Pathologic Invitational - TOWN VICTORY!!

[Vulgard]

VOTE: Kanave
VOTE: Nokiel
VOTE: Kanave
VOTE: Nokiel
VOTE: Kanave
VOTE: Nokiel
VOTE: Lemonfairy

VOTE: Kanave

If this is a villager then I’ve tunneled a villa all game (lolme) but come on.

I’m choosing to ignore the fact May just wrote arguably the wolfiest post in the game.

I did actually revisit Lemonfairy some time ago, I just still found her towny, as noted in my legacy post before we killed beancat. I barely made an effort to solve the game yesterday because I thought Kanave would just die and I was fine with it.

[May]

With how I’ve been playing, I wish I were a wolf at this rate.

[Vulgard]

Oh wait, I can actually vote several people at once. I thought the system prevented this.

[Vulgard]

UNVOTE

[Vulgard]

Weird, you’ve never said such a thing as town to my knowledge.

[Arctic]

to find this gif i tried searching “ladd gif” in the search box
im intelligent

[Vulgard]

May, I have a question. How do you normally write your posts?

This is relevant.

[Arctic]

the fact i both forgot to move my vote to nokiel and slept through both of my alarms has made me really annoyed

[Vulgard]

I thought Kanave was dead yesterday for sure when I left the thread.

[Arctic]

may if you’re town can you write a super villagery introspective self-reflective rambling post like you did in bland mountainous to alleviate my paranoia

[May]

I keep trying but they keep breaking my rules about what I’m allowed to say about myself I’ve deleted like three so far

[Vulgard]

@May

He makes this note very early in the day, almost like he and Eliza chose to poison Jar for this reason , and then corrects himself immediately. Wolves looove to correct themselves. Zorvo did it in Starcraft constantly, correction this, correction that, they notice they posted something that seems wolfy and haveeee to go “oh actually”. Because they’re reading back their own posts more than any townie ever would.

Thought to address this, I corrected that part because it was factually wrong and it made me look like a dumbass so I turned it into a joke.

[Arctic]

sometimes rules are meant to be broken

[Vulgard]

@Vulgard

IC:

Whysper

do not kill these people:

Arctic (sorry Whysper but i think you’re wrong)
Jar
Lemonfairy (read her iso again and i think she’s been pretty towny, first person here i would reconsider later down the line if necessary but for now i feel comfortable; i particularly like the way she’s evaluating slots that people have suspected, like arctic and nokiel, and ready to present contrarian takes on them, like the early tr on arctic)
May

personally would not kill right now after re-reading their ISOs (i read my entire poe + eliza):

Kanave
Nokiel

the rest:

beancat (pretty bad posting overall, lots of excuses, the votecount push feels like agenda, she did that thing several times where she presented two players in a post and called one towny and the other scummy but it feels like she’s just trying to manipulate the thread with this; now that i’m typing this out i see beancat trying to push nokiel but that’s completely incongruent with how beancat tends to be paranoid of high-posting and high-influence players, which nokiel is not, just feels like an ml wolves would want to get; beancat does try to push on lemonfairy but is very conciliatory toward me and arctic this game, which isn’t how i interpret her towngame; also note the fact beancat was townreading nokiel in p#312 for the push on her but is now pushing them, i feel like beancat wants to turn that and lemonfairy into mls because if poe of kanave/nokiel/beancat/eliza is correct then wolves need one more villager in the poe to win)

eliza (push on aelin looks towny on the surface but re-reading it and then reading kanave’s case on it made me feel like kanave has a point, this push basically looks like she’s just arguing with aelin because aelin is wolfreading her and she presumably wants aelin to die that eod, also her reads seem really static - she moves from person to person and kinda just stops evaluating the previous player every time, just zeroes in on people that look pushable: first arctic, then jar (and quickly backs off when i defend them), then aelin, now me (but has completely stopped trying upon realizing i’m unpushable today)

Note to self, never use that process again, the bottom tier caused two consecutive MLs.

[Arctic]

why are you reading your own posts

[May]

Alright. But if any of you speak of me expressing a single emotion after this game ends I will explode you with a mind beam this stays here got it

I can only lose so many games in a row before it starts eating away at my conception of myself as a good mafia player, and I know that maintaining my confidence is essential to actually improving, but I’ve watched myself play from the outside here and… it’s hard. And when I finally got the confidence to do one of my normal plays, to push Vulgard/Eliza and see what happened and see how people reacted, I just… let it get away from me.

I didn’t want Eliza dead, I needed to see how people pushed her, so I resisted that wagon, and when I failed, I just… let myself think I failed. I didn’t re-evaulate. I came in with the same perspective I had yesterday - that Nokiel should probably die to narrow things down - and you had to be the one to point out that the reaction test worked and it looked a lot like Lemon and Vulgard were partnered. I should’ve noticed it, it was right in my face, and I just. Didn’t.

[Arctic]

@May

and you had to be the one to point out that the reaction test worked

what reaction test

[May]

It’s the fact that this is an invitational. I know that’s it. That’s my problem. I didn’t feel like I deserved the invitation when I got it, and I let that impostor syndrome eat away at me until it affected my play.

And that’s enough broken rules for me! We’re done here! No more introspection I’m going to play the gmae now.

[May]

I’m calling pushing Vulgard/Eliza a “reaction test” in the way that I call everything I do a reaction test. I made a case to see what happened, who jumped on it, and re-evaluate from there. I just… decided that because everything didn’t go perfectly as I wanted it, I had failed to do that.

[May]

Using a computer