POSTGAME
Sheet
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Role PM Sheet
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QqsabAVRf2nMaqRQlpm_drXZeQgyfb8TbDlHYGWyNTk/edit?usp=sharing
PLAYERLIST
This game was originally designed for 22 people but I cut it to the 17 signups I got. This removed 5 village roles... originally I cut 1 off each mafia and 3 village roles but then I felt like the mafia numerically stood no chance, and I also thought the rogues might provide some good village power in that there were 3 who would revive, 1 repeatedly. Alas Smogon rogues are worse than vanillas because they get lynched more and are less successful.
I RNGed the playerlist and let the chips fall where they may. I considered assigning roles and thought "what if I put all the experts on the mafia since they suspect each other of it anyway" then the RNG did it for me pretty much. When I saw every mod except zorbees in the second half of the list I was like Interesting.
The only role I changed was penguin344 and Maleovex - both were rogues but penguin had expressed he would be busy during the game so I swapped them and gave penguin the rogue that didn't res... yeah that worked out well, he was one of the last 3 (2) villagers because nobody ever killed him thanks to AG. Otherwise everything was randomized in true ALLCAPS fashion and dropped onto the sheet.
GAME DESIGN
This game was supposed to be like ELECTRO more than anything else in design, originally the village had several twins who needed to target the same user to succeed (BG, SG) and some experimental roles... the Time Switcher which worked as a delayed hooker on mafia but could be effective to expedite village info if the BG went down. At 22 players, it was 14-4-4 which was a lot more manageable for a vigless village. I think I erred in not giving them an actual vig when I cut their numbers and instead relying on the vig-rogue who could shoot its killer an infinite number of times as a reward for accurate play and smart village leadership determining targets. Unfortunately this was just TOO circumstantial and went down N1. I think this role might work if it was allowed to target X number of users a night, where X is the remaining number of mafia factions still in the game.
In the 14-man village the rogues were supposed to cause a lot of confusion in contrast to the twins who were pretty much auto-cleaned.. here they weren't balanced out.
The only mafia role I had designed when I had ALL the village roles was Gale's, the Robot Voter + BPV. The other 7 mafia roles were meant to be pretty weak to balance out their numbers... the mafia never took advantage of it but they had majority together on D2. I think this role may have been stronger than the others since it was designed for a larger village but I was fond of it. It wound up being the ideal role to still have alive as your last man as it could 1v1 the other mafia or 3v1 the village, depending. If it couldn't create a Max due to a hooker it would lose.
I also think I meant to give the mafias every other night kills, not nightly, with only 9 villagers... but when I sent the role PMs I said nightly because that's what the 22-man game meant to have. Despite that the village wasn't really hopeless because the mafia had to crossfire to stand a chance at winning. It would've been a village win if the vig-rogue was still alive, or possibly even the backup-rogue.
The rogues were all intentionally snipped on what they did, so it would be a mystery to the players and not something anyone could account for... RNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
How I feel about WTF 4 ROGUES?!
THE VILLAGE
Mismanaged until LightWolf's death and then the few left did try and put in a lot of effort to try and get a win. Unfortunately I think it was just too late and they didn't start asking questions earlier.
Maleovex / The Whale / User-Specific Rogue with Controlled Resurrection + 1-Time All Town Backup / VILLAGE / Mislynched (again) Day One
Wow you guys are brain damaged. The Whale as a rogue is THE role known for being an ALLCAPS mislynch... AND YOU DO IT AGAIN. TO A NEWBIE. 0/10 I AM disappointed in this play. The mafia experts felt bad but they were mafia so it benefited them to not protest the lynch. I think if DLE/Sam had been town they would've fought back on this one so I don't blame them, just AG and the villagers who voted.
Maleovex played like a typical newbie: bandwagoned votes leading to scumtown behavior. Come ON guys, seriously? How many times do you need to mislynch noobtowns before you GET IT? People new to Smogon are just as likely to appear scummy to us if they're town as they are mafia. Plus in an OC game you sure as heck bet the newbie's experienced teammate(s) are feeding him info, fake claims, behavior patterns.
I liken this to the Haunted Diamond mislynch in the NOC... I could clearly see he had no partner helping him and was just being a clueless noob with no real clue how to defend himself in our meta, to our meta titans. Sam messed up on that one not believing me and accusing me of being his partner instead. At least learn from his mistake.
