WW26: The Masquerade [Game Thread]

[Young Will]

LE: courage pointed out that name claiming Benefits the town and then he name claims. But, Claiming your or anyone else's own name doesnt prove your alignment. He knows this. But why point out only the first part or the business about counter-claims? And even with counter-claims, why not wait for someone to fake claim, however unlikely that is, to reveal? It doesn't make sense to me to point out the first and do the second.

where did courage name claim? I don't recall him ever claiming his own name at all. Bert the Ball claimed to know his name, and others jumped on, but courage neither confirmed nor denied that.

[Young Will]

bert the bard, sry

[Old Tom]

Old Tom could use some of Easy Sarah's hand waving.

Old Tom finds it somewhat curious Lady Elizabeth would refuse to slide down the slippery slope towards cross-dressing and transgender surgery by playing a female on an internet forum mafia game.

Old Tom thinks that people eliminated from the game should avoid posting in the lurker thread under their real identity until the end - perhaps use the fake ID? This will prevent Old Tom from getting too much info out of "last post" info. it will also make an interesting read-post game as lurkers and anonymous IDs interact.

curious vote count too. To fix Old Tom's color format error: Muriel the slow

[Old Tom]

Old Tom mistook the Check-In thread with the lurker thread - even if its invisible to the village, might be fun to reveal at the end?

Sorry for the distraction to the scum-hunting though. Curious what more people think about Rob.

[Doctor Saul]

Re: Muriel

My allegation appears to have been overshadowed by Muriel's fight with Rob The Filch. I felt like she was laying a trap before to suss out power roles when she spoke of last names being tied to them. I felt that because I started to respond with an observation about my last name / lack thereof, and then I realized that this would give away whether or not I had a power role. Thankfully I caught it on the preview and realized that could have been the intent all along. Very cleverly done, and she has not responded to this accusation at all, focusing only on Rob The Filch.

Here is the passage again for reference:

I re-read my role-PM and the only other piece of information is that I was given a last name. Do you think this matters at all guys?

Yes, it most definitely matters. If it didn't, it would have been included in your profile name. There has to be a reason why it is hidden.

Expanding on this, it seems any last names are tied to our roles. We are all called by our first name, nick name, or both. Any last name received would be interchangeable, and they were received specifically in a role-PM. Last names might yet play a part in this game. They might be used by a role or multiple roles, or they could be part of other gameplay at some point. Whatever it is, there's no need to start guessing. Unless someone has more information, they are no help to us, and should be ignored.

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To Know-Nothing Jon:

Lady Elizabeth

why sign up if you don't want to play by the rules?

I don't think you broke any rules, Lady Elizabeth. So the above just seems like an excuse to vote for you. Following the bard's lead. If it was just bandwagoning because there's nothing to go on anyway, then there was no need to make excuses.

Jon, why did you think Widow Edith was accusing Lady Elizabeth of breaking rules? I don't see it as that; I see her asking Elizabeth why she would want to play if she is not a fan of the masquarade rule to begin with.



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Re: Friar Andrew

Sir Percival, for being more influential than me.

How exactly is Muriel's post a wall of text? It's 2 paragraphs, and ~10 lines on my screen. Seems an entirely appropriate length for a mildly elaborate "hey idiots, stop analysing useless meta" post.

Lacking a surname here as well.

haha suck it fatty

sir percy v up in this shiz

Fair enough.

unvote

Friar, you let go there really easy.

[Young Will]

why wouldnt the friar let go? His vote was only a joke vote, based on influence. Further, he showed great humility backing down in the face of an insult. Very fitting of a Friar.

[Doctor Saul]

why wouldnt the friar let go? His vote was only a joke vote, based on influence. Further, he showed great humility backing down in the face of an insult. Very fitting of a Friar.

But why feel the need to unvote? If it is a joke vote and obviously one then what is the harm in leaving it until he finds something worth exploring further?

It is not my top suspicion but something I think is worth making a note of.

[Young Will]

ok, some thoughts now that I've reread.

Murial: I don't see any real effort to create paranoia here, or a real "wall of text." She is explaining her thoughts well. I'm not ready to lynch her yet.
I do find it funny and weird that people interpreted her post saying she knew she was innocence as proof she was scum
I'll keep an eye on her, but I don't see any reason to vote for her.

the person I am most suspicious of is [color=red]widow edith[/red]. she attacked courage for his initial post. that post gives a slight innocent lean, o maybe a null tell, but certainly not a scum tell. after Jon and the barb jumped on her she shut up and let murial and others draw fire. it seems to me she was trying to see if a mislynch of courage was possible, then disappeared once the possibility of that dissipated.

im also watching no-nothing jon intently, and Rob.

Can someone explain the case (if there is one) on simple anne and friar andrew to me?

[Young Will]

why wouldnt the friar let go? His vote was only a joke vote, based on influence. Further, he showed great humility backing down in the face of an insult. Very fitting of a Friar.

But why feel the need to unvote? If it is a joke vote and obviously one then what is the harm in leaving it until he finds something worth exploring further?

It is not my top suspicion but something I think is worth making a note of.

I don't know why he would unvote. maybe because its hard to really suspect anyone this early in the game?

I found the "Fair enough" comment quite funny.

[Muriel The Slow]

I speculated that the last names might play a part in this game, and we should shut the fuck up about them for the time being else we risk screwing up. Isn't that exactly what you say you wanted to happen, Saul? Why do you feel it is some kind of a trap by wolf-Muriel? Shouldn't wolf-Muriel rather shut up and let all the villagers reveal their secret role-PM information rather than stop them from doing it?