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Pokémon Mafia |OT| Gotta Catch Em’ Scum!

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SalvaPot

Member
I'll be honest, I ain't reading shit right now since day 1 is usually meaningless to me. I'll be playing close attention instead to people who don't vote or state why they are not voting.

Also, I agree with the No Lynch on day 1. We can both No Lynch, right?

I am veeery curious about how the Pokemon Trainer works. Is this going to become a type of faction, or is that how we get powers this time? It could also be interesting if we could get some type of pokemon battles.
 
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Christina Mackenzie

Member
StanleyPalmtree said:
oh comethefuckon! you just won the last game from me being voted for no godddamn reason! now your just rubbing it in!

also regarding the avatar, i plan to make it something more fitting soon.
stay tuned.
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This has nothing to do with any previous game. Why would you bring that up?

Your new avatar is a minor improvement but I'm afraid it's still going to keep me up at night.

By the way, what do you make of the game setup? How many scum members do you think there are? Any idea who the neutral party/parties maybe?
 
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Christina Mackenzie

Member
Sophia said:
Speaking of people I have an idea of what scum behavior looks like..



Hello CM. Penny for your thoughts beyond your prod vote on Stanley? :>
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If you think I'm mafia you're going to be sorely disappointed but then again maybe you already know I'm town. Why don't you put down a vote for me?

Looks like this game is moving along rather quickly, don't really have much time right now to go through every post. Just waiting for that unnecessary gambit to come along any time now.
 
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StanleyPalmtree

Banned
Christina Mackenzie said:
This has nothing to do with any previous game. Why would you bring that up?

Your new avatar is a minor improvement but I'm afraid it's still going to keep me up at night.

By the way, what do you make of the game setup? How many scum members do you think there are? Any idea who the neutral party/parties maybe?
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well that was meant as more of a joke? its pretty fresh in my mind and its not like you had a real reason for voting me.

anyway,
regarding the game setup, im very curious to how the pokemon trainer/ catching thing will work, particularily with (if i read the flavour posts right) the Team rocket trainers being able to catch pokemon players. like will that recruit those players? does it let the trainer use the pokemons powers? do the pokemon even know who has caught them?
but unless someone is dumb enough to come forward with a role early, i guess we will just have to wait until a revevant role flips, until then attempting to make any judgements based on game speculation will likely just cause trouble
and make it double!
 
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Sawneeks

Banned
Fireblend said:
Also other than both of them engaging with Ty I don't see any Darryl-Sophia connection. Sawneeks and Ferret mentioned a triangle but it looks more like a disconnected graph to me :p did I miss something?
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For Ty-Sophia it was these:

Sophia said:
Vote: nin1000

Bunch of silly filler post, and that "Nin 2.0" crap

Why are you scum?
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Ty4on said:
Huh, didn't know scum was called team rocket.

I'm fine. I'm fearing my activity will be lower, but thankfully town so I can actually analyse a bit.

Weren't you upgraded to Nin 2.2 recently.

I don't like this post. I have no issue with Nin's first few posts and he's been an easy mislynch target for scum in the past.
Doesn't quite look like scum hunting to me.
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Sophia said:
Wing shit, stay alive, hammer some scum, and make full use of Day 1 to get some strong reads and notes on people so that other people smarter than me can figure stuff out later on.
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Ty4on said:
What do you mean by staying alive? It seems weird next to the line about smarter people figuring the game out.
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Sophia said:
You know, staying alive.

But realistically, not getting lynched. I know that my reads and notes are the strongest thing I have as a player, but at the same time I need to find other town players to help me not miss the forest for the trees. :p
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Ty4on said:
VOTE: Sophia
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Darryl isn't directly connected to Sophia per say but having all the above happen only to get this in response:

Darryl said:
Arguing for a day lynch is pretty scummy. It's a wall of useless text. We all know that we aren't going to pass on the day lynch. I feel no need to confront Nin in order to change his beliefs, because I know that he will fail to no lynch. Maybe he can swing it at the last minute. I've tried pretty hard before to pass the day lynch (being town while doing it, the reasoning to want to pass the day phase in our meta is obvious) and failed horribly.

