Mafia: Trials and Tribulations [Thread 1 - DO NOT POST]

And I am the guy who said, did you guys not read the OP.

/vote Marluxion

idk why Im surprised I figured as much, I would think heā€™d keep consistency though since so far heā€™s been doing a good job of it

Commence operation: Chinese Firework Drill

lmao reading is hard

I read this already
I just thought his role override it

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the dude still killed Babel, so idk what this means yet

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Itā€™s still determined random

Atlas had no time to see that though
This all happened in like less than 2 seconds

Okay, Iā€™ve finished my reread of Day 1 andā€¦ I got some stuff, but nothing really concrete - mostly some unaligned pair findings and things that make sense if more people flip. In that case, Iā€™ll be writing out my thoughts on the rest of the PoE, but with a emphasis on if Leafia flips town because then yā€™all will really need the help. But at risk of burying the ledeā€¦

Iā€™m pretty sure this is confirmation bias, but I have a feeling the exact team is Leafia/Apprentice/Lucky? The gamestate makes the most sense with this team as wolves? When they were both being pressured early on, they each both tried to wagon Silviu rather than each other, and they were treating each other carefully throughout Day 1 - with Leafia kind of fence-sitting on his alignment, and Apprentice sheeping Icibalusā€™s townread on Leafia as a reason not to seriously investigate her.

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Luckyā€¦ so the reason Iā€™m less inclined to assign him town points for the Babel vote is that he voted Babel during a period of time ITT where Babel was not being seriously considered as an execution candidate, and Babel only was - once Marl proposed Babel as a wagon and then (Millium/Frost/App/Leafia) got on Babel. And if you take that away from him, Seth has been mostly spamming and stewing the thread with shit for most of the game, and yeah.

In Leafia villager worlds, I think that the team isā€¦ Litten/Kiiruma/X? My issue with this game overall is that it feels like Iā€™m putting square pegs in round holes when it comes to scumteam compositions, which is why I wrote up my previous post about lock clears and Iā€™m imploring the town to stick to that, because the easiest way to overcome that syndrome is to write out in excruciating reasoning /why/ you have someone listed as a townclear or wolfread and evaluate it against all of your other reasoning. So, with that in mind, here are my thoughts on the PoE with as much detail I can muster.

Alkali r. Icibalus

Iā€™m going to mostly base this off on Icibalusā€™s posts, because I think Ici was playing quite transparently and unless sheā€™s secretly a god-tier wolf, I think this slot is town in most worlds?

So letā€™s start off with the claim, first and foremost. Miles Edgeworth, Flavor Cop. This claim is doubly/triply proven, in a couple of different ways. First off, is that Chloe knew what Italyā€™s flavor was before he claimed. This means that she is definitely a flavor cop. She could be wolfbuddies with Italy, but that runs contrary to the second piece of evidence clearing her, which is that I tracked her to Italy last night. Unless sheā€¦ knew she was going to be tracked and targeted her wolfbuddy Italy for shits and giggles (a world I refuse to contemplate), she is absolutely a flavor cop who targeted Italy last night.

Finally, the other thing supporting her claim is actually the flipped mafia (Furio Tigreā€™s) role. The way that role is actually written (Impersonation - you know that Phoenix Wright flavor can be falseclaimed, and you roleblock all investigative actions taken on you) feels specifically designed so that Chloeā€™s role /doesnā€™t/ act like a cop, as normally if you give a wolf a role like this, you wouldnā€™t tack on the ā€œroleblock all investigative actions taken on youā€ rider, so that the wolf doesnā€™t get punished by claiming Phoenix Wright and the flavorcop checks them, revealing that theyā€™re Furio Tigre. So, I think mechanically she looks good.

But more than that, Icibalus looked really good behaviorally. She was focused on game health and acting as ā€œsupportā€ throughout D1 which, IMO, is something that trends more towards town who know their role that this game as a team game as opposed to a wolf trying to provide excuses for low content. And she did provide a lot of content - mostly with how she was townreading Leafia. Which brings me to my first question if Leafia is indeed v - which is, why does w!Icibalus strain her neck to defend the hell out of Leafia in such a nuanced, /real/ way? Iā€™ve certainly done my fair share of whiteknighting, but rarely do whiteknights look like this:

Icibalus "epiphany" of Leafia

More than thatā€¦ I donā€™t think this interaction comes from a w/w? Itā€™s easily fakeable to be sure, but I donā€™t think Ici just shuts down Babel (ā€œwallow in ignoranceā€) like she did here.

Icibalus/Babel interactions

More townie posts from Icibalus:

Icibalus/Lucky interactions

Seth/Alkali not wolves together.

I guess I suppose write a little about Chloe? tldr - her posts are good. They arenā€™t anything that I would consider unfakeable from wolf!Chloe, but sheā€™s been doing a lot of things Iā€™d expect from her as a villager. Her metachecking Leafia to make sure that sheā€™s capable of faking the AtE Leafiaā€™s been spouting off is a key example - Iā€™d imagine wolf Chloe to just bulldoze through this Leafia execution without taking steps to really doublecheck herself, but sheā€™s been pretty careful and thorough with regards to that read.

