Newbie 1914 | Stuff I Found Online Viii | Over

[Plotinus]

Newbie 1914 | Stuff I Found Online VIII

Hello. In this game I'll be showcasing cool stuff I found/learned about online via my RSS reader and maybe talking some about why I think it's cool.
Such as the UNIVAC I. one of the first commercial computers. First sold in 1951, it had a lot of buttons and was very big. This picture is just the operating console. The entire thing was 35.5m² == 382 ft².

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Moderated by Plotinus

Original Playerlist:

1. 1) YellowSnow
   2) Roo
   3) GrandWazoo
   4) Hope
   5) Ironman Btw2
   6) CatStar
   7) 0verki11 (SE)
   8) RCEnigma (SE)
   9) Flavor Leaf (IC)

Spoiler: Game Reveals (9)

1. 5) Egix96

   replaces Ironman Btw2¹ day 1

   , mafia goon, lynched day 1
   
   
   9) Flavor Leaf¹ (IC), town doctor, killed night 1, but won posthumously
   
   
   4) Birdy

   replaces Hope day 1

   , mafia goon, lynched day 2
   
   
   1) YellowSnow², vanilla townie, survived and won!
   
   
   2) Roo, town tracker, survived and won!
   
   
   3) GrandWazoo, vanilla townie, survived and won!
   
   
   6) CatStar, vanilla townie, survived and won!
   
   
   7) 0verki11 (SE), vanilla townie, survived and won!
   
   
   8) RCEnigma (SE), vanilla townie, survived and won!

Spoiler: Original Playerlist(9)

Original Playerlist:

1. 1) YellowSnow
   2) Roo
   3) GrandWazoo
   4) Hope
   5) Ironman Btw2
   6) CatStar
   7) 0verki11 (SE)
   8) RCEnigma (SE)
   9) Flavor Leaf (IC)

Events

4 - Day 1
26 - Birdy replaces Hope
92 - Egix96 replaces Ironman Btw2
241 - Egix96 is lynched, Day 1 ends

243 Flavor Leaf is killed, Day 2 begins
259 - Birdy is lynched, game over

261 - Game Events, Links to Game Threads, Postgame commentary

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Rules

Inspired by Equinox's, Glork's and Ether's rulesets.

important bit

• Day 1: up to 10 days, Day 2+ up to 7-days, Night: 48 hours.
  
• Majority lynches
  
• 36 hours before prod, 24 hours before replacement, 24 hour weekends
  
• Bah posts allowed (limit: 1, free of game related content)
  
• I have some unusual rules about animated GIFs, tiny text, and prodging. Scroll down for details.
  
• Don’t be a dick

1. Follow all site rules.
   
   
2. Mod colour
   – My mod colour is
   grey
   ; don't use it.
   
3. Behaviour
   - Don’t be a dick. This is a heated game but toxicity will not be tolerated. Attack the play not the player. If your fellow players tell you to stop, you must stop. If you do not stop, I will tell you to stop. If you still do not stop, you will be force-replaced. Asking people to stop voting you or to stop scumhunting you entirely doesn't count for this rule and you may find yourself lynched if you try it.
   
4. Don't talk about ongoing games
   - You may not talk to each other about this game outside of threads I have created for this purpose. You may not talk about other ongoing games in this thread.
   
5. Animated GIFs
   - are of the devil, but they are permitted behind spoilers if clearly labelled as such.
   
6. Tiny text
   - is also of the devil, keep it 70+ please.
   
7. Provable randomness
   - is against the rules. Saying that you rolled a dice is fine, using dice tags or random.org is not.
   
8. Claiming scum
   - by yourself is fine. Claiming scum with another player is against the rules.
   
9. Cryptography
   - is forbidden. Breadcrumbing is okay.
   
10. Confirmation
    - You have about 72 hours to confirm your role and your alignment by PM. Game will start sooner if everyone confirms. Posting in a private topic counts as confirmation.
    