I can see a town player genuinely thinking that it is helpful and informative occurring very rarely. I can see a town player being bored and wanting to find stuff to talk about occurring infrequently, it's plausible. I can see a scum player trying to find things to latch onto in order to seem pro-discussion happening quite easily though.

Ty4on fits the profile of a player I'd expect to be scum and to feel the need to argue for a day lynch. It's a scum move with some confidence. Arguing for a day lynch can feel like you are asking to be held with more responsibility, which shows some comfort. It's very unhelpful discussion when you cut it down to the essentials. It's discussion for discussion sake, which is scum more often than not.

Vote: Ty4on
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Was strange. Scum!Darryl jumping in for Scum!Sophia? Doubtful, that's incredibly bold to play, not to mention it's early on Day 1 and that kind of #gambit would backfire easily as time goes on.

Perhaps 'triangle' isn't the right word here but after Ty-Sophia had their back-and-forth earlier they were 'connected' in my mind. So having Darryl suddenly pop in to go after Ty it got him grouped into that space as well. I think with the amount of fluff going on so far having any sort of active scum hunting got those individuals to stand out to me and those 3 just grouped together in my mind given the order of events.

Although after I posted about the trio, Sophia comes in with this:

Sophia said:
Defense of Ty4on? Can you clarify a bit? I'm currently null reading him.

Related to this, but I'm not feeling Darryl either. Town Darryl is usually more aggressive than this.
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so there is a better sophia-darryl connection, albeit a light one.
 
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Unmasked Ferret

Member
melonrabbit said:
Right on.

It has been a little bit since I played with Darryl. Actually, I believe it was my very first game Danny Phantom. He seems himself. But I’ve also played with him as town. I don’t necessarily see any immediately fault with his logic/arguments.

I’ve seen Ty on both sides. He tends to act a little too perfect townie when he’s scum. The fact that Ty4on and Darryl are already locked into a debate definitely tells me they are taking this seriously. Ty4on rebuffing Darryl’s claims as overelaborate could be seem as being overly defensive or scummy. Normally I wouldn’t think either would be so quick to jump into a feud—Day One when nothing else is happening and no one else is really talking to one another. However, I do recall Ty4on saying that his biggest challenge with being scum is creating natural conversations with scummates instead of avoiding them in the thread. So, perhaps that what is going on here?

Out of the triangle, I find Sophia defense of Ty4on interesting. Especially, after so soon their playful banter calling each other scum. But again, I'm not sure any of them would be so obvious. Unless we are already in WIFOM mode.

How are you feeling about them?
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OK thanks for answering.

To answer you in return I don't really feel one way or another about any of them. None have really done anything unusual , and the discussions they've had are fairly normal.


Sophia said:
Defense of Ty4on? Can you clarify a bit? I'm currently null reading him.

Related to this, but I'm not feeling Darryl either. Town Darryl is usually more aggressive than this.
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This always seems to be what people say about Darryl at the start of the game. Just give him a day and he'll make someone cry and say "Everyone tells me to be less aggressive, but then calls me scum for being less aggressive" like he always does.

Fireblend said:
Also other than both of them engaging with Ty I don't see any Darryl-Sophia connection. Sawneeks and Ferret mentioned a triangle but it looks more like a disconnected graph to me :p did I miss something?
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Yeah, no you're right triangle wasn't really the right word or shape or connection of lines to use. Not that it really even matters. (Sophia did say HI DARRYl but I think that's just a thing she does, but Ty also brought up a Sophia-Darryl combo being too obvious so I kinda made a connection)
 
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Sawneeks

Banned
Sophia said:
I feel like I've heard this response before... :p
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Seriously, I'm getting deja vu.

Christina Mackenzie said:
If you think I'm mafia you're going to be sorely disappointed but then again maybe you already know I'm town. Why don't you put down a vote for me?

