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++Macaclure
Sorry for the earlish vote, not sure what the rest of the night holds and wanted to make sure I get it in. He is the one that seems a bit off to me. I don't recall any previous encounters with him so my perspective is as unbiased as it can be but something in a number of the posts felt off, not the statistics though ![]() Hey, look I did the whole red highlight thing right!
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I wish to cast the first stone (not that it would matter, since I've already voted for myself).
I am suspicious of Mac's pooh-poohing (is that a word? It is now!) phantom's plan of transferring information from the Dead to the Living without suggesting an alternative or even a modification to the original. While I've repeatedly stated that our two Wolf Packs would like to gain the same information as we have, in the end, the information matters far less to them than they do to us. In the absence of anything concrete, they'd just proceed with the business of killing everyone who isn't part of their Pack, which is a simpler plan than anything we as a village have right now. Also, I was mildly suspicious of someone as well (thought it was Firefoot (Hi! ![]() Also also, re Rune's 'plan' of 'lynching' Sepp Blatter, Nog's suggestion of lynching phantom would be the next best thing. ![]()
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Well I'm home and I just want to go to sleep.
As of now, I have no idea who I should vote, and I'd actually still like a tie->no lynch today (only today, not every day, I don't even know who first twisted it that way). Let me explain once again why.
If somebody would like to explain the actual benefits of lynching somebody today, I'm more than willing to reconsider, but as I see it, we're trying to apply old rules to a new concept.
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Just so we're clear, I was only in favour of no lynch today--even with the odds of a successful lynch being no better on subsequent days, I see those as a different situation entirely, since we have different evidence (that is, we HAVE evidence worth mentioning).
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In other news, there's an idea running that we shouldn't lynch today? I disagree. Our ability to remove wolves from the game is finite, and I don't think we ought to skip even one of our limited shots. Now to type up a more substantial post, now that I'm back at the computer.
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I'm a sentimental old so-and-so, and what I have always really hated about the first-day lynch nomination is that feeling of potentially spoiling someone's else's gaming fun on the very first day.. I'm glad for the Halls of Mandos option, in that respect as it does at least mean that all players can play on in some form or another....
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Seriously, unless we elect a living village spokesperson or something, there's no way of clearly communicating with the dead. The best we can do is probably use our knowledge of the personalities and the playing styles of the deceased and try to guess what those particular players would do, but that's a little risky. In short, we shouldn't make decisions based on how we can use the dead thread until we have found a way to do so, because it's possible we'll never find one. edit: xed with Lalaith and onwards
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Tentative list thus far...
Obviously innocent and awesome. the phantom Probably innocent and rather cool. Aganzir Boro Sally Nilp Hmmm... Innocent? Rune Nerwen Morm Form Eomer Not today. Maybe later. Green Rikae Mith McCaber Legate Shasta Lommy Kath Gwath Lalaith Up for lynching consideration. Nogrod Loslote Mac Firefoot
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I make lists because lists is what I make. Feeling solid enough, for now: Rikae, Firefoot, Nilp, Legate, Greenie Somewhere under the radar, way down low Sally, McCaber, Loslote, Lommy, Lalaith, Eomer, Shasta, Mith, Kath (so many ![]() Not sure what to do with Boro, Nogrod, Nerwen, phantom (That's four heavy hitters in there... not happy with the composition of this group.) Very slightly somewhat suspicious in a vaguely kinda-sorta way Aganzir - her reply (#69) to morm felt off to me. Rune - seems a bit more tense than necessary mormegil - I was originally going to put him under the radar, until I realized I was about to put morm under the radar. Can't be, especially since he did post a few times. MIA Gwathagor Last edited by Macalaure; 06-02-2015 at 04:44 PM. Reason: crossed with last two - and I forgot Form in there. I guess the fact that I forgot about him puts him under the radar, too :D |
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Form – if you wait for chances to get over 50-50 with lynching you’d need to give up lynching altogether: unless a seer reveals with some solid background knowledge on her/his status, every lynch is less than that.
