The White Walkers eh? The only people I've ever heard talk about them are people from the Frozen North.

 

If in doubt we can go for the standard rng lynch. It's got a better chance of catching scum this time around so it's not wholly infeasible that we could lynch one right off the bat. I'm going to wait a few hours though. We've got 48 hour days this time so there's plenty of time for people to fuck up and give us a decent lynch target.

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Heh, the only place I roleplay is in the bedroom.

 

Hmm, there's simply no way to glean enough information from first day posts to be able to formulate an educated guess on lynching scum. Which leaves us with three options:

(a) A random lynch
(b) Eliminate a power player based on previous history in mafia games.
(c) Lynch someone acting stupid or simply on a "feeling" that you have from reading their posts.

While (b) may statistically have the greatest probability of benefit to the town (easy enough to see), it is quite unfair to the player. Since we're all here to have fun, I guess (c) sounds the best. Although the first person saying "I just have a feeling x is scum" is more liable to get suspected himself! So I guess I'll wait and see for now.

 

To answer Vesvius' question, the way the players were chosen, as Custer pointed out, itself means that this game has a ton of strong players. Ofc, there are those who have played games but not really played games, like myself and a couple of others, but for the most part we have experienced, strong players.

The most dangerous, however...

Yeah, so I was gonna do what Custer did and pick out a few names from the playerlist, but I ended up picking most of them, so that was kind of pointless. Suffice it to say that this is a game with plenty of dangerous people, most of whom could do a lot of damage as scum - conversely, of course, (unless Lutris the RNG is having a laugh at our expense) most of the town will also be smart and observant, so we do have a pretty good chance.

This is shaping up to be a very fun game :awesome

 

That it is.

 

This sounds fairly damn fishy, your options are basically lynch someone for shits and giggles which the scum can easily exploit in their favor or lynch them because someone "has a feeling" which the scum can laughably easily take advantage of. The only thing I see coming out of this is a neat little pile of innocent corpses.

 

That's true, but the bandwagon doesn't always work according to the scum's plan. This time especially, when there is more than one mafia faction, means that we've got a good chance of lynching scum even if we just blindly guess.

 

Let's not forget that there are multiple factions of scum. Even as one faction tries to push the blame off themselves, others will try to do the same, and so push back. If anything, a clear bandwagon with few or no dissidents is more suspicious except if a) there is such a clear reason to bandwagon that it's too dangerous for the player's allies to support them, or b) it's the Narrow Sea faction, which only has two players anyway.

Scum manipulating blind bandwagons is far simpler when they all co-ordinate. Here, we have three factions individually pushing in various directions, plus all the pro-town players who will be working off their own assumptions. Taking advantage of the town bandwagons isn't nearly as easy as you make it out to be, tbh. Not in this game.

 

Meh you have something of a point and I agree different in this game but as I look back at previous games I can't recall a single instance where random lynching wasn't either A. a huge mistake that kills innocent people or B. A trap that ends with dead innocent people. So I'm just very leery of picking a guy and stringing him up for no other reason than kicks.

 

On phone so pretend I'm not skipping words and such.

Anyway picking person out of a hat sucks and easily manipulated by scum (scum 'randomly' picks a non-scum person.

Something I'd like us to think about instead of that is pressure some people known for lurking (2–3) and then leave it up to the judge (yes, using witchhunt terms, sue me) to pick one to lynch.

 

I'll post longer when I'm not typing from a phone.

Basically I am against lynching blindly, not lynching isn't terrible for town because there are roles that get enabled by mislynching and judge can still pull it off. The scum also have to off eachother and I think that it's not unlikely that with three scum factions they will eliminate eachother, Atleast partially.

 

Well, we're not going to have any hard evidence on any scum on day one, especially this early. Its more likely then not going to end up as a Pro-Town player dead.

If its the best case scenario, we'd obviously get mafia, but if we lynch town we'd want the least powerful role possible. I'm sure that the important power roles in this game won't give the town reason to lynch them on the first day. So we just wait for someone to mess up. Unless, of course we vote for a no lynch, or let the judge decide... But I think it'd be best, for the town especially, if we get a majority vote. We could get an early start on voting pattern/etc.

 

The Boy King wouldn't be happy with that situation and solely burdening that responsibility. A lurker could easily be the Imp or the Lord of the Finger, and you could easily kill one of those roles. The mocking that results after making a bad decision would be rather unbearable. D:

Besides, we've had talkative scum before. Lesstinyhunt had Witches who tried to steer the town, and SW2 had some impressive Separatist tl;dr. The dominant and the submissive are equally suspicious in my eyes. I trust nobody in this game, and you'll all be wise to be similarly wary.

 

I'd rather wait a day and have a better shot at stringing up scum than take a random kinda bad odds shot.

Yeah best case scenario we get scum but likely we end up lynching a power role or at a minimum forcing to come clean to avoid getting strung up which would be as good as killing them. Also your right the power roles wouldn't give us a reason to lynch them on Day One but considering whats being discussed is saying "Fuck it" and drawing a name out of a hat that doesn't matter a whole bunch.

Waiting is the best option for now.

 

I disagree on that point. One of the primary methods of gaining information we have is seeing who voted for whom to get lynched. If we just skip day one altogether then we lose those vital clues as to who may be scum. If we don't lynch the first day what we essentially do is set ourselves up for another day of no one knowing anything, only a few members down on top of it.

 

We have to lynch. That is the only way to get some information and also the Vigilante can't act without two consecutive mis-lynch.

 

Yep. And if the town decides on a no-lynch, the judge could still use his power, but It'll be even more random. Who knows who the judge is?

Also, we wouldn't have any information differently on day 2 unless a couple of power roles role claim, which, obviously is not a good idea.

 

I keep forgetting about the Kingslayer role, but yes, the Kingslayer is one of the few cast iron ways we have of knowing if we've lynched the right people or not.

 

Judge lynches count as a mis-lynch if the victim is pro town, doesn't it?