Micro 998 | The Binding of Isaac Mafia | Game Over

[Costello]

VOTE: Costello

[Costello]

Annoying, waiting longer would have been nice

48 hours to pick a vig shot.

[Costello]

Basically how this is going to go is I'm going to get home, make the RVS post I had typed up pregame, and then I am going to AFK until the shot.

[Costello]

Roles are assigned pre-alignment allocation.

[Costello]

If you want good news, I would have hammered as VT claiming I thought madeline's hammer was real out of pure spite from how much I hate that stupid shit

At least we got something back instead

[Costello]

Costello enters stage left, catboi is standing at stage right.

Costello is eyeing catboi from a distance. He strikes a match, then lifts it to the end of his cigarette, inhaling quickly to bring the fire to life.

“Would ya look at THAT. Who is HE? Those EARS, that TAIL, his FUR?”

Cue musical number, starting with the marimba.

“There’s a fire within my soooooul! Just one look and I can hear a bell ring! One more look and I forget everything! Whoa-oah! Mamma mi-“

CUT, CUT CUT CUT

SHIT SHIT SHIT WRONG ALBUM SHIT GOD FUCKING DAMN IT

Costello runs backstage and the sound of him fiddling with the cassettes fills the air, before finally he scrambles back into view. He shakes ash off the cigarette, adjusts his tie, and prepares to play it cool.

“Opportunity! Opportunity! This is your big opportunity!”

He smiles nervously, and begins to walk.

VOTE: catboi

[Costello]

She is watching the detectives
Ooh, he's so cute
She is watching the detectives
When they shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot

[Costello]

Please don't be prism. I remember prism. Was the only one hardscumreading me when i was scum,

if you're town wouldn't this be...

a beneficial trait

if you think costello is town?

as you stated earlier

A town post? maybe.

I didn't like their fakehammer, nor the "I should have unvoted" theater in the wake of it, and considered instantly shooting them for it.

[Costello]

Given that today is effectively blitz I'd like to do more with it.

[Costello]

Oh, I see, Hectic was the one avatar adjusting.

~Still don't like it~

[Costello]

So this is an obituary which should be right and fitting
For every clockwork cat and conceivable kitten
Oh I wish you could see
Quite how much you could mean to me
You worthless thing

it's stray cat shooting szn

[Costello]

jk

for now

<3

[Costello]

i didn't like your selfhammer, for what it's worth

Is this still the case?

[Costello]

i didn't like your selfhammer, for what it's worth

Is this still the case?

yes? like why does limited information vengeful that also changes the way everyone is going to play for the rest of the phase seem like a super beneficial option to you,

...From an alignment perspective?

I'm going to fear selfhammer Day 1 and then proceed to spend the next 48 hours carefully deciding the most strategic shot. Are you sure about that?

[Costello]

If that's just thinking it's a bad play, absolutely fine, I just fucking hate that shit and was not at all joking here

[Costello]

Oh no, not just the fakehammer, being instantly run up to E-1 at all.

[Costello]

Oh no, not just the fakehammer, being instantly run up to E-1 at all.

just doesn't seem like the correct response to this frustration is selfhammer, but alas

*shrug*

Thinkin' all about those censored sequences
Worryin' about the consequences
Waiting until I come to my senses
Better put it all in present tenses
Little triggers

Well, if I wind up YOLOing I wind up YOLOing, get what you pay for.

[Costello]

To be clear, "get what you pay for" is directed at my choice to selfhammer and turn it into 48 hour blitz, not a shot at anyone else.

[Costello]

Struggling to get a handle on more of the table, was sad that the reaction was to just bail on the thread en masse after the initial activity flurry, but again I get what I pay for.

I mean to say that catboi didn't deduce that costello would be town for his play, he just thought about how scum would handle it. Still an early analysis, but i'd rather have it out there than just in my mind.

So this as a reason to be wary of catboi is pretty weird. Thinking about how scum would handle it is very natural from a town hunting POV. Scum knows it's town and works that direction.

still would shoot madeline if it were right now but might as well be playing roulette rn

[Costello]

Yeah I’ll just wallflower here a bit longer

Why?

[Costello]

it's like,

i'm town,

if you're town and vengeful me, and there are two mafia with a nightkill,

your '48 hour blitz' turns into more of a

limited information miseliminate-and-lose

so

damn

good luck everybody, we're counting on you

[Costello]

After those first two posts Gamma shot way up the list

P-Edit: Because you didn't say anything with it

[Costello]

wouldnt a scum venge want to slowroll us to see what the best shot is to hurt town + plan a nk?

Is this why you're not posting?

