TBM'S TOTALLY LEGITIMATE VAN (Newbie 1336: Game Over!)

[TheButtonmen]

Welcome to Newbie 1336!

Rule Set:

1. Play to your win condition.
2. Keep your posts at least moderately polite and respectful.
3. If it's not in the game thread don't quote/post/link it.
4. Don't discuss the game outside of this thread unless it's with people identified in your role PM.
5. No hidden text or cryptography.
6. Red is my colour, don't use it.
7. Prods go out approximately three days without a post and I start looking for a replacement after approximately thirty six hours.
8. Votes should follow the format of

Vote: Player Name

.
10. If deadline is reached without any player reaching a majority of the votes a No Lynch will occur.
11. As the mod I reserve the right to change anything at anytime.

Set Up:

2 of 4 a Semi-Open consisting of:
1 Mafia Goon
1 Mafia RoleCop
5 Vanilla Townies
2 of the following (no duplicates): (Cop, Doctor, Jailkeeper, Vanilla Townie)

Sample role PMs:

Welcome to Newbie 1336, you are a Vanilla Townie!

Abilities:

None.

Win Condition:

You win when all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town aligned player survives.

Welcome to Newbie 1336, you are a Cop!

Abilities:

Each night you may investigate a player to determine if they are town aligned or scum aligned.

Win Condition:

You win when all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town aligned player survives.

Welcome to Newbie 1336, you are a Doctor!

Abilities:

Each night you may choose a player to protect, any kills that target them during that night will fail.

Win Condition:

You win when all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town aligned player survives.

Welcome to Newbie 1336, you are a Jail Keeper!

Abilities:

Each night you may choose a player to imprison for the night, any actions that attempt that night will fail and any kill that targets them that night will fail.

Win Condition:

You win when all threats to the town are eliminated and at least one town aligned player survives.

Welcome to Newbie 1336, you are a Scum Role Cop! Your partner in crime is [Partners Name] the Scum Goon.

Abilities:

Each night you may investigate a player and learn what their role name is. Also each night you may communicate with your partner here and decide on a player to kill (note that you must also select who is going to carry out the dastardly deed).

Win Condition:

You win when the mafia controls half the votes or nothing can prevent that from occurring.

Welcome to Newbie 1336, you are a Scum Goon! Your partner in crime is [Partners Name] the Scum Role Cop.

Abilities:

Each night you may communicate with your partner here and decide on a player to kill (note that you must also select who is going to carry out the dastardly deed).

Win Condition:

You win when the mafia controls half the votes or nothing can prevent that from occurring.

Player List:

Woody

Isa
Paid Pyro

WalpurgisKnight

CES

Gordonst90

Tierce

darkguy1

IH

borkjerfkin

BV310

Nemanzin

Gen_Wolf
RachMarie (SE)
UberNinja (SE)
Thor665 (IC)

Important Links:

Pregame begins.
Night 1 begins, UberNinja was lynched!
Day 2 begins with no deaths!
Night 2 begins with a no lynch?
Day 3 begins with no deaths!
Night 3 begins, BV310 was lynched!
Day 4 begins with no deaths!
Night 4 begins with, Thor was lynched!
Day 5 begins with no deaths!
The game ends!

[TheButtonmen]

Players Alive (5/9):

Woody

Paid Pyro

WalpurgisKnight

CES

Gordonst90

Tierce

Nemanzin

Gen_Wolf
RachMarie

Players Dead (4/9):

UberNinja the Vanilla Townie

BV310 the Vanilla Townie

Thor665 the Scum Goon
Isa the Scum Rolecop

[TheButtonmen]

The thread is now open but Day 1 will start once once seven people have confirmed in thread.

[UberNinja]

/confirm

[darkguy1]

/confirm

[Paid Pyro]

/confirm

[Nemanzin]

/confirm

[RachMarie]

/confirm

[Thor665]

/Forsooth.

[Nemanzin]

/Forsooth.

Sorry, I'm new, I don't know if I'm supposed to know what this means, or what. Explanation?

[Nemanzin]

Like, I know what it MEANS, but does it have a double-meaning here in the forums?

[RachMarie]

@ Nem
no it doesnt and /confirm is the correct term our IC is being funny by using forsooth.

[Nemanzin]

Okay, thanks. Only one more confirm left!

[Paid Pyro]

Hey darkguy1 and nemanzin, while we are waiting please get an avatar. It will help us all in the game identify your posts easier.

[Nemanzin]

Okay, will do.

[Gordonst90]

/comfirm !

[Paid Pyro]

By my count that's 7 confirmed.

Can we start or do we wait for TheButtonmen?

