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[Andresvmb]

VOTE: Hayker

Haykers gonna Hayk Hayk Hayk.

Norway; first, aid me with the %s that a)Meta and b) the slip are the reasons for your vote.

Second, if there is belief in a 'slip', why is Mom not being wagonned?

VOTE: Nero

And this is a key sequence for when scrutinizing Luca. Luca had just voted for Hayker. And then Norfolk does too. So just when maybe the momentum would not be enough to save Hayker from doom, Luca switches to Nero. Fascinating.

[Vaxkiller]

Ill be on tomorrow morning at 8sih est

[Momrangal]

Ur gone m8

[Andresvmb]

Fingers crossed I didn’t just doom the game.

[Luca Blight]

VOTE: Hayker

Haykers gonna Hayk Hayk Hayk.

Norway; first, aid me with the %s that a)Meta and b) the slip are the reasons for your vote.

Second, if there is belief in a 'slip', why is Mom not being wagonned?

VOTE: Nero

And this is a key sequence for when scrutinizing Luca. Luca had just voted for Hayker. And then Norfolk does too. So just when maybe the momentum would not be enough to save Hayker from doom, Luca switches to Nero. Fascinating.

My Nero vote was prompted by his self-vote a few posts earlier. I read it as scum giving up.

[Luca Blight]

I'm pretty sure Vax is flipping scum so I'll save my catch-up for Tomorrow.

[Gamma Emerald]

So there you go. Hayker could *easily* be Scum. And chkflip was trying to hard distance from Hayker yesterday given the plan to shoot DGB. Because once DGB flips Town, frankly chkflip becomes almost obvious Scum. So there was some planning going on there, and I’m not so sure it can be trusted.

Given what happened with NM I think the evidence pointing to Hayker holds quite a bit of weight

[Mizzytastic]

curry (v.)

late 13c., "to rub down a horse," from Anglo-French

curreier

"to curry-comb a horse," from Old French

correier

"put in order, prepare, curry," from

con-

, intensive prefix (see

com-

), + reier "arrange," from a Germanic source (see

ready

). Related:

Curried

;

currying

.

To

curry favor

"flatter, seek favor by officious show of courtesy or kindness" is an early 16c. folk-etymology alteration of

curry favel

(c. 1400) from Old French

correier fauvel

"to be false, hypocritical," literally "to curry the chestnut horse," chestnut horses in medieval French allegories being symbols of cunning and deceit. Compare German

den falben (hengst) streichen

"to flatter, cajole," literally "to stroke the dun-colored horse."

Old French

fauvel

(later

fauveau

) "fallow, dun," though the exact color intended in the early uses is vague, is a diminutive of

fauve

"fawn-colored horse, dark-colored thing, dull," for which see

Fauvist

. The secondary sense here is entangled with similar-sounding Old French

favele

"lying, deception," from Latin

fabella

, diminutive of

fabula

(see

fable

(n.)). In Middle English,

favel

was a common name for a horse, while the identical

favel

or

fauvel

(from Old French

favele

) meant "flattery, insincerity; duplicity, guile, intrigue," and was the name of a character in "Piers Plowman."

Official Votecount 6.END

Vaxkiller (5): Binatog13, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, Luca Blight, Andresvmb

[E-0]

NorwegianboyEE (4): Hayker, BBMolla, Vaxkiller, Momrangal

Not Voting (0):

With 9 players alive, an elimination has been achieved.

Day 6 will end in (expired on 2021-02-07 09:50:00).

[Mizzytastic]

Vaxkiller

has been eliminated. They were a

Mafia 1-Shot Ninja

Vaxkiller - Mafia 1-Shot Ninja

You are a

Mafia 1-Shot Ninja

You form a

Mafia

family along with REDACTED. You share a private thread which you can talk in at any time, including the day.

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

One night during the game you may act as a Ninja. Action investigative roles (in a Normal game a Tracker, Follower, Watcher, Voyeur, Motion Detector or Role Watcher) will get results as if you performed no action that night.

Each night a member of your family may perform a factional kill. A member of your family will attempt to visit a player, and assuming no interference that player will die.

You win when all players not aligned with you are dead and at least 1 member of your mafia family is alive, or nothing can prevent that from happening.

The game thread is here and your Mafia private thread is REDACTED, please confirm your role and alignment via pm or your private thread.

Night 6

It is now the night time. You have (expired on 2021-02-03 10:00:00) to submit any night actions.

If all living players request a quick night by PM I will resolve it ASAP.

(1/8 players)

[Mizzytastic]

Momrangal

and

Binatog13

have been found dead.

Momrangal

was a

Vanilla Townie

Momrangal - Vanilla Townie

You are a

Vanilla Townie

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

Binatog13

was a

Town Universal Backup

Binatog13 - Town Universal Backup

You are a

Town Universal Backup

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

The first time a non-vanilla player aligned with the town dies you will lose this ability and gain all abilities that player had as part of their role. You do not learn about their actions with the role, or reset the number of shots remaining on an X-shot ability.

