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Aight, here are the game infos (setup and actions):
IDAffiliationPrimary RoleSecondary RoleSanityPlayer
1TownDetectiveInsaneMadNat
2TownSpySaneBrandish
3TownDoctorSaneAsako
4TownBansheeGB
5TownNecromancerShad
6TownPsychiatristBaka Taichou
7TownProstituteEvil3ye
8TownBulletproofLambu
9TownMorticiandigital
10TownPsychiatristHolt
11TownProsecutorLady Pompom
12Third PartySanta ClausKat
13Town/MafiaPirateTraitorJames Rye
13Town/MafiaNobleTraitorCrescent
15MafiaMafia DetectiveSirSamuel
16MafiaStrongmanGrySun
17MafiaMafia EscortCopy Panda
18MafiaPirateMarmalade
GIFTS LIST

❄ Brewster's Gift "Drink it hot or give it up." (Hot Potato)
The Hot Potato explodes at the end of a day designated by the host before the start of the game, killing the player holding it. The holder of the Hot Potato doesn't know when it will explode, but he can pass it to another player at night, separately from any night ability he has. This passing can't be blocked. If the holder gets killed, the Potato explodes killing both the holder and the killer; if the holder is lynched, the Potato [dies with him].
❄ Kicks' Gift "You never know how things might turn out." (single-use Bar Keeper redirect)
One player ends up being the drunkest and uses his night action on a random player.
❄ CJ's Gift "A night cruise is a good way to catch night fish." (single-use Mafia Detective)
The Mafia Detective has the ability to investigate one player per Night and learn the player's Role. Only he is told the role of his target via PM. Whenever the Mafia Detective's investigation ability is performed, he cannot be chosen to go for a kill on the same night.
❄ Wisp's Gift "Tah-Dahh!" (this player's votes are worded as "Ho ho ho" during the next day)

❄ Jingle's Gift "Isn't this the best time of the year, kid?" Mandatory 5th Gift
(Santa Clause: this gift allows the game to go on. At the end of the game, Santa wins with the other winning party. Happy celebration ;)



Now first lemme thank @Erinyes for her massive participation in the game. At first, I got the November slot to host alone, and she asked me to join and I'm so happy she did! She's not only a very curious and interested person so we had a very nice and easy time discussing our ideas, but she also has the strength and endurance of a lion... I was often dead while we were hosting, but Erinchi followed everything and kept the game organized. She barely slept @.@ And that's a testimony I really needed to share with you all, 'cause her dedication and calm deserve lots of appreciation.

Also thanks @Hardy and @Vandred for double-checking the game mech (and in Poop's case, the comp as well) and giving us your honest thoughts, so we could try to present a game that would be fair and entertaining to people.

And finally, even tho some other points were addressed already, I'd like to thank all the players, from the heart. I know this game was too soon because of my availability due to local holidays, and I know you guys were tired - which for sure didn't improve during this time lol. So I really need to commend you all, because you guys were either putting in a lot of time and effort inside the game, analyzing and discussing nonstop, or in the deadpad - you guys also got no rest. As hosts, that's the biggest kind of feedback we could get: to have you guys really onboard. Some moves were questionable, but no one can't say any of those teams weren't trying... it's only natural that drained people will make some mistakes, so to me that's another sign of the praise you guys deserve.