11. Days
    - Day 1 lasts 10 days and other days last 7 days. Extensions may be granted if there are replacements, or if the majority of players make it clear to me that an extension is desired.
    
12. Activity
    - You must post at least once every 36 hours or I will Prod you. You then have 24 hours to post in the game thread or I will replace you. If you come back before I find a replacement, you can stay. The activity timers run at half-speed on weekends. Players can request me to prod somebody early. This will only count as an official prod if you don't post before you would have been due for a prod. If you haven't posted in the 24 hours before the thread is locked for night, you must reply to the night start PM or you will be replaced during the night.
    
13. Vacation/Limited Access
    If you need to be absent for longer than this, you should declare
    V/LA
    in bold in the thread like this: [
    b]

    @Mod: I will be v/la until Thursday

    [
    /b]. While you are V/LA, you will be nudged once every 54 hours. Two nudges equals one prod. If you have not posted game advancing content in 5 days, regardless of V/LA status, you will be replaced.
    
14. Prodging
    - A naked "prod dodge" does not reset the prod timer. To avoid being prodded/replaced for inactivity, include some game advancing content in your prodges, such as "got prodded; xxxx is still scum."
    
15. Quoting
    - You may not quote (or copy paste) any private information into the thread, including your role PM and any mod communication.
    
16. Voting
    - Votes must be in bold in the format VOTE: Plotinus or
    Vote: Plotinus
    . Strong preference for using vote tags instead of bold tags. Unvotes are nice but not required. If I think it’s a vote, it’s a vote, no tricks. Type [
    v]Plotinus[
    /v] to vote and [
    uv]Plotinus[
    /uv] to unvote.
    
17. Lynching
    - Days end early when a simple majority of players (50% of living players + 1 rounded down) vote to lynch somebody. If a majority is not reached at deadline or if a majority of the players vote for no lynch, the day will end without a lynch. At evens, 50% is sufficient for no lynch.
    
18. Twilight
    - Begins when a majority is reached and lasts until I lock the thread. You're still alive until I flip you so you can talk in any game threads you have access to until then, but no votes or unvotes will be counted.
    
19. Night
    - Night lasts at least 48 hours. The night phase can be shortened if every living player -- even those with no night actions -- agrees to it and if I'm not busy.
    
20. Action submissions
    - You may submit actions via PM (if town) or PT (if scum). If the actions are not submitted by the deadline then you do nothing. You can change your mind as many times as you like before the deadline.
    
21. Reminders
    - If I don't hear from you about your night actions, I'll PM you 24 hours before the deadline. This doesn't count as a prod. If I still don't hear from you, you will take no action.
    
22. Play to win
    - this particular game, not some future one, and keep it fun!

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Newbie Setup

2d3 (as designed by Cabd):

	A	B	C
Mafia	Mafia Roleblocker	Mafia Rolecop	Mafia Goon
Row 1	Town Cop and Town Neapolitan	Town Cop and Town Tracker	Town Cop and Vanilla Townie
Row 2	Town Jailkeeper and Town Doctor	Town Jailkeeper and Town Tracker	Town Jailkeeper and Vanilla Townie
Row 3	Town Cop and Town Doctor	Town Neapolitan and Town Doctor	Town Tracker and Town Doctor

Each Newbie Game will be given a setup that incorporates one mafia role from the top of a column, and then two town roles from a row below the selected mafia role. The remaining six roles will be filled in by

one mafia goons

and

five vanilla townies

appropriately, to create a

2-mafia

and

7-town

setup.

All Newbie games use the Natural Action Resolution system for determining Night action effects.

Mafia Roleblocker

action takes precedence over a

Town Jailkeeper

action should that apply.

Mafia can communicate in their Private Topic at all times.

