Seventh Anniversary Mafia

[Panoramic_Vacuum]

[[shit. that's terminology from a BotC-inspired game bleeding into my vocab bc they're phonetically similar and mean the same thing. I will stop doing this.]]

[[All good, I'm just being extra cautious for my own sake! Thanks for clarifying.]]

 

[Chibi Pika]

“S-so, last night, I got some information. Because of my role.” She raised her head and forced more confidence into her tone. “I’m an Investigator. And I was told that one of two people here has the Prolong Emera.”

“I learned that either Hareta or Watt has it.”

Spectrier perked up. "Ohh, this is very very useful..."

The way he could see it, there were several options:

- Either Squirtle or Plusle is evil. This would be the best case!
- Leafeon got poisoned. This would need very bad luck.
- Leafeon was drunk. Also would need very bad luck
- Leafeon is lying. That would be very risky! Unless...

Spectrier wanted to think about this carefully: it would be very very risky for the evil people to claim this, unless they knew it would not be questioned by a real Investigator. This would require that Leafeon herself to be a Spy, because if one of her teammates were the spy instead, she would not have heard about the spying-results yet? That sounded correct.

Spectrier shook his head to clear away his thoughts. "I want to trust Leafeon. Maybe she could be a fake, but we don't know yet, so this is our only lead. It's more likely that she is telling the truth, I think."

He also really trusted Mismagius now too! The fact that she had voted for Plusle without a second thought showed that she wasn't afraid, which was important.

 

[Chibi Pika]

Spectrier wanted to think about this carefully: it would be very very risky for the evil people to claim this, unless they knew it would not be questioned by a real Investigator. This would require that Leafeon herself to be a Spy, because if one of her teammates were the spy instead, she would not have heard about the spying-results yet? That sounded correct.

Spectrier realized he was wrong about this, which made him feel foolish.

[[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.]]

"Ohh, but then... if the drunk needs to get a fake token, which is unique... does that mean the evil people would also get fake tokens that would be unique?"

The Ink-spirit had said that the evil people would get fake claims, so that could be another way that they could know there was no Investigator, not just having a Spy.

"But... I still want to trust Leafeon right now. She could be wrong, or lying, but so could anyone." He pawed at the ground with a hoof. "If we never trusted anyone because they could be wrong or lying, we wouldn't get very far, ohh..."

 

[Shiny Phantump]

does that mean the evil people would also get fake tokens that would be unique?

[[In the physical game they get real tokens that are unique, which are the evil roles. Scarlet Woman gets a Scarlet Woman token, ect. During N0, Imp is shown three tokens at are not in play as safe fakeclaims instead of killing.]]

 

[HelloYellow17]

All Rocky know is that Rocky cannot be Drunk!"

Rui perked up at the rock-mon’s statement. His way of speaking was fascinating! She wondered what his native language was. She was bursting with curiosity about him—hadn’t he said this body wasn’t his normal one? But he didn’t talk like a human, either…another Pokémon transformed into a different species, maybe? She really wanted to ask—

Focus.

There were more important things to discuss. Like who the would-be murderer is. Assuming any deaths in this realm were real, anyway.

Gods, she really, really hoped not.

“You say that like you know for sure,” Rui said. “Is that…part of your ability?”

 

[HelloYellow17]

Hareta and

Watt, would either of you like to roleclaim, if either of you aren't the Scarlet Woman Demon?

[[Ohh using the icons like this is SO helpful! Bless!]]

 

[aer]

Time to have some stored up, not very important thoughts about everyone...

“Oooh! Hello Mr. Ratty Rat! First time being a pokémon? You get used to it, eventually.”

The other ghost had a peculiar little whisper behind her. How peculiar. It was a bit like the ghost dogging her right now. She had gone oddly quiet, though. Should she act like she understood the ghost? It could be a fun prank.

All these 'former humans' talking about the first time being a pokemon? Who knows what that could mean. Not to mention the clocktowers. You could never trust any of those tall, tall buildings.

I'd also encourage everyone here who has only played Mafia to read the Poisoner page becase it could surprise you, it will scream "weird bastard role" to Mafia players but as someone whose BotC experience is a couple rookie games, I have seen it appear every single time.

