Mini 429: Planar Chaos Mafia- Finally over (thanks ABR!)

[PlaysWithSquirrels]

You roll out of bed and walk to the door. Cautiously you peek outside before stepping out. You walk towards the gathering hall. You step forward through the doorway when suddenly a dead body collapses into your arms. Screaming, you throw the body off of you and onto the floor. Backing into the hallway behind you, you are surprised when you back into someone that wasn't there before. It's a black hooded figure. Forgetting about the dead body, you bolt into the gathering hall as the figure advances on you. It floats towards you ominously. It raises it's arm and points a skeletal hand at you. "It's over!" it bellows. A black pit opens below you and you fall into the abyss...

*Gasp*

Your eyes flutter open. You're staring at the ceiling in your room. You're soaked from head to toe in your own sweat. Shaking as you step out from underneath the blankets into the cold air, you cautiously walk out into the hallway. Entering the great hall, you breathe a sigh of relief as you count the same three people that went to bed that night in chairs. You make four. Sitting down to join the others, you prepare for the day's events.

Alive: (4/12)

AniX
Lowell (rep. BeHappyNewyear)
Ectomancer
Quagmire

Dead: (8/12):

Cephrir

,

Crovax, Ascendent Hero

, Vanilla Townie

- Lynched Day 1

Kison

,

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

, Townie Name Investigator

- Killed by Unknown Forces Night 1

Cavane

,

Braids, Cabal Minion

, Mafia Goon

- Lynched Day 2

Blight (rep. Aelyn)

,

Mirri, Cat Warrior

, Vanilla Townie

- Stabbed Night 2

Albert B. Rampage (rep. DeanWinchester)

,

Norin the Wary

, Untargetable Townie

- Lynched Day 3

Yamahako

,

Saffi Eriksdotter

, Townie Martyr

- Stabbed Night 3

creampuffeater

,

Vesuvan Shapeshifter

, Mafia Rolechooser

- Lynched Day 4

Nocmen (rep. TheStatusQuo)

,

Stonebrow, Krosan Hero

, Townie Strongman

- Lynched Day 5

With 4 alive, it will take 3 to lynch!

[Quagmire]

ecto who did you block last night?

[Ectomancer]

I gave my block to you to redirect. I was also caught in a maze, so I dont know that you got it.

[Quagmire]

I gave my block to you to redirect. I was also caught in a maze, so I dont know that you got it.

No, I was never targeted by you...

why were you caught in a maze?

[Lowell]

I cast my maze on ecto. That means he was unable to do any action (or be killed) last night.

This is what I did to nocmen the night before, which is why I thought he was scum. I guess he must have been TARGETED by the scum instead.

Again, I'll fall for my own result and believe that ecto is the last remaining scum. But I won't vote yet...

[Quagmire]

I cast my maze on ecto. That means he was unable to do any action (or be killed) last night.

This is what I did to nocmen the night before, which is why I thought he was scum. I guess he must have been TARGETED by the scum instead.

Again, I'll fall for my own result and believe that ecto is the last remaining scum. But I won't vote yet...

That's what I'm thinking, too, although it could be anix, and here's why:

Although the mod informed me last night that he was confronting me with a cop ability, AniX came to me last night. I redirected his cop ability to ectomancer. So that means that he targeted ectomancer last night...

Here's what I'm thinking:
-I think it's ectomancer, personally, because mafia roleblockers aren't too uncommon, and it'd be pretty balanced in this game with only three mafia and no SK...also, he's been blocked and there was no kill last night.
-We lynch him today. If we don't win, then I think we have about a 50% chance of losing the game if the mafia successfully get the kill off, although I think it'd be slightly higher due to what I think: If anyone tried to kill me, I'd just deflect it away. If Lowell targets me, then I can deflect Lowell's ability somewhere else, protecting two people tomorrow night while still keep the mafia guessing, meaning that it's probably higher than 50% that nobody dies tomorrow night. The next day I'd personally say that we'd try to lynch lowell, but I'll have to see what happens as events warrant. I mean, I'm pretty sure that we'll win if we kill ectomancer.

[Ectomancer]

I'd rather go with the 100% chance and not lynch me, but it sounds like Quags math makes ok sense.
My caveat today is the power of Quag's role. He cant be killed or investigated. Very strong role. He can only be lynched, and that also happens to be the only way to test him. Interesting.

Quag, why did you redirect Anix's investigation to me, when clearly he was looking for confirmation on you? You specifically did not allow him that information when you could have. If he wanted to investigate me, he could have chosen me himself, so I'm confused at your decision, and also wary of it.

[Quagmire]

Quag, why did you redirect Anix's investigation to me, when clearly he was looking for confirmation on you? You specifically did not allow him that information when you could have. If he wanted to investigate me, he could have chosen me himself, so I'm confused at your decision, and also wary of it.

