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Im prolly gonna update the op with NA’s in the AM. My brain is in desperate need of a martini  therapy intervention after this afternoon’s work “emergency”. Which is why I favor piracy. 

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  On 6/4/2025 at 11:03 PM, dicetosser1 said:

 

 

Shad.

 

trust me  he blows up EPICALLY when I cop him n1 and hes scum lol

 

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This happened to me the first time I played in a champs game on MU too lol


My wolf game dodges votes pretty effectively but is a total cop magnet.

Posted
  On 6/4/2025 at 11:33 PM, Tephulis said:

I still cant believe we got the coroner on N0

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That actually made the game more fun I think.

 

Not something I would want on a remotely regular basis or in a remotely normal game but

 

Given the abundance of mechanical information at our fingertips, it was kind of cool to never have absolute certainty.

Posted

Do I go back and pick through the wreckage to see just how badly I cost mafia the game?

 

I've said it before - unexpected work and a busy life and the very poorly timed DM issues meant I was no chance of contributing in any meaningful way, but by the time that was apparent, dropping out or being replaced wouldn't have been worth the time. I would not have accepted the invite had I known the workload I was under was about to blow up. I can only apologise for derailing any ability for the game to resolve uh... Naturally I guess. When I finally got back on and posted I didn't even see that entire Turin play. Just a mess.

 

I think my mafia career ends here, but I appreciate the chance to try again. Thanks folks. 

Posted

I think you contributed way above and beyond the minimum requirements mate.  Didn't even cross my mind that you were like, insufficiently active or anything.  Timezones gonna happen.  No one's expected to post 100 times in a game around here.  I think you were fine.

Posted

This was the letter Peace was supposed to send to Berf in the night. A shame DM was being difficult. It was before Peace decided Darthe  would be the NK.

 

LYCAN BROTHERS ACQUISITIONS 

a subsidiary of

DRUNKEN PIRATE INC.

 

Mr. @ Berf, 

 

Congratulations on becoming the successful candidate in our job search. Although you failed to attend your final interview, all the other candidates have mysteriously vanished without a trace. We have assumed this was your doing and are duly impressed. 

Upon your acceptance of our offer you are instructed to utilise the enclosed firearm to eliminate a thorn in the company's side. One Darthe. This task is to be completed at first light as we have a busy schedule tomorrow. This is your primary function. Afterwards, make yourself available to assist as required.  We have faith you will understand your secondary mission.

Again, congratulations on your success here. This is a time where fast growth is possible due to recent losses in our senior management. Looking forward to you joining our family. 

 

Kindly,

 

Warren Buyington 

 

Certainly not Peacesells, lol

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Posted

Thanks for the game everyone 🙂 It was interesting, lol.

 

I think I'll be announcing my permanent retirement from mafia though. This was again fairly brutal for me. At least Town won this time, well done guys, though it had little to do with me. I felt to an extent that I had a good feel for what was going on, except for Ed he really threw me, but I guess getting shot will do that for you, lol. But Turin's "I wrote down random things" case, Dice's gotcha for not being emo enough (which he left up unexplained so skimmers, especially wolf skimmers could latch onto my "slip") and then zombie Darthe's "this is a wolf" declaration (which I am to understand was a ploy so the wolves would think you weren't on to them?) completely wrecked my standing in the thread and I will be honest left me absolutely livid. I was really angry. I am a really chill guy in real life but mafia just needles me in ways I don't have any defenses against. By the end I was consumed with paranoia. Why was Ithi working with Darthe? How did the Siren know Dice was going to interact with them? Why did Gud so overreact at a lighthearted joke? Every single player seemed completely untrustworthy. I would have been zero help had the endgame actually ended up needing any reads.

 

I've noticed that some people seem to think my trigger is being told I'm not any good (presumably from my "stop hating on new players" spiel) but honestly I don't care at all about that. Don't like it much obviously, but facts are facts, lol. What I find so triggering is the alienation, being excluded, the helplessness and sense of inadequacy that comes from no one listening and even if they did you don't have a clue what is going on. I get that enough in real life. Not wanting to make an AtE, but I spend Christmas, birthdays, my kids' birthdays, etc., alone. I live in a country where I don't have any friends and I don't speak the language very well. I've watched my entire life crumble around me and look back over 47 years of failure and bad choices that have left me with pretty much nothing. No career, no money, no friends, and no right to see my kids. So playing a game where complete isolation is a recurring theme has just not worked out for me. I hoped  it might be like some kind of exposure therapy, but it just rubs me too raw, and being everyone's favourite distractionary target as I'm so emo and no one listens to me if I get poked as everyone "knows" its only OMGUS, it is just never going to be a winning combination.

