Wow, I log back on and suddenly I'm top suspect... fun. Only thing I'll say in my defense is that out of Calvin and Hobbes in the cartoon, Hobbes comes off at least 90% of the time as the exact opposite of Calvin's Loud/barbaric. Even though he's the tiger, he's usually the laid-back, philosophical one.

DoctorHelvetica

United States15034 Posts

January 20 2010 16:57 GMT

#203

The tricky thing about sheriff, is his power is really only effective if he knows who is blue and who isn't. He can avoid incarcerating blues and act as something of a medic to townies he suspect may be targeted by mafia.

Also if he incarcerates a "townie" and mafia killpower decreases that night, that's a good indicator they might be mafia.

However, revealing yourself as a blue to the sheriff would be disastrous for the town if the sheriff was mafia. Luckily if that was the case and we suddenly started seeing extreme amounts of blues being hit, we can suspect the sheriff and lynch him.

Bill Murray

United States9292 Posts

January 20 2010 16:58 GMT

#204

yeah, i was about to say that. wouldn't it suck if he incarcerated our medic?

DoctorHelvetica

United States15034 Posts

January 20 2010 17:01 GMT

#205

On January 21 2010 01:55 [NyC]HoBbes wrote:
Wow, I log back on and suddenly I'm top suspect... fun. Only thing I'll say in my defense is that out of Calvin and Hobbes in the cartoon, Hobbes comes off at least 90% of the time as the exact opposite of Calvin's Loud/barbaric. Even though he's the tiger, he's usually the laid-back, philosophical one.

That is true, except when Hobbes attacks Calvin every time he comes home from school. I'm not saying you're for sure mafia. I think we're all reluctant here to be too certain of any accusation with clues this vague.

Bill Murray

United States9292 Posts

January 20 2010 17:04 GMT

#206

i was just thinking this: everyone is agreeing to lynch someone tonight. everyone is wanting to kill Ng5 (for instance, not saying they want to). the mayor decides to kill blue_arrow out of the blue. i vote we lynch the mayor next if this happens... the mayor can be mafia right?

DoctorHelvetica

United States15034 Posts

January 20 2010 17:06 GMT

#207

Right. It's imperative that the mayor goes along with the wishes of the town on the first lynch.

789

United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 17:06 GMT

#208

Yeah, I believe mafia can get elected to either position.

789

United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 17:07 GMT

#209

It is also a good indicator that both the mayor and desired lynch are mafia if he lynches against the towns watches. He wouldn't want to lynch another mafia member.

Bill Murray

United States9292 Posts

January 20 2010 17:08 GMT

#210

yeah thats what im saying

789

United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 17:08 GMT

#211

Wishes*. Then again now that I said that, that theory will be thrown out the door, because the theoretical mafia mayor would rather only have 1 mafia member caught and lynched instead of 2.

citi.zen

2509 Posts

January 20 2010 17:11 GMT

#212

Is it far fetched to assume the mafia were picked from people with some prior experience? Especially the godfather?

As to Hobbes, I am not saying he has a bad personality in the cartoon, but than again the stories are written by someone with limited knowledge of that sort of thing, who may have just been descriving the picture literally. Still my best guess, but of course nothing is 100% certain on day 1!

789

United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 17:13 GMT

#213

Well this game was oringinally designed to get some newcomers into the TL mafia scene. When sign ups were happening, it was the intention to pick new players over old. But there were so many, it was just split into 2 mafia games instead of telling experienced players to take a hike. So I don't believe the mods took experience into consideration when picking roles. I think they took potential profile clues into more consideration than experience.

Bill Murray

United States9292 Posts

January 20 2010 17:19 GMT

#214

789 my theory is not thrown out the window... it is correct
town wants player A lynched tonight
mayor lynches player B instead
Player B and mayor are either friends or mafia, and are going against the town's wishes.
We should then lynch the mayor, as he has 3 possible votes per voting window. Him saying "i vote for [NyC]Hobbes" = 3 votes. We can't have someone doing that and going against the wishes of the majority of the town.

i suppose the mayor could do this just on a whim, but would we want someone like that as the mayor even if they arent mafia?

DoctorHelvetica

United States15034 Posts

January 20 2010 17:21 GMT

#215

Right. We should pick a mayor/sheriff based on who is doing the most to help the town at the moment. As far as I see it, meeple and myself have been the most active looking for clues/trying to help the town.

t_co had a nice banner but he just kinda popped in to say "vote for me" and then left. I don't want to say it's extremely suspicious behavior but if the mafia were trying to nab an elected position that would be one way of doing it.

789

United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 17:23 GMT

#216

Well I wasn't saying that it wasn't correct. I was mostly saying now that we've talked about this, the potential future mafia mayor has read this and likely won't do this. He knows that he'll likely be getting lynched next. I'm all for it though, if we get a mayor that does it, I'll lynch vote him.

789

United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 17:24 GMT

#217

Unfortunately I already voted for t_co prematurely. It seemed like with the banner, speech, and experience that he was going to put a lot of work into it.