In retrospect I probably should have just let him investigate me, but he's just a color cop so you can't garner any reasonably good information out of that. I chose to redirect it to you because:

a) I wasn't sure if he investigated you yet, but most importantly,
b) I wanted to prove my claimed ability to him directly

If anix wants to investigate me tonight, then that's fine and i'll definitely allow him to investigate me.

Since it's three to lynch and nobody's voted yet, I'm going to

vote ectomancer

until someone comes up with something better.

[AniX]

All I can offer on this subject is that Quag redirecting me would make sense, as would Lowell's maze, since I targeted Quag, but got mazed. Seeing as those two abilities seem pretty powerful in addition to being mafia, and seeing as that Ecto was blocked and there was no kills, I can draw but one conclusion.

Ecto is scum.

It looks like your crazytown refusal to let me investigate you might have just won us the game, Cody.

I will, however, hold off my vote to avoid putting us in a risky bad situation.

[Lowell]

vote ecto

That's good enough for me.

[Ectomancer]

Wow, you really think that a Goon, a roleblocker and a rolechooser (whatever that is) is balanced by

two

untargetable townies (Quag just redirects), 2 flavors of cop, Nocmen's strongman role and a Doc/Roleblocker?

Alrighty then...

[Quagmire]

Wow, you really think that a Goon, a roleblocker and a rolechooser (whatever that is) is balanced by

two

untargetable townies (Quag just redirects), 2 flavors of cop, Nocmen's strongman role and a Doc/Roleblocker?

Alrighty then...

I think so. Not to mention the plethora of things that point to you that we just can't ignore.

[Quagmire]

Anybody home?

[Lowell]

I've already placed my vote. I'm ready to get this show on the road.

Even if I'm wrong about Ecto, we have a 50% chance of winning anyway. I'll be able to block one person's actions tonight, so if I guess right we'll still win.

[Lowell]

... although, technically, even if wrong the game ought to end in a tie... since presumably I'll be able to cast my maze on whoever's left.

[Lowell]

no wait, cuz scum will attack me tonight...

Nevermind. Sorry for triple post.

[Ectomancer]

We can't win with Quag as scum unless we lynch him today. That's the bottom line. I realize that

he

sees nothing wrong with the balance of the setup if I were scum, but that's a rather stacked deck for town. Point of fact is, I don't think scum could even win at all with that setup. 2 untargetable townies plus all the rest? The mods on this site are better at balancing games than that, and PWS is no n00b.

[Quagmire]

We can't win with Quag as scum unless we lynch him today. That's the bottom line. I realize that

he

sees nothing wrong with the balance of the setup if I were scum, but that's a rather stacked deck for town. Point of fact is, I don't think scum could even win at all with that setup. 2 untargetable townies plus all the rest? The mods on this site are better at balancing games than that, and PWS is no n00b.

I don't know what most of these roles do. Also, I have no idea if my ability has anything to do with kills -- I haven't been targeted with a kill at all this game.

So, I think AniX should hammer Ecto, because of what's been mentioned earlier.

Lowell, be tricky. Keep the scum off balance if possible by masking your choice.

[Ectomancer]

Quag = scum = we lose today by lynching me.

Ecto = scum = we lose nothing by lynching Quag.

Despite needing to use equations for you here, I am town. It's a bad move to lynch me today and leave the 2nd claimed untargetable townie alive. Seriously, the first one was already confirmed town. How would scum possibly win with those 2 in the game unless they were morons?

[Quagmire]

Quag = scum = we lose today by lynching me.

Ecto = scum = we lose nothing by lynching Quag.

Despite needing to use equations for you here, I am town. It's a bad move to lynch me today and leave the 2nd claimed untargetable townie alive. Seriously, the first one was already confirmed town. How would scum possibly win with those 2 in the game unless they were morons?

How would we lose today if you were lynched, actually are the roleblocker, and I'm scum? Lowell's targeting me, so if I were to kill, I'd get blocked.

Ecto I'm very sure now that you're our last mafia. If Anix would post (or get replaced, we could finish the game.

[AniX]

Yeah, I was ready to lynch Ecto until he made that statement, then I held back and eventually I forgot that I should decide whether or not to do it. Quag makes a good enough point though.

Vote Ecto.

[Ectomancer]

It's about time.

[MeMe]

Quick update

:

I prodded PlaysWithSquirrels a week ago & he said he'd been too busy to get a lynch scene up. Re-prodded two days ago and he's yet to pick up that one.

I'll give him another 48 hours before taking action on the game.

[PlaysWithSquirrels]

Flavor to be added retroactively.

Ectomancer is dead. He was

Ovinomancer

, Mafia Roleblocker

.

It is now Night 6. Please send me your night actions.

[MeMe]

I hate to give up on this game in endgame, but PWS seems intent on putting me off with "I'm on it" replies. I may be a sucker, but even

I'm

not buying it now that this night has lasted a full month.

Thread is unlocked so that you three can tell me whether or not you care to continue. If you don't, I'll officially "call" it. If you do, I'll keep after PWS for you.