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Post Post #3725 (ISO) » Fri Aug 24, 2018 6:18 am

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SleepyKrewWelcome, Espeonage.

You've bet BipolarChemist that Papa Zito will do better than Errantparabola.
You are
SleepyKrew
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-- You win when mafia compose a majority of the players (or when nothing can prevent this), and there is at least one member of mafia alive.

Passive: Avatar Bet
-- You know that Dunnstral is "BipolarChemist", Vaxkiller is "Papa Zito", and Fire Assassin is "Errantparabola". If Papa Zito is higher-ranked than Errantparabola, you can choose to do one of the following things to BipolarChemist during Night 2 (they will be informed at the beginning of Day 2):
Vanillize
: Remove all of their Active powers.

NK-Immunize
: Make them Nightkill Immune.

Delayed Kill
: Kill them on Night 2.

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Number of 10s:
3
Number of 0s:
4
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Post Post #3726 (ISO) » Fri Aug 24, 2018 6:19 am

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Post Post #3727 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:28 am

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Day breaks.

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Not Voting
(4): Punreader, DeasVail, Shoshin, Vaxkiller

With 4 alive, it takes 3 to achieve a majority.
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Post Post #3728 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 8:24 am

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I don't know why the game is still going given that I am quite explicitly not a threat to the town, but you lose nothing by no lynching here and allowing me the chance to win. I infected DeasVail as promised. I realize that you can't afford to risk lynching Vaxkiller, but you literally have nothing to lose by no lynching.

If after I shoot Vaxkiller, I am not removed from the game, I'll eat the loss and in 3p, you Lynch me.
VOTE: No Lynch.
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Post Post #3729 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 8:34 am

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I can actually prove that I am not a threat to the town:
Were I one, the town wincon would be the simpler, "you win when all non town players are dead".
The specification of threat implies that there is nontown that isn't a threat: me.
I can go into more detail later.
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Post Post #3730 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 8:38 am

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VOTE: Pun
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Post Post #3731 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 9:24 am

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To explain the math further:

There are four possible scenarios:
  1. I am not a threat to the town, precisely as claimed. There is no other nontown. In spite of the town having already won, the game continues until I either win or lose.

    If so, you have nothing to lose by no lynching and letting me shoot Vaxkiller to win.

  2. I am a threat to the town.
    I have threefold proof that this is not the case, albeit two being my word.
    The first reason: I can win when dead. The town wincon is eliminating threats. If I can win when dead, I can't be a threat, because I was already eliminated. If I am dead, thus, eliminated, yet can win posthumously, by definition, I cannot be a threat.

    The second proof is from a lack of mod clarification. When I misunderstood my 0s/1s passive ability, Errantparabola provided me with clarification. This sets a precedence; if I misunderstood my wincon, then he should have clarified it in the same manner. He did not.

    The third is public, in the town win condition. The town wins if all threats to the town are eliminated. If my wincon was a threat, the mod could just specify to eliminate any and all nontown.

    As this didn't happen, we have proof that I am not a threat to the town if I am real claiming.

  3. I am a serial killer. Obviously I know that this is not the case, but were it, I'd need to win a 3p lylo or 4p Mylo.

    By no lynching, you lose nothing. A sk-pun can't win overnight. A truthful pun can. Thus, the Vaxkiller night kill serves as a SK test. I don't win, you lynch me in 3p. I do get removed, well then I wasn't a serial killer! So no lynching costs nothing but gives you a chance to check my alignment.

  4. There is a threat to the town, and I am not it; it's one of you three.
    Were this the case, then unless it's Vaxkiller, the town already lost.
    Lynch me, the threat to the town wins.
    No lynch, I kill Vaxkiller, win, and if the threat isn't Vaxkiller, it endgames the last town player.

    Thus. If you believe Vaxkiller is antitown, let me shoot him; if you don't, then you must assume that this is not the scenario we are in.
Regardless, optimal play in all three possible scenarios is to no lynch.
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Post Post #3732 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 9:28 am

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In post 3730, Shoshin wrote:VOTE: Pun
And what logic do you have considering your viewpoint of me was proven wrong? I most decisively was not defending pun yesterday. I was a strong proponent of Espeonage being pun.
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Post Post #3733 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 10:19 am

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Lol Pun, don't waste your time, you're dying today.
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Post Post #3734 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 10:36 am

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VOTE: punreader
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Post Post #3735 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 10:44 am

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In post 3732, Punreader wrote:
In post 3730, Shoshin wrote:VOTE: Pun
And what logic do you have considering your viewpoint of me was proven wrong? I most decisively was not defending pun yesterday. I was a strong proponent of Espeonage being pun.
If for some reason you wish to argue otherwise:
In post 3665, Shoshin wrote:
In post 3663, Ankamius wrote:Because Pun isn't an SK
Who cares what Pun is as long as you know she's not town, she has the ability to kill Vax tonight
I had the ability to kill Vaxkiller. I did not.
In post 3635, Shoshin wrote:For the record, Pun wants to mislynch today because Pun wins if we mislynch. So Pun probably thinks Espe is town here.
I would indeed have won if we mislynched and told you as much yesterday as reason we should have no lynched then. But I most decisively did not think Espeonage was town, as can be shown from these posts:
In post 2851, Punreader wrote:
In post 947, Errantparabola wrote:
Espeonage
(2): DeasVail,
Fire Assassin

Vaxkiller
(1): the worst
In post 982, Errantparabola wrote:
Fire Assassin
(4):
PenguinPower, Dunnstral
, the worst,
Taly

Espeonage
(2): DeasVail,
Fire Assassin

MariaR
(1): Shoshin
In post 1123, Errantparabola wrote:
Espeonage
(6): DeasVail,
Fire Assassin
,
TehBrawlGuy
, the worst,
Taly, PenguinPower

Fire Assassin
(1):
Dunnstral

MariaR
(1): Shoshin
In post 1083, Errantparabola wrote:
Espeonage
(6): DeasVail,
Fire Assassin
, the worst,
Taly, PenguinPower
, Shoshin
Fire Assassin
(2):
Dunnstral
, Espeonage
Not Voting
(7): Punreader, MariaR/Chara, Nahdia, Srceenplay, Vaxkiller,
TehBrawlGuy
In post 1254, Errantparabola wrote:
Fire Assassin
(3): Espeonage,
MariaR
/Chara
Dunnstral
(1):
Fire Assassin

Not Voting
(11): Punreader, Nahdia, Srceenplay, Vaxkiller, Shoshin,
Taly, PenguinPower, Dunnstral
, DeasVail,
TehBrawlGuy
, the worst
In post 1354, Errantparabola wrote:
PenguinPower
(2):
TehBrawlGuy
, Punreader
Dunnstral
(1):
Fire Assassin

Fire Assassin
(1): Espeonage
Shoshin
(1):
PenguinPower

Not Voting
(10): Nahdia, Srceenplay, Vaxkiller, Shoshin,
Taly, Dunnstral
, DeasVail, the worst,
MariaR
/Chara
In post 1445, Errantparabola wrote:
PenguinPowe
r
(4):
TehBrawlGuy
, Punreader, DeasVail, Shoshin
Nahdia
(3):
MariaR
/Chara,
Dunnstral

Dunnstral
(1):
Fire Assassin

Fire Assassin
(1): Espeonage
Shoshin
(1):
PenguinPower

Not Voting
(5): Nahdia, Srceenplay, Vaxkiller,
Taly
, the worst
In post 1518, Errantparabola wrote:
PenguinPower
(6):
TehBrawlGuy
, Punreader, DeasVail, Shoshin,
Vaxkiller
, ManWithNoName
Nahdia
(5):
MariaR
/Chara,
Dunnstral, PenguinPower, Taly

Dunnstral
(1):
Fire Assassin

Fire Assassin
(1): Espeonage
Not Voting
(2): Nahdia, the worst
In post 1820, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(5):
MariaR
/Chara,
Dunnstral, Taly
, Shoshin
PenguinPower
(5):
TehBrawlGuy
, Punreader, DeasVail,
Vaxkiller
,
Fire Assassin

Shoshin
(3):
PenguinPower
,
Commander Shepard
, the worst
Fire Assassin
(2): Espeonage, ManWithNoName
If I know Commander Shepherd, and I do, this sudden drastic shift in wagon composition is directly the result of his actions. Compare the VCs from (before his replace-in) to the VCs from (after his replace-in).

