Shadows

Have we ever had a theme month without one?

WILLIAM! Explain yourself! Wait... grey? Like a statue? Maybe that stone on your neck can cure Diesel before he becomes a permanent erection. On the site. Permanently erected. On the site. Oh hell. Can you fix him?

No no, he's just resting, dear, just resting. He's perfectly fine. Perhaps you could explain why you appear to have red marks on your neck?

*sigh* I'd like to search Zack and especially go through his backpack. I didn't trust him, figured he was only after Penny as a setup for his cultist/thief (one or the other) friends. I hope he burns in the 10th grade hell if so.

Chef Shirley Dover, checking in. Food stores will need to be collected and brought to me. I'm sure I can whip up something delightful no matter what there is. Someone begin fetching potatoes, they'll go a long way. Yes, this looks like just the place to find potatoes. Hmmm, it's so toasty here, a little slice of paradise. *slaps Ricky Friggin' Ricardo* Where's Lucy, you sexist pig?

Love it!

Perhaps, but honestly, I see no way to confirm that either the helmet or the mace is legit, and neither one is thrilling enough to support that price anyway. Don't get me wrong, they're nice, I'd definitely add them to the Museum of the Absurd, but even I would have to call them "unverified" since they are each one of a kind (not 'full-production' no matter how they incorrectly word the claim) and undocumented beyond "it was in our pile". Cool story, though. I've always lusted to visit the vault.

Maybe...

Strategy? Psychology?? Tactics??? I've really got to learn how to play this game one day. Personally, the point of online Mafia as I see it comes in the role play: becoming the character. If you do it right, you should be able to get the job done, whether town or scum. If you do it wrong, you'll die. Quickly. I'll admit, sometimes hosts don't provide as much character information as I want and then I have to thoughtfully and subtly expand the character to suit the situation. This can be a hazard or a blessing, all depending on a combination of your own instincts and a lot of outside factors you have absolutely no control over. When it goes right, it's a joy, when it goes wrong, it's even better because you have to keep spinning and spinning your creative yarn until you've created either a wonderfully crafted scarf or a rope to hang yourself with. Seriously... strategy, psychology, tactics... PSH! It's all about the acting! *strikes a noble pose*

While she may be ready for adventure in tropical climates, this little craft would be just as happy in the port of any Classic Town. Nice job!

No no, we're not the site to post scammy sounding referred links on, but thanks anyway.

And a pleasure to have you here as well. Stay safe and when you can return, you know where to find us.

I like it. It's simple and direct and the new head has a determined look that can go anywhere. It's nice to get really unique parts sometimes, but they aren't always useful. In this case, a bunch of extras wouldn't be wasted as they could always be used for various Jedi or random citizens in a number of themes or even as henchmen in Indy or PoP. The katanas are actually the biggest waste for me, but even they can be used as decoration elsewhere, so it's no loss. Great review, CopMike. Thanks!

Rub and/or pray harder. Which specific plates are you trying to do?

Actually, that's where you're wrong. In all these games, you've only been scum once, so statistically you have a much greater chance than I do. I'm scum about half the time, and with this neutral role, I'm not sure which I'm due for next.

Usually, a neutral who is considered 'insane' as my character was, would be a serial killer and I was a prime candidate for that, but sadly it wasn't meant to be. My neutrality could have been completely useless, but instead I found a way to use it much as we did by the end of Prohibition when we managed to find and cooperate with the serial killer. While I couldn't kill, I was always able to steer votes and would have been shown as loyal if investigated. As helpful as that was, an experienced player might have misinterpreted it to mean that I was the mob boss, which I wasn't. I wouldn't have really had a good defense against that, but it literally never came to that point. Was I ever accused in this game outside of the vague moustache thing which wasn't about me at all? I did find it amusing that I was targeted for death that last night given that we had all gone along so merrily with the bandwagon that day, including a healthy number of loyalists. As per my character info, I knew I would be saved if attacked that first time and I was counting on it as part of my strategy: distract attention from Dragonator to keep us going one more day, at which point there was no chance of defeating us. The revelation of my alignment was an unexpected twist that I'm better off not commenting on, but ultimately it didn't put me at risk since we had passed that point in the balance. In another situation it would have been disastrous. I never lied to you. Over and over you asked if I was scum and I said no, because I wasn't. Shadows was completely honest. I would say things like, "wow, doesn't <player> seem suspicious?" or "hey, I wonder why <player> said that?", and it was all true, even if I knew they weren't scum. Nothing helps the scum more than loyalists who are confusion or suspicious looking. You been scum before. You'll be scum again. Don't be a metagamer. Yeah, for those of you who say "well, I figured out the scum by the end", you didn't really, we just stopped hiding it because we didn't have to and it was fun to be obvious about it. Had the next day dawned, we were going to be even worse, starting with me declaring my position as a Provost publicly and possibly oinking and stabbing people by the end of the day. At the very least, we were going to spend the first 24 hours accusing each other and then at exactly the right time we would all vote for someone else entirely (a loyalist, naturally). It would have been epic. It still is, in my mind. Yes, it was a great ploy. By the end, we had all publicly or privately claimed to be something we weren't, just to force the loyalists who had those positions to try to defend their claims or completely ruin any potential creditability they would have if they came forward. Honestly, it was a lot of fun in some ways and a journey through the land of frustration in others.

Transporting MOCs? Nope. Transporting topics? It's never too late, Ricey! Moved.

I wonder if we'll find any chandeliers.

My eye doctor said I had dystopia once, but some drops cleared it right up. Count me in!

Or a noob, since that kind of action isn't really possible during a day. A good point. It's never a good idea to assign actions based on role (a doctor should never be a doctor, a cop should never be an investigator unless that randomly happens in assigning roles). In this case, it made an easy way to point fingers at the Provosts as not helping all the while knowing that they probably couldn't if they wanted to.

Just for clarification, at this time the known bicycles are: Common: White, Black, Red, Yellow Uncommon (promo sets): Dark Pink Rare (no sets): Bright Light Orange, Blue

Fireplace, actually. Truth be told, I didn't die in the fire, I was using it to signal our troops for a counterattack, which happened immediately after the posted portion of the story. I actually had to return to headquarters to resume my work as a spy, which is why I'm never seen again. Much like that silly rouse to send me to the infirmary, the fire story was just the General providing me a safe cover in that way that only he and his strange sense of humour can.

It was ... an experience. Yes, that's what we'll call it. Of course we never saw the General's death... maybe EB News needs to revisit the game? Don't make us review your voting record. Honestly... yes. Since it was impossible for the warmongering loyalists to ever vote any of us to death (and they kept voting with us anyway ), it was just a matter of grinding through the days until it was over at which point the deserters would have won by numbers and I would have won by surviving. Yeah, I must admit that it was a good end for our sausage obsessed FBI agent. FBI agent? Well... during the course of the game I convinced various people that I was a secret Provost Auditor sent to find a bad provost and reporting directly to the General (he did give me that fancy tent and all). It's only fitting that it killed me in the post game conclusion.

Certainly looks like it. I'm woefully lacking in bicycle variations, too. I don't have yellow or bright light orange for sure, and I don't even think I have white. It's sad... You know what to do, everyone! Nobody has offered me anything good in ages. I'm having rare parts withdrawal. These days I see parts and I'm not even sure if they're rare.

This? Not particularly, though I guess it depends on perspective. Figure $8-10 or so.