If I'm contract killer I will put my services on ebay. Paypal please.

Anyway, I have term papers galore coming up so I'm going to try to hold myself to one thread visit a day this time so don't be surprised if I'm less active until finals end (May 7). Of course don't be surprised if I get addicted to this game like the last two

Pyrrhuloxia

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April 20 2009 02:38 GMT

#33

bump

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 21 2009 23:35 GMT

#96

I have to write 60 pages in the next 16 days. That's about 4 pages a day, so I will keep myself from checking this thread again until I get at least 4 pages done. The "lunging figure" sounds a lot like Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes. jyvblamo had a Calvin picture but he's not in this game. The long time it took BC to die may be a clue. No first thoughts on the TV message, can't take the time to dive into profiles yet.

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 21 2009 23:50 GMT

#99

interesting that BC looks at the unit icons. Oh hey I'm a templar now! Last I checked I was a reaver.

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 00:03 GMT

#103

Pretty sure a real contract killer wouldn't ask for role.

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 00:35 GMT

#106

I dunno how we are supposed to enforce people not responding and figure out whether this fake account is tied to the real contract killer (assuming he or she didn't use same IP).

Edit to add "or she" lol

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 00:45 GMT

#107

fyi I think mafia has a much larger incentive to fake a CK than town does.

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 01:12 GMT

#109

Showtime! does sound like a good name for some sort of supervillian whose power is to make TVs explode but it doesn't seem like the type of connection BC would make as a clue. Damnit, I really need to start on this paper for realz this time.

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 01:57 GMT

#113

I'd say Qatol is my fave candidate at this point but I'll wait till everyone has a chance before I vote. I'm not going to run because 1. I don't have time 2. I suck shit at this game everyone I went after last game turned innocent. If I was going after someone guilty it was because a better player went after them first (usually semioldguy because he was a freaking DT).

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 02:23 GMT

#118

"Broken on the floor" also stands out to me.

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 02:44 GMT

#123

On April 22 2009 11:34 LTT wrote:
"Broken on the Floor" clearly is a clue for Chuiu.

It is a line from the song "Torn" famously covered by Natalie Imbruglia who performed on SNL. Also performing on SNL was the band Weezer who have a song called Getchoo (off of Pinkerton, their best album) which sounds like Chuiu.

It's intuitively obvious.

Lol pinkerton. Blue is soooo superior.

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 03:16 GMT

#129

coolcrimefighter has nothing other than her/his name to make clues from...

maybe Scaramanga was making a fire to warm himself up?

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 03:26 GMT

#132

fyi the following are players with no quote, no profile and no picture:

3clipse
blue_arrow
coolcrimefighter
goodwill
camlito

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 03:37 GMT

#135

On December 27 2008 17:38 BloodyC0bbler wrote:
Nevake Amaterasu Firebat, Soil, sun tan oil, asian women, sponsors, umbrella
ydg Camulus zealot, situational courage(bursts needed to move forward), word combinations, Y D G starts
clazziquai Yu templar, #1 fan, terran, cult member, electronic music, acid jazz, house
attackzerg Ba'al zerg, mutalisk, burgers, desserts, sandwiches, etc…
RebirthofLegend Kali scv, rebirth, man to legend, d-war: rebirth of legend, dragons, monsters
kuja900 Chronus lurker, starleagues, julyzerg, fighting,
Ver Nirrti scv, no hate, obscurity, Napoleon Bonaparte, knowing of what to do
Dinmsab Apophis asian, tributes, comander, empire, terran, vulture, hate, stork references
DecafChicken Anupus coffee, poultry, subway, lemons, professional, wood, defiler, plague
Capek Aries computers, foot stomp, professional but cockey, probe, robot, mechanical, intelligent

Malongo Sokar dragoon, protoss fan, twin or reflection, foreign language

Vigilantes
Mynock Hathor asian, tech jamming, glasses

From this it looks like he may look at unit icons. the other stuff mostly looks like name / profile
he never actually made clues from the unit icons just listed them as ideas from what I gather. in any case from what I could tell in the last BC game many of the mafia didn't even know which mafia they were, despite codenames. So day 1's not going to help us much and I think clues once again will be a word or two and definitely could not be something like heavon on earth is suggesting where the shadows and the pouncing and the dying slowly all are attached to 3 Lions. Probably going to be like every mafia game where we accidentally hang mafia on clues meant for another mafia, and most of the progress will come from getting a safe spot for the DTs somehow.

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 06:23 GMT

#151

Well to bend the spirit but maybe not letter of the rules the townie could agree to vote for a specific persyn of the CK's choosing in exchange for the CK killing someone (maybe).

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 06:58 GMT

#162

fuck CK is prolly gonna go mafia and be like their DT. I mean the risk of getting lynched is really small compared to the risk of getting killed by mafia. and CK can help the mafia with their DT powers a lot more than the town... if they can find the mafia (might have already done so if that email address went to the real CK)

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 07:00 GMT

#164

and of course the CK can find mafia with the CK's DT powers

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 07:05 GMT

#168

On April 22 2009 16:02 semioldguy wrote:

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But if the victory condition has to do with killing people (which I suspect it might, otherwise his role name of "Killer" isn't going to be very accurate) then being the Mafia's role-checking buddy is not in the Contract Killer's best interest because by doing that he isn't killing anyone.

lol wot? mafia just tell him someone to kill that won't be on their list for that night if he needs to kill to fulfill some winning condition. unless BC did something dastardly like tell the CK they have to double cross both sides and kill at least 3 on each side or some cat brazy shit like that.

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 07:07 GMT

#169

Hey guys I found a pic of the CK!

Pyrrhuloxia

United States6700 Posts

April 22 2009 07:28 GMT

#178

On April 22 2009 16:02 semioldguy wrote:

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Well I think we better offer the CK medic protection or something because she/he can still kill for mafia. Actually, going town looks good on second thought because with medics we can keep her/him alive pretty much indefinitely especially later in the game if we've been doing good. If we get organized with DTs or good clue analysis, we can find out who the CK is and kill him/her and the mafia can't do shit to save him/her whereas we can keep the CKs identity safe (plus give her/him a medic just in case) and without the CK the mafia will never have a good shot at figuring out who (s)he is because their clues would be mixed in with the clues of vigis (and no one knows how many of those there are). Basically,from the purely day 1 view of my earlier analysis, mafia looks better for CK. But as the game goes on town looks better and better for the CK. Yet the CK can't really come crawling back to the town if they ditch us early for the mafia because we'll be able to track em down. Also, I said they could be a mafia DT but they really can't because the contracts are only for kills so the role checks are just so the CK can find people to make contracts with.

(aside: there could be 2 or more CKs or even zero according to this game's rules. i think 1 is a relatively safe assumption but just throwing it out there so we can't get blindsided)

EDIT to add: forgot to mention, like Malongo said the real reason CK can't go back to town is that the mafia knows who they are from making contracts with them (unless they try to set up some anonymous bullshit through fake accounts in which case they still won't be able to send that in to BC very well and they are cheating and will get roughed up by mods in any number of ways). So if CK deserts mafia, starts following town orders - mafia will know because clues will point to the CK (who they know the identity of). So they'll be able to stack kills enough to kill them even if we medic them.

IN SUMMARY: The choice is clear: the CK should join us for the entirety of the game because unless the mafia play the best game ever and we are terrible things will get bad for the CK and they certainly won't survive (which i imagine is part of their winning condition).