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Mafia Host — Day 2

Day 2 has begun.

Lynched d1 - Awesome5000 vanilla town

Died n1

Casey - mafia goon

Hyper - vanila town

There are 3 players alive. The base elimination threshold is 2. Configured role modifiers may change vote power or an individual player's threshold.

Phase deadline: Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:59:40 GMT.

Day 2

Given how widely townread Hyper was, I’m not surprised they were the NK target. Casey being scum was always a concern, probably why scum chose to eliminate them. That makes it much more likely the second scum is Magic than Thoth, as I agree with a lot of what Hyper mentioned about Magic and Casey being a pairing and Thoth and Casey largely being unpaired. That’s at least my initial thoughts. I’m open to some discussion, obviously no one should vote on the off chance that scum just quickhammers.

I can't say for sure that it's Magic/Casey, but I can say that a Magic/Casey would have 100% killed Casey rather than Magic. Possibly irrelevant now.

Originally Posted by Thoth on 8/6/2026 at 8:33 PM (post #160)

I can't say for sure that it's Magic/Casey, but I can say that a Magic/Casey would have 100% killed Casey rather than Magic. Possibly irrelevant now.

I’m unclear. Why would Casey be the obvious kill with that pairing? I can see a basis myself, but it’s not 100%. Would you say you’re sussing Magic more than me right now? Is this your only reason?

Pretty slow start. We don't have to drag this DP out, but I do at least want some of the thought process from each of you. I've already given some of mine, and I'll add to it if desired. Likely not staying up late tonight, so I'll pick up wherever you leave off tomorrow.

Originally Posted by whiteflame on 8/6/2026 at 8:11 PM (post #161)

I’m unclear. Why would Casey be the obvious kill with that pairing? I can see a basis myself, but it’s not 100%. Would you say you’re sussing Magic more than me right now? Is this your only reason?

Yes, I am. I should have explained my reasoning. I could be wrong, but I think that Mag1c is an overall stronger player than Casey, so it would make more sense to keep him alive.

Now that I think about it, I figure you are probably better than Casey, and Mag1c too, so that reasoning can go out the window.

Call me a scumlord, but I would like to end this game today, i.e., after I wake up in the afternoon Central time, so that I don't have to wait another day to run Blood on the Clocktower.

Imma have to ISO both of you and see what each of you said about Casey. If it's Mag1c, that's annoying since I have much more to work from there. I know I could have contributed more too.

there meaning whiteflame

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Not Voting (3): whiteflame, Thoth, Mag1cman

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Originally Posted by Thoth on 8/7/2026 at 5:12 AM (post #163)

Originally Posted by whiteflame on 8/6/2026 at 8:11 PM (post #161)

I’m unclear. Why would Casey be the obvious kill with that pairing? I can see a basis myself, but it’s not 100%. Would you say you’re sussing Magic more than me right now? Is this your only reason?

Yes, I am. I should have explained my reasoning. I could be wrong, but I think that Mag1c is an overall stronger player than Casey, so it would make more sense to keep him alive.

Now that I think about it, I figure you are probably better than Casey, and Mag1c too, so that reasoning can go out the window.

Alright. Both Magic and Casey were getting some light attention last DP. Most of the attention was drawn to you and Awesome by the end, but Magic’s absence almost made him the default choice, and Casey was on some level in everyone’s POE. I think that might explain the choice to remove them. I recognize that, given I was widely townread, that puts a spotlight on me, but I call it like I see it.

Originally Posted by Thoth on 8/7/2026 at 5:13 AM (post #164)

Call me a scumlord, but I would like to end this game today, i.e., after I wake up in the afternoon Central time, so that I don't have to wait another day to run Blood on the Clocktower.

I’d like to at least hear from Magic, but I’m not intent on dragging this out too long.

Originally Posted by Thoth on 8/7/2026 at 5:14 AM (post #165)

Imma have to ISO both of you and see what each of you said about Casey. If it's Mag1c, that's annoying since I have much more to work from there. I know I could have contributed more too.

Feel free. I don’t have too much to dig into for either of you (I’ll still do a light ISO), so I’m going to try something new and see what I can surmise.

Alright, I'll give my thoughts in full on both Thoth and Mag1c, at least to the extent that I have any kind of read on them based on both their posts and those of Awesome and Hyper. I'd also base it on Casey's posts, but looking back, they had barely posted last DP and didn't give any reads. There's not a lot to go off of there, and I think that may have been the point of eliminating them. Or maybe Casey was just that busy and I'm reading into this too deeply.

Anyway, here are my beefier thoughts on both players:

Thoth -

Thoth being absent for long stretches of time is NAI, and not caring about this specific game is just unique to the game, but given it's a test game, fine, whatever. I still don't love the pushback on providing thoughts about the game last DP, but if he was just exhausted, I get it. He called out Mag1c as scummy in #124, but that was mainly reactive to Mag1c calling him out as scummy, which isn't much use to me. He called out Casey in #138 and #146 as well, giving them a small towntell in #139, so a bit of waffling there. Doing all this near the end of the DP and then voting Mag1c rather than Casey strikes me as odd. That's the main thing holding me back from just giving a solid read here - I think this could have been a last ditch effort to put some distance between the two of them knowing that Casey was exceedingly unlikely to be the lynch target last DP, but not wanting any chance of it actually happening.