That super long manual listing the effects of each emera? She flips through the pages. Yeah, that does sound like a right bastard role. Any information collected from one night only might be sabotaged... maybe. Which would mean that it would be safer to wait a day, and see who got different results...

And then his train of thought was interrupted by the one wailing about his new form, prompting him to give himself a lookover. He looked at his hands, now replaced with paws, then twisted around to observe his tail. He reached up to poke at his ears, larger than the y should be, but still similar in form. Most of his body actually lined up pretty well with his normal self, even down to the latent electricity he could feel inside him.

Another one of those 'new to being a pokemon', huh.

Malachai drew himself up and wrapped his wings about him, before surveying the other players.

She liked that chart a lot! It's very helpful to remember everyone, especially as she was having some trouble remembering everyone's names and pokemon. And it was a fine piece of work, with all those beautiful, organized lines...

"This not Earth is it, question?"

Not Earth, Elgyem confirmed as well. That was one thing she was sure of.

Dave waved a paw. "So, have any others of the rest of you played this thing before?"

[[OOC: I've played Town of Salem/mafia before but not the clocktower game. Which is part of why I'm covering my head in my hands in overthinking right now. Also I was writing this post last night before things started happening. The next one will be more important.]]

 

[windskull]

Oh, gods, she remembered the names, but not even which species. She didn’t know yet whose gaze to avoid, so she stared at a tree across the clearing instead. “I learned that either Hareta or Watt has it.”

Watt zoned out for a moment [[because i was busy at work lmao, trying to get this out rq before my lunch is over]] and the next thing he knows, the accusatory finger — er, paw — was pointed at him.

"Woah woah woah, time out here! Give me a sec." He held up his hands in a placating gesture. "Look, I was hoping to hold on to my cards for a bit longer, but I'm happy to claim I need to. But I know I'm not the Prolong Emera holder. Which means, aside from the risky play of lying or having long information, makes me quite certain Hareta is. So!"

He spun around to face the squirtle. "What's you're excuse?"

Next, his attention turned to Spectrier. He nodded along with his assessment. It felt logical, and for the moment, at least, he had a good feeling about him.

"You know what? I'm going to put my money where my mouth is."

Vote: Hareta/ZDRmonster

 

[Flyg0n]

What a weird horse. And what was that rocks deal? He eyed the weirdo Leafeon. She sure sounded sure of herself. "This seems easy, just get rid of one of them," Drake declared. "I think that Squirtle guy was weird for suggesting the virgin speak up and asking about roles."

Drakes nose twitched. "You were asking about roles right away."

[[This is partly flavor and also I'm on my phone, apologies in advance for any typos. I won't be back at my laptop for several hours yet until late evening ugh. Phone posting sucks.

Anyways uh, I'm rereading posts and trying to vibe check... It doesn't feel like this is a good lie. Cause I mean, that'd be really risky to not pan out? Even if Uurrhhh I hate mislynches but that's the game. And at least nobody dies. Soo... Drunk or poison, if those are in play. Actually we don't even know we have a drunk. And a chance of poison if it's there on the first investigation seems so unlikely. The version where this is a lie doesn't add up to me to just come out of the gate with that. Unless it's a galaxy bus. Jesting.

Personally I lean toward Zrd. Looking back Zrd opens by asking Odette about her role and then suggesting the virgin step forward if we have one. that feels weird

@Zdrmonster and @windskull

 

[Flyg0n]

[[Lol snipe double post, sorry for the ping]]

 

[aer]

... okay. I can corroborate

Rui's claim with my ability. With the particulars of my ability and the power of logic, I strongly believe that

Watt is the Scarlet Woman, and

Hareta is innocent.

I would've preferred to wait some more for Inke's response, but if no one else is claiming, it seems important to give this information now. It just seemed too perfect, everything linked up too well, that someone would pick a claim that I could verify as true and we could narrow down to one immediately. Like, if there was a Spy, this would be the perfect manipulation, but like... it does seem like a really risky gambit for the Mafia to do on the first day. So I'll believe Rui.

As for what my ability is... I could say it, but I think it might be better for us to keep it ambiguous, because it could be one of the abilities where I get information at the beginning of the game and none later, or it could be one of the abilities that I can use every night, and if the evils don't know which one it is, then they could waste a night poisoning/killing me, or by not poisoning/killing me. But maybe I should just say it?? Gah.

