[Mafia]The Chopping Block

[Beast]

Vote Jessup

clearly mafia scum

[Vehicle]

squirtle17 Need you to not waste your vote. Jess/Beast are now tied at 3 as far as I can tell.

Voting for Jessup this phase is a clear scum move. Jessup has caught 3 votes for what? Activity?

Beast has been incredibly sketch all game and by my count also only has 3 votes on him (I could be wrong). He's gone from a tracker (or watcher, whatever) to a one-shot investigate/killing role, to now he's claiming full-on cop? This man can't even get his role straight.

Ob5 and Exalt both agree Beast's claim was garbage but they say "oh Beast probably just got confused," and then they both vote Jessup. Seems like we're swimming upstream to get Beast lynched. My guess is because he's scum.

[WillBy]

Vote Count:
Beast - 4 (The_Paul, Vehicle, Jessup, LF)
Jessup - 3 (OB5, Beast, Exalt)
The_Paul - 1 (Markmrw)
Exalt - 1 (Squirtle17)

Phase change: ~15 minutes

P.S. Remember to bold both words of your vote i.e. Vote Voth. I'm lenient for newer players, but I have legitimately seen people make plays by pretending to vote (or unvote) so let's keep it clean.

[WillBy]

Angry with the death of one of their own, the neighborhood descended on Maria at the front gate. After all, it makes sense, right? No one in our own community could be responsible for such a brutal scene, right? It was her job to keep our community secure, right? She wouldn't have lied about her priorities, right?

But Maria wasn't there. The rent-a-cop's car (she always called it "her security sedan") was gone; her little gate/toll booth was empty, except for an opioid prescription that was NOT made out to her, various lengths of dildos, and the central camera feed for the neighborhood. At last, we can find out who did this.

Rita (careful to not touch anything else) turned on the tv, and saw a different kind of savage pounding than the one that Arthur received last night. Deb quickly turned it off, and they all slowly turned to me.

Their blank stares were met with an even blanker stare from me. Finally Lumen broke the silence, "Jonah, is there any way to recover the footage?"

I quickly ejected the VCR (yes, VCR), but alas, it was just the porn.

She'd neglected her security duties, and got off instead.

Beast aka Maria the Gatekeeper skipped town. She was a 1-shot cop.

Begin Night 2

[Vehicle]

Whoops. That's my bad. Beast claimed so poorly I had zero faith in it. On the up-side, he already used his ability so it's a dead vanilla townie. I still led this bandwagon though so ... whoops.

[LF]

Well that pretty squarely puts me in the town column so I guess a little bit of good can be taken from his death. Given that I'm definitely the strongest confirmed townie atm, I'm probably not going to survive the night so I'll definitely be using my night action tonight. I'm need to narrow down my scum list from Exalt/Mark/Jessup. I'm strongly leaning towards Mark

[Jessup]

Well that pretty squarely puts me in the town column so I guess a little bit of good can be taken from his death. Given that I'm definitely the strongest confirmed townie atm, I'm probably not going to survive the night so I'll definitely be using my night action tonight. I'm need to narrow down my scum list from Exalt/Mark/Jessup. I'm strongly leaning towards Mark

Unless by some great fortune you are Godfather If town has same luck as Oranges game you will be lol but ya you def seem to be in the clear for now LF.

Exalt is sus tho still. I think starting a train on me was pretty odd but ok..

I gave beast chances to explain his gameplay and he decided to not come clean. What are good townies supposed to do? The play imo was to vote Beast for being misleading lying about a 1 shot kill. orangeandblack5 ye I sus'd beast for being scum and or 3rd party and or just bad gameplay.. either way there was info to be made in beasts death. I'm sorry he is town and ded but beast should have come clean on his true intentions lying to everyone. Telling town he had a kill shot and us then relying on that later is just terrible..

GL Tonight town buddies.

