Open 25 - Jester Mafia (Jester Wins/Mafia 2nd) - before 462

[JDodge]

IT WAS SO FREAKING OBVIOUS BM WAS SCUM.

AND THAD WAS JESTER.

[Battle Mage]

yeh sorry Sir Tornado. I am scum. I feel pretty bad about decieving you. On the other hand, i genuinely think you did the right thing. If i'd been town, and you'd lynched me after YB acted to scummy, i'd be FURIOUS. He was literally asking to be lynched. So in other words, i don't blame you for hammering him-his total scumminess served to cover up any minor errors i had made.

the sad thing was, i don't think there was ANY case for me being scum. I was instrumental in the lynch of Lawrencelot, and i hadn't been on the BW of any townies since. I hadn't selfvoted, or breadcrumbed Jester. In my opinion, i played the perfect townie. My only concern was that you would follow my advice at the end:

"follow your heart, not you head." Had you ignored all logic, you probably would have realised that my play had been a little TOO clean. See, even as scum i give good advice.

But seriously, i really don't know what YB was thinking. At the beginning of the game, i genuinely thought he wasn't Jester. I figured that a Jester wouldn't be so damn obvious. On the other hand, it was really hard to see him as a townie because he was deliberately misleading everyone (including the scum). By Day 3 i had concluded that he probably was the Jester, but he just wasn't playing the part very well. Regardless, i'd decided to keep him around, because, not only was he an easy lynch, but i realised that keeping the Jester around till endgame saved me a mislynch.

By Day 4, Sir Tornado had caught onto this, and i was concerned that we might end up killing YB (Jester) deliberately, which would leave me with a tough final day. Hence i pushed pretty hard for a Thadmiral lynch, as i was pretty sure that the Jester was either YB, or Tornado himself. i was really shocked when he came up Jester.
Credit to Thadmiral, he played an awesome game. The last NK choice was tough. I had previously planned to lynch Admiral, NK QMan, and have an endgame with a Jester, and a townie (Tornado and YB). However with no Jester, that sorta changed things. I did consider killing Tornado instead, seeing as QMan had been following my lead at the end of the day, and i thought perhaps he might be easier to lead around. In the end i decided to stick with killing him, because i felt there was a reasonable case on both Sir Tornado, and YB, and i could hopefully convince them to lynch each other.

YB's vote on me was a surprise. Had he explained it, i might have been worried, but i figured Tornado would see through it as OMGUS.

Anyway, from the start, i didn't actually intend to bus Lawrence as much as i did. I sent him a pm on Night 0, but he didn't reply, and i was a bit miffed, so i pressured him a bit. Unfortunately he didnt defend himself too well, but he did succeed in tying himself to Gorckat. Gorckats stratrgy was actually a good one. It was a shame to not lynch him on Day 1, but you guys made up for it later.
I wanted to kill Jdodge on Night 1, mainly because he knows my playstyle too well, and i knew if he was allowed to survive for too long, he'd rip us apart. However Lawrence didn't want to, and the only target we agreed on was Pickem. Basically the intention throughout was to remove strong players at night, and lynch easy targets during the day. Day 2 was interesting, as we had 2 wagons, one on Lawrence, and one on somebody else (Gorckat?). At one point Gorckat was at L-1, and i could have hammered, but i missed the boat, and Lawrence died. Killed Jdodge that night because he was still a big threat.

Day 3 was awesome. The town seemed to get lynch happy, and Gorckat was killed before i got a chance to even view the thread. lol
Killed WLC because, of the remaining players, he was one that i thought was looking the most protownish.

and thats pretty much it. fyi, when i signed up for this game, i only really wanted to play if i got to be the Jester. however when i realised i was scum, with an experienced buddy, i figured it'd be fun anyway.
The game itself was awesome, in fact, its probably the only game which i've enjoyed throughout. It didn't drag, had great players, and the setup was fun. Credit to Romanus for good modding!

also, cheers to Lawrence, for letting me bus him. The model scumbuddy! It was a pleasure playing with you.

