"And I'm no fool. Sure, anyone could have any powers, though I'm sure yours are completely useless--" ]]
Tefiren hissed and flared his wing leaves. "Useless!? This silly tiny fox thinks
my tricks are useless? Maybe you don't know, because you weren't here in the last game, but I can think up the
best tricks out of anyone! I
won the last game using just
one of them! The only reason I'd ever not be able to do anything
useful with my tricks is if
someone stupid went and got in the way of it all!
[[don't mind him, this is pure RP flavour. And, uh, assume this happened earlier.]]
Tefiren peered at the fiery fox's board full of squiggles, fascinated by the way that the squiggles had
meaning that just seeped into his head if he looked at them long enough. He was so good at figuring out new things, picking up new tricks that'd help him out in this game!
But some of the squiggles, even though they made sense in his mind, didn't actually make
sense.
44. Chibi drew a very good art. <3
[[ yes, yes they did <3 ]]
47. Of note, Tefiren points out that Scum can make a pretence of taking a pro-town stance so long as town keep mislynching at end-of-day.
"That
would be a sensible thing for a Mafia to do, maybe. But what I was talking about was how the old Mafia apparently did the exact opposite of that! Or half the opposite, at least, because they thought they were tricking us into
not getting rid of someone innocent,
just so that they could look not-suspicious when they agreed with us about it. And then I was saying that that plan was
stupid, and didn't trick us at all, and it doesn't matter to
this game anyway so we shouldn't bother thinking about it like it's how a Mafia would always think. It doesn't
help."
"I mean, I'd say the timing of when they voted matters too. If they're trying to not draw attention to themselves, they'll probably just get behind whatever train the general consensus is on, but to do that the general consensus needs to happen first."
"They could have just decided to let everyone else maybe agree on something which would be
better for them - like getting rid of a not-Mafia - and then vote against that to not make themselves look suspicious. They didn't need to put in all that effort to push something that they'd have wanted
less. Nobody's going to think they're Mafia if what they're disagreeing with everyone else on is
getting rid of someone who turns out to not be a Mafia.
"And anyway, my
real point is that it doesn't matter in
this game, because the Mafia this time is totally different. We shouldn't act like this Mafia is definitely using the same strategy that old Mafia did, especially when it wasn't even a
good one."
48. Dave [...] is sus of Tefiren for discouraging an examination of old Mafia metas.
"
Is the messy Human suspicious of me for that? I didn't think he was." Tefiren cocked his head.
Was there anything that could seem suspicious about him thinking the fun Human's musings were pointless and made no sense? No, because they
were pointless and
did make no sense, and it was
weird how someone who was making a lot of sense just a little while ago would suddenly care so much about something so nonsensical.
"Maybe he was suspicious of me, but he didn't
say so. You shouldn't be so quick to put things on this magic board of yours if they're just a
guess you're making," he told the fiery fox. "You don't know more than anyone else, and other more stupid people might look at your board and think something's true when it isn't.
"Anyway, I said that to the fun Human because
he was being suspicious, caring so much about old stuff that made no sense and doesn't matter any more in this game anyway. Maybe he was only pretending to care to find an excuse to get rid of someone. And maybe
that's what the messy Human was thinking when he looked at me like that. Maybe he thought the other Human was suspicious too."
Lexx shrugged. "Just figured that if we go the no-lynch route like usual, we oughta try to get some info out of it. If everyone votes the same, we've got to work that much harder to find a pattern behind it."
"That'd be a good idea! But you're trying to get info out of it in a way that doesn't make very much
sense, thinking this Mafia would follow a
bad plan that they probably didn't even know the last Mafia used."
Maybe the fun Human was just one of those people who didn't make much sense, despite him at least being in the right
mood about this game, unlike most of the rest of the group. But Tefiren couldn't shake this feeling that this Human was
supposed to make more sense than this. He wasn't as fun as Chibi.
(...Why was he comparing this Human to Chibi? They weren't the
same person.)
54. Seren (Miyako) argues that more experienced players, if Mafia, would be better at concealing it, and names some examples.
[[That's not at all what he was saying, unless I'm massively misinterpreting it myself. He wasn't talking about the Mafia
being experienced players, but speculating that they probably
targeted one of the experienced players. And then also that doctors etc were likely to have targeted within the same pool of experienced players, making our no-kill night somewhat less of a coincidence.]]
"And the Human with the stick is right about that!" Tefiren suddenly burst out with, bored of keeping it in.
"Nah, didn't obstruct you. Targeted ya with somethin' that fizzled. Meanin', I reckon you were protected against interference. Meanin', I reckon y'might've been also targeted by Mafia an' lived. It ain't conclusive in the least, but it makes me think yer more likely than not t'be Town, Ambrose."
"Oh? You think the Mafia tried to catch the messy Human?" Tefiren giggled again. So many of them had all been talking in circles trying to guess what'd happened last night. It was all like some big
mystery to everyone - everyone except him.
"Nope! That's not what happened! Because
I know exactly who the Mafia tried to catch last night, and it wasn't him!"