See what I mean by overthinking it?

And that's all assuming I haven't been night 0 poisoned. I'm just... not... going to open that can of worms right now though.

@Inkedust VOTE: WATT / WINDSKULL

 

[Panoramic_Vacuum]

And a chance of poison if it's there on the first investigation seems so unlikely.

"No, no, bad bad bad." Many stamps of the ground, before gesturing fervently towards Rui. "Her role not investigation! Her role have inherent knowledge, no investigation needed! That why Rocky say she cannot be Poisoned. Rocky still could be wrong, but her role not used at night ever, only information given at start of game!"

He grunted in Drake's direction. "Stupid. Dumb. Read more flashcards, like Rocky."

“You say that like you know for sure,” Rui said. “Is that…part of your ability?”

Immediately, the tone of Rocky's vocalizations changed as he turned towards Rui, filled with happy chirps. "See, she pay attention, good good good. Yes, Rocky know for sure. Part of ability, no. Part of role, yes. Rocky use deduction, not power. Power kind of useless."

As for what my ability is... I could say it, but I think it might be better for us to keep it ambiguous

"From what you say, Rocky can guess what it is. Seems useful. Unless you are Drunk. Then less useful."

"It okay, Rocky unsure if he should say his role, too. This new game, feel strange everyone claiming many things on first day. Is that good idea, question?" Two taps.

 

[HelloYellow17]

Rui relaxed gradually as others believed her claim rather than turned on her. Not that that made her feel better, exactly, because it still meant pointing fingers—paws—at someone. But there were bad people here, and they needed to be found.

“I don’t know how I feel about either of them, to be honest.” She glanced at the Squirtle. “It was…strange the way you asked for such an important person to reveal themselves. But you could have meant well. I mean, if you were a bad guy, it’s a really fast way to make you look suspicious.”

She pondered a little more until the alien-looking Pokémon beside her spoke up. She perked up—literally, she could feel her ears pointing skyward. Wow, that was a weird sensation. Is this really what being in a Pokémon’s body was like? Part of her hoped she’d remember this whole dream, if only just for this. What a cool thing to document later!

“Thank you!” she trilled happily to the mon. What was his name again? “I think you should keep your ability secret for now. Keeps the culprit guessing.”

She looked back at the and grimaced. “I’m sorry. I don’t know you and it feels unfair to do this. But I have to do what I can to keep the innocent people here safe.”

[[ VOTE: WATT/WINDSKULL]]

 

[HelloYellow17]

Immediately, the tone of Rocky's vocalizations changed as he turned towards Rui, filled with happy chirps. "See, she pay attention, good good good. Yes, Rocky know for sure. Part of ability, no. Part of role, yes. Rocky use deduction, not power. Power kind of useless."

Okay, this little guy—well, not little to her current form. It was…weird being so much smaller—was downright charming. Rui trilled a laugh, subconsciously kneading at the grass with her paws. “You’re very good, too! You’re right, the information I got was part of my role, not from me using my powers. I don’t have any powers to use.”

Including her aura sight, which had never worked in these realms. She didn’t like thinking about that, so she moved on quickly.

“But is there a difference between a role and a power? Or are they basically the same thing? Maybe me receiving information automatically is my power, which can be influenced. I think.”

 

[aer]

Oh, I forgot if I ever introduced myself, since I was so stuck in my own head. Hello everyone! My name's Elgyem (she/her)!

 

[Persephone]

“Oh my! How interesting things have become! It’s down to the turtle or the thunder-rat thing, then. Or, perhaps, the leafeon. I know a girl who insists all the eeveelutions are eeveel. I assume one pissed in her kibble as a kit.

Taking charge from the outset and sending all of us after two innocents would be a bold play. But this is also exactly what I would expect someone with that information to do. Hmm. I say that the fox lives until we get a bit more information or hit a complete dead end. The prospect of only needing to down one little miscreant instead of two is very enticing.

So, which do we target? Dearest Hareta began by insisting information be shared. That could be fishing to learn more about his victims, but it strikes me more as an earnest attempt not to impale himself on another thorn’s.

I suppose my suspicions must turn, then, towards Watt. He seems competent. Were death truly the end I would be concerned about losing his insights were his life cut short unjustly. As things stand now, I see little downside in pressuring him further.”

