It did seem you were a bit hostile to Catwoman

I Didn't realize that. Sorry. (Why did I seem hostile. I Consider this an important question.)

"Missed" ? You've coerced me into joining a mafia game and then left me in there alone, is what you did. This is so charlie the unicornesque of you that I'm busy tallying my kidneys.

Rewriting / posting this because it appears to have been eaten and didn't go through.

It would just be a temporary break for Christmas. I'm much more busy with real life stuff in December and won't be online as much during that month.

I really do need to work on my backlog though, and I'm also in the process of migrating my entire 1000+ game library to playnite. I like GOG Galaxy better than every other store library manager, but it does have it's limitations. It doesn't like games with short titles like ᗢ, and I fond myself fighting with Galaxy over replacing janky looking background art.

School ended. Nadeko is going straight to the nearest Shinkansen station, completely shrugging off that she had accumulated the majority of votes by the end of lunch break.

A little bit before the station, a bunch of school girls filed out of alleys, all of them holding baseball bats.

Alita was first to begin. "You sure are not doing us any good."
Asuka licked her lips. "I'm sure it's you."
Misa had a weird smile. "The world is so much worse because of people like you."

"But what have I done?" Nadeko looked super confused. "Also, what are all the bats for?"

Faye had some trouble choosing her words. "I don't know, you're pretty off too."
Lina swung her bat half a meter away (that's 0.55 yards if America had its way with Japan) from Nadeko's face. "Well, you sure are doing yourself no favors, buddy."

"C-come on!" Nadeko started running away.

Sayaka and Kitami both pop in right in front of the escaping Nadeko. "Double Homerun Strike!" they shouted their newly cobbled together special attack in Japanese-flavored English. Despite the battle cry, both girls swung at Nadeko in a very dull fashion, but that was enough to knocking her out cold on the ground.

Sayaka looked at her for a few minutes. "Uhhh, she doesn't look evil. We chose the wrong one."

"Oh goddammit!" Misa shouted. "That fucker was all over the place!"

Sayaka wanted to get Misa to stop swearing but stopped herself. That was like the least of their problems, compared to all of them being literally a OK with the idea of assaulting a schoolgirl with a bat.

Nadeko Sengoku (FrostburnPhoenix) has been sent to the nearest hospital. She was Town Vanilla.

FINAL VOTECOUNT:
FrostburnPhoenix (7) - Lifthrasil, bucktoothgamer, Catventurer, Telika, Atlo, supplementscene, dedoporno
bucktoothgamer (1) - JoeSapphire
Catventurer (1) - csanjuro
catte (1) - FrostburnPhoenix

Not voting: Ambiti0nZ, catte

In case there's any errors in the votecount, please let me know.

Night 2 has started. Please stop posting in this thread.
It will end on October 30th, 9PM UTC+1 (London time).

(I apologize for the long delay in ending the Day)

Normally I don't mind minor edits but PLEASE DON'T DO THAT AGAIN OR I'LL KEEP SHOUTING IN CAPS LOCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- so be careful pls.

i'm glad i haven't been needed bc i'm miserable.

Now I've provided Pooka someone to rail against for posting after dark. Mission accomplished.
Don't forget about Thanksgiving! ignore the dark, spider-filled holiday (UGH!) and don't drown out Thanksgiving in Christmas music!

Are you a sub then? Are subs allowed in the observer thread? Also, bah.

no, just a regular observer who has covid and can't swallow without pain

Another day at class, and once more, Natsume-sensei is late!

Better yet, Makise noticed something was amiss with the rest of the class. For one, Nadeko was gone - but it was obvious to her that something happened to the poor lady, she wasn't sure what. No, that wasn't what caught her attention. By a cruel twist of fate, there was also another missing classmate. She couldn't suss out who.

Sayaka didn't even notice that anything was amiss in the class. She must have not slept well at all. No matter how violently she shook her head, she always succumbed to dozing off mere seconds later.

Asuka wasn't doing anything with her homework, either. Although an ace student and a hard worker, this time she seemed stressed out. Maybe she was next? One more person (other than the one she beat up) was missing today.

Natsume-sensei finally arrived. Not only did half the class forget to stand up, but Sensei wasn't bothered by it one bit. "Takahashi-san fell into a coma this morning." Before she could continue, all the classmates gasped - even the sleepy Sayaka. "I've no idea what happened this time." Alita, who was in the seat directly in front of Natsume-sensei, could hear her mumbling, "Damn, am I gonna start believing in curses now?"

Alita thought, "Well, at least it's not Another."

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Aki Takahashi (Ambiti0nZ) has been hospitalized. She was Town Mason.

Day 2 has started. You may resume posting in this thread.
It will end on November 4th, 8PM. (London time, UTC+1)
All votes reset.

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Natsume-sensei noticed someone - Yuna Takano - standing just outside the class door, but she wasn't sure who she was talking to. Regardless, this upset her greatly.

"Takano-san!" she shouted at the top of her lungs. "Back to your class!"

When Yuna turned her head, she saw in Natsume-sensei many things, most notably how frighteningly scary she is. Yuna ran like an explosion was about to happen, Hollywood-style.

are we winning?

I would argue that Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is the superior holiday around October 31st / November 1st. You set up an ofrenda to invite your dead ancestors to come and party with you. I think that you can also include deceased pets.

Unfortunately, it's not my culture so I'm not an expect. However it's way more awesome than spiders and going door-to-door begging for candy.

reading yesterDay i like the look of catte and lifthrasil

lifthrasil i keep obsessing over but i think i'm settling on town. when he said to csanjuro 'take a look at joe and frostburn, who do you think is mafia there?' i was like kinda bold move to openly direct attention to two towns... so town? sort of too-wolfy-to-be-a-wolf situation
and when telika came out with 'why do you assume csanjuro is town?' i was like OMG YEAH
but yeah i don't know, i think scum lift doesn't do this?

anyway i've not actualy read all of yesterDay yet

I don't know

It really depends on how you look at things and what your alignment is. Technically Team Town lost two players in terms of raw numbers, but I would argue that Az was the only real lost here - which I am saying based on roles only, and not based on who had those roles.


Mason

Masons come in pairs. If both Masons are alive at a point in the game where the statistical odds say that there can be only member of Team Mafia left, then Masons can safely come forward and role claim that they are Masons while confirming the identity of their partner.

https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Mason

Role claiming is where someone announces what their role is in the thread. This should be taken with a grain of salt because Team Mafia will always lie if they role claim. Some people won't role claim ever or only role claim in specific situations.

The town will turn their attention away from the Masons if they believe that there can be only one Mafia left, reducing the pool of possible lynch suspects. People with night actions will also turn their attention away from the Masons, making it more likely that they find Mafia. It puts the one remaining Mafia person in a difficult position because Masons have night communication - do they try to take one of the Masons out to eliminate that night communication or do they go for someone else i hopes of eliminating someone with a night time power? There's also the factor that taking out a Mason when both have role claimed and confirmed the other will definitively confirm the remaining Mason.

With Az gone, his Mason partner is effectively a Vanilla Town. They no longer have someone to engage in night communication with and don't have Az to confirm that they are a Mason at some point.


Vanilla Town

I do not know how most people here on GOG see the role but on the site that I used to play on years ago, there were more than a handful of people that hated getting Vanilla Town. They didn't see the value of it and only thought that power roles mattered.

My view point of the Vanilla Town has always been that it's the job of everyone with this role to form a herd for the power roles to hide among and to try to make themselves look like attractive night kill options If you're going to have a mislynch where a member of Team Town gets lynched, the best case scenario is to loose someone who is Vanilla Town.