Newbie Mafia 17 - GAME OVER -

[Yoko Kurama]

Well the town is in shambles after MeMe's cruel death, and they are finally going to act. They will take down the scum or die trying!!!

Alive (2)

Jaguar (Cop)
Morpheus (Townie)

Dead (6)

MeMe (NPC)
gslamm (Townie) Lynched Day 1
Yaw (Townie) Killed Night 1
mathcam (Mafia) Lynched Day 2
Flying Dutchman (Doctor) Killed Night 2
Stimpy (Mafia) Lynched Day 3
No Deadline

I will be using what has become the standard newbie game set-up. Roles, exactly as sent, appear below.

Note: in view of the number of players and set-up, we will start in the day phase, although most games start with a night. To get you in the mood, I have made MeMe a night victim (only fair since I stole most of this from her ).

The roles:

You are the mafia (2)

. You may only talk with each other during the game's "night," not during the "day." You let me know before the night's deadline who will be your victim. You win the game when all the other players are dead.

You are the cop (1)

. Every "night" before the deadline you send me an email with a name of your choice, and I will let you know whether that player is mafia or not. You are not allowed to communicate with any of the other players outside the thread. You win the game when the mafia are dead.

You are the doctor (1)

. Every "night" before the deadline you send me an email with a name of your choice, and that player cannot die if attacked by the mafia that night. You cannot heal yourself. You are not allowed to communicate with any of the other players outside the thread. You win the game when the mafia are dead.

You are a townie (3)

. You are not allowed to communicate with any of the other players outside the thread. You win the game when the mafia are dead.

[Yoko Kurama]

And Here Are the Rules

Stolen from MeMe modified by Me

:

• Votes must be in
  bold
  . If you do not bold your vote, it will not be counted.
  
• Please be attentive and
  unvote
  , if necessary, before casting a new vote. This is not
  required
  , but I’d appreciate it.
  
• Executions will require a simple majority of votes. Once a player has reached the necessary majority, his pleas are useless and any attempts to unvote will be unheeded. You may
  vote: no lynch
  – majority votes of this kind are necessary to end the day without a death.
  
• The game is not to be discussed outside of the thread unless your role specifically states that you may do so.
  
• Once your death scene has been posted, you’re dead, though you can make one statement like
  arghh....
  
  
• Don’t edit/delete previously submitted posts if you double post the same thing and want it deleted just say so.
  
• Don’t quote any PMs from me.
  
• If you have a night choice to make, it is due by the posted deadline. I will not wait for you – if you do not submit a choice to me, tough! No choice will be made.
  
• If you anticipate being unavailable for more than a 48-hour period, please post a notice to that effect in the thread.
  Treat this game as a commitment. Be considerate – don’t leave us hanging.
  
• If someone seriously does something dumb I'm not going to stop you from telling them but keep it clean and truthful.

[Yoko Kurama]

Welcome to Marionville, a small community with only eight inhabitants. Unfortunately, two of them are mafia, eager to eliminate the others. On the bright side, you have a cop and a doctor. Unfortunately, the killing has begun and the well-respected citizen MeMe has been killed at night by the mafia. It is now day, and you should try to lynch one of you, hoping you catch a mafia. (Stolen from DP)

[Yaw]

We're starting, cool.

Random

Vote: gslamm

[Flying Dutchman]

Yeah, let's make this a good game!!!

Random

Vote: Yaw

, for being the first to post means *obviously* you're mafia!!!

[mathcam]

I feel obliged to encourage everyone to read the first day of Newbie 12. It's important.

On a side note, it looks like everyone in the game is present....Yaw being the only true newbie to the site, and he's already posted. Sweet.

Cam

[gslamm]

While I agree it's important to learn from other games. I'm not quite motivated enough to actually go read the game you mentioned. How 'bout you give us a readers digest version of that 'Cam? Are there car chases and gratuitous nudity involved?

Just posting to say I'm here no vote yet.

[Jaguar]

Cam, I am pretty sure I know what you are talking about, having followed that particular game from the sidelines. I'll leave the obvious vote for someone else.

Bah. Random.org said to vote for myself. I will random

vote: Morpheus

.

[mathcam]

Bah. Random.org said to vote for myself.

Well, to make it fair then, I'll

Vote: Jaguar

.

Cam

[Yaw]

Mathcam

I feel obliged to encourage everyone to read the first day of Newbie 12. It's important.

Ah, the infamous cop-claims-doc game. I read through all the Newbie games before joining, so I was actually considering what to do, since the cop from that game is in this game.