Spoiler: Full Setups

Column A & Row 1:

Mafia Roleblocker, Mafia Goon, Town Cop, Town Neapolitan, Vanilla Townie x 5

Column A & Row 2:

Mafia Roleblocker, Mafia Goon, Town Jailkeeper, Town Doctor, Vanilla Townie x 5

Column A & Row 3:

Mafia Roleblocker, Mafia Goon, Town Cop, Town Doctor, Vanilla Townie x 5

Column B & Row 1:

Mafia Rolecop, Mafia Goon, Town Cop, Town Tracker, Vanilla Townie x 5

Column B & Row 2:

Mafia Rolecop, Mafia Goon, Town Jailkeeper, Town Tracker, Vanilla Townie x 5

Column B & Row 3:

Mafia Rolecop, Mafia Goon, Town Neapolitan, Town Doctor, Vanilla Townie x 5

Column C & Row 1:

Mafia Goon x 2, Town Cop, Vanilla Townie x 6

Column C & Row 2:

Mafia Goon x 2, Town Jailkeeper, Vanilla Townie x 6

Column C & Row 3:

Mafia Goon x 2, Town Doctor, Town Tracker, Vanilla Townie x 5

Spoiler: Role PMs

Vanilla Townie

Welcome!

You are a

Vanilla Townie

.

You have no special abilities.

You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.

The game thread is here.

Confirm by replying with your role name and alignment.

Town Jailkeeper

Welcome!

You are a

Town Jailkeeper

.

You may target one player per night phase. This player will be protected from kills and be prevented from using their own action, if they have one, during that night phase. You cannot target yourself.

You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.

The game thread is here.

Confirm by replying with your role name and alignment.

Town Cop

Welcome!

You are a

Town Cop

.

You may target one player per night phase. At the end of the night phase, you will be informed if they are

Town

or

Mafia

. If you are roleblocked, you will receive no result.

You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.

The game thread is here.

Confirm by replying with your role name and alignment.

Town Neapolitan

Welcome!

You are a

Town Neapolitan

.

You may target one player per night phase. At the end of the night phase, you will be informed if they are

Vanilla Townie

or

Not Vanilla Townie

. If you are roleblocked, you will receive no result.

You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.

The game thread is here.

Confirm by replying with your role name and alignment.

Town Tracker

Welcome!

You are a

Town Tracker

.

You may target one player per night phase. At the end of the night phase, you will be informed what player or players they targeted with their action, if any. If you are roleblocked, you will receive no result.

You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.

The game thread is here.

Confirm by replying with your role name and alignment.

Town Doctor

Welcome!

You are a

Town Doctor

.

You may target one player per night phase. This player will be protected from kills during that night phase. You cannot target yourself.

You win when all threats to the Town have been eliminated.

The game thread is here.

Confirm by replying with your role name and alignment.

Mafia Goon

Welcome!

You are a

Mafia Goon

.

You and your partner share a factional kill each night. You must choose which of you will commit the kill. You also share a factional PT, located here, where you may talk at any time.

You win when the Town has been eliminated, or nothing can stop this from occurring.

The game thread is here.

Confirm by replying with your role name and alignment or by posting in your PT.

Mafia Rolecop

Welcome!

You are a

Mafia Rolecop

.

You may target one player per night phase. At the end of the night phase, you will be informed of their role but not their alignment.

Vanilla Townies

and

Mafia Goons

will both return "Vanilla". If you are roleblocked, you will receive no result.

You and your partner share a factional kill each night. You must choose which of you will commit the kill. You may commit the kill and perform a role cop in the same night phase. You also share a factional PT, located here, where you may talk at any time.

You win when the Town has been eliminated, or nothing can stop this from occurring.

The game thread is here.

Confirm by replying with your role name and alignment or by posting in your PT.

Mafia Roleblocker

Welcome!

You are a

Mafia Roleblocker

.

You may target one player per night. This player will be prevented from performing their own action, if any.

You and your partner share a factional kill each night. You must choose which of you will commit the kill. You may commit the kill and perform a roleblock in the same night phase. You also share a factional PT, located here, where you may talk at any time.

