If you are running or planning to run a game soon

[Barmacral]

Consider holding off until DM8. Any posts after the 10th of August will not be kept, so in order to keep your game smooth, I'd suggest pausing the game on the 10th if you are already running one, and not starting your game until DM8 is up if you haven't yet.

 

And, in the meantime, just keep people sedated with a bunch of fast mafia games.

[Verbal32]

Good point, and with the weekend coming up, it might not even work to run a fast game.  My fast game(s) might take 3-4 days, and I won't impose weekend deadlines, so I'm waiting until DM8.

[Barmacral]

DM 8 itself won't come til about Labour Day, so you've got about 3 weeks to run fast games in.

[Verbal32]

Another good point.  Are you sure this is Barm?!

[LilyElizabeth]

I'm also checking into running games elsewhere. It really bugs me that the infamous Kivam gambit is lost in the sands of time, and you know there will be something happen that we will lose and wish we didn't if we try to play during the transition. Still, I can't imagine going 3 weeks with no mafia.

 

I actually have a forum already set up that we could use, but it's really archaic and slow. Not my first choice.

[Barmacral]

Its not lost, I could find it for you relatively quickly.

[Hybrid]

I tried to access the old board to read the original Double Blind.  They were crashed as of a couple of days ago.  :(

[LilyElizabeth]

They seemed to be always crashed, so it's sorta lost. And I'd love to read it if it's ever available.

[Alys Kinch]

It is gone, Barms. I tried to look when Wes dredged up the thread and it didn't work. You could get the board, but not the thread.

[Barmacral]

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Barm, it's interesting that you would vote for Jason off the bat. You know I like to metagame a bit, and one of my first thoughts was that Jason would be high up on the list of players to be evil, since he's the boss man and there's just a nice bit of symmetry to it.

 

My second thought is that, watching the games, I've noticed a little bit of a pattern:

 

Whoever modded the last game tends to be evil in the next one. (I also noticed that people are rarely evil twice in a row, but none of our evils from last game are in this one, so that insight is useless) And since Talya modded the last game on Fiddles, she goes right to the top of my list.

 

Throw in the fact that she showed up right after a vote for Jason but didn't actually do anything (not that I mind the cookies - these are kosher, right?) . . . and, well, that makes it an easier choice in my mind. The most important thing we can do on day 1 - when we have basically no information -is lynch somebody who gives us info. The more information we get, the easier it is for us to find the evils. And if we lynch Talya, and she's guilty, her inactivity in response to your vote will give us another reason to think Jason is guilty (i.e. we get two for the price of 1, the way we did with Sirayn and Zylazlo in the Fiddles game).

 

On the other hand, if Talya's innocent, Jason looks a little less suspicious (though not much less, b/c if Talya is innocent then she has no idea what Jason is, so he might actually be guilty anyway, but it would leave us with only the "it would be a fun thing for a mod to do" rationale for believing he's evil).

 

Anyway, my fingers hurt from typing, and I guess what I'm trying to say is lets lynch Talya

 

(And yes, Jason totally played that game)

[LilyElizabeth]

Totally off topic here, but I smile every time I see the Small Furde on your posts. That was my first game as scum, and we killed you just because we were sick of the "Save the Small Furde" posts. *smiles at the memory*

 

[Verbal32]

I loved that game.  Heidi let me come up with my own PR, and I chose the Family Guy quotes.  I had some fun with that until the pesky mafia NKed me.  Jerks.  ^_^

[LilyElizabeth]

Yeah. Sorry about that, Verby.  :-*