I remember my first game. I was the mafia whore. I recruited Spak to the mafia, because he was the "Tough Guy," the last remaining non-mafia role that could kill townies. A nice mafia win.
Then my second game, Khush and I found the mafia and killed them in a few days, it was all pretty basic work, ending with Sir_Stabbalot being in the mafia and betraying the alliance we created, but we figured it out the day after. I was the investigator, and there were either three or four mafia members, with my first two investigations yielding two mafia members.
The game after that, Khush and I teamed up again, and found a few mafia members, including Spak, when Spak screwed up and sent a PM to me as a mafia member. It was all good fun, and we agreed to let him live until we found the other mafia members to be nice. The first night, the mafia targeted me, but I was protected by the doctor in the game.
I think the game after that was stevey's twisted Smash Bros. Brawfia game, where I was the killer, and got hit the first night by the mafia. Stevey did not allow me my first kill because he had some weird and funky rules. Also, no one knew what the roles were in the game, nor did they know how many there were. It was a strange game that made me very cranky. My first loss.
Somewhere in there was Spak's winter mafia. I was going on vacation partway through it, and I was in the mafia, so I did my best to throw in some chaos, then got killed right before I had to leave. Mafia won the game easily.
There was the wild west mafia, where, after I lead an effort to get GP voted out, then got hit by the mafia, myself. I regretted getting her voted out, but this marked the first game I was hit by the mafia, and probably, if memory serves correct, the only game, too.
There was also the Star Wars game, my last recent game, I think. For the second time, I was a neutral player, and thanks to my cunning, an officiating squabble was the result. I pioneered a team with the killer role, but thought that one of us was actually invincible, so didn't care to keep a cover or maintain a solid strategy after I established a shield, and was found out. Turns out the townies voted out the bounty hunter by technicality, despite his shield, and I lost, but scared several townies who thought the game was going for an automatic win in their favor, something I consider a success, even when it isn't a victory.
The last game was straight-up mafia, where Vudu investigated me on Day 1, and in return, I killed his face as Godfather.
The point is, even though you become more experienced as you play, you also have a more difficult game to play, because townies won't trust you, solely because you might have demonstrated you can play well as the enemy, and the mafia know you're a solid townie, and therefore, a solid target. It makes the game harder, when as a townie, you have to be bad enough the mafia decides not to hit you, and as a mafia member, you've got to prove you can be helpful the entire game. This game marked the first time the townies voted me out when I was not a mafia member, a sad story for me, because I had done nothing bad for the townies, only dissenting from the popular opinion that whatever Vudu did was the way to go. It's gotten to the point in this game that if I am not productive to the townies, I'll be voted out, which will almost always be a loss for me.
Meh, I'm still making the argument that the killer should have been kept in order to fry the non-productive players, as in the players that just vote once every three days to avoid being killed. Without such ambiguous players, the decisions have potential to be much easier, but no one agreed. Sad, because the townies are in a state right now where they've voted out some of those players, like stogi, and switched one out, like EasyCure, which have been wastes of time, but necessary evils.
What's best is that Mario would have died before he learned information about who the townies were, something that would have kept that so-called alliance from frying, or at least, frying as easily as it did.
Meh, but what do I know. For some players, if I'm alive, it means I'm in the mafia.
Topic: Mafia XXVIII: The Death Egg (Read 18543 times)
