Round 72: Dragon-Blooded Mafia

It's your own damn fault, Scept. You should have read my accusation before jumping to defensive conclusions.

Huh, the 2 sure fire townies are down.
That said Scept, I don't think town blew it by lynching you. You blew it for the town by voting for Cael. :/ You wouldn't have been town's sure fire lynch otherwise. (they'd have most likely lynched Link or Gamage instead).

Wait, poison? Is that why the mafia didn't kill the night before? At any rate, we're in huge trouble. One wrong move and we're dead. The only reasonable assumption is Lucid is innocent. My number one suspect at the moment is Gam so [vote Gam]. I hope I'm right.

Honestly the town needs to start realising that just because someone doesn't read something doesn't mean they're suspicious. You should be filling them in. But that requires being proactive and nobody wants to be proactive now do they. I'm guilty of this at too at the moment.

Link you always suspect me and you're always wrong. Like I've said before, it would bother me less if you had a reason. Being quiet is hardly a good reason seeing as how I'm always quiet. As for the poison, that's most likely me, unless someone else has poison powers. (I-It's not like I can control it b-baka!)

Actually, you're number 1 because I feel like Aboi wouldn't have voted Geno early day 2 if Geno was mafia. I mean, it could be a ruse to distance Aboi and Geno but I find that unlikely since it could easily have backfired had I voted Geno instead of Lucid. But with you, there's nothing to suggest whether you're mafia or not. So you just seem more likely in comparison.

Although, if Geno was mafia and it was a ruse, Geno's vote on Aboi could also be seen as such, especially since it posed no threat to Aboi. It might explain why Aboi didn't vote when it was a tie between Geno and Zink.....and why Geno pushed for a no lynch.

Also, I'm guessing from your post that poison is your anima? That sounds like it'd be a mafia thing but looking at Aboi and Zink's roles, they share animas with some townies so I'll willing to bet there's at least one other person with that anima.

Hmmm......fine, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and [vote Geno] instead. You better not be mafia.

Oh shit. I missed out on some things over the past day.
Alright, voting with the oldies seems to be a good plan of action so far, so I'm gonna hope that my [vote Geno] doesn't screw us over. The both of you seem trustworthy enough. Anything to avenge Cloak.

Jesus, how did THREE PEOPLE die??? I've never seen something go so horrifically wrong so quickly. Considering that I'm being put up to the block, I believe it is time for my role to be revealed:

My Anima Power is a 10% chance of hiding from a night action.

My charm a High-percentage PI type power. It's base was a 60% chance to work, and it would be increased based on if the target attacked/killed somebody up to 85%.

Link, I trust you. You've helped the downfall of two of the mafias. I've been hiding my role all game and investigating people. Now that I've dropped the bomb that I'm a PI, I won't be seeing the light of tomorrow's day even if you don't lynch me. I've investigated you and saw that you're a townie, but I never tried gam nor lucid. As for explaining the reason behind my stupid actions... well, it was to make me look harmless while I quietly investigated during the night... Although I never ended up finding a single mafia...

I'm choosing to [vote gam] because I believe that the source of no killing might have simply been from afk people. I doubt lucid would take advantage of it (though, there is a good chance that I am wrong), I know gam is experienced enough to pull a powerful ruse like that.

I'm not even 100% sure that you're a townie Link, but I gotta go with it now, cos I'm at the block and you're the only one I have somewhat evidence to be a townie. There is going to be a lynching and then a killing tonight, and if the lynched isn't mafia, they're taking the victory.

Computer auto-restarted (probably for updates) today. Sorry for the couple of hours of down time.

Hmmmm...poop. I want to believe you, but apparently the townies and mafia share some similar powers. On the other hand, why would a mafia have a PI (I'm assuming that means Private Investigator) power?
All my powers were based around avoiding detection and enemy charms, with 50%, 100% with a recharge, and type-based evasion. I think I'll change my mind then, because I am much to malleable online. [vote Link]

Polls closed.

Geno was lynched.

Spoiler:

Lucidity was a victim of DBs' shitty defense Charms.

Spoiler:

Gam lost by default.

