If mafia don't win this then they'll be the worse side ever as everything is in their favour. Gerrez is very quiet.
My view is town have to talk. if the town doesn't talk it allows the game to be dictated by night actions. Vanilla's have a clear choice to make to help the town or hurt it so a random choice at this point doesn't seems to be all that good. I would advocate people select that they wish to but have a reason for doing it. try find a some thoughtful way to go even if its from a gut feeling or from prior game experience. so lets also be clear on expectations for tonight. 1. there will be a lynch 2. there should be 2 serial kills. there is no good reason not to kill for them as their objective is to get the game over with ASAP by killing. 3. There may be a mafia kill or there may be a recruit. as of now i see no reason for them not to act tonight. 4. The vigilante may kill. 4 kills in hand in a 5 day game means the vigilante depending on style might just use one tonight. So i make that 4/5 kills which is 25% of players gone right off the bat. As a result as I have said many times i fully expect to be one of the first ones gone so what I'd say to town roles is think about that. I might be of use to you if you look. hint hint.... but make your own mind up with minimum 3 kill and a maximum of 5 theres quite a few obvious suspects to be looking at if you are an investigator reading this..
so as the new guy you got some good advice from tennis. here is mine. 1. yes you have a lack of information now. the objective is to play by your wits and catch out the bad guys or if you are bad avoid getting caught out. as the days go on more info is accumulated 2. in this game you will PM IBWT with your vote for lynch. I think someone will get lynched but this private vote is new for us all. we don't know what will occur 3. If you are a vanilla town (which is just a way of saying you are ordinary with no special role or powers) you get to vote for one of 3 directions as well. these directions do matter to the towns overall success. 4. my advice is to sniff for bull and see what occurs to you. you'll not know most of those on so maybe you'll see right through them... the funniest thing is how tobes and astro love each other in mafia.
A further thought on the 3rd option "Go home and do what you wish." Do what YOU wish NOT what OTHERS (MAFIA) wish. Which would make it a good option. I think we should all be talking and putting out theories and then individually decide what to do without broadcasting it. The more info/theories that are out there the better to help decide which any individual should go for. Don't say which one you go for however so Mafia don't know what you're doing. No talking and putting out theories will just mean a Mafia win.
One thing about the lynch. I think it's worth discussing who we plan on lynching as first it generates discussion and second it gives us townies a chance to select a target rather than scattering our votes and allowing the mafia to group up jump on someone. The third and most important option is that if we do do that, then potentially if we hit a key town role like lets say the mayor, at least it gives them an opportunity to claim a role and not die because we haven't discussed who we are lynching. On that note i will go for AFC as he's been super quiet and i have to start somewhere
Just a comment on the options - in DC don't a LOT of bad guys seem to own/meet in any given bar? Specifically in Gotham City leading gangland figures are almost always sat in the bar!! I'm not a huge DC fan, but just a thought for consideration.
So this looks quite slow for day 1. I don't think we are really helping our investigators much and are allowing the mafia to sit back. Hell the mafia might have already dropped their needed direction in now and have gone to ground. As i said earlier. we need to talk more. and i see BobbyD was quite brave calling out AFC in last hour. thats a credible move there. could be bluff but it does look to help town. nothings occured off it yet. Town as a group need to speak up and make it hard for mafia to hide. 1. the direction. Lets get back to it. there is no slam dunk and we've largely agreed all decide for themselves but we've all ran off and been to sacred to talk about it now. There are pros and cons to each option. I read back OP "It’s Monday morning in Central City and the day after the explosion releasing dark matter across the City. Many of the town’s residents have been wiped out but a small community remain." this is the setting. The options. Bar Park Home Logically the park makes least sense. Its an odd option. go to the park and play. Is that good or bad? Then theres the bar, usually a bad guy haunt in these shows. Then theres the home option. My mind associates that with being alone and easy prey. Lets talk about these, c'mon guys lets not make it easy for mafia 2. Lynch. Ballsy move by bobby. theres nothing to stop us running a fake tbale of votes and start doing what we always do in calling each other out. the vote is not then going to relate to it but at least it does stimulate something 3. Actions; Is anyone talking on these but me? I can see 3 kills to 5 kills tonight. That means i am highly likely to be killed tonight. again my advice to investigators is pick those most likely to be killed or most likley to act to investigate. I'm fine with anyone investigating me. but hey I might be bluffing so the mafia don't target me so make your own minds up. 4. Today: thus far we've nothing at all to go one and are acting like we will never have. We will have results of night kills and lynch. we will have a paper tomorrow. So are we going to continue i nthie vein of dancing round each other. Mafia and SKs will be very happy for the easy ride.
Astros called me out earlier too because he felt i was suggesting a place and not adding although i effectively did a reply to a post and agreed on the same thoughts - mainly that in a game of getting killed being alone in the house doesn't make too much sense. On the otherhand, it's quite clear that the mafia already have a number of kills they can make so would they be given more since the game has already been skewed to the mafia seeing as we can't see their votes and there are 2 SKs who are more likely to hit Town than Mafia so maybe being at the house isn't too bad of a thing? Overall i feel the Park is the neutral location as i can't really see what could come of that which would suggest the Home and Bar are the good/bad choice. The home being alone would suggest something bad. I really cannot see what positive there is for going home and do as you wish unless you were to embellish the do as you wish part. For the bar being amongst people you cannot just be taken out. Maybe the drinking means people between the town will share information as thats what you do at the bar, chat gossip get drunk and say too much? There isn't a possible hint that anyone will get hit there unless theres something in the DC world i'm unaware of
Just to confirm as think I missed it in the OP. The follow roles cannot be recruited by Mafia. Flash Mayor Reporter - until computer hack is made. Serial Killers All other roles can be recruited though
Essentially there's three locations to pick to 'gather', we are trying to avoid a "bad outcome" whatever that means, so I would guess that the only clues here are where DC villains most likely do damage to people, right? As I said earlier, they are often associated with bars, however as a public place there tends not to be any kind of bad stuff going down. Park seems kind of sinister to me and I think the commentary on it of "having fun with friends" in the aftermath of an apocalypse seems odd. I think staying at home would be the neutral choice, as it's potentially just a safe option, but not necessarily a "good" one, right? I had a thought about the possible "outcomes" - I guess death or reward is simple, but what if players were then "turned into" new characters depending on actions? That would be fitting - so I don't think anyone could turn into anyone or anything in a bar or at home, but in a park?
I'm sticking with the Bar for now (I won't post my choices publicly from tomorrow but have already done so earlier today). My reasoning stays the same as before. Tons of inactive players which is a concern for the game as a whole, voting DPP for now until he turns up. Very little info to go on at the moment, we need to make sure this doesn't continue all week. Sure no one wants to see Mito, Astro and myself debating in circles...
Guys I'll be as active as ever during the day this week (much to your dismay I'm sure with my long-winded posts!), however I'll be quieter during the evenings as we have friends staying with us this week so I can't exactly be playing mafia when we're entertaining our guests. I don't expect it to make a big difference as I don't think there will be a flurry of activity before nightfall with the hidden votes, but in case anyone says I'm inactive at night you know the reason. And yes I do know there's only a 1 hour timezone difference and not 2 hours
