I actually feel like lynching feels... less useful here than mafia no? (though I notoriously despise day 1 lynches lol). I mean we don't even get any info because their role isn't revealed when they die, so it seems like we should try to be way more careful, right? If we lose one of our good powers than we're really in a jam, and we can't even confirm info.
"I mean, one of the emeras here will, if someone got it, will be shown the role of the player we take out at night, while info on the ones killed at night is lost forever. But even if that's not the case, losing someone isn't so bad here. Can't make an omelette without cracking a few eggs~"
She performed the act of giggling at her own 'joke' in hopes of getting under the scaredy-rat's skin.
"If it's that bad, they say
something about their emera to get out of the bind. Who cares? You seem to expect that anyone who claims will be left dead where they stand for it, and that the fact we don't get to see who people are when they die makes it bad to execute them. But consider this: What if people
didn't get killed for claiming~ That would be cool, wouldn't it?"
She had a weird hunch, partially based on the weird whisper accompanying her as a "guardian", that some people were familiar with a very different
style of game.
"Think of it this way: People we kill don't flip. People that the Awakened fucker
[demon/imp] kills, may as well be flipping for most functional intents and purposes. Sure, they
could kill one of their own, or even themself, to throw us off, but... uhh, not
usually a great idea for obvious reasons. Taking a player under heavy heat with a powerful emera and showing that evil wants them offed is often the best gift you can give 'em! Suuuuure, they wake up a bit deader than usual, but that's never killed anyone~ They'll just claim, share all their info, and become a trusted ally for the rest of the game! If a player with a power role is catching flak, all the incentives tell them to do the opposite: Make sure they get
executed in the day while avoiding confirming them and let them be suspicious forever!"
[Although we should be able to target the dead with powers like inforoles here if it comes to that, it's just usually a waste] "Combined with Ally Reviver
[monk/doctor], the possibility of someone wanting to avoid day targeting because they've got Toughness
[soldier/bulletproof], fear of activating Payback
[ravenkeeper/death-activated rolecop], there are a
lot of reasons why targeting some kind of active-power softclaim is often a bad idea. It's not a universal law that claimed players don't get killed, they
do, but shaking one softclaim out of someone is
fine. They're more likely to get
Poisoned, but that's usually possible to play around."
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Maybe I shouldn't be giving a 'how 2 scumteam' tutorial but I think it's important for town to really think about what the evil player's incentives are bc we've got plenty of clever people in this game, I think the evil team will put their heads together and feel out what they should do intuitively over time one way or another. Meanwhile, if we all try to play Mafia, then we probably just lose. One or two Townfolk claims on day 1 in BotC is healthy and 0 would be hurting our ability to gamesolve more than the evils' ability to kill us. If we (hypothetically speaking, since I will not let this happen) tried to go full Mafia cold war and have no claims D2 either and being stuck until D3 then we'd almost certainly have thrown the game. Outlander claims to get an idea of how many are accounted for can often also be wise, especially because claiming Dizzying Payback/Saint after you're ahead in the vote, or Intimidator/Recluse after someone pings you as evil are ultra-sus as last-second claims! If you have one of these two roles please consider the awful optics of being forced to claim them last-second.
In conclusion: Claims are more powerful and dying less scary here. This is the counterbalance that allows thing like Poisoner or Spy which would be weapons grade fuckshit in Mafia to be standard vanilla fare. If we don't press that advantage at all we will probably just get fuckshitted to death.
oh also if the roles are truly random then there's a 50/50 chance that one of the two minions is a spy! (And we do almost certainly have exactly two, three all but guarantees Additional Action/Baron and therefore smth like 7 antitown powers which would be insane, but a single minion is too few.) If there's a spy then they already know EVERY ROLE ASSIGNMENT as we speak and will promptly communicate that to the entire scumteam the second nighttalk reopens. yaaaaaay :) ]]
He realized too late that he had simply assumed that there would be no duplicates. But, technically he didn't know this for real. He hoped it wouldn't look foolish...
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There should only be one of each. In the physical game, even the Drunk's fake role assignment has to be unique since there's only one of each role token in the box and you have to give the Drunk the token of the role that they think they are.]]
