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shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

great premise, i'm in

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shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

do we get to know the size of the scumteams in advance?

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

Johnny Keats posted:

May I ask how the draft is to be performed in a way that the team captains are unaware of who has been chosen for the other scum team (and can make no inferences about it??)

very good question

if i'm captain and i pick Keats, Cube, Maer, Shark, Sand for example

And my team ends up being me, Cube, Maer, Sand

Then i can kinda assume keats and shark ended up on the other team

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

one way to do it would be each scum captain picks from within a group of 8 players (other than themselves)

but then they know the whole other scum team is within the other half. not THAT useful to them? not sure

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

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shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

AnonymousNarcotics posted:

I'm not reading that

Only a scum captain would have any reason to post this, jottem

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

CubicalSucrose posted:

I think it might be a fun exercise for everyone to presubmit who they would attempt to draft, if they were a scum captain.

I'll start:
1) NeverHelm
1b) Keats
2) The player currently known as Death Cob for Cutie
3) Clo probably
4) ANarc
5) Hambeet

I'll stop there I guess.

who captain

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

Cloacamazing! left the diamond and went back to the parking lot. As she reached the corner where her car was parked, she briskly looked back towards the diamond and, probably less smoothly than she thought, scanned the rest of the lot for any sign of movement.

"Alright. The nightly news is primed, the trough of the public ready for mindless consumption," she whispered

A silhouette emerged slowly from behind the car and spoke with a voice modulated to sound like an autotuned Ed Murrow phonograph.

"A fake contest between the Maerry Lynns and the Sporkin Forks? That sounds made up, but I suppose I picked you for your made up journalism degree. I just got a hot tip that can't wait: the real scum captains are Neverhelm and Zoya. Encode that in whatever nonsense passes for sports journalism today. Also I got a tip from higher up: the team is going to be called the Scum Sluggers"

[misty fade-out transition while yakkety saks plays]

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

captains should dox themselves

the ol preemptive self bus strategy. almost guaranteed to bring you to victory

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

Zoya posted:

this is a scum captain post

This is a scum captain post

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

Classic scum captain claim

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

oh captain scum captain

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

Cloacamazing! posted:

You can't play for both teams, ANarc!

...

Wait, that sounded weird. Why is there a complete overlap between baseball metaphors and sex metaphors anyway? Is it because of baseball bats?

Baseball birds, baseball bees, baseball bats, the three genders

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

I was just recruited to a scum faction by humalong, this is a scumalong game just as I predicted

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

hambeet posted:

I always joke scum claim when scum, and I’m surprised no one has picked up on it yet.

So I’m onto you shwinne

Hambeet’s mystical meditative practice has collapsed the distinction between his self and other beings, to beet what beet does is what all of the universe too does

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

[quote="wologar" post="538362880"]
I'm voting a scum captain: ##vote ANarc
[/quote

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

saladscooper posted:

Anyway there’s no way neither of the captains picked Keats ##vote Keats

Oh this is a pretty good point

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

PlasticAutomaton posted:

So our day vig just eliminated our night vig. That's mafia!

“Our” is working overtime in this post

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

Tea Party Crasher posted:

Do we think 18 players is enough to explain town having both a day vig and someone who can night kill? It seems unlikely to me

Could be. I’m always down to kill Keats d1 and I am especially down this game

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

wologar posted:

Bussing vote.



wologar is town and his reads are good

death cob is scum imo but i don't think TPC is really

i'll probably vote someone voting TPC

but i also think ANarc is legitimately a scum captain for how they responded to my D0 jokephase post.

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

death cob for cutie posted:

seems plausible to me ##vote TPC

This is a fake vote. It feels fake. Not sure how to explain it any better than that.

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

Zoya is actually on my list of “cannot imagine no scum captains picking” folks

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

If we cannot agree on anarc or cob I would vote zoya and I bet she’s gotta be scum

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

GulagDolls is a player in this game

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

And this is a setup where it makes no sense to eliminate a lurker d1

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

Omgus vibes but I think salad is scum

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

GulagDolls posted:

is shwinnebego a namechange. I don't recognize this person. I'm not sure if they even meant anything besides pointing out I'm in the game lol

Well I don’t recognize you either! (No this has been my name throughout my time playing this forum mafia game here)

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

Cloacamazing! posted:

He's also known as shwiffles if that helps. It's a Jekyll and Hyde situation, except they're both scummy.

this evil seal's got a lotta nerve callin ME scummy!

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

If I was a captain I think I would have picked clo, zoya, beet

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

oh yeah shark woulda been a good pick too

eh, lotsa good picks

hard to speculate, maybe this is a dumb way to think about it

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

wologar posted:

Deadline is in two days, btw.

What do you think of salad

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

the way to build a robust, welcoming, and durable internet mafia community is to vote people out day one after they return from a multi-year hiatus ##vote gulag

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

sharkmafia posted:

it's a perfect strike, immune to all sophistry. terrifying

you can't fool me, NPR book jacket review

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

sharkmafia posted:

i appreciate it, but i say that kind of poo poo all the time day 1. it's not really an alignment tell

also i agree that its very funny to just immediately shoot somebody and that's an important consideration too

gogo gadget self-meta (unfortunately i actually agree with shark on this)

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

##vote cob

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

Ready to move this along

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

saladscooper posted:

we have over a day, why so hasty?

day boring

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

AnonymousNarcotics posted:

I think wolo is scum but it's just *vibes*

funny, because in fact wolo is town and you are scum

shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

saladscooper posted:

this is the towniest post you've made all game

salad is scum in this game, i'm increasingly certain

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shwinnebego
Jul 11, 2002

##vote salad

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