I also don't understand how getting TWO rogue claims, which target factions or users, is MORE scummy... like, maybe, just maybe, you should consider they are a SET? Like a sort of twin? Nobody really caught on that the user-specific rogues were very strong and the team-specific-via-user rogues would be weaker. Now, in Maleovex and penguin's defenses, jalmont and Walrein didn't claim D1 but I don't know if that would have made AG less suspicious, or more. I just... when you get multiple rogue claims doing different things WHY do you take that as an indication of scum?! It's a pattern.
Anyway, sorry to Maleovex that you got rolled wrongly D1 :( I hope you play more games on Smogon. This lynch should've been one of the lazy experienced players refusing to claim, 100%, instead of a newbie with a claim who doesn't quite know how to defend it and thus is clearly town.
Walrein / The Black X-Man / User-Specific Rogue with Kill Reverse / VILLAGE / Impaled on a star Night One
I admit I confused people with this one because the Black X-Man was never actually a role... just a fake claim I gave I thought was hilarious so I put it in a greatest-hits game. But it made Walrein nervous to claim. This role was the only unlimited res rogue and would just keep killing its killer. Very strong if successful... but the odds of success were just too slim. Walrein also targeted zorbees N1 'on a hunch' that was sadly completely wrong :( he could've picked any of the other mods and been closer lol. He was invested for the brief time he was alive and I think if he hadn't died N1 he would've helped the village out.
Also, Walrein's comment after being hooked n0: noob hooker... until he realized AG only did it to prove his flavor and since rogue does nothing N0 he was like "nvm."
rssp1 / MUDSY / Safeguard / VILLAGE / Almost strangled Night One
I am pretty sure this was yet another of the Gale RNG kills and the other mafia was like "mm yes nice shot ALMOSTS" when he flipped. MUDSY was a role I KNEW, KNEW, KNEW had been in one of my games but could not for the life of me find it... turns out it was Revenge of the SANDS which I had COMPLETELY forgotten about as a game except for the two roles I took from it. I think this is because I am the creator of all the other sheets, but RotS's sheet was made by Quagsires, so it doesn't display with all of the other sheets I own, and so I never thought to look in 'shared with you' for one of my games. I think I annoyed rssp1 a bit asking for his action early... every other action would come in quickly and I'd be like "yo u got one?" only 24 hours after the deadline because he'd be the last one despite having another day... sorry! He got randed N1 so not much to say here.
Aura Guardian / Krakatoa / Hooker / VILLAGE / Impaled on a star Night Two
First, AG is a really nice guy, never seems to get into squabbles or fights with people, always sends actions, always reliable. He was effective in getting orders out to the village very quickly. I wonder if it was almost too quickly and he would've benefited from spending some more time analyzing the roles, claims and who he wanted to put where. However I do commend him - the village was sending in all their actions before either mafia, so he was definitely productive as a leader.
However... I am very disappointed with some of his choices. I think he interpreted wtf 2 rogues completely wrong and didn't analyze that situation enough... rather than thinking their different methods of targeting might have been intentional on my part he thought that it meant the mafia had inconsistent fake formats, I think. He's been on mafia in my games though and should know I can be fairly thorough about helping them fakeclaim, usually.
Also... sheeting LightWolf was a very bad move. I asked him why and he said it was a gamble to have a successor. But... LW's role had not been proven. He'd been hooked by the mafia 2x which doesn't indicate he isn't mafia, or even isn't lying about being hooked. LW claimed Martyr which was actually never a village role, in the 5 that got cut there was a RevMar and she was the last to get cut, but they never had a Martyr. Sheeting the BG or zorbees after he claimed and NOT LW would've been 10x smarter.
I did think it was funny AG got RNGed a role he's had before. Krakatoa has been so many things in so many games.