Quick comments about the game that I've mentioned in the deadpad already: in general, the idea with the mech was to add a simple new function (and we tried to map beforehand the main game new considerations we'd need to have it in place) but that could allow a new set of strategical moves to be exploited - now I would reconsider the priority we used since we realize it would have been more adherent to people's preference. The game also had 2 Traitors 'cause Pirate is a VERY weak mafia that can suicide and lose the ability to kill later on, so we wanted to give them better odds (lemme say it one more time in here that the notion that means town had 2 extra people to lynch is wrong, first because town had 2 killing tools in the Prosecutor and the Banshee, and second because they don't need to eliminate unrecruited traitors to win). It had 2 Psys 'cause even tho we wanted mafia to have better chances to recruit, that didn't mean we wanted them to recruit BOTH, so town had more chances to find at least one on the other hand (even if one role would get erased eventually), and at the same time the role could cause some confusion that mafia could exploit. The Mortician came in place to trace stuff like Santa and fake claims/transfers regarding any role/action that got "buried" - imo it's more effective than the SM because it can target antitown and spot unknown stuff that could still be in-game; it was a late game resource that had good chances of being effective with the role transfer mech. The Necromancer was also in there for its recycling capabilities since we'd have roles being lost, and in this setup it would be less OP than it usually is, since his options would still be reduced. The Santa was there for extra fun, imo, since the role could still be used even if the OG player and their wincon was gone: two gifts - that we expected to be the last ones - were clear signs that there was a Santa in-game in case it would fly by too successfully - and even that was just to cause some ruckus since the last gift allowed the game to go on after Santa would win - which to me it's a needed measure so we won't have sudden major frustration with an unexpected game end (I do understand why the game usually has to end when Santa is in it, so people don't ignore the role, but in this case we saw an opportunity to play around that and fix the issue regarding that); Santa's other gifts were there to provide some extra spice but unfortunately, as you can see in the night actions, I made a mistake while processing GB's action with the Hot Potato. GB got blocked by Evil when he tried to pass it to James and I overlooked it that the passing can't be blocked. It would have been simple to fix it during the day by PMing the both of them if Bran didn't spy on GB and, coincidentally, Sam hadn't claimed the exact same action and outcome. After discussing with some people, we reached the conclusion that the attitude that would cause the least interference and damage to a bigger number of players would be to just remove the Hot Potato from the game and inform that to GB, which is what we did.

GG mafia, you fought the long battle and won! GG town, it's never easy to be on the more clueless side, trying to put pieces together. GG Santa cause Santa is always fun~
 

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Or Pirate claim yeah, that‘s all they can do but then they confirm me and have to live off of us trusting they are a town Pirate.
Would look more town than mafia tho, if only for it being a pretty shit stealing option for mafia.
 

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You‘d think so, but we have like 10 active claims and only 2 passive. So if everyone that didn‘t claim isn‘t passive then idk. Passives are likely to be overwritten quite early depending on what we lynch, probably why my D3 confirmation is pretty close from game start.
Maybe some actives are just fooling around, it's likely some are baiting depending on the nature of their role.
 

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I am a Day 3 Innocent Child. Never had this role before, tried to play normal with it and just get nightkilled. But maybe I mentally defaulted to the self-confirmable role mentality and didn’t care too much about defending myself. Kinda badly played.
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I‘d currently still prefer lynching James over Cres.
Interesting. Day 3 would mean in a 18 player game, depending if we got a single or two night killing actions, that you get confirmed when there are still 14 player alive (day1 and 2 lynches plus night 1 and 2 kills if they are all successful), in this case 13 due the prosecution mark of pompom no matter what way it goes. Rather early. Usually ICs get confirmed when like half the crew is dead. If there are 2 killing actions at night then it would be 11 on day 3 if all night kills happen to be successful.
Also if you are IC why just claim "passive" when that puts you at major risk of losing your current role due a role change if somebody throws their role at you in the coming phases? If anything don't you want to keep your passive role "alive" till you are confirmed and can receive roles afterwards like pompom could if her guess on Lambu was correct and she is basically just a fancy vanilla townie waiting for a new role?
 

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But that gets me wondering why we have so many self-confirm Townies in this set up. I guess if Gry is lying he has a time bomb on his head anyway, which makes me eager to move my vote to an other buddy. However, I am not sold on James being scum hypothesis claimed by the aforementioned offender, nor do I see a scum wasting a Noble vote on some rando when being close to lynch. Then again I don't understand the rationals behind a Jinx anyways, but at least she claimed.

Am favouring some in the shadows villager.
 