Looks like this game is moving along rather quickly, don't really have much time right now to go through every post. Just waiting for that unnecessary gambit to come along any time now.
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Legend says if you say his name 3 times he will appear and bring gambits for all good little boys and girls.

blargonaut
Blargonaut
BLARGONAUT
 
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Christina Mackenzie

Member
StanleyPalmtree said:
well that was meant as more of a joke? its pretty fresh in my mind and its not like you had a real reason for voting me.

anyway,
regarding the game setup, im very curious to how the pokemon trainer/ catching thing will work, particularily with (if i read the flavour posts right) the Team rocket trainers being able to catch pokemon players. like will that recruit those players? does it let the trainer use the pokemons powers? do the pokemon even know who has caught them?
but unless someone is dumb enough to come forward with a role early, i guess we will just have to wait until a revevant role flips, until then attempting to make any judgements based on game speculation will likely just cause trouble
and make it double!
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I thought being caught by a Pokemon trainer is just the flavor for being night killed. That's what trainers do right? Sounds a lot better that getting lynched.
 
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Sophia

Member
Christina Mackenzie said:
If you think I'm mafia you're going to be sorely disappointed but then again maybe you already know I'm town. Why don't you put down a vote for me?

Looks like this game is moving along rather quickly, don't really have much time right now to go through every post. Just waiting for that unnecessary gambit to come along any time now.
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Hmm... interesting. Is this how town CM plays?

Unmasked Ferret said:
This always seems to be what people say about Darryl at the start of the game. Just give him a day and he'll make someone cry and say "Everyone tells me to be less aggressive, but then calls me scum for being less aggressive" like he always does.
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Oh no doubt. Aggressive Darryl is best Darryl.

Sawneeks said:
Legend says if you say his name 3 times he will appear and bring gambits for all good little boys and girls.

blargonaut
Blargonaut
BLARGONAUT
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I tried that. It only works when he's not sleeping, sadly. :(
 
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Blargonaut

Banned
Kawl_USC said:
*snip*

I also dislike honing in on particular groups of people so early.

*snip*
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BOX 1.
roytheone​

BOX 2.
melonrabbit
El Topo
Unmasked Ferret
Sawneeks​

BOX 3.
nin1000
Ty4on
Ynnek7​

BOX 4.
Bronx-Man
Kawl_USC
Lone_Prodigy
Royal_Flush​

BOX 5.
Sophia
Darryl
Christina Mackenzie​

BOX 6.
SalvaPot
Fireblend
Gorlak​

BOX 7.
Hyperactivity​

BOX B.
Blargonaut
Verelios​

SANDBOX.
StanleyPalmtree​

BOX 10.
Dusk Soldier​
 
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Blargonaut

Banned
SalvaPot said:
I have to say that is a pretty cool avatar pic. Well done blarg.
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t3kLqHa.jpg
 
V

Verelios

Member
Sawneeks said:
Please respond. You ignored my question.
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Sorry about that, I meant whichever way the flip went we would learn something new, whether the person was a good pokemon or relatively freedom fighter Pokemon, trainer or Team Rocket.

Of course hitting town hurts in the long run, but first day has always seemed to me to be a gamble. I'm not averse to a day 1 lynch, I just wouldn't be put out by a no lynch.
 
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Ynnek7

Member
Verelios said:
I did play a few Pokemon Rangers, though I always just whiffed on it as other series in the genre were more interesting. Then I stumbled upon Pokemon Conquest, the number 1, numero uno, il Daebak spin-off. If you enjoyed the differences Rangers had from the mainline games, you'll probably like this.
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I've always wanted to give Conquest a try, but could never find it at the store when I was in the market for a new game. Never really got into the Nobunaga's Ambition setting in general, though, so I kind of wish they had mixed it with Romance of the Three Kingdoms instead, lol.

Blargonaut said:
BOX 3.
nin1000
Ty4on
Ynnek7
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My boxes are usually a disorganized mess of what ever I happened to catch and then not need when I play, but a friend of mine is REALLY into breeding perfect IV's and he puts pokemon with three Perfect IV's into box three. Glad to know I might be above average!

And thank you again to Retro for the updated avatar!
 
