Mafia 2020 #3: 14 Stories Above the Sea

[Jessup]

You keep on throwing shade though. I'm sure your claim of Richard 'Wilkes' Simmons, fitness coordinator is far more believable. What's your backstory again? You never gave one, only a name and a job.

Well, I have a basic role as staff on the ship like EVERYONE else. You the paranoid freak conspiracy theorist codenamed shadow since '92 who is somehow gonna turn into a legit cop who is staff on the boat..after 2 deaths happen.. lol.. makes like .001 % sense to me at this stage and time. OUTLANDISH even..

[Kassius]

I'm pretty sure beast is town, bcuz scum dont usually word vomit all over the thread saying the dumb stuff beast did when they can just be like backwards and say nothing all game until they vote at deadline, then disappear again. Or that Kassius guy who I didnt know was in the game until Jessup VSed him, with no response from Kassius.

Some people like Paul or Voth can get away with being really active as scum because they're good at it, but Beast doesn't strike me as the type to take that risk, because it absolutely is a risk. It can backfire in a heartbeat, so most people dont do it. It's just adding unnecessary challenge to the role when you can get away with the bare minimum and go unnoticed 90% of the game.

So I dont want to vote him personally. Not sure if theres an alternative though if most people arent here to switch votes.

Just going to respond to this, because it's entirely untrue lol, read the thread. Jessup backs down and unvotes me when I explain myself. Seems a desperate attempt to sow suspicion and hope people don't actually read what happened in order to deflect from the focus on you.

[Jessup]

Unvote Exalt
Vote Beast

That's a reasonable enough backstory to me.

[Edify]

Sheesh, people griping about MIA. I'm working from home too. I'm not going to clock out to check spaceship forums. My shift is over now so I should be more readily available.
Just slogged through all the posts since my last one. Interesting turn of events.

Re:: Paul for the ordered list of active players I posted. That wasn't an exhaustive list, just the players I noticed not posting very much at all over yesterday. I was, in effect, saying Exalt is not one of our concerns at the time because if we are trying to get rid of inactives there are others who are more inactive. Now it's clear we shouldn't kill off any inactives because they could be town power roles and subs may be gotten for them.

Exalt I wasn't given a backstory, just a first name and job on the ship, followed by my role. For now I am inclined to believe Exalt may not be scum, even if he isn't willing to say the same of me.

Beast again, still oddly silent after my last post this morning. Maybe he has a day job too. Imagine that. Well, I'm willing to hear any retorts from him until our 2:05P PDT phase change. Until then, he's still the most suspicious of everyone to me. Also eyeing sdrawcab for his shady behavior and the_paul for sticking up for Beast.

[the_paul]

Sheesh, people griping about MIA. I'm working from home too. I'm not going to clock out to check spaceship forums. My shift is over now so I should be more readily available.
Just slogged through all the posts since my last one. Interesting turn of events.

Re:: Paul for the ordered list of active players I posted. That wasn't an exhaustive list, just the players I noticed not posting very much at all over yesterday. I was, in effect, saying Exalt is not one of our concerns at the time because if we are trying to get rid of inactives there are others who are more inactive. Now it's clear we shouldn't kill off any inactives because they could be town power roles and subs may be gotten for them.

Exalt I wasn't given a backstory, just a first name and job on the ship, followed by my role. For now I am inclined to believe Exalt may not be scum, even if he isn't willing to say the same of me.

Beast again, still oddly silent after my last post this morning. Maybe he has a day job too. Imagine that. Well, I'm willing to hear any retorts from him until our 2:05P PDT phase change. Until then, he's still the most suspicious of everyone to me. Also eyeing sdrawcab for his shady behavior and the_paul for sticking up for Beast.

Got it on the first part, I was just checking. As for the second part, you consider Beast to be suspicious? I don't particularly get that read on him, I voted for him out of necessity, but you seem to be saying you have the opposite opinion.

[Edify]

Why do I need to quote myself? You saw my reasons earlier. I shall retrieve them for you.

