BTXVI: Boons Ahoy! Spectator Thread

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and just when i thought i could maybe actually survive to the end of a game as scum for once

well good luck to anyone trying to get associatives from me
anyone who knows my scum record should know this is part of how i win

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i kind of expected to get vigged though
saw a crumb or two about it

perhaps i should have asked to be protected

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oh wait nevermind two killing actions

ah

well i was going to be gone for a good bit anyways so
good timing

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i wonder what my neighborhood will do cause they could claim for town cred now

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i am glad i did not push more for getting protected anyways in hindsight
i was in a good place to die and set up the rest of my team for a win

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if the kill had been up to me it would have been different

enchant would be shot

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mmh anyways glad it did not happen
this is honestly the best outcome i could hope for

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i was strongly suspecting kitty trauma team but honestly
just letting it happen and laying seeds was the better option

i got very lucky with who actually flipped even
prevented an extra conf town from happening

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oh yeah fun fact about the gunsmith

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they would only have been able to catch me out of the scum team

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i should have mentioned that the above kind of strongly hints at my partners roles

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honestly
i am a step or two away from being like ranger | mastina
and for the purposes of reading me theta might as well be a different person from rautherdir
experience with mafia and players is about the only consistency
well
effectively memories in general is the major step difference for me
self-suppression on my part is the other which
well anyways
this is a discussion better suited to when more people are here
like ranger themselves

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yeah
was mostly town that did all the voting yesterday
i just hung back and watched

anyways i am right pleased with my work here

Spoiler:

temporal being town is about the only thing everyone has correct
people are divided on a bunch of stuff and out of the consensus most of what people agree on is wrong

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ranger is actually kind of correct

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scum does indeed have both blocking and protective roles
and among things where ranger is wrong
scum could have been wiped out night one

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ahahahahaha

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okay that is amazing then
i have done quite the job

well hopefully that last revelation does not bite me
but still

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yeah
was mostly town that did all the voting yesterday
i just hung back and watched

anyways i am right pleased with my work here

Spoiler:

temporal being town is about the only thing everyone has correct
people are divided on a bunch of stuff and out of the consensus most of what people agree on is wrong

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TL is not town

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can they win with scum or have i accidentally wrought my own demise here

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oh pfft
will look forward to seeing what that is then

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it is rather hard to lead the scum team when you are aware you are likely to die pretty quick

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but i did actually choose norwegian out of a pair of options

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see there is another reason to do a specific night kill if you know your audience
to cause confusion and to break apart town

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welp
i will preemptively welcome ranger to the dead chat

also that is a pretty scummy hammer yeah

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too scummy to be scum even

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i mean i was a vanilla goon
just also in a neighborhood for some reason

i would have claimed vanilla if i had been put to it
the choice for killing actually did end up being mine
it was just between two people as decided by my partners

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norwegian and firebringer were my choices though that should not be much of a surprise

i think i did good though

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not hammering frogs might end up paying out in the end after rangers flip

i am a good bit too cohesive to be plural though on that topic

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yeah
i think one of us was going to go down no matter what we did

hopefully the way i did it put my teammates in a good spot but we will see

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also realizing we could have maybe done a thing where we stopped our own kill aaaa

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my teammates considering just trying to kill norwe again
or the idea i originally suggested night one

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one thing is we kind of do have a strategy with our kills

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we did not want to kill in the widely townread players for uh
reasons
firebringer felt the safest of the more widely townread players and norwe was presumably a pretty safe shot but uh that turned out the way it did
though at this point norwe is practically confirmed town so they need to go anyways

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actually i have spoiled something else in here a bit indirectly

Spoiler:

there are only two scum left

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most easily obtainable assumptions from me in the game thread are wrong

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i will not spoiler more though
except say i am feeling even more confident in getting a win right now reading the main thread

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it is indeed going to be a close game

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well one day left for people to decide
we will see what happens

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lot of divided opinions yeah
i am not actually sure if people can come to enough of a consensus to elim properly

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preemptively welcoming flippy into the chat

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yeah honestly this setup should have had a traitor i think
though scum are doing well

if temporal had worked with town especially it would have been very town sided
no incentive for kraken not to work with town

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as to the slip not sure that counts as a slip

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cause honestly that is a mistake i could see town making especially with a role as complicated as what drew claimed
so not sure that counts as a slip but we will see what happens

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and then the game just kind of stalls out
not sure if that is good or bad for me

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yeah bussing peregrine was not the right play there i think

ah well

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well alright then
guess i might actually keep my 100% scum winrate on this account after all
that was a very short night though

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I will be very happy if we manage to win, my spirits were not high after night one!!!

i perhaps should have explained that i do not tend to survive games on this account and it was a burst of misplaced optimism that led me to think i might survive this game
in fact i have never survived to the end of a game as scum

i do however have a 100% win rate as scum so

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hmmm
let me guess
klick is not just two shot

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after the hammer test and everything else that happened i kind of doubt that drew gets sussed out
a no elim should just result in frogs getting shot so no new information there

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congratulations frogs you might have lost the game there
though technically the game was lost the moment hammer testing drew was implemented as a strategy

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yeah it is unfortunately safer for drew to
well
play it safe there
the point of a hammer test is to either have a hidden gun or such able to kill scum or block their kill if they jump for it and make it blindingly obvious that they were scum in doing so
or well
to clear out suspicion of someone so that they are not an option if you have all decided that you are fine losing to them if they are scum

this was a case of the latter though drew suspected it was a case of the former i think
in either case though if you put a scum up for hammer test you have probably lost the game anyways

kind of a series of unlucky coincidences for town though
first of all mala and norwegian both failed to get completely cleared due to how i died which has led to the current situation where norwegians slot ended up valid for elim
then yeah
drew ended up stopping his own kill and accidentally produced a false guilty on dragons

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this game was strongly town sided especially if the kraken had played more openly about their role and worked with town
scum did not have that much power and initially at the start of the game and only knowing scums power roles i thought this was a traitor game
my second thought was that town then did not have much power and you can see in day one what i thought about the role students of prudence claimed

even if that role in the end could only catch my role as a true positive town still had quite a lot of power when all was said and done

actually correct me if i am wrong but
if flippy had targeted peregrine flippy would have died correct

if that is the case all three of the scum team were susceptible to investigations of some type

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ahhh fair
well that is not as bad then but still
pretty town sided setup

we tossed enough chaos into the mix that we ended up here though so

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game ends automatically if there is a miselimination i believe
since at that point drew just has to kill and scum win