mystery box of silver 10. (done)

[PlusJOYED]

i've sr this slot every game, eventually I'll be right
VOTE: taylor

[PlusJOYED]

i've sr this slot every game, eventually I'll be right
VOTE: taylor

great post! locktown!

pog

[PlusJOYED]

i've sr this slot every game, eventually I'll be right
VOTE: taylor

great post! locktown!

pog

i dont know what that means!

Play of the game.
- Google

wrong
im actually semi serious on taylor. quoting a post this early seems high effort which I didn't see when they were town.

[PlusJOYED]

fyi i know:
bell
april
hectic
menal
taylor
norwee
and echo

[PlusJOYED]

that VT claim was gangster AF btw
I love that, gives maf some early wifom anxiety i bet

[PlusJOYED]

fyi i know:
bell
april
hectic
menal
taylor
norwee
and echo

you know me too, but you're too ashamed to admit it

who?

[PlusJOYED]

pog is a twitch chat emoji btw norwee. it means hype. Not to be confused with pawg, which means phat ass white girl.

[PlusJOYED]

oh im sorry thats right
morning does those cute emojis

[PlusJOYED]

im scum

scum claim?
VOTE: plusjoyed

<(￣ ﹌ ￣)>

[PlusJOYED]

Oh cool more people I know joined after I did
ngl I mostly forgot about this
Baldur's gate is making other things easy to forget

I'd like to take a moment to clarify to a few players in particular that my playstyle has now become considerably more efficient, in that I will still find scum for you but I'm not as likely to put in the effort to tell you why they are scum, and you shouldn't expect me to hyperpost like I used to. I have a job now and that means I have less time, but I still have the same number of things that get to conflict with me playing mafia. On an unrelated note, back to Baldur's gate.

oh isnt baldurs gate in early access now? is it worth playing now or should I wait?
I'm very hyped to that game

[PlusJOYED]

i can respect this. im sure others won't...

true
VOTE: jjh927

oh isnt baldurs gate in early access now? is it worth playing now or should I wait?
I'm very hyped to that game

only the first chapter is out, I'm avoiding it cause I don't wanna get burned out

hmm yeah makes sense.

[PlusJOYED]

im also calling a 200 page day 1.

[PlusJOYED]

i'm one of the four

I though the name was familiar! The four I was talking about were samantha, christopher, April & Plus (and the one in a hydra is Flopz)

Edit: Actually we did play together TWICE before Both were in 2017 though so more than 3 years ago (and my style has changed MUCH since)

April is a boonskies alt btw

[PlusJOYED]

why is nero vs taylor TvS blossom?

[PlusJOYED]

Hectic really isn't useless!

i mean, we each have our own opinions guy. I've played with Hectic a few times and he just seems to troll wich I don't think is very useful unless he's a pr and does it to avoid getting shot.

Hectic really isn't useless!

i mean, we each have our own opinions guy. I've played with Hectic a few times and he just seems to troll wich I don't think is very useful unless he's a pr and does it to avoid getting shot.

i have played with hectic once or twice
he talks some sense and is generally nice

You guys had better stop being mean about my pal Hectic. Those cheap shots people are taking at him are going to make our whole hydra cry

Thanks for the support Morning Mage, it really means a lot to us. You can be locktown for the kindness. Let's just policy execute all the meanies

VOTE: Morning Mage

trying to get me modkilled is anti town

wrong you should want to get modkilled by schadd that shit would be an honor
VOTE: christopher

im scum

scum claim?
VOTE: plusjoyed

I do not like Plusjoy here. The amount of switching feels unnatural.

-Blossom

what the hell i haven't switched at all
im triggered

[PlusJOYED]

i'm one of the four

I though the name was familiar! The four I was talking about were samantha, christopher, April & Plus (and the one in a hydra is Flopz)

Edit: Actually we did play together TWICE before Both were in 2017 though so more than 3 years ago (and my style has changed MUCH since)

April is a boonskies alt btw

its true

[PlusJOYED]

Is this going to be another one of those 50 page D1s?

Also whoever said shelly has a high post count just wait until you see Nero and Norway argue....

is this username super bowl or superb owl
depending on the response i have a follow up question, then possibly a vote

I was trying to be a bowl of soup but misspelled it

holy hell LMAO this killed me

[PlusJOYED]

i wanna know why blossom called me flipping when I only voted taylor so far in rvs. Did they mean echo? or was it a joke?

[PlusJOYED]

I claim the largest ego in this game.

~Buttercup

Youre going to have some very very stiff competition buddy

What the duck did you just ducking say about me, you little self-voter? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Forum Academy, and I’ve been involved in secret raids on skitter-Dannflor hydras, and I have over 300 confirmed mislaunches. I am trained in WIFOM and I’m the top OMGUSer in the entire mafiascum community. You are nothing to me but just another lolhammer. I will Preview-Edit you out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this website mark my words. You think you can get away with saying shit to me over the Internet? Think again, ducker. As we speak I am contacting my network of alt-accounts across my computer and your name is being voted for right now so you better prepare for the storm, duffer. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your account. You’re ducking dead, newbie. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can modkill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my Noraa account. Not only am I extensively trained in ISO analysis, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Semi-Experienced playerbase and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your ass off the face of this RVS, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your tongue. You didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn MyLo. I will IIoA all over you and you will drown in EBWOP. You’re ducking dead, Vecna.

