In post 1116, mastina wrote: In post 129, mastina wrote: Eh there's actually good reason to not claim some flavors, mine included, since the sort of PR for it is very obvious (tho I assume people will figure it out eventually anyway
).
Phoenix is literally perfect a flavor match for bulletproof bodyguard. Phoenixes are reborn if killed (bulletproof), and are known to be guardians.
I legit actually said this in the first Animals UPick when I submitted the same pick; I said it was a missed opportunity for me to not be either a protective or a bulletproof. (I couldn't think of a way to say that without giving it away tho.) Turns out I got both.
In post 129, mastina wrote:(High chance that if this hydra ever dies it's due to a scum strongman because there's no good reason to not protect them.)
I originally planned to protect Smoke and Mirrors.
In post 139, mastina wrote:Hey in this game I've extra incentive to.
But, if it makes you feel better, I'm not gonna be lighting the way for you; I'm more interested in lighting the way and guiding Smoke/Mirrors, working with them side by side.
I had extra incentive to do so because my bodyguard protects during the day as well. I didn't think there'd be a scum dayvig so I was thinking that meant that day-protection meant that the slot I was protecting couldn't be eliminated...meaning that if I protected them, they would NEED to be town. Thus, I had incentive to townhunt rather heavily. (Granted, I was wrong, the day protection was protection against the vig.)
In post 144, mastina wrote: In post 142, Mad Hatters Tea Party wrote: In post 139, mastina wrote:Hey in this game I've extra incentive to.
But, if it makes you feel better, I'm not gonna be lighting the way for you; I'm more interested in lighting the way and guiding Smoke/Mirrors, working with them side by side.
Interesting, blazing the trail, and yet not lighting the way.
I mean trailblazing and lighting the way aren't mutually exclusive.
Pretty self-explanatory.
In post 224, mastina wrote: I counterclaim funnest role ever.
(Krazy gave me literally the most fun role possible of all time, if I claim it, you'll understand why.
)
In post 204, Noraabear wrote:As for why, I'm going to conditionally explain (ie if SOMETHING specific that I'm looking for happens, I will explain)
You're gonna be awfully disappointed.
I'm never going to be eliminated during the day (tho I will be killed by the scum EVENTUALLY whether they try or not), because people have learned better than to eliminate me when I'm this role.
I do have to use it properly tho and part of proper usage of it is not claiming it.
Ali v Pine called: they want their mastina back. When I said people have learned better than to eliminate me when I'm this role, I was explicitly referring to being a bodyguard in that game and them mislynching me there.
And, one of the main things about my role is that if the scum had a roleblocker they could neuter it--thus why I shouldn't claim it.
In post 328, mastina wrote:Smoke and Mirrors radiate town in a way I've never seen before. They're truly a fire worthy of me, and I am naturally attracted to them as a strong townread here.
This was my way of 'crumbing I was planning to protect Smoke and Mirrors.
In post 413, mastina wrote:Well there's like at least a 33-50% chance that the entire town will know I'm town tomorrow, depending on how the night plays out. (I have a conditional way to become publicly confirmed, but it requires certain conditions to be met and those conditions are entirely out of my control.)
The public confirmation is that I'd, after being shot, have the public flavor posted of the plume of flames along with the song being posted.
It being entirely out of my control is because it requires either the scum to directly shoot me or the scum to shoot who I was protecting.
I literally posted a picture of a flame here, as about as unsubtle of a "I'm a phoenix" 'crumb you can get.
In post 787, mastina wrote: Oh I do, by the scum.
It'll be something that they can't avoid doing btw. It'll happen whether they want it to or not, because they can't prevent it. I am going to be killed by the scum; I'm too powerful for them to not.
Claimed
town might be weak, but I assure you that
softclaimed
town is in fact appropriately strong.
My role is legit ridiculously so strong it can singlehandedly win the town the game. Which is why I am so confident scum WILL kill me. (But while softing my role is all good and well, I do want to reiterate that hardclaiming it would actually be very bad on D1.)
Scum can't avoid killing a bodyguard because unless they have a roleblocker, I can protect a player from their nightkill, stopping it dead in its tracks. My role is incredibly strong and can singlehandedly win the town the game, but hardclaiming it on D1 when there's still a good chance of a scum roleblocker would've been suboptimal.
In post 948, mastina wrote:Funny you should mention immortality given my role.
(I gave Krazy three picks, my first which he went with has a strong association with that word.)
In post 794, Noraabear wrote:VOTE: Mastina
this is town and anyone not agreeing with it will be looked at tomorrow after her green flip/scum shot.
Fixed that for you.
In post 807, Raya36 wrote:I don't like all this softclaiming of having such a super strong role. This isn't how town handles having a strong PR on day 1
It is when you know what the role is and the player handling it.
I can get away with softing it because scum can't do anything about it.
Claiming the role is sub-optimal D1, but it doesn't really matter
that
much--the play is mostly the same regardless of whether I claim it, don't claim it with softclaims, or don't claim it with no claims. I just prefer the middle option because I like to.
I guarantee that were I to claim you would know why I've said everything I have and agree with it, that everything I said was true, that there isn't MUCH of a difference between me claiming it and not claiming it, but that I am right in my assessment that while it doesn't matter much, claiming it on D1 is still notably suboptimal to not claiming it.
Plus, scum aren't gonna
actually
guess my role in spite of the softclaims. They can't. I am so confident that they can't guess my role that it allows me that freedom to softclaim all I like. I can be as blatant as I want with my soft; the scum still won't know what hits 'em until I fullclaim.
Smoke and Mirrors are town by play and town by claim. Their play more recently is less town than I'd prefer, but their early play radiated town in a way I don't think is scum. Even without that, their role is one that I don't think is scum, and we have mod confirmation that it IS a real role. Or close enough. (The mod has confirmed the existence of koalawang being a game mechanic; the prizes for it aren't confirmed but the mod-confirmation of koalawang being a thing confirms the role, the details of the role are frankly irrelevant.)
Superb Subtlety are clearly town here--given my slight doubt in Smoke/Mirrors, I actually am thinking of backing them up. In many ways, they're the inverse to Smoke/Mirrors: instead of starting strong and degrading to 'okay', they started 'okay' and have gotten stronger and stronger later into the day.
I hinted at my role because phoenixes are strongly associated with immortality. I said that scum would shoot me and that I would be revealed pretty much. I can get away with softing being both bulletproof and a bodyguard because as long as I don't hardclaim my role, it'd be impossible for the scum to guess I was both. They MIGHT be able to guess I am bulletproof; they MIGHT be able to guess I am a protective; they would be unable to guess that I was BOTH. There isn't much of a difference between me claiming and not claiming, but the risk of a scum roleblocker meant it was suboptimal to do on D1.
Here is also the post where I decided to switch in plans from protecting Smoke/Mirrors to protecting Superb Subtlety.
In post 960, mastina wrote: In post 954, Raya36 wrote:If you're scum and using this for survival then I'm fine with leaving you be until D2, but I still think you're scummy so maybe D2 would be a good day to claim considering it doesn't make much of a difference
I mean there's a chance I won't need to--if the mod confirms my claim publicly inthread for me, no need for me to do so.
It's not a surefire thing to happen, but there's a reasonably decent chance of it happening.
So long as I protected the right slot it was pretty damn likely I was going to burn my bulletproof. I correctly identified Superb Subtlety as being the right protection.
Soyeah, this is what I meant on D1.
I'm
pretty
sure, given the suspicion on me D1, in spite of my softclaims scum did not directly shoot me; I'm fairly certain they shot Superb Subtlety, who I then saved.
