Newbie 1742 Earth - Game Over

[Blix900]

VOTE: Vampirate

[Accountant]

Hi, I’m Accountant, your friendly neighbourhood Inexperience-Challenged player, or IC. This means that I have a few games under my belt, so I know the ins and outs of mafia and can show you the ropes. For those of you who hate reading long rants, or have read a similar post already, check out the link:
A Beginner’s Guide to Being Awesome At Mafia
Anyway, as the IC, it’s my job to teach you theory concepts, which means I will never lie about theory questions. Ever.
Before we start the game proper, I’d like to cover a few key concepts.

Hammering, Lynching and L-1

When the number of votes on a player exceeds half the number of players for that game, that player is lynched

instantly

and the Day ends. For example, we have 9 players. If that means the hammer is 5, so if there were to be 5 votes on someone, that player would be lynched. Do not recklessly hammer, especially early in the game, or you’ll risk accidentally lynching town members and cutting short discussion time.
The concept of L-X is used to indicate how many votes a player is to hammer. L-1 means 1 vote to hammer, L-2 means 2 votes to hammer and so forth. So for this game, if someone were to get 4 votes, they would be at L-1. When you place the vote that puts someone at L-1(for example, if someone has 3 votes and you’re putting the 4th vote down, with a hammer of 5), you should usually announce it with a statement like “He’s at L-1”, so people don’t accidentally hammer. Even more importantly, it means that mafia can’t hammer a town member and then claim ignorance the next day.
If someone is at L-1 and you want to hammer him, you should usually state “intent to hammer”, which means “I want to lynch you”. When you do this, you can also ask for a role claim. That way, if the player is a power role being mislynched, he can claim before you place the hammering vote, and thus save himself.

LyLo

LyLo is the shortened form of a phrase which means “lynch or lose”. The simplest form of LyLo is 3 players, 2 of whom are vanilla townies and the last being a mafia goon. Then, it’s easy to see that if they do not lynch, the mafia goon will kill one of them at night, stalemating the lynch the next day, and killing the last town member on Night 2 – although the mod will usually recognize this and end the game early instead of dragging it out.
When town is in LyLo, it’s important not to carelessly vote like you would on any other day, because of the potential for a mafia coordinated hammer(a “quickhammer”, happening before anyone else can react). Let’s say we have LyLo with 3 Vanilla Townies and 2 Mafia Goons. One of the vanilla townie carelessly puts his vote on another VT. This allows the two mafia goons to instantly rush in and simultaneously vote that VT, bringing his vote count to 3 in a game of 5 players, which is a hammer and loss for the town.
It’s good practice to try to recognize LyLo situations when you see them, but in Newbie games a more experienced player will usually point out that it’s LyLo and caution people from recklessly voting. Learning how to deal with LyLo is a very important part of playing mafia, and it comes up more often than you might think.

RVS

We are currently in the RVS, or Random Voting Stage. As none of us has any idea who is mafia(well, except the mafia members themselves, but they’re hardly going to admit it), we’re mostly poking around and slinging votes like hot curry at a food fight, trying to provoke reactions, start a discussion and basically probe around to try and determine player’s alignments.
As it is the

Random

Voting Stage, it’s common for players to vote for very silly reasons, such as “your avatar is ugly” or “your username has too many numbers in it”. Don’t worry, they don’t have a grudge against you or anything. It’s just part of RVS. Without RVS, it would be a lot harder to get the game moving.

Conclusion

Thank you for joining this newbie game, and I hope that all of us will have fun playing, win or lose. If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask me. I’m an IC, so it’s my job to be active and respond to questions from newer players. I live in Singapore, which makes my timezone GMT+8, so don’t be surprised if I answer in the middle of the night or appear to be inactive at high noon(I’m probably sleeping).

Have fun and good luck!

- Accountant

[Accountant]

VOTE: Huntress

For having an avatar similar to zoraster's. Impersonation of site administration!

[Accountant]

ShadowlancerX and Blix900, would be good if you can get an avatar! they help players identify your posts quickly.

Also, shadowlancer is newbtown to a T. Scum are paranoid about dying, especially early on in the game, and so they do not vote themselves to L-1.

[Blix900]

Let's get some activity going here!

[Vampirate]

VOTE: Blix900

No content post cheering for more content instead of providing his own.

[Blix900]

VOTE: Blix900

No content post cheering for more content instead of providing his own.

I don't believe I could provide any content beyond sending out a vote at this point...

Why immediately vote on me after I vote on you?

[Accountant]

VOTE: Blix9090

Glad to see you've come around to the light side, Vampirate.

[Accountant]

VOTE: Blix900

No content post cheering for more content instead of providing his own.

I don't believe I could provide any content beyond sending out a vote at this point...

Why immediately vote on me after I vote on you?

How do you feel about Shadowlancer?

[Blix900]

VOTE: Blix900

No content post cheering for more content instead of providing his own.

I don't believe I could provide any content beyond sending out a vote at this point...

Why immediately vote on me after I vote on you?

How do you feel about Shadowlancer?

I believe I'm L-1 at this point?

As for Shadowlancer, I think he is fresh to Mafia and is clearly not scum.

[Blix900]

VOTE: Blix9090

Glad to see you've come around to the light side, Vampirate.

Actually this vote is invalid.

[Blix900]

What the, my post is gone

VOTE: blix9000

So is this one.

[PenguinPower]

VOTE: Blix9090

Glad to see you've come around to the light side, Vampirate.

String him up!

VOTE: Blix

[Blix900]

VOTE: Blix9090

Glad to see you've come around to the light side, Vampirate.

String him up!

VOTE: Blix

Another invalid vote?

[PenguinPower]

Pretty sure it's valid and counts when the mod puts the VC together.

[Blix900]

Eh well you just lynched the vanilla townie lol

[Blix900]

Technically Accountant never "unvoted"

[PenguinPower]

Oops. I missed his vote on you. Thought he was on Huntress. Guess inshouldnt play on my phone.

[Blix900]

Oops. I missed his vote on you. Thought he was on Huntress. Guess inshouldnt play on my phone.

I mean I myself gave the L-1 warning...

[PenguinPower]

Yeah. My fault. Should hav caught it.

[Blix900]

Yeah. My fault. Should hav caught it.

Will have to wait and see what the mod rules about Accountant's vote.

[Shadowlancerx]

If I'm reading the rules right, I don't think you have to UNVOTE before voting someone new...
"Unvoting is done by using the unvote tags:
CODE: SELECT ALL
UNVOTE: mhsmith0
gets you UNVOTE: mhsmith0, or you can simply vote someone else"

[Shadowlancerx]

Let's hope the mod gives us some leeway here.

[Vampirate]

Blix900, i'd really appreciate some content as best you can before the mod comes along.

[Blix900]

Some content? Would you like to ask me a question or just tell me to say something? Are you asking for a claim? I just made one.