• Welcome to ZD Forums! You must create an account and log in to see and participate in the Shoutbox chat on this main index page.

Path of Radiance Mafia Game Thread

Status
Not open for further replies.

ExLight

why
Forum Volunteer
Ex: As shown by my vote, scum. I don't like his claim, I don't like his response to Moe's fake (which it's worth mentioning I could totally see Town!Moe try to pull off; my reads on him have gotten better over D2), and generally I'm not feeling like things add up. He is keeping the game moving, however, which I appreciate.
hi what don't you like about my claim
 

DekuNut

I play my drum for you
Joined
Jan 30, 2011
Location
Tangent Universe
hi what don't you like about my claim
For one there's your one-shot tracker claim you hilariously didn't bring up until the only person who could make it useful was dead, thus making such a thing impossible to prove and making any results you could've gotten from that useless. It just seems like a super convenient way to get a fakeclaim out there without actually having to prove anything. I'm also to a slightly lesser extent weirded out by you assuming that we'll accept your use of your role to confirm yourself in a game where a lot of people have agreed that such roles don't indicate alignment. Generally it seems like a bunch of useless claims that don't do much of anything but let you say you're town.
 

Mikey the Moblin

if I had a nickel for every time I ran out of spac
ZD Champion
Joined
Aug 31, 2014
Location
southworst united states
Gender
Dude
I like sheeping minish
unvote
vote: rubik


I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford. It was a Saturday night in December. Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching that place would offer, till the following Monday.


As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing. For my mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island, which amazingly pleased me. Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolizing the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original- the Tyre of this Carthage;- the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan? And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones- so goes the story- to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?


Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me in New Bedford, ere could embark for my destined port, it became a matter of concernment where I was to eat and sleep meanwhile. It was a very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless. I knew no one in the place. With anxious grapnels I had sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver,- So, wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the middle of a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the towards the north with the darkness towards the south- wherever in your wisdom you may conclude to lodge for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to inquire the price, and don’t be too particular.


With halting steps I paced the streets, and passed the sign of “The Crossed Harpoons”- but it looked too expensive and jolly there. Further on, from the bright red windows of the “Sword-Fish Inn,” there came such fervent rays, that it seemed to have melted the packed snow and ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,- rather weary for me, when I struck my foot against the flinty projections, because from hard, remorseless service the soles of my boots were in a most miserable plight. Too expensive and jolly, again thought I, pausing one moment to watch the broad glare in the street, and hear the sounds of the tinkling glasses within. But go on, Ishmael, said I at last; don’t you hear? get away from before the door; your patched boots are stopping the way. So on I went. I now by instinct followed the streets that took me waterward, for there, doubtless, were the cheapest, if not the cheeriest inns.


Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. At this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted. But presently I came to a smoky light proceeding from a low, wide building, the door of which stood invitingly open. It had a careless look, as if it were meant for the uses of the public; so, entering, the first thing I did was to stumble over an ash-box in the porch. Ha! thought I, ha, as the flying particles almost choked me, are these ashes from that destroyed city, Gomorrah? But “The Crossed Harpoons,” and the “The Sword-Fish?”- this, then must needs be the sign of “The Trap.” However, I picked myself up and hearing a loud voice within, pushed on and opened a second, interior door.


It seemed the great Black Parliament sitting in Tophet. A hundred black faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a pulpit. It was a negro church; and the preacher’s text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there. Ha, Ishmael, muttered I, backing out, Wretched entertainment at the sign of ‘The Trap!’


Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath- “The Spouter Inn:- Peter Coffin.”


Coffin?- Spouter?- Rather ominous in that particular connexion, thought I. But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this Peter here is an emigrant from there. As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.


It was a queer sort of place- a gable-ended old house, one side palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly. It stood on a sharp bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than ever it did about poor Paul’s tossed craft. Euroclydon, nevertheless, is a mighty pleasant zephyr to any one in-doors, with his feet on the hob quietly toasting for bed. “If pen shows up today and says he magically has time to play and then starts quoting posts and acts like he didn't know that my claim was rescinded he's a wolf,” says an old writer- of whose works I possess the only copy extant- “it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.” True enough, thought I, as this passage occurred to my mind- old black-letter, thou reasonest well. Yes, these eyes are windows, and this body of mine is the house. What a pity they didn’t stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there. But it’s too late to make any improvements now. The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago. Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon. Euroclydon! says old Dives, in his red silken wrapper- (he had a redder one afterwards) pooh, pooh! What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals.


But what thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up to the grand northern lights? Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra than here? Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the line of the equator; yea, ye gods! go down to the fiery pit itself, in order to keep out this frost?


Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas. Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.


But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see what sort of a place this “Spouter” may be.
 

