WW26: The Masquerade [Game Thread]

[Bert The Bard]

Well, John has not defened himself so I feel the most move is to kill him using my ability. I have to move in the first 24-hours. And I feel that I have a good chance of getting killed. I also feel that there's a good chance of me getting night-killed now. I would post longer but I don't have time. I'm just checking in right before deadline.

I wouldn't waste a vig kill on him.. I think there is a high chance that he will be lynched today if he doesn't get himself mod-killed.
You should just target whoever you think has the highest odds of being a wolf.

Vigkilling someone who is very likely to be lynched is ok regardless of alignment, since it frees up a new lynch for the village. I'm not sure Scarlet John is that likely to be lynched though.

Now that you've claimed, I would indeed think you're a likely night kill, so using your ability today might be best regardless. I'm not sure who to recommend as your target though.

[Bert The Bard]

Maybe you should vig Sister Mary (or maybe we should lynch her). If she's scum that will provide a lot of info, practically clearing Muriel, which in turn provides further info.

[Bert The Bard]

Oh and I guess I should add, don't vig Young Will, he's town.

[Know-Nothing Jon]

Well, I'm not convinced, but I'll vote for Sister Mary anyway.

It's tempting to classify her as noobtown instead of noobscum, but that's where I went wrong with Easy Sarah yesterday. I feel similarly about Kate The Waif.

For both of them, their progression from not suspecting Muriel to suspecting her strikes me as a little unnatural; for me, Muriel's posts had a certain tone from the outset, that could easily be seen as scummy, and it seems like most people decided pretty early on whether or not that tone actually meant she was scum. I'm not saying it's a virtue to decide that based on a first impression and never look back, but it's how most people tend to work, fundamentally. (The rest is mostly rationalization.)

I would also consider following Bert on Short Richard but I haven't yet looked closely at his case.

Saul is still at the back of my mind, but I'll keep him there for now.

[Know-Nothing Jon]

Cross-posted with Bert's three posts.

[The Narrator]

The lady suddenly screamed out "Enough is enough! I will not let my suspect go while you blather back and forth you buffoons!

Lady Elizabeth is now dueling Scarlet John.

Duel rules

- A second vote will be created in addition to the normal lynch vote which anyone can vote on, but the only valid votes for the second vote are the two duel opponents. Lady Elizabeth wins in the event of a tie. Neither opponent will be valid targets for the regular lynch.

- The loser of the duel is killed at the end of the day.

Cast duel votes in green and regular votes in the usual red. All votes for either player on the regular lynch are now nullified.


I'm going to go ahead and make a vote count now as well.

[Bert The Bard]

Sigh... I would have preferred a duel with Sister Mary.

Scarlet John
Short Richard until he delurks.

[Bert The Bard]

Maybe you should vig Sister Mary (or maybe we should lynch her). If she's scum that will provide a lot of info, practically clearing Muriel, which in turn provides further info.

This was rushed out without reading Fat Rose's case on Sister Mary.* I like the case. I disagree on post 6 though:

I find that post insofar interesting in that Sister Mary claims that last names must be a null tell (fine with that) but at the same time she asks Muriel to explain which connection she suspects between existence/absence of last names and roles. Um, that's again one of those posts that make no sense for me. If you disregard last names as null tell, why make it a topic yet again?

I read that as "my analysis tells me last names must be null tells, how can you claim otherwise, Muriel?"

* I'm aware that the case builds on existing cases.

[The Narrator]

Main Vote:
2- Muriel the Slow: Sir Percival, Rob the Filch
2- Sister Mary: Doctor Saul, Know-Nothing John
1- Sir Percival: Lady Elizabeth
1- Kate the Waif: Half-Nose Harry
1- Young Will: Widow Edith
1- Short Richard: Bert the Bard

Duel Vote:
1- Scarlet John: Bert the Bard

26 hours til deadline

[Bert The Bard]

- The loser of the duel is killed at the end of the day.

Cast duel votes in green

Wait, we vote for the person we want to die, right?