Trouble in Minas Tirith! Game over!
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I agree we should back off Riven. He's good for now.
CoolBot, we don't know Eomer's not in the game. A clever (or, perhaps, just one that doesn't check the board very often) Eomer would wait to see if ZONEACE was going to be lynched anywaywithoutneeding to reveal who he was.
I never understood the argument against Leo. Why is thereanyreason to think FlyingDutchman was targeted last night? He asked for protection the night before!!! Evil's not usually that stupid.
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While I agree with this possibility (that the Rohirrim are possibly safe role claims), I'm not sure that really casts doubt on Riven's claim in particular. But, as you say, it's something to keep in mind for later. (Especially if Pippen doesn't show up).CoolBot wrote:I had an idea on that, actually. Zone claimed Eomer, and I think that was a pretty risky claim for mafia to make in a game this size. What if the Haradrim know that the Rohirrim aren't in the game. That would explain Zone's claim and cast doubt on Riven's claim. I think the likelihood of this being the case is rather low and we shouldn't lynch Riven on this idea, but I wondered what others thought about it.
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Unvote: Phoebus
Well, without any strong leads, wecouldconsider not lynching. Are we really going to gain anything by bandwagonning someone until they role claim? I would think that because of the intricacies in the game (namely, that it seems like there were several very new and ocmplicated roles), we might be better off to let our pro-town roles do their jobs for another night. I realize we'll wake up in the morning with another dead or two, but note that this is better than waking up with another dead or twoandhaving lynched a townie the day before.
Thoughts?
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Yeah, I know, I know. How could we have fun without blood and carnage? It's like a hotdog with no ketchup.Werebear wrote:Where's the fun in that. Mathcam?!?
I'm always torn on the quick-popper-uppers as you mentioned. In their defence, at least they showed up. But against them is the fact that they were admittedly lurking...reading the thread and not posting. I guess you just have their "I'm here!" post to judge them on.
Phoebus, keep posting or we'll kill you.
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Well, I guess is this fairly subjective, but this post for one already outdoes a couple of other people in this game: (Sorry for the obnoxiously long quote)
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Sure!CoolBot wrote:Phoebus, I'll unvote you when you post something more than worrying about votes.
What do you want? Going from what others have pointed out, I tend to concur that Gnome is the likeliest suspect who could be Zoneace's buddy.
But for now, no one seems to want to proceed anywhere ahead of here.
I'd vote for Gnome if we decided that's what we are going to do. For personally, I haven't a clue.
The only thing I'm wondering about is mathcam's vote for Tigris.
He voted for me as lurker. Fair enough.
I indicated I'm still around. He unvoted, fair enough again.
Then he votes for Tigris after having re read the thread. I'd like a little more plausible explanation for the vote.
Tigris does not seem too concerned about the vote as well. I can't blame him/her. (Sorry I don't know which. ) and has proceeded to talk about what where we should send FD.
At this point of time, I'd rather FD make up his own mind for the story does indicate infiltration of the city has been achieved. I guess he also needs doc cover. It's been rather lucky I think for him to eb around still with such a potentially revealing role.
There are absolutely no leads other than him. Riven's claim has been satisfactory for now. We've decided not to go after Leo as well.
At this rate, Iwillworry about my lead in the votes race. You don't want me lynched. That's all I say...
Why? Well, I'm town. Number majority for town is a good thing. From what I've heard of Macros' games, night abilities for every character are a given. I hardly need state I have one...do I?
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Well, I'm certainly not arguing this was optimal play. He was lurking, and there's nothing we can do about that now. We just have to decide what to make of the information. Townies lurk too, ya know.
I don't know why I find his "You guys really don't want to kill me" argument so compelling. It's made time and time again every time a mafia is about to be lynched and I don't even flynch. This time, though, I just believe him. But of course, I'm not that sure. So I'm happy to let you guys go ahead and kill 'em, and be right there with a "I told you so" if I'm right, and a "Well done, team" if you're right.
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I don't have my notes with me here, and honestly, I'm not sure I even wrote down why I voted Tigris. I did at the end of a read-through and somehow found him the most scummy. I have no strong evidence in favor of lynching Tigris. I'll let you know if I had a good reason when I'm at my other computer.
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Well, I anticipate that we'll be at a standstill again until Macros gets frustrated and reimposes our dealine again, at which point we will be in the same place we were before. I think it's pretty clear no new information is going to make itself available, so I'm going to leave my vote where my gut told me to put it. On Tigris.
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I'll reemphasize then that my vote is highly not due to suspicious behavior (though there were semi-valid attacks made agsint you), but rather that I believe Ben and think it imperative that we raise someone else's vote tally over his before the deadline. As there's still only two votes on him, if you pick someone to bandwagon and give a semi-valid reason, I'll probably follow.
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This is definitely a pickle. With no lynch not an option, it's going to be hard not to keep randomly bandwagonning out powerful roles out into the open, and then unvoting them. The only way this will get us anywhere is if we bandwagon someone who comes out with a ridiculous or duplicated claim. Also working against us is the possibility that a ridiculous claim will actually be legitimate. The one thing in our favor is that there doesn't seem to be a generic townie role yet, right? So any false claim made by a scum willl likely be extremely tangential or duplicated.
