Mafia 54:Vampires Return (The Play)

1) Wycco: please don't do that!

2) Has Zaffy even posted since he got several votes.

3) John: to be honest, I really haven't followed the Kash thing (and I, ahem, skim her posts mostly). She goofed up or someone didn't follow what she said or whatever.

4) Coler: Why don't you like my reasoning behind my vote. I seriously doubt that Kash is a vamp. Do you really think one of the two vamps out there at this point would be this obvious? The only thing that I could see would be if someone randomlly voted for the LV and Kash jumped up to make a fuss and distract everyone for that. But I really don't see that happening, unless we have Kash as a turn and a newbie LV.

Guys, I'll say this again, I think I've said it almost every game I've played in the last year. "The Big Fight" on day one is almost always two innocents who jump on each other for something misquoted or misunderstood. Usually it's me and Ice, or me and Coler, or me and Mad.

I think that the LV is laughing his/her tail off right now watching this going on and not having to say a blasted thing to get everyone either on Coler's side or on Kash's side. Personally, I don't think anyone pushing this hard on day one is a bad guy.

At this point, I'm betting that the LV is someone who is very quietly watching and just making the occasional comment and the random, day 1 vote. Someone like Wycco or rocker... or those who are really silent, RB, JM, Lamerint, etc.

So, I'm actually pretty happy with my current vote.

Ogre, I'm confused because I don't see any hint of this being a Kash vs. Coler day...most, if not all of the bickering is jsut between the two of them...why are you making this so dramatic?
 
I vote to stick a stake in Noods

I think Noods would make a great LV and/or turn candidate that is why my vote is with her. She also seems to be taking it easy with her posting this time around and I think that points to her being the LV or turn.

I'm not seeing the Kash thing. She does seem to be trying a bit too hard but IMO she is smart enough that if she were the LV and had only 1 teammate at this point she wouldn't be drawing so much attention to herself. I can see a better case for DD at this point...but again I have a feeling about Noods.
i think its this right here that is going to get us in trouble for the first few nights. thinking someone "would make a great LV" is more than likely going to get us into trouble.
 
OK, so maybe it was kind of dramatic, but that's what it is. Two people who are both probably innocent 'bickering' and letting the vamps have a free ride.

There's a chance that one of them is a vamp, yes, I'm not saying to ignore them or not think them suspicious. Just as far as it goes back, this kind of 'bickering' on day 1 is between two innocents who both want to find the bad guy.
 
I do agree that most of the time big day one fights are between innocents...heck, 9 times out of 10 when me and DD fight we are both innocent. And usually it is over the same things...misquotes and mistunderstandings. I think it's worth a day 1 vote but I could see that changing by tomorrow. I'd rather not leave my vote to be completely random.
 
OK, so maybe it was kind of dramatic, but that's what it is. Two people who are both probably innocent 'bickering' and letting the vamps have a free ride.

There's a chance that one of them is a vamp, yes, I'm not saying to ignore them or not think them suspicious. Just as far as it goes back, this kind of 'bickering' on day 1 is between two innocents who both want to find the bad guy.
i can see this happening. it is only day 1 and there is only one vampire other than the LV. the bickering going on may or may not be distracting us from the real vampires.
 
Long post from Coler so I'll split it up to respond.

Its just all very confused Kashta. I thought your whole premise was that Ice was at least somewhat likely to pick the lead vampire. Using this as a basis to suspect generate you'd proceed on the basis that he in fact did so. Now, lets see your thought process

My thinking that Ice was likely to hand-pick the Lead Vamp role was sort of a starting point... yes. I wouldn't make it my "whole premise" though because he might not have done it that way and went random instead. Either way, yes I do lean vets as more likely to be suspicious, as a given, in this game.... all else being equal.

Coler = vet therefore suspect
Coler = off the suspect list because time difference/potential UD makes me unlikely to get LV from Ice.
Coler = off the suspect list as turn victim for same reason as directly above
Coler added back to suspect list in case power roles (or LV) done randomly by Ice.
Coler also added because of 'what you've done in this game'.

That's about right. I'll paste this part in again with clarification.

