mystery box of silver 15: i'm killing hostages (negotiated)

[schadd_]

welcome to

mystery box of silver 15

! i'd hate to be a hostage right now

the theme of this game is uhhh. baseball

reviewed and backup modded by: isis
modded by: me
shoutout to: taxes and tariffs and fees and problems

Spoiler: playerlist

1. Skygazer
   
2. DkKoba
   
3. The Bulge
   
4. Alisae
   
5. xyzzy
   
6. BlueSnakelet
   0verki11
   
   
7. RCEnigma
   
8. MUSHSHAGANA
   
9. SirCakez
   
10. ofrhz
    
11. HighPrincessErinys
    
12. sheepsaysmeep
    
13. petapan
    Morning Tweet
    
    
14. Save The Dragons
    Doctor Drew
    
    
15. PookyTheMagicalBear
    
16. Ranger
    
17. Dannflor
    
18. Meuh
    
19. iamveryhappy

Spoiler: alive players

• Skygazer
  
• DkKoba
  
• MUSHSHAGANA
  
• SirCakez
  
• HighPrincessErinys
  
• sheepsaysmeep
  
• Save The Dragons
  
• Ranger
  
• Dannflor
  
• Meuh

Spoiler: reveals

day 1: the bulge was detonated. he was a vanilla hostage.
day 1: alisae was exercuted. she was a town 1-shot extoller
day 2: bluesnakelet was exercuted. it was a mafia goon
day 3: iamveryhappy was detonated. he was a town hostage negotiator
day 3: pookythemagicalbear was detonated. he was a vanilla hostage
day 3: morning tweet was execructed. she was a mafia goon named francis
day 4: xyzzy was detonated. they were a mafia hostage negotiator vulnerator
day 4: ofrhz was execurected. they were a mafia goon.
day 5: rcenigma was execurrulted. they were a mafia goon

[schadd_]

the "rules"

(originally taken from nexus and then squished and bent and wrung out)

general:

- Please adhere to the site rules.
- Do not discuss this game of mafia outside of this thread.
- days will be infinity days long.
- night phases will not exist.
- Do not quote PM's from the mod at all (real or fabricated).

This includes specific timestamps and that sort of meta-data; please ask me if you're uncertain whether something breaks this rule.

Paraphrasing is acceptable.
- If you have any questions about your role, or the game, feel free to PM the mod.
- "Bah" posts are not allowed.

- i don't like players using the term "lynch" in my game, and i make an effort to provide a bunch of fun and stupid alternatives. i would appreciate seeing that effort returned
- it is also against site rules as of like 3 years ago or something

- rule number 1: please do not break the rules if possible.

voting / player actions:

- Vote either with vote tags (VOTE: schadd) or with bold (

vote: schadd

). Note that I didn't include the underscore in my username; you may choose to use a string that will uniquely identify a player to me instead of the exact thing.
- Don't try to confuse me with your votes.
- An Execution will occur once a majority decision is reached. if no majority is reached, the day will end peacefully.

activity:

- You are expected to post at least once every 48 hours. If you haven't posted for 48 hours, I shall prod you. If you do not respond to the prod within 24 hours (either in thread if it's Day, or via PM during the Night) then I will replace you.
- As well, if you require more than three prods, I will force-replace you.
-

If you decide to replace out, PLEASE PM me and don't post in thread after doing so - if you want to rescind the replacement BLEASE PM ME AGAIN and dont post in thread until i have been like "ok np"

things:

-

Aquamarine, 21B35F

is my color. Please don't use it. i dont use it either because i think it's hard to read on mafsilver. Please don't use it
- No impossible/hard to read text, or cryptography. For example, I would prefer that no font size smaller than the one you're reading now be used.
- The mod may make mistakes - please point out any mistakes gently. Mistakes will be corrected where possible, but sometimes mistakes are made that cannot be reversed. These will stand as final to be commiserated over after the game.
- If you need to get the mod's attention, either PM me, or bold the text you wish to draw to my attention.
- I reserve the right to alter/remove/add any rules as I see fit. You will, of course, be notified if that happens, however.

starting with the last game i modded, i'll be giving mafia members the ability to highlight messages to get included in the role PM for slots that replace them. this is just to keep track of things like fakeclaims, and doesn't mechanically affect gameplay.

mafia will be able to communicate with each other during day phases.

there are 14 town and 5 mafia.

nobody will be a psychologist, a ninja, or a traitor. thats for damn sure.

if you'd like to review the conceit of the game:

Spoiler:

i'm killing hostages

any time tommy edman gets a home run, i will kill the member of the town i believe to be the scummiest.

tommy edman

tommy edman is a second base, shortstop and center field player for the st. louis cardinals, and a switch hitter who is pretty mediocre. he has a korean mom, a korean middle name, and he played for korea in the world baseball classic. he is a committedly mediocre hitter, and has planted 7 home runs since the start of the season, slightly less than one every two weeks (with a similar rate last season). in keeping with certain past mystery box setups, you can presume that this happens according to a poisson distribution. (or rather i think it is approximated well by the poisson distribution).