Each night you may attempt to visit a player to watch them. You will learn the roles (but not alignments) of all other players who visit them. At the end of the night you will be informed "TARGETNAME was visited by

ROLENAME(s)

", "TARGETNAME was visited by

no one

", or "You got

no result

from watching TARGETNAME".

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

[Mizzytastic]

Day 7

My last normal was themed around board games and I just got a copy of Wingspan so...

bird (n.1)

"feathered, warm-blooded vertebrate animal of the class Aves," Old English

bird

, rare collateral form of

bridd

, originally "young bird, nestling" (the usual Old English for "bird" being

fugol

, for which see

fowl

(n.)), which is of uncertain origin with no cognates in any other Germanic language. The suggestion that it is related by umlaut to

brood

and

breed

is rejected by OED as "quite inadmissible." Metathesis of -r- and -i- was complete 15c. (compare

wright

).

Despite its early attestation,

bridd

is not necessarily the oldest form of

bird

. It is usually assumed that

-ir-

from

-ri-

arose by metathesis, but here, too, the Middle English form may go back to an ancient period. [Liberman]

Still up to c. 1400 it was often used in the specific sense "the young of a bird, fledgling, nestling, chick," and of the young of other animals (bees, fish, snakes) and human children.

The proper designation of the feathered creation is in E.

fowl

, which in course of time was specially applied to the gallinaceous tribe as the most important kind of bird for domestic use, and it was perhaps this appropriation of the word which led to the adoption of the name of the young animal as the general designation of the race. [Hensleigh Wedgwood, "A Dictionary of English Etymology," 1859]

Figurative sense of "secret source of information" is from 1540s. Meaning "man, fellow, person" is from 1799.

Bird-watching

attested from 1897.

Bird's-eye view

"the view as seen from above, as if by a bird in flight," is from 1762.

For the birds

recorded from 1944, supposedly in allusion to birds eating from droppings of horses and cattle. The

bird-spider

(1800) of the American tropics is a large sort of tarantula that can capture and kill small birds.

A byrde yn honde ys better than three yn the wode. [c. 1530]

The form with

bush

is attested by 1630s.

Official Votecount 7.0

Anyone (0): Nobody

Not Voting (6): Luca Blight, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, BBMolla, Hayker, Andresvmb

With 6 players alive, it takes 4 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 7 will end in (expired on 2021-02-11 10:10:00).

[Luca Blight]

I guess there’s a SK then, as neither of those kills make sense coming from a vig.

Disappointing as I thought 3rd parties weren’t allowed in normals anymore.

[Luca Blight]

My guess would be:

Scum: BBMolla
SK: Hayker

[NorwegianboyEE]

Yeah i’m not 100% sure which would be which, but i’m assuming the mafia and SK were all on my wagon yesterday.

[NorwegianboyEE]

I’ll do some more comprehensive analyzis but first impression is that my solve is correct and Vax/BBMolla/Hayker wins us the game.

[NorwegianboyEE]

Gamma and Andresvmb are 100% confirmed town so from my POV it only really leaves Luca / Hayker / Molla as the possibility of mafia/SK. I highly doubt Luca is the mafia, maybe i shouldn't shelve the possibility of SK. But considering how Hayker/Molla has been playing i think it's much more likely in those two.

[NorwegianboyEE]

Actually never mind that, i just remembered that Andresvmb got rolecopped, but that's all we know about him. So SK is still on the table for him.
The only 100% confirmed town is Gamma Emerald.

[NorwegianboyEE]

So to summarize:

Gamma Emerald - Confirmed

Town

Andresvmb - Confirmed not mafia, either

Town

Or

Serial Killer

Luca Blight - Likely

Town

but possibility of

Serial Killer

BBMolla - Likely either

Mafia

or

Serial Killer

Hayker - Likely either

Mafia

or

Serial Killer

[NorwegianboyEE]

My vote today is most likely going to be either one of BBMolla or Hayker. But i'll wait to see what everyone else has to say about the game and my solve before i place my vote.

[Andresvmb]

I think Hayker is better as a vote today, and it isn’t close.

And Norwegian, I think you’re wrong about Luca. Luca placed Vax as Very Likely Town at one point and I specifically called it unwarranted. However, it’s probably not conclusive enough to really push it today.

[Andresvmb]

Also, the SK is Scum siding, which is nonsense. But it means the Town are getting close to victory, or them.

[Luca Blight]

I also reassessed after the quiet flip and scumread Vax, while you told me he was Town.

[Andresvmb]

I also reassessed after the quiet flip and scumread Vax, while you told me he was Town.

I’m not Scum and that’s completely obvious. So you maybe want to not throw shade my way.

[Luca Blight]

Why hasn’t Vax claimed yet

What exactly are you doing? Like why are you demanding people claim?

Quiet hinted at a possible guilty on Vax, Andres.

You’re wasting a lot of time. Vax is probably Town, actually. Purely from today’s posting.

You know what I’m interested in? Between Titus and I, who would you vote?

[Luca Blight]

I’m pointing our that you only tell the parts of the story that suit your narrative, like you did with associating me with Hayker after the hammer on Vax.