{ the infernal funfair } -- game thread

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The tired 'did they hold back N1' has returned. Or, a lucky block/save, as Inso said. Not impossible in a smaller game like this, and two blocking roles on town's side. I'm not going to be too eager against anyone willing to admit they've been blocked, but why lie about that, so early in the game? It's not damnation. Not necessarily.

Let's lay out the cards. We need to know if anyone received non-killing mafia visits ASAP. I did not.

I was jailed last night. Ventriloquist snuck up on me while I was looking at the acrobats and took me to their creepy puppet place and interrogated me.
I'm very intrigued as to what other block reports we may or may not have.

Beast is immune to jailer because beast is godfather.
Besides mafia choosing not to act we could have:
1) beast was escort blocked
2) fiend was blocked (by either escort or jailer)
3) victim was doc saved
4) victim was jailed and unable to be targeted

hmst I really feel like this is a standard hold back. my night was quiet, so unless someone had a bit more of an eventful night then, u know. we know there's a min of 1 experienced player, although that doesnt mean so much these days.

Aaaaaa, totally mixed up roles there shit.

But yeah you laid out the possibilities pretty well, but mafia could have also decided to not act, which would be kinda weird but a plausible tactic I guess

Hey Cri? Why do you 'really feel' like it's a standard hold back, just a few posts into the day, with nigh nothing to work with? Intuition?

We haven't had a vast majority of players even post yet. So much could come to light, we have no way of assuming what happened at this point.

uber I addressed mafia inaction as a possibility immediately before my list of role related events, as shown by:
"Besides mafia choosing not to act we could have: [insert list]"
And while it does seem weird, mafia holding back to throw sus on blocked individuals and mislead town seems pretty solid of an idea to me. In a Town of Salem game with quick rounds it would probably never happen, but in a forum mafia game with phases that last hours? It's a pretty good tactic in my eyes and I wouldn't put it past mafia to use it.

i had an entirely quiet night, nothing useful to report.

kinda glad we're continuing the tradition of no kills on n1, ngl. day 2 is messier because of it, but not losing a town role early is a net win in my book.

so far that's our jailor report from onse, i'd like to wait for escort / possible consort reports before going further into speculation territory. if anyone was consort blocked pls speak up asap! we could prob confirm 90% that it's maf/con/watcher if there's a maf block.

edit: phone ate a few words

edit2: merc ur title is hilarious rn

There's a big difference between keeping the holdback tactic in mind and putting confidence into it before we have less than half the playerbase offer their reports.

Bluh bluh yall I got visited by the Imp last night *gunfingers* the little jerk made me think I was some kinda VIP guest in a castle with a whole feast for good old me but BAM it was all poisoned. Right in the kokoro man, they know I like free food.

And there we have it. Not a full holdback, at the very least. Provided Steex is telling the truth.

so jailor and consort blocks are accounted for. fairly safe to say that whoever was blocked by escort is not the gf, in this scenario.
looking more likely that it's mafioso consort watcher - mainly b/c i don't think we'd have a new role added without... it being used - but do not quote me on this as i could be making another wrong assumption.
it's not beyond the realm of possibility for maf to claim they were consort blocked if one of them got caught by escort, but steex' post so far was detailed enough that i'm putting it 80/20 in favor of actually being a consort block (and therefore steex being town since maf can't visit each other per word of god).