/in-Vitational Game 4 (Game Over!)

[Xylthixlm]

I think I'm switching to back up a VP Baltar lynch. This is the point of the game where one starts to get a better picture of a bigger scope. VP would fit to a "vague scum" archetype.
His posts and points have just been so very small in a way. The majority of his posting doesn't feel like he's actually trying to construct information.
He spends the whole of day 1 saying from the sidelines that BaB is a decent lynch but never actually bringing points against him, and then agrees with a couple of points in the L-1 post and says overload of information.

You think the BAB lynch is decent, but don't comment on how scummy you actually find him. He's claimed vanilla so of course it's a decent lynch. Is he actually scummy to you? You don't tell us. And you hedge with "might provide information".

And you have "minor tinges without a great read" on two very easy targets.

Also, when I was voting username, VP also voted username, but for totally different reasons that I never really understood. Something about iamausername asking BaB for a claim, and VP saying that was not clear iam intended to vote BaB? That point is sort of... "so what" to me. I think most of his points have been sort of convoluted/weak to me, which makes me think he's fabricating.

I haven't found anything in VP's play to latch onto as powerfully protown and in my experience with him as a player usually there is something. And I especially like the fact that he's getting quite a lot aobut the thread wrong (mixing up certain days, mentioning a rising tide that wasn't etc) I'll gladly lend my vote to this worthy cause.

[Xylthixlm]

Here's Yos's response to SerialClergyman's post which I agreed with.

Yos's defense in summary:

• BAB (dead townie) was lying and bullshitting to make Yos look scummy.
  
• BAB's vote was pure OMGUS. All other reasons he gave were bullshit and lies.
  
• SerialClergyman was lying too.
  
• BAB's actions were scummy lashing out at his attackers. BAB was lying and cheating.
  
• Anyone who unvoted BAB is scummy.
  
• Assorted bullshit and strawmanning.

Sorry. I read that stuff myself. SerialClergyman was right about all of it. Yos's attempt to make it sound like everyone else - even a

dead townie

- was lying and bullshitting just to make Yos look bad stinks to high heaven.

I admit to being slightly drunk right now, but I'm confused. Are you trying to sling mud at Yos again?

You may consider that my first actual case on Yos.

[elvis_knits]

Well, I hear Yos is town, so... wtf.

[Xylthixlm]

Well, I hear Yos is town, so... wtf.

I see no evidence to support that conclusion.

[mith]

Vote Count:

8 to lynch.

Xylthixlm: 7 (charter, elvis_knits, PookyTheMagicalBear, populartajo, roflcopter, VP Baltar, Yosarian2)
VP Baltar: 6 (ekiM, iamausername, Ojanen, SerialClergyman, Thesp, Xylthixlm)
ekiM: 2 (Kmd4390, zu_Faul)

[elvis_knits]

Well, I hear Yos is town, so... wtf.

I see no evidence to support that conclusion.

Don't make me FOS you when I'm already voting you.

[Xylthixlm]

Well, I hear Yos is town, so... wtf.

I see no evidence to support that conclusion.

Don't make me FOS you when I'm already voting you.

Vote VP Baltar and then FOS me.

[roflcopter]

i would like to encourage ekim, iamausername, ojanen, serialclergyman, thesp, kmd or zufaul to hammer xyl

[Xylthixlm]

Rofl: okay then, how am I playing differently here?

the biggest thing is exactly what i said when i voted for you

You're voting me because I don't believe you when you say that Yos is town.... that's not really a case of playing differently here, but anyways.

How

else

am I playing differently here than I did in mafia 96?

[SerialClergyman]

Xyl, assume rofl is a town pr of some kind with role information on yos suggesting yostown. What changes in your take on the game?

[Xylthixlm]

Xyl, assume rofl is a town pr of some kind with role information on yos suggesting yostown. What changes in your take on the game?

First, I decide that roflcopter is a complete idiot for claiming power role info to save someone who only had a single vote on them instead of waiting for the bandwagon to grow to get more information. Then I make sure that everyone else knows my opinion, loudly and repeatedly. I seriously consider lynching roflcopter just to check that he's not lying, because I don't think he's stupid enough to do that, but elvis_knits talks me out of it.

After that... I dunno. I haven't thought about it.

[Xylthixlm]

Frankly, hinting at role info without claiming it (softclaiming) is a very scummy move, and if I thought roflcopter was serious I would be pressuring him to actually claim something concrete. The reason I didn't is that I don't think he has any chance of being serious.

[SerialClergyman]

How does it affect your scumlist?

[Xylthixlm]

How does it affect your scumlist?

I'd still be pretty sure on charter and VP Baltar. Yos would be off it, of course, and probably tajo.

