Right now, I think Assasin is the
worst
choice for a lynch, especially after:
SquareKnight wrote:Q: Why didn't the skeleton cross the road?
A: Because it lacked the muscle tissue with which to actualize its intentions.
Lol!
This is the second example of an in-thread dialogue activating roles, which I haven't seen very often - I doubt very much that either role was aware of the other if either of them are town, which means they're probably either both pro-town or Assasin's lying and SquareKnight is trying to back up Assasin's claim without explicitly saying so. Suffice it to say that if either turn out to be scum, the other needs a good long look at.
To date, Assasin has claimed a plausible, in-flavour role which is verifiable, potentially quite powerful, and has been supported by this latest piece of new information. In terms of a day 1 lynch, he's a horrible choice. The arguments against him are, as far as I can see, are of lurking and not much more - not that that's a bad reason to lynch day 1 in the absence of other information, but given the nature of the roleclaim it's not nearly enough.
SquareKnight wrote:...actually, the only significant risk I see from your ability is if you are scum (and you have this ability). Then an innocent townie could be tricked into giving everything he or she knows away.
That seems like a very odd scum role if he's part of the Mafia... on the other hand, I could see this as being a pro-town way of describing being a cult leader (notes details in Clever Lies for Rainy Days Book). That way he can be "confirmed" the next day by his disciple or whatever the other cultists are called, whilst slowly amassing a core of followers.
We could get round this possibility by having Assasin make friends with more than one person (more than two, actually, as he may have recruited night 1) - after all, he doesn't have to
say
anything beyond the "Welcome to my Happy Friend Club!" to his newfound pals, so the risk of giving stuff away is minimal, and any scum role that could convert/kill multiple people in a day in this manner seems implausibly powerful.
Therefore, I'm going to propose that we have Assasin make three friends of his own choice today, and then there's no substance to the mason talkery (as we don't know who to trust yet) beyond confirming that he is, in fact, who he says he is, and we get a report back tomorrow. Can anyone see any problems with this plan?
So who could we lynch?
Thesp has a couple of residual votes from Omniplex, who's only crime (as far as I can see) was lurking - which has been more than adequately explained by his apparent boredom with Mafia as a whole and subsequent dropping from the game. Thesp's own post (I'm not counting his first post as a post) seems to indicate he's more willing to participate - and as I know him from Misetings, home of the 3000+ post game, I can assure you he's more than active enough generally. I reckon this is probably premature.
Looking through what everyone's said so far, everyone's contributed to the discussion to a degree - except for one.
Mastermind of Sin wrote:random
vote: Seol
note: check the vacation/away thread
Mastermind of Sin wrote:I'm back from break and happy with my vote for now...
Mastermind of Sin wrote:unvote, vote: Omniplex, IGMEOY: Seol
Mastermind of Sin wrote:I didn't make that up...others have used it before me...if you want it in plain english, though, I'm seeing scum tells from omniplex that i've seen before, but I'm still almost as suspicious of Seol.
Mastermind of Sin wrote:Since Omniplex has been replaced, I will give Thesp a little breathing room for now and return to my previous suspicion. Also, I think I believe Assassin's claim.
unvote, vote: Seol
That's the sum total of MoS's posts to date. No discussion, just votes and assertions. He hasn't given a reason why he thinks anything, he hasn't contributed anything to the town. This is, as far as I'm concerned, lurking - there's no
content
been posted at all.
vote: Mastermind of Sin.