I think it should be very obvious by now that I'm not a new player who panic selfhammers page 1 as scum, let alone tackle seriously playing the game the next 48 hours.

[Costello]

very obvious

by now

very obvious

by now

very obvious

by now

[Costello]

do you have any other thoughts on the gamestate bugspray

[Costello]

I find Gamma scummy too, not because of low amount of posts, but because of what he chose to say in those posts. Would expect he'd have more he'd want to say after that start.

I found it very strange how blasé and utterly unconcerned the opening was, especially in light of madeline's post which highlighted that if I choose wrong we're losing immediately losing all of our miseliminations. This is especially true if Gamma thinks I'm limited to the wagon (Which, funfact, I am not)

Farkran is...actually pretty good? I think? He was backwards on catboi/doesn't get my point but that's okay, not at all scummy imo.

[Costello]

i’ll be around after work to post but even when i was around before i wasn’t really thinking hard abt this game and don’t know who you should shoot

Welcome to the working week
Oh, I know it don't thrill you, I hope it don't kill you
Welcome to the working week
You got to do it till you're through it and so you better get to it

Looking forward to it!

[Costello]

i genuinely had no clue, scum wouldn’t do that but also why would town??

Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
I was looking kind of dumb with my finger and my thumb
In the shape of an "L" on my forehead

[Costello]

Spoiler: me when i shoot gamma and he flips town

[Costello]

I love the Keeper. What are you gonna do, kill me twice?

[Costello]

the Keeper, yes.

[Costello]

What do you think of Farkran/Hectic, Flea?

[Costello]

honestly same about catboi fuck that dude LMAO

[Costello]

tryhards in my mafia game smh

I generally agree that Farkran is town, not locktown or anything but he's been solid so far and the thought process plausible. Hectic is also doing quite well imo.

[Costello]

we are READY

[Costello]

we are STILL READY gamma

that was for you to do something not to shoot

[Costello]

Curious if you can go more in-depth on Farkran, one of my townleans atm

Regarding the selfhammer comment I mean it's one of my quirks to have that irrationally strong hatred, but I don't really think we need to sort me as much rn

[Costello]

Glad to have you btw, now with Ydrasse hopefully getting off work soon and maybe bugspray checking in...

[Costello]

Interesting, I didn't like the confusion around the hammer from Fakran but even that seemed very null to me.

In contrast I thought his interactions with Hectic (esp. the post about Madeline being the closest friend) and read on catboi had plenty of life to them.

Speaking of Madeline, it would be nice to hear from her as well

[Costello]

Do you mind linking it?

[Costello]

Do you mind linking it?

[Costello]

The one you linked has him focusing heavily on mechanics, and the reads were extremely standard/shoddy gutreads with nonsense TvS comments thrown in.

Very old game but eh, agree to disagree.

[Costello]

so

interact with me until you don't want to shoot me anymore i guess? and hope we find a mafioso?

pls help with this

[Costello]

Welcome back! Do you have any thoughts on our local stray cat or maybe Hectic/Gamma?

[Costello]

I concur! I don't think he's locktown but I suspect he lets me sit in the mess I made rather than actively try to help bail me out of it by driving content.

He will not be the shot today.

[Costello]

If anyone thinks I'm making a mistake, feel free to intervene and lemme know why I'm dumb to townread him

[Costello]

I'm also asking a lot of questions just to try and drive content more broadly, but I would encourage everyone to participate and a more cooperative conversation rather than just taking turns talking to me because I have a gun

[Costello]

You are dumb to townread me

And you can't read but I put up with you anyway

[Costello]

Well if you need some entertainment/company catboi, we might as well make for a fun reveal.

I am not vengeful, and I will not be flipping today at all.

I am a one-shot elimination redirector.

[Costello]

So you've all got to sort me after all!

Sad!

But tomorrow will not be Miselim/Lose if I miss!

Get Happy!!

[Costello]

Please file all mechanical/setup complaints with isis@mafiascum.net

[Costello]

I'm also asking a lot of questions just to try and drive content more broadly, but I would encourage everyone to participate and a more cooperative conversation rather than just taking turns talking to me because I have a gun

hard to do when you shape the game around yourself

I've never been very good at deferring to others, sorry.

So you've all got to sort me after all!

do you think you've help with this?

Putting aside the question of my being an egocentric asshole, do you feel I've helped you sort me?

[Costello]

response something along the lines of

'what do you want from me'

when catboi said it was painful

seemed goodguy indicative

So I realize this isn't a direct quote, but the town-indicative action I think you're describing comes from honesty mixed with a bit of frustration about doing his best, as opposed to trying to puzzle out specifically what he needs to do to turn it around.

