Pick Your Poison Mafia: Termite Sailors Go Mad

This game is over with the lynch as it is. I get lynched and ten the mafia kills, making the mafia in control of the vote, so I will say GG mafia, whomever you are.

Are you sure that town does not have a roleblocker or protector?

Well our roleblocker is dead, being Kennigit.

well we shouldn't have lynched ninjacow; my fault for not really stepping in there. I had no private knowledge but he was the very first one to go vote for daveshack after I proposed it.

now, a really smart mafia would have been able to realise that case was unbreakable and even join in as the very first bandwagon, but thats....unlikely.

then next day you were the first to vote for ninjacow classical.

Now it's possible verarde et al. are just mafia or whatever--the big whigs in the queue turning out to be traitorous wig agents--but people should just be public now. Also, what makes you sure it's 3 mafia and not two? It probably is 3, but there isn't a guarantee.

The way how he reacted raised my scum senses. I have been mafia and I celebrated the death of a team mate to look like I was innocent. The death of one scum does not call for celebrations. Although I should have been able to prevent your death by bus driving you and some one else, I did not want have an innocent die and since I did not know who else was innocent I wasn't willing o take a risk and have someone die who was useful also, but I should have taken a risk in that.

classical_hero said:

The way how he reacted raised my scum senses. I have been mafia and I celebrated the death of a team mate to look like I was innocent. The death of one scum does not call for celebrations. Although I should have been able to prevent your death by bus driving you and some one else, I did not want have an innocent die and since I did not know who else was innocent I wasn't willing o take a risk and have someone die who was useful also, but I should have taken a risk in that.

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Dead Person Comment: Yes, but celebrating after a Mafioso has died doesn't mean that you ARE scum. Case in point.

ghost comment: On the bright side, termite pirates probably won't have that much of an effect on life.

I am keeping my vote on Verarde and urge the rest of the crew to change their vote to him as well unless he shows up with a good explanation for what I'm about to say. After I asked Verarde for his scan results, he informed that he had scanned classical last night, and his was the first result to show up as mafia. On the previous nights he had scanned choxorn, Kennigit, landlubber, Red_Spy, and Backwards Logic. That's 6 supposed scans, but we've only had 5 night phases where he could use his Cop ability. What does this mean?

A: Verarde mistakenly added a name to his list of scans, but nevertheless did scan classical_hero and discover he was Mafia
B: Verarde lied about his scan results, which he would have no reason to do if he was not Mafia. Perhaps, he was hoping to easily getting rid of classical, in essense just one more lynch target. If there really are two scum left this would potentially win the game [Well, if I hadn't rolerevealed AND if classical_hero used his ability then there wasn't much chance of that, but I don't think they were considering that]. I'm not sure what this would mean if there was one mutineer left, but it seems unwise to ignore this lead.
Thoughts?

Retract on classical and vote Verarde. My bad, though I did suspect it due to things I can't exactly reveal now (didn't want to believe it though). Nice work Turquoiside, I'm convinced he's been faking it all along.

His scans mesh a little too neatly with the night kills, with Night One being the exception. Kennigit's death also pinged on the scumdar, especially considering the now made public roleblocker was in fact Kennigit and he was killed shortly after a successful roleblock which lead to DaveShack's death.

Lynch Verarde now, the fake cop, followed by landlubber. He's still alive, and assuming Verarde's been faking his cop scan all game a good bet for a fake innocent scan so no one would lynch him.

yeah he didn't scan backwards logic, who died night 2 then.

atleast iirc.

Hi everyone, I'm back and... oh crap I'm dead.

Oh, whoops. The answer is A, guys. I've got a lot of notes on this game and I mixed up my scans with my "who's voting where" list. classical is still mafia.

Verarde said:

Oh, whoops. The answer is A, guys. I've got a lot of notes on this game and I mixed up my scans with my "who's voting where" list. classical is still mafia.

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Can you give the nights you scanned who then?

"Maybe it's just me," said a downbeat termite, "but there does seem to be a lot less boat than I remember there being."

"Yeah, I see what you mean," said Wobbles. "Remember when the deck wasn't underwater? That was pretty cool."

"We could stand on it, eat parts of it... the world was our oyster."

Wobbles looked wearily around himself, checking out the new surroundings.

"What is this bit of the ship, that we're all on at the moment?"

"I think it's called the crow's nest," said the downbeat termite.

"Hmm," pondered Wobbles. "I wonder why it's called that?" and then he was eaten by a crow. [do crows live at sea? Look this up. Also, do termites and oysters coexist? Ed.]


Final vote tally for Day 6:


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 Thursday (in about 24 hours).

>_<

Catharsis said:

The NIGHT will end at 20.00 GMT Thursday (in about 24 hours).

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Damn lies!