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Sawneeks

Banned
Sophia said:
Well nevermind. It did work.
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You doubt me after PiR??

shame on you, sophia. :c

Verelios said:
Sorry about that, I meant whichever way the flip went we would learn something new, whether the person was a good pokemon or relatively freedom fighter Pokemon, trainer or Team Rocket.

Of course hitting town hurts in the long run, but first day has always seemed to me to be a gamble. I'm not averse to a day 1 lynch, I just wouldn't be put out by a no lynch.
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We would learn the flip of that person, sure, but how do we use a completely random vote pool to use that flip ( town/scum/neutral ) to find other Scum? That's what I don't understand here, your logic isn't adding up. You don't want to risk voting out Town
spoilers: it happens all the time
but yet you suggest we could roll the dice and hope it hits Scum?

So how is a random lynch that obscures the vote record better than a normal Day 1?

Blargonaut said:
VOTE: StanleyPalmtree
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Care to explain the vote? Or are you just going to leave it with no context?
 
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Blargonaut

Banned
SalvaPot said:
*snip*

I am veeery curious about how the Pokemon Trainer works. Is this going to become a type of faction, or is that how we get powers this time? It could also be interesting if we could get some type of pokemon battles.
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Subtle denial of power-Role ownership

Feigning intrigue via speculation

"interesting"

2.2/5
 
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Blargonaut

Banned
Ynnek7 said:
*snip*

My boxes are usually a disorganized mess of what ever I happened to catch and then not need when I play, but a friend of mine is REALLY into breeding perfect IV's and he puts pokemon with three Perfect IV's into box three. Glad to know I might be above average!

And thank you again to Retro for the updated avatar!
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I want eggs by Tomorrow
 
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Sawneeks

Banned
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Verelios

Member
Sawneeks said:
You doubt me after PiR??

shame on you, sophia. :c



We would learn the flip of that person, sure, but how do we use a completely random vote pool to use that flip ( town/scum/neutral ) to find other Scum? That's what I don't understand here, your logic isn't adding up. You don't want to risk voting out Town
spoilers: it happens all the time
but yet you suggest we could roll the dice and hope it hits Scum?

So how is a random lynch that obscures the vote record better than a normal Day 1?



Care to explain the vote? Or are you just going to leave it with no context?
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Didn't mean it was better, I was just giving another method to think about. Again, day 1 always felt like chance to me, so whether town gets hit or scum does is up in the air.
 
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StanleyPalmtree

Banned
Blargonaut said:
what my Boxes aren't good enough for you?

tree

I'll put you in my pocket, how would you like that

huh

tree

I'll palm your face off, how's that

with a slap

of my hand
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hey now friend,
with all this fluster and bluster your looking to start a stanstorm,
and i dont think anyone here will be happy about that.
it gets everywhere
 
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Gorlak

Banned
The back and forth between Sophia and Ty4on seems a bit forced, like they try to break their Love Boat bond today and purposely put some distance between themselves.

I haven't noticed any difference in nin to be honest. All this talk of having changed and being a new player sounds like a distraction.

Verelios let's random vote everyone messes up our chance of finding any scum based on D1 vote record. Bad idea.

Darryl's argument against Ty4on can be copied 1:1 against Sophia. They have both argued the same way against nin, while Sophia was even more direct at confronting nin. I agree with Darryl that another "lynch/no lynch" discussion at the start of a game is tiresome and won't bring any benefits in the long run. But I'd go as far and say that this discussion is not alignment indicative whatsoever. I've seen dozens of town and scum players arguing for and against it. What I'm interested in is according to your logic, why did you choose Ty over Sophia?

While reading this thread it's interesting that several players point at this trio, just like I did. Looks like that's the only interesting thing going on for now.

Kawl blaming town for honing in on a group of people early, is a clever way for scum to divert the attention.

Mister I'm not reading should be a policy lynch. I hate that attitude.
Vote: Salvapot

Also can we lynch Blarg soon?
 
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Gorlak

Banned
Blargonaut said:
*yawn*

I'm bored

let's have a conversation
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Almighty Albus, albeit our history, do you think we can get along just fine? Have you witnessed anything noteworthy, something that will lead us to the cave of the ominous team rocket? How will we catch them?
 
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