VP Baltar

Bio

Player on MS since November 2008. Came upon the game of mafia slightly prior to that from another site. Works as a journalist and sees the game of Mafia as the perfect platform to hone questioning tactics that can pry information from people that they don't necessarily want to give said information at will.

Also, I obviously enjoy BSG, particularly everyone's favorite compulsive liar that is strangely believable, Gaius Baltar.

Playstyle

I would say I'm much more straightforward in how I state my posts than many players I've seen. I'm a big believer in explaining yourself in detail while still be succinct. I'm a fan of a good gambit and try to think at least one move ahead...though I can't say that always turns out successful.

Not sure how I feel about meta, but I occasionally like to read games to check out other players or check their wiki pages (in hindsight it seems like a stupid idea to create a page like this if you care about winning).

Stats

Overall:3/1/0

Scum: 1/0/0

Town: 2/1/0

Games

Newbie

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Newbie 696: Nitoville,Orange Ward	Incognito	Mafia Goon	Survived	Mafia Win	Replaced Polybius in confirmations	This was my first game on MafiaScum. I was a mafia goon with Raider8169, who unfortunately had a lot of real life obligations at the time and left me high and dry by being lynched Day 1. Though I didn't play my hammer of Raider properly, I was able to recover as the days wore on and was able to spur town discord enough to never quite be the main suspect. Was graciously nominated by the moderator and Kmd4390 for a Best Newbie Scummy.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Newbie 715	Thestatusquo	Vanilla Townie	Endgamed	Mafia Win	Replaced Masque on Day 3	Came into this game with a town that had lynched two townies needlessly on the first two days and didn't seem to care much about having discussion. Zwetschenwasser was acting very scummy and I was fooled into attacking him while the scum, Empking and Signal, laid back to nab an easy win through quickvoting on Zwet when another player believed my case and dropped a vote on him. Guess you can't win them all.

Mini Themes

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mini 763-Carnival Mafia	SilverPhoenix	Waffle Vendor (Vanilla Townie)	Endgamed	Town Wins	Original Entrant	This was a very fun game that was unfortunately easy for town because SilverPhoenix forgot to put a VT sample role claim in the rules. ChiefSkye4 got into trouble because of this and then made matters worse by claiming 'The Bearded Lady', who coincidentally had died in the opening scene of the game. Her mafia partner, Empking, then made a shoddy claim on D3 and was lynched for the victory. It should have been a perfect win, but people wouldn't listen to me when I said that Debonair Danny DiPietro was a Jester trying to get himself lynched on D2. He succeeded, unfortunately.

Open Setup

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Open 122-Near Vanilla	Zazier	Vanilla Townie	Killed Night 5	Town Wins	Replaced AWA on Day 2	This game started with a lot of needless bickering and not a lot of scumhunting going on, which put the town in a bad position overall. Luckily, Spyrex and camn replaced in and helped to right the direction of the game after I had talked myself blue in the face. ac1983fan, hewitt and Ztife were the scum in this game and were more than content to let the town self-destruct. Thankfully, camn took a bold move and outted herself as jailkeeper, which resulted in three consecutive deaths of our scum and a town win.