third nested area

this segment serves merely to further illustrate the recent development on the forum where you can put area tags inside of area tags (this is also now true about spoiler=). for some reason it makes the text bigger as you can also see.

when tommy edman gets a home run (in an observable major league baseball game), as soon as i am able, i will process the death of the member of the town i judge to have played the most like a member of the mafia. as my discretion as a moderator is used to affect the game,

that makes this a bastard game

. you can expect that other similar uses of my discretion will be minimal, and i will always make clear when they may have occurred.

i will make this judgement the way i always do while modding, by reading some amount of the game and observing "i would think this person was a wolf if i were playing. yessir." although i plan to pay closer attention to the game and make a more concrete judgement. players should feel free to attempt to influence my thinking; you may highlight certain arguments, facts and feelings to my attention by using the mech tag as such:

schadd, it greatly needs to be said that mastina is just self-evidently scum. you should take note of the differences in behavior compared to her past mystery box entry games in which you labeled her as shiningly town, as well as the numerous mastina experts who have registered similar comments.

you can be assured that i will read everything in a mech tag and attempt to synthesize it into my reasoning. you will often find it difficult to convince me mastina is mafia however.

i am also reserving the right to make an occasional snide remark in the main thread, in which i will attempt to avoid tipping off information about players' alignments but potentially provide an insight as to how i am viewing players. this will not happen more than once every five pages, and i will probably be tempted to do them less frequently the more people use them to publicly speculate on players' alignments.

the player will be considered dead at the time of my posting; this will not interrupt the day or reset any vote counts, although they will of course remove the player from the voting pool, which may affect the number required for a majority and theoretically cause an execution to fire. i will do my best to determine the exact time the home runs occur in case it is relevant to other mechanics of the game (if anybody has a way to get exact timestamps with MLB play-by-play logs that would be cool).

other elaborations:

kim haseong on the bench

• yes this is real. it's kinda going to be the only particularly substantial mechanic in the game. in particular, there will be no nightkills, and out of the 19 players there will be 5 mafia, making this resemble a nightless setup; my assumption is that if i am doing a good job choosing the scummiest townies, this will not
  greatly
  affect the outcome of the game, so this is balanced as though it is a nightless game with a slight inherent disadvantage to town (a 14:5 nightless setup has an EV of .473, which would be considered a townsided number).
  
• there will be two backup hitters chosen in the event that tommy edman is placed on the injured list. one will be padres' second baseman 김하성 (ha-seong kim), who has scored 10 home runs this year but fewer than tommy last year. the other will be matt olson, who has scored 28 home runs. additionally, this backup list will be used when certain players are out of contention for the post-season; the cardinals and padres are unlikely to play starting in october, whereas the braves probably will, which means that hostage killings can be expected to ramp up at that time.
  
• there will be no deadlines in this game. you are racing against the clock already. i am killing hostages. if this game lasts until the end of the 2023 baseball season, you will have about half a year of respite until killings resume at the end of march (or start of april) in 2024.
  
• certain mechanics in this game interact with the hostage killings and cause them to be carried out slightly differently than it is stated here. however, it will always retain the same essential character (of malice).
  
• there will be no exceptions made for ELo & the like.

sample VT PM:

welcome to mystery box of silver 15! you are a

vanilla hostage

. you have no special abilities, but can talk and vote freely during the day.

you win when all the mafia are eliminated.

please confirm by telling me what the bolded green text says.

[schadd_]

[schadd_]

[schadd_]

vote count 1.0 !

not voting (19):

Skygazer, DkKoba, The Bulge, Alisae, xyzzy, 0verki11, RCEnigma, MUSHSHAGANA, SirCakez, ofrhz, HighPrincessErinys, sheepsaysmeep, Morning Tweet, Doctor Drew, PookyTheMagicalBear, Ranger, Dannflor, Meuh, iamveryhappy

with 19 alive, it takes 10 to rake someone over the coals. day 1 starts now and ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• thread unlocked
  
• starting the game now right after the cardinals game to give players some time to get going before the cardinals play again (specifically sixteen hours)
  
• tommy edman hit three times, a single, a double, and a triple, against colorado's "pitching". if he got a home run before d1 started i would not have counted it.

[schadd_]

COLD BEER!

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 1.1 !

DkKoba (5):

Doctor Drew, Ranger, PookyTheMagicalBear, ofrhz, Meuh

PookyTheMagicalBear (3):

xyzzy, RCEnigma, SirCakez

ofrhz (2):

The Bulge, Dannflor

SirCakez (2):

iamveryhappy, Skygazer

Ranger (1):

HighPrincessErinys

Morning Tweet (1):

Alisae

Skygazer (2):

DkKoba,

not voting (4):

0verki11, MUSHSHAGANA, sheepsaysmeep, Morning Tweet

with 19 alive, it takes 10 to rake someone over the coals. day 1 starts now and ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• tommy seems to have moved from position 9 to position 1 in the order which generally increases his amount of plate appearances by one. he has walked once at four plate appearances today.

