Mafiascum.net

"Hectic," Isis commanded, "In my office. Now."

Hectic stifled a groan. The last time he'd been called into Isis's office, she'd docked his pay 4 times and then a few more times to boot. By the end of the meeting, he was paying money rather than getting paid to work here.

He reluctantly dragged himself into Isis's office, it surely couldn't be any worse than last time... right?

Isis brought up one of Hectic's posts. "Tell me what this is."

"I-it's a votecount I posted from earlier in the game."

"Why isn't it a pagetop?"

Hectic stared. "Oh, uh, well, that's strange, someone uh, must've deleted my pagetop, um, yes, that must be it..."

"Don't lie to me. I'm removing your edit permissions and ability to use italics as punishment. Don't miss another pagetop, or say goodbye to the bold function. Get out of here."

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almost

@mod vla until Saturday

Play. Got time, will read.
Won’t make huge catch up post. Doesn’t help.

Thought about the game some.
Scum can be stupid sometimes, but I think the general idea is to keep your head down and never make more enemies than you have friends and if you must make enemies make sure you aren't enemy #1.
Who's playing like that RN?

Q. Is there some reason nobody has pointed a finger at lapsa since the game started. Or did I miss it.

Consider me town reading Noraa at this point.
Sorry.

The omgus just looks pretty genuine to me.
You can see it in how she tries to calm down and then completely fails too.

In post 1204, MUSHSHAGANA wrote:Starting this post before I finish catching up to say /Tayl0r/ what is /up/ this LLD play is like exactly parallel to my town play and I didn't throw the game, I nailed scum Noraa dead on the money! This isn't anti town play from LLD, this is play with subtlety AND a plan (which I DID NOT HAVE in our game). Step back, reframe the gamestate /yourself/ Tayl0r. I know you defend no-hopers, but this is the bad move for you and for town. Buddy c'mon.

(And as for generating reads, Tayl0r -- are you paying attention to how people react to this LLD dynamic, or are you ONLY looking at LLD? If you're only looking at LLD, you're gonna get nothing. Watch the other players too! There's material coming out of LLD's play!)

As for the rest of you -- this is highly Tayl0r-town play. Also, I'm going to just say Pooky's scum, keeps doing this nudging-people-onto-town-wagons thing without actually seeming to push hard. Also deflected from an Isis-scum world too easily and tried to make it seem natural. I like an Isis+Pooky+others (idk yet give me some time) team.

Now!

Coming back to Hopkirk: Hopkirk is entertaining but the play is garbage. Nothing meaningful coming out of it, obfuscatory posting style, half-focused on irrelevant OOG bullshit. I would not be sad to see this slot go down. I'm all for a Hopkirk wagon. I think Noraa on third is a bad idea, but Noraa is doomed ANYWAY and I am willing to risk that on Hopkirk being scum.

I also agree that Zdenek has all the town-posting of a goblin giggling about stealing toys from children. I would love to see Hopkirk and Zdenek go down today.

you dont have any scum meta on me. you only have one towngame of meta on me. dont townbin me for meta reasons please.
this isnt exactly like that newbie because no one listened to you then. but you were just as disruptive and that game was almost a disaster for town.

Fidget can be, he seems a little insightful, in a way that I'm not sure isn't merely because he has it easy because he knows who's town this game. I don't think he's fence sitty. Kind of the opposite. He seems too sure of himself.

Theta: Lean scummish.

I've never seen Shelly's town game but she isn't deviating significantly from her scum formula.

Hopkirk is meh.

Toog is meh. Lack of empathy is minor scum tell.

#950: Cheese tax.
I think we do better the longer LLD is alive.

Did we ever get clarity on why Isis replaced out?

More I read of Noraa the better she looks. The ball of rage in her heart is true.

In post 1240, MUSHSHAGANA wrote:

In post 670, MUSHSHAGANA wrote:For now, I want content from our lurkers.

UNOwen is giving me nothing and giving the thread nothing.

Zdenek is low-information and has mostly been engaging with mechanics.

Adorable, to be fair, is busy, but I'd really like to see engaging with multiple points in the thread and not just a single question per, uh, 8 hour period. VaultDweller just plain doesn't initiate engagement, which makes their 7 posts a barren desert devoid of all association. Lapsa has no questions to ask and no input to offer aside from saying the game sucks because Isis got away with the scum-claim -- which, I mean, fair... but useless for sorting them.

And while I'm thinking of Adorable? A reminder! (Zdenek is now excused on account of becoming the scummiest player on the board from where I'm standing. UNOwen has stepped up content, so I'll be able to read them soon.)

Point to note: I don't quote if I can help it. You might have noticed. This is me getting lazy and overwhelmed in a very active game.

See above: I have been pressing for Lapsa content, Bell. Lapsa's not contributing anything and I just don't like that.



With regards to your consideration of who is playing a definable scum game here... If we use your definition, I think you can look at Theta, Pooky, Hopkirk, and our lurkers. Theta refuses to rock the boat much, in general. I think Theta's the best by far of this bunch, willing to engage directly and proactively, and I see town play reflected. Seems like possibly unable to engage with the thread as much as they /want/ to, and unwilling to commit for lack of information to inform a push.

Pooky just keeps doing this thing I don't like that is hard to describe as anything but the devil on the shoulder, you know. "Go on, do it" sort of vibes.

Hopkirk has taken no stances of note, gets maddeningly turned around and stuck on mechanics, is using an obfuscatory posting style, and is dodging any attempt to corner them into producing content.

The lurkers all suck. Zdenek is definitely playing a similar game to Hopkirk's, but replace obfuscatory with distracting -- very caught up in OOG bullshit. Lapsa is doing nothing, has contributed nothing, and calls /us/ boring... Be the change you wanna see in the Mafia Thread, buddy, you know? VaultDweller is an unreadable, avoidant wasteland of an ISO. Gloria has literally no game relevant content at all. Adorable has an /excuse/ and still manages to underperform my lowered expectations. At least UNOwen started producing meaningful content and picking up post count... with some more posts from UNOwen I might be able to sort that slot.



PEDIT: Tayl0r, I normally don't use meta at all -- as you should know.

But it's the only way I can make sense of you or Noraa, your personalities are terrible for my brain if I treat you as tabula rasa. You're just stuck with this garbage townread of mine now, sorry.

we are not allowed to talk about replacements

Aight.

In post 1286, Bell wrote:out?

More I read of Noraa the better she looks. The ball of rage in her heart is true.

why wouldnt she have a ball of rage in her heart if her role pm is red?

She could fake it I guess.
But you don't have my support.
I guess I'm scum buddies with her afterall.

Anything else pookster?

no the rage wouldnt be fake

your townread seems to be based on her emotional state. but i dont see why her emotional state would be any different if she is holding a mafia pm rather than a town pm

if anything she probly would be more pissed about getting elimd d1 as mafia rather than town.

people who are town:
mush
the isis slot
fidget
shelly?
bell?
lld
noraa?
murdercat?
(me)

people who are scum:
pookyx10000
unowen
hectic

unsure of:
adorable
theta
toogeloo
flea
hopkirk
zdenek
lapsa
vaultdweller
gloria
nero

I can't even pretend to understand that mindset.
There's a rage line that Noraa is going back and forth on. Noraa seems to have confidence that the more she posts the more obvious it will be that she's town.
I see no reason to deny her that given the lurk scum probably in this game.

The only thing that significantly bothers me is her wording dancing around denial of being scum.

?

what do you mean?

wouldnt you get upset if you are scum and get hardwagond 6h into d1?