LogFAQs > #971987823

First port of call - Wallmaster, have you played any mafia before?

I played numerous games of mafia irl years ago, but have never played online. In fact, Paper Mario is the first and only mafia game I ever read, either. Following it was a lot of fun and Im excited for this game and glad to be participating. Thanks for letting me, all. Also feel free to call me Wall.

Oh and this goes without saying but I will once again remind whoever the cop is to please scan wallmasterz on night 1. He is a brand new player (first game ever!) so just get him checked ASAP. Please and thank you. Andy will vouch for this strategy I'm sure.

Ive got mixed feelings about being scanned. Id like to be around long enough in this game to meaningfully contribute to solving it, so not being mislynched would be nice. But once Im confirmed town, if not sooner, Im probably getting nkd. Once everyone gets past the whole dont kill the new person n1 to be nice rule, new folks seemingly make a popular target for scum (see: Cody last game). I would give a friendly suggestion to cop not to waste a precious scan on me Im town and every scan can be the key difference maker.

Not to risk putting a target on my back d1, but if I were cop Id scan Ulti first. Hes approaching the start of this game completely differently than last time (obv Im working with a small sample size) which doesnt mean hes scum but it got my attention. Could just be hes jazzed about this group of players and not dealing with Covid brain fog but

In his first two posts he declares himself town and says hell be afk until end of d1. Next he says playing town is easy. He then casts a serious vote for Dumey. Reiterates disliking being active d1 (obviously not that much though!). Then he tells cop to scan me. And then he acknowledges directing power, but feels compelled to explain it by attributing it to his excitement over the player list giving him extra focus. On p2 turned his attention to Dumey and put him on the defensive over his Im tempted to claim post which Dumey interpreted, probably rightly, as fishing for more info about his role. In his goodnight post he said go ahead and kill Dumey. He then said Sheep is scum. Said he rolled town and his math analysis indicates at least 2/3 of Chris/Han/Crescent are town too. I find this interesting and possibly an attempt to lump a scummate in with a couple townies and if they flip scum sooner he can say well, my gut was right and they were the scum. He then asked for the scum board link from last game for research purposes. All in the first hour of gameplay. His last significant post was responding to Chris asking what was fishy about a response Sheep gave. He also mentions Crescent a LOT and says they pass the gut check. I think Ulti and Crescent may be linked for good or ill.

Ulti clearly relies heavily on his (seemingly very solid) instincts and reads on people, so wanting to scan someone hes never played with before and therefore has no read on is not a scumtell whatsoever. But if he is scum, directing cop to scan a player he knows to be town under the pretense of check the new guy by default is certainly a move.

For the record I dont think Ulti is definitely scum. But he is the only person who tried controlling the game right out of the gates. Remember he said playing town is easy. Last game he was town vanilla and was barely active until the games final day. Maybe its coincidence, or maybe hes a veteran player who thinks being town is easy and therefore boring, and hes invigorated by a new game where he has a chance to really impact the game as scum. Yeah godfather roles are always a risk but I say scan the dude, and if he scans town, Im feeling better about letting Ulti cook with our minds somewhat at ease.

I remember another post I need to respond to from my initial readthrough but I have to start working so Ill catch any comments directed towards me I missed later today (irl).