Wdym
I wanted to get something started but had other things to do as well, so I just posted enough to get the ball rolling

I think the real quote has the opposite behavior, though, of immediately going more on the defensive side.

I know the interpretation I'm making of your point is really tenuous, so sorry if it's off at all.

[Costello]

I am very not thrilled with bugspray, for lack of a better word.

Please play the mafia game.

[Costello]

I don't want to shoot any of [Farkran, Ydrasse, Madeline, catboi] right now. I feel the least confident about catboi of those

I'm still not ~jazzed~ about madeline in the sense that thinking I'm an asshole isn't AI imo, but I generally agree with this.

Town to scum right now I'd go Farkran, catboi, Hectic, Flea, Ydrasse, madeline, bugspray, Gamma.

[Costello]

That sounds even more busted than vengeful honestly if in the hands of scum. Can literally just make it to lylo, act like a jester, and then redirect the launch to town. Must be some conditions he's not telling us about

The bigger issue is actually as town, but as I said file all mechanical complaints and criticisms to isis@mafiascum.net, tagline URGENT:

If scum were to blitz me in an Elo situation, instead of winning they instantly lose the game. Vengeful/supersaint have the same issue and should be in a game exactly never but at least at least their scum autolosses only happens in 3 way.

[Costello]

I really did not want to directly threaten anyone, nor do I want to policyshoot, but bugspray needs to actually play the game.

[Costello]

I feel pretty good about both Flea and Ydrasse.

cat isn't ~hard town~ by any means but in general I feel good about the slot.

[Costello]

cat FWIW I appreciate you doing your best to help me out by driving content, even if you are doing it just in the hopes that I don't shoot you.

He's a battered old bird
And he's living up there
There's a place where time stands still

You're definitely a battered old bird who's had to put up with my shit all day, and the game has definitely stood still at times, so I appreciate you not just tearing into me for being a moron all day.

[Costello]

This sequence is wild lol
The way Gamma continues to scumread Farkran via meta even after realising his alignment was the opposite of what he assumed is funny. I think scum are more likely to reconsider and do a simple "oh, he was actually scum in that game. this means the difference indicates town" rather than find another reason to find the difference scummy

I found it really ?_? and the fact that he was apparently both checking the thread and reading that game simultaneously, but couldn't immediately link it, concerned me quite a bit.

[Costello]

Yep, thanks for reminding me, trying to milk it for all I can atm.

I've preferred seeing the Flea, Ydrasse, and Hectic converations without me in the center but if anyone has any questions for me now might be a good time to ask.

[Costello]

How much experience do you have with Gamma, Hectic?

Is meta factoring into your read at all?

[Costello]

I also strongly agree with you on Farkran but am curious to see a more concrete perspective on that slot from you and your experience with them.

[Costello]

Yep, thanks for reminding me, trying to milk it for all I can atm.

I've preferred seeing the Flea, Ydrasse, and Hectic converations without me in the center but if anyone has any questions for me now might be a good time to ask.

Why is Jadakiss as hard as it gets?



(can't think of anything else)

completely fuckin useless

jk ily

[Costello]

I've got quite a lot of experience with him. He's free flowing as town while more stilted as scum. Usually I just catch him by seeing reasoning that looks fake

That sequence of posts I

think

are more like his town-meta, the way he's talking through his thought process while he looks the games up

Ah, let me check a quick scumgame of his actually

Okay, his last scumgame has more meaningless comments/questions, so I think that Farkran spiel is good

I read this game too and it's definitely a departure, my fear is more that it seemed to come under pressure to deliver something solid.

It's very plausible to me that he thought he got shot back on page 8 and immediately shut up as scum.

[Costello]

do you feel I've helped you sort me?

not particularly, would be bold scumplay, but if we play a round of likely alt of...

it probably does not result in this being alignment indicative

though i wonder about spacing after quotes

What about my play afterwards?

Sorry to force you to talk about me more, I know there's already a lot of frustration around how I handled the day but I'm just finding it really hard to get a handle on you so am fumbling in the dark a bit.

[Costello]

like how you decided to go with 'vengeful' instead of 'replacement-elimination'

seems unplanned but

would have been as either alignment, so

I didn't really want the question of my alignment hanging around for the start/have town already be looking ahead to the question of whether or not to policyvote me the next day.

At some point I had to reveal it, though, since it's just hardtrolling/seemingly scumclaiming if I miss. I chose to reveal it during a lull to hopefully spur some more activity, and more specifically I was hoping that in the event you had checked out completely dejected thinking "what a fucking moron we're losing both our miselims", you might come back to the game from any number of angles (pushing me, being a bit more active knowing this didn't seriously fuck us over even if you're still upset, etc.)