The HMS Thorax, by now, was almost totally consumed by the waters. Four of the five remaining termites had found purchase at the very top of the mast. The other one was in a spot of bother.

"Sorry, Puddles," said Chuckles, "but there's only room for four of us on this pole. And, well, you're not any of the four of us. Bad luck, man."

"Never let go," pleaded Puddles. That music from the Titanic movie started to play, you know, the one where the boat sinks and it's like whoa, tragic.

"None of us is holding on to you," pointed out Jiggles.

"Oh, right," said Puddles, and sank.


The ripples surrounding Puddles's final resting place osmosed into the uncertain ocean. Four termites remained, all eyeing each other up warily, all wondering what would happen next. Muddles was the one to mercifully break the tense silence.

"Does anyone remember what we're supposed to be doing?"

"I think someone said something a little while back," mused Chuckles, "about finding some murderers. Stopping a mutiny, that was it."

"There was a mutiny?" asked Muddles, wide-eyed.

"Yeah, that's right, uh," continued Chuckles, his brow furrowed [????? - Ed.], "they killed the captain, right? Yes, they definitely killed the captain."

"We had a captain?" gasped an awe-struck Jingles. "Wow! We were a pretty slick outfit, weren't we? If only we'd had someone who knew something, anything, about sailing."

"I don't suppose it was you, was it Muddles?" asked Chuckles.

Muddles thought for a while. "No, no," he replied, steadily. "I have a feeling that's something I would have remembered."


"Right, okay, so not you then," said Chuckles. "Anyone else got any idea? Jiggles?"

"To be honest," said Jiggles, "I'm not even sure I'm supposed to be here. This all looks a bit ocean-y. I'm almost certain I signed up for the Air Force."

"But would you mutiny?"

"Against what authority?"


"I guess there'd be no point," agreed Chuckles. "So I guess I'm a mutineer, then. It's you and me, Jingles!"

"You know," said Jingles, "I had a feeling that there was something I was supposed to be doing these last few 'Days'."

"Right, well that confirms it!" grinned the victorious termite. "And we won! There's two of us and two of you, so we won!"

Jingles was overcome with glee. He'd never won before, and the feeling was indescribable! He gestured joyously at the slowly-expanding ocean ripples marking the spots where his three fellow sailors had been.

"We won! We won! It's a good day for us, right? A good day... for us..."

Then, because every mafia game needs a twist ending, he was eaten by a crow.

Good game. Hats off to my teammates, you guys played superbly.
I was the vengeful lynchee, if anyone was wondering.

And here's the role pick order, together with who picked what:

Verarde (3,3) MAFIA, COP
Turquoiside (5,5) TOWN, BULLETPROOF
choxorn (4,2) TOWN, ROLEBLOCKER
Kennigit (4,3) TOWN, VANILLA (picked BULLETPROOF)
General Olaf (1,4) TOWN, ONE-SHOT GOVERNOR
classical_hero (1,5) TOWN, BUS DRIVER
landlubber (1,5) MAFIA, VENGEFUL LYNCHEE
Red_Spy (1,5) TOWN, VANILLA (picked VENGEFUL LYNCHEE)
NinjaCow64 (1,5) TOWN, VANILLA (picked ONE-SHOT GOVERNOR)
Jarrema (2,2) TOWN, TRACKER
BSmith1068 (2,4) TOWN, VANILLA (picked BUS DRIVER)
BigTin (2,3) TOWN, VANILLA (picked ONE-SHOT GOVERNOR)
Backwards Logic (2,3) TOWN, VANILLA (picked BULLETPROOF)
DaveShack (2,3) MAFIA, VANILLA (picked ROLEBLOCKER)

Notes:

• Verarde picked Cop in order to deny it to the town, a strategy somewhat undermined by the fact that no townies picked Cop. But it worked out for him anyway, I suppose
• Nobody picked Doctor! I've never seen anyone pick Doctor in a PYP (granted, I've only seen three games). Why does everyone hate Doctor so much?
• Nobody picked Tiebreaker either, but that's to your credit. Tiebreaker's so close to vanilla that you may as well take a shot at a better role, whatever position you're in.
• The usual 'everyone picks Bulletproof' debacle was averted, as only three townies picked the coveted role. Surprisingly, three townies also chose One-Shot Governor! For denial value, or was there something else you had in mind?
• As you have seen, most of the roles in this game lasted quite a long time. The town lost General Olaf (Governor) early, and then a string of vanillas were killed, including the mafia vanilla. The four players left standing at the end all had roles.
• The reason the night ended early was that the only way the town could have got back into the game, from the end of Evening 6, was for the mafia to miss a kill or attack Turquoiside (a revealed Bulletproof). They did neither, so they won.

Grr.. Probably one of the shortest games for me, and I'm disappointed that I forgot to come back and vote on day 2. But, hey - at least 100% of my actual votes were for the Mafia.