~Buttercup

alright so now i know hectic = buttercup

[PlusJOYED]

also with 23 players it just about has to be multiball, yes?
i don't leave newbie queue, i've never played a newbie game with multiball

If it does turn out to be multiball this is probably an important post that most likely turns Echo into an IC. Really really doubt that scum would bring it up and pretend to speculate on that shit.

that's so easily fakeable though i really don't think that post's AI

ok your locktown to me now

[PlusJOYED]

i wanna know why blossom called me flipping when I only voted taylor so far in rvs. Did they mean echo? or was it a joke?

I don't remember saying that and can't see it in my iso, can you point me where?

-Blossom

post 198

[PlusJOYED]

i wanna know why blossom called me flipping when I only voted taylor so far in rvs. Did they mean echo? or was it a joke?

I don't remember saying that and can't see it in my iso, can you point me where?

-Blossom

post 198

Oh right yeah. I saw your avatar and thought Norway was the one asking this question. That was serious, but was about Echo. I don't think I'm very good at names given I've already got you mixed up with two people.

-Blossom

Wow. Rascist against weebs i see.
Like you can’t tell us apart.

I don't hate weebs, some of my best friends and hydra pals are weebs. We're even using an anime magical girl group pic as our hydra picture.
I even watched a few anime myself, it's just I try not to look too closely at anime girl pictures since some of them give off slightly creepy vibes.

-Blossom

thats understandable

[PlusJOYED]

It felt like it kind of yeah. Jumping on doesn't have to necessarily be an attack so much as a 'look at me I'm doing stuff'. Not that that's inherently bad to answer your likely follow up of 'oh, so you don't think there's other stuff I could be saying in thread, pls Hop'.

So what are your thoughts on humor and Hectic and Taylor in general.

Firstly I think your take is super bad. What should I have been talking about on p4 that was so important that I shouldn't have pointed out a wierd post from Taylor? From my pov the only thing of substance was the mini wagon on Mage and his scum read on DS.. And I commented on that in 27 . I wasn't a fan of Vecna calling that "try hard" and throwing shade when I'm *gasp*

PLAYING THE GAME!

Its like he's trying to shut down content and wanted me to be a fluffy little troll. So yes, I don't think there was anything worth commenting on from p2 and 3.

Well, Taylor is clearly a gimmick alt. nothing they've said has been particularly great or bad so im null here. I don't

get

45 wich is why I asked about it. Hectic is a troll. Anyone that says he's is a big fat liar. I mean, he may believe that trolling and doing some kind of slayers gambit might be good play or something but my opinion is that he's a troll and doesn't particularly add much to a game. Humor is fine to an extent. I like seeing more posting and its generally good for town but getting this 150-200 page d1 that are mostly fluff and devoid of much content is both bad for the town and not as funny as ppl think they are. Although I'm a hypocrite b/c when I joke I think its dunny but think most others are just annoying.

if taylor is a gimmick alt they've been using it a lot.
I'm gently leaning towards a town!nero atm. If he was scum I think he'd have ducked and hid from the early SR's on him. He's also going against the grain/gamestate a bit imo with the anti-hectic feels.

[PlusJOYED]

taylor isn't a gimmick alt.
I do think nero is just making themselves LHF, probably not on purpose. The "stop with the fluff and you guys arent funny D:<" isn't something that seems like it'd come from scum. When you make people upset at you they're probably more likely to vote you.

@Hectic, you said you've played with nero. Do you think my thinking on nero has any merit or does nero play like that as either alignment?

[PlusJOYED]

@Plus: What did you mean he was going against the grain on me? No one had said they liked me alignment-wise. Based on the very brief meta I've done on Nero in past games, he's a little less combative and mad in general as scum. I know town!him hates fluff and jokes so it might be TI, I can see that. I haven't liked any of his reasoning so far though, like the questioning on Tayl0r

~Buttercup

i thought everyone liked you (not alignment wise). At least I do

[PlusJOYED]

I am serious about echo being locktown for me now

[PlusJOYED]

taylor vs nero gives me TvT vibes now actually
I'll swap to the person who made a LAMISTy readlist that makes 0 sense. That scumpinged me hard
VOTE: Mastina

[PlusJOYED]

Nero town.
Morning mage town.
Samantha town.

Echovision sus
Mastina sus

Superb owl scum

echo is town come join the anime pfp wagon on mastina

[PlusJOYED]

VOTE: plus

but would also be happy with a ddl wagon

._.
i'm trying to not get biased here cause last game, what's the reason you think im scum

[PlusJOYED]

meta-based. He also just has a way of tslking that convinces me he's town

[PlusJOYED]

VOTE: plus

but would also be happy with a ddl wagon

._.
i'm trying to not get biased here cause last game, what's the reason you think im scum

you don't seem very solve-y to me and you feel strangely self-aware vs last game

it's easy to be self aware when the game just started.