[Costello]

You've linked one post there, Gamma

Costello, I'm not confident Farkran is town, but I can see all of his reasoning being stuff he believes in, even if I don't agree on all of it. His transparent playstyle means he'll probably spew enough stuff that will give us plenty to solve him down the line, so that's my main reason for thinking he's a bad shot today

I think he's referring to the quoted post and the very first one nested inside.

I don't think he's been blatantly town but his positioning here is pretty OK and the thought processes about what I'd expect after skimming some games.

[Costello]

What do you think about Ydrasse, Gamma? And are you still townreading Flea?

[Costello]

Yeah I know, I got what I paid for with unilaterally seizing control of the day, that's my bad.

[Costello]

Sorry, but can you go a bit more indepth on the thought process for both of those slots?

[Costello]

I'll be back later and still encourage everyone to discuss among yourselves without me, but it might also be interesting to just explicitly say who you think I should shoot.

[Costello]

and explain why, ideally

[Costello]

Okay I'm back hi hello catching up now sorry

[Costello]

I wish I had a good answer for you on that, but...I don't really. I'm going to trust your judgment. I would move Ydrasse up toward the town side in your list, though.

Kinda curious as to why? Both for no good answer+Ydrasse moving up in your view

[Costello]

I...What's your point? I can see "don't forget to take your shot" coming from town or scum, I think the assumption would be him acting in good faith

as town you'd have to believe that costello was more likely to hit than to be mafia for it to be reasonable to 'don't forget to take your shot'

and there wasn't enough evidence that ydrasse believed this or didn't for me to reach a conclusion

so i asked

I think this is going a bit advanced into Ydrasse strategically not reminding me if she thinks I'm scum, which I don't really think it's most people's first instinct is to try and figure out how to capitalize on a mechanic that I should be taking advantage of regardless of alignment in the event I happen to be scum?

[Costello]

Gamma did you really have to make your first good (in an AI sense) post of the game an hour before deadline?

Why must you do this to me?

[Costello]

what if it turned out i didn't have a redirect at all and it's just a twilight extender and i really was a part of the game tossin' boyz all along

[Costello]

VOTE: Farkran

[Costello]

Also, two Isaacs?

[Costello]

cat pushes

dead catboi

scumslip

[Costello]

whatchy'all thinkin' scumhuntin' wise

[Costello]

Yeah and I'm pissed about it, I just wanted to die and make fun of catboi as he blows the game, but this mafia decided they wanted another round so let's fuckin' go

[Costello]

Farkran swapped to pushing bugspray as Gamma got more in danger, Gamma's interactions with Farkran ("I flaked out of TM 2020 wtf") were Razzie level imo

[Costello]

nya ~

catboi is irreplaceable but i would value ur thoughts anyway

that's how u kno ur not catboi, bcuz his opinions r trash LMAO

[Costello]

UNVOTE:

don't get me wrong i like this but let's not do this again LMAO

[Costello]

bugspray played the game for literally like 30 minutes and then peaced

I would also like to hear from them lmao

[Costello]

I'm trying to ignore the weird public thread WIFOM Gamma pulled with madeline but I think her end of it was pretty good

[Costello]

I'm actually pretty tired tonight and I think you're all on good paths so I'm going to try to give the thread more space without me breathing down its neck

All 3 of you are giving good content that I can follow up on another day, but I'd really like to avoid Day 1 Redux/Follow the Clear.

I'd like today to be driven primarily by other slots.

[Costello]

ie. please keep going without me for awhile

[Costello]

Yeah, I'm not mechanically clear, if you want to make the case that I shot my partner Day 1, knock yourself out.

If it's mechanically required, that selfhammer was a real winner of a gameplan.

[Costello]

I'll fullclaim if people want btw but I want Farkran & Flea to check in before I do so.

[Costello]

If the point of this was just to nitpick the word "clear" when the point is "I don't want to play kingmaker" today we're in agreement and don't have to keep doing this.

[Costello]

kingmaker's not the right word, but w/e, you get the point and this is stupid pedantic

aight peace 'til the morrow

[Costello]

nvm farkran's here i'm coming back in

hot dog hot dog hot diggity dog

About hectic, atm i will say that he lied to me and it isn't true that he had friends, he's a lone walker in the valley of solitude.

why'd you target hectic

[Costello]

I mean I wouldn't mind it but I think other players should have input

I just don't see why you target him if it's a role best used on a scum and don't see why you target him if it's a role best used on town

Flea is a bit more opaque to me but had Hectic in null-leaning-town and I can see them that power there.