The strong contrast there is validating a theory of mine, wherein Shoshin is by far the best vote for today, and Espeonage is a fine candidate for the final pun.
In post 1931, Errantparabola wrote:
PenguinPower
(8):
TehBrawlGuy
, Punreader, DeasVail,
Vaxkiller
,
Fire Assassin
, ManWithNoName, Shoshin,
Commander Shepard

Commander Shepard
(3):
MariaR
/Chara,
Dunnstral

Shoshin
(2):
PenguinPower
, the worst
Fire Assassin
(1): Espeonage
In post 1960, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(3): Dunnstral,
Fire Assassin
, ManWithNoName
Shoshin
(2): Punreader, the worst
Fire Assassin
(1): Espeonage
In post 1996, Errantparabola wrote:
Shoshin
(3): Punreader, the worst,
Commander Shepard

Commander Shepard
(2):
Fire Assassin
, ManWithNoName
Fire Assassin
(1): Espeonage
In post 2076, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(2):
Fire Assassin
, ManWithNoName
Shoshin
(2): Punreader, the worst
Fire Assassin
(1): Espeonage
Vaxkiller
(1):
Commander Shepard
In post 2150, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(5):
Fire Assassin
, ManWithNoName,
Dunnstral
, Shoshin,
Vaxkiller

Shoshin
(3): Punreader, the worst,
Commander Shepard

Fire Assassin
(1): Espeonage
In post 2304, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(4):
Fire Assassin
,
Dunnstral
, Shoshin,
Vaxkiller

Fire Assassin
(4): Espeonage, ManWithNoName, the worst,
MariaR

Shoshin
(2): Punreader,
Commander Shepard
I'd like to point out at some point: it is possible, but unlikely, for guacamole to be pun.
Espeonage has a rather decent chance of being pun, but it is not assured.
Shoshin is as good as lock-scum from VCA at this point.
I will not entertain godfather paranoia for Vaxkiller, even though objectively by VCA he has terrible positioning. (His pattern matches what I would expect from pun and his shot remains unproven.)
In post 2373, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(5):
Fire Assassin
, Shoshin,
Vaxkiller
,
MariaR
, DeasVail
Shoshin
(3): Punreader,
Commander Shepard
, the worst
Fire Assassin
(2): Espeonage, guacamole
DeasVail has a
chance
of being pun, a chance higher than that of guacamole, but would not be my first choice.
In post 2669, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(4):
Dunnstral
, Shoshin, Krazy/DeasVail
Fire Assassin
(1): Punreader
Shoshin
(1):
Vaxkiller
In post 2812, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(6):
Dunnstral
, Shoshin, Krazy/DeasVail,
Fire Assassin
,
Vaxkiller

Shoshin
(3):
Vaxkiller
,
Commander Shepard
, guacamole
Fire Assassin
(1): Punreader
Not Voting
(2): Espeonage, the worst
This just about confirms my conclusions.

I will be clearing Vaxkiller because I will ignore the possibility of a pun godfather as that is stupid to consider that a one-shot cop JUST SO HAPPENED to target a pun godfather. Commander Shepherd could redirect actions on punbuddies, but only to himself; if Vaxkiller were pun, he would still be a guilty result if the actual investigation were Commander Shepherd.

Commander Shepherd could not, say, redirect actions on punbuddies onto, say, Dunnstral. And if he could, then I refuse to entertain the idea a one-shot cop JUST SO HAPPENED to be redirected from pun onto town in the one and only way possible. So he is still cleared.

I have good reason to believe the worst is town.
I have reasonable evidence suggesting Chara/Krazy is town.
guacamole has a chance, but is unlikely, to be pun.
DeasVail has a decent chance at being pun.
Espeonage has a high chance at being pun.

Shoshin is basically confpun.

So from this, Shoshin is the clear lynch.

I may need to explain why this VCA is so damning for Shoshin even though it should be readily apparent to people.
Full disclosure, at this moment, I thought that the worst had received the message I sent, because he posted this,
In post 2838, the worst wrote:massclaim tomorrow y/y
Which contained y/y which I thought was code for 'I am town'; it wasn't until I saw his isolated post of 'd' that I realized he hadn't received my message yet and was punclaiming there. So in this spot, my analysis was 100% genuine in thinking Shoshin was pun and Espeonage was Shoshin's punbuddy.
In post 2858, Punreader wrote:The players who most frequently voted one another were Commander Shepherd, Espeonage, Fire Assassin, and yourself. All four have votes almost always parked on another within the grouping. This pattern exists most strongly
after
Commander Shepherd replaced in and was almost entirely absent prior to Commander Shepherd replacing in.

For most of the game, red has been voting red. I know the pattern used. It fooled me at the time, true enough, but it had to come from a very specific gamestate in order to do so.
In post 2859, Punreader wrote:
In post 2855, Shoshin wrote:Pun, apply your defense of the worst to me because it actually applies with greater force.
To the contrary.
As the counterwagon to flipped pun, players would be likely to altogether clear you.

This would explain confidence in victory; if Commander Shepherd was confident that his flip would make people treat you as conftown when you're his punbuddy, his strategy would indeed be sensible.
I said this to Shoshin with Commander Shepherd, but the logic applied equally to Espeonage with Fire Assassin.
In post 2867, Punreader wrote:The proof is in Fire Assassin.

We know for a fact he, 100%, was bussing.

We know for a fact that cross-bus happened.

Do you deny it?

Of course not. It's evidence readily available for all.

So then there is a logical train to follow from that.

If the pun were heavily cross-bussing, what was the end plan of the cross-bussing?

All evidence points to deliberately trying to lynch a pun player.

And if he were deliberately trying to lynch a pun player (in this case, himself), it follows that there would be players who should be cleared from it.

We know it wasn't meant to clear Fire Assassin, because I stated I was going to shoot him upon a Commander Shepherd lynch and I wouldn't magically change my mind upon seeing his flip. I was still going to shoot Fire Assassin, and he knew I was still going to shoot Fire Assassin.

So if Fire Assassin wasn't the player meant to be cleared from the cross-bussing...

...Who was?