I think I can see where you come from though (D1 chances are lowish), but trying to lynch people gives one the data one needs to make any inferences. So even if the chances aren’t near 50-50 (rather like 1/3 to 1/4 in practise) on Day1, just saying "let’s skip this Day" will give the wolves a free ride to do their mayhem and us others more or less clueless. Many Day1 lynches have been unfortunate for the villagers, but more often than not very useful when backtracking on who voted who and why - and even if we can't enjoy the results of those ponderings here in the Living Thread immediately or as such to begin with, the Dead can use them. Let's not focus solely on us living on this Day1 but also in the wider scale - the Dead can use a lot of info if we give it to them. If we do not vote or make excuses to make ties there is little to tell in comparison with a situation where someone is actually facing leaving this thread - a chance nastier for the wolves than for the ordos. Yes this game is a different beast as Agan reminded, but it is a different one also because the lynched and other dead will keep on playing - and in the end the game will be more or less decided - and is more interesting to play - in the Dead Thread (if it goes far enough). So I might just wish to stick into some gaming principles: do what you can to win and encourage others to play - that's the only way peolpe leave marks to be analysed - for the living or for the dead.
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Okay, now seriously kinda thinking about it.
What if we actually elected (toMorrow, as it's getting late toDay) a village spokesperson to direct the dead thread? Or come up with a system where people could volunteer to be the spokesperson and we'd rotate the turn between them? And everybody would pinky swear that when they're dead, they'd obey the village spokesperson? That way, we could get about ...80...? percent reliable information from the dead thread, if there isn't an obvious pitfall I didn't see. (Apart from that I don't know how we'd ever get everyone to participate in the spokesperson election and pledging to serve the living in the afterlife.) edit: xed with Mac and Nog
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Just as a note, I'm going to count Lal's vote since she has probably collapsed in bed.
But please, everyone, remember to highlight your votes. Some days I will only have time for a quick read and count before posting narrations to move the game along so it is very helpful to me if your votes stand out. Thanks.
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Lommy- as far as the village spokesperson thing, I'm willing to immediately jump on board the instant anyone offers an appropriate array of options to the Dead (allowing them to influence the outcome & pass information). Whoever lists sensible options is "the spokesperson" as far as I am concerned. But to list quality options we must first know where the lynch seems headed, meaning we can't be holding votes until the final hour so that we have time to provide the Dead with their choices and let them vote.
Basically if we vote in a timely fashion anyone around should be able to feel out a sensible offering to the Dead, and so long as there isn't a glaring problem with the options the Living can just put their stamp on the plan (thus making the consensus clear to the Dead).
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Exactly. And the Dead might not wish to be controlled either - they probably even have a better idea about what is going on than people in the living thread and will see the follies we here, or some of us, might think as wisdom.
So I'd be cautious of trying to make deals here on the living thread concerning what to do here based on ideas that the dead will follow rules we set to them - or rules suggested by some willing gamechangers.
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Whatever the odds, we won't know if we've killed a wolf or innocent today--nor will we know the identities of the victims toNight. So... does it make more sense to play the odds straight (and avoid lynching toDay) or to take the shotgun approach and kill everyone available and hope that when the dust clears we've killed more than they have? So, while I agree with Nog that backtrackings are valuable... do we have long enough to wait for them? My inclinations are leaning more than ever to lynching no one today, but I'm getting to the point of thinking I have nothing more than gut feeling to go by there.
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Am I just stating the obvious when I ask what happens if the village spokesman ends up being a wolf? What sort of fail-safes are there if we choose a wolf for such a role.
