mrkgnao: I'm not sure what "this" is (trentonlf's nighttime episode?), but I'm sensing that you're being sarcastic... ?
Vitek: I see you are trained to see true nature of things. I have to bow before you. :-)
Yeah, I am no fan of discussin possible night actions, kills and what some hinted piece of info could mean. At the start of new Day I see it as was to make fake discussion that helps in no way to find mafia and distract from more useful things.
I am not sure I agree with you, at least not concerning trentonlf's "nighttime assault". Sage has already commented before about your tendency to attempt to dissuade the town from exploring specific avenues of investigation. I must say that I too find it disturbing.
As I see it, trentonlf either told the truth about the "nighttime assault" PM he got from Telika or he lied.
If he told the truth, then this means that our mod volunteered information of his own accord. I don't know about you, but for me, this would be teh first time that a mod does such an outlandish move.
From my experience mods are the type of people who, when asked
"Can you confirm that 2 + 2 =4", would answer
"No, I can't. ;) ", followed two minutes later with
"Well, actually, I suppose I COULD confirm or deny it, but I WON'T. ;)". They are not the type of people to send out random flavour PM's.
If Telika decided to offer us some "free" information, it would be foolish of us not to at least think what it meant. I'm still thinking about possible scenarios, beyond those outlined by dedoporno. If I come with something useful, I'll post.
And of course if we think trentonlf lied, we definitely should discuss it. To me, it seems too far-fetched to be a lie, but after adaliabooks' end-of-day tour-de-force role-claim, who knows?
One thing I did during the long night (when not playing Blackguards) is skim through Telika's previous game (mafia #18). It has some bizarre roles (e.g. motivator) and some combinations I don't seem to have seen mentioned on mafiascum (e.g. alternating jailer between town and mafia on odd/even days). We need to keep an open mind with such a moderator.
I have some more things to write about, but will break it into separate posts.