Mini Normal 2305 | GAME OVER

[Thestatusquo]

STD has been ushered off to the shadow realm.

Spoiler: He was

Mafia Goon!

TOWN WINS!

Mafia Topic
Mason Topic
Dead Thread

[humaneatingmonkey]

ahahaha my scum game was so hyped in the mason thread, that's why worstie had to kill me first

[the worst]

can't risk a monkey sweep

[the worst]

just read thru the dead pt i think the best thing i can say is, like, i know i have a loud clear voice but i'm also just one voice out of 5-7 there. i didn't really ~get~ scum!dragons but it wasn't lost on me that i was in a vacuum where i was looking at other scum first, and others very much were not. probably broadly agree that scum's best shot would have been utilising that to try and swing that one last mislim. that said i don't think making the decision to bring a mason into f3 is feasible (two reasons - wisdom says "vote ur townread for free win", and if you're dragged into f3 as cleared town, u should probably value flipped VT reads higher than your own anyway). i kind of assumed whoever had the decision would just lim dragons anyway. but yeah i would have been fine doing gera, dying, then dragons almost certainly happening in f3. dragons eventually dying was like, 97% going to happen, i don't think i had the willpower to throw this one.

just kind of clarifying my mindset though, i don't think anyone like needs me to defend myself..... as a rule i think mafia is simultaneously intense and hilarious. i absolutely love that i wrote a small thesis on why a member of the town was aligned with the mafia and pleaded for his immediate elimination. this hobby is bizarre and masochistic and i love it. i fully intend to -ev my towngames by having bad reads i believe for the rest of time.

[humaneatingmonkey]

bro you were off at the final stretch there and you overcame that and voted scum against your instincts. you are a g.

[Bingle]

Not only this, but the counter play offered to scum by things like claiming that usually benefits scum in opens just isn’t available here. Scum can claim net 0 roles, but anything with a decent amount of power is just incredibly unbelievable in a setup with 3 masons. Protection is basically out the window, investigation innately has the potential for 5 clears which is anbsurd in a mini, killing roles anre confirmable annd thus shit fake claims, etc. And there’s no chance of winning a 1v1 with the masons.

[Bingle]

*benefits scum in closeds.