Mini Mafia 1018 - Race with the Devil [hidden]

[Maniac]

It’s an old scum trick to pick out dead townies’ reads. Dead townies don’t have any miraculous insight, but we do know their alignment and pure hearts so it’s worth looking back and reviewing what they thought. We need to make the final decisions, whilst remembering that it is a team game.

Foxtail – scum read ghug, kak, Jamie (Chaqa) and Celaph. All of which are still in the game. Obviously he was killed early before more info came to light, but interesting reads none the less.

WorceJ – was last voting for Celaph and claiming if he is scum then he is scum with Bob & Rdriveria. Separate to his Celaph vote he thought “ghug, Chaqa, rdr, Bona” were scum.

Also just leaving a worceJ quote here “I also struggle to see the willingness for Bob or Maniac to force a bus on Sharky when there were easy options to push at the time.”

Vecna – we all know he had strong suspicions about Chaqa and Ghug. He was very much town reading me. Kak and celaph.

So on to my reads:-
Chaqa – I’ve already posted a lot about why I think Jamie is scum. I think Jami was obsessed with trying to re-state over and over he was town and completely over-reacted to a little pressure, which I think was fake. Chaqa then came in and accused people of tunnelling (bona and vecna) and of people like me of misquoting him. Classic scum move to try and undermine cases against them. Godfather Chaqa would absolutely be motivated to delay D3 kill when he was a good candidate to try and draw a cop scan. If I die tonight please remember that Foxtail, WorceJ, Vecna and I all scum read Chaqa. The reads just get stronger as the game goes on. It was interesting to see chaqa scumread most people after vecna died, as if he’d be happy for any wagon to get traction so he could then jump on.

Ghug – again all dead townies so far scum read ghug, possibly the scum kills happened to reduce the ghug voters idk. Its far from a clincher but Ghug was happy to say I’m like the old town maniac early on but later on says I didn’t ping his town radar. It’s so lazy to scum read me for not doing crazy shit. I admit I’ve done some stunts in the past including fake claiming PRs to draw NKs etc and people generally see me as weird. That’s probably fair comment. This vanilla short game doesn’t really lend itself to any strange gambits and it was probably made serious by Jamie’s enforced absence, so yeah, If I haven’t been wild, fun maniac, perhaps that’s why.

Bona – I don’t like Bona’s posting style, whenever you read him in isolation he posts often but it’s often two word replies. In fairness he does then try to build some cases and push people like celpah, but he also jumps around a lot. Possibly that’s town indicative, possibly he is looking to get in to a position to support a town miskill? He is my third scum read and I really hope that we have a scan on him.
Bob – a fellow Ifischl voter. I don’t buy that he got unlucky by placing a bus vote on ifischl and then went missing. If last game taught us anything its that bussing D1 gives scum very little town credit. That said he is another player I hope we have a scan on.

Rdriveria – if he is scum, he hasn’t put a foot wrong. He is above the fray and seems genuinely to be trying to solve the puzzle. Sometimes if players play great scum games, we just have to doff our caps and say well played sir’.

Kakarotto – has been widely town read since D1 and with good reason. I’m a little surprised he wasn’t nightkilled N2 but also aware the same can be said of me.

Celaph – voted off Ifisch and says he was RB two nights running. There is a world where he busses Ifischl and then scum hold back their RB, but it’s a very small chance they have done that when they had to kill or RB the cop. For me he is the towniest town.

Maniac – just so handsome. Helped the team kill the only scum to date and has been widely townread by all the townies who have died. Would scum!Maniac really kill off his big defenders?

I’m really hopeful that we will awake with so much more new info that my reads won’t be needed and we can auto our way to victory. I don’t think chaqa/ghug team kills me tonight. They seem to have been working hard to discredit me.

[Kakarroto]

I could see a team lfischl-Jamie/Chaqa-celaph (with celaph being the gf)
I could see a team lfischl-Bob-maniac (aka the high busser team)
Currently I think practically everyone could be mafia and wouldn't exclude anyone in the following days

However, I think in terms of behaviour I think there is a difference there. The following is a guideline beginning from towniest going downwards.

rd - if he is mafia, he hides it very good in his typical behaviour. I didn't see anything that would make me say 'that looks like mafia'. I wished he posted more, but I can't change his personal preference.
maniac - I think it all comes down to his vote, did he bus or not. The only way to be really sure would be to flip him, that would be kind of crazy though.
ghug - ghug's behaviour towards me reminds me a bit of brains mini game on discord quite a while ago, when I was doc and he was mafia. He lulled me in with townreading me and made me look somewhere else. Maybe this game is the same and tonight is my last chance to post in this game, if that's the case, I think that could be ghug's handwriting. Am I sure? Heck no. But it would increase the probability of ghug being mafia. ←
Jamie/Chaqa - I'm very suspicious of Chaqa's behaviour with the 'no kill' now. As we can see, it made the game lose totally on flow and it's silent all along. Maybe it's a town suggestion and chaqa is town who just wanted to make sure for no misskill as he saw the tides turning against him. Maybe maniac is correct and godfather Jaqa wanted to be copscanned. I still think, if he is mafia, he would be more likely goon and bets on deflecting a scan though.
celaph - rereading D1 I got suspicious of celaph again. His behaviour afterwards, posting big posts, kinda vanished when the pressure on him vanished. Maybe it's just fatigue because of the current game state, but it was there before too, if I'm not wrong. His actions, in case he is mafia, would make most sense as the godfather, I believe.

