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  1. Lind Whisperer
    Who? Who am I going to claim to? At this point, I have no one to trust. Anyone I PM could be scum. How is that going to help scum? All I've done this game, is try and help town. That's it. There's been no self-interest at any point. If I wanted to "save my own buttocks" I wouldn't have claimed unless I was trying to get out of a lynch. This makes no sense. Either I have the ability, and I'm town, or I don't, and I'm not town. Yay. The blocker can block someone else, instead of the person trying to draw fire and focus. Good idea. Let's just the person intentionally trying to draw scum focus die, so that the scum won't kill someone they aren't trying to kill. It also serves as a barometer of who's alive. What assets? We don't have any assets, unless the investigator's someone found the blocker Day One. Well, unless we get a vig claim, I'm the only tier, thank you kindly. DETECTION BY WHOM? A TOWN-ORIENTED WATCHER? Seriously! As in...the normal chance? Yes, because wading through a morass of PMs and investigations would have been so much better, rock-brains.
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    Yes, and get an over-eager vig/SK knife in my back for my "acting scummy Day One," and town none the better for it. Waiting could be helpful to town, but if it's going to be helpful, it's more helpful on Day Two than on Day _____. Also, I'd only have been investigated later in the game post-block forming, and by then, I'll have either inherited a role - making the barometer idea pointless - or I'd have to fight through a wave of PM suspicions and explanations to explain it, or etc.. etc., etc.All in all, it was just simplest to just put it out. And yes, that is what she said. Well, people keep making my real-life face look like it.
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    Read my posts, I've only shared it two or three times by now.
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    No, I said nothing of the sort. Don't twist things I haven't even said. *ping* If I am a Godfather, I'm a lousy Godfather. I'm claiming a role the knowledge from which can only be known at this point by either the back-up or the roles themselves. And the difficulty of pretending to be a back-up would only get harder as the game progressed, and as roles were revealed. Why, why, why would I claim Near-Universal Back-up, of all roles, if I was the Godfather? :wacko: :wacko:
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    A barometer that only the town block knows the result of. And the way you post gives me a head-ache. No, only the town block. Announcing to everyone would be stupid. Yes, because I'm drawing scum-focus by doing this. They have no idea who's dead or not, but the town-block does. And, unless one of the PRs dies by mistake, the town-block doesn't have to wonder if a certain Norse cycle happened again. And if I do absorb a role, well, I've absorbed a role. As in, the sort of thing a town-block needs to have as part of it. Kind of a win-win. True, but it was a necessary sacrifice. That's the idea. No, I'd been intending to claim at some point today, but then Hinckley started hammering and I thought, "Well, might as well reveal now as later." It was necessary in that I had no one to claim to yet that I could trust, and if the idea was to work, it needed to be sooner rather than later.
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    I have explained it, I'm the back-up.If one of the top PRs dies, I inherit their ability. I inherit their ability. Vig is one of those. I inherited nothing, ergo the vig is alive. The vig doesn't entirely know I'm not scum, however they - and the other PRs know - that I am correct that they didn't die. It's not a full measure of trust, but Scum wouldn't know roles. My role as a back-up makes me a barometer. I know when PRs die. No PRs died. And at this stage, no one else could possibly know that. Check my first post, I did suggest it could be a no-kill. Unlikely, but possible. Possible, but unlikely, unless you are the scum killer - no one else really stood out enough otherwise to target with a block. Too many people. Possibly, but unlikely. Unless we have a dumb SK or Scum-killer, that tried to target you, and you were protected. A definite possibility. I'm going to categorize it as "Near-Universal," since I don't have a fancy name for it. I inherit more PRs than the Vig, but not all PRs. Because this way, I can serve as a town barometer. I know what PRs are alive and well, and the town doesn't have to worry about what roles are alive and dead, because I can tell who's alive and dead, saving the town headaches and worry. And if a PR does die, I absorb the role and we don't loose it.
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    That's one assumption. Assuming I was scum, how would I know, day 1, who the vig was? That makes no sense. If I was scum, all I would know was whether the kill failed or succeeded - not alignment.I'm saying, I'm the backup. If one of the top PRs is killed, I inherit their ability. I inherited nothing last night. Ergo, the vig is alive and breathing. Think of me as sort of a town gauge. And I was serious about that protection. And I get Watcher and Tracker mixed up. Still, though, Tracker's not that uncommon a role. If we had one, they likely targeted you. And Scum would be aware of that, so point still sort of stands. Sort of.
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    If I was stripping someone, it'd be one of the la-*CREEP ALERT* *CREEP ALERT* *CREEP ALERT* -Anyways, nope. I'm just trying to calculate who's likely to be doing what, based on previous games, and the possibilities of what people in variarious positions and affiliations might do. If you were scum, you wouldn't be making the kill, since you would know that you were the player most likely to have the Watcher - if there is a Watcher - watching you, and they would know if you targeted someone. I'm assuming then, that it wasn't a blocked kill, because I'm not Scum, and there aren't any "higher-visibility" targets to target with a block action, and picking a block target out of the other player selection would almost certainly fail on blocking Scum just based on percentages. I (and the vig, to some extent, now) are the only people that know I'm not scum. If I had been targeted by a block action, it would have been useless, and scum would have killed last night. Scum wouldn't try and kill Hinckley, because he'd almost certainly be protected Night One, until he could be investigated. Ergo, it was either a no-kill by vig or scum, or a convert.
