Colonel Thomas Rainsborough wrote:
Ok I simply won't hear anyone say anyone other than
as MVP. He almost single-handedly won it for the mafia and only
(who led his troops calmly) - and even then very late in the game - worked out what
was doing even though he kept telling them in thread what he was doing...
Things of note in the game for me:
d1
points out that
's vote on
is very 'off'. It is - you lynch him for a good scum catch.
warns that mafia will lynch the lurker of their choice. They do. No one calls
on a shameful volte-face at d1 end to save
. This is a pattern - day after day the mafia take all sorts of positions all day and then vote en masse in a completely shameless way that is completely contradictory to anything they have argued in thread and are never held to account.
- is wandering around the thread mentioning William Parker, Lord Mounteagle is a loyal Catholic and likely in the game and mentioning this as often as he dare - while also asking for religion reveal to the complete bemusement of his team.
as far as I can tell never notices. I am not sure he even knows he is William Parker! He certainly never works out the event he is waiting for is the Mounteagle letter. Basic research would show it is likely Tresham who will send it to him.
might have caught
just on that
equally shamelessly declares that
is town at day end and thus must be the Prince but votes in a way that in effect votes to lynch
- is not held to account for this!
d2
thinks
is mafia hence his stunt. He'll explain what he hoped would happen.
coughs up 2 full roles for no reason.
does his for no real reason. This allows
to out himself since he has been tortured he has lost his BP and now he fears night kill so he goes for it and just runs amok. He needs to let the mafia know he is not royal and so they should not kill him. How
does not lynch him I will never know. Why
and
would literally vote on anyone but
is beyond me.
outs a role that is the enemy of the Protestant state. RL he would be killed just for being in England in 1605 and yet suddenly he is Mr Townie for the last 12 hours of the game day even though he admits he is not town! How an un-cced Coke or Cecil is a better lynch than him after lying and then lurking for 48 hours is a mystery.
says all this and is almost universally mocked and belittled - this carries on into d3.
n2
kills
in effect.
can see
is mafia and investigates him. Finds him Catholic. Will later lie in thread as a signal to
that he is on his team. Whatever
says he totally misses his chance and does say he is Catholic. He can just about fudge he didn't, but....BS
Later on when
then simply accuses
of lying and wants to force a dipole,
with real feeling tells
he is a moron who deserves to die. He then goes back to role and tap dances to try and save himself and
. Extra-ordinary really.
d3
The most interesting day by miles. Go re-read. The mafia (via
) and
are in open-negotiation. The latter is trying to educate the mafia as to what is going on. He basically negotiates the lynch of
because he believes the latter is
's role given his dogged insistence of
to lynching the Jesuit. In this day, he tells the town that
is scum and then manages to wheel things around to get a townie lynched. This is his way of signalling to the mafia that he knows that
and
are scum but won't lynch them.
works it out eventually. It had also thought
was scum (I think it was this day) so tries his claim Garnet stunt. When
declines he assumes
is town as a mafia would have grabbed the fake claim. He is right about
, but he is over-estimating both
and the scum team.
n3
Ungraciously in the extreme
decides he doesn't need that wildcard given how shit the town is and tries to kill
. Unbelievably,
deploys his ability that night and thus a townie is killed instead of a mafia nightkilling what is - in effect - one of their own. This is the final nail in the town's coffin
d4
At this point it is all over really.
has investigated
and knows he is Catholic. Again he lies to say
is Protestant to underscore his signalling to the mafia, but
continues to behave in ways that ought to get him lynched but
tap-dances some more and half the town are asleep anyway. If
was alone with the 4 mafia he'd lynch himself.
doesn't play.
believes
.
too. Another shameless late switch to kill the person they want in the face of an indifferent town.
I think seriously about calling the game, but decide I have to play on to see if
can win since his win is in the mafia's hands if they kill him, but he can also save himself by getting locked in the Tower. Also,
gets his win n4.
Note how
's and
's roles interact.
is designed to be the assassin leaving
free to track so that he can try and delvier the letter, but he actually has nothing to track since almost no one but mafia are out and about. I have some fun with that, but it was meant to raise scum suspicions about Tresham. They don't except...
Note that
is a big scaredy cat who flinches at even one vote and becomes convinced that
is a spy for the way he is voting on
.
joins in.
keeps them calm
is being fed results by
for his fake claim, but messes them up and so stumbles into the needless dipole with his own teammate (in effect) -
(see above) The town has such a paucity of resources at that point though that it doesn't matter.
Lots of other stuff that I have no doubt forgotten, but others talking will remind me...