Thirdly, you very obviously wanted people to find out about it, but intentionally went about it in a roundabout way. You made it clear in your first post that there were pm's going around, drawing the question of "what pm's". If you had a legitimate concern that the gambit might backfire and thought that revealing it might diffuse that, you would have said it openly, rather than doing the sneaky, underhanded method of revealing it.
The last point is how you voted me. You voted me in the post that you revealed that I was doing a gambit, BEFORE I could actually respond. This gives you plausible deniability if I were mislynched, since you were the first one to vote me and voted before I explained the gambit.
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