@Inkedust Vote Watt / Windskull

 

[Sinderella]

Odette had been writing for a while. A long while. Where she got the paper and pen to do so was anybody's guess. She finished after everyone finally shut up.

Spoiler: Day Recap (so far)

Day recap (so far):

Hiiiiiiiiii! I’m Madeline. Nice to meet you all!

Madeline/Persephone first post

Elgyem is shocked upon seeing Zevya's broken arm. It looks pretty bad... and the emera was gone. What did it feel like when one of those were destroyed? Probably nothing good.

Elgyem/Aer first post

Huh?! Hmm, I guess I should start... Hey, Odette! ...I guess that's what your name is... What do you do around here?

Hareta/Zdrmonster first post, includes addressing me. Still not entirely sure what to make of that, struck as a little odd, but I took it as RP.

Anyways this is going to be interesting. No role reveal upon death is really gonna shake stuff up, Hmmm... I gotta think about this]

Drake/Flyg0n first post

[[I don't know how to metacomment on setup in-character since diagetically the setup seems to be random, so before I start playing Morgan here's some of the thoughts I have:

Voting in BotC works differently than in forum mafia: At the end of the day, living players can nominate people to vote for, then everyone gets to vote on that nominee one at a time until once nobody else is nominated and the nominee with the most votes dies. One of the core downsides of Butler isn't just "you have to not vote if your target doesn't vote" which is meaningless, but also "you can only vote for the specific people your target did." Also, Butlers aren't allowed to self-confirm by failing to vote, if they illegally vote the GM has to count it and if you do that on purpose it's cheating, which would be a nightmare to administrate in an environment where the target can change their vote and unvote at any time in the day and the Butler can potentially not check the forum/sleep through day end. $20 says this one isn't actually in the 'real' pool of roles that were assigned.

In a game of this size and where we're only playing once I'd also almost guarentee that a Scarlet Woman (Backup Imp, in Mafia terms) is in the setup. Otherwise any D1 kill could randomly hit the Imp and end the game even faster than our last Mafia. I'd also encourage everyone here who has only played Mafia to read the Poisoner page becase it could surprise you, it will scream "weird bastard role" to Mafia players but as someone whose BotC experience is a couple rookie games, I have seen it appear every single time. It's standard. Hell, I'd give it >50% odds that our scumteam is specifically Imp, Scarlet Woman, Poisoner. Imp, Scarlet Woman, Baron is second place. All other setups fall into "Doesn't have Scarlet Woman" or "Does have Spy" which would both really fuck with me.

Morgan/Shiny Phantump techyposting--gonna be honest, I know you're imploring veterans but as a veteran, my brain shut off reading all of that. Gonna go out on a limb and say that you're Soft Townsfolk solely on your repeated insistence that we watch our meta. Or you're galaxybraining to all fucking hell right now. Don't have enough info to say yet.

Spectrier couldn't remember how he'd gotten here. He did have something of a fondness for poking his nose into strange locations. It wasn't as if walls could keep him out, and he had little to fear, given his situation.

Spectrier/Chibi Pika first post.

[Just a quick intro post on my lunch break. I'm checking in periodically and I'll try to get more into the nitty-gritty of gameplay tonight.]

Watt/windskull first post. Should note that they never got into the nitty-gritty of the gameplay.

Malachai drew himself up and wrapped his wings about him, before surveying the other players.

Malachai/unrepentantAuthor first post

"Amaze, amaze, amaze! Ground look like medium rough texture but ~OUHH~ it so soft! Grace never tell Rocky Earth was so soft!"

Rocky/Panoramic_Vacuum first post

So who's the Virgin around here? Trying to make more conversation here...

Another post from Hareta/Zdrmonster poking for a role reveal (of a role that probably should not actually reveal yet), but for now, I'm going to chalk this up to newbie play. I could see how a newbie would look at the Virgin role and think it should be claimed off the bat (and I'm not saying this to be mean, I promise)

[[I've only played mafia myself, not Blood on the Clocktower. Could be good to get an idea of who's familiar with this form of the game.]]

Dave/Dragonfree first post; asks people to say whether or not they've played BotC before.

"Oh, our Better Odds" [[Investigator]] "info would be nice to have right now, if we have that."

Morgan/Shiny Phantump spectating which roles would be worth revealing now.

