Endgame422 wrote:OK folks time to liven this one up.
I am 3rd party survivor.
I am the mothman.
I can visit 1 player each night with a warning of "impending disaster" but im also told that some players may suffer "side effects"
My PM was intentionally ambigious about the "disaster" and about the "side effects"
The real story of mothman was that he was sighted 100s of times in the point pleasant area in West Virginia over several months in the late 1960s
Those who had close interactions reported splitting headaches,sickness relating to radiation poisoning(burns/discoloration of the skin and eyes)and hallucinations of the silver bridge crashing into the river.
In 1967 the silver bridge collapsed into the ohio river during rush hour traffic killing 46 people and causing immeasurable damages after which the reports of the mothman abruptly stopped.
I think its been set up so i can basically choose to help either town or scum as whichever faction i visit gains some kind of information.
I like my chances much better with town then against it.
Im thinking this works like rishs "visit" system from EotW where i have unique interactions depending on who i visit.
Im basing that logic off the fact that SOME players will suffer "side-effects" being the way it was written.
Also i think i was designed as a red herring 3rd party as my visits are supposed to appear in the night scenes,which leads me to believe scum is a small faction this game.
That further supports my decision to claim that im 3rd party as i can win alongside town and i like towns chances,especially if i just play like an extra townie.
Now who thinks we should lynch me?
Im assuming third party means you can win on either Mafia or Towns side whichever makes most since when it comes at the end. I don’t really like the idea of having a third party player in the game. I also tend to agree with IBs post to get rid of you unless we can find a more scummy player. Why not lynch a non town player that can always flip later?
Endgame422 wrote:Pancake i claimed now because i know that this group of players would not have eased off if i claimed under pressure and my last game as 3rd party i lied and pretended to be town and got lynched at what turned out to be Lylo losing the game for both town and myself.
So the only option from my POV was to claim,explain myself as much as i can given my odd role and hope for the best.
To HS/IB lynching me is like pushing through a no lynch,zero chance of hitting scum.
You wont hit town admittedly if you go for me but you learn very little off of my lynch and give scum a free night basically.
Im more valuable to town as an honest opinion/vote that costs you nothing then as a corpse that costs you a day/night cycle.
FPd by tim
This is true unless you flip on us. Unless you cant flip.
WingCmdr Ginkapo wrote:Vote IB
Lynching 3rd Party gives a free nightkill to mafia. IB knows this, yet is pursueing the easiest non-mafia lynch in the game.
Until Endgame claimed, all IB's posts had been attacking Dakky for his terrible play. These in themselves have no alignment indication.
However, taken all together, we have a player who is avoiding commiting to anything and trying to get the easiest targets lynched.
IronButterfly wrote:You MAY have had some credibility and reason to be saved if we had witnessed first hand what exactly it is that you do
Yes, so why not wait till D2 and we know what the side effects are? Because then who will be the easy target to lynch D1? My bad, scumhunting is too difficult for you clearly.
So far when playing this game we have only gotten scum on the first day once. A sure thing may be better then killing town but maybe not. I haven’t really played a game with a third party yet.
Streaker wrote:I need to point out here the game of Harry Potter. Storrzerg did a comparable play, where he claimed 3rd party (and in the end, confirmed third party). While it gives mafia a free kill at night, it does guarantee that a non-town alligned player is lynched. Storrzerg played the town game from day 1 all the way until the very end, where he switched sides and was decisive in mafia victory.
Third party does not equal town alligned. I believe he will do his best for town, until such time as a better opportunity presents itself for him to win the game.
I don't think I want to lynch him now, because we have better odds of lynching scum now then before. Just think it's a bad idea having him around until endgame (lol eh) because it's a liability to town.
BAM. Case and point why I think, unless we find someone we are really strong on, we should lynch endgame
Marashu wrote:I don't agree that IB wanting to lynch End is scummy. I don't think it's the right play, but I don't think it's scummy. I can understand him wanting to eliminate a non-town aligned player (who may or may not be anti-town - the "disaster" might be his way of explaining an SK kill), but early game it is normally in a 3P's best interest to work with town, so I don't want to lynch End today. If IB were scum, I don't think he would be raising such a stink about this.
I do believe End is non-town, at the very least. It explains why I feel he hasn't been pushing as hard as he could have been for scumhunting (asking me to back up one of my early reads, and backing down after a short answer without pushing harder). That said, End, you say you'd rather help town, so why not give us some reads?
I liked Mets' post. I also want to hear ptlowe's defense about Streaker's post against him.
FP'd by PancakeMix. As was said, by the time Storr jumped ship, town had already lost and the game on that day was just continuing to see whether Storr was the one to get killed that day (town and mafia had the same number, mafia had 2 night kills that night, and Storr was the swing vote - mafia said they'd let him live if he voted with them that day). As for mitch, most of his posts are fluff and flavourful - he's been getting better at offering reads and asking questions, but he still has a very erratic playstyle.
Also agree with Marusha, disagree that I need to defend myself as I think streaks post is purely retaliation from our last game. Maybe im wrong. His assumption is weak at best. Anyways, I am scum hunting just been sick over the weekend.
strike wolf wrote:Madmitch stands out for being mimicry as pCM says but I always find him difficult to read because he can be erratic. The fact that IB is not suggesting any type of scum hilunting stands out to me more than trying to lynch third party. He's better than that and right now he would be my choice for lymch.
As wing said. Storrs didn't decide HP in mafia s favor, town lost that game. I know because we lost in part to my mistakes and inability to press an aage lynch when I was becoming increasingly certain he was scum.
I have been told revisiting other games gets us in trouble but it seems like the more experienced players are all doing it this game. Maybe I am wrong but I know strike has been in mafia games since 2007 so I assume he is one of the most experienced here. If the choice is just IB or END we haven’t really worked too hard on our scum hunting yet. Lets take a look, if we don’t have a strong candidate I say kill the non townies. I don’t see why we shouldn’t. Also, how have you been scum hunting Strike? Just by calling out IB? Weak sauce.
Anyways reads so far
No read Madmitch, Tim, streak(I don’t understand his play yet enough to read one way or the other) Virus and Benga
Leaning Scum, Dakky and Strike
Town Wing, PCM, IB, Marusha, Mets, Hotshot
Nontown End
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