IFBench
Rescue Team Member
- Location
- Pokemon Paradise
- Partners
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[[Happy birthday, Dragonfree!]]
and Seren just NOW was stringed so that homie is still alive (shit unless Pano and Seren were lying
Ajia gave Cosmo's Guardian a serious look. "I'm not remotely convinced that Kekoa is a lover. Kekoa is mafia. The only reason I haven't voted for him instantly is because we need to sort out the beast situation first."
"Please don't," Ajia said desperately. "We know the stringer is still around, and while I'd like to feel more confident of you, I'm definitely not voting for you today unless something really weird happens, so it can wait until tomorrow. The worst thing would be for us to get into another situation where we can't vote for the person we want to because of the strings."
"Think about it: I'm not voting for Dave, Courtney, Arctozolt, or Kimiko, period. We've eliminated Laura and sans, and I'm pretty convinced Sidney was non-hostile because we know he wasn't the stringer or the beast. I think he was a survivor, most likely. Mostly because I can't imagine how a bus driver could be hostile. (And Princess's Guardian was pretty convinced he wasn't?) That leaves..."
Ajia paused sharply, clapping her paws together. "Hang on. When Shimmer asked about the number of hostiles. What if Dave counted. Dave wasn't an unknowing member of the gaming cult--he was sort of like a second-in-command, for a little while. What if that counted as hostile? And now that he's purified, he doesn't count anymore?"
7 hostile. Its possible Pano could also be 'hostile', as in 'wins if town loses', no?
Blu
Jackie
Pano
Stringer
Beast
Inke
Sind/Chibi?
I am stupid. I forget Espy/Fuse existsed bc they were inactive so long
and I'm a little worried why scum wouldn't kill one of the most experienced and active scum hunters
Anyways I have an idea. We vote Inke, who is 100% TP. Maybe Stringer or beast. Maybe Chibi is the beast. And they want the stringer dead. Maybe innocent (doubtful).
Then, ask Bench to track someone - say, Kora. If Bench dies, I can ask them about what they did in the night maybe. Like "Did Kora go anywhere in the night" or whatnot. Or even Seren, but we feel fairly assured of their innocence.
Only 3 of the 7 people stringed yesterDay died in the night, and we votekilled one of them.
Could be helpful to ask bench or free about tightening strings? Maybe stringer can only kill a certain number? Who knows.
[[It won't matter at all, but I'm done playing for the time being. I'm not having fun anymore. I won't be checking this thread anymore either so I may as well post my vote now. As the only last remaining question mark in this game, Chibi is mechanically confirmed to be either the Stringer or Beast, so they're my safest vote and probably yours as well but whatever, you're not going to listen to a "confirmed TP" are you? This was exactly why I didn't claim until now.
I'm guessing it not being dangerous just means that at the moment the stringees aren't at parity with the non-stringees?]]
[[Godfather is indeed a thing, and I would not be surprised if this game had one, given it had a miller.]]
Last night, I was then told that I was visited by Cresselia, and that this had changed my card.
- any anti-town passives have been disabled, and in particular that this would mean I would now be correctly read by alignment checks (maybe that also means I no longer passively give out dread?)
we don't have any sort of inforole that could confirm, to my knowledge.
I've received a message, like other stringees, that the strings are tight but not taut, so that we are not in the state we were yesterday where we would lose if we didn't eliminate a stringee, though we could still land in that situation. That definitely helps.]]
“As for more information, I’m part of the sword and shield. My partner’s a vigilante, I cover for her. She thought the Miller claim was a little too sus from a top player probably trying to avoid the inevitable cop scan. And I suppose, at least at the time, she was right.”
I really want you to know my role but I don't want to tip off the stringer. I wrote an LC extra about a Pokemon character and showed it to you recently. That's my patron (yes, really). Namo once mentioned what sort of Blacklight build it would have (try searching for it). My power is a variant on that.]]