[just want to acknowledge that I am present, I have just been very very busy today. Will sit down and digest backlog and post before I go to bed tonight]

Odette/Sind E. Rella makes her first post

"Woah dude. You sure its such a good idea for this, uh, virgin to go and out themself out the gate. If one of us does have the targeted attack emera, it feels like that might be information to hold close to the chest. At least until we have a bit more information to work with." He closed his eyes, shook his head and chuckled, going to stick his hands in his pockets before remembering that he didn't have any. Huh, that was going to take some getting used to.

[I'm familiar with botct in name only, never had the chance to play it before myself.]

Another post from Watt/Windskull calling out Hareta/Zdrmonster for their role poke. Has never played BotC.

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 skimmed the wiki but I barely understand anything or my role but this will be fun.

But uh... feels like maybe we shouldn't be hasty to claim roles

Drake/Flyg0n speculation on lynching. Has never played BotC and seems unfamiliar with the mechanics as of now.

Spectrier shook his head gloomily. "I haven't."

"If everyone who started out knowing things all said those things right away, that might not be good, because it would tell the evil-people who not to kill or poison. They would know that there was no point to target the people who started out knowing things, because they don't get to do anything at night. So, they could just target anyone else instead..."

But out of all of them, 'Better Odds' would be the most useful right away. The others could wait and corroborate someone else's claim once the time came.

Spectrier/Chibi Pika has never played BotC. Speculation on revealing.

"I always waffle between going for elimination on the first day in other games like this, but considering death allegedly doesn't promptly remove somebody from the game, I'm a little more open to it...however, also considering the eliminated lose their powers, and there's a chance of eliminating a power that is waaaaay more useful to us alive than dead, I become hesitant again."

Odette/Sinderella voices waffling on whether or not to vote. Forgot to highlight this, but has never played BotC.

[[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.

More techyposting from Morgan/Shiny Phantump

- Townsfolk is pretty self explanatory.
- Outsiders feel like TPs, but I'm not sure their powers constitute any sort of additional wincon that we sometimes see in TPs? As in, there isn't an additional anti-town faction. Could be mistaken, but Outsiders seem to exist just to confuse the issue/obfuscate information gathering and add extra, less-critical targets for the Demon to potentially hit.
- Minions seem like they're mafia goons with powers that aren't killing
- and the Imp/Demon is the main bad guy with the killing powers.

Rocky/Panoramic_Vacuum muses upon how the role groups work

[[OOC: Sleepy tonight... Putting in my second post now so I don't miss the d1 deadline in case i forget to reply tomorrow]]

Elgyem/aer just gets in a second post

Also: I have played BoTC in person a few times, but not enough to be deeply familiar with every role. I’ll probably be consulting the wiki a lot, haha.]]

[[Role claiming Investigator. I was told either @windskull or @Zdrmonster is the Scarlet Woman, who is a Demon. But Drunk/Poisoned is in play so my info might not be accurate.]]

Rui/HelloYellow17 first post; has played BotC but not intensely; still mostly unfamiliar.

Then goes into role reveal--she is an Investigator and has clocked Watt/Windskull or Hareta/Zdrmonster as potentially being the Scarlet Woman, a minion who becomes the Imp when the Imp dies.

If the scum does have poison it feels low odds they'd have hit our investigator. Uhmm... Hm Idk even know if Poison can be active night 0? so maybe we don't even have to worry until night 1? Unless this is a fakeclaim but that feels like an insane gambit and idont think so. Okay okay let me try and get back to this on lunch break]]

Drake/Flyg0n makes more speculation

Hareta and

Watt, would either of you like to roleclaim, if either of you aren't the Scarlet Woman Demon?

@Inkedust If there was a Spy, would they have received the information about all the town's roles last night? Or would they not have it yet?

Elgyem/aer implores Watt/Windskull and Hareta/Zdrmonster to roleclaim. Also asks Inke about a Spy role.

@Inkedust VOTE: WATT / WINDSKULL

Morgan/Shiny Phantump casts vote for Watt/Windskull

"Other player may know better than Rocky, though. This my first game of this kind."

"But Investigator can be Drunk! Drunk. No understand word. All Rocky know is that Rocky cannot be Drunk!"

