Brief game synopsis from me.
Got a pm from Lucario stating I'm the 1st detective. Never like that responsibility since I'm always a high profile target. There are other good players, people!!! It's because of that fact that I decided to throw a vote out on Mop it up. I'be found in games long past that if I feel bad voting for a friend or favorite player early and target someone else that I often ended up losing or got eliminated by that player. So, I forced myself to play ruthless again for this game. Since I felt bad and mean about it, it clicked in my head to throw out the excuse of role playing as YouTube Comments which wasn't my original plan but I liked because of some gags I instantly realized I could do in role playing that way.
Looking over the list, I figured if anyone was most likely to target me Day 1 for a hit then it would be Pokepal148 so I sent in an investigation on him. Other than that, I didn't care much about Day 1 aside from fooling around a bit in the Day thread.
At the start of Day 2, I got the result of my investigation. Pokepal is confirmed Mafia. I also survived and learned Stevey was the other detective. Too bad. I'd have liked to team up with Stevey as my rookie detective partner while I the brainy genius detective infuriated him with my eccentric ways and brilliant deductions. You know, the Watson to my Holmes.
From this, I decided to quickly form a townie collective since I'd probably still be a high profile target. Based on the Day 1 vote, I was willing to take the chance ShyGuy and Mop it up were most likely not Mafia members. Can you figure out why? I contacted them to let them know who I was and who Pokepal was.
ShyGuy started leading in the Day 2 vote and for some reason, he sent me a pm stating that he'd win if voted out. This was surprising to me because I can't think of any other game where he has willing told me his role out of the blue. Even when we've been on the same side, it was like pulling teeth to get him to divulge his role in a game. I suppose since he could win either with townies or on his own it didn't matter too much but, in my mind, it presented an opportunity to end the game sooner especially if I might not be around for the victory
but also if I could figure out who both Mafia members were then it would pretty much be a done game anyways with just the formality of playing out a couple days to vote out each member. As such, I didn't mind tossing a vote ShyGuy's way as my death revenge strategy.
I suppose I got to zealous and played my hand early by voting for Steefosaurus right away on Day 2 but now that I had a bunch of information coming in, I just wanted to get down to business and solve the game as fast as I could before I died. Now, when a player like the detective learns the identity of a Mafia player, a lot of times they try to target that player or entrust someone else to target them and eliminate them right away. I don't like to do that. I like to play the spy game and surveil them. Since they don't realize they've been made and their cover blown, Mafia members can give you valuable information if they think they are being tricky and playing you or misleading others. The result from that was that as Day 2 shifted and changed from other players votes and participation, I was highly sure that Nickmitch and ThePerm were both clean and townies. I decided to investigate Stratos in case I was wrong about Steefosaurus and he seemed the next most likely. I was in a Mafia with lolmonade back in Spak-Spang's Godzilla Mafia and I just didn't think his behavior was similar to that game so he seemed more likely to be townie but I had no other evidence to know for sure.
Something about the way the day was playing out despite my awful postings seemingly getting no reaction and my earlier vote non-vote in Steef just had me feeling pretty sure I was going to be targeted especially with Pokepal already getting so much attention so the Mafia needed its remaining member to avoid being targeted. I decided to role the die and hope I was right about my claim of who the Mafia was so that I'd have at least done my job as townie detective by pointing the way if killed and voted for ShyGuy as a back-up way to lead the Mafia to ruin.
Sent a message to ShyGuy asking if he wanted to change votes and we both vote and take out Pokepal that day but went out to see a late night film and got back to find it was Game Over now and ShyGuy triumphant.