[schadd_]

tommy up to bat

[schadd_]

he swung at this slider that went really low and inside twice and so the pitcher just kept throwing it even lower and insider and he didnt swing at it and then it hit him in the foot

[schadd_]

yes he's a good middle infielder which generally accounts for about a third of his WAR

[schadd_]

it has come to my attention that i might not be playing scummy enough so i just wanna say that i think iavh is a mason

ayo schadd you see this shit

laughed

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 1.2 !

DkKoba (5):

Doctor Drew, Ranger, PookyTheMagicalBear, ofrhz, Meuh

PookyTheMagicalBear (3):

xyzzy, RCEnigma, SirCakez

ofrhz (3):

The Bulge, Dannflor, MUSHSHAGANA

SirCakez (2):

iamveryhappy, Skygazer

Ranger (1):

HighPrincessErinys

Morning Tweet (1):

Alisae

HighPrincessErinys (1):

DkKoba

not voting (3):

0verki11, sheepsaysmeep, Morning Tweet

with 19 alive, it takes 10 to rake someone over the coals. day 1 starts now and ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• ranger is VLA at various times in the near future per 292

[schadd_]

replacing 0verki11 who did not pick up their role.

[schadd_]

BlueSnakelet replaces 0verki11

[schadd_]

Mod

If Tommy juices up and has a multi homer game, does this mean multiple deaths?

yes!

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 1.3 !

DkKoba (7):

Doctor Drew, Ranger, PookyTheMagicalBear, Meuh, Alisae, HighPrincessErinys, xyzzy

ofrhz (4):

The Bulge, Dannflor, MUSHSHAGANA, Skygazer

PookyTheMagicalBear (2):

RCEnigma, SirCakez

SirCakez (1):

iamveryhappy

Ranger (1):

Morning Tweet

iamveryhappy (1):

ofrhz

Doctor Drew (1):

DkKoba

not voting (2):

BlueSnakelet, sheepsaysmeep

with 19 alive, it takes 10 to rake someone over the coals. day 1 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• ranger is VLA at various times in the near future per 292

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 1.4 !

DkKoba (7):

Doctor Drew, Ranger, PookyTheMagicalBear, Meuh, Alisae, HighPrincessErinys, xyzzy

ofrhz (4):

The Bulge, Dannflor, MUSHSHAGANA, Skygazer

PookyTheMagicalBear (2):

RCEnigma, SirCakez

Ranger (2):

Morning Tweet, DkKoba

SirCakez (1):

iamveryhappy

iamveryhappy (1):

ofrhz

not voting (2):

BlueSnakelet, sheepsaysmeep

with 19 alive, it takes 10 to rake someone over the coals. day 1 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• ranger is VLA at various times in the near future per 292

[schadd_]

;

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 1.5 !

ofrhz (6):

The Bulge, Dannflor, MUSHSHAGANA, Skygazer, HighPrincessErinys, Ranger

DkKoba (4):

Doctor Drew, PookyTheMagicalBear, Meuh, xyzzy

PookyTheMagicalBear (3):

RCEnigma, SirCakez, DkKoba

Ranger (1):

Morning Tweet

SirCakez (1):

iamveryhappy

iamveryhappy (1):

ofrhz

not voting (3):

BlueSnakelet, sheepsaysmeep, Alisae

with 19 alive, it takes 10 to rake someone over the coals. day 1 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• ranger is VLA at various times in the near future per 292
  
• prodding rcenigma

[schadd_]

the rays have good pitching ;_;

[schadd_]

hilariously enough the team that has allowed the fewest home runs against them is tommy's very own saint louis cardinals, who are otherwise comfortably below average pitching

[schadd_]

are you calling mystery box of silver 15's very own tommy edman's very own self a total loser

[schadd_]

watching baseball

[schadd_]

edman in the box

[schadd_]

shouldve been a 4 pitch walk (lol) but instead it was a fly out to left field slightly away from the warning track

[schadd_]

nolan arenado got a solo home run in the 2nd inning and so hopefully he can chat with tommy about it while they're in the dugout like "yeah the trick for me was hitting the ball very hard actually"

[schadd_]

although realistically he'll be like "yeah the trick for me was not getting v

nevermind post cancelled

[schadd_]

go mets

[schadd_]

tommy is on my screen again

[schadd_]

tommy is on my screen again

eegh

[schadd_]

tommy is on my screen again

eegh

How bad are we talking?

it's sort of like he spent two at bats waiting for the right pitch and when it came he was like "yup, there it was"

[schadd_]

wolf alert

[schadd_]

;

[schadd_]

;

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 1.6 !

ofrhz (5):

MUSHSHAGANA, Skygazer, HighPrincessErinys, Ranger, BlueSnakelet

BlueSnakelet (4):

Alisae, Dannflor, PookyTheMagicalBear, The Bulge

DkKoba (3):

Doctor Drew, Meuh, xyzzy

Ranger (2):

Morning Tweet, RCEnigma

PookyTheMagicalBear (1):

SirCakez

SirCakez (1):

iamveryhappy

iamveryhappy (1):

ofrhz

Doctor Drew (1):

DkKoba

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 19 alive, it takes 10 to rake someone over the coals. day 1 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• ranger is VLA at various times in the near future per 292

[schadd_]

base hit from tommy... with a low velocity ground ball that rolled thru the gap by the left foul line

[schadd_]

another like really disappointing fly ball

[schadd_]

How often does this dude hit home runs like are we gonna be seeing a lot of mod elims here or like not really

Cakez proving once again they did not pay the most attention to the setup. Not many, for the most part.

