Another hot day dawns on Liquidville, a small town on the brink of nowhere. The dust cakes hotly on the ground, and this place, once a bustling center, has dried up like the gold mine that once supported it. It's not a ghost town, not yet. But it's a harsh world we live in, and without the income from the mine, the place has taken a turn for the worse. Without the lawmen around around, things would be a lot worse than they are now.
Suddenly, a cry rings out. All the townsfolk run to the main square, where they find that Blazinghand the Deputy has been killed! He died gun in hand, but hadn't fired a shot. Who could have done this? People begin to argue. VisceraEyes soon reveals that he is the semi-third party parishoner 1-shot viligilante death miller mad hatter with no hats and is promptly hung by the angry townsfolk.
Overnight, Sheriff Kitaman27 manages to trail the horse tracks of the killer, and soon finds himself face-to-face with the man himself. The heartless creature who murdered the deputy was none other than his evil twin brother, wherebugsgo. The two gunmen stared each other down, and the night was lit and punctuated by gunfire.
In the morning, the townspeople came across the body of the sheriff, riddled with bullets, and the corpse of wherebugsgo, with one shot through the heart. They were breathless. Had the sheriff given his life to rid the town of the murderer? They turned Kitaman27's body over. What was this? Clutched in his hand was a note, scrawled on paper with his own blood as he died:
"There are 3 more."
Blazinghand the Deputy was strangled with a live ferret! The ferret enjoyed the experience even less than he did! VisceraEyes the semi-third party parishoner 1-shot viligilante death miller mad hatter with no hats has been hung for a bad claim! wherebugsgo the Lex Luthor clone has been shot! Kitaman27 the Sherriff has been shot!
Day 1 has started. You have a little less than 48 hours left to vote. Deadline is 00:00 GMT (+00:00) in roughly 48 hours.
Let's have all policy talk done within 24 hours. Some people may be asleep, others awake. Give them the BOTD for the moment. That being said, i expect everyone to post at least 2 times usefully, within this 24 hour period.
Oh, and something that has bugged me both of the other times that i have played:
If you're going to do FOS or ##VOTE, please do it at the top of the post (as opposed to the bottom) because that makes it much easier to see what you intentions are and what the tone/direction of your post is.
If you don't and you don't provide any relevant reason for doing so, i will assume that you're being intentionally vague.
No more sheriff...well ain't that something special. What in the Sam Hill do we do now? Surely someone knows who else could be behind these treacherous murders.
I say we root these varmints out and string em right up in the middle of town, just like that VisceraEyes. Now to do this we're gonna need a couple of...'Rules'.
I will say that I am a firm believer in the truth. Anyone caught in a lie deserves to die! Who's with me?
Perhaps the best way to approach this situation is circumspectly, that is to say don't rush into any stupid decisions. I agree with Hopeless1der, truth should be our banner and justice our sigil!
I've played in one other newbie mafia game, and lurking town + scum made it hard to make reads. So post, and post often, lest I find you and do horrible things to your bodies.
I think Mafia is a very intricate game, and to say Lynch those who do not tell the truth is retarded. The Mafia knows the truth about the town. Townies know nothing (or very little). So in your scenario, the Mafia would never get lynched because in theory, they could always tell the truth. On the other hand, a honest and earnest townie may be pouring his heart into a case on another townie (calling him scum) and he is not telling the truth. That townie would get caught in a lie and would therefore deserve to die, in your opinion.
I believe that we should be honest, because as a townie, we have no way of knowing if we are telling the truth or not.
And while we're at it, let's get lurkers get out of the way:
Lurkers who are at risk for being modkilled should be left to get modkilled. I don't see any reason wasting a lynch on someone like that; we get very little information for doing so and we waste a potential opportunity to hunt scum, as well as letting another round of night actions go through.
Lurkers who barely qualify to stay above modkills should probably be lynch targets, but i believe that players showing scummy behavior should still be placed higher on the priority list.