[Costello]

using a power there*

[Costello]

I mean I'm pretty sure you're a PT cop, and choosing Hectic for it makes no sense given your reads, but we'll wait and see what everybody else says

[Costello]

...Did you read the Hectic ISO? You saw 293 and decided Hectic was a good scum candidate?

[Costello]

VOTE: Farkran

I am sorry this happened dude but sometimes it's time to just throw in the towel and call the game lmao

Shoot me over catboi next time, it was worth risking the protective

[Costello]

I mean I agree with you, Hectic thought Gamma was town and wanted a bugspray shot, but that's because he sux

Why'd you choose to investigate him over Flea, bugspray, etc?

[Costello]

This game might straight up be breakable because we have at least 2 people who should be in PTs, a mechanical clear in Hectic, a PT cop, and 3 elims. There's only 7 people.

Take out Hectic. Arguably take out me. Removing Farkran there are 4 candidates. Scum has to shoot Farkran because otherwise he gives clears. Like how is this loseable?

UNVOTE:

Still think he's scum but lol

[Costello]

Assuming madeline has a neighbor that wasn't catboi, we can literally policy vote neighbors, have Farkran investigate the other two people, and STILL HAVE AN ELIM LEFT FOR FARKRAN

[Costello]

Granted the second one he outs a guilty, but my point isn't that we actually policyvote the neighbors, my point is that unless scum has a roleblocker scum is fucked by Farkran, including if it's Farkran

[Costello]

I'm currently out so this game is taking a backseat for a sec but the point is that forcing a Farkran NK is essentially a free extra elimination

[Costello]

Curious why you targeted Hectic Flea, don't have to fullclaim rn but I think answering "Better to use on scum or town?" is fine

[Costello]

He literally has no fucking choice lmfao, his visit was publicly outed and we have 3 elims

[Costello]

Goes to 2 with 1 conf, 67% win combining the two days assuming you/Fark are both town

I think we can do better the policyvoting neighbors was spitballing

[Costello]

I would say yes fullclaim but I am one person

You got mech on your side Hectic you're the man now dog, I just shot scum that don't mean shit

[Costello]

Okay shoot me if I keep checking in I gotta EXERCISE

[Costello]

You decide order Hectic

[Costello]

We're not actually policyvoting the neighbors lol that plan doesn't even work because Fark guilties the second invest and we get a 50/50

[Costello]

Might be waiting a couple of weeks if bugspray is next tbh

[Costello]

In case this is related Ydrasse, my role is not as described Day 1 but can back up completely

[Costello]

Okay don't think that's related

So I actually didn't shoot Gamma-it was catboi! I am Eve and when voted could choose a "Raven", who then got free rein over the vote.

The Raven gets removed from any PTs they're in and added to one with me, where they cannot post as they are a bird

Catboi deferred to me 100% for the shot and we communicated publicly using Weezer lyrics, crumbed repeatedly for him in event I died

[Costello]

LMFAO WHAT ON EARTH

THIS SETUP WACK

[Costello]

I'll do all the quotes from Day 1 when I'm not at the gym

[Costello]

At one point I said something like "I'm bad at deferring to others, sorry" to madeline lmfao

[Costello]

there are so many words in it LMAO

Definitely something Isis made sounds about right

[Costello]

Agree that Flea is probably town, my reads basically haven't changed since end of night, think it's just straight up Farkran and outside of that one of Ydrasse/bugspray/madeline

I had you as my top TR so that's no longer that helpful, F

[Costello]

Need bugspray/Flea fullclaims

[Costello]

Yeah, top TR all day for tone+making sense with your progressions, solidified the second I reviewed the progression on Gamma, why I was so ready with that quote but that entire progression was good. Spent literally all night reading to give reads to cat.

One of my PT posts was something like "Shoutout to my boy Hectic for ABSOLUTELY FUCKIN NOTHING LMAOOOO"

[Costello]

I'll be back later and still encourage everyone to discuss among yourselves without me, but it might also be interesting to just explicitly say who you think I should shoot.

and explain why, ideally

I wish I had a good answer for you on that, but...I don't really. I'm going to trust your judgment. I would move Ydrasse up toward the town side in your list, though.