[Exalt]

Vote Count:
Beast - 4 (The_Paul, Vehicle, Jessup, LF)
Jessup - 3 (OB5, Beast, Exalt)
The_Paul - 1 (Markmrw)
Exalt - 1 (Squirtle17)

Phase change: ~15 minutes

P.S. Remember to bold both words of your vote i.e. Vote Voth. I'm lenient for newer players, but I have legitimately seen people make plays by pretending to vote (or unvote) so let's keep it clean.

I'm shocked I tell you. Absolutely shocked. Who could have possibly guessed that Beast was town after claiming 1-shot cop? It hurts to think about. Oh well, back to eating crayons and sniffing glue.

[Exalt]

don't have long but talk me through vehicle?

can re-read the whole game tomorrow and gather wider thoughts but although I feel my grasp on the game is decent for how long I've actually been in it (ie, not much) I can't say I remember much of what he's done off the top of my head

Not much to say. I just don't trust his "Whoops, my bad, I axed a claimed townie, how could I ever have known" schtick. Vehicle should know Beast better than this to have at least a little pause. Not exactly a rock solid reason, but it is a reason.

[WillBy]

The door left ajar. Not much for signs of a struggle, but a clear, hasty retreat. Then there's the blood... so. much. blood.

I'd always dreamed of seeing her like this. Well, not like this but, you know, naked. Still, I'd rather be lying next to her in bed than watching forensics carefully sidestepping her face-down body and broken shards of the shower door to take better pictures.

The dreams are still vivid, lifelike. I make her a nice dinner, we settle in to watch a movie. Halfway through she calls it quits to get cozy. This is all I wanted. We make small talk- gossiping about the work, school, dreams, kids, and those damn neighbors. I tell her about Maria and her porn, about Arthur and how strong one has to be to smash in a skull like that, and she hangs on my every word. She can't get enough. She asks me to leave. Hard to get? Then the dream start to go...

Red. The dream fades, but the red is still there, all over the bathroom. I quickly retreat home, and though the morning sun is up, the neighborhood is missing something...

Squirtle17 aka Rita, the HOA Vice President is dead. She was a 1-shot Doctor.

Begin Day 3

[LF]

Vote: MarkMorrow

[the_paul]

I know it was mentioned that you were planning on using your ability last night. I'm going to hope that this is the result of that action, and I will tentatively hop on board until we hear from the others.

Vote Mark loveofmylife MRW

[Markmrw]

Are you all suspicious of because I voted LF on day 1? I can't see any other reason to think I am Mafia

For me the suspects are, in order of suspicion
The underscore - has not claimed anything and doesn't seem to have contributed to the town
LF - tracked by a real tracker?
Exalt - role claimed tracker
OB5 - would he really kill his friend on N1?
Jess & Veh - both voted Voth D1

[Jessup]

Vote Exalt

The chances are really slim this guy matched beasts cop investigation on LF N1 focusing a tracker 1 shot on him. Both these guys chose LF and revealed together with zero communication? We are talking extremely low probabilities this could have happened. Not to mention how convenient it was to pop in second after beast claimed. MAfia knows who is not mafia and it is so easy to claim "ye I have proof beast is telling the truth and I tracked him too!!" It is such a scum move and tries to latch onto beasts claim to shield him from suspicion but the facts are the chances of both of them focusing on LF the same night are minuscule. Not to mention the weird train he started with orange on me.. ye beast voting for me I get but those two??

Any1 have any info to share that is incriminating today thru ur town powers?

[orangeandblack5]

Jessup what

I disagree with the LF track but I think the reasoning for it is solid and given almost everyone seems to be a PR I believe he's a tracker - otherwise, claiming LF didn't act is incredibly risky.

And Mafia Tracker is just a worse Role Cop so why in the world would WillBy give them one with so many one-shot town powers

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It doesn't seem like you're trying to actually evaluate people here at all? I'd expect town to feel more remorse over lynching a claimed cop, and I'd certainly expect town to realize that Exalt's claim is incredibly high risk for low reward as Mafia here, especially since it helped to clear two players now known to be town.

vote jessup again, pending info from LF