As for DP2, I haven't seen much yet, but his ruminating on the possible reasons why Casey was chosen only to end with a shrug is kind of weird. Trying to push the DP to end faster just tracks with his desire to start his own game. He knows me well enough to know that I won't be pushed into voting without thinking it through, but doesn't want the game to just keep going in circles this DP. I'm waiting for that ISO.

Mag1c -

The back-and-forth of his read on me last DP settled into more of a towntell rhythm from where I was sitting, and not just because he landed on seeing me as town. I think his analysis made sense and that he would have put more focus on where he feels it's uncertain if he was scum. Maybe that assumption was a little too much, though, considering if he is scum, he left Thoth alive and I was already sussing Thoth a great deal last DP. If he was trying to put the focus on me, he would have killed Thoth and left Hyper alive. The reads he left last DP looked OK to me, though in retrospect, the read on Casey was a bit loose. That may just be due to the lack of activity from Casey, there wasn't a whole lot to build a read off of.

Nothing yet from him this DP.

I'd say both have small points in their favor and against, though if I had to pick now, Mag1c does seem like a more likely pairing with Casey than Thoth. That in part comes down to Thoth having more to say about Casey last DP, but it's also down to what we know from the two town-confirmed players who have been eliminated.

Hyper is the more instructive of these. They called out the plausible pairing of Casey and Mag1c multiple times. Admittedly, while they unpaired Thoth and Casey, that was stated to be a pretty weak read. That was, however, before Thoth came back and made a case against Casey. I wouldn't be surprised if that sentiment grew stronger at that point. Hyper did also say that there was some chance I was paired with Casey, but I'll leave that for you two to discuss.

Awesome is comparatively more difficult to read. He sussed me, ignored a lot of my posts by his own admission, and then said we should sheep Mag1c despite him townreading me. So clearly, he townread Mag1c. He didn't give any clear opinion on Thoth, though his position at the end seemed to be that we should all just vote Thoth.

So if they both had a choice and it wasn't informed by Casey's flip, then I'm sure both would advocate lynching Thoth. But with Casey's flip, at least Hyper would almost certainly advocate for Mag1c's lynch. Harder to determine what Awesome would do since we don't know the basis for his townread on Mag1c.

I'll leave it there for now, but those are my mostly complete thoughts. Mag1c, anytime you can, chime in.

I get off work at 10. I can chime in more then.

current opinion is that i still lean toward my reads list from yesterday. I’m going to consider Whiteflame being scum but I feel like I nailed it DP1.

I don’t see Thoth-Casey unpaired at all

Originally Posted by Mag1cman on 8/7/2026 at 12:25 PM (post #170)

I get off work at 10. I can chime in more then.

current opinion is that i still lean toward my reads list from yesterday. I’m going to consider Whiteflame being scum but I feel like I nailed it DP1.

I don’t see Thoth-Casey unpaired at all

Alright, guess we’re in a holding pattern.

Time check. Less than 24 hours remain

Heads up: I'm going to have to call it an early night because I've got a 6 AM flight tomorrow, so I won't be on for long tonight. I will be on for as much of the day as possible tomorrow (and on very early in the morning), but I can't guarantee my participation through much of the morning or the early afternoon. I'll read and consider everything you guys post, but that may mean I don't vote until I get back home.

Eh. I’ll do it in the morning before I go to work.

Well… I got kicked off my flight (overbooked) so that won’t be an impediment until Monday. Love getting up super early, standing in line for hours and having to do it all over again two days later.

Hope they kicked you off before leaving the airport

Originally Posted by Thoth on 8/8/2026 at 8:28 AM (post #176)

Hope they kicked you off before leaving the airport

Only had to get off a few dozen feet in the air.

Awesome was far too erratic last DP to be scum. I’m shocked he got lynched tbh.

Like when he came back and posted that should’ve waved every green town flag

Originally Posted by Thoth on 8/5/2026 at 6:31 PM (post #124)

#72 is scummy from Mag1c in my book. He knows that I am a mislynch magnet, as per this post, and I bet he is banking on awesome and Hyper not fully realizing that

you say this like I can’t just organically scumread you. This is just looks like omgus with an excuse

Originally Posted by Thoth on 8/5/2026 at 5:04 PM (post #88)

I know y'all are wondering why I have been posting so little. I didn't realize that y'all were going to take this game remotely seriously. I thought we would just turbolynch each other at random so Kohai could test the host dashboard.

I don’t buy this at all. You posted end of page 1, where others’ posting clearly indicated they were taking the game seriously

So Hyper had Casey an I still paired off the idea that we were distancing, if that’s the case #44 can be as well. I don’t know why he ever called that an unpairing.

I'd say both have small points in their favor and against, though if I had to pick now, Mag1c does seem like a more likely pairing with Casey than Thoth. That in part comes down to Thoth having more to say about Casey last DP, but it's also down to what we know from the two town-confirmed players who have been eliminated.

Casey really didn’t say much last DP. All I noticed was the friendliness in trying to greet people, which kinda looking like trying to get townread based on vibes to me.

like, what else to you want me to say about Casey?

I gotta leave for work.

If you need one reason to believe in me being town, the best I can give you is that I would have killed myself off as scum bc of ts. I basically live at that pizzeria I’m running and I shouldn’t have joined ts.

I still haven’t fully erased the possibility of Whiteflame putting Thoth and I against each other from my head. But I don’t have any proof for it. I’ll make the call then I arrive at work.

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