In post 141, mastin2 wrote:*Actually a little bit more than for the heck of it. I have a very, very good reason to believe the claim. I'll talk to SSK about how we'll handle that.
/is most certainly not a VT this game, and not ashamed to admit it.
This was in relationship to Rancid's claim of being an age cop. Being classified as a child and having a note say that might have been an oddity. Having a specific clause about us being both male and female for gendered abilities meant that it wasn't an oddity, it was a mechanic. Meaning the claim was real.
I also reference the voting ability, and how we'd best be able to play it.
You can also see that I was being a lot more confrontational than normal for large segments of the game, specifically because I wanted that nightkill.
In post 319, MastinSSK wrote:(Also, worthy of note: there's one thing this game has in common with Vesperia: my role is such that I'm either never going to get or am going to get speedlynched the moment I claim it*. Sadly, I'm leaning towards the latter. Again. Let's just say it's the best role I could have but also the absolute utter total worst role I could have. Depending on the day. And in this game, it's more worse than best.)
*Also depends on the handling of the role.
What is the best role I could have?
Being right on my reads
and the scumteam not able to do a god-damn thing about it
.
What is the worst role I could have?
Being wrong on my reads,
and being unable to die to end my misery
.
And the handling the role bit is for both the approach to maximizing nightkills on us and also about how we handle the votes.
[quote="In
post 377, MastinSSK"
Normally
, I'd strongly frown upon this tactic. It's typically a really, really bad idea to direct power roles to specific targets, 'specially when there's things like Godfathers, Commuters, Ascetics, or...*shudder*...hiders...that they could be, not to mention, roleblockers. As just a very, VERY small piece of the list. Like, normally, it's a Really Bad Idea
TM. But this game, it'd actually be ridiculously good. (I can't exactly give details without fullclaiming. Butyeah. In this specific circumstance, it'd become gamebreakingly powerful for us to be investigated. 'Course, I don't know the scum's power, so it's possible that it could be really bad if they can interfere. And even if the scum don't have a way to screw this plan over, it takes a LOT of trust on my end that I know what I'm talking about and am town making the request.)[/quote] Why would it be gamebreakingly powerful for me to get investigated?
Because having confirmed town unkillable is gamebreakingly powerful
.
In post 616, MastinSSK wrote:I like what we got; it
is
highly appropriate for us. But it wasn't something we actively chose to get. (I'm still figuring out how we'll claim one of our abilities, though; the mods wised up. Last time, I used TVTropes articles. This time, the name of the ability IS a TVTropes article, and I'm not sure I can link to that.
)
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Like I said. It requires trust on my end, that yes I'm town asking to be investigated and yes I know what I'm doing. But to re-emphasize. Any other role, I'd probably not ask. You can trust me that with THIS role, investigating me is a good idea, and if the investigation were successful, it'd be gamebreakingly powerful for the town. I'm well aware of what Cabd did last game. And that's why I said that investigating me requires trust, that I know what I'm doing, that if things worked out, I could address that exact concern. But I don't want to fullclaim. Perhaps D2, maybe later (like D3). I
could
claim, but again, think it'd be best to wait.
(Side-note, but one advantage of being in a Cabd game is that nobody's going to be able to figure out my role from the softclaims I've done. They may think they have. They're sure to have speculation in mind, and have plenty of ideas. But they'll never correctly figure it out. And yet when I pull the pieces together for a fullclaim, everyone will go, "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! That makes total sense now!")
More of the same. Again. A highly-appropriate role for me to get (especially for AP to mislynch!), the name of an ability being a trope (okay, so not exactly, but it's one word's difference relating to the medium), and the bit about it being best to wait.
In post 1529, MastinSSK wrote:Maybe it's because you sound like you have an agenda rather than you're trying to solve the game.
It's a Cabd game. Of course I have an agenda. What that agenda is will have to wait. (Yes, another softclaim. Dealwithit.) The two are not mutually exclusive.
In post 1455, Kagura wrote:Mastin's claim needs to be a fakeclaim unless you think the weird thing she's going to claim is going to be her real role as scum, in which case it seems pretty useless in what's bound to be a power heavy game.
Umm...
...About that.
My role's anything but 'pretty useless'. It's actually pretty freaking strong an ability. The vote removal disability is basically balancing out the awesomeness of the other aspects of my role.
My agenda was drawing fucking nightkills.
And my role isn't pretty useless; it's fairly strong. And me admitting it was fairly strong was to serve that damn agenda to draw fucking nightkills (or at the very least, a roleblock!), because the scum would see my claim and fear it.
My ability has the drawback of my vote. (Thus why it's best described as a modified tree stump.) But has the massive advantage of--if the town trusts me--me being invulnerable and the scum being screwed over by me.
Which you see in my answer.
In post 1576, MastinSSK wrote: In post 1536, AngryPidgeon wrote: Why are you doing this? This really is not town motivated...at all. Claiming flavor? Trolling about your role? Ok maybe. This?
The only answer you're getting to this is that the answer's in my iso. I'm not going to respond to (for lack of a better term--MS.net really only has two) rolefishing. (It's not asking explicitly for a claim, so not that. It's not subtly prodding for a roleclaim, so not rolefishing as rolefishing. But...a weird middle-ground?)
Run my iso and look for the 'crumbs. (I'm doing it quickly, so I'm sure I've missed plenty regarding the unclaimed aspect.) It took every bit of diplomacy to find an answer that would work and not reveal my hand of, "I claimed that I had a strong role specifically so that the scum would try to nightkill me; there's literally no other reason I'd do that."
Total. God. Damned. Revenge.