Power Brokers: Game of Thrones - Game Over

[maxwell]

Hello. You town this time?

The deadline will be set at 24 hours: 1 day, 0 hours, 6 minutes, but if maxwell so desires I'll extend it another 24 hours.

I would like an extension, going to need time to reread.

[maxwell]

maxwell, has arya submitted an action for u alreayd? dont answer what it is, just say if she's already done it.

Action is the one she submitted publicly, releasing Nero's 2nd.

[maxwell]

Doing ISO reads and I want to die already.

[maxwell]

hype for max to read the game!

Not sure why you'd say this or what you're expecting, exactly. Not an easy game to read and unfortunately I haven't really been able to get through things in the time I've had.


Quick thoughts on what I have been able to read:

Votato was scummy/useless but tipsy looks to at least be trying in a townish way?

Firebringer looked townish to me, nothing on Ari.

For such a long ISO, Porkens has barely any content and really looks like scum.

Shireen did basically nothing and dave doesn't read as town in any of his posts.

Flavor Leaf was nothing but Pink Ball looks decently solve-y and town.

I think this is probably Auro's towngame relative to scum games of his I've seen where he basically avoided saying anything useful but that's a really shallow read because he posts so fucking much and I had to just skim it.


Still haven't gotten to the last 3 slots and it looks like we're running out of time fast.

[maxwell]

I'm not even going to bother reading the slot since we have 5 hours and are better off killing someone than no lynching again.

VOTE: gobbledeygook

[maxwell]

Should we investigate the deaths now or are we getting coup'd? I have basically no context still.

[maxwell]

Not sure why you'd say this or what you're expecting, exactly.

????

i mean...i just want life in this game. Why are you assuming that what I'm saying was sinister?

Was just strange because my one past experience with you was me churning out pure bullshit. Not going to be able to produce that volume here. Still need to finish ISOing but my reads on everyone are super low confidence because there seems to have been so little going on.

Anyway, tipsy can check rubicon and I can check gobble?

[maxwell]

Firevringer was calling Pink Ball scum so I find it hard to believe he'd move to his castle.

[maxwell]

Finished skimming, don't really like elena/pisskop slot, elena's apathy didn't seem particularly town and pisskop also has seemingly abandoned any pretense of solving. nero just looks town and if he's scum he wants it more than anyone else in the game so fuck it.

dave has claimed Firebringer was in his castle, but that he mentioned it publicly here:

Should I go bold and eliminate the need for a replacement?
I wanted opinions on FB for a reason. He seemed overly active compared to a couple town games this year, and I lightly scumread him as a result.
It would be so much easier if there were flips.

Yo.

The kill would fit with the notion of court officials being scum and therefore not a free kill, but obviously that doesn't make sense from my POV. The big issue for me is, who sees that post and sends in the kill on firebringer? votato is dumb as fuck so he probably didn't notice it, and by the time Tipsy replaced in their actions were already locked in. For that matter, why assassinate FB's slot at all, if the assumption is he's going to be vigged? would seem like a waste of a kill.

[maxwell]

On the other hand, a kill on my slot probably means all eyes are on Tipsy as the last CO standing. That'd probably make sense not to do it from a scum pov. Hmm.

[maxwell]

I appreciate the attempt of making a cool setup based on a great book/series, I love GoT, and the setup trying to replicate what GoT feels like is really really cool. But yeah, it's too complicated.

That being said, getting back to the game: Auro and Nero are town, they'll win this. Change my mind.

I could probably get behind this.

[maxwell]

The thing is I'm having trouble seeing how that kill gets made without inside info. Even with supposedly leaking it, it seems very unlikely anyone picks up on it given the overall state of the thread. Who's going to send that in? No one seems to want to answer that question.

VOTE: davesaz

[maxwell]

The overall state of the thread isn't reflective of how well scum are playing, though. They could be vigilant and competent and just avoid posting too much in the main thread. I do think tipsy is a competent player and would've picked up on it.
When I read that I assumed Dave meant voting Fire .>. but I think interpreting it correctly isn't a stretch at all.

Tipsy replaced in after the post was made, it's highly unlikely they would have seen it, and their actions were already locked in by the time they replaced, meaning votato sent them in. I'm not really swayed by this.

[maxwell]

Gobble was town. Are we about to lose?

[maxwell]

I don't actually want to lose my powers because then this game just sucks and I think he's scum, so.

VOTE: davesaz

[maxwell]

I'm not mafia and I hope this isn't game over but...I really wouldn't mind if it was.

[maxwell]

Confirming that Rubicon was town.

[maxwell]

VOTE: Pink Ball Shrug. Seems more likely than Tipsy at this point.

[maxwell]

You can't, it's one action per day.

[maxwell]

Yeah, I guess have him kill everyone and town wins. *shrug*

[maxwell]

Arrest: Pink Ball's 2nd

[maxwell]

Arrest: Pink Ball's 2nd

Explain?

Out of ideas.

[maxwell]

Yeah, replacing into a scum slot in a massive game with seemingly unwinnable situation again, I just decided I wasn't going to effort this time. If I'd kept the shot on auro before hammering dave then maybe something could have been made of it, but, probably not. Meh.