There's a lot of communication between us Day 1 but this is him explicitly deferring the shot to me, doesn't take a genius to read my posts on Gamma to see who I said. Can't remember if I was giving T->S lists in main thread but I was constantly giving them in PT

[Costello]

happy birthday fker

[Costello]

how long will it take to get a fullclaim from bugspray

place ur bets

[Costello]

gently takes

give my cat the goddamn pt back what if he needs the mixtape

[Costello]

Oh I forgot, if the Raven was my scum partner they had to pick me

catboi was, well, not my scum partner

[Costello]

I didn't post it but my bet was 4 hours, I got excited only to find my disappoint immeasurable and my day ruined

That said bugspray is right and we should policyelim me today just in case

[Costello]

CLAIM

[Costello]

SPOILER SCUM IS MULTITASKING YOU'RE WELCOME

[Costello]

All players can multitask.

Wow I didn't expect this to actually be in the ruleset as a bonus

[Costello]

The entire game is stalled waiting on you to claim

[Costello]

Cool that's a forced NK

Not sure what the "No Result" bit with Farkran is given we've seen no roleblocking action? It's closed so it could just be a red herring, tbf Hectic hasn't claimed

[Costello]

Farkran claims his PT cop works by either giving "Has access to a PT" or "No Result", meaning he won't ever get a true "Not in a PT" (ie. not scum) result

[Costello]

Hypothetically we could have Farkran investigate Ydrasse tonight, put bug on Hectic, and vote one of Madeline/Flea but I don't really want to vote either and at this point I think flipping Farkran just outright wins the game

but at this point I very much want to be right and need other opinions, I don't think Ydrasse has explained her vote on Fark at all and I hope someone else is good at reading madeline because I'm not

[Costello]

We could also put bug on Farkran and do the thing where we policy elim the neighbors, with the guarantee that Farkran lives, but like...if Farkran is scum he just gets a 3 way for free, no thanks.

[Costello]

I'm sorry, wait wait wait wait wait

About hectic, atm i will say that

he lied to me and it isn't true that he had friends

, he's a lone walker in the valley of solitude.

I mean I'm pretty sure you're a PT cop, and choosing Hectic for it makes no sense given your reads, but we'll wait and see what everybody else says

Check hectic iso again and compare to what we knew during the night

Give me a minute and i'll tell you the exact post

Wait a second lmfao

These posts are suggesting that you thought Hectic had a neighbor PT based off of softs, particularly the first two.
Ctrl+F searching "friend" in Hectic's ISO yields these posts:

madeline, can I leave reading bugspray to you this game? I'll assist with blue hearts and occasionally spiders

pedit: the fun in the game for me is getting really stupid combos which makes things go insane. brimstone is uh, one of the catalysts for stuff

Is madeline your most trustworthy friend right now?

Real question

Her vibes are fine but I have no real read yet, I proposed that because she's played a lot with bugspray. Although, I have too lol
It just does my head in trying to figure them out

Oh give it to me please, i'm not maggy and i could use some more <3

Oof, I'm sorry, but The Magician beat you to the punch. I found some other friends for you though:



Heard the BBF (Big Beautiful Fly) is the best item in the game actually. On the house <3

You thought he was a neighbor and you still picked him to PT cop?

[Costello]

I'm very busy with work today but I think you missed what I was getting at.

Your posts suggested that you thought Hectic was softing neighbor. You can think he's scum simultaneously, but if you thought he was softing neighbor, why investigate him?

Really curious if you can go more indepth on the Flea read, I know you explained it Day 1 but I'm wrapped up at work right now and am really curious as to how you were thinking about fae/Hectic comparatively overnight

Was hoping someone else could chip in mechanically

[Costello]

reread a bit, actually think that ydrasse is scum

Farkran answered correctly, realized my interpretation was wrong before my follow-up+there was a good explanation but wanted to hear him explicitly reject the "knew he was a neighbor" before I selfcorrected. Doesn't mean he's town but it means he didn't scumclaim

We can go outside on one of Madeline/Flea, put bugspray on Farkran, and have Farkran investigate Ydrasse maybe? Personally would rather just vote Ydrasse but I'm basically spitballing until the weekend because I got REKT at work today

[Costello]

cat thought ydrasse was town but cat bad @ mafya game

he also dead despite holding that read tbf

I know there are questions for me to get to at some point dw

[Costello]

hectic whatchu think

i still find fark town in vacuum if u remove gamma, flea feels extremely town+not at all worried when fae thought I might be shooting Gamma, ur a townie boi, madeline has felt town today+EoD, Ydrasse reads lackluster even if reasonable and mostly skating by with very thin tone one liners like the "mad I won't get credit about Gamma".

not even gonna pretend there is a good reason to think bugspray is town I just received a vision from god on that slot idfk

[Costello]

blatantly neighbor/mason fishing day 1 is also quite a move for scum fark here lol