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Okay then the list:
The Good Rikae - so far so good, seems calm and collected which (sorry dear) Wolfkae often isn't Mac - well I think I'm usually fairly good at reading him and he seems ok atm Firefoot - somehow seems pretty good to me or whatsoever no specific reason morm - I actually think he might be innocent this time? Nilp - as I see it: self-voted because it was expected of him, since then has been very reasonable and seemingly genuinely trying to figure out what's good for the village Legate - seems more like his innocent self than not, would not bet large sums of money on it though The Bad Sally - under my radar, and in a manner that makes me think of sneaky Sallywolves of the past Agan - her little "slip" and he shameless advocation of no lynch make me raise my eyebrows to say the least The Ugly (err sorry I mean the in-between category Form - I disagree with his reasoning, but that has nothing to do with his role Gwath - where art thou? McCaber - insufficient data Lottie - acknowledging the fact my bad vibes are probably kneejerk, if they persist, I will have a better look at her Boro - ...he posted?? in an uncharacteristically unnoticeable manner, then! Nogrod - so far looking like his usual sinister self and making a lot of sense Nerwen - all I've got on her is "I hope she votes toDay" ![]() Rune - he seems a little... grumpy? nervous? negative? but then again isn't that why we love him Lalaith - no idea yet, just happy she's playing after a loooooooooong time *waves* Eomer - seems fairly fine for Eomer actually, haha, but not good enough to be in the good category Shasta - could be either way, as always the phantom - I actually think he looks pretty innocent at this point, but he can thank his reputation for me still keeping my eye on him Mith - innocentish vibes, slightly curiously started talking about the special role out of the blue (throwaway topic, even though that matters a lot less than in an ordinary game) Greenie - is a meanie, and very sharp, and I adore her, but I'm absolutely not trusting her Kath - goes to the "has hardly been here" category edit: xed with da phants and onwards
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Form- if a WW ends up being "spokesperson" I don't really care so long as his communication with the Dead is similar to what I would've put. I mean- it's not like he can just give harmful instructions, because we'll all see them and call BS and the Dead will witness it.
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At 2am my time I think it's beginning to be a time to wrap it up for my part for toDay.
First: the wolves are not too keen on passing to the realm of the dead. They will fight, at least a little, to not be lynched. An ordo would have no problems changing realms as the game will be quite intense and fun in the Dead Thread in a couple of days time. Second: the living can't control the thread of the dead and should not imagine they can. the dead are much wiser than the living so even an idea that looks pretty nice in the living thread might be folly seen from the POV of the dead. So let's not fall into hybris here that we know how to handle any forthcoming situations. Third: the dead thread will be confusing as well. With three possible deaths per day/night -cycle and them being able to check only one during the same interval there will be more unknowns than known people in there (as the Night-kills aren't automatically innocents). Fourth: if you want to talk of probabilities, the probability of the wolves just nicely killing each other is something like zero. So we should use our weapon which is lynching. And if we make a mistake (which we're bound to do) the people we lynch will still be on the dead thread and can play it from there - being able to try and catch the wolves with their possible knoweldge of the dead wolves. Fifth: enter all the visits to and fro between the realms, mystery-roles etc. aka. let's just hunt some wolves toDay and try to make more informed tactical decisions later when we have something better to base them on.
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The village spokesperson could be a for-the-DAY position, so that
a) we don't leave the Village in a single person's hand for too long; b) we can have an additional test re the Dead thread role-knowing thingy. That is, 'vote for Person X if NIGHT kill A was a Wolf, vote for Person Y if NIGHT kill B was a Wolf, vote for person Z if previous DAY's lynch was a Wolf, AND vote for person W if the current spokesperson is a Wolf. If neither are Wolves, vote for person N.'
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I have read through the thread and what I have mostly come away with is a vague feeling of horrible nostalgia for my dissertation results section from years back thanks to all these statistics. I am with Greenie, English please!
I am unconvinced about our ability to communicate with the Dead Thread at all. Indeed apart from those roles with the ability to come back and therefore report about what is going on in there, I can't see how we would get any information between the two threads. But I also hadn't realised what aganzir said about Dead Thread voting not starting til Night 3 anyway, which means the fewer people sent there the better really, excepting wolves. Therefore I am happy to throw my two pence in for this tied lynch toDay. Deadline is late on a school night so this is it for me. Am on mobile so can't check and see how the votes are going but Form volunteered for the position so: ++Formendacil Hoping that highlights ... EDIT: It worked. Also fixed an accidental capital letter.
