Re: Ravenwood Retreat Mafia Game.
I didn't post earlier because this game has been more confusing than the last one and since this day phase has been so idle, there wasn't much information flowing around, but the powers of Lasagna Sunday have invigorated my mind and I have a lot to say (or write) so, please, red thoroughly. Having 4 dead and 1 not participating is quite demoralizing (it means a quarter of the player base is already gone). Moreover, after my approach in the previous (and my first) game got me killed sooner than I'd hoped for, I wanted to survive as long as possible. But, it's time to take one for the team, so I'll just straight-out claim:
[Highlight]I'm the City Slicker (Pro-Town). "You have only your wits to help you".[/Highlight]
(I asked Uraj the meaning of that, and he confirmed to me that I was a Vanilla Townie)
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Theories regarding murders:[/Highlight]
[Highlight]1)[/Highlight] Either the Serial Killer was role-blocked in the first night (by a goon or townie with that ability), abducted Leo in the second night, and both Feysal (poisoned in N1) and Laarz (strangled in N2) were killed by mafia (which may have different ways of killing, due to a "Retreat" flavor), or...
[Highlight]2)[/Highlight] Gorny swapped the first Mafia target with the SK (which is immune to night kills from what I've read), who in turn poisoned Feysal and abducted Leo, while on the second night, the Mafia successfully landed a killing on Laarz. If so, it's a pity Gorny didn't say who he swapped before suiciding.
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Moot Hypotheses: Noodle's theory of Leopold struggling with Laarz, killing him, and fleeing, would be far-fetched. Apart, thinking there might be more than two players with killing powers would be aggravating for the game. Remember, Leo is said to be missing, not kidnapped. Just because a body wasn't found it doesn't mean she's not dead (and she's on the "Players Dead" list).
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Analysis about the deceased:[/Highlight]
According to many from both in this game and the previous, if aligned with town, [Highlight]Feysal[/Highlight] would pose the biggest threat to the opposite faction/s, so let's dig into his posts: His first one (
#17) attacks directly at Marahumm's practice and in his second (
#28) he disagrees again with the aforementioned. Later (
#185) he voted for Zarniwoop, but at the end he switched to Thundercat for the sake of lynching. His dead was awkward, it would seem either Uraj forgot to tell him about his restriction, or Feysal forgot to check his private messages. Moving on, Why was [Highlight]Laarz[/Highlight] killed? He made only two posts (
#34 and
#151). The first one is relatively irrelevant (pointing the lack of usefulness of Marahumm's idea of viewing players' forum profiles), and the second targets Lozhinged about his conclusion. Continuing next with [Highlight]Leopold[/Highlight], she targets first (
#38) Marahumm's Profile Reviewing for being impractical, then attacks Loz for jumping into conclusions (
#86 and
#93) and declares she feels he's scum (
#196).
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Insight about the suspected:[/Highlight]
Starting with the less scummy of the trio, [Highlight]Zarniwoop[/Highlight] first post (
#27) states surprise "that not a single thing happened. At least not a single fatal thing". Perhaps he knew someone in particular had to die, but the action was blocked. Next (
#193), he voted for Asrrin because he pointed the importance of lynching the first day, I quote
"By pushing a no lynch, you are denying the town information."
[Highlight]Marahumm[/Highlight] opened (
#14) with what seemed to be a slip, since he spent his next six posts defending himself. Afterwards (
#162), he promised we wouldn't want him dead just yet and then labeled Loz and Zarni as scum (who coincidentally are the other 2 suspects) (
#177). Subsequently, he subtly claims his SK role (
#181), but since others believed he was a cop, he said Leo was investigated Leopold, but it was unsuccessful since she went missing (
#261), where Sathoris pointed he should have gotten a result anyway.
And finally, reeking of scum, [Highlight]LozHinge[/Highlight], started the game with
"Someone forgot to die last night" (
#6), which now seems obviously a distraction. Later, he slips saying Noodle and Gorny might be in the same team (
#12), since the Mafia always knows their members and slips again by implying a connection between him and Leo (
#77), which may have been the motive behind her disappearance at the hands of Marahumm. Afterwards he kept poking Gorny about his role claim (
#104,
#106,
#109,
#116 and
#122) who we know was Pro-Town. When Gorny suicided, he decided to switch to the next most likely lynch and then played fool after Laarz's and Leo's deaths (
#236) and at last, voted for Ivan, after he wrote a insightful post (
#283)
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Final disclaimer and Vote Rally:[/Highlight]
In night one, the Mafia were informed that, in order to keep the flavor of a Retreat environment, the killings would have different settings. They poisoned Feysal, since he was the biggest threat to their faction and the next night strangled Laarz for pointing out to Loz, silently and effectively. Meanwhile, the Serial Killer (Marahumm) either was not able to kill the first night due to mechanics, his action was blocked by the Mafia, or Gorny swapped his target with him, making his attack technically impossible. After the first day transpired, he chose Leopold, since he probably thought killing LozHinge or Zarniwoop (whom he believed to me scum) would have linked the murders to him.
With nothing more left to say, [Highlight]
Vote: LozHinge the Unhinged[/Highlight]
So what now, game over?
:wine:
