Newbie 1315: Van Helsing (Over)

[Spawnisen]

/confirm

1) GMT+2. I'll try to post atleast once per day, depending on all of yours activity.
2) I've played mafia on another forum for about 2 years with a few games per year but I wanted more!
3) Townie is the best, you won't get caught up too much in your lies!
4) I'm quiet versatile in my reactions!
5) Claiming townie

[serrapaladin]

I would like to add a question.

If this is your first game what do you expect to get out of it?
OR

If this not your first game what do you want to get out of it?

Primarily fun. Hopefully a bit of skill, too.

[MP5]

I'm in to replace ... well, someone. Doesn't matter who.
/confirm

1) What timezone are you in? And how many times, say, per week, can we expect you to post?
2) What made you decide to join Mafiascum?
3) What alignment do you, or do you think in the future, you'll prefer best? What role?
4) How do you react to people attacking you?
5) What do you think you'll be known for in this game?

1) GMT +8. You can expect me to try to be on and post once per day, but that may stretch to once every two days. Sometimes will post multiple times if I can get a bit of dialogue going, but more likely to be the once daily.
2) Loved playing RL mafia with friends, found that they played some forum mafia on another web-based game completely unrelated to mafia that I play, and I decided to search further to find more of it. Ended up here.
3) I would have said scum or cop, before my last game (my first here on this site). Reason being that I don't like being left out of the loop, I want to know what's going on. But in my last game, I had a win as scum, but found the experience completely draining. Now, I'm going to take it much more relaxed (must resist temptation to get too intense ). So I'll tell you after the game which I prefer more.
4) Try to offer a relaxed and logical defence, and then ignore and move on to my own targets.
5) (gets out crystal ball) Being mislynched on day two? :S

If this not your first game what do you want to get out of it?

To remember the ability to play this game and enjoy it and not take it too seriously, and get too intense about it.

[awestfie]

/confirm

1) What timezone are you in? And how many times, say, per week, can we expect you to post?
2) What made you decide to join Mafiascum?
3) What alignment do you, or do you think in the future, you'll prefer best? What role?
4) How do you react to people attacking you?
5) What do you think you'll be known for in this game?

1) I'm in EST, I have a lot of free time currently, so I'll be posting as much as I possibly can.
2) I played a lot of Mafia in real life and I played Mafia on several other sites, so just trying something new.
3) I prefer to be town, I love the whole scum hunting aspect of it.
4) Depends on what kind of reads I have on the person attacking me, really.
5) I'll probably be known for someone who's trying to improve, this is my first time playing on here, although I've read a lot of newbie games ever since I've registered.

[Untrod Tripod]

Game starts. With 9 alive it's 5 to lynch. Deadline is 1/23 at 5PM EST.

[MP5]

OK, we kick it off in earnest ...

VOTE: kwll

The lack of vowels is highly disturbing and obv scumtell.

[serrapaladin]

Some more questions:

To

all who have played forum Mafia (not necessarily here) for at least a year

:
What aspect of your play style has experience most improved, and which role/alignment is that most valuable for?

Falcon

:
Given you have played this before, what gives you the impression might be the worst player?

Declan

:
Not really something for you to answer, but would you please get an avatar? It really does help recognize your posts when scrolling through pages.

Spawnisen

:
How is claiming townie something you'll be known for?

Oh, also

VOTE: MP5

First vote is obvscum.

[Ser Arthur Dayne]

To

all who have played forum Mafia (not necessarily here) for at least a year

:
What aspect of your play style has experience most improved, and which role/alignment is that most valuable for?

Hmm, I'd definitely say gut-reads. Basically I'm sometimes very bad at explaining why I suspect someone other than for "gut" reasons, but somehow whenever I get a gut read on someone it's usually accurate.

Another thing I'd say I've improved is my scum play. Although it is still

ages

away from my town play in how good it is, the first time I was scum I was literally horrible (and got lynched on day 1), so it has improved somewhat.

Anyways, I think I'll:

Vote: Nekoko

We meet again Are you scum this game?

(Also I agree Superdeclan, it helps if you get an avatar And it can also showcase something you like if you wish!)

[kwll]

vote spawn

that just sounds sinster

[Nekoko]

OK, we kick it off in earnest ...

VOTE: kwll

The lack of vowels is highly disturbing and obv scumtell.

lol, you also lack vowels
VOTE: MP5

We meet again Are you scum this game?

Hey Ser Dayne hahaha
How about you? Are you still scum
I'll have my eyes on you

[Nekoko]

5) Claiming townie

Don't unless you're about to be lynched.

If you're from a forum where the players mass claim to catch scum, this won't work here
because this setup is designed to discourage "Follow the Cop."

[Spawnisen]

Spawnisen:
How is claiming townie something you'll be known for?

Well, because I will be the first one to do it? (Take this as me claiming VT)

[Spawnisen]

5) Claiming townie

Don't unless you're about to be lynched.

If you're from a forum where the players mass claim to catch scum, this won't work here
because this setup is designed to discourage "Follow the Cop."

Me saying that i'm claiming townie means pretty much nothing. Don't worry! I can still be cop, jailkeeper, scum. I'm just confusing you all!

With that said,

vote:nekoko

for being the first one to start stacking up votes on one person (Yes I'm aware that makes me the second guy...)

[Nekoko]

Me saying that i'm claiming townie means pretty much nothing. Don't worry! I can still be cop, jailkeeper, scum. I'm just confusing you all!

LYNCH ALL LIARS

[Nekoko]

3) Townie is the best, you won't get caught up too much in your lies!