Spoiler:

[kill Geno]
[kill Lucidity]
[kill Gam]

Which leaves our sole survivor, Link.

Spoiler:

Awards coming in just a sec.

Pattern Spider Award: Link
He had a wonderful start, then lost both of his buddies in a row. He thought he'd messed up when French didn't die, but he proceeded to overwhelm the town with a triple kill and a well-executed final day... including a lucky break with Lucidity's aspect (Fire, Earth, or Wood aspects would be unkillable with their Defense Techniques)

Not-So-Perfect Defense Award: French
Despite being the only person to tank a night kill, he unfortunately succumbed to the poison anima.

Stoned Out of His Mind Award: Gam
His inactivity not only raised suspicion, but pretty much cost the town the game.

Perception 1 Award: Scept
Seriously, dude. Check your sources.

in related news, link is mafia, takes victory, again

Players
01: Cloak - Killed R2
02: Scept - Killed R5
03: Geno - Killed R6
04: Link Lab
05: Tael - Killed R2
06: MrNaleIt - Killed R2
07: Gam - Killed R6
08: French Connections - Killed R5
09: Zink120 - Killed R3
10: StalinCommander - Killed R2
11: Caelun_Niveus - Killed R5
12: Aboithagameboi - Killed R4
13: Lucidity - Killed R6

Voting History:

Final Vote History:

Phase: R6 Night

Dracojounin7 wrote:
Perception 1 Award: Scept
Seriously, dude. Check your sources.

Amen to that my brother.

Well played to Mafia I guess, though I'm surprised we even did this well given the amount of probability based roles in this game. Felt weaker than a vanilla town. Were it not for the strange Zink/Aboi plays, Mafia may have gotten a flawless victory. :P Thanks for the game Draco.

We seriously need to update our AFK rules.

Did Lucidity post...ever?

Awesomely played, Link. GG all, cheers for an interesting round Draco.
I will rage if I'm mafia next game again though...

Tael wrote:in related news, link is mafia, takes victory, again

You say that but my last victory was with you in Jet Set Radio (and I died just before we won). Since last June I've been in 4.5 winning mafias with 10 games played as mafia. Also, I think this is the first time I've been the last mafia standing and won (it certainly is the first on this forum). Of course, I did have a very good role (some might even say an OP role). Shame the power failed when Zink's life was on the line (He only had a 1/8 chance to die while French had 3/8 and Geno had 1/2).

And I was gonna lynch Link too, if Scept hadn't voted for me even after everyone told him I was guaranteed innocent. "Oh, sorry I didn't read" doesn't come off as convincing if you don't change your opinion in light of the new information.

Also, that Wood anima power seems a might bit too powerful, expecially when it essentially negates bulletproof

I thought of that after the fact. Hindsight's a bitch.

StalinCommander wrote:We seriously need to update our AFK rules.

Did Lucidity post...ever?  

A couple times, yeah. I even voted Link right before the polls closed on the last night, but it didn't end up helping.

French Connections wrote:Well played to Mafia I guess, though I'm surprised we even did this well given the amount of probability based roles in this game. Felt weaker than a vanilla town.

If I might offer some general advise that I've been itching to say since I started watching this game:

Chance negates skill. The more chance there is in the game, the more it can work against the skill of the players. The first thing I do when I create a game is work to eliminate as much chance from it as I can. I'd rather have my players dictate what happens in the game, not random.org.

Not at all intended as an insult or anything. Just sharing my thoughts as a fellow host.

Yeah the RNG element just makes the game somewhat pointless as all the info you have is probably wrong. Either make my bulletproof or don't. But 10%? Statistically speaking I may as well have been vanilla (though the odds definitely worked in my favour this game). Plus the new abilities gained by probability were again, heavily RNG dependent.
I just think that had Mafia just played it cool and not switched their votes awkwardly in R3, town had NO concrete way of determining who was Mafia, and would have had to blind-vote their way to victory. The game is already hard enough with a blind roleset, but making everything RNG based makes shit a lot harder.
Gotta admit, I'm not even a fan of RNG for determining roles. It leads to people like Zink and Link to end up with the same role over and over.