This is a bastard game where the mod randomly assassinates people based on a baseball player
Who could take it seriously

..me??

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 1.7 !

BlueSnakelet (5):

Alisae, Dannflor, The Bulge, SirCakez, ofrhz

ofrhz (4):

MUSHSHAGANA, Skygazer, Ranger, BlueSnakelet

DkKoba (3):

Doctor Drew, Meuh, xyzzy

Ranger (2):

Morning Tweet, RCEnigma

PookyTheMagicalBear (1):

HighPrincessErinys

SirCakez (1):

iamveryhappy

HighPrincessErinys (1):

PookyTheMagicalBear

Alisae (1):

DkKoba

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 19 alive, it takes 10 to rake someone over the coals. day 1 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• ranger is VLA at various times in the near future per 292

[schadd_]

doctor drew and pooky have requested replacement

[schadd_]

prodding morning tweet

[schadd_]

fuuuuuck i literally had the game open and i missed it by like 30 seconds

The Bulge has been detonated. he was a

vanilla hostage

.

[schadd_]

im sorry i thoght he was gonna flip wolf

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 1.8 !

BlueSnakelet (4):

Alisae, Dannflor, SirCakez, ofrhz

Alisae (4):

DkKoba, Meuh, HighPrincessErinys, BlueSnakelet

ofrhz (3):

MUSHSHAGANA, Skygazer, Ranger

DkKoba (2):

Doctor Drew, xyzzy

Ranger (2):

Morning Tweet, RCEnigma

SirCakez (1):

iamveryhappy

HighPrincessErinys (1):

PookyTheMagicalBear

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 18 alive, it takes 10 to rake someone over the coals. day 1 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• ranger is VLA at various times in the near future per 292

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 1.9 !

Alisae (5):

DkKoba, Meuh, HighPrincessErinys, BlueSnakelet, iamveryhappy

ofrhz (4):

MUSHSHAGANA, Skygazer, Ranger, Dannflor

DkKoba (3):

Doctor Drew, xyzzy, SirCakez

Ranger (2):

Morning Tweet, RCEnigma

BlueSnakelet (2):

Alisae, ofrhz

HighPrincessErinys (1):

PookyTheMagicalBear

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 18 alive, it takes 10 to rake someone over the coals. day 1 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• ranger is VLA at various times in the near future per 292

[schadd_]

replacing alisae by request, as well as morning tweet

[schadd_]

i miscounted

[schadd_]

save the dragons replaces doctor drew

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 1.final !

Alisae (10):

DkKoba, Meuh, HighPrincessErinys, BlueSnakelet, iamveryhappy, Dannflor, Skygazer, Save The Dragons, SirCakez, Ranger

Ranger (2):

Morning Tweet, RCEnigma

BlueSnakelet (2):

Alisae, ofrhz

ofrhz (1):

MUSHSHAGANA

DkKoba (1):

xyzzy

HighPrincessErinys (1):

PookyTheMagicalBear

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 18 alive, it took 10 to rake.

moderateur notes

• ranger is VLA at various times in the near future per 292

[schadd_]

Alisae has been scooped! she was a

town 1-shot extoller

.

[schadd_]

for day 2, votes are grouped in "electoral" voting blocs. this means that within each bloc detailed below, the votes of all players in the bloc are allocated to whatever voting target has a majority within that bloc. so for example, if there is a bloc of five players, if three of them vote schadd, then that bloc will be worth five schadd votes. these blocs are not chosen via my discretion.

Spoiler:

vote count 2.0 !

bloc a

BlueSnakelet (1):

DkKoba

not voting (4):

Meuh, HighPrincessErinys, BlueSnakelet, iamveryhappy

bloc b

not voting (5):

Dannflor, Skygazer, Save The Dragons, SirCakez, Ranger

bloc c

not voting (2):

Morning Tweet, RCEnigma

bloc d

not voting (1):

ofrhz

bloc e

not voting (1):

MUSHSHAGANA

bloc f

not voting (1):

xyzzy

bloc g

not voting (1):

PookyTheMagicalBear

bloc h

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 17 alive, it takes 9 to rake someone over the coals. day 2 starts now and ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• i'm killing hostages

[schadd_]

players can vote any other player

[schadd_]

;

[schadd_]

;

[schadd_]

;

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 2.1 !

bloc a

ofrhz (3):

iamveryhappy, HighPrincessErinys, BlueSnakelet

(this rounds up to 5)

BlueSnakelet (1):

DkKoba

Morning Tweet (1):

Meuh

not voting (0):

bloc b

BlueSnakelet (2):

SirCakez, Save The Dragons

ofrhz (2):

Ranger, Skygazer

not voting (1):

Dannflor

bloc c

not voting (2):

Morning Tweet, RCEnigma

bloc d

BlueSnakelet (1):

ofrhz

bloc e

not voting (1):

MUSHSHAGANA

bloc f

not voting (1):

xyzzy

bloc g

not voting (1):

PookyTheMagicalBear

bloc h

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 17 alive, it takes 9 to rake someone over the coals. day 2 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• i'm killing hostages

[schadd_]

when tommy edman gets a home run (in an observable major league baseball game), as soon as i am able, i will process the death of the member of the town i judge to have played the most like a member of the mafia.

@Mod, by "member of the town" you litterally mean a town-aligned player, correct?

yes.

[schadd_]

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[schadd_]

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[schadd_]

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[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 2.2 !

bloc a

ofrhz (2):

iamveryhappy, BlueSnakelet

BlueSnakelet (2):

DkKoba, HighPrincessErinys

Morning Tweet (1):

Meuh

not voting (0):

bloc b

BlueSnakelet (3):

SirCakez, Save The Dragons, Dannflor

(this rounds up to 5)

ofrhz (1):

Ranger

not voting (1):

Skygazer

bloc c

Morning Tweet (1):

RCEnigma

not voting (1):

Morning Tweet

bloc d

BlueSnakelet (1):

ofrhz

bloc e

not voting (1):

MUSHSHAGANA

bloc f

not voting (1):

xyzzy

bloc g

not voting (1):

PookyTheMagicalBear

bloc h

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 17 alive, it takes 9 to rake someone over the coals. day 2 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• i'm killing hostages

[schadd_]

in other news matt olson seems to have double homered today

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 2.final!

bloc a

BlueSnakelet (3):

DkKoba, HighPrincessErinys, Meuh

ofrhz (2):

iamveryhappy, BlueSnakelet

not voting (0):

bloc b

BlueSnakelet (3):

SirCakez, Save The Dragons, Dannflor

ofrhz (1):

Ranger

not voting (1):

Skygazer

bloc c

Morning Tweet (1):

RCEnigma

not voting (1):

Morning Tweet

bloc d

BlueSnakelet (1):

ofrhz

bloc e

not voting (1):

MUSHSHAGANA

bloc f

not voting (1):

xyzzy

bloc g

not voting (1):

PookyTheMagicalBear

bloc h

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 17 alive, it took 9 to rake someone over the coals

moderateur notes

• i'm killing hostages

[schadd_]

BlueSnakelet has been wiped! it was a

mafia goon

.

[schadd_]

this day once again has voting blocs which are not according to my discretion

vote count 3.0 !

bloc a

not voting (12):

Skygazer, xyzzy, RCEnigma, MUSHSHAGANA, HighPrincessErinys, sheepsaysmeep, Morning Tweet, PookyTheMagicalBear, Ranger, Dannflor, Meuh, iamveryhappy

bloc b

Ranger (1):

SirCakez,

sheepsaysmeep (1):

Save The Dragons

not voting (2):

DkKoba, ofrhz

with 16 alive, it takes 9 to recommend someone for a lobotomy. day 3 starts now and ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• hamburger

[schadd_]

;

[schadd_]

this day once again has voting blocs which are not according to my discretion

vote count 3.0 !

bloc a

not voting (12):

Skygazer, xyzzy, RCEnigma, MUSHSHAGANA, HighPrincessErinys, sheepsaysmeep, Morning Tweet, PookyTheMagicalBear, Ranger, Dannflor, Meuh, iamveryhappy

bloc b

Ranger (1):

SirCakez,

sheepsaysmeep (1):

Save The Dragons

not voting (2):

DkKoba, ofrhz

with 16 alive, it takes 9 to recommend someone for a lobotomy. day 3 starts now and ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• hamburger

[schadd_]

inb4 pooky dies so schadd doesnt have to repalce him... tbf

hey pooky has done nothing but tunnel and has no discernable thought process on his reads, and it seems like he had a pretty bus looking vote on snek when that wagon built over mine

there u go schadd helping out the game mod not need to replace more people o7

ok well he better flip wolf...