[PlusJOYED]

I think it would be hasty to call anyone strongly already, but I would agree that mastina is townpings

I think that if she’s scum then she’s mechanically hurting herself for a lot of towncred compensation, which is possible but it probably wouldn’t be my first step and I don’t think it would for that many other players if they rolled mafia either

disagree on this too. How is making an early readlist mechanically hurting you as maf?

[PlusJOYED]

458 Dunno how i feel about early big reads lists as it comes off as a bit Lamist. And some of thos reads seem like they’re just tossed in there.

@Mastina
Why are your scumreads what they are?

I have such a hard time with Norwee.

These two posts so close together show he's really thinking about the game I think or at least Mastina. But he hasn't omgussed yet, which worries me.

you think town!norwee would omgus?

100%

[PlusJOYED]

why does no one else dislike mastina's list like I do?

[PlusJOYED]

Mena knows I tend to be LHF and pushed me anyway so I might vote there too.

[PlusJOYED]

why does no one else dislike mastina's list like I do?

I do, and i'm tempted to vote there. But i was told they usually make reads lists like that, so i want to at least see what they have to say.

oh, I must"ve missed that.
Here's another question for someone who feels like answering, since this is the biggest game I've ever played in:
Do you think scum would be more or less likely to hop/swap on wagons to push mislims?
I'd think with the bigger plist it'd be more obvious to spot since theres more townies that could bring attention to it, but they also have more distractions.

[PlusJOYED]

Mena knows I tend to be LHF and pushed me anyway so I might vote there too.

Didn't he acknowledge that and then do it anyway? To be fair, you

do

seem different than I'm used to this game. You're trying more.

Mena seems different too! He's less present -- one time, we had formed a townbloc with like, me/him/Datisi/a couple others on the first day (why gun??). And another was similar where he had like 3-4 ppl as town too (forest fire). I can pretty feasibly see that as just being a difference in game size and players, though so mmmmmm

There is no way Titus writes this and doesn't think "Everyone is going to want to kill me after this." she's practically asking to be voted! i'm confused how to interpret it, other than noting this must just be how she tends to talk i suppose. Really confident even if it sounds super bad

Pretty sure she's joking since she had no posts when mastina locktowned her

~Buttercup

I thought she was saying we shouldn't kill her because mastina/her were destined to solve each other in a couple of days, therefore we should take her as town for now. Which to be fair, I am not opposed to strategies like that especially when it's d1/d2 of a huge game. But the delivery ("I'm town. Deal with it.") just looked bad

~Morning

i put 0 effort into the game you're thinking of. that's not my usual play at all.

[PlusJOYED]

i feel like the potential benefit from a mastina scumflip today is massively outweighed by the drawbacks of flipping town!mastina, and in any case she seems to be making a concentrated effort to gamesolve, but i'm not sure if that's nai for her. VOTE: plusjoyed their entire push on mastina feels manufactured and 575 and 674 ping me as calling out something for which there is no reason to call out.

what do you fucking mean I've no reason to call those out
one of them is a reason why i think the readlist comes from scum
the other is a town!norwee behavior I'm pointing out

[PlusJOYED]

I thought she was saying we shouldn't kill her because mastina/her were destined to solve each other in a couple of days, therefore we should take her as town for now. Which to be fair, I am not opposed to strategies like that especially when it's d1/d2 of a huge game. But the delivery ("I'm town. Deal with it.") just looked bad

you are correct, I glossed over the context. I can get behind it being slightly towny for how brazen and sus it looks.

~Buttercup

That is probably roughly where I'm at.

nice avi, clever head

I love thsi avi

~Buttercup

<3 !!

I have no opinion on the potential up/downsides of eliminating Mastina as I have no prior experience with her. However, I feel like with the amount she seems like she'll be efforting, we will be able to make a well-informed guess at her alignment in the future.

i will listen to my other half and paradox debate their points intently (´･ω･`)

~Morning

im not convinced mastina is town for that

[PlusJOYED]

did you.. see the posts i linked?

yes
did you see my post?
I already have a feeling I"m gonna tunnel you at some point
peddit: agree with morning. I'm null on mastina for now tho

[PlusJOYED]

oh oops
UNVOTE:

[PlusJOYED]

12 pages overnight
remeber when someone said this day will be around 50 pages? lol

[PlusJOYED]

i feel like the potential benefit from a mastina scumflip today is massively outweighed by the drawbacks of flipping town!mastina, and in any case she seems to be making a concentrated effort to gamesolve, but i'm not sure if that's nai for her. VOTE: plusjoyed their entire push on mastina feels manufactured and 575 and 674 ping me as calling out something for which there is no reason to call out.

Town!mastina will be dead by day 3 or day 4. You should know that. No reason to wagon her. Bad post.

why is town!mastina dead by day 3 or 4

[PlusJOYED]

Is this going to be another one of those 50 page D1s?

Also whoever said shelly has a high post count just wait until you see Nero and Norway argue....

this one here jjh

[PlusJOYED]

I can't argue with pickaxepete town atm.
Because why would I.
I'm town.

something has felt off with bell
they are probably the best player at obvtown as town i know, so the lack of motivation feels off here. Not sure I buy "4 games at once" excuse given some secret knowledge either.
Like he said it once, but he's been bringing it up every time.

