Mafia Game: The Lord of the Rings (Game Thread)

Well here's a simple experiment:

Camikaze, are there intended to be any clues in the write-ups besides the obvious ones (who's killing and who's inactive; who was protected; which items were transferred)?

Don't know why it requires such a behind the scenes effort of speculation.

Any clues in the write-up are the product of an overactive imagination on the part of the reader.

Moderator Action: Done. I've added an additional post after the write-up posts and copied the Day 13 write-up to it it.

Thanks. :D
 
NIGHT THIRTEEN

Night Thirteen was rather uneventful.

Saruman cleaned his Palantir.

Uglúk licked his wounds.

The innocents of the town pondered their next move.

And nobody died.

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Summary
Nothing happened on Night Thirteen


Remaining Members of Middle Earth (13)
Autolycus
Bad Player
Beefy187
CCRunner v2.0
classical_hero
DrumStudent
Earthling
Lord OST
Renata
Snerk
Takhisis
TheLastOne36
Winston Hughes

Dead members of Middle Earth (31)
[IMP]Warman8888 (Rider of Rohan)
Arakhor (Galadriel)
askthepizzaguy (Boromir)
CCRunner (Barliman Butterbur)
choxorn (Gandalf)
CivGeneral (Freda)
civplayah (Éomer/Witch-King of Angmar)
Csargo (Iorlas)
D'Artagnan59 (Rosie Cotton)
Diamondeye (Denethor)
Diana Abnoba (Lord Elrond)
Double A (Gollum)
electric926 (King of the Dead)
kill fire (Harry Goatleaf)
Frozen In Ice (Rohan Peasant)
johnhughthom (Déagol)
Khazaar (Guard of the Beacon of Minas Tirith)
Love (Gwaihir the Eagle)
Methos (Treebeard)
Nictel (Skinbark)
RRRaskolnikov (Faramir)
Seon (Eowyn)
sprig (Elven Archer/Sauron)
Stuck in Pi (Pippin)
taillesskangaru (Legolas)
tapdancingowl (Gimli)
TheForestAuro (Gamling)
thomas.berubeg (Merry)
trada (Aragorn)
tycoonist (Everard Proudfoot)
Zack (Leaflock)


It is now a lock-out period until I've sent out all the PMs that I need to send. I'll tell you when that is finished.
 
I think I like uneventful nights.

Bad Player

And let the band wagoning start!

EDIT: Oh, and if everyone votes, can we end the day early?
 
Vote: Takhisis

Takhisis till he dies! Takhisis till he dies! Oo how he is so scummy so Takhisis till he dies!
 
Bad Player is outa here as far as I'm concerned.
 
You guys were just so great with keeping things private, like the "HAI Everyone, Love is the Eagle and the Mafia can kill him now and we felt like saying that because a low-powered ent role is going to die. And he'll die anyway, we're helping nobody here, just felt like sharing a powerful and unexplained ability the Mafia should be aware of."

Yes, I said to much about Love and Seon, and probably said some other things too. We've all screwed up epically in this game.
 
And I inadvertently revealed myself in the Elven thread without realising that there were infiltrators in every faction.
 
My vote will be for whoever Winston votes.
it's now day fourteen. The day will most likely be 48 hours long, although it's liable to be shortened.
Why not shorten the regular time to 36 hours? it'd be long enough to give everyone a chance to vote and not too long for people to start twiddling their thumbs.
Vote: Takhisis

Takhisis till he dies! Takhisis till he dies! Oo how he is so scummy so Takhisis till he dies!
Up yours man!
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Yes, I said to much about Love and Seon, and probably said some other things too. We've all screwed up epically in this game.
but we can still win. I think it's three mafia at best.
 
And I inadvertently revealed myself in the Elven thread without realising that there were infiltrators in every faction.

Hello? Not public knowledge!?

At everyone (I don't know if I'm supposed to directly address you anyway):

Of course I accept that mistakes are made and the Mafia are meant to trick people/lie/get information revealed. That's ok. What I've had a little issue with is the fact that the "core Innocent" group seems to have been acting like they were infallible, with very little info going out in public, when that's not even close to true as well, though it is good we're still in this and can win yet. Maybe it's just at the end here, where even someone like Theoden isn't getting along with Frodo, but that's not confidence inspiring - for me when I've got Mafia accusing me and no one to back me up; same for other low-level Innocents. Basically whoever mentioned it above was right - just a little more info, or Winston/someone sharing more suspicions or telling certain Mafia to knock it off (for days this sniping of Bad Player's went on and I think Winston probably knew/thought he was Mafia the whole time, and wouldn't just post to get others being annoyingly targeted by Bad Player to know it's ok). Changing vote targets late in the day is something I've had issue with too - a few Days back it was maybe all right for discussion but that really should have changed, we got set in that rut way too long of "everybody has to wait and not really vote until Simon Frodo says"
 
Well, Frodo leads, and so far he's ketp up from defeat, we came back from losing Aragorn and Legolas plus Pippin stealing the Ring at the very beginning of the game to defeating Mordor (6 of them, more than 10% of total players), killing Shelob and Gollum, and finding out one of -how many? at least two- Isengard people. I'd guess that killing eight out of some 10-11 mafia is good enough, wouldn't you agree?
 
Why does it matter whether I revealed myself or not? I'm dead, aren't I?
 
