I know this is kind of wild. But maybe kpaca is offering to go insane because he's scum and knows we won't really make him go insane, so by offering he seems like town...?
I don't really know here. Not suspecting kpaca at all, but the offer seems kind of odd.
HORSECRAP I AM AN EXCELLENT MAFIA PLAYER AND THIS ONLY SEATS YOU FURTHER ON THE FENCE
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To clarify. Burboy is not playing in a logical way for a good scum player.
Sorry, my bad. I didn't realize I'd worded it in an ambiguous way.
If you were scum, as kpaca pointed out, you wouldn't be sticking your neck out like you are. The "I agree with Kpaca" should've made it obvious what I meant.
I will lay off you and poke around at some other people, promise. Relax.
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I'll be sad if people don't start calling The Chain Veil "Fleetwood Mac."
Your case is bad because you assume me making posts that don't display a strong conviction by attacking or defending other players is a scum tell. Hardly.
I assume that attempting to look as though you are contributing worthwile analysis while actually doing nothing of the sort is a scum tell, because it's often something scum do.
Also you seem to have a problem with the way I stated that I'm leaning town on kpaca. Players who have not read the "I lurk as scum" statement made by kpaca in its three or four instances, with context, and have not witnessed kpaca's scum play are unlikely to understand why I hold significance to it.
Exact same reasoning as mentioned before; it's also an out of place piece to begin with. I'm leaning town on this person a day in? Because he hasn't done something he says he does as scum right out of the gate?
Responding to you based simply on the first two posts you made voting me would only serve to make me look like I'm overly concerned with my appearance. Now that you've called me out on it, I may as well say, "Hello. This is why your case is bad. Good day, sir."
I wouldn't ask you to respond based on the first two posts, although I would be curious as to why you didn't want an explanation yourself, but for someone who apparently avoided pressing me after my first two posts so as to not look overly concerned with appearances, by saying that you look pretty concerned with appearances. Which is a lousy tell to begin with, it's just humorous.
I'm telling you that to assume AI is scum off of those two posts is dumb and that you are likely going to waste your time because knowing AI his responses probably won't sway you.
Not sure why nacho_wizard is grilling Monkey_Playing_MTG when the latter seems legitimately confused by the lack of explanation accompanying burboy's vote. Seems opportunistic considering Monkey's inexperience.
wow you must be some kind of savant to draw that much info and drama out of two one-liner posts
why dont you mind your own business and not tell me who i can or cant poke at thanks
Kpaca makes sense, Burboy is not posting in a logical way for a good mafia player.
Consider me off the fence.
oh wow
ok so first you vote burboy w/e he is being antagonistic and opinionated that seems to be the de facto knee jerk response to that here. but then kpaca calls him town and you instantly back off and then get called on that. you act like you take a side here.
except, what are you really saying? not posting in a logical way for a good mafia player is a really long-winded way of still not taking a stance on how scummy you think he is. you are just saying his play sucks, but the fence sitting was your vote/unvote along with saying you have no idea if hes town or scum. either you say bad player here and are avoiding commenting on your read of him or you are substituting that like its a read. except if you were off the fence you would revote him imo
Has it become standard play in my absence to ignore posts one finds inconvenient?
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To clarify. Burboy is not playing in a logical way for a good scum player.
Sorry, my bad. I didn't realize I'd worded it in an ambiguous way.
If you were scum, as kpaca pointed out, you wouldn't be sticking your neck out like you are. The "I agree with Kpaca" should've made it obvious what I meant.
I will lay off you and poke around at some other people, promise. Relax.
ok so first you vote burboy w/e he is being antagonistic and opinionated that seems to be the de facto knee jerk response to that here. but then kpaca calls him town and you instantly back off and then get called on that. you act like you take a side here.
except, what are you really saying? not posting in a logical way for a good mafia player is a really long-winded way of still not taking a stance on how scummy you think he is. you are just saying his play sucks, but the fence sitting was your vote/unvote along with saying you have no idea if hes town or scum. either you say bad player here and are avoiding commenting on your read of him or you are substituting that like its a read. except if you were off the fence you would revote him imo
vote promatim
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Still don't like the going insane idea, reasons haven't changed.
@Bateleur - Why are you scowling at those two? Your posts are entertaining, but if you're got pro-town wisdom to share, letting the rest of the class in on it would be nice.
