If there was any sort of mafia strategy, it just pretty much revolved around me running a circus in plain view while everyone else just operated behind my smokescreen. I figured if I could throw about some convincing logic and sway people with activity alone, I'd be able to take out a few townies before users started catching on.
Nobody ever caught me on my double standard with Lucario being a safe vote, because I ended up voting pokepal Day 1, which is arguably an even more secure option. He got quietly voted out and the typical disorder of Day 1 left pretty much all of us in the clear.
I actually did try and start a townie alliance to build up my credibility, which originally included Stogi and Mop, who I guessed were two of the regular innocents. Other than keeping up the appearance of a hard-working townsperson, I figured if I aligned hardcore with Stogi early on and put a lot of trust in him, he might function as a sort of ace in the hole should he return from inactivity. Day 2 otherwise went without any issues and TOP made for a pretty easy target to lynch.
Day 3, too much suspicion was on Insano, so I had to let that lynch go through. I wanted to keep my vote and pressure on Tofu rather than flip on the bandwagon, as I have no doubt that would have doomed me. Maintaining confidence in my own vote made me look more informed and townie-like rather than impulsive and dangerous. Despite that, I knew Tofu was possibly catching on and I had to throw him off me.
Day 4 I decided to take a step back and maybe let tensions divert elsewhere. I subtly threw in a vote against another easy target in nickmitch to see if it'd catch on and Tofu ended up taking me up on it. Once again, low voter turnout helped this go without a hitch.
Day 5 I expected to go completely differently. At this point in the game I knew lolmonade was going to vote against me and I figured Tofu would as well. Predictably, lolmonade made his move and I had to defend against him. The plan was always to lynch out lol that day; stevey investigated and found he was the Borg Queen. That left a few scenarios, such as 1) we lynch lolmonade, make the nightkill and win, 2) we lynch lolmonade, but the doctor gets off their ass and protects our nightkill--in which case I'm covered, since I just directed a successful vote against the Borg.
Instead, Tofu flipped on stevey, who I had publicly stated I had suspicions on. When things started to sway against him I made my move to try and convince Tofu of an alliance and that lolmonade was a greater threat. He took the risk and ended up changing to go against lolmonade. With Picard on our side, we were no longer a danger to the vote flip and we just coasted to victory.
I had Lucario/Dasmos pegged as the doctor but never decided on which one, and I often thought Dasmos was the Borg. Anything we didn't know, stevey just investigated and found for us. Stratos just played the quiet game and I put on a show.
Topic: Mafia LXXII: Star Trek Universe. Day 6. Transporter Malfunction. (Read 8460 times)