I need to start taking notes

[PlusJOYED]

why does no one else dislike mastina's list like I do?

I do, and i'm tempted to vote there. But i was told they usually make reads lists like that, so i want to at least see what they have to say.

Fun fact: readslists are something that people think I do as either alignment but which I actually have a strong tendency to, in general, not actually make them as scum.

No, really.

I kid you not.

Readslists are something that, as scum, I have a strong tendency to not make.

That doesn't mean that I don't make readslists as scum, of course. I do. But critically, I make them

much, much less frequently

and also far, far less formatted than I do when I'm town*. (As scum I might make an informal readslist of "these people are town, so scum are in these people", but it's not a reads LIST, as in, town to scum, top to bottom, LIST. I have made proper readslists as scum, but they are

very very rare

and when I do make them, I update them with a much lower frequency than I do as town.)

Of course, it's an incredibly subtle thing, subtle enough that I doubt anyone other than me ever noticed it. And me being me, with me obviously aware of it, that means that it's not really a valid tell because obviously, me as scum knowing that I don't make readslists as scum, can make a readslist as scum for the towncred.

But legitimately, if you look at my towngames versus my scumgames in the last three years, you

will

be able to see a notable difference in how frequently I give readslists between alignments. Yet since that'd be thousands of pages' worth of reading material, nobody will ever look into that to verify it. Still, tho. It does make a neat piece of trivia!

*(By the way, the reason that I don't make readslists as often as scum and make them more as town is that readslists are a tool I use to sort my own thoughts out in the open. I need that less as scum for obvious reasons, but as town, making readslists is a way that lets me compare players and my feelings about them to help sort them into where I feel they should be. Just by organizing names into a list, I can get my thoughts more coherent and also am better at spotting things than I would be otherwise.)

self meta bad this comes off as lamisty to me

[PlusJOYED]

Did anyone ever answer my question about whether the scum team got to choose which town members got powerroles or did they just select which power roles would be in the game?

Mate, if scum assigned town slots their PRs then it would be easy for then to both run them over by day and shoot them by night. No? So it follows they pick what types of power to give town, but not whom to give it to. It also helps them make good fake claims, since they know what PRs are NOT included. (And now that I said that I foresee the mod stepping in and stating the exact opposite just so I would look dumb)

yeah bell wtf kinda question is that

[PlusJOYED]

Since when do scum pick the setup at all?

Did you read the intro & specifications to the game you signed up to??

motifs of the series:

assignment of roles to town by mafia; heavy information to mafia;

night actions being determined by events (e.g., two players are assigned to collaboratively use a doctor ability); normal roles or otherwise non-flashy roles; uncertain guilties vs. certain innocents; setup fake-outs; vanilla by any other name tastes just as sweet.

oh maybe im wrong. is this like haunted house?
if scum new all the prs thats not fair
im confused now

[PlusJOYED]

As scum would you be above claiming set up ignorance for easy town points?

I don't fake ignorance, but that doesn't mean scumastina can't be genuinely ignorant.

I never fake a mistake, but I can genuinely make a legit mistake.

i hate this self meta so much
peddit guys please stop i have a headache

[PlusJOYED]

Anyone wanna hop on the jjh train

I shall white knight with you.

VOTE: JJH

WHY im so overwhelmed right now

[PlusJOYED]

d1 should be a policy lynch on who we like the least
d2 should also be
d3 we can start scum hunting
d4 scum hunt a little
d5 we scum hunt hard and ez clap bitches

d1 should be a policy lynch on who we like the least

a policy lynch on who we like the least

come hang menalque

VOTE: menalque

Oof

HAHAHAHA absolutely nothing i just had a slight scum read on your slot
if we're policy lynching who we like the least can i vote for shellyc
she's in the replacement queue iirc
plus she flips scum 80% of the time so not a bad policy lynch at all

fuck yeah

[PlusJOYED]

I feel good about echo town actually

Probably my strongest TR

no stop bad
no
stop
bad
no

get nae-naed

[PlusJOYED]

i think gamma is town and there is at least 1 or 2 scum on his wagon

[PlusJOYED]

PlusJoy can you tell me why you're not scum

no

[PlusJOYED]

My townpool right now is something like this:

Nero
Vecna
TGP
Mastina
Superbowl
Taylor

@Buttercup - thoughts?

-Blossom

why would you not just post this in your pt

[PlusJOYED]

Is blossom flopz or hopkirk?

Am assuming flopz

I'm Hopkirk. I made a whole intro post about why each of us are which powerpuff girl

Which bit reads as genuine from Diamond's anger, I thought it felt kind of overblown. Maybe given he doesn't like the hydras specifically it might make a bit more sense as townmindset- is that what you were thinking?

-Blossom

That, and he started this game off chill and normal, and you can kinda seem him get more and more riled up through his ISO. The anger progression is there. Also, the kind of vote he laid down on Echo where he voted because he was annoying him almost always comes from town.

~Buttercup

Fine, I'll make room on the couch for now. Any thoughts on Plus? They're a null for me but I feel like I'd like a read there.