@AI - Gender softclaim. Is there a reason you want to do this? I've yet to play with a softclaim. What's the advantage?
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I'll be sad if people don't start calling The Chain Veil "Fleetwood Mac."
Why are you scowling at those two? Your posts are entertaining, but if you're got pro-town wisdom to share, letting the rest of the class in on it would be nice.
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This really bugs me. It does feel like he's attacking someone for trying to ask information. We like asking questions of people in mafia, it roots out liars.
ok so first you vote burboy w/e he is being antagonistic and opinionated that seems to be the de facto knee jerk response to that here. but then kpaca calls him town and you instantly back off and then get called on that. you act like you take a side here.
except, what are you really saying? not posting in a logical way for a good mafia player is a really long-winded way of still not taking a stance on how scummy you think he is. you are just saying his play sucks, but the fence sitting was your vote/unvote along with saying you have no idea if hes town or scum. either you say bad player here and are avoiding commenting on your read of him or you are substituting that like its a read. except if you were off the fence you would revote him imo
vote promatim
I can't even follow his train of logic. It's convoluted.
ok so first you vote burboy w/e he is being antagonistic and opinionated that seems to be the de facto knee jerk response to that here. but then kpaca calls him town and you instantly back off and then get called on that. you act like you take a side here.
except, what are you really saying? not posting in a logical way for a good mafia player is a really long-winded way of still not taking a stance on how scummy you think he is. you are just saying his play sucks, but the fence sitting was your vote/unvote along with saying you have no idea if hes town or scum. either you say bad player here and are avoiding commenting on your read of him or you are substituting that like its a read. except if you were off the fence you would revote him imo
vote promatim
I agree with this. I also don't like how promatim goes out of his way to try and not hurt burboys feelings. I don't care for it when people do that. It seems to me people who are concerned with riling people up are concerned with getting into a confrontation with them.
I have dropped the insanity thing. It honestly comes from a desire for us to know what that mechanic is. In inheritance people were afraid of all the buttons, and that came back to haunt us later. If we could figure out the mechanic and coordinate it, that would be great. Like I said, we should reexplore day 3.
As for not responding to your FOS, it is a FOS and I don't care about it if you aren't going to explain it at all.
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Are you trying to intentionally obscure what you are saying?
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I'm here, have received my role and am ready to lurk. Or maybe I'll post. Who knows?
I think I'll spam post. But not now. When people say things, you'll see more Kracky stuff.
You're not supposed to give that away. It would have set me up as confirmed town...
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Interesting in what way? I gather from your tone, it's interesting in a bad way, but yet you supposedly offered no reason for such an observation. Almost as if you just left it hanging in the air in the expectation for some other Town to come along and exclaim, "Oh my, that is indeed scummy, now die!", before only throwing your own weight behind it.
Don't jump to conclusions my gooey friend.
The wording problem is that he speaks about his alignment in vauge terms "I do know if I am not scum" instead of saying the usual "I know that I am not scum".
I read that as sarcasm. What did you read it as?
The same as the above post - ambigous wording. Not "Well you're wrong."
And because I'm stupid and not allowed to edit, I'll have to double post.
Most of the wording confusion is me trying to clear up suspicion without saying what I am, but I can see how it would be taken as "OMFGWTFBBQ SCUM!"
And why wouldn't we be willing to subject someone to this so long as we have them claim the results? I doubt someone will die from this.
a) We have no idea how to reduce someone's sanity.
b) It may change their alignment in which case they can't be trusted.
c) The effects may be so bad that it would be just as if they had died.
Sweet, another group of people afraid to push the buttons ala inheritance, and I'm assuming we are on the track of non-team work ala every other recent town failure.
Also Talore you could read some games with mass claims.
Also, note that I did not suggest a mass (role) claim. I suggested a soft claim. Big difference. I think a gender soft claim would be a good idea.
EWP: A D1 name claim with this setup would be bad. A mass claim could be either awesome or awful, so I'd stay away from that one too.
When the button is labeled "Become insane!" shying away from it seems correct. I'm all for teamwork that doesn't involve deliberately screwing ourselves over.
I want to vote Fenris for his OMGUS against nacho_wizard but it's a null tell in this situation.