1. Coler = vet therefore suspect Yes.

2. Coler = off the suspect list because time difference/potential UD makes me unlikely to get LV from Ice. Yes.

3. Coler = off the suspect list as turn victim for same reason as directly above Yes, but not entirely accurate, technically... I'm using one suspect list for both, not keeping two separate lists. Essentially the same thing... we just don't have turn-victim/vamps yet.

4. Coler added back to suspect list in case power roles (or LV) done randomly by Ice. No. This wasn't a separate step by itself. (see #5)

5. Coler also added because of 'what you've done in this game'. --and-- in case power roles (or LV) done randomly by Ice. Both #4 and #5 together.

I'm not just blindly suspecting vets to the exclusion of everything else. Who I suspect most at any time and where my vote goes is a combination of factors.. mostly depends on what happens in the game.

You might like to talk me through what I have done in this game to make me a suspect - is this the fact that I said if I was LV I would either pick the 'imo best player' or a newb under the radar as my turn which is supposed to have had the agenda according to you Kashta of distracting attention away from the veteran players, including myself ?

Yes, I didn't believe the statement. So that combined with your previous posts beforehand is the reason I'm suspecting you. For the rest of the prior stuff, it was the following posts too. (See below.)

After reading what I'd said about suspecting vets/top players over the others... you were quick to turn that around on me and confuse the issue. That's what you did here.

Kashta you would pretty much count as a veteran anyway.

We've got players in this game who've been in probably 30-40 of the 54 mafia games that have been run. You trying to equate me (with my 4 games) at the same experience level as the real veterans among us made me suspicious. Why would someone do that? So I wondered.

In your next post you went on to cast suspicion on me with this.

You are very defensive. And btw I was in game 1.

That isn't the case. If anything, I've been aggressive or distracting (maybe even annoying)... depending on how this gets perceived by different people. That's just how this game is when someone's vocal or active.

Given the trend you seemed to show already, plus the fact that I thought you picking a newbie as a #2 vampire over someone who wouldn't need so much assistance... that's what put you back on my list of suspects.

Hmmm...if the LV is a veteran player, whether or not Ice handpicked them (and my gut instinct is actually that it was random but that's just a hunch) I guess they would not be delighted with a focus on the perceived veterans on Day 1. They might therefore panic and send out their turn victim to bat on it. Only if they were really really worried about getting fingered though - no good veteran player would be, so early in the day when this topic came up. It would in any event seem even more unlikely/really bad play that they would themselves come out and swing at a fairly vague look at the 'veterans'.

Exactly right.. this part in red. I was looking for some reaction as well to what I was saying. I believe that's what happened with DD and that's why I'm voting her for it.

If all that held water it would either mean :-

a) I am not LV - Kashta picks me as the one seeking to distract attention from veteran players.

b) I am not turned by LV - sending out a veteran to distract attention from veterans ? nah.

c) I am LV or turn and playing like rully badly.

I'm not concerned unduly or seeking to slam anyone's thoughts in their face - no need - but Kashta's reasoning on all of this interests me a lot. The danger is that she is just gathering heat & attracting attention (not to mention spreading it on e.g. me) but innocent, and the bad guys are cruising through the day.

We'll see how it plays out Coler. You're just on my suspect list... and it seems reasonable to me to keep you there for all the reasons we've been over.

For now, I see DD as most suspicious because of her game play and she fits very well as a possible vampire in either the Lead Vamp or as the secondary.
 
From what I have gathered, Kash thinks, based on Ice's hand picking roles or randomly picking roles and the fact that Coler is a veteran player that Coler could be a vampire or could be innocent.

Does this sum up these long day one posts?
 
From what I have gathered, Kash thinks, based on Ice's hand picking roles or randomly picking roles and the fact that Coler is a veteran player that Coler could be a vampire or could be innocent.

Does this sum up these long day one posts?

Astonishing, Mr. Holmes.
 
From what I have gathered, Kash thinks, based on Ice's hand picking roles or randomly picking roles and the fact that Coler is a veteran player that Coler could be a vampire or could be innocent.

Does this sum up these long day one posts?

Yes John. Coler was picking apart my thought process and trying to decide if I'm suspicious or not. The fact is from my standpoint, he's just one of several names on my suspect list. I'm not even voting him. I'm also not expecting others to vote him. My vote and my top suspect is still DD.
 
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