Re: The Vanilla (Ice) mafia thread
Ok, I got the attention I wanted, now I'll say what Gorny's comment was.
There was talk in the next game thread about night kill roles being revealed, and how that would affect the balance. Gorny said that night kill roles are known to the mafia, if they were responsible for the kill. That made me think, for the first time seriously, about how Noodle knew wickedswami's role, but had since then said nothing. When I continued on that train of thought, it seemed apparent that Bad Ash and wickedswami were Loz's people. I could not be sure of whether Noodle or Gorny was the don, but I suspected it would be Gorny. For balance, Noodle's mafia faction would have to have a hitman as well, and I believed Noodle was it. There would have been the symmetry of Noodle and Bad Ash both being hitmen and having substitutes.
At the start of the last day I'd intended to go after Loz, him being the certain choice, and I was hoping to get Noodle to vote him by making it appear as if I still thought Leo could've been the serial killer. After talking to her during the night, I trusted that she wasn't. I believed I had a chance of turning the game around, but I had to get Noodle lynched, since he could be a hitman, but Loz couldn't. Noodle was the bigger potential threat, which made it necessary for me to reverse my plan and convince Loz into voting Noodle.
It was an innocent answer to a game mechanics question, but if I hadn't seen that, I would've gone with my plan to get Loz lynched. I couldn't have won, but I was in the position to decide which mafia faction would have the chance to win.