Having never played with AI or most people at this site for that matter I'm inclined to play as though he were anyone else and see where that takes me.
You are actively telling me not to pursue someone I think is scum because nothing will come of it and it's a waste of time and surely I have better things to do.
This must be a mafia first for me, no one has ever told not to go after scum because it's a waste of my time.
Well, it's actually a very reasonable sentiment if someone was definitely not going to be lynched. However in this case I don't see why you should stop going after AI.
Also you seem to have a problem with the way I stated that I'm leaning town on kpaca. Players who have not read the "I lurk as scum" statement made by kpaca in its three or four instances, with context, and have not witnessed kpaca's scum play are unlikely to understand why I hold significance to it.
No. I gave it significance when he self-meta'd the first time. But now it makes so much sense for him to just switch up his scum playstyle. Maybe not this game but at some point he's just going to take advantage of this.
Responding to you based simply on the first two posts you made voting me would only serve to make me look like I'm overly concerned with my appearance. Now that you've called me out on it, I may as well say, "Hello. This is why your case is bad. Good day, sir."
I assume that attempting to look as though you are contributing worthwile analysis while actually doing nothing of the sort is a scum tell, because it's often something scum do.
"Because he arrives in the thread and immediately asks a question to which the answer should be obvious."
"He clearly wants us to think he has low sanity, but if that were the case he could just ask the mod his question."
"Conclusion: He wants a conversation on this topic for some reason."
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/confirms, maybe? Just not phrased as /confirm, more of a "I'm alive" to everyone who isn't rianalnn (who would've already gotten the read receipt)?
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We have to introduce ourselves in someway, and considering the thread was already in the swing of things,it's logical to state we're reading.
Furthermore, I think we can drop the insanity docket for the time being. Since kpaca has agreed to delay it, we can refocus our efforts to start towards some definite majority. I'm still trying to formulate my own townie list, but I'll share some of thoughts later.
Just my 2cents on sanity and the loss of it. I've been thinking of this from the standpoint of a person who plays Call of Cthulhu regularly as well as the Arkham Horror. Sanity loss is unique in that the loss of it can indeed kill a person or at the very least render someone incapable of any action whatsoever. I think that might be something to be careful of. At the same time the loss of sanity due to seeing something otherworldly raises your knowledge of all things cthulhu mythos related. So it could be potential double edged. Or it just could screw us.
Now this might be pretty off based especially given that my feeling is stirred towards someone who everyone seems to respect greatly but I feel odd about Bateleur's posts. I just feel that he distances himself from all others and should he be a PW i'm very curious as to what it might be. Also this seems to make him ignored 9 times out of 10.
Also as a general question for you Bate are you posting with your descriptions of a top hat, a pipe, and such for post flavor or is this somewhat representative of who you are?
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Yeah, I was wondering about the Call of Cthulu thing myself. I've heard of the game and the sanity point thing, but have never played it. How does one go about losing their sanity in there? Just on the off chance we may have a rough equivalent here in mafia.
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Yeah, I was wondering about the Call of Cthulu thing myself. I've heard of the game and the sanity point thing, but have never played it. How does one go about losing their sanity in there? Just on the off chance we may have a rough equivalent here in mafia.
Well you can lose sanity in various ways but the most simple scenarios are those when you encounter something horrific be it a mangled body or a creature of mythos. Say you walk into a room and discover a body of a hanged man. Thats a sanity loss. At the same time say you discovered some cosmic evil through reading the text of a madman. Again sanity loss. So sanity can be lost in quite the variety of ways.
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Perhaps the lynches of certain people in certain fashions could cause loss of sanity... What do you guys think?
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Well I had a couple of thoughts. Someone could be insane or close to insane currently, the scum quite possibly have at least one almost insane person in the group, and it lets us explore the insanity mechanic without having driving someone insane on purpose.
A sanity claim is a horrible idea. If the scum have at least one almost insane person in the group, then they're not going to be truthful. You should know something as simple as that. As D_V might say, "I have two million sanity and twenty four nightkills."
Reading the rules, I don't even see a way to alter sanity values.
Also, first person to call dibs gets to be targeted with a secret ability tonight. If you don't call dibs in your next post, you are ineligible for calling dibs.