[schadd_]

iamveryhappy has been detonated. he was a

town hostage negotiator

PookyTheMagicalBear has been detonated. he was a

vanilla hostage

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 3.1!

bloc a

Morning Tweet (4):

Meuh, sheepsaysmeep, HighPrincessErinys, MUSHSHAGANA

not voting (6):

Skygazer, xyzzy, RCEnigma, Morning Tweet, Ranger, Dannflor

bloc b

Ranger (1):

SirCakez

sheepsaysmeep (1):

Save The Dragons

not voting (2):

DkKoba, ofrhz

with 14 alive, it takes 8 to recommend someone for a lobotomy. day 3 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• hamburger

[schadd_]

happy to have been a part of this with you all

[schadd_]

Wtf why two deaths

quite simply, there were two home runs scored

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 3.final!

bloc a

Morning Tweet (6):

Meuh, sheepsaysmeep, HighPrincessErinys, MUSHSHAGANA, Ranger, RCEnigma

not voting (4):

Skygazer, xyzzy, Morning Tweet, Dannflor

bloc b

Morning Tweet (2):

Save The Dragons, ofrhz

Ranger (1):

SirCakez

not voting (1):

DkKoba

with 14 alive, it takes 8 to recommend someone for a lobotomy. day 3 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• hamburger

[schadd_]

Morning Tweet has been thrown out the window on the fifth floor and she busted through the window of the adjacent building on the fourth floor. she was a

mafia named goon

. her name was

francis.

[schadd_]

a player from the mafia is eligible to be hostage killed during this day.

once again there are voting blocs. don't you like them. anyway

these ones are created by my discretion

.

vote count 4.0 !

bloc a

not voting (4):

DkKoba, RCEnigma, MUSHSHAGANA, ofrhz

bloc b

not voting (2):

SirCakez, Ranger

bloc c

not voting (2):

Dannflor, Meuh

blob d

not voting (2):

xyzzy, HighPrincessErinys

bloc e

not voting (2):

Skygazer, Save The Dragons

bloc f

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 13 alive, it takes 7 to stave someone off. day 4 starts now and ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• portabello

[schadd_]

[schadd_]

blob d

not voting (2):

xyzzy, HighPrincessErinys

Hell yeah, blob.

woops i guess i'll leave it

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 4.1 !

bloc a

sheepsaysmeep (2):

ofrhz, DkKoba

not voting (2):

RCEnigma, MUSHSHAGANA

bloc b

sheepsaysmeep (1):

Ranger

Ranger (1):

SirCakez

not voting (0):

bloc c

not voting (2):

Dannflor, Meuh

blob d

not voting (2):

xyzzy, HighPrincessErinys

bloc e

not voting (2):

Skygazer, Save The Dragons

bloc f

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 13 alive, it takes 7 to stave someone off. day 4 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• portabello

[schadd_]

petapan posthumously replaces Morning Tweet

[schadd_]

tommy is back at position 1 which means he gets an extra at bat. although he struck out first

[schadd_]

when aaron judge was trying to get some kinda home run record last season they also put him at position 1 for the last handful of pre playoff games

[schadd_]

tommy singled. this umpire seems kinda hitter-unfriendly

[schadd_]

pitcher seems to be somebody oakland called up from triple A (and he was like not doing a great job there)

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 4.2 !

bloc a

sheepsaysmeep (2):

ofrhz, DkKoba

not voting (2):

RCEnigma, MUSHSHAGANA

bloc b

sheepsaysmeep (1):

Ranger

Ranger (1):

SirCakez

not voting (0):

bloc c

not voting (2):

Dannflor, Meuh

blob d

Ranger (1):

xyzzy

not voting (1):

HighPrincessErinys

bloc e

not voting (2):

Skygazer, Save The Dragons

bloc f

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 13 alive, it takes 7 to stave someone off. day 4 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• portabello

[schadd_]

i would say that its extremely possible that this is not a very good pitcher

[schadd_]

heeere's tommy

[schadd_]

xyzzy has been detonated. they were a

mafia hostage negotiator vulnerator

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

this one again

vote count 4.3!

bloc a

sheepsaysmeep (2):

ofrhz, DkKoba

not voting (2):

RCEnigma, MUSHSHAGANA

bloc b

sheepsaysmeep (1):

Ranger

Ranger (1):

SirCakez

not voting (0):

bloc c

not voting (2):

Dannflor, Meuh

blob d

not voting (1):

HighPrincessErinys

bloc e

not voting (2):

Skygazer, Save The Dragons

bloc f

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 12 alive, it takes 7 to stave someone off. day 4 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• portabello

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 4.4!

bloc a

sheepsaysmeep (1):

ofrhz

RCEnigma (1):

DkKoba

not voting (2):

RCEnigma, MUSHSHAGANA

bloc b

sheepsaysmeep (1):

Ranger

Ranger (1):

SirCakez

not voting (0):

bloc c

ofrhz (1):

Dannflor

not voting (1):

Meuh

blob d

sheepsaysmeep (1):

HighPrincessErinys

bloc e

Ranger (1):

Save The Dragons

not voting (1):

Skygazer

bloc f

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 12 alive, it takes 7 to stave someone off. day 4 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• prodding ofrhz

[schadd_]

tommy fouled off of his knee which got me thinking a little bit about how i would resolve him getting injured and then kim haseong playing later in the day (i think i would count those games for kim). anyway he was fine. line drive caught.

