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This is hilariously scummy and I actually really love how shameless it is.

Funny you say that. In the ten or so games I've played online, two here and the rest with a group on Discord, I have found that I am consistently townread when I am scum and scumread when I am town. I guess my approach to playing town should be pretend that I am scum pretending to be town.

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Not necessarily. I’ve seen plenty of people kick the tires as it were by finding minor reasons to sus various players and seeing how they respond. It doesn’t mean I’m scumreading you in return for seeing some annoyance in a post where I didn’t convey it.

Activity has to come from somewhere. If there is no activity, we sit around doing nothing while scum kill us.

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This is hilariously scummy and I actually really love how shameless it is.

Airmax. Air-max. You max out the air in your tires by increasing pressure. It's literally in the name.

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VTL Airmax


Eh, screw it. If there's pressure, I might as well add some, and with three votes remaining, it ain't gonna be my fault if someone misfires.

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I won’t perpetuate the narrative that I am town confirmed because it puts a target on my head, but otherwise you’d have to believe he didn’t send the mafia on until 15 minutes prior to the day phase starting where the whole point was to have every player confirm their role before the game starts. In general you would assume mafia would have been among the first to receive their role PMs so they can begin discussion and strategizing for fake claims. That said, I am not town confirmed for this.

(Post #69; nice) That, and in Ranger's Apprentice, Magic and I were in a scum-chat server where Pie posted both of our PMs. If Kohai also uses a server as scum-chat, I'm thinking that it is heuristic evidence, although far from proof, that nobody else complained about their missing role PM.

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Mod psyche argument but I can see David wanting to throw max into the fire since it’s been years since he played and just making him outright scum

(Post #56) Jesus God Christ, do mods on here not assign roles randomly?

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My justification isn't obvious. It's not completely disconnected, but this is not a character I would expect to see with this role.

My justification makes complete sense, but is probably not the first thing you would think of for my character.

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We’re scum given fake claims and/or roles?

As much I want to vote Pie for "We're", I will instead seize this opportunity to suggest that we write


Commit [Playername]


to signal that we are willing to vote someone but have not yet voted. I, of all people, know what premature elimination can do.


No, I'm not commiting to voting Pie.

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So cryptography is allowed. I feel like we could abuse this but at the same time I kind of don’t want to because we have seen it ruin games before. Thoughts? I’m down to use CMS though is everyone else is, just isn’t that fair to scum lol

(Post #22) What is CMS?

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I am mildly townreading Mikal for saying (post #11) that he wins when all threats to town are eliminated, since my card says the same.


when he was doing ddo mafia a long time ago he had a role in it for ima bench where he had to continually shit post or he was mod killed. This seems to be taken from that

(Post #19) Big-brain strategy: Perpetually be an asshole so nobody can tell when you have this role.

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Given how sternly kohai warned us all that claiming is at your own risk, I'm curious as to whether or not town could have any anti-claim mechanics, although, for obvious reasons, I am emphatically not asking any townies with anti-claim mechanics to say so.

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As Pie said in twilight of Alien DP1, we need some way of expressing that we are committing, at least conditionally, to voting someone, but not yet voting them.

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No, I wanted you to not make an assumption. Did alarm bells not go off in your head about why if Xenomorphs and Facehuggers are the same species that it makes sense Xenomorphs won’t attack someone with a Facehugger on them?

No alarm bells went off in my head because my head, unlike yours, has a brain inside of it.

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Your role card can’t include every single piece of information lol. If you did a little research, you would realize why the Xenomorph doesn’t attack someone who has a Facehugger on them. It’s not cause they’re going against each other.

My card gave a reason why a Xenomorph would not attack someone with a Facehugger, and I assumed that Lunatic got that correct. If Xenomorphs are performing the night-kill, which I ascertained from my role PM, then impeding the night-kill is going against their interests. What did you want me to do, skim a wiki article and think I understand the lore better than an Alien fan?

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Again, that’s not necessarily true. And the only reason they don’t attack is cause they’re reproducing in the host lol. If anything, attacking them would go against their interests. You gotta do a little bit of research homie

I would think that my role card supersedes all other sources of information.

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Also your PM dude, common. How did you get going against the interest of Xenomorphs from that PM?

"A xenomorph will not attack someone who is impregnated by face hugger, buying the victim of this unfortunate event slightly more time than usual."


This made me think that Xenomorphs were performing the night kills, in which case buying the victim more time would be going against their interests.

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Clearly the latter given what he did to Casey. I just caught that. Fuck, that was brutal.

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The problem I have with flavor claiming is people tend to read far too much into the flavor rather than their actions or behavior.

You forgot about the essence of the game! It's about the cones.

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Could whiteflame's tailor have altered any parts of the flip, or only the role, e.g., Tailor, Apportioner? I would think the entire flip since otherwise the role might not fit with the character and justification.