Time to get educational, it's Literally Villains Mafia!

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EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Twirls moustache

# ¿ Jan 28, 2024 21:44

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# ¿ May 20, 2025 20:09

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

wologar posted:

I don't know what were Clo and Crab thinking, but my role says I must find the biggest dick. What kind of books are y'all reading??

Sandwolf posted:

Wow, Eat Pray Love softclaim

Lol ... Is the villain in Eat Pray Love carbs, God, or the feeling of crushing loneliness?

# ¿ Feb 9, 2024 23:00

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

CirclMastr posted:

I don't know why I read mafia threads when I first wake up, I didn't retain anything of those 50ish new posts.

Exactly this

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 15:31

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

CubicalSucrose posted:

I haven't read anything except my role PM.

I am a 3P doctor and I am not allowed to divulge my wincon. Please don't kill me.

Lol at this

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 15:45

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

I miss Brazil already. At least I'm town.

I believe you! There's nary a fart or programming post in sight

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 15:46

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

CubicalSucrose posted:

Okay what the gently caress are people legit flavorclaiming?

I'm an ELO song. And I'm not really a villain. I'm just misunderstood

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 15:48

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

wologar posted:

are scum heroes in disguise

Every villain is the hero of their own story

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 16:59

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

CubicalSucrose posted:

I feel like there should be a ton of clear counterexamples to this but none are coming to mind immediately. Also before I forget, very early heads-up but I'm probably going to be in your area in early May and want to do like all the escape rooms.

Yesssss. I'm telling PMuzz. We'll try not to overwhelm you with our excitement

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 18:28

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Rhymes With Clue posted:

Let's pretend I read the thread before I posted that and did not just copy EGalz

Pretending commencing :wink:

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 18:29

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

wologar posted:

What can you expect from these American mods?

Villainously provoking the mods... Probably town

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 19:22

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Zoya posted:

hey, me too! oh wait we're talking about our roles uhhhh

Yes, good. The joke was yours to make, and I definitely didn't think about making it at all

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 19:34

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

wologar posted:

Do they have soft "boing" sounds to represent the pop ups?

That. And the narrator *gasps* or "Whoooaas" to appropriately convey the varying levels of 3-D

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 19:51

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

PlasticAutomaton posted:

Toal hasn't even posted yet, where are you all getting vibes on her from?

Voting often works as a summons ##vote toalpaz

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 22:58

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Rhymes With Clue posted:

Of course it is also possible that any potential BH could be after players instead of flavor. Also possible that I'm going down the wrong trail entirelyl here.

I don't think I get what this means. I don't know if it matters that I get it, but if you feel like it's safe to explain, I wouldn't mind

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 03:38

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Rhymes With Clue posted:

Also good shooting, whoever got Cube (Iggy?)

Johnny Keats posted:
So Cube if you were scum who would you nightkill?

CubicalSucrose posted:
Iggy, next question.

Probably Iggy, yeah. Mutually assured destruction

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 03:39

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Rogue AI Goddess posted:

The dead scum dabbled in paranatural necromancy, and the dead turncoat practiced alchemical shapeshifting. Meanwhile, the executed non-murderer was from a purely materialist political history work. Therefore, the greatest predictor we have so far is having a SFF/horror work for one's villainous origin.

With that in mind, I am looking out for a Dracula in our midst.

*bites into a garlic bulb while maintaining eye contact*

I either really love Rogue, or I'm really scared of Rogue. Jury's still out on which

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 03:40

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

PlasticAutomaton posted:

I feel like Spork's tangent is completely pointless at best right now and does not help with anything involving actual scum hunting.

Unless he is haunted by Cube's ghost. In which case, he (and his research) are spectral scum

PlasticAutomaton posted:

Also you do realize that Meen (Jekyll/Hyde) was TOWN right.

Half of him was. He got off a good shot, and I'm hopeful he would have holstered if he wasn't confident, but... complicated indeed

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 03:40

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Rhymes With Clue posted:

It's gonna depend on context for me. I was against them for a bit, but then I realized that a D1 turbo does in fact give more information than if we simply executed a townie, as usually happens D1.

The result in this case reinforces my theory: if the turbo gets close and fails, the player in question was scum; if it succeeds, they were town. I know, this is kind of like the witch test. But it does give info. Like that hammer looked like a scumhammer to me.

I could definitely see a scum hammer on Toal

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 03:41

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Zoya posted:

because the mod loudly announced that i visited keats and i didn't mean to visit keats

Are you loud again, Zoya? Or is the redirector loud? Or is Keats loud? Why is everyone yelling?

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 03:41

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Could someone tell me about Circl? Do their posts always sit kind of funny in one's brain?

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 03:43

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Rhymes With Clue posted:

Okay, if there is a Bounty Hunter in the game, that player is usually after specific flavor, such as, hmm, in the Alaskan Cruise game there were two and they were after the navigator and two (I think?) other crew members to achieve their wincon. They didn't have to kill those players, those players just had to be dead. In other cases the BHs were after named characters. It depends on the moderator, and we don't really see BHs all that often. This is why I suggest not claiming or hinting strongly at your flavor. But if there is a BH, and I don't know that there is, it could just as easily be something like "You win when EGalz and Sandwolf are dead." FOr instance._{for legal purposes these names were selected at random}

Gotcha. I was familiar with the flavor/role BH. I just havent seen, or really thought, player specific targets were a thing. That part felt off

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 04:59

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

wologar posted:

Did I grow a sandwolf on my face?

You might want to get that checked out

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 12:40

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Your Personal Muse posted:

wrong

My circl vote is right on the money

EGalz18 posted:

Could someone tell me about Circl? Do their posts always sit kind of funny in one's brain?

