Mafia of Revelations ~ Game Over!

[callforjudgement]

I think town got lucky this game (e.g. many of the Tracker roles went to the players who were in the best position to make use of them, due to not dying early and suspecting players who weren't widely suspected; Starbuck's misread of the role PM happened to produce accurate info, when it could easily have lead to three townies getting incorrectly voted out if the circumstances had been slightly different). I

also

, however, think that the town was playing well enough that they would have won even if their luck had been considerably worse.

In a way, the swinginess helped, by helping to ensure that the game wouldn't be drawn out at the point where Town was clearly dominating. (The setup was swingy due to randomness in whether power roles would go to the players with high/low post counts, and due to the post-Calamity value of Trackers depending on how many of the Mafia were still alive at that point, and thus amplifying any advantage that Town might happen to have had at this point.)

Besides the swinginess, I hope I didn't get the balance too far out. It's hard to estimate the balance even in retrospect when a) the Town played well enough that the balance didn't matter much and b) the setup is swingy enough that the win-lose balance will likely get overwhelmed by the swing. It's even harder before the setup has been run! If anyone wants to complain about the balance, let me know so that I can improve as a reviewer.

This was also probably the first game in which the Town caught the Mafia by tracking them

not

killing!

[Vi]

#swingwarning became a meme while I was talking to Nahdia about the game as it happened. Based on how it played out, this setup didn't just swing, it bent and twisted. On the last Day it threatened to leave Euclidean space.

[xRECKONERx]

it felt right for swing/balance

btw just wanna point out my guess on farside actually being the scum with a revelation was correct

[Starbuck]

So what was your hidden information?

[xRECKONERx]

exactly what i said it was

[xRECKONERx]

there's nothing i have that will save anything

so when i said my revelation had something to do with "smoke" what i meant was "smoke and mirrors"

my revelation is literally that scum know i know something about the game
the thing i know about the game? is that scum knows i know something about the game

[insert infinite rabbit hole of wifom here]

so my only use was baiting scum into killing me because they think i know something specific
if i reveal that all i know is that they know something, i no longer look like a juicy nightkill target

[Starbuck]

Oh jesus, that was for real. Hahahaha.

[xRECKONERx]

i was half expecting to get to the end of the game and have vi be like YOU IDIOT YOU MISUNDERSTOOD YOUR PM but apparently i didn't

[Starbuck]

No, that's me.

[Vi]

Me: "I want to give them information, but... not actual REAL information. Really dumb unhelpful stuff."

Also me: "urgh this is difficult"

[Vi]

Okay. These are the auxiliary threads.

Mafia
Dead
Spectator

[Isis]

That seems like a cool role

[xRECKONERx]

lmao i love how much paranoia my stupid revelation caused

10/10

[Starbuck]

If you guys want me to shitpost far lesser and play seriously I'll do that.

@farside: Yeah I feel ya.

This isn't really a shitposting kind of team

Just be careful of too much shit posting. I think even I after awhile would call you out on it Auro

CALLED IT

Yeah, totally. Starbuck plays with her heart on her sleeve.

I live life with my heart on my sleeve. You ain't wrong.

[Starbuck]

I. AM. DYING.

This talk about suggesting that everyone should try to fit six votes onto me in between vote counts is making me wonder what sort of game these people think I made

and also what sort of game I

should

have made


like what if an auspicious group of strangers started playing Mafia and realized halfway through that they're actually in a JRPG and need to kill God

[Starbuck]

not only is starbuck calling me scum but I'm not even getting credit for posting pet pictures that should be relevant to interests

I promise they didn't go unnoticed! I clicked through all the Jukebox and Cute Posting.

Although, there were a handful of "Pets Associated with You" links that were broken.

[Starbuck]

OMG SPYREX IN THE SPECTATOR THREAD??????????????

[Vi]

Although, there were a handful of "Pets Associated with You" links that were broken.

It was strange because sometimes they worked and then they didn't, or vice versa.

Let's try those one more time.
https://imgur.com/mEL6vAQ
https://imgur.com/FYSieOJ
https://imgur.com/TgYJcGL
https://imgur.com/4ifZfVD
https://imgur.com/lpudkx0
https://imgur.com/5h5UPYM
https://imgur.com/1FnLJX8
https://imgur.com/Gyphpbl

[Starbuck]

And just for you Vi, Pet Associated with Starbuck

[Vi]

#seniordogsofinstagram
This is a dog who has been fluffy for a long while.

[Starbuck]

#seniordogsofinstagram
This is a dog who has been fluffy for a long while.

Yes! He's 15. I adopted him when I was stationed in Sicily.

[Vi]

Ah, that's right, you have military connections.
I'm kind of interested in an update since your GTKAS in 2016, but I also acknowledge I'm kind of a bystander in your life so you don't have to if you don't feel comfortable or if it's too much effort.

[Starbuck]

Ah, that's right, you have military connections.
I'm kind of interested in an update since your GTKAS in 2016, but I also acknowledge I'm kind of a bystander in your life so you don't have to if you don't feel comfortable or if it's too much effort.

I was actually thinking about it, but wasn't sure if I should or not.

I'll take that as a vote for should.

[Untrod Tripod]

I was stationed

tyfys

[AGar]

I really need to roll scum in a few games so this tarnishing of my reputation stops.