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I like Rikae and phantom and won't be voting for either today. Greenie and Nog make sense but I'm slightly wary of them. Form makes me laugh. A little bit uneasy about Rune for no particular reason except I vaguely disagree with his stuff and am not impressed with calling Greenie annoying. Quote:
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I think the bigger problem remains that both the living and the dead should be happy with the spokesperson arrangement. The phantom suggested the dead should have leeway in the arrangement which theoretically would be good, but in practice I only see it as making the system (even more) unreliable. So the way I see it, either the (future) dead pledge themselves to drudgery and assisting the village, or then we will have rather unreliable information. Personally I prefer the first option out of the two, but a middle ground would of course be the most profitable (also because I'm a little worried the dead won't be motivated to participate if participating only means doing as you're told). I think we can keep talking about it toMorrow, though, and shouldn't get too sidetracked as we still need to vote toDay. (Not trying to start a discussion and kill it instantly, but rather speaking as an East European whose bedtime is past already...) edit: xed with everyone
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Ah yes, now I remember why I don't ignore the thread for several hours. O_O
I'm here, and I'm reading, but I have to go again in half an hour or so and will either vote by that time or not at all.
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Kath it was not a throw away topic just a reminder that it might be mistaken in thinking that we can stitch up the voting to avoid a tie. I didn't notice any other mention and while we can't get very far discussing something which has unknown properties it shouldn't there fore be ignored to the point it is forgotten.
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We're not trying to control the Dead thread, people. We're giving them a framework under which to give us the information they gain while the thread is still an academic exercise. I'm pretty sure (as Mac had also said) that the plans presented probably wouldn't survive first contact with a living, voting Dead villager. But at least we're letting them know of a way of giving us information without having to rely too heavily on the resurrecting Gifteds.
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As far as the dead thread goes, personally, I think the following;
- that we, as the living, should leave the running of the dead thread to the dead players - that we should, however, have some way of deriving information from the effects the dead thread can have on the living thread - that, honestly, I don't really know how the two above points can be reconciled. I can think of one primary hurdle that any plan to have the dead give us information with their extra vote every day will have to overcome - what if voting for the person the dead actually want to vote for will end up causing the living players to think erroneously, based on whatever plan is set up? For example, say the Seer is dead and has claimed Person X as innocent, and that Person Y is a wolf. In the Living thread, Person Z has voted for Person Y, but earlier, it was stated that if the dead give their extra vote to Person Z, it should signify that Person X is a wolf. I can't think of any real way to circumvent this problem at the moment, but it's definitely a real one (sort of like getting Manwe lynched after my death during my first run-through as Seer ![]()
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Home and trying to catch up I'm to this point...Being on the East Coast makes the timing on these quite different than when I was out West...anyway Yes, it was said in a joking way as I thought it sounded very funny. Her response I took as a bit of a joke too but her follow up reaction raises and eyebrow or two.
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As long as there are at least three players in each wagon, there will always be a way for the dead to opt out of phantom's plan: simply give the extra vote to someone who isn't on the list. For instance, let's say Nilp, Nog and I voted for Mac, while Mith, Agan and phantom voted for Lommy. We tell the dead "give phantom or Rikae the extra vote if Legate was guilty, give Nilp or Mith the extra vote if Legate was innocent" (and yes, I think we can coordinate enough to make such a message clear. Anyone muddying the waters will only look wolfish) If the dead know nothing about Legate, they can simply choose between Nog and Agan for the extra vote, depending on what they think of Mac and Lommy. Seems pretty flexible. Quote:
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I began reading what I cross-posted with and had an immediate reaction to this statement of Nogrod's:
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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It's way past 2 and I have work tomorrow.
I liked Nog's points in #141, but Shasta has a good point as well. Quote:
I'm only worried about wolves hijacking the information delivery system - even if it only happens once, the results may be severe. Anyway bedtime. ++Lommy She saw a straw and grasped at it. Her village spokesperson idea was decent but I'm partly kind of offended that she chose to question my intelligence by holding a joke against me and partly suspicious of her "ERMAHGERD SLIP!!!111 Did ya see a SLIP!!!111" approach which would probably feel forced to me even if it wasn't about me. I'm still in favour of the no-lynch, but I wouldn't mind seeing Lommy bite the dust.
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Flame of the Ainulindalë
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About the Dead.