[Thor665]

The game started as soon as we started posting things that weren't /confirm.

tl:dr - this entire commentary block is all about introducing myself as the IC, blathering about my duties, and offering a basic idea of some of the strategy of the RVS. If this interests you, please read on (especially if this is your first time playing here) if not, feel free to skip.

Spoiler: IC Intro

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Greetings,

I am Thor665 and I am the Inexperienced Challenged (IC) player of this group. What this means is first and foremost - I am here to play this game with you in a way that will show you what it is like to play on Mafiascum.net. I am here to win and should be treated as such.

My goals and the rules governing my actions are covered in this handy article: Being a good IC
That article is part of our amazing MafiaWiki System. I *highly* recommend this system as a good way to get your feet wet and to find out what a lot of the common abbreviations mean. There is a lot of play strategy discussed in there too. A lot of players consider that advice almost all outdated now. I don't recommend trying to run verbatim with anything there, but a lot of the basic advice is very good to at least be aware of as it can help you avoid blatant pitfalls as you become familiar with the game play here.

Now, as an IC I am here as a resource for you to ask questions of concerning game theory. I WILL NOT lie about game theory answers and will answer them to the best of my ability. I will also offer you the following quick pieces of advice;

1. Don't self vote. (there are really no points during a Newbie setup where this is a good idea, please avoid it however logical you may think it is)
2. This site frowns on lying if you are a vanilla town role. I strongly advise against lying if you have this role as usually it will only hurt town in the end.
3. It's a game - have fun.

We are now starting what is known as the RVS (random voting stage). We are in a low information period because scum already know who they are, and even have a rough idea of what power roles may or may not be in the game. It is now town's job to root them out. Because the start of the game leaves us with no information to start with generally the way to start is to begin voting and questioning other people to see if you can catch them doing something scummy (scummy actions being acts that a scum player is more likely to do then a town player).

Vote: RachMarie

For buddying to me.

[RachMarie]

Well if we are getting started before the mod opens the game not sure if the votes will count but RVS is RVS anyways.

I am one of your friendly SEs feel free to ask questions, I am not as experienced at playing as the IC is but I do have a fair bit of theory and game research I have done. Working on the game playing now.

Now to explain RVS it is the Random Vote Stage, and people often vote for silly or joke reasons just to get the ball rolling and discussion going. Usually it becomes clear in the game when the RVS has ended and serious voting has started. Another icebreaker used to get the game going is RQS or Random Questioning Stage.

1. How much mafia experience either onsite or elsewhere have you had?

2. What time zone are you in?

3. How often do you think you will be able to post in this game?

My Answers

1. None other than onsite, finished and completed one game (Newbie 1206), in my second game onsite (Newbie 1221), got bumped up to SE status because I am in several ongoing games. Working on getting the experience to be an IC, since I am an educator by nature. I have been onsite for almost 4 months, but my bf has been here for almost 2 and 1/2 years.

2. PDT I am in California.

3. I work from home along with my bf, so pretty regularly throughout the day and evening, though there maybe times when I have to go V/LA for work reasons.


now for RVS:

vote: Uber

Cause I miss the ninja avatar

[Thor665]

Rach purposely is trying to avoid addressing my vote on her. Town would admit that they were buddying or deny it was buddying and be bewildered I'd seen it as such. Scum would like to avoid talking about it because they would rather have everyone focus elsewhere.

Also, I will submit that her RQS questions are unlikely to help us catch scum as I can't spot any of them that a scum player would lie about and a town player wouldn't. Consequently her scumhunting her is a charade and is faked - ergo, it is scum faking scumhunting.

Random vote is now serious - more votes pl0x.

[Paid Pyro]

1. How much mafia experience either onsite or elsewhere have you had?

2. What time zone are you in?

3. How often do you think you will be able to post in this game?

1. One completed game here and 2 off site.
2. Central time zone
3. Weekdays, it will be either before work (unlikely), or after work. Weekends may vary.

VOTE: Nemanzin

Reason, your first avatar was Pokemon, and you changed it. Why the poke-hate?

[Thor665]

@Paid Pyro - your opinion of my RachMarie case. Go!

[Paid Pyro]

Hmmm, Thor665, nothing there yet, especially from one post.

[RachMarie]

pfft I was helping out a newbie not buddying, I did not respond because I felt it was not worth a response Thor.

[Gordonst90]

1. How much mafia experience either onsite or elsewhere have you had?A: None

2. What time zone are you in?A: Pacific time zone

3. How often do you think you will be able to post in this game?A: About 5 times on a week

Vote:Nemanzin

Because in the player list, he's number 6 and 6 is my lucky number!