High Society Mafia: Game Thread

Final Tally
Zack (4) - Backwards Logic, Takhisis, Visorslash, Autolycus
Takhisis (4) - Zack, Snerk, BSmith1068, johnhughthom

Not voting: classical_hero

Having made a show of unusual decisiveness the previous day, the passengers of the Herculina quickly returned to form, splitting into two camps in equal numbers. On the one side, it was argued that, for all his money, The Tycoon's humble origins made him exactly the sort of chap who might go around shooting people. The other side, meanwhile, held that The Socialite was more than slightly unhinged, owing in all likelihood to the number of marriages between first cousins in her well-documented family tree. In the end, though, it was the learned voice of The Professor which proved decisive, as he bored his opponents into submission with a lengthy - and incredibly misogynistic - analysis of the female psyche.

So it was that, in the eerie orange light of the Mediterranean sunset, Belle Arto was escorted below deck and, according to Captain McGinty, fell to her death on a harpoon which had 'mysteriously reappeared' at the bottom of the stairs.




Night has fallen. Send orders where applicable and continue talking in private as permitted.

1. Zack (The Tycoon)
2. MartinLuther (The Explorer) Shot N1
3. KingMorgan (The Bishop) Impaled D2
4. landlubber (The Playboy) Impaled D3
5. robbiecon (The Author) Impaled D4
6. johnhughthom (The Duchess)
7. Takhisis (The Socialite) Impaled D5
8. Visorslash (The General)
9. askthepizzaguy (The Politician) Shot N3
10. Snerk (The Professor)
11. Autolycus (The Judge)
12. choxorn (The Actress) Shot N2
13. classical_hero (The Artist)
14. BSmith1068 (The Diplomat)
15. Backwards Logic (The Banker)

Morning in 23.5 hours from this post.

Time Remaining: [TIMER=09/04/2015 11:00 PM UTC+1; Night Five has ended.][/TIMER]​

'Beheaded?' gasped Lady Weston-Hogues.




1. Zack (The Tycoon)
2. MartinLuther (The Explorer) Shot N1
3. KingMorgan (The Bishop) Impaled D2
4. landlubber (The Playboy) Impaled D3
5. robbiecon (The Author) Impaled D4
6. johnhughthom (The Duchess)
7. Takhisis (The Socialite) Impaled D5
8. Visorslash (The General)
9. askthepizzaguy (The Politician) Shot N3
10. Snerk (The Professor)
11. Autolycus (The Judge) Beheaded N5
12. choxorn (The Actress) Shot N2
13. classical_hero (The Artist)
14. BSmith1068 (The Diplomat)
15. Backwards Logic (The Banker)

*You may vote in bold green to increase one player’s social influence in the group.

*You may also vote in bold red to decrease another player’s influence.

*You may vote in bold blue to lock someone in the hold.

Apparently no one visited Backwards Logic last night, which I find odd.

Visorslash trying to lurk his way to victory I think.

Visor, BSmith, JHT all seem to be in contact with each other and all have been pretty much lurking the whole game without contributing much. They're the only 3 players who I know basically nothing about as far as item/ability.

I think it getting that time in the game that we should come and share what we know so we can be certain to get the scum. I am a person with an item, I have Directors monocle, which allows me to scan if a player has an item or not. So here are the scans that I got.

Night 1 I scanned choxorn and got a negative.
Night 2 I scanned auto and got a yes.
Night 3 I scanned jht and got a yes.

After that I didn't find the information that useful and stopped using it since having an item doesn't indicate guilt or innocence.

Why didn't you post or vote yesterday? You were talking in private.

Zack. How you got out of yesterday's lynch is beyond me, but there's no way you're not scum now. The roleblock from yesterday is pretty damning from where I'm standing and your case on Takhisis looks very much like a 'save me' case.

Well you must be standing on Wrong Island.

classical_hero said:

After that I didn't find the information that useful and stopped using it since having an item doesn't indicate guilt or innocence.

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Is this bothering anyone else?

classical_hero said:

I think it getting that time in the game that we should
Night 3 I scanned jht and got a yes.

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@JHT: What's your item/ability?

Zack said:

Is this bothering anyone else?

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Yes, but it doesn't seem too un-classical though. Do continue scanning, classical!! All information is valuable.

Suspicionometer:

1, Zack
2, Visor
3, JHT
4, BSmith
5, Classical
6, Backwards

My pm buddies keeps dying so there's much I don't know about the remaining players. So it's not a big gap from top to bottom.

Don't know why Zack wasn't lynched yesterday.

I knew JHT was a doctor of sorts since what, D2? I am surprised to see another claim. Reminds me of the tale of two roleblockers.

Visorslash said:

I knew JHT was a doctor of sorts since what, D2? I am surprised to see another claim. Reminds me of the tale of two roleblockers.

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If JHT is a doctor then he is the third doc in the game. Now that's one too many in my book. Auto was another doc. We shared roles yesterday and our ability description were the same. But a third one? I'd like to hear from JHT about his ability?

The last pm from Auto last night he was leaning towards protecting me. I guess I should have returned the favour but I had already chosen another target.

Zack

I'm a doctor (well, I have an item that let's me protect), I protected BSmith first two nights. Haven't bothered since as I'm totally out of the loop.

BSmith contacted me early and we had a brief discussion, then he asked me to ask Visor to back off in thread, which happened. Nothing from him in the last few phases.

Visor has been very quiet behind the scenes by his standards, as I mentioned early in the game.

johnhughthom said:

I protected BSmith first two nights. Haven't bothered since as I'm totally out of the loop.

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What, you too? Since when has being in the loop been required for being potentially useful as a protector?

Zack said:

Why didn't you post or vote yesterday? You were talking in private.

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I procrastinated waiting to vote towards the end, but I should have voted earlier in case I forgot to come back, which I didn't. But there have been games where I have voted early only to then find out the vote was against me, so trying get the timing right has been a bit problematic of late.

I'm not sure who to vote for, since I was thinking of voting for JHT, until he came out as the town doctor with an item as a result.

What specific item is it, john? And what item do you have, BL? And Visor and BSmith.

I went through all the influence voting, here's the list from top to bottom. Dead players are in smaller font. Nightkills are bolded, though it's interesting to note that Autolycus was killed in a different way (beheading) than all of the others (gunshot).


I'm still not sure what the point of influence is or how helpful the above is.

The nightkills:

N1 - MartinLuther (shot)
N2 - choxorn (shot)
N3 - Askthepizzaguy (shot)
N4 - <no kill>
N5 - Autolycus (beheading)

The Auto kill in particular makes no sense to me, unless they knew he had an item and the claimed effect. From the perspective of someone who's only been reading the thread, why would you kill some random lurker over publicly claimed roleblocker (Backwards) and doctor (Snerk)? They're probably hoping Backwards will eat a lynch after I come up town (if BL is town) and are afraid of Snerk self-protecting (if Snerk is town, like he claimed to do the night with no kill, even though interestingly it seems like no other doctor has given any indication of the ability to self-protect). Then again, I don't think Snerk is a doctor at all but a doublevoter or tiebreaker (see his lack of concern when tied for the lynch Day 2, notice how yesterday the update specifically mentions Snerk's persuasive skills swinging the lynch). And last night he seemed pretty damn curious about who I was watching (which he would be infinitely more interested in as scum than town), especially for someone who supposedly thinks I'm scum.