The problem I see is that there's no way other than an investigation to know if Stimpy will be scum or town. If he's cop again, even that's useless. Also, if he's town, being up front about investigating him probably isn't advantageous. Several rounds of "wine in front of me" later, I'm still nowhere near a good Stimpy strategy. Anyone else have any ideas? (The above is all going on the assumption that Stimpy will continue his posting style from the previous two games he's been in.)

At the very least, since there are two mafia, we know that at least one of them is going to be catchable in a more traditional way.

[mathcam]

I just wanted everyone to be aware. I talked with Stimpy after the game, and I feel he will most likely give it his all this game, but who knows?.

Cam

[Yaw]

Ok, then I'll retract my assumption. I don't like assuming people will sabotage games anyway, it's more that I noticed because it was such a big issue for that game. I'll certainly give Stimpy the benefit of the doubt (playing style-wise). It's good you mentioned it, Cam, otherwise that could have unduly influenced this game.

[Morpheus]

Why does MeMe always die? Anyway

vote gslamm

just because.

[Yoko Kurama]

Vote Count

Gslamm (2): Yaw, Morpheus
Jaguar (1): Mathcam
Morpheus (1): Jaguar
Yaw (1): Flying Dutchman

Not Voting: Gslamm, Stimpy

[Jaguar]

So does anyone know if Stimpy is showing up soon?

And I find it somewhat suspicious that Morpheus put a second vote on gslamm. This could give the mafia an easy kill. Since my vote is already there, I guess I'll leave it for now until a better target shows up. Not much to go on so far with the limited posting.

[gslamm]

Weird! I made a post last night that should have showed up between the vote count and Jag's 'defense' of me. I made a vote on Morpheus with the thought that he was the first to put a second vote on someone the added knowledge that this was me!

Then this morning I see Jag posted about the same thing and my post is missing. Hmmmm.

Vote: Jag

since he has no reason to defend me.

Newbie Training

Always be aware of the possibility of a speed lynch. With four to lynch and two living mafia, if the two people voting me are pro-town (since I am pro-town), the mafia could vote me and end the day quickly. On the other hand this will reveal ALL the remaining mafia ( A good thing) but won't work if one ofthe people voting me are scum. (or if I were scum)

[Morpheus]

Oops. Sorry didn't see the first vote.

unvote gslamm

[Jaguar]

gslamm, I wasn't defending you, I was accusing Morpheus... Why would that be reason to vote for me?

[Yaw]

I'll trust Yoko to address whether Stimpy's showing up or not. I do hope he does.

I did see the second vote on gslamm, and was debating it a bit. On one hand, we didn't have any information to justify a bandwagon against anyone, so why the second vote? On the other hand, without a second vote somewhere along the line, we aren't going to generate any conversation, which means no chance of getting the scum. So I kept my vote there to see the response. Believe me, I would have been the first to unvote if it came to a third vote going on. I know a speed lynch would be detrimental to our attempts to catch the mafia.

I'm looking at the gslamm/Jaguar dynamic now. I agree with gslamm that it is odd that Jaguar would jump to his defense. I also find it very odd that he should have a distinctly negative reaction to his defender. So my vote will stay where it is right now.

[Yoko Kurama]

It has yet to be even 48 hours since the game started. At 48 hours I will check to see if he needs replacment.

Vote Count

Gslamm (1): Yaw
Jaguar (2): Mathcam, Gslamm
Morpheus (1): Jaguar
Yaw (1): Flying Dutchman

Not Voting: Morpheus, Stimpy

[Stimpy]

random

vote: Yaw

sorry havent been at work since friday hehe ... no net at home

[Yaw]

Good to see we have everyone here.

And I see I have two votes on me. I'm pro-town. If there's any suspicions people have of me they want me to address, though, ask away. As of now, the only reason I can see for the current bandwagon against me, such as it is, is that people keep rolling 6 on their dice. Please keep track of the vote numbers and unvote me if this bandwagon gets any worse -- lynching me would be bad, but lynching me quickly because of funny runs of probability from random.org would be far worse.

To Stimpy: throwing that second vote on randomly when we already have good discussion? That wasn't suspicious at

all

.

[Stimpy]

sweet ... good come back..

unvote: Yaw

but i'm a widdle bit susp

FoS

[Stimpy]

FoS: Yaw

oops

[Yaw]

Um...anyone want to jump in here? Is everyone other than me a "weekend-away" person?