What element are you?

[Mr. Flay]

This was an interesting thread out of the SA embassy thread in GD, but has much more relevance to Mafia:

So how does Mafia-play determine your element? Sort of Fire = likes to lynch quickly, Air are talkers...?

In all honesty it's something we cooked up like, a day ago on IRC (so it's not exactly serious, to say the least). We drew up a political-spectrum-like chart ranking everyone on a scale of serious to not serious (the X axis) and calm to emotional (the Y axis).

Serious & Emotional = fire (red), Serious & Calm = earth (green), Not Serious & Emotional = air (yellow? the only air player who's come here so far is Ecco and s/he hasn't used a colour yet), Not Serious & Calm = water (blue).

I guess you can be heart if you're directly in the middle like Mills is.

Air is the rarest one since usually people who aren't serious by definition don't really get emotional about it. It's a tricky one to pull off.

Full thread is here: http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopi ... &start=119

There's already been some theories about how different scummers would fall into this scale. There's also some "variants" like mud (water+earth, or mostly just plain calm) and steam.

I'm pretty sure I'd be

Earth

, although lately I've had tendencies toward emotional play. What would Earth+Fire be??

[Mr. Flay]

Oh, right. Para-Elemental Planes FTW!

(sorry, I'm getting ready for my next D&D session this week)

[Mr. Flay]

Alasdair played a game on here where he was scum with one other person. He claimed cop on day 1, and furthermore that he got a night 0 investigation of his scumbuddy which said he was scum.

Of course, Alasdair "forgot" that in the OP is said clearly that there were no night 0 actions. They lynched Alasdair, and absolutely ignored his scumbuddy. His scumbuddy flew under the radar for the whole damn game because of that.

That is pure Water play. And it's pretty awesome.

Which "here" are you talking about, MS or SA? If it's here on MafiaScum, please link to the game, I want to see how this worked... that's pretty awesome if true.

Nevermind, Xythar simulposted with me. That's pretty clever, even if it was a Newbie Game.

[Mr. Flay]

Ecco, what's the vOv thing supposed to be?

I think it definitely makes more sense to think of them as playstyles than skill levels. Emotional players CAN do well, though in some settings they tend to lose out. BM is definitely an Air, which is not always a bad thing.

[Mr. Flay]

I agree with Xythar (I get the feeling I'm going to be saying that a lot).

Alasdair: Huh, kinda clever. *makes a note on his list of things SAers brought to MafiaScum that he

likes

*

[Mr. Flay]

you're air if you don't take a game seriously, then get really pissed off when the people in the game don't take you seriously as a result.

I'd substitute "listen to you" for "take you seriously" in the second part. Emotional Jokers seem to want to be

believed

, not taken seriously.

Air + Water = Mist? Actually, ssf's Bubble captures the "Not Serious About Anything" aspect of it pretty well...

[Mr. Flay]

How many games has this topic ground to a halt :p

Luckily I just got killed in the last game I was alive in, so I'm just modding at the moment.

@Fritz: - that was so wrong...

[Mr. Flay]

Ooh - unless you saw me throw several wobblies in (New York) Wolves recently.

I saw! (and sympathized).

I'd say you're moderately emotional, but very serious, Tally. 4/7 or 4/8 sounds about right

[Mr. Flay]

Yeah, I pity the mod of the Air game...

[Mr. Flay]

Aggressive, Mathematical, depends, Orthodox, both.

Willing to be convinced out of my wishywashiness by others who have played with me.