Barbelith Underground > Creation > Mafia2: The Game Thread

Okay, can I just ask, when did this get personal? If Whisky (the person I am actually trying to get lynched this round) and I can sit around in meat space talking crap without even so much as a cross word how come I'm getting flamed by at least one person I know to be (or, if you prefer, strongly suspect to be) innocent? If the term 'femafia' is causing offense then I'll stop. Sorry, I thought it was funny. If it's just the fact that the three players I suspect of being mafia happen to self-identify as female then tough shit. I'll point out again that I didn't assign their roles and ask you to lay the fuck off.

So you disagree with me. Fine. Why would I be scared? It's not as if we lose if we lynch an innocent this round. Oh, whoops, it is.

He's making shit up...
...I think I've already shot down the idea that "they" work together

Look, it's four in the morning here and I think everyone would be grateful if this post wasn't four pages long so I'll just post part of what I sent the colonel way back when. This is what I mean by voting and posting patterns:

BiP cast suspicion on Flyboy:
At 03:32 08.02.2003: Not sho shure about that Doctor chappie, though. Heard things about him that'd make your hair curl. And *thats* without his home remedies...

BiP first to suggest Tex may be the ‘tec:
At 14:46 09.02.2003: Just rats, Tez?
Or should I be more careful to address you properly? With all those chemicals at home....
No offence, I'm sure Mr Tezcatlipoca.

Lolita then joined in to smear the doc:
At 18:04 09.02.2003: I heard Doc Flyboy was connected to some kind of Clan from Staten Island, someplace even worse than Toddsylvania. You know the subway don't even go there....

After that, they kept quiet and let others actually start voting (starting with BC), joining in near to end to keep under the radar.

During the wait for the final votes, however, we note the following from Whisky:
At 19:17 11.02.2003:
Oh great, Enamon & Lionheart, the terrible twins.

With Enamon to die that night and Lionheart slain shortly afterwards this is the only evidence of any animosity towards either of them.

Also before Flyboy finally bit the dust, Todd sealed his own fate:
At 19:21 11.02.2003:
Whim? This is a vital test of my precognitive powers. I'll declare to all and sundry that I'm a precog, and start charging Ms. Cleo-like rates if Flyboy actually is Mafia.
And don't think you're above suspicion, "Priestess."
[delivers evil eye]

With the outcome decided, BiP could throw a vote for Whisky safe in the knowledge that it was impossible for her to get lynched that round. Why would you vote for her unless either you knew she was not mafia and couldn’t hurt you, or that she was and so were you?

With the vote all but sown up and the mafia discussing their first hit behind the scenes, BiP again suggests that Tez is more than he appears:
At 16:31 12.02.2003:
Ouch. No need to get all uppity, Tez. Touched a nerve, have I?
Masquerading as a villager is a bit tedious if you run the risk of being thought stupid, it would seem.

Therefore, looking at the voting, Whisky got in a bitch fight with Laces and Lolita and BiP were two of the last three to vote along side the ever tardy Lionheart. Hmmn…

The Colonel then made his suggestion that we all split up. Now universally recognised as a bad plan the only person not to point this out from the start was Whisky who thought it was worth a shot. The gal’s not stupid…

After the scrutiny of late voting in the first round, all three ladies are quick to join the avalanche of votes for Todd. No great evidence here, it fits but doesn’t prove. However, as they vote early, they are a pains to point out how deeply unsuspicious this is.

Now we come to Lolitas assertions that it was obvious Tez was the ‘tec. Suspicious but inconclusive, but do note that originally it was BiP not Lolita who suggested that Tez was more than he seemed. Collusion?

So, in the first round, Whisky votes early, Lolita and BiP vote late. In the second round, Lolita votes early protesting about how late voting proves nothing and Whisky and BiP wait to mop up at the end. I’m just saying.

Whisky then starts in on the Colonel casting as much smoke over his attempts to sniff out the mafia and making veiled threats over the mafia hits. Basically (to paraphrase a long argument) Whisky gets the village to the stage where a hit on Qalyn would cast her in a dodgy light but any other result makes her seem innocent. With no obvious targets for the mafia who in their right minds would give themselves up as a potential scapegoat like this unless they knew damned well that there was no way Qalyn was going to be the target that night. If Whisky were innocent, the mafia would have been fools not to off the Colonel that night and all but guarantee she got lynched the next day. Two villagers gone and no risks. Rule no.1: Whisky is not a fool. Rule no.2: Whisky is not innocent!

You know, you're right. If this were real I wouldn't be stringing people up on this basis. But it's not. It's a game. This is the best solution I can find to the problem. My conviction stems from rl chats with Whisky which originally convinced me of her guilt. There's no way anyone else can take that as proof so I worked hard to back it up. It looks like I've failed and whatever happens we can't lynch Whisky. That's a shame but them's the breaks. Please feel free to ridicule me at length should I be proved wrong.