I think AG needs to be a bit more cunning and shrewd as a village leader. He was too trusting/risky regarding LW but also didn't really consider enough about the two rogues. He had the right instinct in feeling like pubsharing penguin's role was a bad idea but did it anyway which caused penguin, a rogue, to never be targeted for a kill. I think revealing a rogue claim is a really dumb move because it means, if the role is legit, it's essentially vanilla now. It ALSO means the mafia know one less villager who is a 'key' power role and have an easier time narrowing down BG/SG/hook/info. He should have put lynch pressure on one of the non-claimers instead, especially with the extensions he got.
zorbees / Bride of UncleSam and Walrein's Love Child / Inspector + Mayor / VILLAGE / Impaled on a star Night Three
zorbees and the ALMOSTS traded N0 inspections, but because they didn't get WC, just role, they actually believed he was the ALLSTARS inspector due to their own mayor role and him having 'two' roles. This role was originally just the mayor, I believe, but it got Inspector and Mayor merged into one in the cut. He died because, for once, LW wasn't hooked and Blazade was. I had been waiting for him to come forward when he got a mafia result N0 but he waited a day, letting the mislynch happen which he maybe even believed in. On the one hand it's smart to be cautious about approaching an unproven AG except that Walrein got his flavor. On the other... he did have a proven scum. His death led to LW taking over the village. AG was hiding that zorbees was THE inspector on the sheet but didn't realize that with all the other info filled in, it was REALLY obvious it was zorbees to LW. Right instincts, wrong execution. I wish zorbees could've done more for the village this game, but he did inspect scum and then clean jalmont, so.
sunny004 / The Sun / Time Switcher / VILLAGE / Almost shot Night Three
The RNG had a bit of a giggle about this one. Unfortunately this role didn't really do much because it hit a SG N0, hit jalmont the rogue N1 which was utterly useless lol, then hit inspector-scum which was the least valuable of the ALLSTARS, probably. If anything it gave them a better night target. It was a delayed hooker that allowed the role to go during the day but it could do nothing the next night. This meant that if used on a mafian they couldn't perform their team kill, which was only active at night but they could do nothing. So it could've been a lategame hook, if it had survived. I think Gale RNG'd this one again. Boy hates names with 's' in them or something.
Blazade / MR. SANDSMAN / Bodyguard / VILLAGE / Almost choked on a turkey leg Night Six
There wasn't another village death until N6, 3 full cycles apart. The scums got slaughtered during this time period. This was Blazade's first game and he expressed discontent at how hard it was to be involved as a. a newbie thus untrustworthy b. not 'confirmed clean' due to the village leader system. He was eager to help and try to scumhunt via roles due to the D1 mislynch showing a lapse in judgement but even as the only village BG claim he couldn't get on the sheet. It was only after LW died that he could really step up and have an impact. Unfortunately he did get a bit ahead of himself on winning and didn't realize the village was heading for defeat if they lynched Flyhn as Gale could 3v1 due to the actual abilities of the remaining two rogues.
He made the LCS Big Play of pulling his BG off LW the night he was martyring Gale, which was a risky move in itself, when Gale sort-of convinced him that LW might actually not be village. Neither of them could say for sure who the villagers actually were, just that LW probably wasn't one. He became LW's sworn enemy as a result. I think the village might have won if he didn't BG Gale that night, either, and instead let his BPV be popped by the ALLSTARS. But, who is to say the teams would vote the same?
I was very pleased with his contributions as a newbie and attempts to be involved. I hope he also sticks around and plays more games. Solid activity level. Just don't become UncleSam2.
jalmont / The Pumpking / Team-Specific Rogue with Instant Revive / VILLAGE / Almost bashed in by an Emmy award Night Eight
jalmont my boy, I swear he's idled through several prior games but he stepped up this one. He presented himself as an AG-alternativeish D1 and got cleaned and thus sheeted later on. I was very pleased with his activity and attempts to do village things... he got a bit sheeped under LW but one he died helped to lead the village charge. Unfortunately his role only revived once, so Gale just needed to kill him 2x. If it was infinite reviving the game would've been a draw as penguin would turn Gale's vote to 1 and it'd be 1-1 in the lynch forever. The village was counting on this role to be Big when it revived as well as counting on penguin TO revive. Neither happened due to their easier time successfully roguing people than the user-specifics so they were weaker than those two. Proud of him for his efforts.
