If we can change your votes I think I'd like too. In his speech he said he wanted to discover the blues and work with them. He could be saying that to try to build some trust with them and figure out who they are. It's possible he could be mafia running for sherrif.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 17:34 GMT

#224

Thanks for the quick response dreamflower.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 17:43 GMT

#227

I'll throw my name into the list for the elections. This is my first mafia game and I'd like to get the most out of it possible. I don't have prior mafia experience, but I'm pretty active. I'll try my best at my position and listen to the will of the townies.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 18:12 GMT

#229

Obviously if he ends up lynching a mobster we would take that into consideration. It isn't like we can't change our minds between now and then.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 18:15 GMT

#231

He may not be. His scenario was the mayor goes against the town's wishes and lynches someone out of the blue. Having his own knowledge (possible gained by being a detective or other means) and lynching a mafia would not be out of the blue.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 18:58 GMT

#237

I think we need to go more into outter space. I accuse myself ... let's see uh... there number of victims last night was 3, and there are 3 numbers in my name. That's concrete proof that I'm mafia, lynch me up boys.

But yeah, whoever the mayor ends up being doesn't have much to go on for the first lynching. Hopefully day 2 will have some nice clues for us.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 19:06 GMT

#239

Yeah I agree, If i was mayor and nothing new came up, I'd probably go with hobbes.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 19:30 GMT

#247

The groups got split in half, we don't have 66 people in our mafia. You're still right about there only a few of us analyzing though.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 20:04 GMT

#271

I wouldn't mind going with a no lynch unless something new and concrete comes up. Everything seems too flimsy at this point. Glad it looks like I won't have to make the decision, I have an amazing 0 votes :D.

But yeah, there isn't enough to risk lynching a potential detective or medic or some other blue going fishing for a mafia.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 20:32 GMT

#276

Yeah t_co has a good point. We haven't really lost any greens or blues yet. We probably won't be able to take good guesses at who the mafia might be until we get more clues. We won't get more clues until the mafia gets a chance to make hits. If we lynch someone without more clues, we have a better chance of damaging ourselves on top of the next mafia hit than taking a mafia down.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 21:43 GMT

#295

Having the god father as mayor/sherrif would be redundant. The mayor/sherrif can't be role checked, and that would waste the god father's ability to chose the role that shows up when he gets role checked. It would be better served on another mafia member to protect him from a role check.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 21:53 GMT

#298

I think a mayor would only purposefully lynch a mafia on the first day if it was the general consensus of the townies. To pick someone seemingly at random and lynching them for them to end up being a mafia it would be suspicious. Putting suspicion on himself + killing another mafia member wouldn't be a very good strategy.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 21:55 GMT

#299

I should clarify:

But if the person he chooses ended up being a mafia that the townies wanted to lynch, it would remove suspicion from himself. Lynching a random person that ends up being mafia would make him look suspicious since the mafia know who eachother are. So unless he has a good reason to suspect that person or the townies want it that way, it would seem that he either got lucky or picked someone he knew was a mafia to make himself look good (but ends up making him look suspicious).

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 22:03 GMT

#307

Don't forget to include me and my wonderful analysis of why I should be a suspect.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 22:08 GMT

#314

Yeah, the mayor needs to keep himself clean the first week at least. The 3 vote power will be huge later as they can end up being the swing factor to keep a mafia from being lynched and have it be someone else. It feel weird to be handing all this sort of strategy out where the mafia can read it, but at the same time it is fun to think and discuss it being my first game.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 22:10 GMT

#315

The inactive people could end up being mod killed anyway.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 22:16 GMT

#319

We're doing good. All of us are ready to start lynching the crap out of eachother.

Yeah, I won't start doing any PM type action until I'm convinced someone isn't mafia. I've already been handing them enough information by talking about how I expect a mafia mayor to act lol.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 22:28 GMT

#321

Well work is over for the day. Cya guys later, I might drop in to check how things are going tonight. I also have a whacky theory that i have 4 of the mafia figured out if I'm right. But I'm most likely wrong lol.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 23:07 GMT

#331

Well I got some time to kill before my friends come over ... so more posting! The fact that I've got a theory and whether I get killed or not won't really tell much. The mafia has no idea who I suspect. I could be right and have all 4 of them correct, or all 4 of them wrong, or some sort of mix. I won't give my list until I see some sort of other evidence from at least 1 of the 4. So if I do get killed (which I hope I don't ... dieing day 1 of my first game would suck) it just means the mafia might be paranoid. It wouldn't give anyone any clue as to who it is regardless if my list is right or wrong.

If I did give my list it wouldn't mean anything anyway. If I'm wrong the mafia could off me to throw suspicion on others. If I'm right and I live it will throw suspicion off them. But at the same time right or wrong it could mean nothing but reverse psychology.

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United States959 Posts

January 20 2010 23:26 GMT

#337

Yeah, if the mayor gets lynched right away it would suck to be him. Luckily I'm pulling up the caboose with 0 votes.

At this point I'm actually expecting to get hit on night 1. The mafia does have nothing to lose from killing me, and they will probably see it that way. Attention Mafia Members: I'm most likely wrong, please spare me :D