[Costello]

so for me its like

btwn flea/farkran i guess ???????? i dont like having to read a slot by like, people adjacent to them but thems the ropes

wait they both actually visited hectic too

what were they gettin up to...

pls explain

[Costello]

The poe she is smallish

u know there's more to explain there even w/o me asking

[Costello]

everyone in the game with the possible(?) exception of you has prior experience with me;

not that you really need to read me here, but what are you struggling with w/ regards to reading me?

basically I hate your start and complaining/criticizing in annoyance rather than real content is something you see all the time coming from scum in chat mafia

after you stop doing that you get good in my book

[Costello]

my braincells won’t work until i go home

better than hectics bcuz urs work at all LMAO

[Costello]

u killed cat so i need someone else to beat up on

chara is next in line

[Costello]

if it helps, i do b/c I can't fucking read you ayyyyyyyy

[Costello]

i did, the result is above, i think town, hence the section in why I poe down to ydrasse, but have no idea how you play/what the range is

might fuck around n meta later tho

[Costello]

well u haven't really outed reads today so that might be a good place to start

questions n mech solving n stuff is good n all

[Costello]

i’d never kill catboi he goes nya with me

he is literally a 72 year old man lmfao

[Costello]

not rly

and also it's okay to meme at 72 and there's nothing wrong w/ being hip on the internet

[Costello]

his eyesight definitely going tho can't spot scum 4 shit

steady hands tho

[Costello]

no clue why you're trying to read tone w/ ydrasse to begin with, major mistake imo

second bit she has to survive 3 elims ya she needs to stay safe as fuck lol

[Costello]

okay wait i'm metaing

can someone help me find a new anime to watch? bonus points if it's long, please i'm in a content desert

PLEASE watch revolutionary girl utena, it is like, there are so many fun elements in it and a story that is like a fucking gut punch

there are UHHHHH some warnings to be had for it though! if those things bother you. by that i mean a lot

first off utena is the goat

453 from chara is the biggest fucking lie i have ever seen in my life

i consider FMA: Brotherhood to be the closest to perfect an anime has come so far.

what a goddamn normie

If you’re an anime from the 90s hmu

What about Escaflowne? Will you be my Hitomi Kanzaki this game~

i don’t know what this MEAns BUT SURE

goddamn boomer probably remembers when this aired

[Costello]

you could literally link a 6 second tiktok to chara and it'd probably say "i need to wait five years until the right time in my life for this i'm so sorry"

[Costello]

VOTE: ydrasse

think bug can go on any of hectic/fark/me and it's fine

[Costello]

your reads aren't knockout or anything but your entire play this game, particularly around me, is bizarrely believable given the way you've continued to react w/ the daystart, the clear comment, explicitly worried i'm saving you for later, over waiting to bring these concerns up as the game continued to play on

[Costello]

do you think gamma was bussing?

no i don't think farkran is scum anymore ty for asking

[Costello]

maybe ur asking madeline my b

[Costello]

i saw, that's y im voting u lol

[Costello]

can you explain why gamma shading you, knowing you weren't getting shot, means anything?

[Costello]

and i called him out for him making weird assumptions about my pooooosts and then i asked him something and he ignored the context i gave and made his own conclusions in his posts towards meeeeeee

i, uh,

idk if this is where u rly want 2 go rn

[Costello]

i simply do not care and will go where i will

same, sister

[Costello]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Costello]

i want to hear from papa hectic

[Costello]

i feel very okay w/ all of hectic, flea, madeline, and while still iffy on farkran ~i think he's town~

combine this with a vision from god on bugspray

and we get yeetdrasse

[Costello]

this is god btw

Spoiler:

[Costello]

It looks like Ydrasse is trying to say two things at once there (you have and have not been cautious)
Ydrasse, your response? This is the second thing I’ve noticed of this type from you

It looks like Ydrasse is trying to say two things at once there (you have and have not been cautious)
Ydrasse, your response? This is the second thing I’ve noticed of this type from you

what? i’m saying i don’t think she’s done anything especially cautious that’s worth pointing out so far wrt the early wagon as i thought that’s what hectic was basing off of

what second thing have you noticed and have you pointed it out before someone prodded you on me?

