((Cabot is precious and I love him))
[INNOCENTS WIN] Grand Opening Fanfic Mafia - Game Thread
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DeliriousAbsol
*Crazy Absol Noises*
Infinite sighed and screwed the lid back onto his peanut butter, which promptly vanished. He narrowed his eyes at the dinosaur then pointed a claw. His words had struck a nerve.
"You sound like a pink hedgehog I know. 'Not everyone in this world is evil!' Don't come crying to me if someone picks you off, kid. Act too nice and people might start to get suspicious. Everyone wears a mask."
He kept one eye on the dinosaur as he licked his hand clean before putting his glove back on. No one wants a sticky glove, after all.
"You sound like a pink hedgehog I know. 'Not everyone in this world is evil!' Don't come crying to me if someone picks you off, kid. Act too nice and people might start to get suspicious. Everyone wears a mask."
He kept one eye on the dinosaur as he licked his hand clean before putting his glove back on. No one wants a sticky glove, after all.
Umbramatic
The Ghost Lord
(For the record count the first vote)
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"Um, I think it's too soon to say for sure too," Lachlan pipes up, feeling quite tired just from keeping track of the vigorous conversation, "but if we don't do anything, it's just going to leave us open for attack and we don't get anything out of it, right? Like, jail is just jail, so I think it's okay for us to be wrong as long as we get some useful information out of it. I can agree that Dave has been pretty suspicious... Maybe not suspicious enough to throw him in jail with certainty that he's behind all this, but, um, it's worth a try, right? And if we're wrong, well, at least we know that for sure rather than being totally in the dark I guess?" He shrugs. "I don't know. I don't feel right about sitting like ducks, I guess. I'd much rather do something. For now I'm going to say we're better off putting Dave in jail just to see what happens."
Starr right now:
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Losing her head
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"Hey, so..." Repeat said, "not to belabor any points, but I'm not sure it's great to just let these mafia people make the first move. I mean, that's someone's life, potentially. And if jailing someone can maybe help end all this sooner, I think we ought to do so. And, just as a side note, I think it's worth noting that Dave never actually refuted any of the points that Mel made against him. He immediately started going against a different argument, which strikes me as not just disingenuous, but suspicious."
Dave looked at the Cranidos in silence for a moment. "DNA. It's a big molecule that controls how your body develops and functions. It's how life works. Or at least it's how it's supposed to work. Who knows how anything works in this place." He gestures vaguely towards Mia. "Her DNA's part Scyther - particular parts that we picked. So she has the bit of DNA that makes the scythe grow on a Scyther's arm, and it grew a scythe on her arm. And so on."
Dave looked up from Cabot at Repeat's words. "Look, what fucking points? I..." He shook his head, raising the beer bottle and chugging the rest of it before carelessly throwing it away and fixing his gaze on Repeat.
"Fine. Let's go over this step by step. Mel said I "hadn't really tried to help". That I cast blame on the legendary Pokémon for bad reasons, then that I misunderstood the point that was being made and tried to keep you from doing anything. Do I have that right?
"First, all most everyone was doing was saying they didn't know anything and telling their fucking life stories. Hence, I didn't know this was supposed to be storytime. You want to jail me because I didn't go out of my way to chime in to tell you all about my dead fucking kids until you all insisted? Well, fuck you too.
"As for the legendary Pokémon, well, seeing a bunch of murders committed with space lasers, I went 'Hey, maybe it's some of the people who might actually have space lasers.' Fucking shoot me. Then you all go 'Well, the real murderers would've made it look like they wouldn't have space lasers.' And okay. Fine. Maybe the space laser people can do that. That's why I conceded the point and said then that leaves us with no info.
"Then she'd made this whole dramatic point about how we'd solve all this by looking for the 'contradictions' that don't make sense. Well, practically all that'd been said at that point was people telling their life stories from different universes. We've got no way of rooting out contradictions there because we can't know what really happened in their universes, or even apply common Earth logic to it. So I pointed this out. And what, you're spinning this as me saying we shouldn't do anything? No, I was pointing out why this proposal wasn't actually much of a fucking starting point.
"And hey, notice how I just pointed out where I already addressed each of those 'points', and here you are making a big thing of how I didn't refute them? Well, there it is spelled out. Better?"
((Man, I am not used to playing mafia super-aggressively. Please disregard his tone, he is just being Dave))
((only a few hours left, are we sure about the no jail thing? Repeat and Lachlan bring up some good points))
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Hecto’s ears flattened. Three votes for Dave, six votes for nothing. But Hecto had always been tentative. But even if he switched his vote, that would leave it four to five.
“Starr, forgive me if I have missed it... but who exactly are you voting for, or not voting for?” Hecto asked. “And Loki... you were unsure, just as I am. Perhaps despite our differing origins, we share a kinship all the same. If I switch my vote, shall you as well?”
“Starr, forgive me if I have missed it... but who exactly are you voting for, or not voting for?” Hecto asked. “And Loki... you were unsure, just as I am. Perhaps despite our differing origins, we share a kinship all the same. If I switch my vote, shall you as well?”
Starr puts a hand to her forehead. "This is giving me a headache. Alright, how about this. I wanna hear more from Infinite. He was pretty much itching to jump on the Dave train the instant there was half a reason to, and hasn't given any real thoughts since."
((In a vanilla-heavy game, no-lynching is rarely a good idea. But it was implied that in this one most everyone has some kind of power, and in that kind of setup lynching an innocent is a bit more expensive for town and there's more to be gained if we can keep people alive longer to gain more information. I may also be slightly biased by the RP aspect here, though - more people alive for longer is just going to be more fun. :P))
((That's just what a mafia on the chopping block would say!!!1
...nah, but really, I was wondering about that. throwing away a key special ability could be disastrous. and like... no one's even implied that they have any night actions, let alone what they might be lol. Unless I missed it.))
...nah, but really, I was wondering about that. throwing away a key special ability could be disastrous. and like... no one's even implied that they have any night actions, let alone what they might be lol. Unless I missed it.))
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Hecto’s hexagon eyes flickered at the wheel above Starr’s head, surrounded by mysterious voices, even one above his own head. He suppressed a whine and fired a single Thousand Arrow at the wheel above Starr. It made a dull tink! noise but did little else. “Starr? Do you have a vote? Or are you abstaining completely?”
Umbramatic
The Ghost Lord
Loki nodded at Hecto. "You know what, why not. Dave it is."
"Jesus, what the hell, dude? I haven't made up my mind yet, okay? I don't have much beef with Dave, but like a couple people said, letting the mafia get the first move sounds like a shitty idea. Unless he has the ability to help the group out in some way. So if you think the info we get from jailing him is worth that risk, then yeah, I'll go with Dave. But if anything else comes up, I reserve the right to change that, got it?"
((dammit am i gonna be a tiebreaker i don't like this))
((dammit am i gonna be a tiebreaker i don't like this))
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Hecto hummed to himself thoughtfully. “I believe that makes five votes for Dave... and five votes for nobody. Two other miscellaneous votes, one to myself and one tic Psyduck. I could change my vote to Dave as well, and follow Loki’s path...” He looked at Dave. “Do you have anything to say for yourself? What happens if it’s a tie between jailing someone and no jail at all?”