Perfect Masquerade [Game Over]

[OkaPoka]

WHO WAS L9

WHO WAS G7

AH

[Ankamius]

L5 I didn’t realize was Ank, and now that I know that I’m ashamed of Ank for pulling the same whiny approach TSE did. I expect better tbh.

this game was very hard to justify being in at points with my pairing being almost constantly a hair's edge away from being lynched

[Ankamius]

ngl asking for time to do my thing and immediately being told "what you do doesn't matter because g6 existed" didn't really help either

[Tammy]

If this ever happens again, I'm going to 'cheat' to not get alt guesses and to try to make my playstyle unrecognizable.

That's the fun of alt games. BBMolla used to try to imitate CES in alt games so he'd get less shit for his play style. The only problem you can run into sometimes is if you try to change the tone of the way you write, it can come across fake and get you scum read just because something feels off that no-one can pinpoint.

[Salamence20]

Thanks for the carry for the win we didn't deserve.

[Gamma Emerald]

So I’m gonna be reading the dead PT to see how much town hated my guts
But I will say I had caught on the L9’s survivalistic posting, honestly had I been on my main

maaaaybr

that doesn’t slip by as long? I think my biggest error this game was letting doubts get to me, I probably should have gone in on the game after a certain point in second dance but I kinda let my skill of cutting through WIFOM just kinda sit idle, partly because if I mention that it’s possibly a red flag for my identity. So I played below my personal best to avoid indentificatoon when honestly I should not have.

[Plum]

@Plum, would you be ok if I quoted your notes? I did exaggerate them and omit a couple of things (didn't want to alert G1 to the tells you were looking for, for example) but they were really helpful.

Please do, I'm glad you found them useful!

[Something_Smart]

I feel bad for RC, I think he really tried to do the secret alt but ended up double posting a lot which gave it away.

That's a good point, although the double posting was not the only thing that gave him away...

[Firebringer]

Good job replacing the best mafia player FakeGod

[OkaPoka]

OK SCUM HUNTERS WHO WAS L9

[Gamma Emerald]

And playing as a secret alt was fun to see how I do without positive or negative BoP but also I just suck at maintaining good activity in a secret alt, or really as an alt or hydra at all

[OkaPoka]

WAS IT YOU POPS

[Something_Smart]

Gamma I thought you played well. You were level-headed in a game that desperately needed more level-headed people. I found it hard to get a read on you, which makes sense given that it was you, but I could easily see your posting as coming from town, and you did what you needed to when the deadline got close.

[Volpe14]

OK SCUM HUNTERS WHO WAS L9

No idea.

[Tammy]

I kept wondering who was known for double posting lol I had no ida.

[the worst]

L9 was frightening and intense and amazing.

@Sala, plum and Tammy deserved this win by default. Lot of other townies played well too.

[Lady 2]

Hi Replacement Lady 2,

Sorry for the short notice and having you replace into this game a day prior to full deadline. It is unfortunate but I have absolutely unavoidable V/LA. I had hoped that the game could be ended today but that doesn't look plausible at this point.

We're Town, obviously. There are two remaining scum out of the rest of the living players minus the IC - I'll use G# for Gentleman and L# for Lady - G2 is the IC and the remaining scum are in: G1, G8, L5, L9

The players are paired as follows:

G1-L2 (us)
G2-L9
G8-L5

If you want to read anything read starting from Second Dance

I'm all but certain L9 is scum and therefore that G2 should leave dance, forcing her out. I am not 1000% sure on her buddy but since I said last night that G2 should leave because I believe strongly that L9 is scum, L5 has been pushing back against that in a way that suggests they're buddies to me.

I have been uncertain about L1 for much of the game and at one point thought I would leave to take him out and get a flip, but L7 left before me and her dance partner G7 flipped scum. Since then I've become more firmly convinced of L9 scum to the point of asking the IC to leave to take her out. I haven't said as much to G1 but I do think that his approach to the game right now, which is focusing on reading me (?!) and trying to glean information from parts of the game he claims make him too mad to read them actually seem very erratic from scum. When I asked people about which two players they thought were likeliest to be the last two scum together L9 left me out completely because I've been widely Townread most of Second Dance, but as soon as I came down on her she did the only thing she could do as scum here and tried to make a case that I'm scum and she's the last T-T pair. L5 looks too willing to believe L9 is Town for my taste based on the pairings she posted prior to my call for L9's head as well.

If L9 were Town I firmly believe scum would have killed the IC pair with her during Intermission and failing that that she'd have been tried as a mislynch at some point. I had the chance to discuss things very briefly with G3, who was forced out of the dance when his partner L6 (also Town) ragequit after being voted once G7 flipped scum. G3 was quite rational and sympathetic about a frustrating game, and at that point when he was confirmed Town but the Mod hadn't posted the flip he told me that he thought L9 must be scum and that one of L5/G8 probably was because both had pushed him for what he saw as spurious reasons and he ended up being in a Town-Town pair. I had some paranoia and questioned him about betting that I was the likeliest T-T pair with G1 and he said it was his best guess. I spent a LOT of time reading and thinking and questioning but on the whole I've come to the same conclusions.

I also believe that some of G7's material First Dance strongly implies that G8 and G1 are not scum together. So there's that.

Instructions: Please insist that G2 leave. G2 has been erratic and uncooperative for confirmed Town but it's what we have and he is Town. Then if that happens please vote out the L5/G8 pair, unless I'm so wrong that L9 is Town and game is over. You will have to work with G1 and he's a bit frustrating but right now I do think he's more likely Town than the other pair and I think he's legitimately trying.

Sorry for leaving the game in this situation, like I said it's unavoidable for RL reasons.

[Bingle]

Eh. Kinda straight up don't care about losing this. GG, town, YW FG.

[FakeGod]

Thanks man

[OkaPoka]

holy shit that last post from g2 was so bm in pt lol

[the worst]

I played up the amount of detail in Plum's notes but they were perfect - succinct and every time I checked one of her takes I thoroughly agreed. She had this game pretty much on point, and the {L9, X} read is definitely what inspired the way I entered.

I think she'd basically reached the conclusion that G2 was FPSing (fancy player syndrome) but in conveying instructions to a replacement it makes a lot of sense to just implore that I try to reason with him.

It was a really tidy brief for entering the game as town. I grabbed this replacement because I had this nagging guilt for replacing out of one of FG's games recently and because I saw this was almost over. I'd read nothing but page one and had no reads but that L7 was town.

This far exceeded anything I've ever expected to see on grabbing a lot - Plum, you're a seriously impressive town player. (and btw I hope your weekend is going well)

[the worst]

Eh. Kinda straight up don't care about losing this. GG, town, YW FG.

IT WAS YOOUUUU?!?
this was fun bungle. let's fight to the death again <3

[Ankamius]

bingle was g8

[Formerfish]

holy shit that last post from g2 was so

bm

in pt lol

?

[Tammy]

Those notes were great!