Puddle Mafia 04 - Endgame Mafia (barmyarmy, BKB, RPHKR win)

[barmyarmy]

Takes 7 to lynch and we're only 4 towards (plus unsure). Always harder to lynch in big games.
Flipside is we've not accidentally lynched a townie.

 

[puddleduck]

Work was ridiculously long and my phone died so I couldn't even stay up to date. Let me get sorted, and I'll come and sort out this mess and probably send us to night )

 

[puddleduck]

Vote Count

Sedition (1) - Aditya
Aditya (1) - Zhuorb
RPHKR (2) - User
Zhuorb (2) - Ste, RPHKR
Abhas (1) - Sedition
Thedon (1) - Papa Smurf
Papa Smurf (4) - thedon, BKB, Treva, Abhas.

With 12 alive, it takes 7 to lynch.

No majority has been reached. It is now night. You have 24 hours to submit your night role.

 

[Varun]

Haha, pathetic.

 

[ved_]

Hey, I've got to attend a wedding and meet some relatives, so I'll be a inactive for 4 days. I'll try and post from my phone if I can.

 

[puddleduck]

Lies, damn lies and statistics. And death. Lots of death. Where would the votes lead them? Where would the cricket bat land?

He had been a good captain, a decent batsman, an interesting pundit and a fantastic troll. He liked to meddle with his fields, he had a knack of switching his bowlers around, and he loved to wind up his former colleagues. His enemies had given him a wide berth, they were all aware of his potential pull. This scared them, their best laid plans at risk from his meddling ways. As former captains they stood opposite each other. ?You!? he quizzically exclaimed. Like the phoenix he had risen in search of total power, and with his fiery wings he struck down his target with unhindered success.

Spoiler

Abhas is dead. He was Michael Vaughan.

It is now Day 4. With 11 alive it takes 6 to lynch.

 

[RPHKR]

He had been a good captain, a decent batsman, an interesting pundit and a fantastic troll. He liked to meddle with his fields, he had a knack of switching his bowlers around, and he loved to wind up his former colleagues. His enemies had given him a wide berth, they were all aware of his potential pull. This scared them, their best laid plans at risk from his meddling ways. As former captains they stood opposite each other. ?You!? he quizzically exclaimed. Like the phoenix he had risen in search of total power, and with his fiery wings he struck down his target with unhindered success.

Switching his bowlers around, the busdriver?

And Abhas is dead.

 

[treva]

Former captains. Think it's safe to assume that the mafia have been given fake claims, although the introduction of former player gives them a wide birth of claims anyway. Abhas has clearly been killed off because the mafia saw him as a threat.

Where do we go now, anyone have any information from the night phase?

 

[ste_mc_efc]

we simply have to lynch someone today. going to get my lynch in now in case i won't be around in the latter stages of the day. based on abhas's lynch, the fact people query this guys claim and that i was suspicious of him ages ago i'm going to.

lynch papa smurf

if he is lynched and is mafia then i would be suspicious of the other guys who had a lynch on him at the end of day 3 as most were made with basically zero chance of enough votes being made to lynch him off, so it could be a cheap shot at disguising themselves.

 

[RPHKR]

We should know the night info first. I agree that Abhas was suspicious of him from the start. He might have figured something out. With all the information we have got till now, the Zhuorb's claim and Abhas' suspicion. It is highly likely that Papa's lying. Papa, what was your night action btw?

 

[thedon5]

I'm not one who usually analyses the write-ups very well at all, and this is no exception, I can read little from that other than what has already been posted. I agree that there is probably a bus driver, PD's other games had one too so it wouldn't be a surprise if Abhas was the bus driver.

If that's true, Smurf is lying, no? Of all the claims so far, Smurf's has been the one perhaps hardest to believe IMO. Yours sounds like a more solid claim.

I can't think straight atm, I'm pretty tired, but since this may be one of my last posts of day 3 (day ends in about 12 hours, right?), I'll match my suspicion with a lynch.

Unlynch: Zhuorb

Lynch: Papa_Smurf

PS: Your avatar is a bit misleading.