Well you can lose sanity in various ways but the most simple scenarios are those when you encounter something horrific be it a mangled body or a creature of mythos. Say you walk into a room and discover a body of a hanged man. Thats a sanity loss. At the same time say you discovered some cosmic evil through reading the text of a madman. Again sanity loss. So sanity can be lost in quite the variety of ways.
Huh. So in this game, might we lose sanity by being the lynching vote on a townie? Just speculation, it seems to fit in with what you are saying here.
a) We have no idea how to reduce someone's sanity.
b) It may change their alignment in which case they can't be trusted.
c) The effects may be so bad that it would be just as if they had died.
Also, I agree with Calvin's list of possibilities here, although I have to throw in a few more options:
1. Scum cannot have alignment changed.
2. Scum alignment changes to third-party cult
3. Town alignment changes to scum
4. Town changes to cult
5. Scum dies
6. Town dies
7. Scum changes to SK
8. Town changes to SK
Most/all of these are bad, but then again this is speculation. This is what I think may happen, so I believe that we should NOT try to lose our sanity.
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Oh, and sanity spec: I played Cthulhu Dice last month and to win, you have to be the last person in the game without 0 sanity. If everyone has 0 sanity, Cthulhu wins and all players lose.
I don't like speculating about stuff like this, so take that for what you will.
Also, as an aside, "Cthulhu Dice" is a misnomer: There's only one die in the game.
I think you know more than you're letting on. How do we lynch someone in "certain fashions?"
I don't know, but I'm wondering if maybe certain people capable of especially gruesome things (different characters?) cast the lynching vote it might be an especially disgusting lynch scene and it could possibly cause loss of sanity for those who looked.
Again, just speculation. But I'm determined to figure out how these sanity points work.
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I don't know, but I'm wondering if maybe certain people capable of especially gruesome things (different characters?) cast the lynching vote it might be an especially disgusting lynch scene and it could possibly cause loss of sanity for those who looked.
Again, just speculation. But I'm determined to figure out how these sanity points work.
Huh.
Maybe. That goes into speculation territory, but it might be handy for whoever we decide gets to hammer to give a little role flavor? I don't know.
The more I think about it, the more I find that unlikely. That would mean we'd have to coordinate who gets items AND a hidden sanity variable, AS WELL AS THE FACT THAT WE DON'T KNOW HOW SANITY IS REDUCED / INCREASED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Yeah, it's official. This is dumb. Please post things that aren't dumb, like "vote Promatim."
Speaking of which, what are your thoughts on Promatim?
Meh. Promatim's had some slightly scummy posts, enough to merit a FoS but not a vote just yet. As someone else stated before, a vote means you believe the person should be lynched. I'm not positive about lynching Promatim, but I am watching him closely.
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I have a nagging feeling that burboy could be a gimmick, re: Join date, amount of posts, the fact that it's a clan contest... meh.
Kpaca definitely looks better for offering to become insane.
Fair enough.
Kpaca makes sense, Burboy is not posting in a logical way for a good mafia player.
Consider me off the fence.
I don't really know here. Not suspecting kpaca at all, but the offer seems kind of odd.
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HORSECRAP I AM AN EXCELLENT MAFIA PLAYER AND THIS ONLY SEATS YOU FURTHER ON THE FENCE
Put the caps lock down.
To clarify. Burboy is not playing in a logical way for a good scum player.
Sorry, my bad. I didn't realize I'd worded it in an ambiguous way.
If you were scum, as kpaca pointed out, you wouldn't be sticking your neck out like you are. The "I agree with Kpaca" should've made it obvious what I meant.
I will lay off you and poke around at some other people, promise. Relax.
Please don't. We really don't need to slog through stuff like this.
I assume that attempting to look as though you are contributing worthwile analysis while actually doing nothing of the sort is a scum tell, because it's often something scum do.
Exact same reasoning as mentioned before; it's also an out of place piece to begin with. I'm leaning town on this person a day in? Because he hasn't done something he says he does as scum right out of the gate?