This section is really long already, but tldr - I think this slot is town and if isnā€™t, then not only Icibalus played like a goddess, but Chloe replaced in and continued to play super well. Wolves would have a flavor cop randomly (I assume for falseclaiming purposes) and the wolves didnā€™t make the flavor cop perform the factional NK. The flavor cop also isnā€™t grafted with any other role like a roleblocker etc.

Lucky

Not really going to go through Sethā€™s mountain of bullshit, but I would just like to take out two key interactions from his ISO and ask myself if heā€™s capable of them as a wolf.

The first is this Babel/Seth interaction, where Seth Garciaā€™s (answers a question directed at someone else) Babel:

Babel interactions w/Seth pt 1

The second interaction is where Seth accuses me of being buddies with Babel due to not choosing to run him up when Italy/Babel were low-posting. He ties me to Babel, then votes him at a time when many people were not really focusing on Babel.

Babel interactions w/Seth, pt 2

So, originally, I thought that this was pretty townie of Seth (and it still is! Bringing attention to your two-shot poisoner will absolutely be townie) but this is actually the votecount around the time this post was made:

I think itā€™s within Sethā€™s wolfrange to randomly stick votes on buddies - he did this a lot to Atlas in Railgun Mafia, I believe. And the fact that the wagons were concentrated like this, plus the fact that he tried to tie his buddyā€™s wolf-flip into a potential execution chain on me, makes me think that this push on Babel was not conducted in good faith?

Seth is also never aligned with Kiiruma btw.

Itā€™s super tricky to read the guy but another thing is that his role is also super weak? Like, why does he have to predict the execution target just to getā€¦ an extra vote, which likely disappears in xylo? Maybe Iā€™m modgaming super hard but that seems like a huge barrier to jump through for a measly extra vote.

So yeah idk, check those two interactions and evaluate if theyā€™re real, because Iā€™m not reading 90% of this guyā€™s posts

Kiiruma

think this slot could be wolfing in worlds where leafia is villager because heā€™s been coasting and hasnā€™t really made an impression on the gamestate

Would Listen to Chloe though, sheā€™s better at reading him than me. Just a consideration in v!Leafia worlds

Apprentice

i love this dudeā€™s posts every time he posts, and he looks super good from that Babel townread

Iā€™m just worried that instead of a TMI slip itā€™s instead Babel trying to prevent his buddy from going over but idk

this interaction also has me tilting my head

Does this interaction actually mean anything with regards to Apprenticeā€™s alignment?

Think this is such a throwaway interaction that Iā€™m inclined to ignore it - just wondering if w!Apprentice would be more likely to call upon a wolfbuddy to provide content ITT?

Can see Leafiaā€™s stance here supporting an Apprentice/Leafia team bc sheā€™s kinda chainsaw defending him

I also mentioned the weirdness between Leafiaā€™s role (treestumper + neighborize) and Apprenticeā€™s role (last will) being weird if theyā€™re both town, because they allow two different townies to give thoughts after theyā€™re dead

Litten

i want to believe that heā€™s town, but honestly if weā€™re crashing and burning heā€™d be the first slot Iā€™d look towards

I think in Leafia villager worlds thereā€™s very likely someone who is aggressively pushing her and Litten is likely to be that candidate as Iā€™ve already ā€œclearedā€ Chloe

I believe his shit about power wolfing, the thing about that though is that likeā€¦ wolves can change how they play

and he has this sort of stealth control over the game thread where heā€™s extremely active and is always around to offer some interesting thought on whatever the gamestate has to offer

my main behavioral reason to townread him has to do with him asking me if i really believed (the sunbae quote), which I donā€™t think he puts that much thought into if heā€™s a wolf but is absolutely an astute observation from villager him here

Italy

gut and general thread posturing says town but easily fakeable

slots like these imo flip town like 80% of the town because he just does not care i feel

some random townie posts from Italy that Iā€™ve compiled


finally hereā€™s a quote chain from atlas/leafia that clears atlas if leafia is a wolf

Atlas vs Leafia

I think this entire quote chain clears Atlas if Leafia is a wolf and vice-versa.

I donā€™t think Leafia misrepresents Atlas like this if theyā€™re wolfbuddies together.

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Atlas did as tie breaker yes

All within one minute

no Marl was one of the biggest catalysts for Babelā€™s train
its still unbelievable Marl plays this way, especially given in many of my experiences with his wolf game, he tries to push mislunches and shield his partners

or lose wim, but kill his partner, ok

Thatā€™s actually why I thought they were w/w
Leafia has a hard time with TMI and her treating atlas as though he isnā€™t fully cleared while treating Eliza as if they are is really bad for atlas if leafia is a w

You guys are dumb and clearly were not there at eod. WHEN ATLAS VOTED he was voting with literally 0 seconds on the clock

There was no time to see prophs unvote

Their posts came in simultaneously. Atlas effectively killed Babel and saved Eliza just like proph did

Less than a minute

Okay, I could do more but I really need to start working

Trust in my first post over my second. I legitimately believe if we treat the six people as lock clear until thereā€™s a very good reason why we shouldnā€™t, then we can win this game

Proph out

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THEREFORE
REGARDLESS OF HOW THE WAGONS ENDED

Atlasā€™ vote effectively would have saved Elizas life and killed Babel

That is what I mean

Think this is somewhat possible with a v!Leafia flip yes, but if she flips wolf he should be pretty much lockclear from meta, his push on her, and her ā€œRTā€ to get him not to roleblock her