You win when the Town has been eliminated, or nothing can stop this from occurring.

The game thread is here.

Confirm by replying with your role name and alignment or by posting in your PT.

[Plotinus]

All role PMs have been sent out (in the order of the signup list so timestamps mean nothing)! We will start in (expired on 2019-01-26 19:15:00) or when [8/9] people have confirmed, whichever happens sooner.

The above clock and any others used throughout this game will be accurate from the time you loaded the page.

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Official Vote Count 1.00

MafiaScum hosts a Song Contest every few weeks. It's a fun way to find new music and share music that you like. Just check the list of songs that have been entered in previous contests and pick up a country for yourself for pseudoanonymity.

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Lynching

With 9 votes in play, it takes 5 to lynch.

Everybody

(0): Nobody

Not Voting

(9): CatStar, Flavor Leaf, GrandWazoo, Hope, Ironman Btw2, 0verki11, RCEnigma, Roo, YellowSnow

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-04 07:10:00).

Mod notes:

Good luck everyone!

Everyone except Hope has confirmed. Hope has (expired on 2019-01-26 19:15:00) to confirm before they will be replaced.

Please take a moment to familiarise yourselves with my ruleset because I have some rules you may not have encountered in other games before regarding animated gifs, tiny text, prodging and perhaps some other things.

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Official Vote Count 1.01

The day I found out my Uncle Will was still alive, I had been out spraying the crops in a full crinkly hazmat suit. The Earthers I was working for were nice people, but they always whined about the suits. To me they seemed light and airy, hardly even an annoyance compared to a vacuum suit, so I was the one who would get sent out first with the sprayer when the blight warnings came in from the provincial capital in Edmonton.

Left to Take the Lead is a story by Marissa Lingen.

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Lynching

With 9 votes in play, it takes 5 to lynch.

RCEnigma

(1): YellowSnow

CatStar

(1): GrandWazoo

Roo

(1): 0verki11

0verki11

(1): RCEnigma

GrandWazoo

(1): CatStar

Birdy

(1): Roo

Not Voting

(3): Ironman Btw2, Birdy, Flavor Leaf

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-04 07:10:00).

Mod notes:

Keep it fun!

Yellowsnow and Ironman Btw2 have been prodded for inactivity. They have (expired on 2019-01-28 16:00:00) to post before I start looking for a replacement.

Hope has not confirmed. Hope is replaced by Birdy. Birdy has (expired on 2019-01-29 08:05:00) to confirm before I start looking for a replacement.

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Official Vote Count 1.02

The sky is pretty great This planet has a good sky. From the Northern to the Southern Cross, via NASA.

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Lynching

With 9 votes in play, it takes 5 to lynch.

0verki11

(2): GrandWazoo, YellowSnow

CatStar

(1): RCEnigma

Roo

(1): 0verki11

GrandWazoo

(1): CatStar

Not Voting

(4): Roo, Birdy, Ironman Btw2, Flavor Leaf

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-04 07:10:00).

Mod notes:

Keep it fun!

Everyone has confirmed!

[Plotinus]

Ironman Btw2¹ is being replaced for inactivity. If they join us before a replacement can be found, they may stay.

[Plotinus]

Official Vote Count 1.03

Historian Ruth Schwartz Cowan offers a remarkable idea. It is that homemakers today work about as long as homemakers did in the 19th century -- still about 50 to 60 hours a week. The load only varies slightly with the number of children being raised.

Why hasn't the work load fallen now that we have all these appliances?

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Lynching

With 9 votes in play, it takes 5 to lynch.

Roo

(2): 0verki11, CatStar

0verki11

(2): GrandWazoo, YellowSnow

CatStar

(1): RCEnigma

Not Voting

(4): Roo, Birdy, Ironman Btw2, Flavor Leaf

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-04 07:10:00).

Mod notes:

Keep it fun!