-Blossom

that's so fucking narcissistic given the quantity of posts. not sure if this is troll or lamisty

[PlusJOYED]

My townpool right now is something like this:

Nero
Vecna
TGP
Mastina
Superbowl
Taylor

@Buttercup - thoughts?

-Blossom

why would you not just post this in your pt

while it does clutter the thread a bit i like that theyre sharing publicly. it reads as genuine to me more than chaotic.

it doesn't to me. seems like an easy way to get towncred

[PlusJOYED]

its not the readlist itself
it's that you talked to your other heads in thread to emulate a stream of consciousness. That seemed fake to me.
VOTE: ban hydras

[PlusJOYED]

I just now noticed you do it ban hydras
its a scumtell i didnt see until now

[PlusJOYED]

I've done/said the same thing in previous hydras with Hectic as town (Hoptic). I frequently quote his posts and ask questions. Why are you ignoring that I said this, that's a fairly blatantly bad faith push.

-Blossom

I believe you I just think here it means your scum. There are some other small things about your play too but its hard to explain.
At any rate I think this is bearing fruit even if you flip town. I strongly suspect scum will hop on this too

[PlusJOYED]

I see this is the coolkid wagon.

VOTE: Gamma Emerald
I don't highly scumread Gamma, but they haven't really towntold.

VOTE: Norwee

Opportunistic wagon hop on a likely town + disclaimer = scumtell. Discuss

im null on norwee atm. My attention has been kinda focused elsewhere; I'm not even gonna try to pay attention to every single slot. that's the problem with a huge plist.
I prefer a power puff elim over battle mage elim. I actually want a hydra elim today though.

[PlusJOYED]

at least with power puff elim that's 3 less posters to have to sort

[PlusJOYED]

VOTE: ban hydras

this slot is making it difficult to play and it feels like they're doing this deliberately. can you block one player's posts and read the thread? kinda like an opposite iso?

you thought i was scum and I'm voting ban hydras and leading the wagon. care to explain?

[PlusJOYED]

Holy fuck I'm behind
I WAS GONE LESS THAN 2 DAYS

[PlusJOYED]

Anyway so I'm ascetic

i believe this

[PlusJOYED]

TRIGGER WARNING

- An uncomfortable word is used here that is related to murder without a trial.

In the spoiler tab is some of Nero's posts as well as from others which was the reason I have decided to write this message.

Spoiler:

get lynched scum

Spoiler:

I'm still down to lynch the hydras

Spoiler:

made me want to lynch him so....IT DID!

Spoiler:

Hey mastina, I was gonna vote Titus
Can you confirm once more your strong disagreement with this course of action

Absolutely.
If you voted Titus I wouldn't instavote you because you're enough of a troll to vote locktown reads of mine even as town.

But if there were a gladiate between you and Titus, I would lynch you 200% of the time here. I wouldn't be happy doing it because I believe you're town--but in a contest between the townitude of you and Titus, Titus wins by a landslide. She's never getting lynched as long as I live.

Spoiler:

VOTE: jjh927

We can lynch whatshisname tomorrow instead

Spoiler:

mena i see that they're true null, what about a lynch for post count

Aloha all

I've seen a lot of mean words being used and would like to explain to people about the problem with using these words, with special focus on one particular word which has been, rightly so, recognised by all as being incredibly problematic. Due to the sensitive nature of this post, I would like to prefix that I am a person of colour and this post is being written in reference to my own lived experiences.

I am of course talking about "lynch", a word steeped in racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia. Etymologically, the specific origins of lynch is not 100% known but it is commonly believed that it originated during the American Revolution through the phrase "Lynch Law", a term for a punishment without trial. The most likely source of the word is from a Charles Lynch, a Virginia Quaker, planter and American Revolutionary who headed a county court in Virginia which imprisoned Loyalist supporters of the British for up to a year during the war. As he lacked the proper legal right to detain these people, he asked his friends in the Congress of the Confederation to pass a law that exonerated him and his associates from wrongdoing. Surprisingly enough, Charles wasn't criticised at being racist against people of colour but the Welsh.

Literally every single society in the universe has had forms of extrajudicial punishments, which included murder, but of course it makes perfect sense to view things solely through an America-centric lens as, according to the esteemed president of the United States who has said so on many occasions, "America is the greatest country on Earth". Following this fundamental belief, we should of course only base our usage of words in the context of America and nowhere else in the world.

In all seriousness, lynching has a very serious history in the Unites States, really ramping up in 1892, after white Southern Democrats had regained control of state legislatures and after slavery had been abolished and freed black men gained the right to vote. With nearly 3500 African Americans, including at least 159 black women, and 1300 White Americans being lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968.

Lynchings took place in the United States both before and after the American Civil War, most commonly in Southern states and most frequently in the late 19th century. In the American South, those who were opposed to slavery were often victims of extremely horrible mob violence. The largest lynching during the war and possibly the largest lynching in the United States' entire history, was the lynching of 41 men in the Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas in October 1862. Most of the victims were hanged after fake "trials" but at least fourteen of them did not even receive that formality. These men were accused of insurrection or treason for daring to speak out against the barbarism of slavery.

