Be Excellent To Each Other

Dietrich was the scientist, surely?

"Corporal Deitrich. Non communicable Colony Doctor. 1 per night phase, PM name of player to protect from FaceHugger actions. Win Condition Marines."

I did have to check though..

Amusingly if you do a search for Deitrich, the only posts mentioning the name were made by SDG

Oh. Heh! Well that's what happens if you don't maintain your radio, soldier!

I think it's Dave. I'm convinced.

Dave and Davpaz? Perfect.

Only one, isn't there?

Oh yeah.

It's not Dave, I know that!
I'm pretty sure Morte is Rebecca/newt from his unsubtle hints of the first 2 days...
& DavPaz I think is a DAC...
Which all makes me think Joans is the last one.

That's how I figured you for company - you kept referring to company, calling people company men etc., whereas the DACs suspected people of being aliens
(the company was only a minor threat, unless you were company, in which case you viewed the game as company v everyone, so pretending to be in the 'everyone' camp made you act like the company was the big threat)

Well that was quick. Did zaphod79 spot and deliberately ignore Morte's roleclaim on day 1?

Yeah I assume they've just lynched Newt. Well done Dave!

(crossposted from LV426)


I think you've hit the nail on the head there. Openly discussing things can mark you out as a useful good-guy, and make you a target.

And yes, in this game especially I thought the town was quiet, knowing there were three factions communicating in secret around them just makes everyone paranoid I think.



The problem at this stage is that the badguys have the advantage in getting a vote swing, unless there is suspicion against one of them.

Dave is claiming he's a DAC who is playing to survive, rather than hurt the Aliens.

Your predictions were Zaphod and DavPaz for Alien - and they are the other two lynchers today. So you could well be right (well, one of them at least, as there's probably only one alien).

Morte almost certainly is Newt, I reckon.

Morte was newt as anyone whose seen the movie knew many days ago :/ :/

There's such a thing as a fake role claim though.. I thought it was odd that nobody called him on it really

Impossible to win doing that. I've been close to modkilling hima few times as he isn't helping the dacs survive.

Impossible to win doing that. I've been close to modkilling hima few times as he isn't helping the dacs survive.

Nah, all it says is "survive to the end". Singular. I think it would be really unfair to penalise anyone for sneaky/selfish play, given that is the wording.

It also says the rescue is 17 days lol

Gnnn! Joans is so obviously the alien - hidey hidey hidey!
So, tomorrow we have Joans & 2 others, last chance for the colony.
& as soon as either surviving DAC votes for the other one, joans pops in & its game over

wooo the aliens

Gogo sneaky acid dripping b'stard!

Just realised that I posted in the wrong dead thread, oops.

Did you like my script?

I can't believe the idiots just lynched Newt, despite Morte having roleclaimed it several times.

Also the fact that when I mentioned who I would say the bad guys were which I attempted to discuss a few times, i never once mentioned Mr Dom, Curio or Morte and I was right about the first two so why didnt they look back for hints?!

They were dumbasses?

Hello Mr Dave!

Step forward and bow your heads, wronglings

I think Zaphod deliberately ignored Morte's 'roleclaim' - he's usually very good at spotting comments. I flag him for the bad guy, not Joans.

Would the other alien have matured into a queen last night and hugged someone? Or am I getting my time lines mixed up?

One more night for that. And it would all be over if that were true. There's one alien in there, and two good guys.

Ignore my last, I forgot the huggee took a day to mature, and wouldn't know who the alien is.

Heh, good point.

Just need the two good guys to get their votes in first now.

Just based on today I'll be surprised if it's Zaphod. He's talking a good game.

Yeah, I knew pretty much nothing. It became clear sometime during day 1 that I wasn't really going to have much time to pay attention (very little, in fact), so I went for a pure survive-on-no-information strategy and barely read any posts, rather than the more methodical approach I'd usually take. However, I'd decided that if we got to a position where one kill could win the game to break out of that strategy. (Or in cases where one kill could lose, to not fake vote davpaz instead

I vaguely remembered someone making a reference to teddys or toys or sometime, but couldn't remember who, so did a search, and found comments by Mr Dom(?) and DavPaz. Then noticed the reference was far too late from DavPaz so, I decided to do a search for all posts by Morte in the mafiascum, spotted it was dollies, but it was just a bit too late.

It's gotta be Joans...
The thing is - as soon as either DAC votes for the other, the last alien votes & its game over..
Argh - the tension!

Argh - looks like everyone trusts Joans!
We're doomed!

Teehee.

It livened the game up anyway. Your list(s) were complete random nonsense, right?

It's definitely Joans, isn't it

Funnily enough, no. My list was simply people I was predisposed to suspect. It's an interesting case of psychology. You know if you put them, people are going to read things into them. (See: People reading things into random coins) So if you're a bad guy, on the first day, what do you put? I know it's something I would not like to do if I was on the bad guy side. Because even randomly chosen, it could potentially get your side into a little trouble.

Heh. Looks like I was wrong and it was Joans then.

That's why I really dislike the coins. If Runcle's a good guy, he's putting random names into people's heads based on nothing at all. If he's a bad guy, it's a carefully crafted list of suspicion.

Sure, but not based on any pattern or knowledge, or anything you'd spotted, right?



I think I figured that's what you were up, in the end... Especially as I knew who quite a few people were, and I think you had only one badguy in the list (me)

To Craster:

Which is why I'd only really pay much attention to a list if it had some external method of corroboration. Say, if Runcle died. Or there was a pattern in his list which matched existing dead people.

It's an idea which occurred to me while playing the ghostscum game, and I was waiting for a more opportune game to use it (One without a selfish win condition, to start off with) but it seemed quite likely that this would be my last game at about that time, so I went with it without it being the correct fit.
It, however, wasn't completely useless this game.

I must say, I'm glad this went right down to the wire. Although now we have to wait for LS!

I declare Joans the winner then

Davpaz: YOUR FAULT



Your last game, Mr Dave??

No.

Good.

DAAAAAMN! Sorry zaphod, I'm a fooking idiot.

No surprise there, then.

Good game. Bit confusing like, but fun to watch!

I found it fun to play. I quite liked not having to be a team player, and trying to appear *ahem* unusual.

I'm sure DavPaxz loved my style, too.