Poyzin

I DID eat Doc, I promise!
Joined
Jan 22, 2020
Poyzin
Moe the Moblin

Minish
ExLight
Pen

DekuNut
LittleGumball
Rubik

Funnier6
Namira


This is where my head is at for the moment, in case my stances aren’t currently clear. I’m having a tough time with my read of Little Gumball.
 

Rubik

King of Lorule Lounge
Joined
Jan 19, 2018
Location
California
Gender
Horsehead
look at the thread activity today, compare it to yesterday's, and tell me that you're too braindead to see the massive tonal shift

wolves were isolated, admit it
The only shift I see is that minish and namira are now valid lynch choices and we wasted time conditionally excluding them.
 

ExLight

why
Forum Volunteer
For one there's your one-shot tracker claim you hilariously didn't bring up until the only person who could make it useful was dead, thus making such a thing impossible to prove and making any results you could've gotten from that useless. It just seems like a super convenient way to get a fakeclaim out there without actually having to prove anything. I'm also to a slightly lesser extent weirded out by you assuming that we'll accept your use of your role to confirm yourself in a game where a lot of people have agreed that such roles don't indicate alignment. Generally it seems like a bunch of useless claims that don't do much of anything but let you say you're town.
I softed it D1, and I was going to ask Kirino if he had targeted anyone but he got modkilled super fast and I didn't have the chance to.

I'm not sure what kind of evil genius you think I am but I wouldn't make something up and flawless so quickly, especially considering that the Modkill was literally impossible for everyone to predict.

I'm also to a slightly lesser extent weirded out by you assuming that we'll accept your use of your role to confirm yourself in a game where a lot of people have agreed that such roles don't indicate alignment
I literally thought the same until some people (more specifically Moe and Rubik) pointed it out that the real order is more likely to be Character > Alignment > Role, so roles ARE alignment indicative.
You can ask the host about it since it's a clarification of the game setup posted in the first post.
 

Morbid Minish

Spooky Scary Skeleton.
Forum Volunteer
Looking though my recent town games, there's really not a clear pattern.

Gravity falls I voted sms because he claimed 3p.

Mafia anonymous I kept my vote in the same place the whole day, though I was inactive.

Batman I didn't vote d1.

Anime Mafia I moved from Calvin (town) to FG (town) [who I tunneled for multiple days for inactivity] to All Might (SK) [although I only voted for all might because I was trying to avoid a tie and would have preferred FG.

I don't remember what I did in Ms paint mafia but I was trying to show off my silly giant vote so I probably moved it around a bunch.

Every other game after my hiatus I subbed into or was scum.

You, uh, kinda proved my point here and disproved yours. You said you typically tunnel d1 and I said I didn't recall that except the recent game you were scum. And then you pointed out how you don't usually tunnel when town because your d1 play varies.

I spent far too long skimming my posts trying to prove I had and couldn’t find it but bleh I thought about it and so there

Maybe I actually voted you in MtG at some point idr

Almost certain you never voted me in MtG either until the end.
 

Rubik

King of Lorule Lounge
Joined
Jan 19, 2018
Location
California
Gender
Horsehead
You, uh, kinda proved my point here and disproved yours. You said you typically tunnel d1 and I said I didn't recall that except the recent game you were scum. And then you pointed out how you don't usually tunnel when town because your d1 play varies.

The ultimate result was "I've tunneled in a couple of my recent town games and in one of my recent scum games so it's not really indicative of anything". I was wrong in that I don't typically tunnel, but you were wrong in your insinuation that tunneling was something that is indicative of my scum play. Most of my scum games involve my wagon changing.
 

Morbid Minish

Spooky Scary Skeleton.
Forum Volunteer
The ultimate result was "I've tunneled in a couple of my recent town games and in one of my recent scum games so it's not really indicative of anything". I was wrong in that I don't typically tunnel, but you were wrong in your insinuation that tunneling was something that is indicative of my scum play. Most of my scum games involve my wagon changing.

I didn't originally insinuate that it was part of your scum meta to tunnel. Just that the way you did it this game felt scummy. Then you said you typically tunnel and I said I don't recall that except for your most recent scum game.
 

Rubik

King of Lorule Lounge
Joined
Jan 19, 2018
Location
California
Gender
Horsehead
I didn't originally insinuate that it was part of your scum meta to tunnel. Just that the way you did it this game felt scummy. Then you said you typically tunnel and I said I don't recall that except for your most recent scum game.
I also definitely tunneled in Anime Mafia 2, though. I was pushing to mislynch FG for the first 3 days of the game, but I had to stop a tie d1 and caught Funnier's pants down d2.

I'd have probably moved my vote had Doc not become a viable wagon, but he did.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Users who are viewing this thread

Top Bottom