The goodie-dead will try to make the village win - the evil-dead will try to help their wolfpack first and fight against the innocents in general (aka. possibly siding with their rivals if the situation is benefical for it). The dead will give an extra-vote to someone. Based on their knowledge and ratios between the good and the evil - and the knowledge they have on each other and therefore the trust they share or do not - they'll give it to someone based on their vote. So there are a lot of factors as to what ends up being their "decision". If the goodies rule there, then in the best case they'll most probably give the extra-vote to someone who they deem innocent and whose extra-vote would lynch a baddie they think or know is one - whatever the Living say or think they can require them to do - or what any "spokesperson" nominated by some villagers does. But then there are a hundred of "buts"...
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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2) I didn't suggest you intentionally said "hello I'm a wolf" (even though - now that you played the "why would a wolf say that" card I might reconsider...), I suggest you made a Freudian slip of sorts by accidentally revealing your wolvish perspective. And that has absolutely nothing to do with whether you fancy being a villain or not. 3) Well, you also cemented your - rather whimsically assigned; it was the typical Day1 level of reasoning - place on the top of my suspicion list by being so defensive. If you were innocent, you wouldn't be half as annoyed by me remarking on your wolvish perspective, and I suspect you're just enjoying your wolfing in this game with a nice pack and even the tiniest prospect that your enjoyment might be cut short both makes you fight back and gets on your nerves because you dislike being "busted" on something so trivial, especially if you indeed intentionally chose to comment on morm's joke from that angle and I was accusing you on the wrong grounds. ++Agan This is undoubtedly the best lead I have toDay. edit: xed with everyone after Sally
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Maundering Mage
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Texas
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It's interesting to me how much discussion has been around the dead thread and how little has been around who is looking suspicious. The thought of trying to control the dead thread from the living is somewhat absurd, really. I understand that there are many well thought out and reasoned discussions around this but the reality is there will be many unknown variables and situations that present themselves. Suffice it that the dead thread will be doing their best to influence their team to win and little what we say or ask will change their mind.
This whole day has been spent talking about the dead thread, and dang it, it now has me talking more about it. I think there is certainly wolfish influence in this. I actually don't suspect Tummy of it, even though he started the whole blasted conversation. He has a way of hijacking the first day to discuss his plans...really he tries to put in measures of control. I would think those who have helped continue the conversation are those who we should be looking at. I can't remember who mentioned Mith and her comments about the special role. This didn't strike me as odd. It seemed very much in line and a fairly appropriate topic of discussion albeit pure speculation on the role itself. That role has made me think though I imagine it is to help us as I think Kuru felt the balance might have been too much in the favor of the wolves at this point. But again, that's just my speculation. What it can do is beyond my reasoning to figure out. As far as suspicious: Mac (obviously, I did vote for him) Kath--Too little posting for my tastes and a long history Nog--He continued the dead thread discussion while seeming very reasonable and thoughtful about it. That was the behavior that made me nervous. A few others but I'll have to go back and review to pinpoint some detail.
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Maundering Mage
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Texas
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Ah yes, Agan is also behaving oddly to me.
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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I should probably just post a list of what I think about different people at the moment, but since I had already made notes (in fact making part of them during the afternoon while I was attending a roleplaying session and trying to kill a Quarut at the same time, and later on the bus home), I am going to just post them here, also for completion's sake. I still have to read through most of the last page properly, but should be back in a moment...
Aside from the "tie or not to tie" discussion and so on, of the moments that "stood out", the only weird thing about the Agan-Morm exchange to me was Greenie's reaction to it, "defensive" one: Quote:
As for my stance on the Day 1-tie idea, I am actually with what Nog and Greenie mentioned somewhere halfway page 3: the chance to lynch a Wolf are still good, the chance to lynch a Gifted considerably smaller, AND it will give us some info to start with, instead of zero info. We'll at least see whom different people voted, or whom they did not vote. I perfectly understand Form's objections against it and understand his sentiment, but I am personally against the "Day 1 are useless, boo!" (which fortunately didn't appear in this game, thanks to the activity of many) because it's only that attitude which actually makes them useless. And especially in this game, once again saying the same, so chaotic game, any piece of info helps. Because everyone can talk all they want about whether to have a tie or not, or about gardening, or about Kant, but your actions show what you truly are, not your words. Point. Quote:
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Post with what I actually think of people coming soon. EDIT: x-ed since about... somewhere around Kath's vote, and I didn't really even read all the posts around it properly yet, like I said. Gotta read everything here now.
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