There are only a select few number of candidates.
Another one directed to Shoshin but equally applicable to Espeonage.
In post 2875, Punreader wrote:I repeat:
In post 2851, Punreader wrote:
In post 1960, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(3): Dunnstral,
Fire Assassin
, ManWithNoName
Shoshin
(2): Punreader, the worst
Fire Assassin
(1): Espeonage
In post 1996, Errantparabola wrote:
Shoshin
(3): Punreader, the worst,
Commander Shepard

Commander Shepard
(2):
Fire Assassin
, ManWithNoName
Fire Assassin
(1): Espeonage
In post 2076, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(2):
Fire Assassin
, ManWithNoName
Shoshin
(2): Punreader, the worst
Fire Assassin
(1): Espeonage
Vaxkiller
(1):
Commander Shepard
In post 2150, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(5):
Fire Assassin
, ManWithNoName,
Dunnstral
, Shoshin,
Vaxkiller

Shoshin
(3): Punreader, the worst,
Commander Shepard

Fire Assassin
(1): Espeonage
In post 2304, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(4):
Fire Assassin
,
Dunnstral
, Shoshin,
Vaxkiller

Fire Assassin
(4): Espeonage, ManWithNoName, the worst,
MariaR

Shoshin
(2): Punreader,
Commander Shepard
In post 2373, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(5):
Fire Assassin
, Shoshin,
Vaxkiller
,
MariaR
, DeasVail
Shoshin
(3): Punreader,
Commander Shepard
, the worst
Fire Assassin
(2): Espeonage, guacamole
DeasVail has a
chance
of being pun, a chance higher than that of guacamole, but would not be my first choice.
In post 2669, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(4):
Dunnstral
, Shoshin, Krazy/DeasVail
Fire Assassin
(1): Punreader
Shoshin
(1):
Vaxkiller
In post 2812, Errantparabola wrote:
Commander Shepard
(6):
Dunnstral
, Shoshin, Krazy/DeasVail,
Fire Assassin
,
Vaxkiller

Shoshin
(3):
Vaxkiller
,
Commander Shepard
, guacamole
Fire Assassin
(1): Punreader
Not Voting
(2): Espeonage, the worst
We know, 100% for a fact, Fire Assassin and Commander Shepherd were cross-bussing.
We know, 100% for a fact, I stated I was going to shoot Fire Assassin.
We can deduce, then, that the cross-buss between the two was not to give Fire Assassin town credit, given as how he was set to die.
We can then deduce, that if Fire Assassin was not the player being set up to get towncred, some other player was.

We can then reasonably infer, that if Fire Assassin was also set to die along side Commander Shepherd.
That Commander Shepherd was quite confident that once he flipped, his remaining two punbuddies would be positioned well enough to win.

Espeonage has been voting Fire Assassin the whole game. If any player were to be cleared by Fire Assassin's flip, the assumption would be him, especially given Fire Assassin's claimed result on Espeonage.

It is simply the conclusion which makes the most sense.
I would like to reiterate, these were before . At the time I wrote them, I believed the worst to be town. Because I believed him to be town, and I wanted to townside, I was sincere in everything I did. It was only
after
2883 that I realized the worst was pun, and at that point, I shifted from genuinely pushing, to pushing an agenda that was neither town or pun and was geared towards not being forced to choose town or pun.

And my goal, then, was to lynch the non-worst pun player to accomplish this.
In post 3136, Punreader wrote:
In post 2968, Espeonage wrote:I feel like pun is ignoring that distancing is a thing when multiple scum players are under pressure.
I beg your pardon?

My entire
case
is that pun players distance when pun are under pressure.
In post 3256, Punreader wrote:
In post 3158, Shoshin wrote:Let's have Pun shoot Guac, then?
There are only two lynches which will make me submit this.

One is Espeonage; the other is yourself.

Otherwise, I refuse.

So,
In post 3204, Krazy wrote:
Vote Espeonage

Current proposal is lynch espeonage, shoot guac.
Pun are you on board for this?
I am indeed.
VOTE: Espeonage.
In post 3257, Punreader wrote:
In post 3243, Shoshin wrote:Pun's shooting Guac, so I don't really feel like lynching there today.
My shot on there has the caveat of an Espeonage lynch.
In post 3309, Punreader wrote:
In post 3258, the worst wrote:work with me here? what are you seeing in Espe as scum?
This
is
me working with you.
You trust me, right?

Well then, trust me to have done the number crunching. I looked at all the figures.
The only lynches today that are even remotely good are Shoshin, Espeonage, and guacamole. guacamole's a mislynch, mind you, but at least he's a smart mislynch rather than a dumb one.

The math works out as such:
Assume, no matter what, Vaxkiller is not lynched.
Assume, no matter what, pun kill Vaxkiller as he is conftown.
  1. LYNCH: DeasVail/Krazy (the two are interchangeable in results):
    This is a mislynch. It subdivides from there.
    1. KILL: guacamole
      • If guacamole were pun, the pun player who is not guacamole likely has a way to prevent the vig from going through. guacamole lives through the night, making the vig a waste.
      • If guacamole is town, the pun let the vig go through. This then leaves us in 5p lylo.
        You are the player everyone has an incentive at this point to lynch; the other of DeasVail/Krazy wants you dead, Shoshin wants you dead, Espeonage wants you dead, and even I wouldn't be able to stop that lynch. This is, understandably, not ideal; it is a worst case scenario to be facing.
    2. DON'T KILL: guacamole:
      This need not be given bulletpoints as the result is the same regardless of his alignment. It's harder to mislynch you, and players are less inclined to do so.

      Conclusion: don't kill guacamole if one of Krazy/DeasVail is lynched.
  2. LYNCH: the worst
    I don't think I need to explain to you why that'd be bad, yes? It's self-evident to you.
  3. LYNCH: guacamole
    This is far from ideal, but it gets us into mylo tomorrow. It is still harder to mislynch you, and players are less inclined to do so. We have significantly more leeway than with a DeasVail/Krazy lynch in that regard.
  4. LYNCH: Shoshin/Espeonage (the two are interchangeable in results):
    This is a pun lynch. FURTHERMORE, both of their lynches have identical effects. They elevate you to conftown levels, and condemn the other. A Shoshin lynch means you never get lynched, the worst; an Espeonage lynch means you never get lynched; a lynch of Espeonage makes Shoshin a prime punbuddy candidate; a lynch of Shoshin given Shoshin's Espeonage defense points fingers at Espeonage rather strongly.
    guacamole can thus safely be shot.
Simply put. I thought ahead. I thought the way pun would be thinking, about the endgame
they
want to set up, and how to best deal with that endgame.

Krazy/DeasVail lynches today with a guacamole shot condemn you to die tomorrow, the worst. That is thus why they are not ideal.
Your lynch today is self-evidently not ideal, and I'm not going to exasperate it by then shooting guacamole.
guacamole's lynch today isn't the best, but it's not terrible. You're not condemned tomorrow, and we have a shot at winning the game.
Shoshin and Espeonage's lynches today are the best; they afford me the luxury of shooting town.

I am willing to shoot guacamole, then, on the lynch of a pun player.

I am not willing to shoot guacamole upon the lynch of a town player.

And I've made it quite unambiguous who I've felt is which alignment, yes?

So you can understand then why I'm not shooting guacamole if you lynch Krazy or DeasVail because that would be literally gamethrowing on my part.
In post 3261, Krazy wrote:Pun, Sho made an interesting point. Can you explain how scum would choose to rate Vax 0, thus increasing chances that Esp gets nightkilled by Dunn n1 by 15%? Like, you're thinking that scum create the scenario where Dunn can nightkill Esp just for the value in distancing?
You seem to have forgotten a fundamental fact regarding the bet.
Vaxkiller, one of the two players who needed to be ranked high/low, is proven town via MariaR's cop result.
Fire Assassin, the other of the two players who needed to be ranked high/low, is proven pun by his flip.

