Re: The Don S. Davis memorial Stargate mafia game.
Greetings from Estonia, I've just returned from a week of touring prehistoric forts and medieval architecture. It's a beautiful country, but some drivers should pay more attention to traffic rules and their sense of self-preservation. But that is a story for another time... I'm amazed the game only just ended, I thought the signups for the next would be closing by now.
Feysal sure knows how to investigate. Feysal also managed to evade Orphan's Prior plague without the trigger phrase being known at that time. Lucky hunches or omniscience?
No hunches, I had my reasons for every person I targeted. korialstraz because I knew he would be around long enough for me to figure out my sanity (probability had it he would be pro-town, and the anti-town read reinforced my belief that I was insane), Sathoris for his willingness to lynch Uraj after his role claim, Noodle for not voting Goryani despite being online at the time (I'd checked his profile page as the day was ending, and I knew he had visited the game thread), FalconGK because of his many interactions and the information they would give the town, and finally Ankeli because I was worried he might have made up his story with the other Wraiths.
Without Laarz blocking me, I would have provided three anti-town reads. But, I have to wonder... I was already inclined to believe I was insane, and if my three first results were all anti-town, would I have believed it? It was only coincidence that my successes matched with Goryani, and I concluded my sanity correctly, but for the wrong reasons.
Did Feysal investigate Ankeli or was he bluffing? In other words, did replicator recruits keep their old abilities?
Like TC already said, I did investigate Ankeli. But, he did give me a result, although indirectly. After talking to Bad Ash and Noodle, I knew the replicators were not responsible for the kill attempt on me the previous night. That told me there had to be one more killing anti-town role, and if Ankeli had been anti-town, he'd have been a fourth separate anti-town faction. That was too many, so I concluded Ankeli was pro-town. It was no leap of faith, I was certain, though again for the wrong reasons, since apparently the attack on me was actually korialstraz's revenge action, but I couldn't have known that.
Bad Ash do you mean Feysal was outraged?
I don't know how Noodle reacted, but I was certainly displeased. I despise cults. I even told TC that I refused to share in any cult victory, and at the time I did not know about the 25% recruit chance or about the ARG, it looked like the cult indeed would win. I played my part, but I'd have betrayed the cult immediately if Goryani had claimed the ability to redeem replicators. I also had a secret motive for confirming Ankeli's role. I told the other replicators I would not lie about Ankeli because that would expose me, but I actually wanted to keep Ankeli alive hoping he would shoot either Bad Ash or Noodle. I was disappointed that his gun was taken away, I really wanted to see Noodle dead the next night.
For future games, I'll give fair warning: you will screw with my win condition at your own peril. If I am recruited, I will be looking for opportunities to stab the cult in the back.
It all comes down to Carter. Whether or not replicators get to Carter before Carter gets to the replicators determines who will win. I like that all sides have a chance to win, but it seems the replicator win% is too strongly correlated with Carter's outcome.
Agree on this. The cult seemed seriously overpowered to me (I did not know about the 25% chance until the end of game, mind you), and giving them even more power by recruiting Carter was just too horrible to imagine. I hate the idea of a single player being the key to everything, too much depended on Goryani here. Good thing we did not lynch him.
Finally, I've got a couple questions of my own:
@Goryani: What was that redemption thing about? Did you make that up, and if yes, to what end?
@Anyone: Can someone explain to me how I ended up in the infirmary for two nights running? I get the first time, korialstraz tried to kill me and Sathoris apparently saved me. I don't get the second time. Zarniwoop was blocked. Orphan infected me, but there was never mention of that in other story posts. No one else targeted me. Why was I injured?
but he comes thru in the end, cheers:guiness:
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