On Day 2, Pokepal complained right away that I should be done because a vote was cancelled against me. As I later posted, that seemed odd to me right away as Insanolord indicated nothing about vote nullification or the vote changer's role when he posted the results. For Pokepal to know this, it would seem he'd have to have inside information.
I couldn't figure out why no died either. Looking at the rules, someone should have died but I figured there must be something more to the whole allocation thing and would just have to learn it when the game was over. If I knew I was protected from the vote as well, I'd have probably had a lot more fun with things and done even less to help the townies. Heck, I'd have probably let people try to vote me out again on Day 2. Wouldn't that have been funny. Two days in and still no one voted out or killed by the mafia.
Instead, after watching more votes stupidly pile up against me and realizing that I finally had a role making me immune to mafia hits, I decided I better step up and at least control the vote and prevent my death by it. Still suspicious of Pokepal's comment, I started hitting up everyone in a pm message asking them to join me in voting him out since it was the only good lead we had. This gave me a bit of contact with all the players and resulted in Pokepal's death. Of course, when he finally further elaborated what he had meant, I realized his vote out was a mistake. The problem, though, was that it was very late to change to another target and there was no other major suspect or great option. It would also remove one of the louder voices calling for my death so there was still a plus to it.
I protected myself again because I had the power and like everyone else, didn't realize I'd been a target on the first night. I think if Insanolord had mentioned that, it could have changed things and given the mafia more of a chance. They wouldn't have wasted their hit again on Day 2 by targeting someone else and the vote may have gone differently too. Pokepal may not have campaigned against me and some other townie could have been killed. Maybe even one with a role. But this is how it worked out instead.
Hypotheliciously investigated Stratos and found out he was a townie. He then promptly informed Stratos who he and I were. I was surprised at that since it could always be the godfather you investigated but I also respected that bold play. It payed off to when Stratos informed us that he had been talking with lolmonade who told him he was the Survivor and that Stratos had started talking with Mop it up as well. With my communicating with Spak-Spang who I was 95% sure was a townie at that point, we suddenly had a really good townie alliance happening.
Insanolord, meanwhile, was regretting his decisions about my role as Day 3 rolled around as I was once again number 1 on the allocation chart and was able to fully protect myself from night actions (as well as the day vote which I still didn't know about). So, I decided to help him out. I knew he was probably going to get some flak about it so I told him that in past games, there have been times where I let the doctor protect himself. But to keep it from being too powerful, I limited the amount of protections the doctor could use in a game. We settled on the idea of giving me a maximum of 4 protections to use. 2 had now been used up leaving me with only 2 left.
I decided to vote Stevey since I didn't have any better options yet and he was a player whose identity was still unknown. Plus, he voted for me and now feeling mad with power, I wanted to vote out all my enemies and those who had tried to kill me on Days 1 and 2 in revenge. Despite reaching out to swing the vote on Day 2, I was still not putting much time into the game and still didn't want to do to much digging around because I just didn't have the time. I even advocated to my allies what I call the Scorched Earth strategy. That is where the core block of a group of townies just vote and work together to steamroll over all other players whether mafia or townie to win. In effect, if we knew the identities of 6 players in the game, that left 8 players we didn't know about. If we voted out 1 of those unknown players each day and the detective also investigated one of those roles, then in 4 days, we'd have found out who everyone else is and either have won the game or just need to vote out whatever mafia member was left. At the same time, it sucks for those not in the core block group as their protestations are likely to fall on deaf ears since there is no reason for the core group to listen. It's attrition and eventually the mafia members will be eliminated. I don't like to use it as I prefer to try and get as many players the win as possible but sometimes that's how this game is won.
I was content to be a non-factor in day 3 and let my vote for stevey ride out the day even he wasn't the one voted out. But then suddenly there was a late push against me when I checked in before the deadline so I quickly switched my vote to Shaymin which was fine as I didn't like his placeholder vote for me on Day 2 (revenge!) and he was a player whose identity we needed to learn and his death was one way to reveal it. As it turned out, he ended up being the godfather and I'd say it was at this point that it was game over for the mafia.
Topic: Mafia LXIV: Full Time: Half-Truths and Gorilla Dust (Read 12585 times)