[[I can agree that referring to private communications in order to ensure something you say is only understood by particular players is pretty dubious in mafia. I do believe Chibi did it in good faith. Namo can rule on how it should be handled, but for future purposes I don't think it's something that should be allowed.
If we hope the beast or stringer can't off all of us, or enough of us, I feel like this could still work.
[[Awww :(And while losing our cop would be a harsh blow to town, it'd be hard to imagine that Starlight will get to live anyways, sadly :/.
[[Could be Fuse; he hasn't said a thing yet.]]"Who... who's left who could be a vigilante? Ajia? It can't be someone dead, or you'd be dead too as part of a lovers, right? She's the only one left whose ability we don't know."
[[Gotta admit, it worked on me, haha!]][[Chibi if u wanted to shill so bad u coulda just said so /j ]]
[[Mmm, the stringer clearly has a win condition that seems pretty distinct from the mafia’s general win condition. I don’t feel entirely convinced that it makes sense for the stringer to be mafia? I guess theoretically the mafia’s win condition here could just be changed altogether, and really they just want to gain a majority through either killing or stringing, but it seems pretty odd."You know what...? Everyone who was strung was either TP or very likely Town. Not a single (suspected) mafia. Maybe the stringer really is a mafia power, and the only remaining TP is the beast? That backs up both Mademoiselle's claim of being non-hostile while also falling in like with Ajia's guess that Dave was counted among the hostiles while he was in sans' cult. I am... wary that I may be looking too hard for an excuse to clear Ajia here, so please let me know if anyone can see holes in this."
[[Theoretically, buuuut the problem is if we don’t eliminate the Beast today, they’re probably going to be able to kill several people in the night. Cop, tracker, medium could all be gone by tomorrow. I’m not sure if we can afford to play it safe.]]"Arctozolt claims to be a tracker. I don't know the likelihood of them surviving the night (I know Courtney claimed cop and is likely to die, but if we can lose multiples...) but couldn't he track Inke and see who they interact with, if anyone? And if he dies, Cosmo could use that supposed 'ask the dead' power they claim to have if Inke targeted anyone in the night?"
[[Could be Fuse; he hasn't said a thing yet.]]
[[Theoretically, buuuut the problem is if we don’t eliminate the Beast today, they’re probably going to be able to kill several people in the night. Cop, tracker, medium could all be gone by tomorrow. I’m not sure if we can afford to play it safe.]]
[[Aaaaah. Hm. This is a good point. I don't know what to do lol.]]It has actually occurred to me that the Beast might be a godfather to regular alignment checks - otherwise why have an entirely separate role to hunt for the Beast?
[[This is how I feel, honestly. I know mafia always gets tensions high and makes people upset, but I still feel a bit bad about it. I might sleep on this and think things through and decide tomorrow. Right now, I think the votes are:I don't know how comfortable I am with this given the previous history, but it feels bad voting for someone who purposely said they're no longer having fun and wants to stop playing. Doesn't mean Inke can't still be our beast, but man, that doesn't feel good. I'm going to hold off my vote until closer to end of day. I'll do my best to catch up at work, at least enough to make a reasonable vote. ]]
[[FWIW As I said before, I can only ask people who:[[Aaaaah. Hm. This is a good point. I don't know what to do lol.]]
[[This is how I feel, honestly. I know mafia always gets tensions high and makes people upset, but I still feel a bit bad about it. I might sleep on this and think things through and decide tomorrow. Right now, I think the votes are:
Chibi votes for Inkedust
Dragonfree: Inkedust
Flyg0n: Inkedust
Inkedust: Chibi Pika
No one else has voted (unless I missed something).
It... crossed my mind that Flyg0n could be lying about being a medium. A medium in a game with a deadchat seems a bit broken, in my opinion. But like I said, I'll sleep on this and revisit it in the morning.]]
[[Oh, I totally missed that! Good to know, thanks!]][[FWIW As I said before, I can only ask people who:
A) Just died the previous phase
B) *Once* per day night cycle
C) *Only* 24 hours after they died.
I assume this is because after 24 hours they enter dead hat.]]