I think Mafia is a very intricate game, and to say Lynch those who do not tell the truth is retarded. The Mafia knows the truth about the town. Townies know nothing (or very little). So in your scenario, the Mafia would never get lynched because in theory, they could always tell the truth. On the other hand, a honest and earnest townie may be pouring his heart into a case on another townie (calling him scum) and he is not telling the truth. That townie would get caught in a lie and would therefore deserve to die, in your opinion.
I believe that we should be honest, because as a townie, we have no way of knowing if we are telling the truth or not.
##FOS: Release this seems like very flawed logic to me. You can very well accuse someone of being scum without lying. Saying things like "I 'think' X is scum" ; "i 'suspect' X of being scum" and so forth and giving logical reasons on what led you to this conclusion is in no way come by as a lie. Of course if someone bluntly states "X is scum" without reasoning behind it, it is pretty surely much more suspicious for the poster itself. in my opinion you just try to stir up this whole thing a bit, by directly voting for him, so I'll keep my eye on you.
I think Mafia is a very intricate game, and to say Lynch those who do not tell the truth is retarded. The Mafia knows the truth about the town. Townies know nothing (or very little). So in your scenario, the Mafia would never get lynched because in theory, they could always tell the truth. On the other hand, a honest and earnest townie may be pouring his heart into a case on another townie (calling him scum) and he is not telling the truth. That townie would get caught in a lie and would therefore deserve to die, in your opinion.
I believe that we should be honest, because as a townie, we have no way of knowing if we are telling the truth or not.
##FOS: Release this seems like very flawed logic to me. You can very well accuse someone of being scum without lying. Saying things like "I 'think' X is scum" ; "i 'suspect' X of being scum" and so forth and giving logical reasons on what led you to this conclusion is in no way come by as a lie. Of course if someone bluntly states "X is scum" without reasoning behind it, it is pretty surely much more suspicious for the poster itself. in my opinion you just try to stir up this whole thing a bit, by directly voting for him, so I'll keep my eye on you.
Don't put words in my mouth.
I never said it was lying now did I? I said that they wouldn't be telling the truth.
Hypothetical scenario: BlazingHand is town. Toad is town. BlazingHand says "[insert logical reasoning here], therefore, Toad is scum." Was he telling the truth? Absolutely not, but he was being honest. Lying is intentional false, whereas someone can be honest and false too.
EBWOP: i managed to sneak a "lie" in there, (it was more for the idiomatic saying), but i said truth multiple times before. So if you acknowledge this EBWOP and your opinion doesn't change, let me know.
I think Mafia is a very intricate game, and to say Lynch those who do not tell the truth is retarded. The Mafia knows the truth about the town. Townies know nothing (or very little). So in your scenario, the Mafia would never get lynched because in theory, they could always tell the truth. On the other hand, a honest and earnest townie may be pouring his heart into a case on another townie (calling him scum) and he is not telling the truth. That townie would get caught in a lie and would therefore deserve to die, in your opinion.
I believe that we should be honest, because as a townie, we have no way of knowing if we are telling the truth or not.
##FOS: Release this seems like very flawed logic to me. You can very well accuse someone of being scum without lying. Saying things like "I 'think' X is scum" ; "i 'suspect' X of being scum" and so forth and giving logical reasons on what led you to this conclusion is in no way come by as a lie. Of course if someone bluntly states "X is scum" without reasoning behind it, it is pretty surely much more suspicious for the poster itself. in my opinion you just try to stir up this whole thing a bit, by directly voting for him, so I'll keep my eye on you.
And why do you seem so satisfied to leave the discussion at policy? That's all we have talked about besides formality. What i posted will generate (and it has) discussion which is good for town.
By saying this, you are saying that you would prefer to sit back and talk about nothing/policy all day.
I'm honestly pretty convinced that the statement you gave as example there can be seen as a "suspicion", not as a statement of a fact. And while blazing in your example states that toad is scum and that's not the case, it should be pretty obvious that that he is just suspecting it, because there is no way of him knowing it for a fact. But that might be just arguing semantics at that point, let's drop it.
Instead I would like to hear what policy you would suggest, since you are obviously not happy with the policy that was originally proposed. Maybe I like it better than the original one too, I am not too familiar with different policies in this game.
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