So, I was browsing The Gaming Table forum a few days ago & I checked out the WW thread just to see what theme the game was running with. I had no intention of playing in another WW game, but I saw that Lewwyn only needed one more sign-up, so I decided to attempt an experiment.
Most of the RB WW games have had a couple prominent players whose thoughts are infamously misguided, incoherent, useless or outright stupid. Yet despite this, they tend to linger on for days and days, cluttering the thread with their nonsense. I decided to take this phenomenon to the extreme- I would be not only incoherent, but actively, aggressively worthless. I set the following rules for myself:
* I could only post in all-caps direct quotes of characters who were Taken in the Alan Wake game series. The Taken are zombiesque humans possessed by a malevolent Lovecraftian shadow presesnce, who scream garbled bits of nonsense at you while they attempt to cleave your head in.
* I had to have at least six hours between each of my posts, to avoid accusations of being a spammer as well as a troll. Plus I had a limited number of Taken sayings to work with, and I didn't want to use them up too quickly.
* I would not read the thread in any great detail. I mostly just used the search option to look for posts with "bob" and "taken", to see how players were reacting. I still have no idea what anyone was talking about for the first day
* I would use an RNG to determine all of my votes.
I planned to follow these rules regardless of what team I was on, or what powers Lewwyn granted me. Thankfully (I guess) I was just a vanilla villager.
I am a little surprised at how quickly I got lynched, to be honest. It should have quickly become clear to everyone that all they had to do was leave me alone & I wouldn't be any sort of malign influence upon the game. But apparently my madness was just intolerable I suspect that a high proportion of my lynchers are wolves- how could it benefit Team Village to go out of their way to dispose of a harmless lunatic? I was obviously presenting an enormous target on myself, it would have made much more sense for them to focus on more likely suspects (such as people piling easy votes on me), and then they could have tabled my lynch for later. Interesting result, regardless!
I figured I could justify "trolling" a game if I rolled wolf because I honestly assumed I'd be left alone for a while, although I could conversely give my packmates a safe target to place lynch votes on for cover. As a villager, my death should provide the village some good data regarding who jumped in on pointlessly lynching me, revealing antitown behavior. And regardless of what I ended up as, I had stated in the sign-up thread exactly how I intended to treat the game
Btw, I have no idea what Selrahc is thinking this game. This village is truly blessed to have so many fascinating personalities!
Thanks Bob! I was a bit surprised you got lynch Day 1 as well. I have some other thoughts about how your play effected the game, but IMO you didn't affect the balance of the game in a negative way. When the game is over I'll probably post a bit more of a spoiler about it. Technically the villagers were right that you could have been anything and still played the same way so there was justification in lynching you.
“The wind went mute and the trees in the forest stood still. It was time for the last tale.”
Sorry Molach! You seemed like you were going to be a most dangerous opponent.
I came up with the Molach kill all on my own - my partners had nothing to do with it... so if it was the "stupidest ever", so be it.
of course hindsight being 20/20 - if I knew that there was the possibility of being a silver blooded villager out there, I should not have risked it. Kind of like going all-in in a tournament poker game - sometimes the benefits of still being alive outweigh the benefits of logically correct play. Therefore, I should have killed some I definitely suspected as wolf. I just felt like the wolfs we had in mind were too risky based on their activity and voiced suspicions.
Molach wasnt doing *anything* suspicious either - so I figured he would be a poor day lynch candidate.
In the event he did roll wolf, i was going to try to pair Bigger with him - i think it would have worked (if anyone would have taken me seriously in this game (i doubt it) )
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Best dating advice on RB: When you can't hide your unit, go in fast and hard. -- Sullla
For anyone playing along at home, the encoded message for night 1 was:
Selrahc's log: Night one. Our continuing mission, to find wolves and wolf sympathizers.
First dear reader, let me level with you. I am a seer. The purpose of this gameplan was to place the seer logs in full sight, so that once I die the thread can put some effort in to decode these logs and find my answers. For that reason I've tried to make the code tricky, but not too tricky. I don't want the wolves breaking it early, but I don't want the villagers to find it impossible.
Who am I going to scry? I think I'm going to go for somebody who will likely still be alive in a few days. I think I'll be scanning "the stick."
I was also kind of trolling. In the sense that I was hoping to get certain types of reactions, which is the initial definition of trolling. I threw out some bait, and trolled it out to pick up the fishies. Certain behaviours are bad for wolves, but also kind of instinctual. Distancing yourself from a potential lynch. Kicking in suspicion for the future. I think my initial posting and Bobs play threw up quite a few of those type of response patterns. But I also think that the thread has picked up on them pretty well. With multiple wolf packs, this ultimately becomes less reliable though. Ho hum.
Rowain is faking being aggrieved. Pretty sure. He's reacting to things in very harsh terms, and that feels wolfish to me. The other players who have reacted in similarly stark terms have been new, so it feels less gamish. Rowains feels faked, to me.
At this point, I don't like Scooter one bit. He is feeling pretty controlling and I don't like his being mayor.
Who feels innocent? Zakalwe. Sareln. Not much to go on yet though.
Obviously lying heavily in the coded speech. I think the logic chain to me being a seer was pretty solid, and that was a big part of why I ran the play. It was heavily based around getting the wolves to wrongfully kill me. The fairly intense disagreement on that subject that came in the thread motivated a gameplan shift, over to posting code. I wanted the codes to be easy enough to break that the wolves would be able to break them, see my "seer claim" and kill me. That's why I mentioned the skip code I used fairly explicitly in thread! The Bob exchange was an excuse to give a code break hint.
I'm genuinely very curious on if the wolves actually did break the code, or if they just followed my original logic that this would be a decent move for a power role. Hope they've commented on their motivations!
I suspect that a high proportion of my lynchers are wolves- how could it benefit Team Village to go out of their way to dispose of a harmless lunatic? I was obviously presenting an enormous target on myself, it would have made much more sense for them to focus on more likely suspects (such as people piling easy votes on me), and then they could have tabled my lynch for later. Interesting result, regardless! 
I was just thinking about the wolf death for a moment there.
