Be Excellent To Each Other

The second you did, I was shitting myself. I wasn't sure if I had gotten it wrong (I had), or if you were going hammer and tongs to convince us that you weren't Mafia by stringing up one of your own. That said, the fact that you tried to get me to lay my life on the line was evidence that I could have been wrong about Lace.

It was worrying, and well played.

It really was a good job I was Bulletproof!

Also, well done to CG for running it.

Yeah, I guess that might have been our other hope - knowing that it was Friday and people would be in a rush and still a bit unsure, if we'd been able to group together on the last day... maybe. But still - good detective work, I think.

I was completely wrong about the game balance being off, so I extend a hearty "sorry!" to CG and a bellowing "well done!" to the town and the cult.

Don't apologise, it could have fallen on its arse at any time. If a couple of people had done a couple of night roles differently it could have been a very different game, but then you could say that of any game I guess.

Onwards and upwards, I look forward to watching the radically different next game

Hey, that's the beauty - it worked, and I'm sure people have picked up things they'd keep and change - that's the great thing, completely different dynamics for players to cope with.

This was a tragically unfortunate coincidence that fortunately only Runcle picked up on and believed Rodafowa's claim of innocence (from this moment on I actually started to suspect Runcle might be a townie rather than mafia, so it's a good job I was out of action by then). The night before I blew up we thought we'd pretty much got the mafia nailed (unfortunately we picked up LaceSensor in the crossfire), so I was going to go public in the morning as I had nothing special to offer the cult except being a number. After I died, I decided to put it in a diary post, but instead of just saying "I think these 4 are mafia", I set about it a bit more cryptically (ironically, to try and protect the other cult members). Originally it was a lot longer and bits about day 1 and 2 in, but I figured nobody would read it, so I just went for the "I think people that tried to get MaliA/Mr Russ lynched are suspicious, let's look at the day 3 voting" angle. It was only after the fact that I realised I'd left off everyone who hadn't voted at all on day 3, who were, coincidentally, the 3 cult members (including me).

Curiosity was definitely the Cult's MVP. Part of the reason his initially accurate predictions were so accurate was that Team Cultist had been talking about them for two days, but every time he had to make a 50-50 call his hunch turned out to be the right one. Great work, man.

A tip of the hat to Joans for pointing me in his direction to start with, and to Plissken who I thought did a great job of flying under the radar and gave us a 50-50 chance to win on the last night.

Given that three days ago the Mafia had 4 of the 11 players left (then 4 of the 10 just before Malc blew himself up!), with just Curiosity and me left for the Cult, I think pulling a Cult-townie draw out of the fire is an absolutely brilliant result. Thanks for a rollicking good time, CG, and a hearty "GG" to everyone involved.

Hooray!

As soon as I was drawn as a Vanilla Townie I though my days were numbered, I didn't think I would have avoided both factions, the serial killer, accidentally being killed by the Vigilante/Suicide Bomber/Mimic and the lynch mob, especially when the numbers started getting so low.

I think I was helped by Mr Russ's rather eccentric behaviour, as it helped cause a lot of confusion over how a Vannila Townie would act.

I'm thankful I went onto day shift when I did. I don't think I would have survived yesterday if I wasn't present.
Also, I would have missed out on The Great Mafia Purge of Awesomeville!

Happy with a Town/Cult stalemate, a town win with such low numbers, so late on, seemed very unlikely.

A big thanks to everyone, the last week's playing has been great fun.

Excellent! It was as much fun watching the last couple of days as taking part..

I won the most because I was 50% cult 50% town kthx.

It was a good game, even after my terrible suspicions of Mr.Russ and MaliA who I did believe were cult, I seemed to realise who were who pretty quickly after two cults got killed in the night, although it was too late really. Im not that happy about the ending though having a vote from someone who didnt even get to see that day and possibly peoples reasonings as to why not to lynch them, I would have thought it would have made a more tense ending if curiosity was actually there having to decide who should get the final vote and lynch.

anyway great game comical, cheers.

Oh also the broken charger was no lie, I did actually get one later to see one of my mafia friends had died, got my night action in, used my mates computer later and another one was dead. Im not sure I could have orchestrated a different finish though if I was present as it did seem like a bandwagon of votes. Oh anyway my main point of this post was that when I was using my friends computer I had the same log in problem many people had a few months ago and realised if your logged out you can see the dead zone, so you may want to fix that.