After the war, disgusting groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) instigated extrajudicial assaults and killings in order to keep whites in power and discourage freed black men from voting, working and getting educated. With the KKK being involved with over 400 lynches between 1868 to 1871.

Through attacks of fraud, intimidation and violence at the polls, including the threat of lynching, by the end of Reconstruction in 1877, White Democrats regained nearly total control of the state legislatures across the South. They passed laws to make voter registration more complicated to block African Americans from being able to vote. From 1890 to 1908, ten of eleven Southern legislatures ratified new constitutions and amendments to effectively disenfranchise most African Americans through as poll taxes, property and residency requirements and literacy tests. Since they could not vote, African Americans could also not serve on juries and were effectively without official political voice. The ideology behind lynching was directly connected with the denial of political and social equality and was used to shut out African Americans from political discourse.

Due to the culmination of lynching, racism, and a lack of political and economic opportunities in the South, many African American southerners fled to the North but were also met with ample racism and discrimination. Many whites "defended" "their" areas with violence, intimidation, or skewed legal tactics toward African Americans. Overall, African Americans in Northern cities still experienced systemical and methodical discrimination throughout all aspects of their life. Throughout this period, racial tensions ramped up, most violently in Chicago and lynchings increased dramatically in the 1920s. It started to decrease after that point but spiked during both The Great Depression and World War 2, signifying to African Americans that they were never truly safe and that a bad day for America is the difference between life and death at the hands of brutal racists.

By the 1950s, the Civil Rights Movement was gaining new momentum. It was spurred by the lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American

child

from Chicago who committed the "crime" of speaking to the 21-year-old white married owner of a small grocery store while visiting an uncle in Mississippi. For this "offence", he was abducted, beaten and mutilated before getting shot in the head and sunk in the Tallahatchie River where his body lay for 3 days till it was discovered. In September 1955, an all-white jury found the killer to be not guilty of Till's kidnapping and murder showing that the law did not care about black lives and that the ideology of White Supremacy ran rampant throughout all American institutions.

Most, but certainly not all, lynchings ceased by the 1960s but the fear that it brought did not ever dissipate. Even in 2011, the murder of James Craig Anderson in Mississippi was recorded to have been fatally lynched. Jasmine Richards was convicted of "lynching" in 2016 but her conviction was for "taking by means of a riot of any person from the lawful custody of a peace officer" and not for her crime of killing.

While I only briefly touched on the horrors of that word, I felt that it was important for people to realise and understand just how terrible and tragic its connotations are.

If anyone wants to do some outside reading, and I really encourage people to do so, below is a few links to helpful resources:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Years-Lync ... oks&sr=1-8

https://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Years-Lync ... 00D614D80/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tragedy-Lynchi ... 0486430987