It thus says nothing about Espeonage's alignment that pun wanted Fire Assassin ranked higher than Vaxkiller, because that is a natural thing for them to have wanted.
I was openly signaling to the worst in this post: "You kill Vaxkiller, you bus Espeonage, and we get into a gamestate favorable for both of us".
In post 3311, Punreader wrote:
In post 3303, Shoshin wrote:I strongly believe the reason Pun won't vig guac is because Pun isn't town. There's no other reason to refuse that request.
Alternatively, I feel like vigging guacamole after mislynching town with the worst as a prime lynch candidate is absolutely not a good thing to do.

You'd have to be blind to not realize that's the exact gamestate we'd end up with in the events I outlined.

Or are you saying that if we mislynched Krazy/DeasVail and guacamole was vigged and flipped town, you'd suddenly be clearing the worst?

Of course not.
This is where I flat-out told Shoshin that Shoshin's planned course of action in mislynching Krazy/DeasVail with me shooting guacamole would force me to punside, and that I was
specifically trying to avoid that outcome
. Read this post and try to find any other possible interpretation of what my words mean here; I dare you to try because it is quite unambiguous and was as close to an outright 3p claim as I could get without claiming 3p.

If you need it spelled out:
Mislynching Krazy/DeasVail, then vigging guacamole with the pun shooting Vaxkiller, would lead to 5p lylo, two pun alive. I would out the worst as pun and lynch him...but then I'd have one and only one infection left I could safely make, Espeonage; I'd infect him, he'd kill the other of DeasVail/Krazy, and I'd leave the game which would leave Espeonage alone with Shoshin; pun win.

I was outright telling Shoshin that Shoshin was plotting a course that would doom the town and fought hard to prevent it. Which I reiterate here:
In post 3332, Punreader wrote:
In post 3316, Shoshin wrote:The biggest problem I have is that you're not thinking about the big picture.
To the contrary! I am the
only
person thinking of the big picture. Thinking of the big picture is why I am doing the things I am.
Thinking of the bigger picture and knowing the consequences of a Krazy/DeasVail mislynch with a guacamole vig is precisely why I was arguing not to have that happen. I repeat, I did not want to punside. I can't play against my wincon so if the choice is punside or lose I'm going to punside, but if the choice is win with a punside or win without punsiding I preferred winning without punsiding.
In post 3333, Punreader wrote:
In post 3325, Espeonage wrote:Basically thinking about it, if you believe there's an sk, they have a vested interest in lynching town.
Thus why my vested interest in not wanting to lynch town and refusing to shoot town after having mislynched helps demonstrate decisively why I'm not a serial killer.

As you yourself note. Were I a serial killer, I'd have no reason to refuse to shoot guacamole. Regardless of guacamole's alignment, his death would be an extra person dead, pushing the game closer to where I'd be the last alive. But because I am not a serial killer, I have to pursue my actual wincon. And my actual wincon tells me that shooting guacamole is a stupid idea if we mislynch today.
In post 3324, Espeonage wrote:Wait why is pun convinced me and Sho are scum?
It's a combination of reasons, from POE, what agendas you are pushing compared to what "agendas" others are pushing, and simple analysis of the gamestate.
Here I not only reinforce my wincon but outline why Espeonage is pun further.
In post 3334, Punreader wrote:Forgot to include this.
In post 3329, Espeonage wrote:It explains the turnaround evident in even just this day phase.
My turnaround, as you so call it, can also far more simply be explained by me having done analysis and from the conclusions of said analysis, come to the conclusions I did.

Not all of these are even new conclusions.
Krazy, DeasVail, and guacamole townreads in particular are townreads I've held for a significant amount of time. If you think otherwise, that is a failure on your part to have paid attention to my reads on prior day phases since the last time I held suspicion on any of them was on D2. All of them have been townreads since D3, to varying extents.

You and the worst are the only reads which I can say have changed today. You to pun, the worst to town.
Here I further pushed him as pun.
In post 3527, Punreader wrote:
In post 3364, the worst wrote:but we need to make sure there's actually a tomorrow. trust me back?
Oh there's a tomorrow no matter what.

The problem is leaving tomorrow winnable.
In post 3337, Shoshin wrote:Like, you'd think he would have reevaluated his reads after that terrible read on Shepard, but instead he's doubling down on his bad reads.
Sorry, I don't act the way you want me to act. I act the way I
should
act. And calling the pun as I see them is what I should do.
In post 3345, the worst wrote:- from a meta point of view you're looking at Espe who is a VERY good busser and FireAss who I don't really have a strong sense of the meta on.
I'll answer for you: Fire Assassin is far more likely to claim a guilty on a punbuddy than on a town player.
In post 3348, the worst wrote:Considering how badly executed this would've been if it were a cross bus?
Well on Fire Assassin's part, naturally.

On Espeonage's part, this seems par for the course from him.

Your argument for Espeonage being town is still fallacious because you're literally using Burden of Proficiency combined with "too punny to be pun". ("Too half-assed to be bussing" is exactly that.)
Here I again reinforce the message: I was attempting not to punside. Now I would have preferred not to choose a side at all, to win without playing kingmaker, but I was very adamant about not punsiding. I further reiterated more reasons for Espeonage to be pun.
In post 3528, Punreader wrote:
In post 3527, Punreader wrote:
In post 3348, the worst wrote:Considering how badly executed this would've been if it were a cross bus?
Well on Fire Assassin's part, naturally.
What I mean by this is, Fire Assassin is precisely the type of player that would execute an abysmally bad cross-bus.

It goes hand-in-hand with fakeclaiming guilties as town; that's just the sort of player he is.
Sure enough, I was right because I knew what I was talking about.
In post 3592, Punreader wrote:
In post 3591, Vaxkiller wrote:I'm wondering if we have to kill punreader today, not sure we can lynch scum today and wait until tomorrow to kill him...i think he would win. (assuming hes an sk)
There is a sufficiently large risk in me claiming this, but pun were supposed to kill you last night and they didn't, so I suppose I'll take the risk anyway.

I am indeed a third party.
I am not in fact a serial killer.

I claimed both to Dunnstral, and to the worst; the former, via neighborhood, the latter, via message.

My full role is much as I have claimed it.
I have a passive, Libel and Slander. 0s and 1s people give me are given double weight.
I have a passive, Stadium Status. This is in fact a conditional bulletproof, but I lied about the condition. The real condition is in some ways stronger but other ways weaker: as long as my D1 ranking is above half of the living, I'm bulletproof. Given as how I've been in the bottom 50% the whole game, I've been wide open to attack the whole time.
I have a passive, Chip Represent!. This is access to the neighborhood consisting of Commander Shepherd and Dunnstral. (I claimed to Dunnstral once Commander Shepherd was dead.)

My active ability, Spread the Word, is in fact a conditional vig. When I target someone ranked lower than me, I kill them. You're the only player ranked lower than me and I absolutely refuse to kill you at this point (if for no other reason than it'd render my win impossible and pun should want you dead anyway so I'm not doing their work for them when they screwed me over by not killing you), so I am not going to kill again.

However, I breadcrumbed yet never claimed that there is another half of Spread the Word: when I target someone ranked
higher
than me, I infect them. This infection does nothing; it doesn't kill them, it doesn't spread, it's completely and entirely harmless. But it is related to my wincon.

My wincon is for every living player to be infected. As all of my target claims have been truthful, what this means is the only player I have infected right now is Shoshin, and maybe not even Shoshin if Shoshin's role is immune to mine. If Shoshin's role is immune to mine, I am in a position where it's impossible to win.

