Hydras in mini normals

[FakeGod]

^good posting

[FakeGod]

A lot of players can't do that solo.

This is terrible mindset to be in and you should feel terrible.

Your hydra partner isn't some backup player that picks up the pieces when you flake from a game.

Both hydra players should read the entire game, and discuss fully before making posts that have game content.

Yes, it should take more time and effort to play as a hydra than it does as a solo.

[FakeGod]

A hydra partner is a very strong weapon to have at your disposal.

It is another player who has looked your role PM and shares your win con; someone who can be absolutely trusted. (do you know how rare that is in mafia?)

I don't know why hydras on this site degenerated into a "buddy who picks up the slack when I'm busy", but in no way they should be simply be treated as a normal player.

[FakeGod]

Hydras are obviously not normal.

They have an advantage over a normal player.

[FakeGod]

Sounds like a job for someone who has too much time on his hands.

[FakeGod]

Good man.

[FakeGod]

All in favor of banning hydras from this site say

HERCULES

Article From Wikipedia

After slaying the Nemean lion, Eurystheus sent Hercules to slay the Hydra, which Hera had raised just to slay Hercules. Upon reaching the swamp near Lake Lerna, where the Hydra dwelt, Hercules covered his mouth and nose with a cloth to protect himself from the poisonous fumes. He fired flaming arrows into the Hydra's lair, the spring of Amymone, a deep cave that it only came out of to terrorize neighboring villages. He then confronted the Hydra, wielding a harvesting sickle (according to some early vase-paintings), a sword or his famed club. Ruck and Staples (1994: 170) have pointed out that the chthonic creature's reaction was botanical: upon cutting off each of its heads he found that two grew back, an expression of the hopelessness of such a struggle for any but the hero. The weakness of the Hydra was that it was invulnerable only if it retained at least one head.

The details of the struggle are explicit in the Bibliotheca (2.5.2): realizing that he could not defeat the Hydra in this way, Hercules called on his nephew Iolaus for help. His nephew then came upon the idea (possibly inspired by Athena) of using a firebrand to scorch the neck stumps after each decapitation. Hercules cut off each head and Iolaus cauterized the open stumps. Seeing that Hercules was winning the struggle, Hera sent a large crab to distract him. He crushed it under his mighty foot. The Hydra's one immortal head was cut off with a golden sword given to him by Athena. Hercules placed the head – still alive and writhing – under a great rock on the sacred way between Lerna and Elaius (Kerenyi 1959:144), and dipped his arrows in the Hydra's poisonous blood, and so his second task was complete.

[FakeGod]

HERCULES

[FakeGod]

say it with me

HERCULES

[FakeGod]

KK speaks the truth.

[FakeGod]

Hercules

is the hero mafiascum needs but doesn't deserve.

[FakeGod]

I am back from a rather extended hiatus, so hydras are news to me. I loathe them, but my concern is logistical. Reading through some games, hydra heads post from their original accounts, forget to sign their names, etc. -- all of these are irritating obstacles and disruptions to the flow of the game. Is no one else bothered by these annoyances?

Well met, brother in arms!