Kudos to boberz. By the end of Day 3/Start of Day 4, he would have won in any 3 man endgame that included him/Slaxx and Charter or Weapons. Which was pretty much a given by the time Lowell was lynched. boberz play and the town player's perception of him, is pretty much what won the game for scum. So:
Well done boberz
Lowell's lynch sealed the scum victory Day 3. That left DH/Xine as Obvtown, Slaxx/boberz as probable town and Socrates(me)/Charter/Weapons looking middling bad to very bad by comparison to the the other 4. The only real question in my mind (on reading the game before being offered a spot back in) was whether it would end today in a 3:2 or tomorrow in a 2:1.
Honorable mention to Soc as well. boberz and Soc did an excellent job of not making connections to each other. Simply by not forcing that. From what I can see they both pretty much forgot the other was their partner during the day and pretty much succeeded in not being connected by ignoring each other and the game unfolded so that they could do that very naturally.
Bub. Dude
I'm not going to tear apart your play but man, you need to work on your Day 1 scum game. Seriously though, I can't quantify it but I think, in my opinion, getting a scum Day 1 put the town enough at ease that Me/Soc/Me was able to make it to end game. Without that high about nailing a Scum RB Day 1, I get the impression that people would have been seriously looking at the Soc/Oso player spot maybe a day earlier which could have tipped the balance in me being able to have a spot to replace back into. If this slot had been lynched then I wouldn't have had the opportunity to goad Slaxx into voting a townie so that he could rip me apart in the end game. So I thank you for that and it was a pleasure playing with you even for so short a time.On that town side. Parama, Slaxx and xvart. Scum scored big, at least in my opinion by xvart being removed through a lynch. Starting the game, I would have bet money that xvart would have to be NKed to remove him simply because of the way he played in the last game I played with him. Parama almost made me crap my pants when he tagged 2 of the 3 scum almost immediately as the game started. Granted, boberz was the first Day 1 flavor and that generally doesn't lead anywhere but it is still jarring when you see 2 of you buddies mentioned in the same post with the word 'scum'. Slaxx, because (and I'm guessing here) of your experience with Real-Time Mafia, you came across to me as a bit spastic in your posting. Unfortunately, for the scum team, it came across as mostly town. Believe it or not, what I said at the end of the game was true. I would have loved to get boberz(town), you(town) and me(scum) into this endgame. I very seriously doubt I could have pulled it out but man, it would have been fun trying
Xine. I know you slightly from oustside the game through PMs and other threads and was really disappointed that we were on opposite teams in our first game together. In way (even though this is just a game) I was a bit relieved that I had to replace out when I did. Part of a plan I was toying with Day 1 was to get you lynched and then by proxy, Parama lynched when you flipped town based on his boberz/Xine/Bub connection. You were only common link between them and, according to Parama's theory, if you could get lynched then not only would that make Parama look bad, it would go a ways to relieving the pressure on boberz and Bub. I can't say I'm sorry I wasn't able to do that
But even though your team lost Xine, you did make it to end game and that is not very common for a new player, especially from what I can see on this site. You did well.To the rest, I very much enjoyed playing in what little of this game I managed to do and apologize to all the players that I wasn't able to be here for the entire run.
Also, thanks to Nico for taking the time to set this up and run this for us. I liked the set-up, the flavor and would happily play in another one of your games anytime.