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    I'd rather not go into how I know for a bit longer, but we didn't kill the vig last night. He's still alive. Who he is, I have no idea. But he's alive.Also, I'll probably need a protection action tonight for having shared that, but I didn't want us to go off track... Seconded.
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    Not everyone, if I remember right, there were at least several comments back in Day One from people who were moderately sure he was scum... Yep. Also, space is black, stars are bright, and obvious statements are obvious. You mean a SK - serial killer. It has different names, but that's the traditional one for it. I'll let someone else go into the WIFOM on that - I'm here, because, well, Day Two, but I also have to work on other stuff at the same time, so I'm only able to do so much thinking...
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    In retrospect, if he had been scum, they'd have prompted him to propose at least some sort of defense...The whole "personal life" bit might have countered-acted that, though, so...Yeah, definition of WIFOM, right there. I'm guessing it was either a not-kill, or a convert action by the scum. It could have been blocking, but I doubt that. There are just too few good targets for it to have been a block - and I didn't have a night action.The only other person who might draw a "block" action would be Hinckley, just because, well, Hinckley - and I doubt, in the case he's part of a scum team, they'd have given him a kill action, so it probably wasn't a block.
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    I was afraid of that. He was too easy a lynch to have been newbie scum.Well, at least your typical newbie scum. The real question of the moment, is which one of you gentlemen covered my clothes and face in sticky...fruit bits?
  13. Lind Whisperer
    You're right - I'd hate to spoil my surprise Jester win...
  14. Lind Whisperer
    This part hadn't been posted when I responded. If it had...I'd have worded my response differently. ^This. Especially the first part of the third sentence. It's a great story, but even having been here a year, there is so much information I still don't know, especially on the Houses...
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    I don't know how to use it, if there is - as is evident by my mess of a Flickr feed - but I'm fairly certain there's a "private" setting somewhere - you might want to turn that on, in future...
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    Who's dead? Am I dead? Am I talking beyond the grave? AM I A GHOST?!?!? :distressed: :distressed: :distressed: :distressed: I so did not see that coming... ...Am I dead, or am I alive? I can't tell! Post day! Post day! Post daaaayyyyyyyyyyyy!
  17. Lind Whisperer
    I wasn't suggesting it be a regular drop, I was merely proposing it as a drop. I liked the "paranoia" aspect Sandy was proposing. I thought, with the changing tides, it might make a nice addition to the game. And I'm equally sure there are other people here who do like the idea of having a Mafia flavor to some quests.It's not like it's even that useful a tool. It's only useful if you think there might be a traitor, and even then, it doesn't even have a definite chance of working...
  18. Lind Whisperer
    True. I meant their utility is similar.Most of the time, you don't need to hide. But sometimes you do. Most of the time, you don't need to figure out alliances. But sometimes you do. Not having a 100% chance of reveal keeps up the excitement. "Did we get everyone? Or did we get some bad rolls? That guy still looks suspicious - should we cast him again?" "No, I'm burning too much ether." "But he's got a goatee!" "FINE." *cast* "He's clean." "Thank you. Are you sure that worked?" Aw... That sounds interesting!
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    Well, you could use it for interviewing crowds of people to find a traitor, etc., etc...It's nearly the same level of utility as a Trickster's Mask of the Generic Fantasy Race. It's not always useful. But there are definitely situations where it could be useful.
  20. Lind Whisperer
    That's the point - two rolls will probably reveal any traitors. Probably...But what if both rolls failed? :look: :look: How do we know!?!?! :look: Will a third reveal them as a traitor? Or will that roll be a fail also?! It builds on the Mafia "Paranoia" angle Sandy's introducing with #135. Calling the effect "Depressed" is a play on the "Disillusionment" part of the name - if you see the "real you," you'd become disillusioned from the mental picture you have of yourself - and predictably feel depressed as a result. Plus, having everyone suspect you of being a traitor isn't exactly an ego boost...
  21. Lind Whisperer
    The idea is that the person acts like they're "Depressed" - they're probably going to act each round, but there's a chance the Depression will briefly overwhelm them. Parania, of course. If it's 100%, then there's too much certainty. But if there's only a 50% chance of a reveal...
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    Also, future item drop suggestion for QMs:
  23. Lind Whisperer
    So, what's going to happen if #135 fails? Is there going to be a third quest to kill Baba? Or will she get down-graded to near-final/final boss in the Clash of Houses?
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    As did I. Thanks!
  25. Lind Whisperer
    Eurobricks. Only for 18 and over.
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