Vi wrote:Nyaaaaa, this isn't going where I want it to.
Why is lynching Seraphim literally the
only
option, as opposed to believing him?
In a mafia game, which would you rather do; just believe someone is telling the truth, or find out for a fact if they are, if there's no cost to finding out?
In mafia game, Facts > beliefs, by far. If you can get some actual hard facts, and build from there, you're way ahead of the game.
If they're real, easily confirmable roles are basically the mods' gift to the town. If someone claims an easily confirmable role, town should always confirm it ASAP, especally if doing so dosn't cost the town anything, which this apparently dosn't.
I mean, at this point, we can find out if he's telling the truth for free. If he's lying scum, he'll probably die, and if he's town and telling the truth, he'll be confirmed and we'll get to lynch someone else. Not doing that would be like the mod offering the town a free confirmed accurate cop investigation and the town saying "Neah, no thanks". It's really a no-brainer.
Shouldn't
, but does that necessarily mean Seraphim is nonTown (notice I'm not using terms like
anti-Town
or
scum
) for doing so? I don't think I've ever seen Mafia pull a stunt like this, but I've
definitely
seen Town do things like that (forbiddanlight, Natirasha, Fritzler, all the people you know and love).
I have seen scum pull stuff like that, actually. There was one famous (offsite) game where Baby Jesus was a scum with a daykill, and he just kept blatently killing off town in broad daylight, saying that he was killing people in order to "confirm their alignment", lol.
I certanly do agree that careless use of daykills is a mistake pro-town players sometimes make; hey, I was in two of the Bad Idea Mafia games. Still, if a person does an anti-town action, the rest of the town should both question him and pressure him until he explains himself properly.
Of course, that's not actually that important at the moment. I don't think a purely unlynchable scum daykiller is very likely, for obvious reasons, so if we lynch him and nothing happens, I'll most likely drop the suspicions related to the daykill, at least for the time being.
Yos2 109 wrote:What, exactally, was your reasoning for thinking Boxman was scum?
Good question, but for integrity reasons I'll think that question would be best redirected to
Seraphim
.
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I would love it if Seraphim would answer that question. So far, he's shown no interest in doing so.
I want us to win just for Yos' inevitable rant alone. -CrashTextDummie