Rocky/Panoramic_Vacuum has never played BotC. Also claims that they know they cannot be Drunk. Potential allusion to role?

[[Ah shit I'm supposed to be annotating all my role mentions with both names and ideally a Mafia equivilent if there is one but I have Forgotten To Do This Big Time. My apologies. Prolong is Scarlet Woman is the backup Demon. (Since killing the Demon otherwise ends the game that's hugely important) Awakening is Imp is the only Demon role in this game so those are gonna get used interchangeably.

"It's fine, don't worry. I don't see why Better Odds [Investigator] couldn't be hit with Dizzying Stare [Poisoner] but it'd be a random blind shot. [This is true. Both powers activate on N0, and Poisoner moves first.] They can also be Drunk." Technically that one was called Lucky Charm but since that felt like a misnomer, Morgan decided to call that one the same thing everyone else was. Seemed like every social deduction game in every universe felt like that role should be called the Drunk. "In fact, since we haven't had a single Outcast claim yet, we probably do have a Drunk."

More Morgan/Shiny Phantim techyposting

The way he could see it, there were several options:

- Either Squirtle or Plusle is evil. This would be the best case!
- Leafeon got poisoned. This would need very bad luck.
- Leafeon was drunk. Also would need very bad luck
- Leafeon is lying. That would be very risky! Unless...

Spectrier wanted to think about this carefully: it would be very very risky for the evil people to claim this, unless they knew it would not be questioned by a real Investigator. This would require that Leafeon herself to be a Spy, because if one of her teammates were the spy instead, she would not have heard about the spying-results yet? That sounded correct.

Spectrier shook his head to clear away his thoughts. "I want to trust Leafeon. Maybe she could be a fake, but we don't know yet, so this is our only lead. It's more likely that she is telling the truth, I think."

Spectrier/Chibi Pika makes some speculation on the possibilities of Rui/HelloYellow17's roleclaim. Is more inclined to believe she is telling the truth.

[[OOC: I've played Town of Salem/mafia before but not the clocktower game. Which is part of why I'm covering my head in my hands in overthinking right now. Also I was writing this post last night before things started happening. The next one will be more important.]]

Elgyem/aer has never played BotC.

"Woah woah woah, time out here! Give me a sec." He held up his hands in a placating gesture. "Look, I was hoping to hold on to my cards for a bit longer, but I'm happy to claim I need to. But I know I'm not the Prolong Emera holder. Which means, aside from the risky play of lying or having long information, makes me quite certain Hareta is. So!"

He spun around to face the squirtle. "What's you're excuse?"

Next, his attention turned to Spectrier. He nodded along with his assessment. It felt logical, and for the moment, at least, he had a good feeling about him.

"You know what? I'm going to put my money where my mouth is."

Vote: Hareta/ZDRmonster

Watt/Windskull casts vote for Hareta/Zdrmonster while also offering to roleclaim. But doesn't before casting the vote. Has still yet to offer any insight.

Personally I lean toward Zrd. Looking back Zrd opens by asking Odette about her role and then suggesting the virgin step forward if we have one. that feels weird

Anyways uh, I'm rereading posts and trying to vibe check... It doesn't feel like this is a good lie. Cause I mean, that'd be really risky to not pan out? Even if Uurrhhh I hate mislynches but that's the game. And at least nobody dies. Soo... Drunk or poison, if those are in play. Actually we don't even know we have a drunk. And a chance of poison if it's there on the first investigation seems so unlikely. The version where this is a lie doesn't add up to me to just come out of the gate with that. Unless it's a galaxy bus. Jesting.

Drake/Flyg0n seems to be leading Hareta/Zdrmonster as a vote for similar reasons that I'm wary. Also offers speculation on why Rui/HelloYellow17 might not be lying.

@Inkedust VOTE: WATT / WINDSKULL

Elygem/aer votes for Watt/windskull

“I don’t know how I feel about either of them, to be honest.” She glanced at the Squirtle. “It was…strange the way you asked for such an important person to reveal themselves. But you could have meant well. I mean, if you were a bad guy, it’s a really fast way to make you look suspicious.”

[[ VOTE: WATT/WINDSKULL]]

Rui/HelloYellow17 votes Watt/windskull

@Inkedust Vote Watt / Windskull

Madeline/Persephone votes Watt/Windskull

[So after all of that, I'm clocking (ha see what I did there uwu) as follows:]

Dave/Dragonfree – Neutral, hasn't said much to indicate otherwise, but they were the one to ask everyone to say whether or not they have played BotC which I think is kinda important.

