MAFIA WIN!
1st Place: Mikal, Whiteflame
2nd Place: Casey, Pie, Castin, Rex, Kohai, Vader, Thoth
Role PMs:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZOXdmDUPgOheX5UNUl89hhBSlX3IoPLdBxKSWv9s7rc/edit?usp=sharing
Night actions:
NP1
Casey tracks Kohai
Whiteflame tailors Casey
Mikal Rolecops pie
Vader sends info to whiteflame
NP2
Casey Tracks Mikal
Mikal Redirects Casey to himself
Whiteflame kills VAder
Endgame thoughts:
So this biggest shocker to most of you here will be that there actually wasn't a yakuza, whiteflame tailored casey to look like a yakuza, which was a brilliant move by the scum team which caused a lot of chaos and confusion this game. That said, while you could argue the yakuza was ultimately the reason for Ref's demise, I don't think it did much in the way of clearing either scum from the POE, more just kind of threw everyone else into it who might otherwise get town cred for roles and claims.
Mafia definitely played very well, and to be fair, town did not do horrible or anything. The thoth mislynch was very unfortunate and was a result of a miscommunication. I kind of knew he was going to get CC'ed when he claimed he was a xenomorph, and while technically a face hugger is part of the xenomorph species, the full grown xenomorph is already kind of known under that nomenclature. I think if he had seen some of the movies he would have known that was a risky thing to claim, even though he was technically correct. Town losing one of their main protective role's early was pretty tough.
The rex mislynch and logic behind it made sense given you thought there was a yakuza. I actually had that role as an everynight character cop, but decided to nerf it last minute because I thought it was too OP in combined with all of towns other power roles, so I made it even night to balance it out a little better. The character cop was meant to give town an edge though considering mafia weren't provided fake claims. Mafia ended up claiming their actual characters so it didn't effect them too negatively either way.
The theme split was "Creators VS Creations". Engineers created humanity, and David 8 Experimented on the Xenomorphs to create the Xeno's and facehuggers we know and are familiar with today. This is why other characters like Peter Weyland and Boy Cavalier were not in the game. Also as much as I wanted to, I couldn't put a ton of Alien Earth characters in the game yet, because there is still a lot of unknown details about certain characters and species as the show is not fully finished releasing.
My final thoughts on DP3, is that pie played it as well as he could have. I feel his frustration, he was making very good points. Mikal kind of gambled and went all in by buddying whiteflame, and at first I was a bit worried and wondered if he should have just bussed whiteflame, but I could see his strategy was kind of an all or nothing gambit to manipulate and bully kohai into voting pie, and to his credit it worked. Had whiteflame flipped tailor, it would have been pretty bad for scum and I don't think it would have taken town long to figure out there wasn't actually a yakuza. Which would have basically cleared pie who the main argument against him from everyone but mikal was that he wasn't the OG scum but a likely recruit candidate. It also would have cleared david, making scums only mislynch option going into LYLO castin, which would have been a tough sell. So while mikals play was risky, it was probably the play to make in the end.
Grats to pie for solving it, and I am sorry that it didn't work out, but mafia played hard and manipulated town against you well, so good games to all.