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• This is not a bastard game.
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Sing us a song, you're the piano man...

Sabrar wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 6:15 pm It's good to be back. Let's honor the old traditions.

Vote: wam

Could everyone please post their preferred pronouns? I don't think I've played with half of the playerbase. It's he/him for me.

the worst wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 9:22 pm vote: Wisp

My excitement to be here is matched only by my sadness that Wisp has rolled mafia :<

SuperJedi224 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 8:27 pm Hello everyone, little out of practice but I'm glad to be back

Not going to vote just yet myself

the worst wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 10:19 pm Oh you're not mafia?? Thank goodness, had me scared for a hot minute.

Would love a vibe check but my reading of the atmospheric energy of the thread tells me that Sabrar, Wam and Morgan are town, and

vote: SuperJedi224

Wisp wrote:one question though, is week day phases normal for you guys?

moody7277 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 10:51 pm

Wisp wrote:one question though, is week day phases normal for you guys?

Yes, except where explicitly called a turbo game.

Day 1 for the last dozen or so games I can recall has been: random voting, someone claiming they can get alignment info from these and confirmation posts (there used to be this one player...), setup speculation, Madge complains, Boomfrog (were he playing) does some sort of reaction trap gambit, some flimsy attempt at analysis, someone does something slightly scummy and a bandwagon forms, maybe a counterwagon forms, and we eventually have an elim.