OK, so I was basically half asleep while posting that. I guess I didn't take into account there is a good chance Smurf also roleblocked BKB (as was earlier stated I think).

The fact that he claimed as Trott too gives me more doubts, as Zhuorb stated, that is a solid claim and Trott is likely to be in the game. No CC either.

So, with that, I am going to put my suspicions of him to rest for now.

Now, let's take a look at the rest of the guys in the game. So far, this is what we've gathered from the numerous claims so far in the game and deaths.

1. Manly - Town
2. Sedition - ?
3. RPHKR - ?
4. BKB - Third Party
5. User - ?
6. Abhas - Town
7. Zhuorb - Town
8. Aditya - Town
9. BKB V2 - ?
10. Barmy - ?
11. Ste - ?
12. Papa Smurf - Leaning Town
13. Treva - Town

There are six question marks there, of which I reckon there'll be at least three and up to four non-townies. Could be another third-party not sure.

Of those, the only one I reckon most likely isn't Mafia is Sedition. his gameplay when he was the prostitute last game was much more self-defence oriented than this game, where he has been extremely aggressive. Added to that, he has been the most active contributor as well, hardly behaviour you'd expect from a Mafioso.

I'm also going to go with the theory BKB V2 is most likely a vanilla townie as well as Varun would've stuck around if he was something more interesting. We can go after him later if need be.

With that in mind, for me, it's one of the others. Ste's gameplay has been suspicious to me all game. It's hard to come to any conclusions as we don't know at all how he plays. Also, his insistence today of getting the lynch on Papa_Smurf in very early is scummy to me, this is not like day 3 where we are really desperate to get a lynch in before the end so IMO he's jumped the gun a bit. No analysis of the write-up as well. Reminds me a bit of Aditya from day 3. If he is Mafia, and Smurf is town, it is to his benefit then that everyone is going after him, it represents a good chance for him to lynch off someone who isn't on his Mafia team.

From what I remember, RPHKR has posted a number of nothing posts and doesn't seem to be posting his opinions much. The majority of his posts have been analysis of the write-ups and trying to figure out the roles in the game.

User has added little and has agreed that himself in one of his more recent posts.

Barmy has added near nothing since the first day. He is busy, but just because he is busy, doesn't mean he can't be Mafia.

So, with that being the majority of what I've read so far, FOS: Ste, RPHKR, User, BarmyArmy.

For me Ste and RPHKR are the most suspicious. Ste however, is new, and he has at least posted his opinions.

With that in mind, Lynch: RPHKR.

 

[Sedition]

I thought Abhas' almost constant (except when I got in the way) suspicions on Smurf were a bit strange, but maybe he knew something that we don't. Perhaps he was the tracker/watcher and had confirmed one of the scenarios I mentioned if targeting Smurf, but the lack of a claim suggests probably not.

Does seem strange that if Smurf is the town roleblocker, they'd be fearful enough to block him one night, but not kill him the next.

Considering the mafia took the SK out before he could do anything, it's not like we've put ourselves behind the 8-ball by not lynching, but yeah we should be able to piece together enough to get rid of the most likely candidate today.

 

[RPHKR]

@thedon - Still you haven't brought up your opinion. My suspicion stays on you. I can't recall a single post of yours that initiated something to discuss. You bandwagoned since the start. Maybe you're too naive to initiate lynches.

You mean I didn't post my opinion and has just filled in? Oh yeah, I've posted more than others you mentioned, and how would you expect me to fill in in all such posts. I would suggest to check through my posts rather than agreeing to others.

 

[thedon5]

Agreeing to others? I don't remember anyone else going after you at all.

Right, and your theory is I'm still bandwagoning? If I lynched Papa_Smurf, that would be bandwagoning. Still trying to hide behind that I see.

I expected more of a defence.

 

[treva]

I have gone after RPHKR before and I stand by it. You constantly post the exact same reply in defence to anything, and yet I still don't see posts of substance. Myself, Zhuorb and PS are the only ones (still alive) who have posted less than you and I don't believe you have posted substance at all, which you claim to.

Where is the substance? Where has your insight helped at all in the progress of this game?