Actually, if I'm actually the nk, look at ghug, maniac and celaph for a possible culprit (especially if celaph get's rb'ed again). Well ... maybe Chaqa ... argh, you know, think for yourself, if that's the case, maybe I'm not the best to link possibilities together.

[celaph]

If I die before I wake then best of luck to all you townies. I encourage you to be active. Don't let this just become a game where active scum control the narrative.

I think Kak and Bona are my strongest town.

Overall, just nervous about a Chaqa/ghug, but not the most likely. Also have some eyes on a possible Rdr/Bob. Lastly, I think Maniac/Not ghug is not a bad pairing to consider.

[brainbomb]

HALT

[Hamilton Brian]

The group of 6 decided to park the RV in the superstore parking lot where the other travelers in RVs, caravans, and transports would camp out.

They didn’t hear anything else from Sheriff Taylor that day.

In the evening they decided to head to a local roadhouse to eat, get some drinks, and try to leave some of the ugliness of the past period of time behind them. A country band began setting up their equipment. A long-haired kid stumbled into an amplifier and then backed over a table. Suddenly a tussle of fists and shouts reverberated through the bar.

Roger got up and told the rest of the group he needed to grab some air. The fighting and death from the previous days had him on edge.

About an hour later, Roger hadn’t returned. His wife, Kelly, suggested to the others, “We should go. I’m worried that Roger’s been gone too long.” The others agreed.

They walked back toward the RV.

Kelly unlocked the door and walked in.

In the driver’s seat was the lifeless body of Roger. A belt is wrapped tightly around his neck. As they look closer they notice strange symbols carved into his forehead and wrists.

The performer playing Roger was Celaph. Celaph has died.

Celaph was the Town Cop.
Day 4 commences. You may now post.

[Kakarroto]

"Celaph was the Town Cop."

there goes any hope I actually did something useful

[Maniac]

RIP Celaph. Worst possible outcome

FWIW I was roleblocked

[Chaqa]

Yeah, I was worried that would be the case. It was too obvious that celaph’s RB claims were real. For the same reason, Maniac’s probably are too.

[Kakarroto]

##vote Chaqa

Now it's all reads and no clears. At least, at the very, very least, we will not have to fear a "someone got scanned but is godfather"-situation. But I'm really not happy about that.

[Kakarroto]

Also how, how did the mafteam guess fox and celaph as PR's right away. Please, I want to know. At least in the aftergame, because that is just crazy.

[Chaqa]

Unsure how anyone can still think I’m scum, but whatever.

I want to vote Bob or Rivera out today.

[rdrivera2005]

##vote Chaqa

Now it's all reads and no clears. At least, at the very, very least, we will not have to fear a "someone got scanned but is godfather"-situation. But I'm really not happy about that.

I think we might have to deal with it. I think Celaph implied an inno scan on you and Bona.

So, today should be between me, Bob, Ghug and Chaqa, at least statistically talking.

[rdrivera2005]

Unsure how anyone can still think I’m scum, but whatever.

I want to vote Bob or Rivera out today.

I want to vote you or Ghug.

[Maniac]

Yeah, I was worried that would be the case. It was too obvious that celaph’s RB claims were real. For the same reason, Maniac’s probably are too.

That's an interesting response. Would scum Chaqa RB me then say that RB is genuine?

[Maniac]

I know this won't go down too well right now. But whatever happens two remaining scum have to be contenders for MVP. To kill Doc N1 and RB the cop out of the game is top drawer scum play.

[Kakarroto]

jamie said:
"I think at least two of you, Ghug, Rdrivera and Vecna are scum.
I think at least one of Lfischl and Worcej is scum."
what is your opinion on this now, Chaqa?

[Maniac]

##vote Chaqa

Now it's all reads and no clears. At least, at the very, very least, we will not have to fear a "someone got scanned but is godfather"-situation. But I'm really not happy about that.

I think we might have to deal with it. I think Celaph implied an inno scan on you and Bona.

So, today should be between me, Bob, Ghug and Chaqa, at least statistically talking.

If Celaph wouldn't fake being RB'd though, which means he has been RB n1 & N2 and killed N3, so he didn't scan anyone.

[Kakarroto]

I want to hear from ghug, what did he gander in the time the thread was 'silenced'.

I want to hear from Chaqa, what information did he gain in this time the thread was 'silenced'.

[Chaqa]

jamie said:
"I think at least two of you, Ghug, Rdrivera and Vecna are scum.
I think at least one of Lfischl and Worcej is scum."
what is your opinion on this now, Chaqa?

I don’t really care what Jamie thought

[BobMcBob]

okay that could not have gone worse
i hold that it was better than the alternative but this is really not great