Drake/Flyg0n – Neutral to Verrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyy Soft Townie, making some small speculation that seems Township aligned.

Odette/Sinderella – Dumb tired bitch (Townie).

Malachai/unrepentantAuthor – Neutral, has only posted a chart.

Spectrier/Chibi Pika – Neutral to Soft Townie, making some small speculation that I just like so far.

Hareta/Zdrmonster – Mildly to Moderately Sus, but also majorly inclined to believe that they are Just a Newbie fumbling to get their bearings so willing to give grace. Definitely need to hear more from them before the day ends.

Elgyem/aer – Neutral, I feel like they haven't contributed too much speculation, more RP. Also getting Just a Newbie vibes so I am willing to give grace.

Rui/HelloYellow17 – Claimed Investigator, inclined to believe because I agree that that's a crazy lie to come with out of the gate and it's definitely in Township's interest to have that info now. So, reading Townie.

Madeline/Persephone – Neutral, hasn't said much to indicate otherwise, only showed up to make first post and vote.

Morgan/Shiny Phantump – My only true Soft Townie read solely on the fact that they have probably written a novel of meta speculation and I cannot imagine why they would bother unless they were galaxybraining out of the gate, in which case, go fuck yourself /affectionate, love you.

Watt/windskull – Moderately Sus; has offered a little bit about people not immediately roleclaiming, which is nice, but when sussed out, they only offered to roleclaim and still haven't--in a moment I feel like they absolutely should have if they were really going to--and instead turned around to ask Hareta/Zdrmonster to defend themselves, which was really weird. I need to see YOU defend yourself too, bbg.

Rocky/Panoramic_Vacuum – Neutral to Verrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyy Mildly Sus, only because they claim to KNOW they aren't Drunk, which is a very interesting thing to say and not elaborate on. But I can maybe parse why; hold cards close or whatever. Kinda on my radar, but not crazy so. Rocky is also bebby <3

 

[Shiny Phantump]

As for what my ability is... I could say it, but I think it might be better for us to keep it ambiguous, because it could be one of the abilities where I get information at the beginning of the game and none later, or it could be one of the abilities that I can use every night, and if the evils don't know which one it is, then they could waste a night poisoning/killing me, or by not poisoning/killing me. But maybe I should just say it?? Gah.

See what I mean by overthinking it?

Oh, I forgot if I ever introduced myself, since I was so stuck in my own head. Hello everyone! My name's Elgyem (she/her)!

Morgan pantomimed tipping her witch-hat-head-thing to Elgyem. "A pleasure to make your acquaintence, Elgyem. And don't worry, you seem to be thinking just the right amount, and I'd say your reasoning is correct. You've given us the right amount of information, and not one bit more. Well done."

Look, I was hoping to hold on to my cards for a bit longer, but I'm happy to claim I need to.

"You know what? I'm going to put my money where my mouth is."

Morgan shot daggers at her neighbour. "Speaking of putting your money where your mouth is, you say you're happy to claim? Then do it. You've got three people vehement it's you, deflecting's not gonna cut it. Hell, you could claim Dizzying Payback [Saint] just for shits and giggles~"

 

[Persephone]

“Hmm. Interesting speculation, rabbit.”

You are not jealous that the human gets to be the feminine rabbit. You are not you are not you are not you do not think about how their fluff would feel ripped off and stuffed under your veil.

“I do wonder if the rock claimed to be immune to alcohol on account of being, well, a rock. Perhaps the comment was not intended with the depth it is being given. I would love to hear if there was some other reason they believe themselves immune.”

 

[Sinderella]

“I do wonder if the rock claimed to be immune to alcohol on account of being, well, a rock. Perhaps the comment was not intended with the depth it is being given. I would love to hear if there was some other reason they believe themselves immune.”

[[I did consider this! But Pano specifically capitalized "Drunk," like referring the role. I feel like it were just RP flavor or something adjacent, they wouldn't have. But I'm also willing to admit I'm zeroing in the wrong thing rn (because I am; I am muuuuuuuch more concerned with hearing from Wind and Zdr)]]