RPG Mafia Thread (Current game: Rewrite Mafia)

[Shadoweh]

16 players sounds amazing! We should definitely do this. It would be a far superior game of the high quality that only the greatest mods could deliver.
Unrelated, if this does happen in theory I would be happy to change my character to Seiga Kaku and graciously give Affinity Youkai Jesus. These two points are completely unrelated again.
Completely.
Unrelated.

Seigaaaaaaa eeeeeeee
Edit: No one likes Iku though so screw her

[PX]

I hate you Shadoweh for taking best girl

[GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em]

Edit: No one likes Iku though so screw her

i almost made a post saying i'd join as the 17th player to be iku but then i remembered i'm already in a large game elsewhere and don't actually want to play

[Schezo]

Shadoweh just wants to impersonate my Seiga play from last time.

[Dormio Ergo Sum]

Edit: No one likes Iku though so screw her

I'd screw Iku if you know what I mean.

[GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em]

i don't. i am completely dumbfounded regarding the implications of your post.

[Schezo]

Oh yeah. Please put me on the queue to host something. I still haven't decided what.

[Kilgamayan]

Okay, here is my decision.

I will open the game further to allow for 16 or 17 players. Raitaki and Bardiche are considered temporarily in for this purpose. If we do not get at least a 16th by the time I get home from work tomorrow, however, or if any current player declares active disinterest in a 16- or 17-player game, then I will cull it back to 13 and we will run a normal game.

Shadoweh is considered moved to Seiga Kaku. Affinity is considered moved to Byakuren Hijiri. Mononobe no Futo, Eiki Shiki, and Lord Tenma (plus Iku Nagae) are now the available characters, with Raitaki and Bardiche not having selected anyone yet.

[Conqueror]

uhhh tentative /in as eiki or something

[Raitaki]

I'm picking Iku! o/

[Kilgamayan]

Duly noted, but you may want a backup plan in case we don't get 17.

[BT]

Like I said, I don't mind.

[Pesco]

/disinterest

[Kilgamayan]

Very well. I will make a thread and distribute roles tomorrow.

[Shadoweh]

I-I still get to be Seiga right? ;_;

[Kilgamayan]

No, those characters got reset. Sorry.

[Bardiche]

I'm picking Iku! o/

More like picking your nose.  :V

[Conqueror]

Well, it looks like Iku...
(?_?)
( ?_?)>⌐■-■
(⌐■_■)
Isn't coming after all.

[Raitaki]

D'aaaw. Guess I'll just be watching you guys then.

With great spite.

>:C

[WHMZakeri]

Yes, I want you to watch me.
With great spite.

@o@

[NekoNekoRex]

I'd say defending yourself is scummier than not defending yourself `_`
I blatantly disregard people's cases on me all the time as town.

As a player who pushes cases really hard when there's a lot of conviction to go with it, this is incredibly aggravating; when someone blatantly ignores me it only makes me want to push them harder as a scumread. It basically says to me "I can't come up with something to defend myself, because you're right".

And your flip can't help other people find scum?

It can, but the fact is that if town had to waste a lynch or vig to kill you, that's detrimental to your fulfilling your wincon.

[Conqueror]

Not addressing contention against you is scummy.

I actually agree with you there because ignoring cases against you can become a distraction for the other players, and clearing up misconceptions among townies should (theoretically) help to lynch the scumz, but you can address other people's concerns with you without them becoming the main focus of your posting. An overemphasis on self-survival is scum motivated because it shows you're more interested in staying alive than in roping scumbags. Sure, you can't hunt scum if you're dead, but you can't lynch scum if you're not putting the bulk of your energy into finding and pushing their lynches.

In any case, between staying alive and lynching scumbags, only one of these directly wins games, so making it a secondary priority is kinda weird imo.

[Dormio Ergo Sum]

I personally only address things to the point where they're wrong about something.
I mean if they have a legitimate case against me what can you do other than try to prove them wrong by acting more townie?

[Polaris]

^ Well yeah Conq's middle ground is ideal town behavior. It's ok to make responses, but make sure you return to scumhunting in the end. But not responding to people while scumhunting is better than not scumhunting while responding to people :V

[Conqueror]

I mean if they have a legitimate case against me what can you do other than try to prove them wrong by acting more townie?

Quote stripe them into oblivion until they quit the game out of frustration.

[NekoNekoRex]

I actually agree with you there because ignoring cases against you can become a distraction for the other players, and clearing up misconceptions among townies should (theoretically) help to lynch the scumz, but you can address other people's concerns with you without them becoming the main focus of your posting. An overemphasis on self-survival is scum motivated because it shows you're more interested in staying alive than in roping scumbags. Sure, you can't hunt scum if you're dead, but you can't lynch scum if you're not putting the bulk of your energy into finding and pushing their lynches.

In any case, between staying alive and lynching scumbags, only one of these directly wins games, so making it a secondary priority is kinda weird imo.

That's why surviving is only 1/3 of the game and finding the scum and getting them lynched is the other 2/3. Realistically only a third of your efforts should be going towards staying alive, while putting the other two towards eliminating threats to your faction.

[Polaris]

If scumhunting is 2/3 of the game then clearly it has priority over the 1/3 self-survival aspect! case closed

[Omba]

It can, but the fact is that if town had to waste a lynch or vig to kill you, that's detrimental to your fulfilling your wincon.

1on1, yo.

[GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em]

Does anybody seriously believe 1on1 is a good town strategy? (rhetorical question because nobody should)

I only ever bring it up as rhetoric to sound like I'm the townie in the scenario because I know no one will actually go along with it.

E: this isn't counting stuff like cop guilties

[Omba]

It may be in (very) rare cases.
More commonly, it's a good rhetorical tool to get the whole "not giving a fuck if you die as long as you murder scum" image across. And just generally to browbeat people into going ahead with your preferred lynch.