penguin344 / Geordi La Forge / Team-Specific Rogue with Perma Vote Negation + Role PM Reveal Non-Revive / Almost back from the dead Night Nine
Poor penguin... I gave him the rogue role that didn't revive so he could bounce out because he was busy and, of course, AG exposes him D1 in a huge misplay so nobody ever targets him and he survives until the end and has to help lead as one of the last three villagers. He was also counting on reviving to lynch Gale off. Alas. He survived to the very end. Sorry about that. I think penguin was bit more cautious about the endgame than Blazade was and wary about lynching Pokeguy too fast... it should have been obvious something was up that Gale was ready and willing to "get into a tie" by going 3 v 1. If the village had last-second stealthed Gale, boy, that'd be a game-winning play. Gale had CMax, I think, voting Flyhn 5min before deadline and so it would've been 3 on Gale, 2 on Flyhn, 1 on penguin344 if they had successfully stealthed. They would then win the game vs the outnumbered Flyhn. Proud of how active he was in the final few days of the game. I think the last 3 villagers, despite not being able to pull off the W, at least tried and showed some good effort. We even got a village channel at last! Those are always so fun. I really do think it's a disservice to how enjoyable IRC can be to not make team channels but it's also difficult when we have smaller games with fewer people to stay alive for very long or people who are never on IRC.
So fell the VILLAGE. I do believe they were underpowered. They only stayed alive with 3 for so long because 2 were known rogues and risks and the mafia had to blast each other to win. Sorry, villagers. But also DON'T MISLYNCH/OUT YOUR ROGUES.
ALLSTARS
This team's theme was infamous users for some random event: Shining Latios godkilling himself for Lady Salamence nudes in MUDS which remains hilarious, pokemonrocks777's unintelligible fury after learning he was to be the sacrifice in Red Panda, that one time Ullar pretended to be his own friend at school (which was apparently rooted in more mental trouble than 'typical 14yo on internet'? I wasn't aware of that so I apologize, I didn't realize he still felt very seriously about that event whereas I assumed it was in the past and he'd grown up. idk I felt like everyone who got on the internet as a teen posed as being dead/someone from their own irl at least once before they stopped being a dumb teen lol), and of course, jigglypuffers42 subbing into Fallout and c/ping "this is my fake" on my team, which she vanished after. They got 4 'weakish' roles because I didn't want them stopping the rogues from going off very much. Sorry if those wound up being too weak.
Slim Guldo / Ullar's Friend at School / Village Role Absorber / ALLSTARS / Almost drowned Night Two
The ALMOSTS were supposed to kill someone Sam had asked them to, but Gale ONCE AGAIN was like nah I hate users with an s in their name and randomed Slim, killing him on the night of his great controversy.
Look.
I designed this role and I thought, the village role will die NX. He will be able to choose if he wants that now-dead role NX+1. He will then have access to that role NX+2. So it was delayed. I did not and still do not believe it should be able to select someone the night of their death. There is no way to know what role it actually is until it officially dies. If it makes you feel better to call it a Scavenger, go ahead. Because that is how I saw it. And I tried repeatedly to clarify to the ALLSTARS/Sam the only one who cared to protest this but he absolutely refused to accept this was a. how I intended the role to work b. how I was going to keep the role. No I was not going to let it work a night before it was supposed to midway through the game! It was designed to have the delay to be weaker, as a power level gate. It would've worked the exact same way on the village if it was able to choose its role.
Perhaps 'absorber' was the wrong phrase, then, for the non-agency backups I have used who automatically get the power from a dead user. Scavenger may have been better. However I don't think this role doesn't make sense nor will I ever design a backup that can CHOOSE what role it wants the way Sam felt it should be. If you don't like that, honestly, too bad. I am the host and I will design/try out roles based on what I think is appropriate for the game and what makes sense to me. I don't believe I hindered the mafia by changing my mind on how quickly the role was supposed to be able to absorb off the village because that was how it worked, to me, the day I designed it.
'Fortunately' Slim died the night this would've mattered, thanks so much Gale <3
Also Slim was village in ONE game, either AQUA or ELECTRO I think. Every other time the poor guy gets assigned or RNGed mafia. Sorry :( but at least you get to be informed! I think he gets the same backup/rogue fakeclaims each time too lmao.
