Because role flips are the single greatest information source we have, closely followed by player behavior in thread.
Well, all right. My flip will be completely fake. That is to say, completely random.
I don't know, I think Knightwing and Hector are town here.
So far, I agree. This encourages me that ToonyMan may also be town.
I don't think I believe TricMagic here, but I can't articulate why exactly. I believe he probably INSPECTS as a third party, though.
It’s this kind of thing that makes Max hard to read for me. They know Tric puts a lot of stock in their role, to the point of that sometimes overriding their alignment (webadict’s game in which Tric was town and had their role modified by collecting hats, in which collecting these hats was all Tric was interested in) so I don’t know how they think Tric’s claim is so unbelievable.
*gets distracted by having things to do*
Jiminy Christmas Tric. It’s awfully convenient you claim to be a magnet after someone claims a random recruit for town.
Euch. If anything I suppose it makes you more suspicious if you’re still alive on D2. Probably. *sigh*
@NJW we’re in a weird setup with only 8 players, an announcement at the start of the game that there was at least one scum (the implication being “not necessarily more than one scum”) then a claimed recruitable third party that seems to stay in the game even after they achieve their wincon of being recruited, plus someone claiming a random recruit for town, with another implication that scum might also have a recruit ability, random or otherwise.
Am I just supposed to ignore the first significant piece of information in the game? :p it’s also RVS and close to day start, we have plenty of time to examine that and hopefully clear up before the end of the day, and FoU can confirm my experience with early TP claims that” they can benefit town” was not good.
You're not. Nonetheless, that was the way you responded to it.
Also, as a pedant I'd say the first bit of significant information signifies the end of RVS.
If Tric's to be believed about the third party thing, then yeah, 2 mafia + 3p could drop to lylo on a single miselim, or even end the game if the third party can reasonably side with the mafia, so that might be odd. I'd speculate that there may be Mafia + Mally, possibly with a third party.
Wanna hear my waaacky theory about who they'd be?
There are 8 players in the game which makes having the tradish two scum and a third party of any stripe a bit of a stretch here.
It seems more likely to me that there’s one scum, and Tric is able to be recruited by them, possibly also by town to maybe kinda sorta balance it out?
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I hate third parties, god damn.
It has been a while, hector my scum buddy my pal, hasn't it?
Not actually mafia though. I am, stating once and all and for the record, that I am town. If I subsequently claim third party, please execute me. Thank you.
If we’re vagueclaiming, my ability is of… it’s not very good. I think I’m more support than anything else.
Started thinking about this because Mafiakart racing had a Mally in it. I checked out the game because they were talking about it.
Doesn't add up to much, but hey, following my gut here.
Ninja: ok Tric has a global attract. I'm going to think about this.
The first significant piece of information was a third-party claim that they could be recruited. What am I supposed to do with that?
This is within the context of a game with fewer than 9 players, which I’m under the impression is the minimum number to make a 2 player scum team “fair”, but more than 7, which I think is the upper limit for a 1 player scum team, though I might be mistaken regarding that.
Further context is the announcement that there was at least 1 scum from the mod, an unusual step. This doesn’t preclude a 2 player team, but it does make it harder for me to believe with Tric’s recruitable third party claim involved, plus Toony’s apparent supporting claim for it.
Like… I get that focusing on third parties doesn’t help find scum, but it’s the first few hours of D1, it was the first significant thing to happen, Tric could be recruited by scum by D2 (this was before the magnet claim) soooo… how would a townie response be different to how I responded to the information and context?
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