Yeah, we were dead men walking by day 4 :0)

I'll sort the dead zone viewable by guests thing.

Can you see the Dead Zone now?

I still can't.

Check now.

I'm not entirely sure I liked that "previously voted lynch" either, but it's not a biggie.

I can now, thanks.

No, absolutely - not something to encourage, but given a best man's speech I'd let him off totally, and it's only analogous to someone having a hunch, agonising over it and then deciding to just stick with it.

And I agree with Runcle - if you'd been able to be online it probably wouldn't have made a difference, I just like speculating, and certainly no blame; I suspect Craster is right, too much suspicion was levelled at us for us not to be picked off by then.

Yeah Craster is right, Day 4 was far too revealing for the Mafia.

Friday was great fun picking you all off in quick succession after you had stayed so well hidden, such a massive power shift in the game.

Oh I forgot to say something else, once I saw that I could see the dead zone I had a quick look and noticed that there was a cult left, and I was positive it was curiosity because of how accurate his predictions were. I then started writing a new post for the final day instead about curiosity about him probably being cult and revealing myself as mafia, it was pretty much 2 paragraphs long, saying to KevR it was up to him to either draw or let me win haha. and I had changed my vote to curiosity, went to post it and the thread was locked. It was my final attempt of trying to get something from the game, mainly because I feared curiositys suspicion of me.

Now fixed :0)
Although technically if someone really did want to cheat, they could create a new account and see it. Still, there aren't any overt spoilers in there anyway.

That would have been a pretty desperate gambit!

haha I know, I very much doubted my honesty would have won you over.

I was hoping he was Mafia, but I guess hitting a cultist is no bad, either, looking back on it. He'd piqued my interest the day before, coming in rather late to the 'lynch MaliA' bandwagon, so I was supicious. In the end, it was a choice between him and one other, whihc I decided upon by the color of the enxt car to come around the bend as I was commuting in to work, thinking about it. I'd already decided to mimic Malc to see if he was lying or not, and assume that he wasn't so I ahd to make it count.

That's better. If you have to actually take actions to sneak in there nobody will, but as it was you could easily stumble in and read other peoples guesses without actually trying.

I don't think I actually voted for you though. I did make a few MaliA = mafia type comments, but that's because as far as I knew you could be.
Day 2 was a bit of a you vs Jasmine day, and I was more convinced she was a townie than you were.

I still want to know why GJ pardoned Mali, given that it was between her and him that day.

Taken from Page 10 of The Dead Zone


(You = Myp, he asked the original question)

Ah, cool - I had 21 pages of dead zone to read when I died, so I skim read a bit

Show off

Re: advance voting.

I really didn't want to, but there as a risk I wouldn't have internet access until Sunday night, and as such the entire game would have been ended and the fate of the town decided purely on me not being able to get to a computer.

As it was, I managed to get internet access at the hotel, so it wouldn't have mattered.

Not sure what else I could have done, though obviously it's not an ideal situation by any stretch of the imagination.

No I see your point, it just seems a little....off.. you know.

I hereby declare it to be totally valid, just as valid as people sending in night actions before it's actually night.

Wasn't fond of that either.

If someone's made up their mind already, I don't see the harm, myself. Especially if it's conditional, like "I'll protect Mr Chris unless he hangs, in which case I'll protect Clam", or whatever.

Yeah, it's better than a proxy lynch vote because at night there's nothing much to swing you.

Question: Why was it a draw? Why not do another day?

Nobody left could do anything. No night killers were left, and unless someone voted to hang themself, there'd be no lynch either.

For some reason I thought there were two of each. Ignore me.

Nope, just the two of us left.

I have yet to be killed in any Mafia game yet, fact fans!

(though this was to the Mafia's advantage in Game One, as I consistently strung up my fellow townies!)

[vote:Curiosity]

I am so dead next game.

I can already see the Curiosity/Comical split-vote that means neither of them get lynched.

Good point.

[vote:Joans]

See? It's happening again!
*Sounds of Comical laughing in the distance*