LightWolf / jigglypuffers42 / Martyr / ALLSTARS / Almost had a heart attack while having sex with a corpse for his snuff film Night Four
S N U F F B O Y S. This was a pretty good role to fakeclaim as since martyr is a standard enough town role and it worked out well that way. AG sheeted LW for no real reason except DLE, and Sam, thought it would be Top Kek to keep hooking LW. This play actually made DLE/Gale doubt that LW was ALLSTARS because they couldn't figure out why Sam would have them hook his own teammate. As usual LW and Sam have some conflict or other. FSR LW kept a lot of village sheet info from his teammates... he got some 'Nam flashback PTSD and started acting like he really was village, or something. He never lynched Sam like they had planned they might need to because zorbees kept getting ALMOSTS inspections and then they lynched DLE, which was Suspicious that an ALLSTAR never got lynched imo. I am not really sure why he kept so much info from his team. Flyhn was never on IRC and never talked to anyone and I'm pretty sure every townsperson assumed Sam was mafia by process of elimination, he had come out and talked to DLE so they also knew he was mafia... I just don't understand why he and Sam never really worked together to take advantage of LW being on the sheet.
I also think they misplayed by martyring Gale. This required absolute trust in Blazade to not switch targets and was riskier than needed. Gale was choking hard and genuinely believed penguin was the ALLSTAR at that point in time so his kill that night was on penguin, who was on Sam along with jalmont. IMO LW should have martyred Blazade and forced the BG onto him, or just idled it. There was no absolute need to try and block Gale's kill at that point in time, imo, however I also do know Gale was 'wasting' it on penguin so my hindsight may be 20/20. Then again, maybe the other villagers wouldn't have lynched Gale realizing they'd lose to the ALLSTARS if they finished off the ALMOSTS that day?
LW got onto the sheet through dumb luck but I think played too effectively for the village and for some reason didn't tell Sam enough.
This role was originally Layell after BIGS but I had a whim of fondness for old jiggly and changed it.
UncleSam / pokemonrocks777 / Switchguard / ALLSTARS / Lynched Day Five
"SUB ME OUT OF THIS FARCE" oh, my god, shut. the heck. UP. I am sure people like lurking any game with Sam and me involved just for the inevitable pathetic internet spat between us. Because for some reason he thinks he's entitled to having roles changed or modified to be what he wants them to be just because he doesn't like how they currently are. Bruh if you want a backup to work the way you think it should, GO DESIGN YOUR OWN STANDARD. Don't endlessly complain and throw a fit demanding to be subbed out because I have a different opinion of how a role should/can work than you do. I don't sub you out to save you the embarrassment of being this subforum's head mod and still throwing tantrums at one of the two people regularly hosting games in it. If I didn't care I wouldn't bother to design a game, write PMs, host it, put in the time to answer questions DURING MY INTERNSHIP and STILL put up with KNOWING you will throw some gd tantrum my way. So don't demand to sub out because "why should I care when host doesn't" if I didn't there wouldn't be a gd game just more of your dead af subforum when Walrein and I are between games (and nobody else starts one). My games are fast-paced, meant to be quick and fun, not the labor-intensive bigs we had in the past. Your "my way or the highway" dictatorship routine is part of why this place is half dead, it's unfun to play against and crappy to deal with as a host. I don't give a rip if you want THE LOGIC behind my priority system (as if) just learn when to stop arguing. Especially with me when I just give you troll answers because I am over it and done trying to explain myself to you, when you refuse to accept/understand what I have explained. I don't know what more you want to know besides "this role is supposed to absorb on this night and be used the next night" and I don't care if you think that's a very weak role, that's the point? Maybe even too weak. But arguing with me about it is NOT going to change a single thing. I definitely didn't make any 'biased' hosting decisions against your team this game either.
This game also made me realize except when we're both village, we've never been on the same team together. I don't know if NeverLucky RNG or just hosts wanting to watch the fireworks when we inevitably get into it with each other. I was never on a team with LightWolf until I recruited him in MP2 either but this must be an even longer record to never be on an informed faction together. Even when we're both town we still have to fight and squabble like in the NOC where I WAS TOTALLY RIGHT and Sam mislynched HD HAH told u so. Every gd game some argument or other.
Pretty sure he gets off on it.
This game LW didn't really tell him enough village info for him to help plan their demise and he was by far the clearest ALLSTAR to lynch on D5. He actually had a minor misplay when he told Flyhn to vote something that clearly showed him to be ALLSTAR because up until that point, the villagers/Gale weren't 100% sure who the last 3 townies were. Flyhn doing so revealed all. Not a huge deal but he could've kept the village confusion going a bit more by not exposing that. I will give him some credit for his village tyranny... a smart, cautious leader does the village well.
This role SGed evens and BGed odds. Unfortunately when they really needed the BG up, it wasn't. But that's how the RNG cookie crumbles, boys.