Ironman Btw2 is being replaced

[Plotinus]

Egix96 is the new Ironman Btw2! Please welcome them!

[Plotinus]

Official Vote Count 1.04

The story of Mrs Gladys West, a mathematician who played an important role in developing GPS

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Lynching

With 9 votes in play, it takes 5 to lynch.

0verki11

(3): GrandWazoo, YellowSnow, Egix96

CatStar

(2): RCEnigma, Birdy

Roo

(2): 0verki11, CatStar

Not Voting

(2): Flavor Leaf, Roo

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-04 07:10:00).

Mod notes:

Keep it fun!

Egix96 is the new Ironman Btw2

[Plotinus]

Official Vote Count 1.05

The sea island problem

In the 3rd century of the common era, Chinese mathematician Liu Hui developed a means for determining the height of a distant mountain on another island without crossing the sea. The link explains how to do it.

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Lynching

With 9 votes in play, it takes 5 to lynch.

0verki11

(3): GrandWazoo, YellowSnow, Egix96

CatStar

(2): RCEnigma, Birdy

Roo

(2): 0verki11, CatStar

Not Voting

(2): Flavor Leaf, Roo

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-04 07:10:00).

Mod notes:

Keep it fun!

[Plotinus]

YellowSnow² has been prodded. They have (expired on 2019-01-31 07:01:09) to post before I start looking for a replacement.

[Plotinus]

Official Vote Count 1.06

The Arc lamp, invented by Humphry Davy about 80 years before Edison, was the first electric lightbulb. It was used in streetlamps in the 1800's.

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Lynching

With 9 votes in play, it takes 5 to lynch.

Roo

(2): 0verki11, CatStar

0verki11

(2): GrandWazoo, Egix96

GrandWazoo

(2): YellowSnow, Birdy

CatStar

(1): RCEnigma

Not Voting

(2): Flavor Leaf, Roo

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-04 07:10:00).

Mod notes:

Keep it fun!

[Plotinus]

Official Vote Count 1.07

“A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages…chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements … they require out-door exercises–not this sort of mental gladiatorship.”

Scientific American
July, 1858

2500 years of people complaining about the younger generation. Show this to the next person who complains about Millenials even though Millenials are coming up on 40 now.

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Lynching

With 9 votes in play, it takes 5 to lynch.

GrandWazoo

(3): YellowSnow, Birdy, Roo

Roo

(2): 0verki11, CatStar

0verki11

(2): GrandWazoo, Egix96

CatStar

(1): RCEnigma

Not Voting

(1): Flavor Leaf

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-04 07:10:00).

Mod notes:

Keep it fun!

[Plotinus]

Official Vote Count 1.08

What's the internet like in different countries?

The internet is global, but the average person's experience of it varies quite a bit by country. In Russia they have their own facebook-like-thing, Vkontakte. In Cuba, someone brings the internet to your house on a 1 TB drive that you rent for the week and then each week they trade the old one for the new one. We think of the great firewall of china as depriving people of access to sites that we can't imagine the internet without them, but in China they have their own social networks, their own version twitter, their own search engines, their own gaming networks. In India, most people use the internet exclusively from their phones.

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Lynching

With 9 votes in play, it takes 5 to lynch.

Roo

(3): 0verki11, CatStar, Egix96

GrandWazoo

(3): YellowSnow, Birdy, Roo

CatStar

(1): RCEnigma

0verki11

(1): GrandWazoo

Not Voting

(1): Flavor Leaf

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-04 07:10:00).

Mod notes:

Keep it fun!

[Plotinus]

Flavor Leaf¹ has been prodded. He has (expired on 2019-02-04 15:50:00) to post before I start looking for a replacement because the prod timer runs slower on the weekends.

[Plotinus]

Official Vote Count 1.09

The biggest little railway

In 2017, a group of model train enthusiasts built a railroad that was 71 miles, 114km in Scottland. There's a fascinating video at the link!

