-- I think Dave is probably friendly actually!! Because of his roleclaim!!!!
-- its pretty a lot for a scum to do right off the bat, and his whole dread thingie would be kindof wierd if he was a baddie
-- wierd if he was a scum and lying OR a scum and not!!
[[
EQUITIAL:
-- so, more on this
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After this short message, longer paragraphs of text spat out, one after the other. The messages were too long to fit on the DS's screens, but the Mii hologram abruptly switched to a black chalkboard. The DS lent its stylus to help write at mach speed, and of course the words transmitted to everyone's mind soundlessly and instantaneously just as before.
[[Thanks, Shimmer. Here's the thing: free is very commonly either eliminated early in the game or investigated early in the game by the cop, due to being good at passing as town when on the mafia side. One of the recommendations on the mafia Wiki for playing a miller is to either claim immediately or else try to lay low and not do anything to get investigated. Which is... Kind of difficult when people just naturally want to investigate you! I definitely think caution is warranted, as it's a easy fake claim for mafia, but I also think this a logical town play. Especially for Free]]
[[
Windskull expresses basically the same thoughts I had about DF's roleclaim. People who have played previous games with DF knows that she's a target for info-roles. Instant roleclaim is pretty much the only valid move for miller!Dragonfree.
Now, for the Dread thing, I may be interpreting things wrong, but I read it as Dreaded people will
know they've been Dreaded? Obviously the whole concept of someone just randomly being informed They Have Dread is.. somewhat ominous. As a result, suspicious. I wouldn't expect her to have roleclaimed without being Miller, but being Miller is going to be sus so yeahhh makes sense for her to also get that out of the way.
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Well, at least the jellyfish thing is a tourist who decides to visit an overcrowded colony of an island. Probably. Maybe she’s from a different, better Alola. One where the fallers come from.
“Paniola, sort of.” The alternative is Tapu Village. You wouldn’t really call that home, though. Just a resting place. “And what’s a miller, anyway?”
[[If someone investigates it will read that he wants to kill you, but he actually doesn’t.]]
That sounds suspicious. Saying up front ‘hey I know I look like I’m stabbing you, but, trust me, I’m not.’
“Yeah, I don’t like that at all. Weird thing to say unprompted.”
[[It’s a valid strategy if they aren’t lying.]]
“Hmph.”
BARTHOLOMEW:
-- wait, so do you think Dave is a good or a bad
-- should i be listening to the kitty or his imaginary friend???
[[
EQUITIAL:
-- yeahh, I can't really tell if Kekoa's being Kekoa or if Persephone is actually undecided, sorry >.>
-- just, can you tell if you think Dave/DF leans sus, neutral, or townie so far?
]]
Revealing it now was an equally good move, regardless of whose side he was on. Although it did mean that not only would no one be investigating him, anyone with any sort of watch power would also be staying away. Hm.
[[
I was actually previously thinking that this Dread seems significantly more town-aligned than not, but actually yeah I guess Chibi is right. The thing I thought was that
good players also wouldn't want to target DF, like healers and watchers and whatnot. To be fair on the opposing view though, I don't think there is much an info-role could glean with this and DF's Miller claim. Obviously Cop is out, so that leaves, uh: Role Cop, Tracker, and maybe weird Namo roles that could potentially catch a scum!Free? Mehhh idk I seek thoughts
I think though, that even if DF is scum, she wouldn't be lying about the Dread. It would be a difficult and bizarre thing to just come up with on the fly. So far, I lean on the side of town!DF right now.
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"Alright, so..."--Ajia took a deep breath--"we have to start this day with no night info. That's different from the other games, but not the worst situation. It'll be really hard to catch any mafia today, but we can still use this day to get a feel for everyone's playstyle. The big thing that jumps out at me is that this does mean that the mafia's first kill won't be totally blind, like it normally would be? So I think we should be really, really careful about giving anything away about what we can do. Even more than usual." The last thing anyone needed was for an investigator to get killed without even being able to watch a single person.
BARTHOLOMEW:
-- oh wait heck this is a good point EVERYONE LISTEN TO THIS PLEASSSSSS
[[
Yes, this. Also points in the favor of town!Chibi. Obviously, Mafia would not want to point this out. Even if they wanted to gain Town cred, they could have waited a while to "realize" this, y'know
Also, speaking of this: I know for the last few games it has been my tradition to go for a Day 1 lynch. But, uh, going to have to say big 'idk' today. A portion of this is because I have no idea how Namo roles are going to play into things. Also, what Chibi just said. Basically, if you try to lynch D1, what you get besides a possible scum hit is information from people throwing shots and defending themselves. But the info Town would get is also advising the Mafia about a solid N1 kill, so if we like mis-aim for the Cop and force them to roleclaim, that would obviously be a no-no. So... not voting abstain yet, but I'm leery about my usual strategy :'(
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