Tales of Desolation mafia Day 2

[LaserGuy]

Vote: tehbubbez

Also unappreciated, but understandable. What made you want to pressure me first @Makhaira?

Understandable how?

[Sabrar]

Ah, Boomfrog pretending not to hold a grudge so I won't go after him like in Animal Kingdom, very sus.
But glad to see a more assertive side of you returning, with some points I have also contemplated.

Unvote

Anyway this is all moot as bessie will solve the game with her confirmation post analysis. As this time the mods put one in. Looking at you madge and sabrar.

Hey, you can't blame me, Madge was the one making those decisions. And you can't blame her either as she is perfect.

[TehBubblez]

Vote: tehbubbez

Also unappreciated, but understandable. What made you want to pressure me first @Makhaira?

Understandable how?

As far as I can tell in terms of metareads, I'm the newest member here correct? It makes sense in my head to prod the biggest unknown in game, which happens to be me lol

[Bop]

Over explaining his reason to ignore Sabrar Vote. Very self conscious and scummy. This is a real for serious Vote.

Scummy is bad enough but self conscious I won't abide. Not bc I say that I'm not taking a starter gun vote seriously yet in my first post. It's like common procedure maybe but I gotta post something.

Vote Bop

(Fixed spelling)

@Bop, who do you remember in this game from back in those days?

I was recently looking back so it's half bad memory and half what I've seen but I remember you from some games, some we played, one I modded, and you've had to replace me for inactivity at least once (just saw that in wizardry baby! my bad!). Moody for sure, ahippo for sure, I believe wam as well-

so we must have just missed each other on the old forums. Or my mafia memory is not what it used to be, one or the other.

Honestly, same! It's been a long time so hard to know. I'm sure I'm missing some people that I'd feel dumb once reminded. I had an on and off lurking issue.

And yeah I more read "claiming not to vote until later in the day" from Teh Bubblez as a neutral behavior that's easy to read as scummy when you're actively looking for it(which to be fair is I guess the exact point of mafia as either faction) but I don't think it's sus all on its own.

As far as I can tell in terms of metareads, I'm the newest member here correct? It makes sense in my head to prod the biggest unknown in game, which happens to be me lol

I mean a few of us count as the same amount of new, I don't think you're getting prodded for being new.

[AdumbroDeus]

Just FYI, since I did say the game was flavorful, I encourage everyone to make sure they've read at least the game summery and character summery for the character they've rolled. I linked character summaries from either the talesapedia or anselia wiki, both of which cover all games from the series in all your role PMs.

That said I know it's dense, this is a series with a long history, so feel free to ask me lore questions, either in thread or in your role PMs. I can't guarantee I'll answer all questions though (and please don't try "does this claim make sense for this character" questions, figuring out if something is a fake claim or building a fake claim is for you guys alone, including lore based rationales).

And I know at least one of the players is a series fan.

[Makhaira]

Also unappreciated, but understandable. What made you want to pressure me first @Makhaira?

I just picked a random person Id never played with from the roster, it was an RVS vote

But this reply is giving me a reason to stay, Why me? = Fry me

More votes on bubbles please!

[Makhaira]

@mak Good catch. Nice to see you are town too.

NO POCKET

I dealt with enough snow when I went home to Buffalo for xmas, I dont need more here

[Makhaira]

Ok maybe a little bit of pocketing is ok to stroke my ego, as a treat

My last 3 ego driven elims were all town so I need the lift

[boomfrog]

@mak Good catch. Nice to see you are town too.

NO POCKET

I dealt with enough snow when I went home to Buffalo for xmas, I dont need more here

Obviously you have no reason to think I'm town yet. The pocket comes later.

[boomfrog]

Ok maybe a little bit of pocketing is ok to stroke my ego, as a treat

My last 3 ego driven elims were all town so I need the lift

What is an ego driven Elim?

[Makhaira]

An elim I spearheaded because I had a strong scumread on a slot that was more gut read than my ego wanted to admit and I got into big thunderdomes with my target and thought I had them dead to rights as scum and I really wanted the dopamine hit of "winning" the 1v1 with them flipping scum

All of the recent ones occurred offsite lol

[Wam]

Over explaining his reason to ignore Sabrar Vote. Very self conscious and scummy. This is a real for serious Vote.

