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Sabrar wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 7:02 pm @somitomi: you can now hammer if you want.

I want to catch up a bit and look back at some things first, but I could do later in the evening

Sabrar wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 7:02 pm @somitomi: you can now hammer if you want.

I'd like to get Santy's opinion on my phillip read before we hammer. @Santy: Assume we get a green check on EGW, and I'm yeeted and flip town. We've got only one yeet left. Phillip or EGW?

For the official record:

Vote phillip1882

He's ignored every attempt I've made to engage him in conversation and seems like newbie scum hoping to not rock the boat. Newbie town would be trying to respond, newbie scum is scared.

I'm okay with waiting for Santy's reply.

If it comes to D5 I would like Boomfrog and EGW to claim first, whenever they come online. We should not wait for phillip as he has nothing to claim as either alignment.

@Boomfrog Yeet preference would be something like

Boomfrog >>>> Phillip > EGW >>>>> JC >>> Somi >>> Sabrar/heury .

So for your specific question, rn I'd lean more on yeeting phillip, but I also think relies in evidence we get down the line (see: if more mark of suppresion show up is a good look for phillip, and if they dont is a bad look)

Has phillip played any forum mafia game before btw?

boomfrog wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 3:15 pm Yeah alright, I admit I skimmed this post aside from my own spoiler. I've read it carefully now.

I am cautious about relying on reading Bop since the dude snowed all of us pretty hard, but I agree the EGW frustration is real. I'll note that mafia seem to only have night chat so it's possible a scum buddy could feel that. But I'm an leaning away from EGW as a partner.

I think your ahippo eval is totally wrong though. Iirc, I and i think maybe some others were hard defending ahippo before Bop was. It makes sense that Bop would jump on that opportunity to hard defend his only scum mate. And that might explain why he townread me extra hard since I was also championing ahippo. If ahippo/phillip is actually scum I really will have to do an apology dance for EGW.

Also, on this. You were also townreading hippo, but wetent the only one (Mak and myself. Mak was also a townlean and myself not a townread at all)

And yeah , the clear is based on (1) the pureness and transparent approach unlikely to come from scum and (2) assuming Bop knows that he is in a very good position thread-wise, and is pretty safe to keep repping the townread on phillip cause only EGW was actively pushing there for it to be much need to lower their partner imo. Like, as scum Bop I feel like after dunking on the other mafia just tries to powerwolf to win, which is what it felt like they were doing (their sus/pushes never being a partner just from a loom at the ISO. Only unknown rn is somi and it feels p much clearing imo)

Santygrass wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 8:19 pm Has phillip played any forum mafia game before btw?

Yes, but very few that I know of.

Okay, I don't think there's much point in delaying any further, I have mostly smothered the vague paranoia I was feeling and there's not much I could add to the strategy

Vote: Santy

See you guys tomorrow

Santygrass wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 8:29 pmAnd yeah , the clear is based on (1) the pureness and transparent approach unlikely to come from scum and (2) assuming Bop knows that he is in a very good position thread-wise, and is pretty safe to keep repping the townread on phillip cause only EGW was actively pushing there for it to be much need to lower their partner imo. Like, as scum Bop I feel like after dunking on the other mafia just tries to powerwolf to win, which is what it felt like they were doing (their sus/pushes never being a partner just from a loom at the ISO.

I'm not following your thoughts here. Are you talking about the ahippo clear? Isn't hard defending ahippo congruent with powerwolfing if they are partners? Are you agreeing with me?

Yes, hard defending ahippo is possible of powerwolfing.

But if they were powerwolfing , there is no reason to start doubting it or slightly shading it instead of maintaining it as strong tbh.

And to me its very whiteknight-coded with just the security/TMI there

somitomi wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 10:32 pm Okay, I don't think there's much point in delaying any further, I have mostly smothered the vague paranoia I was feeling and there's not much I could add to the strategy

Vote: Santy

See you guys tomorrow

Somi TMIing game is still going to follow cause Im not the last scum :curtain:

Good luck town, you got this!

What is V/LA?

JC_DADDY25 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2025 6:43 am What is V/LA?

Acronym for "vacation/limited access

Thank you

That complicates things. Guessing/hoping that was a 1-shot ability.

When is Boomfrog expected to be back?

With somitomi being dead we should just claim.

I am not marked.

Sabrar wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2025 6:49 am When is Boomfrog expected to be back?

The V/LA is for all this week, but they said they do not anticipate the V/LA to be total, just limiting. Any further questioning of details should be addressed to Boomfrog.

Santygrass wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 6:16 pm - Heury with the help of Bessie and Madge craft a lovely tribute for my sacrifice today to post at Start of Day

Since I can't copy paste anything from night chat but only paraphrase, I asked chatgpt to paraphrase the following tributes. The actual tributes will be posted in gojoe for post game reading.

This is from Bessie. She left out Madge as Madge didn't show up in chat til last minute and also wanted it to be known that Madge did not help solving the game last night.

"The Heroic Sacrifice of Santygrass

Beneath the sea where fierce winds roared,
A young pirate sailed, his spirit untamed.
They called him Santygrass, swift and bold,
A guardian steadfast, with loyalty untold.

At Heury’s side, with grace he stood,
A lad with a heart both kind and good.
By their side, through peace and strife,
Was Bessie, a dog with love for life.

Santygrass vowed, with unwavering might,
To shield the boy through darkest night.
No foe too strong, no blade too keen,
He’d stand his ground, unseen, serene.

Then came a night when stars withdrew,
As ruthless pirates stormed the blue.
Their wicked aim—to steal Heury away,
But Santygrass swore they’d rue the day.

With sword in hand, he met their wrath,
Defending his friends with all he had.
Heury cried, “Go, you must flee!”
Yet Santygrass fought, unyielding, free.

Bessie growled, her stance was true,
But fate was cruel, the end now drew.
Wounded and weary, the hero fell,
Yet his courage rang like a tolling bell.

Heury mourned, his heart weighed down,
For the pirate’s bravery knew no bounds.
Bessie whimpered, her sorrow deep,
As Santygrass faded into sleep.

Now tales are told in whispers low,
Of a pirate’s heart that dared to glow.
He gave his life, his oath held true,
And the name Santygrass forever renews."

Madge showed up last minute and wrote this tribute herself. And this is the version I had chatgpt paraphrase

"Santy, I loved you—
Or at least I once claimed,
If only I thought
Things would stay the same.

But fate made us foes,
So I guess it’s my role
To despise your whole face—
Your eyes and your nose.

Yet that isn’t true, for my teammates are gone,
So I figured I’d help the town carry on.

The issue, you see,
Is a simple one still:
My world is vast,
This game feels so small.

I can't speak by day,
Nor chat with Sabrar—
In short, I can't play.

It is what it is, I accept what I’ve got,
I may lend a hand, but town I am not.

This poem was crafted with love and with care,
By Madge’s own mind—no AI was there."

@sabrar
Bessie is very upset that EGW wasn't voted out yesterday.

I was not marked