I can win posthumously, and if I win, explicitly the game continues on after I win. (Specifically, it says that I win when everyone alive is infected and that I do not need to be alive to win.)

In my message to the worst, I asked him to claim his alignment to me, with y/d in place of t/s;
Right here he did so. I was specifically hoping to navigate the gamestate to a situation where I knew the identity of the last pun but could win without playing kingmaker. I didn't want to punside due to promising I'd help Dunnstral (and my natural inclination to help town the whole game) nor after the worst trusted me did I want to betray him and townside.

This means yes, I am fairly certain Espeonage is the worst's punbuddy. After all. With two kills you know there's pun left alive; you then have a choice: believe his punbuddy bussed him, or believe Espeonage is the punbuddy.

The options available to the town then are the following:
  1. Lynch me. I can't win, presumably Vaxkiller is shot by the last pun, and you have a 3p lylo. If you assume Shoshin is town (which I would, by the way; I knew Shoshin was town yesterday due to knowing the worst was pun so I apologize for that push), that's a 50/50 shot but I'd strongly recommend the Espeonage lynch and can cite the worst's defense of him as proof.
  2. Lynch someone else.
    • If you lynch the last pun, I lose because I am not a threat to the town and did not fulfill my wincon.
    • If you lynch town, then I target the player I haven't infected.
      • If Shoshin was infected and pun nightkill Vaxkiller, then I am removed from the game; presumably, this would result in a pun win.
      • If the pun doesn't eliminate Vaxkiller or Shoshin wasn't infected, then we get to a 3p situation; I may or may not be able to win but town's chances aren't great.
    Given that a mislynch today leaves the town's chances as fairly slim, you'll not want to take that risk I'd wager.
  3. No-lynch. In return for having not lynched me, I'd target the player you want me to in {Espeonage, DeasVail}. (You want me to be targeting TOWN.) In 4p mylo, we'd lynch the other, and we can win together. This is effectively identical to the first option, in that you are taking a 50/50, it's just that this option allows me to win with the town as well.
In short, due to the actions of both town (lynching the worst) and pun (not killing Vaxkiller), I
am
being forced to choose a side.

I was already inclined to townside by default and double-downed on that with Dunnstral. I never intended to punside; I was simply aiming for a gamestate where I wouldn't need to choose a side to win. But since no matter what I do at this point I
will
be helping a victor, I made my choice and am selecting the town.

VOTE: No Lynch.
Here I outline reasons for Espeonage to be pun, Shoshin to be town, and reiterate that Vaxkiller is town.
In post 3595, Punreader wrote:(I maintain that Espeonage was a better lynch than the worst because I knew the worst to be pun; I only deduced Espeonage to be his partner.)
Here once more I reiterate it.
In post 3602, Punreader wrote:But since I'm convinced Espeonage is the worst's punbuddy and have been convinced Espeonage is pun even before the worst claimed pun to me, obviously I already believed guacamole to be town anyway.
And again.
In post 3626, Punreader wrote:I have also shown that I am punhunting.

In particular:
In post 3619, Shoshin wrote:Have you picked up any associative tells from the worst?
Yes, plenty. Which you'd have known if you paid attention to my wall.

the worst spewed Espeonage as pun, hard. Look at his constant defense of the slot.
Similarly, look at how Espeonage in spite of having numerous opportunities not once was voting the worst.

Again,
In post 3585, Errantparabola wrote:
the worst
(5): Vaxkiller, Krazy, DeasVail, Shoshin, guacamole
Espeonage
(1): Punreader
Krazy
(1): Espeonage
Not Voting
(1): the worst
To reiterate. The options you are left with are that Espeonage is the worst's punbuddy...or that Espeonage's punbuddy bussed. Evidence of the latter not being true: if the worst's punbuddy had bussed, then there was no incentive for Krazy to have been the nightkill. Krazy and Shoshin were two of the hardest pushers of the worst being pun, but if DeasVail or Shoshin were pun, then they'd want to maximize the number of players alive on the worst's wagon as to not stand out more.

Whereas in an Espeonage-pun world, Espeonage would believe that he'd need to nightkill the players with the most towncred.
Here I provide unique, new reasons for Espeonage to be pun, reasons absent prior to this point in the game.
In post 3628, Punreader wrote:
In post 3626, Punreader wrote:
In post 3585, Errantparabola wrote:
the worst
(5): Vaxkiller, Krazy, DeasVail, Shoshin, guacamole
Espeonage
(1): Punreader
Krazy
(1): Espeonage
Not Voting
(1): the worst
To reiterate. The options you are left with are that Espeonage is the worst's punbuddy...or that Espeonage's punbuddy bussed. Evidence of the latter not being true: if the worst's punbuddy had bussed, then there was no incentive for Krazy to have been the nightkill. Krazy and Shoshin were two of the hardest pushers of the worst being pun, but if DeasVail or Shoshin were pun, then they'd want to maximize the number of players alive on the worst's wagon as to not stand out more.

Whereas in an Espeonage-pun world, Espeonage would believe that he'd need to nightkill the players with the most towncred.
To further clarify:
You are left with those two worlds. Place yourself into the pun's shoes in both worlds.

In the world where the last punbuddy bussed, they want to get towncred for having bussed. The more players alive from the wagon, the more towncred they are likely to get, due to groupthinking. Players who are on the lynch know they were on the lynch as town, and thus, are naturally going to be more inclined by default to assume the others on the lynch were also town.

FURTHERMORE. In the event the town is smart enough to deduce that pun bussed, by killing a member of the wagon, they are narrowing the pool of who said pun bussing could be, making it easier to spot them.

In contrast, imagine a world where the last punbuddy
didn't
bus.
The know they have no town credit.
The players on the wagon are, thanks to groupthinking, likely to townread one another. This is disastrous; killing a member of the wagon can help to break that cohesion. Furthermore, because they are not a member of the wagon, the thought that killing a member of the wagon would narrow down who the pun are never occurs to them; they are more worried about the wagon being townread due to bias of knowing it was all town.

This is why the Krazy nightkill points to Espeonage as pun.

For further evidence, refer to how the worst treated Espeonage, and how Espeonage treated the worst.

