Actually, if you had waited a day or 2 before entering the fray, and then played your bombs more carefully you could have won.
But I don't have the kind of skill to last that long. I suspect the only reason I survived as long as I did was due to me offering Stevey a bomb, thus giving the Mafia an incentive to keep me alive.
I also decided that probably the best way to help the town was to kill Khush so I sent lucariofan a bomb knowing he'd return it to me and I'd be able to use it to get rid of him. Khush has generally been a major problem for the town due to his reputation and I figured if he was gone, even if he was a townie, it would be an overall benefit
So I decided to help the town a bit while experimenting with the whole networking side of the game. To do so I contacted Stevey with the express purpose of basically giving away my role to see what I could learn. I figured if he was a townie his response would look something like this:
Lets be honest, I'm screwed, Which is why I've decided to pledge my services to helping a random person and oh, lucky you, you are the one I picked.
I've already used one bomb on lucariofan with a timer of 2 with the idea that he'll return it to me and I'll be able to use it to get rid of khush but my other bomb is free to use.
Sure, give me a bomb with a timer of 1. I have plenty of vendettas to carry out.
It wasn't the response that tipped me off, it was the timing. 50 seconds before the original pm to him was made he made a post in the day thread so naturaly, he should have been online still, and having no reason not to trust me, (
yet) accepted the offer because I know he has a few other people he likes to kill besides khush.
Day 2:
Now lucariofan sent me a PM offering an alliance which was brilliant, but had me worried that he wouldn't return the bomb as planned, he did and I was able to kill off khush. My actions there led to shyguy getting voted out.
Day 3:
I decided to throw another round in the old networking deal and send this PM to Mop it Up, as She started the Shyguy bandwagon.
Full disclosure: I am the bomber.
The reason I say this is because I trust that you are a townie and I've basically given up hope on actually winning this thing (honestl, two bombs and I have to kill everyon? Really?) and have decided to throw my effort in with the town instead.
My first priority was to get rid of Khush because it seems no matter what side he's on he always causes problems for the town. Because of this I had a bomb sent to Lucariofan with a timer of 2 knowing he would return it to me and I could get rid of him that way.
with that out of the way we come to the reason why I send this PM. Tomorrow you will receive a bomb with a timer of one. You will have the opportunity to kill off someone of your choice free of charge (I say, if nuclearspeed is innocent we get oohboy).
I do not trust Stevey right now either, his PM's with me have been strange, when I made a similar offer, there was a wide gap in time where he was online and doing pms or checking the mafia forum before he responded, almost as if he was consulting with someone....
I also seem to have attained something of a leadership role within the game, I find it ironic that now when I'm technically not in a town role people in the town are actually listening to me.
I wasn't confident enough to try the Lucariofan switch on her with her knowing I'm the bomber (if I had, then
Stevey would have gotten that bomb I promised him... Heh heh,) although perhaps I should have tried to be more direct in that regard. I didn't realize that if she failed we would basically be screwed, I could have sworn we had one more towni- oh wait...
Meanwhile I went full on after stevey but all too late...
That's basically how that went. Only took this long to post this because of the lucariofan ban. He's kinda a key part in my stratagem.