Be Excellent To Each Other

I am thoroughly enjoying the quotes from my favourite episode, "Darmok".

Have they belmed it yet?

They're actually talking. It's a miracle!

Currently I'd say Zaphod for a bad guy.

Um this thread is open? why?

Don't look in it, then, silly

Finally someone has been lynched on day one!

Probably only for you... the mods locked it down based on the playerlist that didn't have you in it.

Am I dead?

sonofabitch...

Interesting. Both killers have gone for quite savvy players. Not sure if that's deliberate or circumstancial.

That HoE/Kalmar thing was odd, though. I expect someone to make a push for HoE today.

I really should read the rules.

Make it

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WTF? A FoS and a vote on the flimsiest of flim-flam reasoning -- it's obvious that Kovacs' quote was just a flippant quip and picking at EBG's syntax like that is odd.

Were I playing: FoS Bobbyaro.

Why don't you play, Doctor?

It takes a lot of time to play right and isn't much fun if you don't.

My problem was that I was afk for most of Monday, so couldn't contribute a lot.

My FoS points at Bobbyaro too. I almost had him investigated last night (anyone with a Pokemon avatar is up to no good, or mentally ill), but changed it to a crew member's suggestion.

Zaphod is playing a good game if he's evil. If he's not, I wouldn't be surprised to see him cark it tonight.

EBG seems like he's on the level too. I'm not really sure who to suspect at this point. Possibly trooper, and yeah, Bobby's angle there is a quite tenuous one.

Well I know which dodgy bigger id be killing tomorrow.

Amazingly, the mob actually killed a bad guy!

Though I still stand by the logic that they should have kept him alive and used him as a second lynch.

Indeed. He was more of a threat to the bad guys relatively speaking. I'd be looking quit hard at those so keen to kill him before anyone could change their minds.

I'm glad I'm not playing because I'd be getting well frustrated at people not looking closer at zapgod and I'd have advocated keeping Mr dom alive which would probably have got me killed! People who rushed into lynching Mr dom after his roleclaim are well suss.

Isn't "I didn't read the rules" another scum tell?

If i had been around i'd have been asking to keep him around because I think the romulans would have had to use their overnight kill on him.

(throws up an interesting conflict if starfleet could protect Q from the romulans?) - however at that point its unlikely anyone else would have got enough votes for a kill.



Yes , and Flis's reply now after nothing else yesterday is also suspect (going by Mr Dom's message yesterday pointing out she only had 2 posts on day 1)

I'm a god ?

BTW given I was a redshirt i really didnt expect to last very long in the game so was trying to push things as much as possible as quickly as possible - I also really really wanted to avoid the silent stagnation of the last game.

The trouble with keeping an SK alive, even if he purports to work for the town, is that he'd have to kill by consensus, which is about as effective as lynching by consensus. Total stab in the dark eitherway, and a 50/50 chance of it being a townie. It's just not worth it to keep such a volatile player alive. At least the away team can collaborate on a kill.

Romulans obviously thought I was more interesting than I was. Better to lose a powerless role than someone with a power.

Worf evidently didn't opt to kill on the first night (unless blocked), so I'm guessing he's one of the more cautious players.

Trooper for Romulan btw.

Whilst the SK may or may not help, if nothing else it forces the Romulans to use their night kill action on him, thus giving the town one more 'free' lynch.

Worf doesnt get the choice - its the captains decision - he can investigate or he can send Worf.

On night 1 they investigated (a non baddie)
On night 2 they sent Worf to kill me

As for the SK , we've had this argument before on one where I actually offered myself instead of killing the person who was claiming to be the SK (and in the end i dont think they were the SK) - its a risky strategy , however right now all the romulans are still out there and we'll be up to 3 Borg.

I recall at least one game where this didn't work -- the serial killer had been rumbled, but the town chose not to lynch. I was on the mafia, and we chose not to kill him because we assumed a Townie vigilante would instead. Clearly the Townie vigilante made the same assumption and didn't kill him either!

IIRC this ridiculous situation then repeated itself on the next night.

Doesn't force the Romulans to do bugger all, they're in a minority so probably like the odds a member of crew/borg will get hit instead. I know I would.

Also it's just occured to me that Changelings would have made much more sense than Romulans

Helloooo puny mortals!

I blame zaphod for looking so evil in the first place

Found the one I was thinking of it was game 7 day 1

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And a classic Curio roleclaim

I was then killed the next day because i tried to back him up (he was in fact a mafia goon , and i was a townie)

There has been a lot of rush lynching this game for some reason. and

i did kind of leave it a bit late, but up until the last hour it did look like HoE would just get the shove anyway.

My money is on a Borg onslaught FTW if the queen isn't nobbled in the next 2 days. Good chance they will recruit a romulan or bridge crew in that time.

*Clacks wildly*

Every faction other than the Borg (should) want as many deaths as quickly as possible, so the Borg Queen can be killed before they get a majority.

Oh, seeing as you asked so nicely, Jean-Luc...

*click* Let there be... umm... a bald grumpy man!

You really went for me - however looking at your kill the first night and the reasoning behind it you should have left me around in the game because as you killed the quieter people I think a lot of people would have targeted me as Q

Craster, Bobby, and myp looking suspicious to me.

Why the hell would a goodie off Zaphod?

Keeping dom alive would have been the better choice, I reckon. Then the villains would have had to attack him just to be sure. He'd have to obey the whims of the crew from then on, or they'd have lynched him.

Troopers reasoning seems sound , however they *really* need to get off the number of posts and how talkative people are as an indicator of good or bad - and lists like that can be dangerous in the game

Oh and a question for Riker when he gets here - when you have at least one investigation role (possibly 2) why kill someone when you dont know if they are good or bad ?
It would have been just as easy to investigate me and if i was bad push a little and i'd have been lynched the next day.

You honestly looked really bad to me - especially once I realised that Alarm had been a quiet one too, so ruling you out of being bridge crew Initially I was ambivilant as you were being helpful, but when you started poking at me I poked back as it were

At the end of the day, it's all your fault, puny mortal!
If I had survived, I was planning to turn you into one of those drumming monkey toys

Trooper might be playing a clever villain game. Probably been recruited by now, if he wasn't evil already.

He's doing the 'be overly useful to alleviate suspicion' ruse.

Yeah, it is looking like he might be. Lots of stats and what looks like analysis, but not much substance or specifics for posts of that length.

Interesting showdown coming up between him and Malc, I think. I hope they're not both town or this could cost them the game.

No one has picked up that there could be more than one roleblocker - have they actually read the rules thread ?



Oh I notice that the romulan one doesnt say "they will know they have been roleblocked" but I assume they will be

Gutsy post from trooper

The SK is an interesting character from both mafia and town's point of view. I think neither want him about, but he's useful to have around for the mafia more, as there's a high chance he'd off a townie than mafia, but I suspect that the town would misguidedly protect him and try and get him to off suspected mafiosos. This could work out only as an advantage for the SK, as he could continue happily to his own win condition, and hamper both the town and the mafia in their doings. So, the only conclusion that i can currently draw is the mafia are best off keeping the SK alive for a couple of rounds, then offing him themselves once the odds swing more in favor of him hitting them. However, as a gamble, it's quite a dangerous one.

Hell, yeah!