Jack AT
origamiscienceguy (Town Guardsman claim)
flabort (Town Sexton counterclaim) (0)
birdyPersus13
Peradon (3) Persus,
flabort, DarkStar, Jack
TheDarkStar (1) Peradon
roo
spruce
birdy51 (Town Priest claim) (1) Cheeetar
Cheesecake/Cheeetar
Epenguin/Tiruin
ToonyMan, Town Fortune Teller, decapitated N1
Deus Asmoth, Town Dreamwalker, slain N1 by dagger
Teneb, Necromancer, threat to Town, killed D1 by Guard bolt, inspected by 2 others
OK, so I guess birdy was won over by flabort's formula (#262, #266)? I thought it was awful, actually, even though I seem to have benefited from it. I thought it was one of those try-to-hard Scum-looking-Town efforts that often get thrown into a game to, well, either win over an opponent or resolve a Scum theatrical production. But then flabort didn't really seem to be under much pressure, so why bring out the math? Is it a normal flabort thing?
And what is this “Piety” thing of which birdy posts? Seems more like RPG flavour than a mafia game element. Is it usual to have a GM use a 12-sided die to calculate the probability of role set actions? I realise birdy even documented an example, but I would think a “priest” would either be effective or broken? Sounds an awful lot like hedging to me, for an “Ooops, I resurrected a bad guy – not my fault”.
I don't think the flabort/birdy interactions are Scum theatre though – it's too persistent. They both bring up excellent questions for the other, but one of them seems a tad too defensive. I want to think it's flabort, but then an unvoting birdy says, “Hey, everybody, I'm really worried at the dearth of votes – y'all vote somebody so I'll know what to do, or rather not do 'cause I'm a Priest of unsullied hands and blood is not my thing.”
I guess we can give him a day of that, but still...
Also, who is blackmagechill, please?
Everyone: For this game mode, when is the ideal time to mass claim and reveal the results of night actions?
I come from sites where GMs often frown on mass-claiming and insure fairness through safe-claims or randomising roles to an extent where any role or character claim might be suspect. Earlier posts here have me thinking mass-claiming here is perhaps the most standard way a game is resolved. If that's the case and the GM allows, then it becomes not an if but a when, as you say, and it's a matter of believability. Claims are better verified when a little substance accompanies them, which, in a game this size, translates to about Day 3 or 4 for me. Though, I also come from sites where Town/Village players generally make reliable, truthful claims - where things often don't go very well when good guys lie or try some wild gambit.
And I've cried about it before, but here I am, so...
I'm just used to more structure than a floating time schedule – I now likely won't be around at all tomorrow 'cause the game has already gone longer than I expected and I have other scheduled games. It's no worries. I'm more used to players like roo or Epenguin/Tiruin or whoever actually playing the game or getting subbed out or godkilled. I guess now I'll have to bank on your generosity as well.
Maybe that's just my way of assuring birdy, “Hey, I'm happy to vote, if only I knew who was playing the game”. Since flabort's at least around, and Peradon, are we better off actually voting a player for scumminess or whittling down the no-shows? I prefer the former.