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Lynching

With 9 votes in play, it takes 5 to lynch.

Egix96

(5): Roo, YellowSnow, Flavor Leaf, GrandWazoo, 0verki11

Roo

(3): CatStar, Egix96, RCEnigma

GrandWazoo

(1): Birdy

Not Voting

(0):

None.

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-04 07:10:00).

Mod notes:

A lynch!

Overslept a bit, sorry.

[Plotinus]

Day 1 Lynch Egix96

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Egix96 has been lynched day 1. He was a

mafia goon.

It is now Night 1. Deadline for night actions is (expired on 2019-02-06 08:50:00).

As per Rule 12, anyone who hasn't posted in the last 24 hours (Birdy, in this case) must contact me during the night phase so I know they're still playing, otherwise they will be replaced and daystart will be delayed.

We can also do a shortened night phase. For that, I need all 8 of you to reply to the night start PM saying something like "yes." If anybody says no or if I don't hear from everybody, we will start Day 2 at the usual time.

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[Plotinus]

Night 1 Lynch Flavor Leaf

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Flavor Leaf has been killed night 1. He was a

town doctor.

It is now Day 2!

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[Plotinus]

Official Vote Count 2.00

The myth of ‘We don’t build houses like we used to’ examines how the building process has changed over the years.

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Lynching

With 7 votes in play, it takes 4 to lynch.

Everybody

(0): Nobody

Not Voting

(7): Birdy, CatStar, GrandWazoo, 0verki11, RCEnigma, Roo, YellowSnow

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-13 08:50:00).

Mod notes:

Keep it fun!

[Plotinus]

Official Vote Count 2.01

Is Sunscreen the new Margarine talks about some scientific studies about the ineffectiveness of vitamin D supplementation and about how to weigh the risks of acquiring skin cancer vs acquiring all of the other diseases that vitamin D deficiency causes.

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Lynching

With 7 votes in play, it takes 4 to lynch.

Birdy

(2): Roo, GrandWazoo

Not Voting

(5): RCEnigma, CatStar, 0verki11, Birdy, YellowSnow

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-13 08:50:00).

Mod notes:

Keep it fun!

[Plotinus]

Official Vote Count 2.02

Placebo, are you there?

What we think of as the placebo affect might not actually exist; most of the effect seen can be accounted for by the fact that most people who are ill usually do get better on their own if they don't die.

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Lynching

With 7 votes in play, it takes 4 to lynch.

Birdy

(4): Roo, GrandWazoo, CatStar, RCEnigma

<-- LYNCH

Not Voting

(3): Birdy, YellowSnow, 0verki11

Deadline:

(expired on 2019-02-13 08:50:00).

Mod notes:

A lynch!

[Plotinus]

Day 2 Lynch - Birdy

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Birdy has been lynched day 1. It was a

mafia goon.

This means that the town consisting of

Roo, town tracker, Flavor Leaf, town doctor

, and the

vanilla townies: YellowSnow, GrandWazoo, CatStar, 0verki11, and RCEnigma

have won Newbie 1914 | Stuff I Found Online VIII!

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[Plotinus]

Game Events

day 1

• Egix96
  is lynched with 0 scum on his wagon.

night 1

• Roo
  is tracking
  Birdy
  . (success: Birdy visited Flavor Leaf last night)
  
• Flavor Leaf
  is protecting
  Roo
  (success: Roo lives).
  
• Birdy
  is killing
  Flavor Leaf
  . (success: Flavor Leaf dies)

day 2

• Birdy
  is lynched with 0 scum on its wagon.

Links

• Public thread
  
• Mod PT
  
• Mafia PT (will be released in (expired on 2019-02-07 15:30:00), or sooner if everyone who posted there agrees.)
  
• IC Confessional PT
  
• Dead thread

[Plotinus]

This thread is now open for postgame commentary! You can post here even if you were dead and even if you didn't play.

[Plotinus]

The Mafia PT has been released!