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Courk · Daedalian Member

As the sun shines into the studio, everyone slowly opens their eyes, waiting to see who is dead or missing. But, surprisingly, everyone is accounted for - and healthy. Well, as healthy as one can be when one's life is threatened.

Might as well start your task of trying to save the town.

12 alive, 7 to lynch!

Mgm · Roar!

First things first.
Logain, did you find out something useful?

Mackay · Saviour of Spiders

*hugs doctor(s?)*

Cop info is good.

Neo · Daedalian Member

We can't rely solely on Logain. Does anybody else have any thoughts?
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mudbuck · Dirty Dollar

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Jedo was the first yesterday to post something about the cult. He was a cultist. Now Mudbuck is the first to post about the cult... Maybe it is part of the recruiting mechanism that they need to confirm this way?

Pending further info, FOS Mudbuck.

Mgm · Roar!

I don't think so, it would be far too easy to get the cult killed if this was the case.

jadesmar · Bad Puppy

ralphmerridew · Daedalian Member

FOS: Mackay, for congratulating the docs.

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Nope, just a hunch. Then again, IS could have been the cult initiator.

Neo · Daedalian Member

I'm working on a hunch myself, but don't have anything concrete enough to post quite yet.

Could Courky mod-prod Leo and ref? Both have their last post on the 28th of July. Anybody else need it?
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Porro · Cool as a cucumber

Try posting something that isn't concrete. Maybe others can firm it up, or knock it down.
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Neo · Daedalian Member

By not concrete I mean I'm not quite sure how to put it into words while making sense.
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Courk · Daedalian Member

Leo does need a replacement. Haven't poked ref yet.

referee · June 21st, 2004 Member

I'm here. I'm sorry for the month-long pause.
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Logain · Stretch Armstrong

Sorry I have nothing to add.

Porro · Cool as a cucumber

Logain, it sounds like your role may be seeking a specific character. Is that the case?
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ralphmerridew · Daedalian Member

I don't think Logain referred to his results as "neutral"; at least, I'm pretty sure I initiated use of that phrasing.

Courk · Daedalian Member

Leonidas has been replaced by MattV. Carry on.

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Right. I haven't put sixty years of time into this game like you guys, so just expect me to flow with the game rather than try to make it run at a breakneck pace, to some extent atleast.

I bet there is a positute in this game. That would be perfect.

jadesmar · Bad Puppy

referee · June 21st, 2004 Member

a wor.
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Porro · Cool as a cucumber

a wot?
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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Its a misspelled word for a paid sex slave.

Neo · Daedalian Member

My theory fell through. I was looking at the posting patterns of a player in comparison to the cult and it didn't work out.
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mudbuck · Dirty Dollar

Why the cult? Isn't it more logical to go after the mafia first? Half Frown

I think you should start investigating on the posts that are like Chuck's first, Neo.
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Mackay · Saviour of Spiders

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

vote Mudbuck

His posts register high on the cult-scum radar.

Mgm · Roar!

Vote: mudbuck.
As has been said by someone else before. If you know about an evil, it should be lynched. It doesn't matter if it's cult or mafia. You eliminate the scum you know about. Mafia shouldn't neccesarily be first.

ralphmerridew · Daedalian Member

In Courk's last game, the cult wasn't exactly evil; I believe its goal was the survival of at least one of its members, and didn't have killing powers. By comparison, the mafia's goal is the death of all non-mafia. So I think that we should put a higher priority on lynching mafia than lynching cult.

Mackay, people who congratulate the doctor are disproportionately scum. The reason I didn't vote for you was that I have a belief (admittedly unsupported by any evidence) that you are the bachelorette.

Mgm · Roar!

But in this game IS and Jedo were evil cult, right?
If that's the case, shouldn't they have just as high a priority as mafia?

Logain · Stretch Armstrong

If the cult is definitely evil biased I would consider them as high a priority as the mafia.

And based on Courk's post (bold emphasis mine)

Mgm · Roar!

Well, we all know Courk has a twisted sense of humor Wink

It could've been meant sarcastic, but at the moment I doubt that.

ralphmerridew · Daedalian Member

I believe that the cult's only weapon is their recruit ability and that they can not kill directly. Therefore, lynching cult thugs just gives the mafia time to go through the rest of us. (Lynching the cult leader / recruiter, however, would stop the cult from strengthening.)

Since mudbuck is acquiring votes on suspicion of being a newly recruited cultist, that is, not the leader, and not a mafia, I believe that lynching him serves no effect.

Mgm · Roar!

Hmm that could be true, but if there's no serial killer, then this might be a killing cult (just take it into account for later). Remember, there's two kills per night. I wonder what happened last night...

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

*quotes the mod from post 85*

Porro · Cool as a cucumber

Yipes.

There's a lot of bad guys in this game Surprised

Why use 'cult' as a role if it's not evil though, it's at best ambiguous, and usually it is evil.

I think it's also interesting to note that none of the cultists we lynched even attempted to persuade us that the cult was on the town's side, e.g. a mason group. So I reckon they're scum.
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Logain · Stretch Armstrong

Looking back at the night kills, I would assume the cult is evil and has the ability to kill or recruit, although who knows if there's limitations on which of the two they can choose each night. It looks like since there was no death last night that the mafia kill was most likely thwarted and that the cult recruited would be my guess.

ralphmerridew · Daedalian Member

Look at Superhero Mafia. There's no doubt that the SK is evil, but the town seems to agree that if DP is the SK, then they shouldn't lynch him. As things stand, I don't think we have enough time to lynch the cult, and then lynch the mafia. Right now the town's fate depends on scum killing scum, and that's most likely to happen if we lynch mafia.

Porro · Cool as a cucumber

There are a lot of unstated assumptions in that post, e.g how many mafia, and cult members exist.
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