Tell me why? I think I agree with you, but Circl and I are still in the getting you know you phase

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 12:43

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Rogue AI Goddess posted:

I had high expectations going into this, yet many of them brought me nothing but disappointment. We are still wandering around in the fog with nary a clue, and too many of us show no interest or ability to change that woeful state of things. If this was a book, this would be the time when I'd look up spoilers to see if it gets better at some point.

Yet all this despondency is dwarfed by the disappointment I feel towards one person in particular: Victor "False Advertisement And Queerbaiting" Hugo.

It turns out that, despite the name, Les Miserables is not a book about miserable lesbians! Rather, it's about some overzealous cop named Javert who unironically says "I am the law" and spends the entire plot chasing the same guy for stealing a loaf of bread (or something, I didn't read too deeply).

Anyway, now that my immersion is ruined forever, and given the earlier point about our clueless fog-wandering, I think it's a good moment to dispense with old flavorposting RP and bring some new information to the table:

1. My character is Javert from Les Miserables. Wikipedia describes him as "defined by his legalist tendencies and lack of empathy for criminals of all forms".

2. I am a Town-aligned tracker.

3. My extra gimmick, based on Javert's obsessive tendencies, is that I have to keep investigating the same person for multiple nights in a row.

4. Sandwolf did absolutely nothing on Night 1 and did so successfully. My attempt to determine this fact was also successful, and I will repeat it again tonight.

2 - 4 - 6 - Whoa - 1 way to play it, I suppose

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 15:55

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

CirclMastr posted:

I could claim or I could just do my thing.

##unvote

##vote YPM
##doublevote YPM

This just continues the combination of "Huh?" and "Yuck, why?" I get every time you post

Your Personal Muse posted:

OMGUS is a good thing right?

Not particularly ##vote circl

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 18:14

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Rogue AI Goddess posted:

The way I see it, if Sandwolf is scum and I'm effectively suppressing him, we're trading the actions of one of us for the actions of one of them, and there's more of us than them.

This isn't the worst reasoning. Unless Sand is a ninja. I don't think that's likely, but this thought process from Rogue feels genuinely townie

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 18:17

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Sandwolf posted:

What is this character from?

Musketeers

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 18:18

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Sandwolf posted:

So there’s an actual fictional villainous Cardinal Richelieu different from the one from history..?

Dumas had opinions about the historical one

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 19:09

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

PlasticAutomaton posted:

I'm just kinda back on the lurker theory because I have basically zero town reads at this point. Ya'll scummy as poo poo to me in different ways.

Both Zoya and Keats are acting weird even for them, and Zoya in particular seems to have no interest in solving this game.

I'm teetering back and forth on scum Circl, but voting him honestly feels like kicking a puppy. ...Which okay, yeah, that's pretty on brand for this game.

Spork was the head of that total waste of time that is the flavor search and I still have a bunch of questions about his claimed results.

This is just such a lazy post. There's plenty of townreads to be had. Some more subtle than others (which is probably for the best), but this just shouts someone who's not making an effort because they don't have to.

Also, while I don't know that there will ever be a good explanation for why Keats Keatses, there's a legit irl reason that she shared in thread for a light Zoya day today. A not great thing to jump on as scummy.

##vote plastic

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 20:59

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

PlasticAutomaton posted:

"You don't want to talk about flavor hunting therefore you are scum."

We have wasted the entire day on this insane tangent rather than looking back at day 1 or trying to analyze posts.

But here, let me just get this over with. I'm Ebenezer Scrooge, town Roleblocker. I keep people working overtime instead of their action, but my attempt to target RWC last night failed. Dunno why.

Why did you target RWC?

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 21:05

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

CapitalistPig posted:

I copped RWC last night.

Not Scum result.

Good Get on Keats, CPig

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 21:39

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Sandwolf posted:

N1 5 actions didn’t resolve as planned
N2 10 actions resolved successfully
N3 3 actions didn’t resolve as planned

This seems like a fun ability

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 21:41

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Sandwolf posted:

👀

wologar posted:

##vote Egalz

Why with your eyeballs and your vote? Yesterday happened really fast in the middle of a work day. It was good copping

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 21:44

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

wologar posted:

It was, but this could be good coping.

I'm never good at coping when playing mafia. Just a big ole ball of anxiety one hundred percent of the time

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 21:56

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

CapitalistPig posted:

So the reason i copped RWC is because he was one of the two visits on YPM the previous night.

Since there was no kill I truly think the other player that visited ypm that night is a good vote.

That player was egalz.

##vote egalz

Why did you cop RWC instead of me?

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 22:06

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Also, I visited YPM in a protective capacity. And I'm still here, so I have reason to believe YPM wasn't the NK target N2

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 22:08

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Rogue AI Goddess posted:

##vote Egalz

The law does not make mistakes.

But the law can jump to conclusions

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 22:10

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

CapitalistPig posted:

I'd like to maybe give this some time to have some discussion.

So egalz, you are claiming to be a protective role that visited ypm on night 2?

Yeah. My ability let's me either self protect (not on consecutive nights) or bodyguard after a fashion. If I choose to protect someone else, the NK gets redirected to me. If I self protect and am the NK target, it gets redirected onto someone else. So... I wasn't the NK target last night

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 22:15

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Sandwolf posted:

:|

It wasn't an ability I expected to be attached to this character, but I guess it tracks with the source. I haven't read the book I'm from

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 22:17

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# ¿ May 20, 2025 20:09

EGalz18: Aug 5, 2023; I LOVE WORDS. THAT'S ALL.

Sandwolf posted:

Doesn’t that just state that you didn’t actually prevent the NK last night

No. If I was the target last night, the NK would have bounced off my self protect, and someone else would have ended up dead

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 22:22

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