If that's not enough, then read my case I made against him yesterday, discarding the part about Shoshin (which was written mostly to protect the worst). Everything I said about him then was sincere, and remains true today.
I further extrapolate on this here.
In post 3630, Punreader wrote:
In post 842, the worst wrote:9 - Espeonage
In post 3207, the worst wrote:I'm still pretty sure Espe is town, and that case amounts to something closer to "he doesn't deserve to win" than "he's scum". I need to counter case this but it's prolly gonna have to wait til I'm at a PC.
In post 3219, the worst wrote:^^^^^^^^^
I'd take it if he brushed on any actual reasons to suspect Espe (I've argued with myself over it quite a lot) but on the balance of things Krazy is probably just scum here.
In post 3258, the worst wrote:I'm pretty sure that's a bad lynch Pun. work with me here? what are you seeing in Espe as scum?
(KEEP IN MIND THE WORST AND I WERE TRYING TO SIGNAL TO ONE ANOTHER WHAT TO DO DURING THE NIGHT AT THIS TIME)
In post 3276, the worst wrote:bro have you read a game Espe has ever been in?
In post 3345, the worst wrote:- I'm townreading the dude and I'm getting better at reading espe. this is not a gamestate that turns scum!Espe off. he loves bussing and loves chaos when he's controlling it, and he's far more liable to phase out when he's town. it's not quite a reverse Creature tell but it's almost there--if Espe is disengaged, there's a >random chance he's town.
- from a meta point of view you're looking at Espe who is a VERY good busser and FireAss who I don't really have a strong sense of the meta on. like this clusterfuck of scumreads and claims between the two is a pain in the ass to read but I don't think I understand what the hell either of them are meant to gain from it. Espe tunnels FA for either a bus or because his role tells him to which is whatever. it's difficult to read into his read accuracy because he poker faced his early read pretty hard. either he's realised he's genuinely scumreading the dude who's rankings he needs to tank or he's done like a super half assed job of bussing....which gives him no benefit whatsoever. if anything the way they courted with wagoning each other just feels like unnecessary associatives. I don't see him going down this path with a scumbuddy? plus like FireAss was scummy as hell with his creepy SOD1 TMIey reads. as someone who fucking loves fakeclaiming alignment cops I can tell you for a fact that FireAss did not fakeclaim that shit in order to be the scumteam's carry. Krazy can you talk to me for a sec? what the fuck do either Espe or Fire gain from this exchange if it's a crossbus? it just feels too messy to be like an actual plan which two people planned.

- your suggestion that his claim is bullshit doesn't feel considered in more than two dimensions bro. he's claimed Dunn's role sans the neighbour thing. if he was scum with Dunn's role + x ability why would he not just claim Dunn's role + an ability? like this would just be pants on head as either alignment. I'd fucking bet you if we flip Espe, his role flips as Dunn's role without the extra ability.

- I know the mechanics thing is kinda whatever but suggesting the betters are t/s and the bettees are t/s is kinda..... eh. I'd believe t/t + s/s before I'd believe that. going t/s + t/s basically forces scum to play a particular style, which is grossly unfun. having a mafia role who is like, forced to bus a particular team mate? I personally hate bussing and would instantly replace out. Can't see a game which was in the review process so long being approved with a role which is just blatantly unfun.
In post 3349, the worst wrote:I actually haven't weighted my Espe and Shosh reads against each other. I just don't really see either flipping scum here.

definitely townread Espe before I townread Shoshin (needed her to show me what to actually look for which was a little embarrassing) but they're probably roughly equal?
Here I show why the worst's iso incriminates Espeonage.
In post 3632, Punreader wrote:
In post 3397, Espeonage wrote:For the record I also agree with Sho's lynchpool assessment above. I would order it as probably Krazy, Guac, DV, worst at this point. Scum worst doesn't need to meta me like that, and scum DV also doesn't need to defend me like he has. Basically I've started giving cred to people who are resistant to town lynched.
In post 853, Espeonage wrote:I'll be honest. I put the worst high because I reckon I'll be able to read him later and I genuinely like him. Because I forsee that question coming too.
Look what I found.
More reasons for Espeonage to be pun.
In post 3698, Punreader wrote:Fair warning: I don't have enough time to post content TODAY, and while I have time tomorrow, I don't have enough time to do what I WANT.

On Saturday, however, what I intend to do is write a towncase and puncase on each of the three players spanning the whole game and including meta; I want everyone to read those and give feedback on them.
It'll just take me some time to write, which I won't have for the next 48 hours.
You didn't give me the chance to do this for some ungodly reason but had you the overall conclusion you would have seen would have boiled down to something like this.

There was almost zero reasons whatsoever for DeasVail; basically the only reasons for him to be pun would be based around assumptions of general competency from him as a player. Admittedly, there aren't many reasons for him to be town, but he was unique among you three for having no real reasons to be pun.

The reasons for Shoshin to be pun were more extensive, but so too were the reasons for Shoshin to be town. You could even say Shoshin would be a mirror to DeasVail; whereas I had very little to say about DeasVail as either alignment, I had plenty to say about Shoshin for both alignments.

Yet Ankamius stood out among you three. The reasons for Ankamius to be town amounted to attributing things I knew to be NAI as town (a stretch) combined with arguing that Espeonage didn't bus and Fire Assassin wouldn't guilty his partner (both things I didn't actually believe to be true). In other words, the reasons for Ankamius to be town were shit.

The reasons for Ankamius to be pun included all the points I made against Espeonage and am quoting here, in addition to Ankamius's appeal to me which she as the last pun would need to make.

I would have given you a full wall on the subject outlining this but since you lynched her before I could, oh well.

The point I am making here is, I have time and time again proven myself to be honest and telling the truth; I have time and time again done much as I have said and been shown to be correct.

Time and time again, you theorize as to how my actions could be malicious, yet time and time again, evidence shows otherwise.

So I ask again.

What logic would you like to present today for proof of malevolence?
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Post Post #3736 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 10:47 am

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I'm not reading that. Good luck convincing Vax to let you kill him ... Should just end this for us and vote yourself.
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Post Post #3737 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 10:53 am

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In post 3731, Punreader wrote:To explain the math further:

There are four possible scenarios:
  1. I am not a threat to the town, precisely as claimed. There is no other nontown. In spite of the town having already won, the game continues until I either win or lose.

    If so, you have nothing to lose by no lynching and letting me shoot Vaxkiller to win.

  2. I am a threat to the town.
    I have threefold proof that this is not the case, albeit two being my word.
    The first reason: I can win when dead. The town wincon is eliminating threats. If I can win when dead, I can't be a threat, because I was already eliminated. If I am dead, thus, eliminated, yet can win posthumously, by definition, I cannot be a threat.

    The second proof is from a lack of mod clarification. When I misunderstood my 0s/1s passive ability, Errantparabola provided me with clarification. This sets a precedence; if I misunderstood my wincon, then he should have clarified it in the same manner. He did not.

    The third is public, in the town win condition. The town wins if all threats to the town are eliminated. If my wincon was a threat, the mod could just specify to eliminate any and all nontown.

    As this didn't happen, we have proof that I am not a threat to the town if I am real claiming.

  3. I am a serial killer. Obviously I know that this is not the case, but were it, I'd need to win a 3p lylo or 4p Mylo.

    By no lynching, you lose nothing. A sk-pun can't win overnight. A truthful pun can. Thus, the Vaxkiller night kill serves as a SK test. I don't win, you lynch me in 3p. I do get removed, well then I wasn't a serial killer! So no lynching costs nothing but gives you a chance to check my alignment.

  4. There is a threat to the town, and I am not it; it's one of you three.
    Were this the case, then unless it's Vaxkiller, the town already lost.
    Lynch me, the threat to the town wins.
    No lynch, I kill Vaxkiller, win, and if the threat isn't Vaxkiller, it endgames the last town player.

    Thus. If you believe Vaxkiller is antitown, let me shoot him; if you don't, then you must assume that this is not the scenario we are in.
Regardless, optimal play in all three possible scenarios is to no lynch.
I would like to reiterate.

WHAT DO YOU LOSE BY NO LYNCHING?


I ask that again.

WHAT DO YOU LOSE BY NO LYNCHING?

Name a single thing you lose by no-lynching.

What do you gain by no-lynching?
You gain proof of what I have claimed.

If I am a serial killer, I cannot win overnight.

If I am a poisoner, I cannot kill more than one person a night; tomorrow would be 3p lylo.
If I am an arsonist, you better come up with an explanation as to how I killed two people consecutively given that arsonists need to prime then ignite and cannot do both. (An arsonist that can both prime and ignite IS a poisoner.)