Well, this one isn't necessarily bad, but lots of non-elves wouldn't even know what if anything went on/existed on the elven quicktopic? For instance, I know what was/is on there, but I don't know what PMs who sent to whom. If you'd said "I send sprig PMs telling him who all the elves were, not Renata or ATPG" that would be new info to me (I made that up, still don't know who exactly told sprig what) and possibly unfair (though sprig/Mordor is dead, and it's unlikely Isengard has a remaining elf spy, but still). And for someone further outside - a non-elf, they wouldn't know who was in contact with each other or etc...
 
You're awfully not explaining anything. I KNOW Elrond used up like all of his protection ability on you, it's at least a courtesy to say you have SOME explanation if you were safe all this time, even if you don't want to make things fully public. And at this point in time - well, actually, the whole time I might be thinking, I doubt there's much private info that's worth anything, not just dragging Innocents down. You guys were just so great with keeping things private, like the "HAI Everyone, Love is the Eagle and the Mafia can kill him now and we felt like saying that because a low-powered ent role is going to die. And he'll die anyway, we're helping nobody here, just felt like sharing a powerful and unexplained ability the Mafia should be aware of."

The roleblock wasn't that essential, we were gonna lynch Shelob anyway (though I'm sooo thankful she killed Diamondeye, her other kills kinda sucked earlier though) it and I think we all know it. Plus it still doesn't sit well we me that Winston/a few of you killed Gollum for no great reason after he helped us out there. And spriga would have been outed sooner if the elves/organization there in general hadn't been so unaware. As far as the rest of coordination - it really is kinda sad that almost no protection/ability uses other than Gandalf, Faramir (who acted on his own, it seems, but nice call) and the Eagle who was guaranteed to have his ability work, were used correctly. If there really were more people with scans/protections/roleblock they seem to have been used very ineffectively, from my POV - hardly ever blocked a kill or roleblocked a Mafia the whole time!

Yes, I voted Beefy because Winston asked and openly opposing Winston would both have accomplished nothing (still not enough votes on Bad Player) and made it more likely for me to be lynched, wasting more Innocent time.

As far as scanning goes -well, things haven't been perfect but at the same time if there's a second real scanner, it's been utterly awful management. Since Galadriel died I've assumed she was the one and only scanner and it did work out pretty well mostly; didn't scan with the same priorities I would have (like CivG/Beefy earlier) and it seems some Mafia weren't so much scanned as just caught, but it's worked out well enough. Wish she'd scanned me though so people (like you probably will tomorrow, or someone, I know I can't convince everyone) would stop pushing for my lynch.
WELL I APPLAUD YOU ON YOUR FLAWLESS PLAY THIS GAME, CONGRATULATIONS ON NOT MAKING A SINGLE MISTAKE!!

:rolleyes:

It's just a friggin game, Earthling. [insert inappropriate exclamation here]
 
WELL I APPLAUD YOU ON YOUR FLAWLESS PLAY THIS GAME, CONGRATULATIONS ON NOT MAKING A SINGLE MISTAKE!!

Yes, very soon the last Gryffindor will be gone, and House Slytherin will win its well deserved Cup.
 
Uneventful night is uneventful.

But today we lynch a mafia. Along with you guys I've been suspecting Bad Player for some time. Although I'm not at all as convinced as some of you are that he is guilty, but at this point I can't find a better candidate. Most people have at least one thing going for them. I think that out of Bad Player and Earthling there could well be at least one mafia. And Earthling has never been on the top of my suspect list, although not on the bottom either. So I'm inclined to vote Bad Player today. But I would like to hear Winston's thoughts on it before I place my vote.
 
Forget it Earthling, you win. I swear at this point I hope you're mafia, because then at least I've been outplayed and not just driven round the twist for no reason at all.

My preferred order for lynch attempts for the next several days, pending successful mafia lynches or the unlikely event of me being able to dredge up enough enthusiasm to complete my post review of the likely suspects is:
-- Autolycus
-- Takhisis
-- Bad Player
If those don't work, then quite likely it would be Earthling out of pure spite, but I'll be happily dead by then so it won't be up to me.

Maybe I'll feel better on Monday, but right now I don't expect to post much more this game. Enjoy it everyone. I mostly have, despite this.
 
And I inadvertently revealed myself in the Elven thread without realising that there were infiltrators in every faction.

So far one has not had a revealed mafia and that has been the ents, which does make me suspicious of Lord Ost.

How on earth can I, who has hardly received behind the scenes, "know" that Beefy would have been unlynchable? It is called reading the the thread and looking properly at the write up. We could not have killed hi the first time, then how on earth would anyone think that work a second time? it is called logic. So those who voted for look scummy or are not thinking properly and just took the easy option out. So here are those who voted for the easy option. Autolycus, CCRunner, DrumStudent, Earthling, Renata, Takhisis, TheLastOne36

What have I done for the innocents you might ask? It was I who was the first one to accuse both Civgeneral and Beefy of being mafia at the behest of Frodo. The one of Civgeneral was the one I was most proud of, since it forced him to do such a dramatic defence of himself saying that he was depressed as an excuse. I was the one who scanned tycoonist and found that he was a hobbit, like me, but that really meant nothing, since he was found out to be a mafia. Which was a disappointment me for me, since it would have helped to fill out a VC for me.

@Beefy, what info do you have on Takhisis? It is best that you reveal it otherwise no one believes what you are doing, since you could be doing this for a VC of yours.

I am still surprised tht I am alive considering that many days ago I had role revealed that I am Sam and as result of that Sprig saw who I was and surely that would have given the mafia cause for concern, considering that Sa is always ther to protect Frodo. I failed the first time since I did not know who he was, but now I do.
 
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