Flyhn / Shining Latios / Inspector / ALLSTARS / Lynched Day Six
Standard inspector which was more than the other mafia had. He wasn't really that active. Not much to say. He just followed Sam/LW's orders then was the last one alive and he didn't really negotiate with the village or Gale to try and save himself. Not that he could've, but he could've perhaps insisted he wasn't the robot voter and gotten the village to no lynch, saving himself for that day? He was pretty sunk, Sam seemed to think there were circumstances he could win in but I did believe he was a complete goner because Gale had no reason to do anything but lynch him and his role just wasn't very good for surviving against 3 villagers.
The ALLSTARS were doing well until the Reign of Terror Gale unleashed on them. They were definitely in a position to win until Gale turned Blazade away from LW and they misplayed using their martyr on LW without Sam's BG being up. However for some reason Sam and LW outright refuse to trust and work with each other, resulting in them not communicating and often disagreeing without really considering the other's action suggestions as much as they should've. I think this team could've worked more efficiently as a unit as a result. Instead they were like heh only one ALMOST left it's GG boys and then wiped.
ALMOSTS
These guys were things that Almost came to pass but were never actually in an ALLCAPS game. They got DLE/shade/billy onto their team along with Gale. They all looked at their convo and said "op team blokes" then none of them REALLY did work. They all didn't claim except Gale who claimed the wrong thing. They also got luckhaxed by zorbees inspecting 2 of them and LW-leader getting the third via Flyhn. I think this team proves that experienced pros aren't necessarily the best team. They tend to get complacent because of thinking one of the others will do the work or thinking "great team guys it'll go well" OR being randomed by their enemies, which happened here. All 3 of them got inspected by N1. Gale was the only one to survive the great inquisition and luckily he had the absolute best role to solo win with. DLE helped coach him even though they would come to vastly different conclusions.
shade / Red Panda / Action Line Inspector + Tracker / ALMOSTS / Lynched Day Two
Red Panda I don't consider an ALLCAPS game and I am pretty sure rightly so, as people enjoyed it way more than any other game LOL. All shade got was the two action lines: You are a XXXer and Every night.... And he also got who his target targeted that night, which allowed for the tracker fake claim. It did confuse them a bit as they couldn't tell who was what with zorbees, but they accurately pinned jalmont as village due to seeing he's a rogue and what kind of mafia has a rogue, right? He was the first to go as zorbees' n1 inspect. Couldn't do a ton and never had a claim.
billymills / Sora / Goon Inheritor / ALMOSTS / Lynched Day Three
Sora was not in Heartless, based on Kingdom Hearts, which was also not an ALLCAPS game, so here he is. billy was zorbees' n0 inspect so he really never had a chance. He began the game as a mafia goon with no role except the ability to kill and would receive the role of his first teammate to die. He got shade's role which gave them info on sunny004 then was summarily lynched and accepted his fate. He also never had a claim to the village. I think either of these two would have been likely subjects for a D1 lynch for not claiming, over either of the two rogue claims. He contributed some but wasn't much of a mastermind.
Da Letter El / The PINK's Chances / Hooker / ALMOSTS / Lynched Day Four
"wouldn't it be funny if we hooked lightwolf all game guys" "lol k" then Sam over there: "yeah do it." He and Gale had a difficult time pinning LW down as ALLSTARS because of this play, kudos to Sam for telling DLE to hook his own teammate despite LW's misgivings about it lmao. I'm pretty sure Gale thought zorbees was village inspector and kept wanting to kill him and DLE was like "no he's clearly ALLSTARS look at his role, we don't want to kill them yet" and would dismiss some of Gale's suppositions accordingly... you should trust Gale more! He may be paranoid and overthink things but his instincts weren't half wrong this game! After his death he was the one mostly coaching Gale, the other two chipped in infrequently but he was definitely trying to help Gale figure out how to win. Props to him for staying active. He had wanted to either claim or counterclaim hooker, or make some play, but wound up not finding a suitable fakeclaim for it and not doing it.
