Pick Your Poison Mafia: Termite Sailors Go Mad

Verarde said:

Catharsis, how are lynches decided? Must there be a majority? Or is it whoever has the most votes?

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Neither, at the moment:

Catharsis said:

Note: for the first day only, a lynch will only be carried out if the top candidate has at least FIVE VOTES against his name.

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Okay...what about after that?

Verarde being on a top of a list is good argument for not voting for him, I did not taken it into consideration (my first game of this type).
Why I voted for him? Even I do not know... it was first thought, I do not like using Random.org
Unvote. Vote: Red Spy

Verarde said:

Okay...what about after that?

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After that it works like a normal mafia game, i.e. the person with the most votes gets lynched, whether or not they have a majority.

My question is not 'why did the three of Jarrema, BSmith, and Olaf all vote Verarde,' but rather 'why did Verarde panic as much as he did.' I doubt the mafia line their votes in a row in such a blatant way when 1) It's day one, 2) Verarde picked first and thus it's natural to conclude he has a super role, and 3) no one else has more than one vote to their name. I should also point out just because someone went first doesn't mean they're not mafia also. Sure, it's likely there's a power role here, but in no way should it be taken to mean he's innocent also.

Mighta seemed like panicking, BL, but if you were me (innocent, and with a smart role), you wouldn't want to be shafted on Day 1. I'll put it this way, with my death, the town is a lot less likely to win.

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Meh. I voted for Verarde because he seemed to think there should be a reason to vote for him on day one. Too touchy in my opinion. I was also vote number 2 and there is a total of 5 needed for a lynch, so my vote was no real threat. And if I was mafia, it's not like I'd make a blatant move like that on day one. That would be asinine.

unvote, vote: Abstain, nobody's going to get lynched (most likely) and I don't want to accidentally lynch the Bulletproof or something.

Then why even bother? You said yourself he was unlikely to be lynched, and that whole post just doesn't make much sense. Most interestingly, why did you only change your mind now? There are valid reasons to vote for Verarde and valid reasons not to, that one really isn't one of them.

In short, you have spontaneously backtracked and failed the Flinch Test, Flinchy McFlincherson. This is often an indicator of scumminess, as per Page 37 of the ATPG Mafia Handbook (TM).

Unvote, Vote: General Olaf

Oops? Was that a mistake of some sort? :/

Quick vote tally update (there's about 12 hours left of this Day):

BSmith1068: 2 (classical_hero, Kennigit)
General Olaf: 2 (Verarde, choxorn)
Red_Spy: 2 (Jarrema, NinjaCow64)
Turquoiside: 1 (DaveShack)
Verarde: 1 (BSmith1068)
BigTin: 1 (landlubber)
Kennigit: 1 (Red_Spy)
DaveShack: 1 (Backwards Logic)
landlubber: 1 (BigTin)
choxorn: 1 (Turquoiside)
abstain: 1 (General Olaf)

'Evening' 1​

A jittery termite wandered back to the group, trying unsuccessfully to hide the smell of starboard bow on his breath.

"So guys, did we decide on who we're going to lynch yet?" it asked.

"Was that what we were doing?" replied one.

"Yeah, uh," offered another, "I was thinking, right, since the ship's going down anyway, right, we should, uh, punish the mutineers by... leaving them alive. To drown, and stuff."

"That's stupid," reasoned the jittery termite. "You don't punish murderers by leaving them alive. That's, like, the opposite of what we should do."

"So we need to kill each other?"

"Yes! In order to murder the murderers, we need to murder each other first, and then it'll just be murderers left, and they will murder each other. Bingo, no more murderers."

Unfortunately this new insight set off such an impassioned debate that the termites forgot to lynch anyone. Then 'night fell' (i.e. a cloud moved across the sun) and they all decided to go to sleep instantly, or to stop paying attention to the matter at hand in other, even less exciting ways.


Final vote tally for Day 1:


It is now NIGHT!
Mafia, please send me your kill.
If you have a night ability that you wish to use, remember to send me those details as well.
The NIGHT will end at 20.00 GMT Wednesday (in about 24 hours).

The termites, after much brain-racking, had come up with a new plan. They had decided to simply run away from the murderers. Genius!

Or it would be, were they not on a sinking ship in the middle of some or other ocean (it doesn't really matter which ocean you are in if you are a termite). However, one bright spark had devised a solution to this problem - all of the termites should run in a circle, thereby running away from the murderers while still staying on the boat. It was a foolproof plan, if only in that it proved their foolishness. Some members of the group were beginning to look on the bright spark with suspicion. Surely no-one that clever could be one of them.

It seemed as though some unscrupulous voices had been whispering in one poor gullible sailor's ear. "I'm not taking any more of this!" shouted Giggles. "This circle plan is a demon's magic, it's witchettygrub-craft! I'll run straight on, as the great Almighty Termitey, or whatever it is that we worship, intended!"

"No, Giggles, don't do it!" implored the assembled masses, before instantly forgetting who Giggles was and what he was doing to cause them to shout.

While none of them ever found out what ultimately happened to Giggles, or even remembered that there had been a Giggles amongst their number, they were sure that he must have been giggling his little antennae off as he ran full-pelt over the side and plunged into the sea.


It is now DAY!
Vote for who you believe to be a mutineer.
Note: lynches happen as normal from now on. The player with the most votes at the end of the round gets lynched.
The DAY will end at 20.00 GMT Friday (i.e. in approximately 48 hours). No votes past that time will be counted.

Still alive:

BSmith1068 said:

Meh. I voted for Verarde because he seemed to think there should be a reason to vote for him on day one. Too touchy in my opinion. I was also vote number 2 and there is a total of 5 needed for a lynch, so my vote was no real threat. And if I was mafia, it's not like I'd make a blatant move like that on day one. That would be asinine.

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Speaking of too touchy, you get a second vote on your name and you post this? Mixed with a bit of WIFOM too? Good enough for me.

BSmith1068.

ghost comment: *giggle*

Kennigit said:

unvote; vote: choxorn

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I don't understand your reasoning :

Vote:Kennigit