[schadd_]

tommy fouled off of his knee which got me thinking a little bit about how i would resolve him getting injured and then kim haseong playing later in the day (i think i would count those games for kim). anyway he was fine. line drive caught.

i think this is moot because my specific wording was "placed on the injured list" (which is good... i avow my past self) and that's generally not something that happens until the day after the game or something like that

[schadd_]

sorry about my various unnecessary posting this game about the details of tommy edmanship. sometimes i get self conscious about how small my post count is compared to my Seniority & the only way for me to increase it nowadays is as a mod

[schadd_]

bc i don't like to play mafia

[schadd_]

;

[schadd_]

;

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

vote count 4.5!

bloc a

sheepsaysmeep (1):

ofrhz

RCEnigma (1):

DkKoba

Ranger (1):

RCEnigma

not voting (1):

MUSHSHAGANA

bloc b

ofrhz (1):

Ranger

Ranger (1):

SirCakez

not voting (0):

bloc c

ofrhz (1):

Dannflor

not voting (1):

Meuh

blob d

ofrhz (1):

HighPrincessErinys

bloc e

ofrhz (1):

Skygazer

RCEnigma (1):

Save The Dragons

not voting (0):

bloc f

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 12 alive, it takes 7 to stave someone off. day 4 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• sandwich hamburger

[schadd_]

love da mets baby go mets

[schadd_]

well i'm watching tommy edman right now

[schadd_]

base hit...!

[schadd_]

go mets baby round 2

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

happened to watch this episode "three gays of the condo" because i saw that it won an emmy over jurassic bark

vote count 4.6!

bloc a

sheepsaysmeep (1):

ofrhz

RCEnigma (1):

DkKoba

Ranger (1):

RCEnigma

not voting (1):

MUSHSHAGANA

bloc b

ofrhz (2):

Ranger, SirCakez

not voting (0):

bloc c

ofrhz (1):

Dannflor

not voting (1):

Meuh

blob d

ofrhz (1):

HighPrincessErinys

bloc e

ofrhz (2):

Skygazer, Save The Dragons

not voting (0):

bloc f

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 12 alive, it takes 7 to stave someone off. day 4 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• handwich samburger

[schadd_]

prodding ofrhz and sheepsaysmeep

[schadd_]

go mets baby

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

d4 final!

bloc a

sheepsaysmeep (1):

ofrhz

RCEnigma (1):

DkKoba

Ranger (1):

RCEnigma

ofrhz (1):

MUSHSHAGANA

not voting (0):

bloc b

ofrhz (2):

Ranger, SirCakez

not voting (0):

bloc c

ofrhz (2):

Dannflor, Meuh

not voting (0):

blob d

ofrhz (1):

HighPrincessErinys

bloc e

ofrhz (2):

Skygazer, Save The Dragons

not voting (0):

bloc f

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 12 alive, it took 7 to stave someone off.

moderateur notes

• handwich samburger

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

d4 final!

bloc a

sheepsaysmeep (1):

ofrhz

RCEnigma (1):

DkKoba

Ranger (1):

RCEnigma

ofrhz (1):

MUSHSHAGANA

not voting (0):

bloc b

ofrhz (2):

Ranger, SirCakez

not voting (0):

bloc c

ofrhz (2):

Dannflor, Meuh

not voting (0):

blob d

ofrhz (1):

HighPrincessErinys

bloc e

ofrhz (2):

Skygazer, Save The Dragons

not voting (0):

bloc f

not voting (1):

sheepsaysmeep

with 12 alive, it took 7 to stave someone off.

moderateur notes

• handwich samburger

[schadd_]

ofrhz was not renewed for a 5th season! they were a

mafia goon

!

[schadd_]

SPECIAL VOTING OPTION

during this phase, players will be granted the ability to VOTE: sicko mode. if sicko mode reaches a majority, SirCakez and sheepsaysmeep will be executed; as well, every player who votes this option will be spared from hostage murders for the next nine days after the execution is posted. this pair of players was selected either by the mafia team or by my own discretion.

Spoiler:

vote count 5.0!

sicko mode (0):

not voting (11):

Skygazer, DkKoba, RCEnigma, MUSHSHAGANA, SirCakez, HighPrincessErinys, sheepsaysmeep, Save The Dragons, Ranger, Dannflor, Meuh

with 11 alive, it takes 6 to mail someone's fossil. day 5 ends when you make it end. i'm killing hostages.

moderateur notes

• bort

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

final vote count

RCEnigma (6):

DkKoba, HighPrincessErinys, SirCakez, Save The Dragons, Meuh, Ranger

Meuh (2):

Dannflor, MUSHSHAGANA

sicko mode (0):

not voting (3):

Skygazer, RCEnigma, sheepsaysmeep

with 11 alive, it took 6 to mail someone's fossil. the game ends when you make it end.

[schadd_]

um so my records have rcenigma as a mafia goon. which means that like the game is over. and stuff. my records also have petapan posthumously losing.