https://www.amazon.com/Lynching-America ... B01IDMPV1E

And remember everyone, don't forget to love each other

~~~Bubbles~~~

Spoiler:

you're actually an awful person

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wait hold on i think i got it backwards jjh is scum

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speed-eliming someone because they're replacing out is an

awful

strategy unless it's clearly a scum aligned ragequit because they're getting pressured. I really don't think that anyone can genuinely say that sam's "replacement" smells of that.

agree

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replacing echovision

noooooo rip funny townlock man
;_;
at least his replacement is also locktown

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I really just love how this town has 0 care for outing PRs i think that will raise our chances of winning, how about we all just massclaim right now

what?
only claim im aware of is jjh ascetic but i speedread

Can someone please make a list of claims for my coasting ass

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caught up sorta
happy to see trans support here, warms my heart

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I think you have a better chance of survival if you just don’t post plus

why

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also
UNVOTE: ban hydras
VOTE: jjh

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thought about it more, i want this today
UNVOTE:
VOTE: gamma

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i believe gamma is at e2

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wisdom teeth are good

vote count 1.5

Gamma Emerald (6):

Ban Hydras, Pickaxe Pete, Titus, superbowl9, NorwegianboyEE, mastina

Ban Hydras (5):

PlusJOYED, DiamondSentinel, Christøpher, samantha97, Gamma Emerald

samantha97 (5):

April Ludgate, Morning Mage, Almost50, Menalque, Nero Cain

NorwegianboyEE (3):

DrDolittle, TheGoldenParadox, Tayl0r Swift

Menalque (1):

jjh927

Almost50 (1):

Vecna

April Ludgate (1):

EchoVision

not voting (1):

Bell

with 23 alive, it takes 12 to Execute someones Ass. day 1 ends october 24th at 13:30 central US time; in (expired on 2020-10-24 13:30:00)

mod notes

• samantha97 has requested replacement
  
• while using The L Word isn't Against Site rules, if it becomes clear you are not making any effort to use it less i will not let you play in my game, lest you potentially alienate other players
  
• for example: think about a way 2130 could be worded differently!
  
• 2168, 2198 ibid.

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think this is e3

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me, nero, and mena hopped on

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also question
i dont use l word but i like saying lylo, is that ok
elo sounds like matchmaking rank

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shellyc replaces samantha97

jesus christ like we needed more heavy posters

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Because the wagon went too fast and there were no counterwagons

There ARE counterwagons.
Jesus.

yeah ban hydras
I really think there is a strong chance of one of Ban hydras or gamma being scum.

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if gamma flips red I'm willing to bet one of the people on ban hydras wagon is red. Currently thinking diamond is the most likely candidate. Him voting immediately after I voted ban hydras felt opportunistic, but thats if gamma flips red

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intent to l-1

why declare intent for l1
why not just do it

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i like murk and elim

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not a fan of the alien claim either

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excited for the flip. we managed to get under 100 page day 1, I'm proud of yall

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@gamma, you've been hammered
were you scum?

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poggers

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we had a < 100 page d1 and you threw it away
sad

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I wonder if there's a governor or some shit and thats why the thread hasn't been locked

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governors don't have to be mafia

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what is moonlogic

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also im kinda worried everyone is forming townblocks and im gonna eat lunch alone like middle school all over again.
can someone block with me pls

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april claimed investigative in twilight huh

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ngl guys im kinda lost.
how do you all feel about the samantha slot

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my suslist is sam, norwee, diamond rn

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my suslist is sam, norwee, diamond rn

Okay ty

Who's your favorite smasher btw

melee: m2k / mango
ult: void / dabuz
i used to like nairo but

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i think in terms of wagonomics ban hydras or sams wagon would be where scum would hang out
peddit: why is MM scum

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how do you guys feel on the shellyc slot

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might've been gammas partners

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shelly replace sam

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what character is your avi from norwee
i thought it was kiss shot at first but I just noticed the eye color was wrong

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im very interested in shellys first post considering I targeted them last night. too bad she's aussie / different timezone

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what character is your avi from norwee
i thought it was kiss shot at first but I just noticed the eye color was wrong

Clownpiece. Touhou Project.

nice, i didn't recognize without the hat

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im very interested in shellys first post considering I targeted them last night. too bad she's aussie / different timezone

Looks like you’re new. Here’s a hint if you’re town: don’t claim a PR type role and say awaiting in response because of it. You’ve just told scum you’re a PR when we’re down a tracker and I noticed some pants slips earlier so bad idea. Now you have also given Shelly an “out” of what to fakeclaiming possibly. Just instead next time drop a vote and see how it goes. If you’re scum by all means keep this up because it will help me out.

i normally would, but we have an ascetic claim and dead alien so if thats true we don't very likely have a way to make shelly not targetable so I need to know if my action went through. I'm odd night and either loyal or disloyal not gonna share which.

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im town and loyal or disloyal. an ascetic or rolestopper effect would change the result and I"m saying we very likely don't have that. Basically wanna force a possible scum!shelly to take a 50/50.

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also i started this right out the gate cause I thought I was getting POE'd and gonna be the target today. Guess I was wrong
oh well

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why did the neighborhood start out with 2 people

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I'm a little confused, who claimed miller?
I think almost claimed miller mason but i thought that was a joke?

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I'm also inclined to believe april is telling the truth here
peddit; you said you neighborized and started with 3. whose the 4th?

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i don't believe, at the very least, everyone in that hood has a town wincon.

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Yeah no way that hood all shares a town wincon, and is all mod confirmed to each other, that'd be ridiculous.
At worst they win when town is dead, like a cult. If that were the case I'd think killing Titus would kill the cult otherwise town would just lose.
At best they have some other objective besides killing scum. Maybe recruiting a specific role?

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I think we need to elim at least 1 person in the group just to see what they are. I'd like to go Titus or A50 today.
Titus cuz CL theory
A50 cause he backtracked miller and I think that's just him being caught with something that doesn't make sense.

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im forming a townblock with april given these circumstances. I think scum motion detector would be too shitty

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this game listed things it wouldn't do, CL not being included
never said it wasn't bastard

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i checked signups. it said no "epic bastard" I don't think that means cult is impossible

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it also mentions "romance???" which makes me think there is a lover thing going on in that group

