So my half of Mafia Game 4: The Thing has come to a close, and I was on the losing side. The really losing side, as it happens; we didn’t find and kill a single The Thing. Go us!
I’m catching a lot of flak in the post-game for my “do nothing, post stupid pictures” strategy. It was a big gamble, and it didn’t pay off. My logic went something like this:
1) I’m terrible at searching for bad guys, and nothing I’ve contributed along those lines in previous games did much good. However, I’m super-talkative and very good at selling my point, which in the past has gotten a lot of people to follow me on poorly thought-out detective work. I figured by contributing nothing I could let smarter people do the figuring without all that Brickroad-flavored static.
2) This is a game where you could become a bad guy at any time. If the good guys scan you and you’re good, nothing happens. But if the good guys scan you and you’re bad, you die. Since I”m Brickroad I figured I would be scanned early (and this was the case). If I was going to be converted, it was going to be after that point, which means I’d have to avoid getting scanned a second time. Best way to do that is to ensure all my posting was consistent, and by consistently posting nonsense, it was.
Basically I was banking on smart good guys winning the game and carrying me along, or bad guys flipping me and avoiding detection. Neither of those things happened, and that’s not my fault at all.
The other half of The Thing is still in progress, and then we’ll begin talks to get our next game rolling. In the meantime I’m still playing some intensely crazy Vampires vs. Werewolves game, and I have no idea what’s going on in it or how it’s going to pan out.
I… I think I’m addicted to these games. Just like every other games I’ve ever played.
Man, I called that strategy on day two. The instant your response to “Anyone will try and fight a scan” was “I won’t.”
It just turns out the things didn’t need you.
Mwahahaha… call it revenge for Game 3.
yesIknowIdroppedoutofgame3shutup.
I’m sorry brickroad, but that’s stupid. By actively not contributing to the town, you were passively helping the Things.
No, YOU’RE stupid.
I told you, dude: the way to win this thing is to make sure the Things never get a chance to convert you. If you’re always the second-best choice for a conversion, you’ll survive until the end.
Well, I did survive to the end. =)
OM NOM NOM