Who else would be on it ... I'm not sure. Definitely Pooky.

This is just off the top of my head. I don't think too deeply about hypotheticals because it tends to leave subconscious biases that throw off my gut.

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

I lawled

[SerialClergyman]

Ok, and If that's not your current feeling about rofl, what is? A townie overselling a gut town read or a scumbuddy?

[zu_Faul]

Gooooooood Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooorning Mafiascuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum!

Vote: Xylthixlm

.

[Xylthixlm]

Ok, and If that's not your current feeling about rofl, what is? A townie overselling a gut town read or a scumbuddy?

The former. Pretty sure roflcopter is town, although iirc I've never seen him as scum so discount appropriately.

[SerialClergyman]

Well, it appears you've just been hammered, but I was trying to go somewhere with that line of questioning. In short, I think the rofl as town but not as pr is by far the least likely of the options and was going to go into why, except you've just departed from this mortal coil.

[SerialClergyman]

If xyl is scum, rofl is obvtown. If xyl is town, ojanen is just about my only solid town read.

[SerialClergyman]

Not going to clue us in, I suppose?

[mith]

Final Vote Count:

8 to lynch.

Xylthixlm: 8 (charter, elvis_knits, PookyTheMagicalBear, populartajo, roflcopter, VP Baltar, Yosarian2, zu_Faul)

VP Baltar: 6 (ekiM, iamausername, Ojanen, SerialClergyman, Thesp, Xylthixlm)
ekiM: 1 (Kmd4390)

[mith]

Calculation

The second full day in Llamaville seems to go a bit more slowly than the first. Perhaps the excitement is wearing off for the new residents, or perhaps they have just decided to take a little more time in deciding on someone to kill. Whatever the reason, it is well in the afternoon before the discussions die down and sides are chosen.

Eventually, a majority settles on one Mr. Xylthixlm. One resident suggests that rather than killing him, they should just force him to say his name backwards and see what happens, but this suggestion is ignored. Before the group can lynch him, however, he utters one last plea:

"Wait! You can't kill me!"

"Why not?"

"I'm the programmer responsible for bringing you all here."

"What?"

"Maybe I could hack the InVy Inc. system and learn who the bad guys are!"

"Maybe you're scum trying to get us to help you hack into the system."

"But I'm not!"

"That's what scum would say."

"But I can prove I'm innocent."

"How?"

"Er... oh, right, I guess that would require me to die..."

"Exactly."

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After performing the rituals of determining alignment (Llamaville Handbook pg. 56), the residents are convinced that the recently deceased was, in fact, innocent.

"Now what?"

"Cocktails?"

"Sounds good."

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Xylthixlm (Vanilla Townie) has been lynched. It is Night 2. Deadline is Tuesday, September 8.

[mith]

Inspiration

Good morning, everyone.

InVy Inc. is constantly working to improve life in Llamaville in any way we can think of. Unfortunately, with some of our creative minds out on other projects, we have noted a distinct lack of inspiration.

One suggestion was that we put all our efforts into finding and eliminating the negative influences of the Mafia group which may - we emphasize the "may", as the existence of such a group is not considered conclusively proven, in spite of the unfortunate events of your first days here - have infiltrated our experiment. This was, of course, immediately laughed at by the rest of us. How could we possibly deprive you of the satisfaction of solving such minor issues yourselves?

Still, when that is given as a serious suggestion, you know we're struggling here, and the idea we've settled on may, admittedly, be scrapping the bottom of the barrel of good ideas... nevertheless...

InVy Inc. is proud to announce the formation of the Llamaville Intramural Gridiron Association. La LIGA will compete against other fine football teams as we can arrange games. No doubt, within a few years of our expert coaching and training, you will be a dangerous football machine, more so because our research shows that the majority of local teams play an inferior "football", and wouldn't know a forward pass if it hit them in the face.

Granted, you'll be at a disadvantage when it comes to depth, and most of you will have to play multiple positions. But we at InVy Inc. remain convinced that the mysterious killings will cease before we have too few players to field a complete team.

Please report this evening for your first practice. Thank you for listening, and enjoy your stay here in Llamaville... however long that might be!

This message paid for by Mr. Grey Enterprises and its experimental division, InVy Inc. Mr. Grey Enterprises and InVy Inc. are not liable for any harm, physical, psychological, or otherwise, that may result from the viewing of this film.

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Oh, and someone else is dead. Entirely coincidental, I am sure.

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Ojanen (Goon Cop) is dead. It is Day 3. With 13 alive, it will take 7 to lynch before deadline, which is three weeks from this post.

[iamausername]

Vote: PookyTheMagicalBear

rofl and VP are still scum, but Pooky has given us absolutely nothing, and that needs to stop.