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my main theory is kinda tinfoil but I think they are most likely a 3rd party that needs to recruit a specific role to win. they went after the mason claim to increase odds of success.
i dont know if town should work with them or not

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yeah this is 100% multiball

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im tabling this game for a bit until I hear from shelly. lot to process

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i feel that since repping in, mathblade has bent over backwards to come up with reasons to defend Titus, and I'm struggling to see why.

It’s partially because when we fight it gets bad. I am trying new things to prevent toxicity. I also have a sore spot as she is my RL sister (different houses known thing) so I am trying to work with her versus against her.

If she’s scum she will have to take it and if she’s town it’s a breath of fresh air.

she is your sister? wha?

Correct. I am her brother.

When we disagree it gets loud and heated so I am trying to repeat facts and give her benefit of the doubt as we both get moonlogicky and I don’t want my first game back from retirement to be a toxic shit show.

woah new lore

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Pfft, this is nothing compared to Korina’s "Everything is a lie"

game?

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i think its safe to say i scumread bell this game as well. But I'm holding off on it for now

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does anyone else feel like an ascetic claim is really out of place here?

yes absolutely

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I'm kinda lost on the whole mason thing myself. The story feels likes its changed a lot

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Mod: Is cult possible or is that epic bastard?

i guess i would say the game is also not even regular bastard. there are no cults or alignment changes

Thank you

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mathblade can you summon shelly to answer my question for me

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mathblade can you summon shelly to answer my question for me

??? *confused* Not sure what you’re thinking I can do here.

brother?

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mathblades brother claim lookin sus

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how did i think you were shellys brother

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Plus and I linked up, as town/town here, which I think they are town here, so that’s the world I think we’re living in, it makes 100% sense considering we are both claimed.

aww yeah
I actually wanted to townblock with you this game and I do think April is town

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what are the odds A50 is a cult leader?

0%

I trust Something’s analysis on this.

Only he is capable of truly locking that “what if” out because Rulesets.

it was also mod confirmed there aren't alignment changes this game
echo was obvtown to me so SS is starting with me townreading them

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Assume they are town and loyal and say they are visiting a scum. They get healed by a protective and live.

your thinking of the weak modifier. I'm not weak.

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I would like to revisit the mason thing later. Their story has changed a bit so im confused. Did Titus neighborize someone?
If they started with 3 and now have 6 I don't understand.

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I'd like to work with them, but I need them to share their wincon
peddit: so Titus, when recruiting A50, you just gained A50. A50 has 2 partners and didn't neighborize?

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What makes you think 3P is not likely when we have a 3P scumteam???? None of us are masons. We use masons because it is an easy turn of phrase that has now because confusing. We are 3P with town’s wincon. Titus I can’t speak for but I highly doubt they are masons

Confused.

3P with town wincon = town plus. You have town wincon plus something else.

Otherwise you’re just town not 3P.

The distinction exists for a reason.

What makes you say a 3P scum team exists? This could be an SK (not a team, jjh top theory if true) multiball or a vig

Like help me connect your dots here

I will give you an ELI5 because you do seem very confused. Me, A50, and someone else are goliath gouthwits health interns. This is NOT town, it is a 3P which flips and returns investigations as our 3P (GGHI). Our win condition is the same as town’s, we win when all threats to town are eliminated. Thus we are FUNCTIONALLY miller masons, which is why that’s what A50 claimed.

Gamma flipped as a NON town aligned 3P (which he claimed was scum, while also saying there may be multiball. You can look at this as WIFOM if you want). Cop investigation checked against this non-town 3P.

Titus is apparently 3P neighborizer with Nero and mastina who recruited A50. A50 now has access to both PTs and is trying to sort through this whole mess. Do you understand?

interesting. i get it

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I feel you. The way Titus explained it + progression was very confusing, but superbowl's explanation makes sense

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Salutations my fellow players, gonna head to work now

did anything happen to you at night?

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A50
is shelly the third intern?

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is shelly an intern superbowl

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is shelly an intern superbowl

Dont ask us this Tswift already narrowed POE

why hide it
looked at iso and pretty sure its battle mage though

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wish shelly was here and explicit about if anything happened to her last night

Peddit why are you hiding them I don't understand.

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I think my action on shelly didn't go through but only she knows for sure. I need a harf confirmation or deconfirmation

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ok shelly is conf town
i checked shelly cuz paranoia but mainly vca from her predecessor

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my full role is odd night disloyal alignment cop inventor.
on odd nights i can target someone. if they aren't town they become a cop
this makes a lot of sense with the "town but not town" mason. I wish they would have revealed this day 1 but whatevs.

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so i think the plan if i survive would be to target a50 or superbowl n3
but ill probably be dead

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my full role is odd night disloyal alignment cop inventor.
on odd nights i can target someone. if they aren't town they become a cop
this makes a lot of sense with the "town but not town" mason. I wish they would have revealed this day 1 but whatevs.

Almost50 did. At least we got a clear from it.

they claimed miller mason thats a joke claim

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im pretty sure this means shelly is town.

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they didn't know it was disloyal

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tbh i misunderstood my role until it was too late
i thought i would know if the check would go through or not until it already happened

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my full role is odd night disloyal alignment cop inventor.
on odd nights i can target someone. if they aren't town they become a cop
this makes a lot of sense with the "town but not town" mason. I wish they would have revealed this day 1 but whatevs.

This role and 6 masons, wtf, no.

Also, if Shelly is scum here who received the cop invention, they would know not to say it.

You and I should target the same player.

agree with this and agree tp should be on me

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plus could you remind me of your scum reads?

i've been a bit distracted with claims and 3p shit and frustration at the fact that the miller mason thing wasn't a joke and i fucked up by not targeting them
i also think im probably gonna die in the next 2 days

I wanna go bell today I think. Bell has high scum equity

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i read it. They said setup reasons they couldn't elaborate on? That could be a lot of things. he was right on the motion from titus. plus muh townblock
I'm not trusting Titus's side/mastina as much as A50's side. I think there might be something going on there that's not necessarily protown.
I wanna go bell today
VOTE: bell

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ongoing games thing removed ~s

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maybe, maybe not

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@Joyed, you're basically just saying that based off your experience with him you don't think he's scum yeah?

as in I can't say

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i told ya echo was locktown

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kill bell gang where you at