If I am not a serial killer, and there is a threat to the town, then you lose by lynching me.

This is self-evident. I am not a threat to the town; by leaving a threat to the town alive, you let them win.

If I am not a serial killer, and the threat to the town is Vaxkiller, then you win by letting me shoot him.

So you should no lynch and give me the chance.

If I am not a serial killer, and the threat to the town is Shoshin, and Shoshin holds immunity to my action, then you win by letting me shoot Vaxkiller.
Since tomorrow I'd vote Shoshin knowing that was the only variable left. Of course you'd lynch me and lose as per the above, but let's not be redundant here.

If I am not a serial killer, and the threat to the town is DeasVail, then he has won no matter what.
And his actions voting me would be being a dick seeing as how I am close to winning and my wincon is not mutually exclusive to anyone else's.
Consolation prize: I get to say I Told You So and, "I warned you!" to Shoshin because really. I did.

If I am not a serial killer, and no threat to the town exists, then you lose nothing by letting me live.

Because I can kill only one person this game, and killing them lets me win, and my wincon is not one mutually exclusive to the town.
I'll once more paraphrase it in my next post for emphasis.
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Post Post #3738 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 10:55 am

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I'd like to point out.
The wording, once more, of my wincon:
I win and exit the game if everyone alive is infected; I don't need to be alive in order to win.

EXITING THE GAME MEANS THAT THE GAME CONTINUES AFTER I WIN.
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Post Post #3739 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 10:56 am

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In post 3738, Punreader wrote:I'd like to point out.
The wording, once more, of my wincon:
I win and exit the game if everyone alive is infected; I don't need to be alive in order to win.

EXITING THE GAME MEANS THAT THE GAME CONTINUES AFTER I WIN.
Like, that's so close to a direct paraphrase that Errantparabola would be merciful to not modkill me for it.

I can't more directly quote it than that because that's literally what it says.

I win, and exit the game, if everyone alive is infected. I don't need to be alive to win.

So I cannot be a threat to the town. Because if I were a threat to the town, then I wouldn't
exit
the game; I would
end
the game. But I DON'T end the game because I'm NOT a threat to the town.
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Post Post #3740 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:03 am

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In post 3734, DeasVail wrote:VOTE: punreader
DeasVail, please.

You know who I am, most likely.

You have experience with me.

How do I treat third parties?

Tell me how I treat them.

I treat them as if they are town for precisely this reason.

How often do I lie about my role?

Tell me how often I would lie about this sort of thing.

How often do I lie about the driving forces of my play?
How often do I lie about mafia theory?
How often do I lie about what I was doing, especially when revealing previous lies? That is, how often when I claim I am coming clean, am I still lying?

I am not lying here.

I can't be a threat to the town.
I'm not a serial killer; my wincon is basically a reverse serial killer because I require people to be alive. I do require specific players dead, but I also require people alive.

You could aptly describe my role as a combination reverse-survivor/lyncher; I need those lower than me dead because they can't be infected, and those higher than me to survive, irregardless of whether I live or not.

You lose literally nothing by no lynching.
So I ask again.

WHAT DO YOU LOSE BY NO LYNCHING?
Where am I lying?
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Post Post #3741 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:06 am

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In post 3740, Punreader wrote:
In post 3734, DeasVail wrote:VOTE: punreader
DeasVail, please.

You know who I am, most likely.

You have experience with me.

How do I treat third parties?

Tell me how I treat them.

I treat them as if they are town for precisely this reason.

How often do I lie about my role?

Tell me how often I would lie about this sort of thing.

How often do I lie about the driving forces of my play?
How often do I lie about mafia theory?
How often do I lie about what I was doing, especially when revealing previous lies? That is, how often when I claim I am coming clean, am I still lying?

I am not lying here.

I can't be a threat to the town.
I'm not a serial killer; my wincon is basically a reverse serial killer because I require people to be alive. I do require specific players dead, but I also require people alive.

You could aptly describe my role as a combination reverse-survivor/lyncher; I need those lower than me dead because they can't be infected, and those higher than me to survive, irregardless of whether I live or not.

You lose literally nothing by no lynching.
So I ask again.

WHAT DO YOU LOSE BY NO LYNCHING?
Where am I lying?
And I would also like to ask you.
WHICH ROLE MAKES MORE SENSE?
A serial killer that can only kill those ranked lower than them and is totally at the mercy of those ranked higher...
...Or a third party that uses the ranks of those higher, that also has an effect on those ranked lower?

SPECIFICALLY WHICH IS A ROLE ERRANTPARABOLA IS MORE LIKELY TO UTILIZE.
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Post Post #3742 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:15 am

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Past Errantparabola Modded Games

While admittedly there is no third parties at all, you may note that there are plenty of roles where there's modified vigs, modified bulletproofs, and even MODIFIED BULLETPROOF VIGS in his games. The type of role I am precisely lined up with being.

My role was, very evidently, designed to be one which heavily favored townsiding.
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Post Post #3743 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:23 am

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If too lazy to click the links, try this:
Subject: Large Normal 197: Wordplay Mafia OVER
Errantparabola wrote:3. iraonavp,
Town Night 3 Vigilante
, lynched D1.
9. ChaosOmega,
Town One-shot Bulletproof Neapolitan
, lynched D2.
8. SpyreX,
Town Bulletproof Enabler
, killed N3.
10. Nahdia,
Mafia One-shot Bulletproof Goon
, killed N5.
5. Titus,
Town Night 1 Vigilante
, killed N6.
13. Bins,
Town One-shot Bulletproof Odd-night Doctor
, killed N7.
12. gerryoat,
Town One-shot Bulletproof Night 5 Vigilante
, killed Endgame.
Subject: ~laundry~ FIN
Errantparabola wrote:7. Firebringer,
Town 1-shot Bulletproof Vest Giver
, killed N4.
2. drealmerz7,
Town Delayed 1-shot Vig
, lynched D8.
Subject: Mini 1932: Dedede Fusion Collab (FIN)
Errantparabola wrote:
ChiaotzuHi.
You are
Maroon 5
, who released "Animals" in 2014.
You are a
Delayed 1-shot Murderous Tracker
.

Alignment
: You are aligned with the Town. You win when all threats to town are dead, and there is at least one member of town alive.
Thrill of the Hunt
:
Baby I'm preying on you tonight, hunt you down eat you alive.
During Night 3 onward, and once per game, you can target someone during the Night Phase. You will be informed of any people they choose to visit. If they did not visit anyone, you will instead nightkill them.

Here's the game thread.
Confirm that you understand everything in the role PM.
Have fun.


Chiaotzu, the
Delayed 1-shot Murderous Tracker
, has been lynched on D4.
(HEY LOOK WHAT THIS ROLE HAS! A MECHANIC THAT IS "Do this other thing; if that other thing doesn't happen, kill". GUESS WHAT MY ROLE IS THIS GAME.)
Subject: Mini 1932: Dedede Fusion Collab (FIN)
Errantparabola wrote:8. Wisdom,
Enabled Bulletproof 1-shot Roleblocker
, lynched D2.
Subject: Mini 1932: Dedede Fusion Collab (FIN)
Errantparabola wrote:
when warthogs flyHi.
You are the
Quad City DJs
, who released the title song of "Space Jam" in 1996.
You are a
Town Non Consecutive Jack-of-all-Trades
.

