Mafiascum.net

I've spent the last week wandering in a forest, dark and seemingly inscrutable. I cut my way through the overgrowth, stepping over ivies and dipping under vines. My supplies should be running low, but it's weird-it's like the bag was never touched at all, like I'm still at the very start of the journey.

Finally, after pushing my way through a thick swath of tall grass laden with fallen branches, I arrive at a small pond of water. Next to it is a simple, faded sign reading "Page 85". As I peer over to take a look, I marvel at how cool it is to the touch, how entrancing to look at, gentle waves rippling with purpose. The water is neither reflective nor transparent, however. As I look closer and closer, I realize how clouded the water is, how inscrutable it is in nature. I can make no measure of its depth. Would it stop at my elbow, or does it fall to the center of the earth? Two creatures flicker towards the surface before immediately retreating once more into the mist.

It's at once inviting and terrifying. Dread washes over me as I lean closer and closer. There's a feeling that if I reach in, or partially submerge myself I'll finally see what lies beneath the surface...but also the intuition that I may never make it out. Look closer, closer, closer.....I blink once, and the sound of a faraway tiger startles me and breaks the spell. It's time for me to leave. Glancing once more over my shoulder, I wonder if I'll regret never leaning further, reaching deeper into those depths.

Goodbye, page 85. May we never meet again someday.

In post 2118, Cabd wrote:

In post 2116, fferyllt wrote:

In post 2111, Cabd wrote:

In post 2108, fferyllt wrote:

In post 2101, Cabd wrote:I hate literally everything about the tone of 2099 :~(

You should be voting me then.

I mean if that's what you want, then sure.

This is so weird from you.

Bluff called. Oldcabd might have been a sucker for this but not here.

UNVOTE:
VOTE: ffery

This feels so much cleaner than all the murky crap you've been tossing my direction.

Me to you right now?

Is you to Bell in antechamber.

I can't leave this alone. it hurts to read. I want to just take a break and maybe that's what I should do.

I'd rather clear the air.

Why exactly does it hurt to read?

In post 2124, notscience wrote:What are your thoughts on that interaction I highlighted Cabd? Bork when you read up this is open to you as well.

What interaction?

In post 2127, Cabd wrote:Why exactly does it hurt to read?

That you're thinking about my play in those terms. I can't even take offense at it.

When syry voted Cabd for interfering in your interactions with both him and Bork

In post 2130, notscience wrote:When syry voted Cabd for interfering in your interactions with both him and Bork

Ah. thought it was something more recent you'd pointed up and I'd missed.

I guess I didn't think syr had NEARLY the strength of the townread on ffery required to snap to that vote, but his vote was as good as an explicit statement that he does.

Hope borkie comes back and elaborates/sees this and goes on re pick one {ffery vs syr vs cabd}

Im saying it sounds weird for that interaction to make sense as syry and ffery both scum

I mean yeah, and if it's ffery then syr's just having a bad game.

If it's syr, then ffery is just having a honorary 4th scum sort of day.

If it's bork then I have zero clue what to think.

If it's me (sorry LLD) then I apparently read my role wrong.

In post 2132, Cabd wrote:I guess I didn't think syr had NEARLY the strength of the townread on ffery required to snap to that vote, but his vote was as good as an explicit statement that he does.

This is what's bugging me. The implied read in that vote isn't anywhere else in his trajectory.

Initially I thought maybe there was no implied me-read and it was more about you. But that's not the impression I got reading his last-night posts.

You understand that by telling Cabd to vote you that took attention away from that, right? That’s the disconnect for you that’s bugging me

In post 1824, skitter30 wrote:

In post 1819, notscience wrote:If I’m ffery here I find one of the cohort to dance with and sort then base the game state around.

She wasn’t able to for various reasons and this is how it ended up.

ok and i guess my followup question is does 'ffery being town in an environment that's rough for her to be town' look substantially different than just 'ffery being scum'?

ffery, confirm/deny: is 'ffery being town in an environment that's rough for her to be town' the type of game you'd try to emulate as scum? just curious

In post 2138, notscience wrote:You understand that by telling Cabd to vote you that took attention away from that, right? That’s the disconnect for you that’s bugging me

Was not even on my radar at that point. I'd had it with Cabd's low-key sniping over the last 24 hours. But, I own my play.

In post 2139, petapan wrote:

In post 1824, skitter30 wrote:

In post 1819, notscience wrote:If I’m ffery here I find one of the cohort to dance with and sort then base the game state around.

She wasn’t able to for various reasons and this is how it ended up.

ok and i guess my followup question is does 'ffery being town in an environment that's rough for her to be town' look substantially different than just 'ffery being scum'?

ffery, confirm/deny: is 'ffery being town in an environment that's rough for her to be town' the type of game you'd try to emulate as scum? just curious

In the before times I tried to keep my scum-play solidly inside the envelope of where my town-play lives. There are obvious problems with doing that, which I've not had a whole lot of opportunity to work on due to the way rng works in my vicinity. Nacho has gently bashed me over the head a few times about it, though. I did feel like I broke pretty solidly out of that paradigm in a 2017-18 newbie scum game, and it's my goal to keep going in that direction with my scum play.

So that observation probably fits the majority of my solo scum games, but it's a little off-trajectory at least in terms of my intent wrt scum play.

Anyway, my bad town games gave my scum games a place to hide.

UNVOTE:

VOTE: syr


MEGABUCKET breakthrough.

We're actually just doing this.

I can't say why, but we're fucking well doing the thing.

cabd

is it happening?

that post next to that avatar

If by "is it happening" you mean "I just realized something that should have been staring me in the goddamn face" then yes?

I love would you've done with your hair Fiery

it is very festive

In post 2147, Cabd wrote:If by "is it happening" you mean "I just realized something that should have been staring me in the goddamn face" then yes?

I just need a "it's happening gif"