Are you vulnerable to exorcism though?

Anyway, nobody's made any scumslips at this point so I've not got any real idea of what to do at this point so...

Jon: What is your opinion of Caesar?

Duke of Rothwood: Lynching lurkers. Good idea or bad?

Caesar: Have you played Mafia before?

Kensington: Are you always such a dick?

 

So I finally get time to post and I see we made it to three pages. Well then, here's what I see from first day posts and what I know about people. I just copied and pasted the list and went down it, giving what I know from playing them before or watching them play. I realize I didn't really give scum/town reads but I figured on the first day it'd be easier to layout information one what I've noticed from previous games since technically this is only the first day so looking for scum/town reads is kind of hard (at least for me).

Gambit - Derpy as hell which means nothing as he plays this regardless. His determination to lynch anyone including himself is a bit odd, but honestly, it's Ollie, I can never tell.

Kalas - Not much to say really, smart player asking smart questions.

Kensington is being Kensington. His singling out of Aekiel is a tradition, I've seen him do it before so it's not that odd.

LochNess - Haven't seen much from Loch yet, in terms of scumminess that is. Seems to be a fairly strong player in other games though.

Doctor Whooves - Only saw Whooves in one other game and he's going crazy there so I'll be keeping my eye on him to see if he has similar gameplay here.

Caesar - Either he's new or I've never seen him post before so I have to wait to make further judgement based on reactions to whomever is lynched today.

Schrodinger - Don't know much about Schro's play style so have to wait to see more.

Duke of Rothwood - Seems to be fairly competent but this is his first game apparently so not much for now

Dovaekiin - Asking questions in a pointed manner, trying to be like Stojil, kind of weird but someone needs to do it.

fontisian - fairly strong player if last mafia I was in was any indication, pointed questions as well, however no telling what's happening there.

Sesc - Never played with Sesc so no clue but seems to be a strong player in the other Mafia's I've skimmed through

Jon - is Jon

 

This is my first time playing forum mafia. I have played a little face-to-face but I understand that's not all that much use. Anyway, I'm going to reread the thread, see if any thing jumps out at me.

 

Hey. I wasn't that crazy, I just rose a lot of people's hackles early on.

Also, Gambit, what is it with you and suicide? If you're not going to play, don't sign up.

 

I'm not suicidal, I just am a very easy target and hard to get a read on. I'd love to stay alive til the end, but I'm playing from a "what's best for town" perspective.

 

What's best for town is you staying alive if you are town so you're idea makes no sense.

 

What Riley said. Lynching players we think are town is a terrible idea, especially early on, if only because their blatant towniness lowers the odds of lynching scum down by one.

 

alright then, we'll lynch someone scummy, but there's no one being awfully scummy, just me derping innocently.

 

The current tally:

Abstaining (9): Kalas, Riley Poole, Kensington, LochNess, Caesar, Duke of Rothwood, Dovaekiin, fontisian, Jon

Dovaekiin(1): Gambit

Kensington(1): Doctor Whooves

Caesar(2): Sesc, Schrodinger

With 13 people left alive, it's 7 votes to lynch. Day ends in about 42 hours, at 2:00 PM EST.

 

Well personally I would tend to think that a lurker is one of two options
1) completely disinterested in the game. or
2) scum attempting to fly below the radar screen and be completely ignored.

Now, based on my understanding of this game, there is only 1 "power" role, everyone else is either town or werewolves. Since we all knew that coming into the game, people shouldn't all of a sudden lose interest in what they signed up for.
I understand school commitments and everything (heck I'm a law student, I get not being able to post all the often), but considering that a day is 72 hours, that should be plenty of time to contribute.

So... in my rather long-winded answer, considering the circumstances of this game I would tend to lean towards lurkers being scum

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Also, to clarify just so it doesn't come back later to bite me in the ass. Technically this is the second time I've signed up for a Mafia game here.
The 1st time happened to fall over last Christmas so the game started and then I promptly left on holidays and completely forgot about the game which got me disqualified but I had made a couple of posts there.

The reason I said this was my first game is because that's how I view it since I will actually be around for this game and should be able to contribute as opposed to going MIA immediately

 

Going over the thread, this post struck me as a little odd. The game had just started and many people hadn't even posted. Why did Caesar feel the urge to justify a short absence at the time? It could easily be chalked up to newbie nerves though.

 

To be honest it was just a courtesy, in case anyone had anything to say to me at the time.

Moving on, no one seems particularly scummy to me at the moment. I have a weird feeling about Kens and I'd like to see more from Lochness but, outside of that, no one's pinging my scumdar.

 

I agree.

You'd think that, wouldn't you? However, past experience in these games has shown mostly the opposite. Scum tend to get into these games more than vanilla town, since they get a night action to work with on top of day phase shenanigans.

That said, scum also know this so they're generally prepared to keep one or two of their number in the background in case their frontman gets caught in a lie or reveals something he shouldn't know.

So really, there's no good answer to this question, but that wasn't the point of asking it. I've got you down as a tentative town read now.

 

I am with Jon, though he seems positively lupine as well.

 

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LochNess has to drop out due to lack of time. I'm going to be contacting the alts, seeing if they're still up for it. Until I have a replacement confirmed, this game is frozen.

Once we have a replacement, the game will resume, with the same amount of hours left in the day. There're about 29 hours left, so there will be that many left when the game resumes.

 

/Sigh

Vote: Jon