Alignment
: You are aligned with the Town. You win when all threats to town are dead, and there is at least one member of town alive.
Come On and Slam
:
And welcome to the jam!
You have 3 one-shot abilities that you can use on non-consecutive Night Phases. They are as follows:
  • - Free Throw: Choose someone to visit. They will be protected from the first nightkill attempt on them.
    - 2 Pointer: Choose someone to visit. You will find out everyone they visit.
    - 3 Pointer: Choose someone to visit. You will nightkill them.
Here's the game thread.
Confirm that you understand everything in the role PM.
Have fun.
Other roles from that game!

But I think I only need to show the tracker/killer role to show how my role is real and works as claimed.
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Post Post #3744 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:26 am

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In post 3743, Punreader wrote:Subject: Mini 1932: Dedede Fusion Collab (FIN)
Errantparabola wrote:
ChiaotzuYou are a
Delayed 1-shot Murderous Tracker
.

Thrill of the Hunt
:
Baby I'm preying on you tonight, hunt you down eat you alive.
During Night 3 onward, and once per game, you can target someone during the Night Phase. You will be informed of any people they choose to visit. If they did not visit anyone, you will instead nightkill them.
Chiaotzu, the
Delayed 1-shot Murderous Tracker
, has been lynched on D4.
(HEY LOOK WHAT THIS ROLE HAS! A MECHANIC THAT IS "Do this other thing; if that other thing doesn't happen, kill". GUESS WHAT MY ROLE IS THIS GAME.)
This is literally the same exact mechanic by which my "Spread the Word" ability works.

I target someone. If they are ranked lower than me, I kill them; if they are not, I infect them.

This role is proof that my role is not a fakeclaim.

If my role is not a fakeclaim.

Then you have the evidence.
My wincon is not faked either.

It works as claimed.
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Post Post #3745 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:36 am

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TO SUMMARIZE:
  1. provides the proof that I am not fakeclaiming the mechanics of my role. The mechanics of my role are almost identical to that of an obscure source, a game Errantparabola modded and yet did not have easily-listed flips for. That flip? Isn't in the first post; the only way to find it is to iso the mod and look for it, something I would not have the ability to do.
  2. provides a list of similar roles Errantparabola has used in past games; the list is quite extensive, as Errantparabola has shown a strong favoring to this type of role, providing further supporting evidence corroborating that my roleclaim is real.
  3. , I outline that I would not lie about this sort of thing.
  4. , I give as close as a direct paraphrase of my wincon as I can.
    READ THE WINCON AND TELL ME THAT YOU THINK I AM A THREAT TO THE TOWN. I DARE YOU.
    And if you think I am a liar, see the above points.
  5. If that's not enough proof I'm not lying, I show my thought process in . Highlights from there include , , , and .
  6. But if all of that STILL isn't enough. Then I ask you to read and answer my question.
    WHAT DO YOU LOSE BY NO-LYNCHING?
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Post Post #3746 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:49 am

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And while I hesitate to add lynched pun to the list:
In post 3717, Ankamius wrote:I fully believe everything I said though, I don't think I'd ever be SK reading Pun this game and everything else falls into place afterwards

That really wasn't a hard deduction to get to and I'd have the pieces in place about as fast as town
In post 3718, Ankamius wrote:That said... scum really are the only people that would want to kill Pun today

Town optimally wanted to no lynch regardless of Pun's alignment, I couldn't figure out how to try to steer the game away from Pun's lynch without pointing out that specific option since I never would have had a chance if it happened.
In post 3720, Ankamius wrote:Well, if you listened to the person who knew Pun wasn't an SK, you wouldn't have had that paranoia :P
In post 3721, Ankamius wrote:but the scenario I had in mind was forcing a no lynch, killing Vax, and then forcing another no lynch so that Pun as SK would be forced to kill scum.

it does take into account that Pun would be townsiding as promised, but at this point they would be able to get a 100% accurate read on me and either just shoot me dead as scum or probably shoot the target we end up syncing on

the only scenario I thought I had any chance in was specifically to go to bat to protect Pun and then in 3p lylo hope that's enough to sway them towards siding with me and no lynching in 3p

the gamestate was kind of impossible to sway that way without outing myself though

oh well
Ankamius is the player who has the most extensive experience with me; for this, I can cite examples such as all of Fallout 4 Mafia but particularly here and over half of Police Academy.

Also holding extensive experience with me would be Commander Shepherd, who said much the same of me:
In post 2798, Commander Shepard wrote:
In post 2777, Shoshin wrote:If he's scum, I suggest shooting Pun.
Pun was actually a fun 3P to manipulate.

I figured out how she reads me.

Don’t blame her. She loves the truth and I rarely lie.

So the one time in 10+ years I did all out lying. Poor Pun. <3

Post game I will give her all the hugs.
In post 2793, Commander Shepard wrote:In all seriousness this was fun thanks everyone

Good luck scum and have fun town
And Pun <3 Good luck 3P’s are hard.
The punteam knew I wasn't a serial killer. They knew I was a 3p and telling the truth. Because they know me and know I don't lie about this sort of thing. Keep in mind both players, all of the quotes I am pulling up are after their lynches were locked in and they literally punclaimed, confessed to being pun, and thus had little reason to hide their thoughts on me.

Ankamius had nothing to gain by backing me up, yet did so anyway; Commander Shepherd you can argue was positioning punbuddies but really was not pushing an agenda when backing me up so much as consolidating me on what I am and knowing it'd be tough.

I am what I claim I am, and am not a threat to the town.
You're being assholes by lynching me and I do hope that there actually is a threat to the town and you lose because of it by not listening to fucking reason.

Because I've raised as many points as humanly possible, and not once have they been answered.
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Post Post #3747 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:53 am

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In post 3745, Punreader wrote:
TO SUMMARIZE:
  1. Per , the pun have laid out precisely how they know I'm what I claim, even after they had no reason to hide the truth.
  2. provides the proof that I am not fakeclaiming the mechanics of my role. The mechanics of my role are almost identical to that of an obscure source, a game Errantparabola modded and yet did not have easily-listed flips for. That flip? Isn't in the first post; the only way to find it is to iso the mod and look for it, something I would not have the ability to do.
  3. provides a list of similar roles Errantparabola has used in past games; the list is quite extensive, as Errantparabola has shown a strong favoring to this type of role, providing further supporting evidence corroborating that my roleclaim is real.
  4. , I outline that I would not lie about this sort of thing.
  5. , I give as close as a direct paraphrase of my wincon as I can.
    READ THE WINCON AND TELL ME THAT YOU THINK I AM A THREAT TO THE TOWN. I DARE YOU.
    And if you think I am a liar, see the above points.
  6. If that's not enough proof I'm not lying, I show my thought process in . Highlights from there include , , , and .
  7. But if all of that STILL isn't enough. Then I ask you to read and answer my question.
    WHAT DO YOU LOSE BY NO-LYNCHING?
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Post Post #3748 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 12:05 pm

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In post 2584, Errantparabola wrote:
Active: Moody
(
Your stats change unpredictably...
) -- Once per Night Phase, you can choose between three different one shot powers.
(+ATK -SPD)
Target someone to be informed of whether or not they are mafia, and do nothing the next Night Phase.
Also worth noting is that MariaR's investigation was specifically for mafia, demonstrating the nature of the game further.
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Post Post #3749 (ISO) » Sun Aug 26, 2018 1:17 pm

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Votecount 7.1


Punreader
(2): Shoshin, DeasVail

No Lynch
(1): Punreader
Not Voting
(1): Vaxkiller

With 4 alive, it takes 3 to achieve a majority.
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