But seriously even if you're town you shouldn't just lie.
People who fail at gambits are usually lynched

[serrapaladin]

Spawnisen:

/confirm
5) Claiming townie

I don't really have too much of a problem with this. MP5 and, to a lesser extent, I also softclaimed "not scum" in our answers to question 5. My question was rather probing.

Spawnisen:
How is claiming townie something you'll be known for?

Well, because I will be the first one to do it? (Take this as me claiming VT)

This answer, however, is unfortunate. Claiming VT is very different to asserting your townyness and is something you really shouldn't do before you hit L-1 with

Intent to Hammer.

Still, at this point, I'm inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt.

5) Claiming townie

Don't unless you're about to be lynched.

If you're from a forum where the players mass claim to catch scum, this won't work here
because this setup is designed to discourage "Follow the Cop."

Me saying that i'm claiming townie means pretty much nothing. Don't worry! I can still be cop, jailkeeper, scum. I'm just confusing you all!

With that said,

vote:nekoko

for being the first one to start stacking up votes on one person (Yes I'm aware that makes me the second guy...)

Admitting you're trying to confuse all of us makes me rather suspicious though. The majority of us are town, so by confusing all of us, you're really doing scum a favor, which is something I reckon you should have thought of, if you were town. The Nekoko vote also seems slightly off...

For now:

FoS Spawnisen

[Ser Arthur Dayne]

Okay, let me begin by saying all those who start with an s

I hate you

I will be referring to you as spawn, super or clan (on whichever I get used to), and paladin, respectively to each player.

So let's move on:

kwll

, which game is this for you? Also, what were your previous alignments of the other games you played?

Paladin

reads as slightly town for attempting to get conversation started, which is + points.

Slight scum read on

kwll

for now. Will explain in a bit.

(also, you should note that this game I will try to be

bolding

your name if I have a question for you, and

underlining

your name if I'm giving a read on you, etc Hopefully, I'll remember to continue doing this.)

[Ser Arthur Dayne]

Me saying that i'm claiming townie means pretty much nothing. Don't worry! I can still be cop, jailkeeper, scum. I'm just confusing you all!

This reads as slightly defensive, though understandable for now.

[Spawnisen]

You're reading too much into my answers right now.
And would you care to explain to me why my vote on Nekoko seems off? It's as off as Nekokos vote on MP5, or your vote on MP5 for that matter.

[serrapaladin]

You're reading too much into my answers right now.
And would you care to explain to me why my vote on Nekoko seems off? It's as off as Nekokos vote on MP5, or your vote on MP5 for that matter.

We'll see about that. Your vote was conscious/serious enough for you to realize its hypocrisy, while Nekoko's and mine were firmly RVS.

[Ser Arthur Dayne]

vote:nekoko for being the first one to start stacking up votes on one person (

Yes I'm aware that makes me the second guy...

)

The bolded, to be honest, seems like self-conscious, which is an early scumtell. Scum try to keep a good image, especially in the beginning.

[Ser Arthur Dayne]

(Also, if you guys did not know, Mafiascum has this quote tool to make your life easier, where you can highlight a certain part of a post, and then hit "quote", and it will only quote that part. Just fyi . It doesn't work for multiquote though, the Q+.)

[serrapaladin]

I like your convention, Arthur. I'll do my best to follow the same.

Thoughts so far:

Spawnisen

is leaning scum, but tough to tell against his potential inexperience.

I'm not all too happy with the consistency between

kwll's,

posts, but that's more a cosmetic factor and doesn't necessarily mean anything. I'll be interested to hear Arthur's take on him.

Nekoko

seems pro-town enough, without putting any real pressure on Spawnisen. That might just be her SE role/kind nature, but I'll keep an eye out for her and any of the more experienced players subtly advising anyone who could be their scumbuddies on how to avoid suspicion, without giving accompanying scumreads. Still, I read her as town-leaning null so far.

The same could somewhat be said about

Arthur,

who made explicit my vague comment about Spawnisen's vote, although he did mention early self-consciousness being a scumtell. Interesting also, that you would give a scumread on kwll, while holding off on your analysis. I'll ask about your rationale for that, in due time. So far, my read is null,

Declan, awestfie, MP5

and

Falcon

are fully null, mostly through lack of content to analyze thus far. Please get involved!

[serrapaladin]

General comment about IC's and SE's: don't misread their helpfulness as being particularly pro-town. Of course, that doesn't mean I don't appreciate what you're doing.

Also, I have two small questions for

all of you

for my (and hopefully some others') benefit:
Are you a native English speaker? And what different platforms do you use to write posts?

I'm hoping these answers might give some context to posts, which I find forums to be a tad lacking. I'm not native, but have been speaking English for most of my life. All of my posts are made via laptop or tablet.

Also my vote isn't really doing anything, so:

UNVOTE:
VOTE: Declan

until you get an avatar.

[Spawnisen]

You're reading too much into my answers right now.
And would you care to explain to me why my vote on Nekoko seems off? It's as off as Nekokos vote on MP5, or your vote on MP5 for that matter.

We'll see about that. Your vote was conscious/serious enough for you to realize its hypocrisy, while Nekoko's and mine were firmly RVS.

Can you tell me why Nekokos vote on MP5 is more RVS than mine. Because he added a bullshit reason for the vote? But yeah, obviously me trying to explain my voting and posts is going no where so i'll just shut up for the time being.


And I'm not a native English speaker but I find myself having ok English. I'm from Finland and I always post on my laptop.