I wouldn't ask you to respond based on the first two posts, although I would be curious as to why you didn't want an explanation yourself, but for someone who apparently avoided pressing me after my first two posts so as to not look overly concerned with appearances, by saying that you look pretty concerned with appearances. Which is a lousy tell to begin with, it's just humorous.
my bad, it was just a joke
how much do you love being captain townie pants
is it a lot
i bet its a lot
I disagree with this, the scum are almost certainly more in the know about sanity effects than the town. It's neutral at best.
wow you must be some kind of savant to draw that much info and drama out of two one-liner posts
why dont you mind your own business and not tell me who i can or cant poke at thanks
This is what I mean. He knows that we won't let him go insane, so by offering, it takes off all suspicion.
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All suspicion? As though no one is going to suspect him when he would be willing to go insane, an effect which we know nothing about?
oh wow
ok so first you vote burboy w/e he is being antagonistic and opinionated that seems to be the de facto knee jerk response to that here. but then kpaca calls him town and you instantly back off and then get called on that. you act like you take a side here.
except, what are you really saying? not posting in a logical way for a good mafia player is a really long-winded way of still not taking a stance on how scummy you think he is. you are just saying his play sucks, but the fence sitting was your vote/unvote along with saying you have no idea if hes town or scum. either you say bad player here and are avoiding commenting on your read of him or you are substituting that like its a read. except if you were off the fence you would revote him imo
vote promatim
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...or not. It's mafia... all interactions are everyone's buissness. Why are you so riled up because of one comment?
i take issue with somebody playing dad while he misreps me asking a very obvious question as grilling the dude
and believe me, i am not even close to riled up right now. youll know when it happens
I would be better about that if I could stand this posting style. I assume it's a flavor drawback?
Or maybe he just feels like it. I kind of like it, tbh.
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Enjoy reading into a mistype that I've already explained.
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Still don't like the going insane idea, reasons haven't changed.
@Bateleur - Why are you scowling at those two? Your posts are entertaining, but if you're got pro-town wisdom to share, letting the rest of the class in on it would be nice.
@AI - Gender softclaim. Is there a reason you want to do this? I've yet to play with a softclaim. What's the advantage?
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it's a super lot.
useless
useless
#1: Randomness is random.
#2: Second and third lines don't make sense.
#3: He didn't seem concerned with votes.
This really bugs me. It does feel like he's attacking someone for trying to ask information. We like asking questions of people in mafia, it roots out liars.
Is this player 7? 8?
This feels bad to me. A lot of attitude for the smallest of flack.
I can't even follow his train of logic. It's convoluted.
Once again, really screwed up logic. It isn't very obvious why you asked him and it did look like you were grilling him.
I don't think there's concrete evidence of scum, although the attitude may be a hint. I know I hate his playstyle.
Oops. Second quote should be lumped in with the fourth, his other post regarding Fenris.
I agree with this. I also don't like how promatim goes out of his way to try and not hurt burboys feelings. I don't care for it when people do that. It seems to me people who are concerned with riling people up are concerned with getting into a confrontation with them.
Aw, there is no tone. Your posts are entertaining.
I will do a reread. It is easy to miss some of your "talking" because of the quote boxes.
Are you trying to intentionally obscure what you are saying?
I have dropped the insanity thing. It honestly comes from a desire for us to know what that mechanic is. In inheritance people were afraid of all the buttons, and that came back to haunt us later. If we could figure out the mechanic and coordinate it, that would be great. Like I said, we should reexplore day 3.
As for not responding to your FOS, it is a FOS and I don't care about it if you aren't going to explain it at all.
You're welcome.
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Talking about NW here?
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No I am talking about batleur.
Why so many of these posts?
You're not supposed to give that away. It would have set me up as confirmed town...
Don't jump to conclusions my gooey friend.
The wording problem is that he speaks about his alignment in vauge terms "I do know if I am not scum" instead of saying the usual "I know that I am not scum".
The same as the above post - ambigous wording. Not "Well you're wrong."
Either you are scum or you made a typo. I'm not on there.
But the problem is why can't you say it?
And what about the other posts just like this? I think this is stretching.
a) We have no idea how to reduce someone's sanity.
b) It may change their alignment in which case they can't be trusted.
c) The effects may be so bad that it would be just as if they had died.
Bwahaha?
Sweet, fearmongering!
Mmm, perhaps but why this particular point?
Why did you ignore Bat's vote?
And I like you!
Ahahahah!
You sir, are confirmed town in my book.
Exactly. Else you would be lynched now.
So you're not a gimmick?
