WW26: The Masquerade [Game Thread]

[Muriel The Slow]

The three of us turning into a voting bloc?
Never would have saw that coming

While I'm happy that Rob is starting to post about others than Muriel, I'm not switching off of him before he gives his own reasons for being suspicious of someone else.

[Rob The Filch]

The three of us turning into a voting bloc?
Never would have saw that coming

Well I'll go ahead and set the second stick in motion, Sister Mary, but who knows if she'll be back to make a statement. (Though if she's a wolf she may have said that simply to have an excuse not to be around when the Muriel wagon rolled into the gallows.)

[Rob The Filch]

The three of us turning into a voting bloc?
Never would have saw that coming

While I'm happy that Rob is starting to post about others than Muriel, I'm not switching off of him before he gives his own reasons for being suspicious of someone else.

X-Posted with this. Let me elaborate then. Muriel you posted about Sister Mary's surprising trunaround and disappearance. I will add to that.

Sorry, hectic weekend on this end. Should be online he next hours to contribute in some semblance of a meaningful way.

Firstly, on Courage, though I really disliked his first post, for not being precisely in the spirit of the game, I read all his interventions as villagery. His irritation towards me is more than fair, so there's that. Again, sorry. Personal preferences aside. That being said, many of his contributions have been towards the reworking of his "persona" in his first post. Agree with sir Percy, the meta does not clear him.

I agree with Agnes' reasoning towards the number of scum, considering too the promises made by the narrator.

On Muriel versus the world. I fail to see the substance behind the arguments. Rob's initial attack has been justified by the perception of a "wall of text" consiting of two parragraphs. If the initial vote was some sort of joke vote, he wouldn't have pushed the case further. Though I agree with Sir Percy's assesment on Courage, his stance on Muriel eludes me.

My suspicions lean towards Rob the Filch. True, this is day one and in the week end, so not much to begin with, and the new acconts slow the meta arguments based on past performances. I find his attack suspicious, arguing absent reasoning. If he was just to gauge reactions, his persistance makes liitle sense, other, if, you know, scum.

@Courage, I know this does not make up for the absence of this sweet little nun, but, we are her now, ready to rumble!

This post is a wolf checklist. Mary is running down all the things she needs to repond to in order. The use of abbreviated paragraphs and breaks in between short and not very substantial points or responses is pretty clearly a way to expand and organize the checklist. I don't see anything here of real substance. In fact most points are wishywashy, could be this could be that statements.

Shortly after that:

i didnt really say this but i agree with it anyway (i was talking about how a scum can accurately guess whether it is a two or three faction game based off the number of fellows they have).

Sorry, I mispoke. I was trying to add towards your original argument.

@The Narrator: Thanks for the tally.

@Sir Percy: Why do you suspect Muriel? The doctor's the Short Richard's votes came into play when it made sense to make pressure and Old Tom has just explained it.

I would leave Simple Anne to be modkilled if she doesn't show up. In the meantime, @Agnes & Edith: who do you suspect?

Similar pattern of trying to respond and not really adding anything of substance. Including thanking the Narrator! I just don't see anything here except someone trying to tread water and not be noticed.

[Short Richard]

Can you elaborate on your case on Sir Percival please?

It was more of a 'policy lynch the incoherent' thing. I don't read him as confrontational, but I can't get a read better than 'hates meta and talks strangely.'

I would also like to hear Sister Mary's response.

[Bert The Bard]

Nice catch Muriel, that flip flop from Mary is pretty bad.

Sister Mary

[Short Richard]

Perci is for me dubious because of his offensive style he uses towards everyone not a poor widow. It is an act and given past experience acting rather helps scum. The dialog between Perci and the friar is so weird that it gives me uneasy feelings. And it was IMO unique. Example Muriel and the Doctor had a discussion and came to the conclusion they are both villagers. Me and Will have a discussion and think each other rather scummy. But Perci and the Friar had no discussion at all. It went - A: you scum; P: FO; A: you village - . That's as unhelpful as it gets. And while it rather indicates the Friar it is possible that it was an act in case one of them gets caught

The afterforementioned conversation:

Sir Percival, for being more influential than me.

haha suck it fatty

Fair enough.

unvote

Strange that you read it as more than random first-day banter.

[The Narrator]

Current votes:
4- Muriel the Slow: Old Tom, Sir Percival, Half-Nose Harry, Sister Mary
4- Sister Mary: Doctor Saul, Rob the Filch, Short Richard, Bert the Bard
2- Friar Andrew: Scarlet John, Know-Nothing Jon
2- Know-Nothing Jon: Kate the Waif, Agnes the Orphan
2- Old Tom: Lady Elizabeth, Fat Rose
1- Short Richard: Widow Edith
1- Rob the Filch: Muriel the Slow
1- Lady Elizabeth: Easy Sarah
1- Widow Edith: Young Will


Not voting: Simple Anne, Friar Andrew

Please let me know if I've missed any.

Edit: 5.5 hours til deadline

[Sir Percival]

muriel, either ur scum or u have role. convince me ur role is bad lynch.

Why don't you just drop OOC permanently? It's easier to communicate if we don't put up artificial restrictions as additional barriers, and this game does revolve around communication. I would think it might be more enjoyable for you too if you could speak unhindered.

Just a suggestion.

having fun playing character. dont want to drop it.

Two players stood out on my re-read, excluding the cases that have already been made. First of those was Sir Percival. I have no problem with people roleplaying in this game. If there's ever a proper time for a villager to RP, this would be it. It's the lack of good content that I find troubling. His reason for voting Courage was that Courage had a split personality. That sounds like a joke vote at first, but he insists on it, even going as far as saying that we've thrown the game if we don't lynch Courage today. He is so convinced that Courage is a wolf, then he... votes for Muriel? The reason he gave was that Muriel was the one who originally came up with the argument that gives Courage a village lean. Let's assume that Percival was a villager. He fully believes that he has caught a wolf in Courage. Now, what would make sense: voting for the wolf (Courage), or voting for one the many people who happened to think that Courage was not a wolf? I would vote 100 times out of 100 times for the wolf, especially when there was still plenty of time for the wolf to gain more votes and get lynched. The way Percival is playing makes no sense to me if he is a villager, and not because of his posting style.

throwing the game was a quip regarding the insistence of using meta based arguments to clear lady liz. not a justification for lynching lady liz. u were the biggest example of clearing liz on bad meta. hence the vote.

argument against lady liz was not sure thing. portraying confidence in arguments important. change vote came from belief in better argument.

[Short Richard]

Looks like my laptop charger's dead

[Sir Percival]

not thrilled by case on mary. sound like convenient case to target she who cannot defend herself