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Interesting. Day 3 would mean in a 18 player game, depending if we got a single or two night killing actions, that you get confirmed when there are still 14 player alive (day1 and 2 lynches plus night 1 and 2 kills if they are all successful), in this case 13 due the prosecution mark of pompom no matter what way it goes. Rather early. Usually ICs get confirmed when like half the crew is dead. If there are 2 killing actions at night then it would be 11 on day 3 if all night kills happen to be successful.
Also if you are IC why just claim "passive" when that puts you at major risk of losing your current role due a role change if somebody throws their role at you in the coming phases? If anything don't you want to keep your passive role "alive" till you are confirmed and can receive roles afterwards like pompom could if her guess on Lambu was correct and she is basically just a fancy vanilla townie waiting for a new role?
My theory is that there‘s a too high chance role is lost if it‘s too late.

And no I actually don‘t care about being confirmed 99% games I play, since I tend to confirm myself via words and lynches enough til I‘m nightkilled. So I thought I either die before or get a better role to use, but as things stand I end up needing to rely on it after all.
 

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I could also move my vote to someone more inconspicuous, but who among the bunch stands out more ion terms of shadiness?
 

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Too many shady low posters if we wanna go that route, but feels cheap like Lambu said. I think I have the strongest distrust-feelings on Asako among the less actives. Tho maybe from lack of posts from others. I saw Brandish liking some recent-ish posts too but he didn‘t post anything himself.
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I have to go away in 1 hour so I‘m missing the last hour.
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I wouldn‘t vote Holt, he has to go to endgame.
 

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So, James is saying, perhaps a scum Gry play now could be later claiming his role was overwritten before the host confirm, hmm. I guess it's best judged when time has come on D3, but is possible. Will be total lynch fodder for sure, but that means he must be confident that some Mafia buddies are lynched by then, hmm.

Btw, if a do goodie-Townie want to upgrade my poor passive claim with begifting me something,
do not, I like what I am. :D
 

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But that gets me wondering why we have so many self-confirm Townies in this set up. I guess if Gry is lying he has a time bomb on his head anyway, which makes me eager to move my vote to an other buddy. However, I am not sold on James being scum hypothesis claimed by the aforementioned offender, nor do I see a scum wasting a Noble vote on some rando when being close to lynch. Then again I don't understand the rationals behind a Jinx anyways, but at least she claimed.

Am favouring some in the shadows villager.
Wouldn't be the first time Mafia uses IC as claim to avoid being killed early on. Strange though, I expected some more Vanillas but it seems there aren't any in this game so far. So much for Mafia hiding in a forest of passive claims.
If we are moving our votes from Gry to shadow villagers, currently Holt and Brand have 2 posts only, SirSam is up to 5, Marm 6, Kat 6, Panda 7 and so on. Should we care about post amount or post quality as in who hinted what so far or was how engaged in discussion?

My theory is that there‘s a too high chance role is lost if it‘s too late.

And no I actually don‘t care about being confirmed 99% games I play, since I tend to confirm myself via words and lynches enough til I‘m nightkilled. So I thought I either die before or get a better role to use, but as things stand I end up needing to rely on it after all.
Makes sense, like a beacon for towns to throw their roles at after d3 if we fail to lynch a single mafia. It also means though none of us can throw their roles at you if they die and we got a bunch of active role hinters. After all if we do before d3 your claim is basically BS, lol, as it will no longer exist to confirm itself. xD
 

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Back and reading roughly

the mechanic seemed simple before Lambu, James, Gry started talking about it
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mafia are active because they can kill even if they have passive roles like boss or bomb
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Given the fact that ppl hint on Day 1 with stuff like:

I have a role
I have had this role before
I have never had this role before
I’m active/passive
I’m happy about my role
I hate my role
My role is the rare kind

Doesn’t feel like it will effect the early game that much
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:pls

Be happy with what you get!!!
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I feel D1 is too soon to be so antagonistic towards someone. I mean it takes away from the organic conversation of people feeling everyone out. Now everyone just using discussion about Gry instead of looking for other suspects.
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I really thought the next line would be something like me and evil expecting a baby or something <_>
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You look like the guy from the Sing Movies
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Are you telling me GB is not a good votekill? I mean he’s lurking and playing safe. No wild gifs of rainbow flags. Mostly just kind of being snarky at people.