Scummy is bad enough but self conscious I won't abide. Not bc I say that I'm not taking a starter gun vote seriously yet in my first post. It's like common procedure maybe but I gotta post something.

Vote Bop

(Fixed spelling)

@Bop, who do you remember in this game from back in those days?

I was recently looking back so it's half bad memory and half what I've seen but I remember you from some games, some we played, one I modded, and you've had to replace me for inactivity at least once (just saw that in wizardry baby! my bad!). Moody for sure, ahippo for sure, I believe wam as well-

so we must have just missed each other on the old forums. Or my mafia memory is not what it used to be, one or the other.

Honestly, same! It's been a long time so hard to know. I'm sure I'm missing some people that I'd feel dumb once reminded. I had an on and off lurking issue.

And yeah I more read "claiming not to vote until later in the day" from Teh Bubblez as a neutral behavior that's easy to read as scummy when you're actively looking for it(which to be fair is I guess the exact point of mafia as either faction) but I don't think it's sus all on its own.

As far as I can tell in terms of metareads, I'm the newest member here correct? It makes sense in my head to prod the biggest unknown in game, which happens to be me lol

I mean a few of us count as the same amount of new, I don't think you're getting prodded for being new.

I vaguely remember. 2012 was when I started (ish).on the old.forums!

[Makhaira]

I was so mad that the town wouldnt listen to me on one of them that I even busted out the anakin skywalker IHATEYOU.GIF to really convey my contempt for them not agreeing with me read and then that slot flipped town so I just looked like a big dummy womp womp

[Makhaira]

My ego will never recover (it will)

[TehBubblez]

Also unappreciated, but understandable. What made you want to pressure me first @Makhaira?

I just picked a random person Id never played with from the roster, it was an RVS vote

But this reply is giving me a reason to stay, Why me? = Fry me

More votes on bubbles please!

Nah I just wanted the reasoning since you said nothing to go with it. Randoming someone you haven't played with before is fine. Not giving that reason on vote is not

[Makhaira]

Nice try FBI youll never get my RVS strategies out of me!

[Makhaira]

Why me fry me is gospel tho folks, trust

Bubblez wagon plz

[Wam]

My ego will never recover (it will)

You got the last game.on her right (unfortunately for me)

[Makhaira]

True wam, winning that game did prevent me from entering a death spiral, but that wasnt an egoflip on your elim, that was just me practicing what I preach and listening to dead townies who solved the game for me

If anything bessie was my desired egoflip in that game and I was wrong on her too LOL

[ahippo]

vote: ahippo

Giving them a big xkcdmafia welcome back

I would have it no other way. Good to be back!

vote: moody
Only fair.

God, I forgot the joys of day one. "Nothing has happened yet, but some of you MUST be bad guys, so I'm goin' off ... vibes. Vibes have never steered me or anyone else wrong before! I'm sure it'll be fine."

[TehBubblez]

Why me fry me is gospel tho folks, trust

Bubblez wagon plz

I really don't think asking for reasoning is that big of an issue, and you are drawing an awful lot of attention to it, but if you want to opp this hard on me that's fine buddy

Vote: Makhaira

[LaserGuy]

I like Mak, Sabrar and Boom so far.
Bubbles defensiveness gives me a kinda newbie Town vibe.

[Makhaira]

Why me fry me is gospel tho folks, trust

Bubblez wagon plz

I really don't think asking for reasoning is that big of an issue, and you are drawing an awful lot of attention to it, but if you want to opp this hard on me that's fine buddy

Vote: Makhaira

*pan sizzles enticingly*

[ahippo]

Okay, just based on context clues, to "fry" is to vote for a player, upping the heat and seeing how they respond, yes? Makes sense, but I'll walk beside the wagon for now. I'm not jumping on yet.

[Makhaira]

Hippo and bubblez are both lame and cringe for OMGUS voting, its only cool and smart when I do it duh

And yes hippo fry me = pressure/elim the slot