But like
Hectic said she wasn’t being cautious
It looks like you ended up agreeing with him as such

And you’ve had confusing takes on Flea (which looks paranoia-driven) and madeline (which seems like you started disagreeing with hectic on some level but reached the exact conclusion he did)

it's this sequence

[Costello]

anyway r ur braincells restarted can u explain the fark/flea daystart poe now

[Costello]

i cannot believe no one is calling bullshit on my townbug desert hallucinations but sure i will take it

[Costello]

the fact that ydrasse included fark in the poe while immediately going to the shade defense is actually a+ content

[Costello]

i don't know, because you had bugspray in your poe day 1 even up through eod lmao

[Costello]

did you also just have a random vision from god overnight or

[Costello]

yeet i'm yeeting yeetdrasse

as soon as papa hectic is on board

[Costello]

my being likely mafia to ydrasse is pretty ...

and the 'i know i'm being unfair thing'

is recycled content but it's recycled from town

HARD disagree lmao

[Costello]

i've been spamming so it's other people's turn with the mafia game now, mom said so

[Costello]

i took "from town" as in "from town (Ydrasse this game)"

it definitely can be town AI but i disagreed that the stance in this case was

makes sense that you're saying recycled from town in another game

[Costello]

no but even if it was it started in the 570s b4 i even got to you lol

[Costello]

mister catboi...i don't nyaa so good....

[Costello]

the idea was i was copying madeline, not madeline was copying me

the style here is really just lowercase/shorthand for me because i do that sometimes when i feel like it, madeline does a lot of midthought linebreaks which i don't really do, generally i use linebreaks to separate out different thoughts or important next points. the exception w/ the similar linebreaks was yeet ydrasse to emphasize the usage

[Costello]

oh no i made it mad, better be careful before it gets out of bed for the first time in 4 days

[Costello]

bugspray any followup to catboi saying something scum was scared of?

slash any thoughts on who the mafia is

[Costello]

indeed. gamma was really hoping I'd policyshoot you imo. I think the fark/gamma interactions were bad though, very obvious all of Day 1 farkran had zero chance of getting shot, was very safe for gamma to distance there. that said i still lean farkran town.

yeetdrasse

[Costello]

esp when meta hits that was all kinds of yikes, gamma was not at all worried about scumclaiming to farkran

[Costello]

eh nah i reread it, i acted a bit open, farkran wasn't there at all so gamma is just trying to sell me on his read being legit, wasn't that bad. Overall I'd slot as pretty null from gamma side but +scum from fark

yeetdrasse

[Costello]

haha papa hectic went out for some cigarettes he'll be back in a few

[Costello]

I'm trying to let you do your thing but I want to note

like holy shit LMAO

if you guys flip me literally just remember this shit as i am calling it out

Capital punishment, she's last year's model
They call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie
I don't want to go to Chelsea
Oh, no, it does not move me...

[Costello]

if it takes u getting flipped for me to look dumb this must be my best game ever haha

normally i'm dumber than a sack of rocks right out the gate

[Costello]

i'm just saying i use the word yeet there's an upperbound on how smart i can be already

[Costello]

what's past tense?

[Costello]

do you really think that was a bad reaction ydrasse? thought it was a quite good one from flea, unvote was because fae felt bad after the first set of posts if you were town

[Costello]

THAT SAID, I do remember thinking Ydrasse was quite town after I saw the Gamma flip because of their interactions end of day. Seemed bad faith from Gamma and Ydrasse's reactions seemed genuine. I'll point the posts out later

Ydrasse did nothing wrong Day 1, which is very unfortunate for her.

Kinda like how I don't like Costello's dumb shades lol

Can you be more specific about which ones-I'm assuming you're referring to me shrugging & such at Ydrasse.

[Costello]

My view on bugspray is not so much a vision of God by the way, it's more a combination of Gamma hoping I'd shoot them Day 1 and this post being a hard townclaim imo:

catboi said something that the remiaining scum is afraid of

This is someone who did not reread catboi at all overnight lmao

Bodyguard is also just super bold here given that there are 2 people they should clearly be protecting w/ an expected result of death, 3 depending on what happens w/ Farkran.

P-Edit: fuck u

[Costello]

Like fakeclaiming this game is generally dumb...unless you're solo scum and your role is bodyguard w/ 2 borderline clears.

[Costello]

I really don't like this because of the existence of an ascetic but if you're not on board you're not on board

I just think literally everyone is super town except Ydrasse, Farkran in a vacuum is super town and it's only with Gamma flip that he gets a bit iffy.

[Costello]

(Possible existence of an ascetic, not that one has claimed)

[Costello]

IDK flavor so no clue if that makes sense for Ydrasse's role, if you think it'd be mad dumb then sure we can do it, but atm I trust my reads over "No Result" investigations

[Costello]

Do you want to talk more about Flea, then? What did you make of the Ydrasse/Flea spat just now?

It looks like you agree that madeline is town?

[Costello]

I'm not against being leashed but you do realize that town!bug will always die tonight, right?

I feel like you should be strongly in favor of that plan for that reason lol