I feel like he’s town because he’s fishing and he’s a bit more flamboyant when he’s mafio but it’s hard to judge since D1 when he doesn’t troll you with a detective claim but you guys need to shake the tree and see what comes out
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Ugh I’m halfway through rereading and replying. Will be back later. After food and nap. Hate feeling like I’m talking to myself
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Oh I kissed Asako but why would you say I’m playing safe when y’all know the game started early and I work. I just don’t start the game with “I’m sorry I’m at work like some people in this game does. Marma and Panda come to mind” Expected the game to start on the afternoon or evening. And would have more time before to rest.
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Don’t say that unless you want to get targetted :blink
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Awww SirSamuel called me cute 🥰

I did think about putting it on Brandish. Just didn’t want some people to slide by during the day phase. Watching you 👀

to make it explicit just call me Queen this game 👸
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This role bring back bad memories because last time I was it, I got lynched D1 by Vandred and then Gry going to be all like “I thought this was a role that couldn’t get lynched.” To add insult to injury as they say
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This sounds nothing like me:hmph
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I’m somewhat jealous of the Ankh cat Egyptian goddess avatar
Playing time-constrained and playing safe are different things, your case is the second one.

I would have to see you play from now on but that first impression already took root.
 

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I wouldn‘t vote Holt, he has to go to endgame.
The post he made was save and sound to me, was a pro-claimer too, which is consistant with last game stance on it, I would not either.

Those buddies on the other hand I am more indifferent towards: Sam, Panda, Bran, Marms, GB, Shad, Asako, digital.
 

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I could also move my vote to someone more inconspicuous, but who among the bunch stands out more ion terms of shadiness?
Hm, we could use the anon vote on SirSam. If by chance Mafia started with a Mafia Noble because they are actually lower numbers than 5 this throw away vote could be some "why would MN use their anon vote day 1 on a mafia" defense for mid/late game. Also all those active claimers make me think that mafia got no Mafia boss or mafia members, they might actually all have roles like Strongman, Poisoner, Assassin, Escort and Mafia Noble or Mafia Robber and so on. They might not even have a passive one like Mafia Bomb. Given Evil's reluctance of receiving an active role it actually could mean we really only got roles this game without a single vanilla or passive mafia role.
But the vote on Sam would still be a far throw at this point of the game and Sam did give a hint like most people did. Perhaps we should focus on the few ones who haven't hinted at all yet.
 

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I also don't agree in voting Holt, he barely appear, but his posts didn't look off to me. Cres is more suspicious in that point.
 

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Not what happened. I was confused about him since the beginning, with him openly questioning parts of the rules that only matter to mafia, he did that twice. The Lover talk isn‘t about Lovers themselves, it‘s about him going on a spree of talking about past games which I said is what mafia James always does in big amounts seemingly at random.

Imo he probably thought him talking about the mechanic was normal townplay so he did it, but noticed too late that he‘s asking things only relevant to mafia. Then backpedaled when I asked and said it only matters as a 50% chance when Dets claim without results, and when saying that‘s bad he just made a joke.
No, you were "suspicious" of him after he talked about the past game interaction, before that you were just "bewildered" at his suspicions and brushing them off
 

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Same, Holt is pro-hinting which makes him good in my book. Mafia profits more of us staying silent about our roles as it gives them more time to make up roles for themselves.
 

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I am a Day 3 Innocent Child. Never had this role before, tried to play normal with it and just get nightkilled. But maybe I mentally defaulted to the self-confirmable role mentality and didn’t care too much about defending myself. Kinda badly played.
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I‘d currently still prefer lynching James over Cres.
I dont believe you
 

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No, you were "suspicious" of him after he talked about the past game interaction, before that you were just "bewildered" at his suspicions and brushing them off
Does that mean you think we should stay on Gry for day 1 lynch and not wait till day 3 to see if he gets confirmed or was lying through his teeth?
 

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No, you were "suspicious" of him after he talked about the past game interaction, before that you were just "bewildered" at his suspicions and brushing them off
No, I voted him after he talked about it, I was already suspicious before.
 

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why are you guys even considering holt, meanies
I mean I barely remember holt making it to end game, he keep being lynched day 1
 
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