*high-fives*

BM

[Sir Tornado]

Damn! I had a sick feeling that I'd chosen wrong (hence the

"And I know I probably just lost the game."

part in my hammer vote)

I wish YB'd said something in his defence though. How did he hope to convince me BM was scum by just saying

"Bm is scum"

?

But, I admit, I messed this game up for the town on day 3...

[JDodge]

Damn! I had a sick feeling that I'd chosen wrong (hence the

"And I know I probably just lost the game."

part in my hammer vote)

I wish YB'd said something in his defence though. How did he hope to convince me BM was scum by just saying

"Bm is scum"

?

But, I admit, I messed this game up for the town on day 3...

BM is scum. But since nobody ever lynches BM because they just assume he's acting normally, he should never be allowed to live into an endgame situation.

[Battle Mage]

Yay, my plan worked, although we're still second: I tried to pretend that I was the Jester, while BM would act like a normal scum/ like a townie. Since he didn't pretend that I was the Jester, no one would guess that he was scum with me when I got lynched. Good job BM, but too bad Jester is 1st.

i don't think it was realistic to hope for any better. I'd rather secure 2nd place, than risk total defeat. Had we been at endgame with 1 scum, 1 Jester, and 1 townie, i felt i could manipulate the townie into self-voting, and we could secure solo-victory.

@Jdodge-its always obvious when the roles are revealed.

[Battle Mage]

Damn! I had a sick feeling that I'd chosen wrong (hence the

"And I know I probably just lost the game."

part in my hammer vote)

I wish YB'd said something in his defence though. How did he hope to convince me BM was scum by just saying

"Bm is scum"

?

But, I admit, I messed this game up for the town on day 3...

BM is scum. But since nobody ever lynches BM because they just assume he's acting normally, he should never be allowed to live into an endgame situation.

lol yeh. if i'm alive at endgame, start getting worried. :p

[JDodge]

@Jdodge-its always obvious when the roles are revealed.

It was obvious. As a matter of fact, I was talking about this game over AIM with someone, and they asked me who I thought the scum was:

[01:44:20 PM] jdodge1019: BM is one of them, I'm guessing
[01:44:27 PM] jdodge1019: Slightly more erratic than usual

Other good quotes from that convo:

[01:46:08 PM] jdodge1019: Town's going to lose that one, I can tell
[01:46:17 PM] jdodge1019: They're all acting like morons

That conversation took place on Jul 10

[Battle Mage]

see, now do you understand why you had to die? lol

[Shanba]

Mm.

I liked reading this game.

Gorckat's plan with regards to Law was a good one, but it didn't actually require a no lynch: you could have just lynched someone else. i'm surprised no one thought of that. All the self lynching in this game was not good for the town and was really annoying to boot.

Props to BM. Nicely played. WTH YB? I thought you were better than that.

[gorckat]

Yeah- at the point I self-voted, I'd gotten frustrated and lost my cool, plus I was convinced that Tornado was scum and would waffle on voting himself.

I forget the moment I realized Thad was the Jester. I watched him get lynched in horror

[Sir Tornado]

Yeah- at the point I self-voted, I'd gotten frustrated and lost my cool, plus I was convinced that Tornado was scum and would waffle on voting himself.

Well, I proved you wrong, eventually on both the counts. 8)

But I'd rather have won the game...

[ThAdmiral]

Congrats to the mafia on coming second.

Even though I was suspicious of you, BM, you are right in saying it was only because you were

too

clean. Well played.

I thought it would be easy playing jester because I have been lynched in other games without much trouble, but I had to be patient in this one!

Good stuff.

[pickemgenius]

I just want my two cents to be inputted.


WHO THE FUCK KILLS ME NIGHT ONE. SHIT I AM SO LAZY.

[MeMe]

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