Gale Wing Srock / James T Kirk / Alias Maker + BPV / ALMOSTS / Won
Little Gale on the mod squad. There have been a couple different Star Trek characters in ALLCAPS games but never Kirk. That combined to give him sort of my role in Sam's MP2, wherein I made the Max aliases with TOS characters including KirkMax. I wanted to put that in this game so Gale got to make LetterMaxes, one of which would tank the first kill directed at his team. This was never broken until very late in the game when Flyhn popped it, because the other three were lynched. I agree this role was the best mafia role as the Max was also an extra vote that the mafia definitely didn't need. It makes more sense in a game with a vigilante as well... I think this was too much of a holdover from the 14-man village design and I should have changed it, or the Maxes should've been the village mayor. I think it was a fun role, though.
The Maxes could be controlled, they would automatically vote with Gale IF he voted, or he could order them to vote someone besides his vote, or order them to vote if he wasn't. At first there seemed to be no method to his madness but him having the Max vote with Flyhn one day made the village EXTREMELY confused. They knew the noble UMax tanked an ALLSTAR kill but thought maybe Flyhn was the one it voted with, due to the Maxes never voting with Gale. Well Played.
Gale definitely almost choked. His random kill on jalmont instead of the sitting duck Blazade was Interesting but fortunately the village believed their rogues would do more work than they actually could've upon reviving. He would also way overthink who was who... for some reason he was dead set penguin was mafia and aimed his kill at penguin instead of Sam or LW the night LW martyred him. He was able to convince Blazade to not BG LW, somehow, which I am somewhat surprised at as Gale was coming to the wrong conclusions and not laying out his evidence LW was mafia clearly enough. He had all the clues, some of which he got right and others he was too paranoid about. I think the clearest kill if he couldn't decide between LW and penguin that night (penguin who he knew would make his vote 0 if telling the truth) was US who was VERY CLEARLY scum after coming out with it to DLE.
Gale also choked in telling a couple people he was James T Kirk the villager, not realizing/researching properly Kirk had never been in a game and was very clearly scum, then. He told it to Maleovex D1 but as a newbie he didn't make much of it, this could've saved Maleovex if he realized and gotten Gale lynched D1. A huge misplay by him that, luckily for his team, was overlooked.
Gale was able to get the villagers to vote off Flyhn, ensuring his win as long as he killed Blazade. He definitely tried his little scummy heart out. Props to him, his efforts in this game warranted the win.
The ALMOSTS got freakin nuked in the lynch lol but luckily for them, the one role that COULD win without its team was the one that stayed alive. Their general activity/efforts were probably a bit low but DLE and especially Gale could see the light at the end of the tunnel and stuck it through to victory, knowing they NEEDED to get Blazade off LW and onto Gale to save FMax from being broken too early. The village likely could've won if Blazade had idled or BGed neither LW nor Gale.
KUDOS
MVP: Gale, he made the LCS Big Play of convincing Blazade off LW at a critical martyr time and was the lone member of his team left, able to negotiate well enough with the villagers despite getting in his head. Also credit to the great woman behind this great man, DLE, whispering in his ear.
Best Villager:
LightWolf nah Best Village Play would be the last three, Blazade, jalmont and penguin344. They were ultimately and unfortunately wrong about how helpful the rogues would be when they needed to stealth Gale. I don't think they were wrong for this conclusion, though, thinking it was Gale who was choking by voting Flyhn. jalmont had been involved in village things all game and Blazade was willing to step up as a newbie
Mafian Who Really Needs To Stop Bickering: UncleSam (and LightWolf), he almost lynched his teammate D1 and struggled to get the lynch off LW when he placed his vote and they never worked well together, keeping info secret which I don't get on LW's part. Plus he was chucking a fat ole fit over Slim's role to me. Stop discouraging your hosts from hosting. You don't have enough to spare to chase more off.
Most Likely To Be Mislynched: The Whale, the Rogue. 100% mislynch rate. WHEN. WILL. YOU. LEARN.
Best YOLO: Blazade moving off BGing 'village leader' LW
Best Quote: "you wanted to wash your toe nails with the last drop of drinking water I had" Gale to Sam
Thank you everyone for playing <3, I hope you guys had fun even if this wasn't the best-balanced game for the village. As for my next game, there's a small chance it'll be multi but I'm more than likely going to do another 2mafia1village game with a slightly different theme than usual. I've been wanting to do a Mons themed game for years so let's get it. No ETA on that, we have Blazade's and Walrein's running and the upcoming Official Big and maybe others will also have games so I'm not fussed on when it starts.
#BIGS3BIGGESTERROR