I'm not sure what to make of this, though.
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Okay, I'm only halfway through my reread...I'gve sot some suspicions, but I had a question for the LOTR experts that might possibly have already been asked.
We've been told that the Man of Khand led a contingent of troops. Is it possible/likely that the Man of Khand is just the godfather for the Haradim, rather than the Khands and the Hardim be two separate evil groups?
Again, if this answer has already been well-established, I apologize.
I'm working on my suspicious list as we go, so let's hold off on the no lynch for just a little more.
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My point is that you can feel that pushing a no lynch only benefits the mafia without voting for whomever suggested. In some cases, I might beless[/]i suspicious of someone who boldly proposes a plan that I think to be pro-mafia, simply because I don't think a mafia would present it. So while I feel your thoughts are in the right place, I don't think your vote is.
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So your solution was this was to gasp in horror and point fingers at the person who suggested no lynch? I don't mean to pick on you, Phoebus, it's just that this has become a pet peeve of mine. No lynch is often a viable option, and too often whoever suggests it gets bandwaggoned even though most people realize that its a viable option.Frankly...I'd probably be all for a no lynch but then everyone gasps in horror and points fingers.
I will post again very soon with a list of the people I find most suspicious.
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Well, I've compiled a list of people I think are very probably innocent, but I think I'll keep that to myself. The only people I found anything worth mentioning in the suspicious department are Tigris and, ironically enough, ages. I still feel Tigris is more suspicious than most, but ages already has some votes on him, so
Vote: Ages
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Ah, what the heck: In my almost certainly wrong expert mafia opinion, I guess that the vast majority of the remaining evil lies within:
Ages, CoolBot, Dragon Slayer, MGIA, Scalebane,Tigris, and Untrod Tripod.
Everyone else has either claimed something believable or posted something that convinced me of their innocence. I'll be interested in seeing how accurate this is at the end of the game. (i.e. who cleverly posted something to lead me astray). Italics means that they're actually suspicious to me, and not just neutral.
Who of these is lurking as well? Maybe Scalebane? Everyone else seems to be pretty active, I think.
*looks forward to the return of the "view all posts" option*
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Let me answer both questions:
I am suspicious of Tigris in part for the "maybe some of the Haradrim aren't evil" comment.
I am suspicious of ages in part for stretching really hard to make Tigris seem suspicious after my initial posting of this suspicion.
Clearly, neither of these things are things that a pro-town person couldn't do, so good luck defending on it. They were just things that struck me as odd, and put the two of you higher than the generic suspicion on my list.
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It's not rolling over. It's saying "I'd rather have only one dead townie when we wake up tomorrow rather than 2." It's saying "Let's use our investigative and protective roles to get an edge instead of doing the mafia's work for them."
The only reason I'm voting for ages is because Macros seemed to really not want a no lynch, and it seems like it must be in the town's best interests to acquiesce.
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Not bothering with bandwagons and roleclaims? We've done this. It's not a question of not wanting to bother with it, it's a question of it being detrimental to the town. If I was trying not to bother with this game, I wouldn't be arguing with you on this point! Yes, it's always nice to find out information in the day, but more likely than not, we're going to be killing a townie, and then there'll be 4 dead townies tomorrow instead of 3! I'll be saying "Gee, I wish we hadn't done the mafia's work for them."
And we're not talking about a cop handing us the game, though that would certainly be nice. We're talking about docs getting information, role-blockers gaining information, not to mentions cops and certain gate-watchmen. We're talking aboutusingour abilities to our benefit, instead of making them sound like we're cheating if we use them.
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Well, that's awfully tangential.
I find it somewhat unlikely he would be present in this game. In any case, it's a combination of a weak role claim with a guilty cop investigation. There's little doubt in my mind that this is the right move:Some web site wrote: Bergil is the son of Beregond a guard of Minas Tirith. When Gandalf and Pippin were in Minas Tirth, Beregond sent Pippin to find Bergil so he could guide him round the city. Pippin found Bergil playing with some other boys outside the Old Guesthouse in Lampwright’s Street. "Bergil proved a good comrade, the best company Pippin had had since he parted from Merry". Together they went to the Great Gate to watch the troops arrive.
Vote: Thoth
And I whole-heartedly agree with Tigris on her Dethenor stance.
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Okay, here's the thing. I may have some information concerning a particular player and whether or not he was responsible for a kill last night. Ideally, I would like to trap him by getting him to claim that his role didn't kill anyone last night.
A technique that has worked in other games has been to go around in a randomly determined order, each of us either confessing to killing someone last night or denying that we did. I won't reveal until we've all gone around. We do expose our vigs, but that's not that horrible. With 9 alive, even a mass role claim could be fairly helpful.
So unless anyone objects, I think we should start with a random player, and after each player reveals, they pick the next person to reveal.
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