[ixt]

Beast for me gives me flashbacks to a bad move by another new player that I clearly said wasn’t mafia but nobody was listening to me...I forgot his name but that’s not the point. Would he make such blatant conclusions right off the bat if he was mafia party? It’s possible for third like a jester maybe, but if he is flipped and is mafia consider everything I said bullshit.

[Edify]

• Beast has been silent as all for about 12+ hours, especially once there was 3 votes on him.
• First he said he has a powerful role that he dares not name.
• Then he said he's "also a coordinator" which I understood as he's helped to run a Mafia game before. I had misinterpreted that as he then said he's a "Supply Coordinator" as a job on the ship. It reeks of fishiness. Why not say the shipboard job upfront?
• When he was getting votes for lynch, he then volunteered to be the sacrificial lamb and said he has no special role. Scum identified.

Contradictions all over. My vote stays on Beast.

The timeframe of Beast's silence is now even longer. Add to that and all around feeling of desperation when votes showed up on him. Some have said I'm town, and others have said I seem scummy. I'm not concerned, because I'm part of the town. Do you get that vibe from me, the_paul?

I am, however, willing to listen to reason from Beast if he gets on before the cutoff time. Everyone should be allowed to defend themselves.

[the_paul]

The timeframe of Beast's silence is now even longer. Add to that and all around feeling of desperation when votes showed up on him. Some have said I'm town, and others have said I seem scummy. I'm not concerned, because I'm part of the town. Do you get that vibe from me, the_paul?

I am, however, willing to listen to reason from Beast if he gets on before the cutoff time. Everyone should be allowed to defend themselves.

That was a solid post, thanks for re-quoting it for me. Beast has said some weird stuff, I'll give you that. I would be surprised if he was scum given how active he was at the beginning. I don't pay much attention to his claim of not having an action. If he said "I am the supply coordinator and I have a very important role", then he would most likely get railroaded into a full claim. So claiming vanilla townie is par for the course. He definitely made some interesting statements that don't strike me as being town, like when he said "Willby wouldn't make same people mafia 2 games in a row". I'm 99.9% sure Willby assigns role by RNG, so that statement seems extra desperate to gain credibility. He then says he has a list of people that are 100% town, no matter what, on day 1, which is.. interesting. The worst one is when he said "only vanilla townies have a name and occupation". That really made no sense to me. Scummy? Maybe, I could see making a case for that. It struck me as desperately trying to get involved in real time, but it hasn't aged particularly well. My vote is on him anyway, for better or for worse.

As for you, I don't have any read. I haven't played a mafia game with you in at least 8 years probably, and most likely more, so we'll see where we go from here

[Exalt]

VOTE: Backwards

This should be the lynch imo, since at least 3 of us find him suspicious. Also, Jessup wont look at him at all, which makes me even more confident in voting him. Most here have given reservations about Beast, so then move your vote?

[Voth]

I'm fine with that, but is there time? I think Willbys deadline was met but...

unvote beast
vote backwards

[the_paul]

Unvote BEAST
Vote BACKWARDS

I feel a lot better about this. Anyone have a VC? Got a bad feeling this can end with a double lynch or Exalt getting back in the lead somehow

[WillBy]

Vote tally:
Beast-2 (vehicle,edify)
exalt-2 (jessup, sdrawkcab)
bioture-1 (beast)
jessup-1 (kassius)
ixt-1 (halp)
sdrawkcab-3 (exalt, the_paul, voth)

Dirty unvoters: ixt, hookecho
afkers: Missa, Bioture

10 minutes til vote lock

[Edify]

Getting close to cutoff time here... I'm going to leave mine on Beast. To me it would be scummy to suddenly switch to sdrawcaB as Beast is the one I'm most concerned about.
I don't think that my vote affects Exalt's status in any way though.

[Exalt]

Getting close to cutoff time here... I'm going to leave mine on Beast. To me it would be scummy to suddenly switch to sdrawcaB as Beast is the one I'm most concerned about.
I don't think that my vote affects Exalt's status in any way though.

If I'm wrong about beast and you're right, this post will be the 'I told you so' moment.