My sister keeps counting the minutes and it’s very annoying.
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Actually, I think I’ve felt this way in both my F3 Mafia games, which is especially interesting because it means it’s not about the alignment. It might be some impending dread.
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Well, at this point I’m going to assume the game’s continuing because I think we would’ve been told by now if it wasn’t.
VOTE: Tutuu (A nominal, meaningless vote that nonetheless encapsulates my intended vote today, albeit unverifiably, once I could talk with Rhea.)
I wanted to wait for the modconfirmation because I’m town but it’s really slow and boring and this just resonates. Way too late, my reads were rubbish all game, but I can nevertheless uncharitably justify it in my head.
On a level 1 basis, Tutuu townread Bystander on the first day; and then retracted this at dawn on the second day without ever casing Bystander, still pairing other independent sets of players (demonstrating no confidence nor any attempt to analyse Bystander or behaviour surrounding them except to unpair me with Bystander (now retracted with no progression on the final day out of necessity, I was going to vote Tutuu)); and no, Tutuu didn’t accuse Bystander on the second day either as seen at (#873).
Regarding the dynamics between Zugzwang and Magnus, Tutuu expressed early paranoia that the pair could be marionetting the game thread with their theatre, but didn’t take a stance except to townread us both until late yesterday. Tutuu almost did by voting me, but then conceded that their read felt real and they just wanted to vote Gar and Rhea in a row. This was yet another reversal that wasn’t very developed today, since Tutuu only mimicked my explanation for why it makes no sense for Rhea to kill Zug; a copy it might be, but correct in fundamentals.
Considering the nightkills: Tutuu could exclude themselves from the Vigilante pool, and Leafia as well for outright claiming it while also saying she was covering for the role. Considering that Tutuu and Leafia were the most uncontested townreads at the time, except for myself at dusk but that’s neither here nor there, Tutuu could have taken my mechpost as VT spew and from there only Zug and Jail remained in the towncore as not-spewed Vigilantes. With the Vigilante deceased, Tutuu killed the most townread player Leafia on N2; and then chose to murder Zugzwang on N3, because both themselves and Rhea townread him the most and Tutuu apparently didn’t get the memo that Zug would have voted me today; it would have been spectacular for all of sixty minutes.
This is an extravagant wallpost to prepare when there’s no necessity that the game is even continuing, but I felt like getting this out now. I think v!Tutuu would’ve nailed out a cohesive scumcase on me alongside the vote; not express positive and ambivalent points about my slot, ignore Rhea’s ISO today and cast the first vote just because they had to.
Present tense past tense. @The-Showrunners.
This is brutal, huh.
Magnus (1): tutuu
tutuu (1): Magnus
Not Voting (1): Rhea
After spending a night thinking about it, I have been able to come to a confident conclusion regarding my thoughts on who the last wolf is. It is as follows: I don’t know.
I won’t deny that my thoughts decline significantly in quality when I do not have somebody to bounce them off of. My confidence comes from the fact that I know any bad argument that I make can be picked apart by somebody that I trust, and I do not have the luxury of such trust here.
I am currently leaning toward voting Magnus for the simple reason that many of their posts feel reverse-engineered from the question “what is the last thing a wolf would say here?”. Their play fits their self-described strategy of soliciting early townreads in order to push agenda later, and I don’t quite see how they have arrived at the conclusion I am town here (though tutuu has done the same, so maybe I cannot fault them for it). Magnus also tried to claim more credit for their case on bystander than I think they deserved in a cautious, testing-the-waters way.
However, there are substantial points against tutuu, ones which I was avoiding expressing in hopes that they would bait a nightkill on him that never came. I think that was a mistake, as it prevented me from actually thinking them through before I would be thoroughly trapped in my own head. The L0 reasons that he might be town do not hold anymore in the face of everybody else meeting those criteria. He voted for Magnus exactly when he needed to as either alignment. bystander’s posts are possible to see as paired with either player, with Magnus’s being a more active effort to look unaligned and tutuu’s being a more passive play intended to boost a partner’s position.
I struggle especially to find posts particularly alignment-indicative in an environment where players have both already been tested by fire to be surface-level towny and survival is the only objective. I know for a fact the wolf here can mimic a town mindset well, and I don’t know if there is much I will learn with further questioning. I suppose it is time to keep reading.
Early bystander/tutuu interactions
Actually… I have been wolfreading these for tutuu, for the “walk-through display of a townread” that tends to be good at boosting partners’ positions, but I wonder if a wolf wouldn’t be more careful about a partner here.
Later bystander/tutuu interactions
The “^^” emote here is a tonal inconsistency that is driving me a little bit up the wall, and these interactions are ones I could see as antispew on the way out in either direction. Would a dying wolf be so bold as to blatantly seem to spew tutuu town here by asking “why me”? Or is bystander trying to look good for a townie in hopes of avoiding death? bystander’s death was not so certain here: Magnus was already voting for me.
Where is the credibility in making this unvote? How does it help push agenda? Would a w!tutuu really think that he could save bystander here, with this alone?
If tutuu were simply a copy of me, I would read this as hard unaligning. As a wolf, I tend to pick a path and commit to it, leaving no room to lightly test the waters by poking at the vote count to see if I could save a partner. Either I save my partner by casing somebody else and let them endgame, or I do not save them and I retain my vote (unless I believe it would boost my own position to move it).
I can see other players, however, trying to pursue an alternative execution and then backing down. I do not know tutuu’s playstyle well enough to analyze whether this is within his wolfrange. The average person’s… no, not really, but tutuu got here by being towny, didn’t he?
Late bystander/Magnus interactions
This hostility feels very out of place. There’s no similar hostility in bystander’s interactions with absolutely anybody else. Again, I do not know bystander well enough to judge her exact mindset when interacting with her wolf partners, but for a player who was going out and having their partner distance from them… it feels like it could be indicative of partnership. Would a wolf really antagonize a villager so close to voting for them?
Well… I do not think I am going to learn much more. I have read what I have. Shall I end it?
I think the way bystander treated Magnus is more likely to be paired than how she treated tutuu. She went out of her way to argue with Magnus, to be abrasive in a way that she wasn’t with anybody else, while she was much more casual in her interaction with tutuu.
This is not the only thing making me decide this, but it is the nail in the coffin for me. Let us end this game.
VOTE: Magnus.
Magnus was…
Ragatha (Vanilla Town)
“I am in so much pain!”
You are vanilla town. The only weapons you have are your voice and your vote.
Defeat the mafia.
Mafia has reached parity with town, meaning they have met their win condition!
Congratulations to the mafia team of
@tutuu
@bystander
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Well, my apologies.
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gg
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gg
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goated flavor
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