 

But thanks for playing with me, and all the kind words and all the help that was given to me. It really just is the nature of the game. I can argue that perhaps some people relish the toxicity perhaps a little too much, but it is just a game and it is my issue that I cannot emotionally distance myself enough. Which is a shame as I have had a lot of fun around the anguish, and it has been really fun getting to know such legends of Dragonmount. Something of a dream come true for me. 

 

So thanks for everything, guys 🙂

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Posted

Thanks, Ithi [blue heart]

 

But it is not about what happened in the thread, it is my reaction to it. I mean, I was really really angry. What would have happened if I had had a drink? Or already been on edge because of something else? Just in a couple of hours it went from at last seeming like I would have a good game, that my reads made sense, that there was a consensus that I was Town in the thread, and then *poof* it was all gone. 

 

And then when you and Darthe started working together, and it suddenly seemed possible your town read of me was just a wolf buddying up to me like Turin had done in Among Us, that felt really horrible. And it shouldn't, I should be thinking "well played, Ithi" if that was the case.

 

And I get this is how the game goes, it's my reaction to it that is the problem. Like in the Among Us game, Cass was laughing with Lenlo about how scummy he had been when he was mislynching her in her sleep. I don't think I can ever get to that headspace, not at least without going through an incredible amount of emotional pain to come out on the other side. It is just too real for me. 

 

I guess at least I can now take Zander's crown of the most villagy villager ever to village, lol. Never randed wolf even once, lmao.

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Posted
  On 6/5/2025 at 10:36 AM, Ithillian Turambar said:

You also need to understand that Darthe might have been trying to save you from the Night Kill cos you were obviously Town to me.

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Lol, he nearly got me lynched and probably got me shot. At least I can laugh about it now, hehe.

Posted

You were never gonna be Lynched. He's only one person. He was trying to confuse the Mafia I think.

 

Which is what I tried to subtley tell you but it's hard cos I didn't want to ruin his play.

  • RP - PLAYER
Posted

Maybe I'm getting my timelines wrong but I'm pretty sure Zombie Darthe was the second vote on my train and the prime motivation for me becoming the countertrain to Teph. After my claim, assassination and resurrection, I can see the point that no one is really going to vote a "confirmed" townie (as if anything was really confirmed in that game, lol) and it also made Peace look fairly scummy for how he wriggled about still being suss of me. 

 

But as I say, I am not complaining about the game, I'm talking about how I could not treat it as a game. It stimulates so many socializing parts of brain that I don't really use any more that I act like it is real. It feels real. I'm not sure I can ever change that. The feeling of betrayal is real, but it is after the whole point of the game.

Posted
  On 6/5/2025 at 10:23 AM, HeavyHalfMoonBlade said:

Thanks for the game everyone 🙂 It was interesting, lol.

 

I think I'll be announcing my permanent retirement from mafia though. This was again fairly brutal for me. At least Town won this time, well done guys, though it had little to do with me. I felt to an extent that I had a good feel for what was going on, except for Ed he really threw me, but I guess getting shot will do that for you, lol. But Turin's "I wrote down random things" case, Dice's gotcha for not being emo enough (which he left up unexplained so skimmers, especially wolf skimmers could latch onto my "slip") and then zombie Darthe's "this is a wolf" declaration (which I am to understand was a ploy so the wolves would think you weren't on to them?) completely wrecked my standing in the thread and I will be honest left me absolutely livid. I was really angry. I am a really chill guy in real life but mafia just needles me in ways I don't have any defenses against. By the end I was consumed with paranoia. Why was Ithi working with Darthe? How did the Siren know Dice was going to interact with them? Why did Gud so overreact at a lighthearted joke? Every single player seemed completely untrustworthy. I would have been zero help had the endgame actually ended up needing any reads.