[schadd_]

the dugout: viewtopic.php?t=91383
mod thread: viewtopic.php?t=91374
design thread: viewtopic.php?t=89840 (opened just shy of a year ago lol)

[schadd_]

here's what you missed out on by ending the game in 5 days:

day 6:

special voting option #2

during this phase, players will be granted the ability to VOTE: usurp. this will result in the death of the towniest member of the town. additionally, this only requires one person to vote it; it will fail if that person is mafia.

their death will be reported as "natural causes".

i had my mind made that this would have been mushshagana, which was convenient because i would have had a chance to post take me oooouuuttt which i woefully forgot to do with the excitement of the first kill

day 7

no voting stuff this time

during this day, when tommy edman (or substitute) scores a home run, i will determine who is the scummiest ONLY by looking at the three pages leading up to the moment of the home run. specifically, the posts on the page leading up to that time and the two complete pages prior to it.

~ so you best behavior ~

. arguments in mech tags made subsequent to the home run and prior to the posting of the murder will be taken into account.

[schadd_]

i think pooky pointed out on day 1 that in a vacuum the numbers for this setup were just very good to town. i had it set up so that by a traditional EV calculation it was like better for town than setups usually are (with of course the downside that there were hostage killings) but of course nightless just plays better than the EV by kind of a lot because of the way mafia usually works and how there's usually a handful of completely untouchable townies. this is like something i knew but i guess i failed to call it up to my mind fully.

another thing is that i just wanted to err on the side of having a slightly large amount of townies because i guess i was abstractly worried that there would be a bunch of home runs that quickly strip away all the townies and end the game quickly, or something. i suppose my failure there was underestimated the raw joy and primal desire you all had for bloodshed inflicted by the shortstop. in retrospect i feel like an endgame caused by a home run would have straight up been a good outcome although it's hard to say whether people would be more sour on it in that case. in any case the home runs happened like fully 4 times as often as projected and didn't stand a chance of outpacing the speed of this game so i surely mismeasured the numbers and maybe severely. although you'll have to forgive me for not predicting a 19 player nightless game would end in just over two weeks. i would probably knock the number down to something like 12:5 doing this again but i'd still really hesitate to go lower. hilariously with the stupid voting blocs thing i added to this setup for no reason there were several times i realized "oh i can't do this because it's gerrymandered enough that scum can just sit on their hands and stall the game forever until tommy cuts everyone down" and thats even with the like super favorable outcome by d3 and d4 that happened

one other thing i suppose is that it just seems like historically this sort of "unserious" feeling game tends to be very amenable to town, like something about it really seems to activate the feeling for wolves in particular that "awesome i don't have to do anything". this is another thing where i have examples that come to mind only after the result was demonstrated in this game

[schadd_]

anyway thank you all for indulging me. on the multi-homer day i was playing board games with my family for my dads birthday and i randomly checked my fantasy scoring table and saw "AB 3H 2HR 2RBI 3" and just like exploded in excitement, probably like more so than any particular time during last season where i won our $300 fantasy pool lol

[schadd_]

I liked the Tommy Edman mechanic the randomness of it was hilarious

Also schadd - was my role a factor in xyzzy dying to Tommy? I kinda thought it was but I wasn't totally sure

Spoiler: sircakez' role for reference, which he used on xyzzy a little bit before the start of d3

welcome to mystery box of silver 15! you are a

town 1-shot google doc callout writer

. once, during the game, you may choose another player. i will dutifully take note of all the behaviors this person has exhibited which resemble mafia, and consider them more strongly for the purpose of hostage killings.

you win when all the mafia are eliminated.

please confirm by telling me what the bolded green text says.

i mean i definitely did what the role told me to do. and i was like yeah this is a scum iso unfortunately. xyzzy hilariously chose to put themself in the hostage pool shortly after that (it was something the wolves were obligated to do at some point as a faction, and not a personal thing as xyzzy's flip vaguely implied). i think i would have probably went with xyzzy regardless but when it came down to it i was like yeah there is no excuse for me to go with any of these other people i sorta wanna detonate

[schadd_]

kim haseong just hit his first career grand slam... Not that any of you care about him......

[schadd_]

oops here's the mafia thread viewtopic.php?t=91376

[schadd_]

screen grab i would have gotten to put in a vote count... IF I WERE STILL MAKING THEM... i really like the way that my catcher william contreras is Lookin at em

[schadd_]

cardinals stadium is so quiet ;;;__...; ;

you all cost the cardinals franchise ticket sales because theres no stakes for tommy edman anymore... what did the cardinals franchise ever do wrong... (rhetorical question)

[schadd_]

tommy got walkoff hits against the padres two games in a row including a home run today

[schadd_]

i would say that it's like almost certain i do something like this again but well it would probably have to be next year

i dont know basically anything about how you would design this setup for any other sport or when their seasons are, however i effusively and immediately give anyone else license to have a go at it

[schadd_]

sure skygazer can be posthumously killed

[schadd_]

actually i'm kind of obliged to kill koba bc they said they faked a scumread on doctor drew which is like exactly what i said i would be discriminatory about. LOL. i guess i can kill doctor drew too

[schadd_]

sky has next though