Yes. I will explain what you missed:
Well, it's actually a very reasonable sentiment if someone was definitely not going to be lynched. However in this case I don't see why you should stop going after AI.
Haha, I've got you're back.
No. I gave it significance when he self-meta'd the first time. But now it makes so much sense for him to just switch up his scum playstyle. Maybe not this game but at some point he's just going to take advantage of this.
My, how ironic :D.
Yup.
Hah, I know. I get annoyed when people ignore me.
Never too early to PBPA, eh.
Yes, and either way it isn't hampering his ability to communicate.
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/confirms, maybe? Just not phrased as /confirm, more of a "I'm alive" to everyone who isn't rianalnn (who would've already gotten the read receipt)?
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Furthermore, I think we can drop the insanity docket for the time being. Since kpaca has agreed to delay it, we can refocus our efforts to start towards some definite majority. I'm still trying to formulate my own townie list, but I'll share some of thoughts later.
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Now this might be pretty off based especially given that my feeling is stirred towards someone who everyone seems to respect greatly but I feel odd about Bateleur's posts. I just feel that he distances himself from all others and should he be a PW i'm very curious as to what it might be. Also this seems to make him ignored 9 times out of 10.
Also as a general question for you Bate are you posting with your descriptions of a top hat, a pipe, and such for post flavor or is this somewhat representative of who you are?
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Legacy:
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GUR Canadian Threshold RUG
Commander:
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Well you can lose sanity in various ways but the most simple scenarios are those when you encounter something horrific be it a mangled body or a creature of mythos. Say you walk into a room and discover a body of a hanged man. Thats a sanity loss. At the same time say you discovered some cosmic evil through reading the text of a madman. Again sanity loss. So sanity can be lost in quite the variety of ways.
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Legacy:
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GUR Canadian Threshold RUG
Commander:
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vote Promatim
A sanity claim is a horrible idea. If the scum have at least one almost insane person in the group, then they're not going to be truthful. You should know something as simple as that. As D_V might say, "I have two million sanity and twenty four nightkills."
Reading the rules, I don't even see a way to alter sanity values.
Also, first person to call dibs gets to be targeted with a secret ability tonight. If you don't call dibs in your next post, you are ineligible for calling dibs.
I was going for introduction + a small quantity of humor. Also, I have an erratic schedule and will post at unusual times.
Huh. So in this game, might we lose sanity by being the lynching vote on a townie? Just speculation, it seems to fit in with what you are saying here.
Also, I agree with Calvin's list of possibilities here, although I have to throw in a few more options:
1. Scum cannot have alignment changed.
2. Scum alignment changes to third-party cult
3. Town alignment changes to scum
4. Town changes to cult
5. Scum dies
6. Town dies
7. Scum changes to SK
8. Town changes to SK
Most/all of these are bad, but then again this is speculation. This is what I think may happen, so I believe that we should NOT try to lose our sanity.
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I think you know more than you're letting on. How do we lynch someone in "certain fashions?"
I don't like speculating about stuff like this, so take that for what you will.
Also, as an aside, "Cthulhu Dice" is a misnomer: There's only one die in the game.
I don't know, but I'm wondering if maybe certain people capable of especially gruesome things (different characters?) cast the lynching vote it might be an especially disgusting lynch scene and it could possibly cause loss of sanity for those who looked.
Again, just speculation. But I'm determined to figure out how these sanity points work.
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RBU Grixis Delver UBR
Legacy:
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GRB Punishing Jund BRG
GUR Canadian Threshold RUG
Commander:
RUG Maelstrom Wanderer GUR
Huh.
Maybe. That goes into speculation territory, but it might be handy for whoever we decide gets to hammer to give a little role flavor? I don't know.
The more I think about it, the more I find that unlikely. That would mean we'd have to coordinate who gets items AND a hidden sanity variable, AS WELL AS THE FACT THAT WE DON'T KNOW HOW SANITY IS REDUCED / INCREASED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Yeah, it's official. This is dumb. Please post things that aren't dumb, like "vote Promatim."
Speaking of which, what are your thoughts on Promatim?
Modern:
GRB Jund BRG
RBU Grixis Delver UBR
Legacy:
W Death & Taxes W
GRB Punishing Jund BRG
GUR Canadian Threshold RUG
Commander:
RUG Maelstrom Wanderer GUR