 

I've noticed that some people seem to think my trigger is being told I'm not any good (presumably from my "stop hating on new players" spiel) but honestly I don't care at all about that. Don't like it much obviously, but facts are facts, lol. What I find so triggering is the alienation, being excluded, the helplessness and sense of inadequacy that comes from no one listening and even if they did you don't have a clue what is going on. I get that enough in real life. Not wanting to make an AtE, but I spend Christmas, birthdays, my kids' birthdays, etc., alone. I live in a country where I don't have any friends and I don't speak the language very well. I've watched my entire life crumble around me and look back over 47 years of failure and bad choices that have left me with pretty much nothing. No career, no money, no friends, and no right to see my kids. So playing a game where complete isolation is a recurring theme has just not worked out for me. I hoped  it might be like some kind of exposure therapy, but it just rubs me too raw, and being everyone's favourite distractionary target as I'm so emo and no one listens to me if I get poked as everyone "knows" its only OMGUS, it is just never going to be a winning combination.

 

But thanks for playing with me, and all the kind words and all the help that was given to me. It really just is the nature of the game. I can argue that perhaps some people relish the toxicity perhaps a little too much, but it is just a game and it is my issue that I cannot emotionally distance myself enough. Which is a shame as I have had a lot of fun around the anguish, and it has been really fun getting to know such legends of Dragonmount. Something of a dream come true for me. 

 

So thanks for everything, guys 🙂

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all right so game talk first

 

the gotcha? Wasn’t a gotcha! Post. I wasn’t sure which is why I asked Turin and ithi their opinions. If I gotcha you I vote you and do nothing else all game. But I needed to hear other people’s opinions.

 

what actually got me going on you was you LACK of reaction. I’ve played every game you’ve been in and you’ve been town. And WITHOUT FAIL in every one of those games you reacted big to sue on you.

 

NOT doing that was a change in the way you play which made me think you were scum.

 

ithi and Turin talking it out with me is the reason why you got given the doc role and got revived.

 

i thought you were much better this game.  Clearer, easier to follow.  You have been improving every single game.

 

i honestly believe you NEED a good scum game under your belt. You get a good team, have a good game and it’s a LOT of fun. Look at this game. It sounds like they were having a creative ball in the mafia thread. Ithi key and Ed did that other game too. Hell you’ve head me Len and Alexander talk about that game •lenlo got the hell bussed outta him? We had a BALL!!

 

so I hope you don’t drop out. Maybe try being a hydra. That way you won’t be alone while playing

 

as for the rest…. All I can say is best of luck.  I suggest getting involved in the diffeeent bits of dm   If you’re as lucky as I was you will make a bunch of friends you talk to every day.  We used to do Skype calls with like 20 of us on it.  It’s a really good community and could be something good for you

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Oh and @HeavyHalfMoonBlade  you’ve heard us go on and on about meta and tone right?

 

well you had a perfect example of it this game in ITHI. For those of us who knew her meta back in the day she was basically SCREAMING that she was town by start of d1. 
 

but it takes a while to learn people’s meta and some people can manipulate it and some you just never figure out but sometimes it’s just THAT obvious which can make the game a lot less stressful and easier

Posted

I’m in the process of updating the OP with game details, but I wanted to give a few thoughts here: 

 

@HeavyHalfMoonBlade I am in full agreement that life does not require you to antagonize yourself with extracurricular pursuits. If the game makes you unhappy, then that’s an easy fix lol. But, I will say this - there are many, many people out there feeling similarly to what you described and it’s important to not cut yourself off from something you enjoy. 
 

Only you can be the judge of that - I don’t pretend to know your situation or circumstances. But if the message you are getting from the game is that maybe you have blind spots in life and maybe look at things from different angles, is that a bad thing? 
 

I think I can speak for everyone when I say that this game is a great teacher of human nature and behavior, and sometimes that can be a comfort. 
 

From other players, I see a lot of comments in this game renaissance pertaining to a lack of time. Man, do I agree with this! 
 

The effort and hours it would take to truly “play” seems impossible now, even though it used to be common. I’m not sure of what exactly changed, but it’s obvious that it did, and on a large scale. 
 

Several times in these past games I’ve noticed that I could go back and reread and put pieces together, but I didn’t because it was too much effort and not enough fun? Better to just play off of gut impressions and roll with whatever? I dunno, but I see it mirrored in a lot of aspects of RL and it’s fascinating to me, so I figured I’d mention it. 
 

Now back to documenting NA’s lol
 

 

Posted

@HeavyHalfMoonBlade, earlier I thought you might benefit from a ride along type thing but your deciphering of the game has improved tremendously. However, if you would like to either hydra(if allowed) or just share a pm (or discord) to chat about things, I'm game. Or whatever, take care of yourself. There are good people here and you aren't alone. 

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