CityElectric protects DrippingGoofball (Success)
Fujiko blocks Bunnylover (No Effect)
Eidolon shoots Bunnylover (Success)
Amrun shoots DrippingGoofball (Failure)
Fujiko blocks Apokalyptika (No Effect)
Eidolon shoots Apokalyptika (Success)
springlullaby shoots Tammy (Success)
Malakittens shoots Amrun (Success)
Fujiko blocks springlullaby (No Effect)
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Graveyard (Dead QT)
Backroom (Scum QT)
In a lot of ways, this game was very similar to the first one. I can think of at least a couple of key similarities. One, there was a scum player that could never seem to shake suspicion away from herself (Seastorm, although, truth be told, you could apply this to almost every player on the scumteam). Two, the scumteam could not kill off the power roles (City's death notwithstanding). Three, seemingly every VT in this game did a big service to their town, even if it was only through dying. Tammy attracted a nightkill just for being so on point. Although Apok and Bunny both attracted vig kills, it helped in the sense that it unmuddied the waters, as it were. It left the town more able to freely look for the real bad guys instead of just the distractions. Every move the town made from the word go was helpful, I thought.
Frankly, the town in this game played a step above the town in the first game. This is saying something because I was really impressed with the town of the first game. The scumteam just could not ever get in sync. To some extent, there is individual blame to be had (Telo not attempting to out PRs, Seastorm & Amrun lurking through key moments in the game, spring not getting a kill submitted in time), but there was, I thought, a genuine lack of cohesion between them from very early on. They all attempted to get it together at various times, but it seemed like when one of the scum members stepped up for the team, the other three were preoccupied with life. That person would then disappear and another lady would step up in her place. And it just kind of went on like that. By the time Seastorm had died, if not earlier, the scumteam was just in tatters. I don't think the scumteam as a whole played
bad
necessarily. I think there was just four very different players that couldn't ever sync up. Each making a mistake at some point that hurt the overall team.
That's not to take away from some outstanding performances on the town side though. Some noteworthy moments. DGB with her laser-like precision in nailing some connections between Seastorm, Amrun, and spring. Tracey stepping up
big
time despite all odds. Fujiko with a block that did spring in (even if it didn't actually do anything). PiggyGal being able to come back from an early wagon. City's successful protect that, despite never being built on, foiled the scum and would've seriously changed the entire outcome of this game had she not protected DGB. Telo attempted to connect herself to PiggyGal in vain, but I think she has a knack for getting others to see her as town despite it all. Eidolon being able to successfully navigate without ever really arising suspicion from the town nor interest in the scumteam's kill. Brandi, Huntress, and camn all sticking to the game and forcing their points at one time or another. Even if they were or weren't instrumental in getting a scum lynch to go through, they did well to make themselves look town enough to avoid being lynched themselves. At any given point, if these three had let the game slip too far away, the outcomes could've been very different. Sucrose even played a nice form of backup. She successfully caught the scumteam's attention and could very well have drawn a shot in some alternate universe due to her play.
So let me get to MVPs and a few closing notes before I start to repeat myself.
I think it's both easy and hard to pick an MVP for the scumteam. It's easy because spring showed the most tenacity in the game throughout (Amrun & Seastorm really picked it up right before their respective deaths, but it was too little, too late). It's hard because each of the players struggled for large portions of the game. Not to be too harsh, but I would rank spring's play at around average. It fell short in some parts due to lack of teamwork, some parts due to ill-timed lurking, some parts due to attempted misdirection (e.g. Brandi, Tracey) that didn't pan out in her favor. Not all of this could be put on her shoulders of course, but when you miss a night kill, townies are calling for your lynch, the roleblocker is on you... you're definitely struggling at concealing your alignment for whatever reason.
It is definitely very hard to pick an MVP for the town. My heart tells me to pick DGB. I'm biased though; I always thinks she plays so very strongly as town (as is evident by the first game as well as what I say in the Dead QT). Even when she's wrong, she's so reasonable in her conclusions that I'm finding myself thinking that DGB is never wrong... role PMs just got sent to the wrong people. Or maybe like that Spyrex quote, "I always find scum... sometimes they just aren't mafia." I'm paraphrasing, but you get the idea. You can go through her posts and see her
putting the pieces together that would lead Amrun, Sea, and spring all as scumreads. Another very strong performance was from Malakittens. Get this: she replaces in at night, shoots one scum based on her read of the game, and then hammers the last one in her first post in the game. How's that for efficiency? How many of y'all have seen someone effectively kill two scum in with one post in the game? That's an unheard of level of success. Because of that, I'm going to honestly say Malakittens steals the gold away from DGB. Honorable mentions out to pretty much every town player though. There was virtually no point in this game that I thought the town was doing something that would really hurt their chances at success in the long run. The
worst
thing that happened to the town was an informative mislynch of a VT in Rach, which is really saying a lot.
But I hope everyone enjoyed the game. I certainly enjoyed reading it and following along. I feel like Hurricane Sandy put a bit of a damper on the game. It definitely caused the scumteam some grief. I also want to note that, in retrospect, I have no idea why I was so anal about the color tags. I regret that and hope y'all don't hold that against me. I guess I was on a bit of a power trip that day, because I have allowed players to use red when it was obvious in context that they were using them for VCA. When I realized how dumb that was, I thought it would be even more disruptive to go back and try and fix it. It's not the Mod's job to be nitpicky about crap like that, I think.
One last thing I'll say before closing this way too long of a post. I'm so happy with each and every one of you that signed up (especially a shoutout to the replacements in Mala, Tracey, and Apok). I was very discouraged at the amount of players that decided not to come back and play again after the first game. The first game was one of the best games I've ever spectated on the site. But with the disappointment I had with a majority of the players not returning, it was completely replaced (and then some) with all the new faces to fill the remaining slots up. So thanks to all of you for that. Really.
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