Crypto

The correct title of this article is crypto. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions in the MediaWiki software.

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Games Played

Newbie 777

[1]

Outcome: Town victory.

Role: Townie.

Town: AshMC1984, CFK, James.Denholm, Johnny Rotten (replaced Bowwy), MagicMan31, Scott Brosius.

Mafia: Billssabresyanks, Xtoxm.

Day 1: I forced a lynch on obvious scum (Billssabresyanks) despite his cop claim.

Day 2: We lynched a townie (Johnny Rotten) largely due to a really bad gut read on my part.

Day 3: We lynched a townie (AshMC1984) who seemed legitimately scummy but who turned out to be right about one of his reads.

Day 4: The remaining two players both claimed to have solid town reads on me, so I held the deciding vote. I chose correctly and the town won, but a lot of it came down to my instinct—which had to redeem itself of the Day 2 lynch—and good luck.

Notes: As it was my first Mafia game ever, a correct Day 1 read considerably increased my self-confidence. It resulted in a terrible second and third day, but it also allowed me to enjoy the game without the hindrance of timid indecision. Great introduction to Mafia, but also a fun match on its own: suspenseful, well paced, and populated with intelligent players—and, hey, it even had a surprise ending (from my amateur point of view). Xtoxm, aligned mafia, played especially well as the IC, surviving to the endgame after losing his inexperienced teammate on Day 1. It was a cruel twist of fate for him to fall on the wrong side of my fifty-fifty shot at a correct Day 4 lynch.

Newbie 805

[2]

Outcome: Town victory.

Role: Townie.

Town: Brutal Assassin, FF7Kotrt, NabakovNabakov, Parhelic, Starbuck, Tuberkulos.

Mafia: catsup137 (replaced James.Denholm), Excedrin.

Day 1: I sniffed out a mafioso, but the town didn't buy my case. We wound up lynching a lurking replacement (catsup137), who by some minor miracle flipped mafia roleblocker.

Day 2: I proposed a practically foolproof follow-the-cop-type plan, and once we honed the plan to perfection I was policy-lynched for being the one to come up with it. At night, the remaining goon—the one I'd pegged on Day 1—committed suicide.

Notes: Fast match, but extremely frustrating. We got an outrageously lucky Day 1 lynch. The roleblocker's death meant we could follow the cop with ease: anticlimactic, but I was glad to get out of there. My abrasiveness and sarcasm had alienated just about the entire town to the point where people were building cases on my personality rather than my actions. I felt that the town flat-out didn't play well and was far too unfocused; on an individual level, most players did a really poor job of getting their priorities straight. On the upside, NabakovNabakov (IC), Parhelic, and Tuberkulos all played very well as proactive townies.

Mini 827

[3]

Outcome: Good question.

Role: Town doctor.

Town: CoCo, Dry-fit, Goatrevolt (replaced Tuberkulos), Hyl, Kmd4390 (replaced MordyS), MafiaSSK (replaced DeeJayCee), Snow White (replaced HowardRoark)

Mafia: egruntz, Lowell.

Other: cult leader Looker (replaced RealityFan, replaced Kreriov), delayed serial killer ConfidAnon.

Day 1: I correctly pegged ConfidAnon and erroneously badgered CoCo. Goatrevolt came in and got Egruntz lynched.

Day 2: We lynched CoCo based after the cop (Dry-fit) got a guilty result. CoCo was a miller with hilariously jacked up side effects.

Day 3: We lynched Lowell, mafia godfather, based on Dry-fit's guilty result. But Dry-fit had been recruited into the cult the night before (so he apparently faked the result). Lowell did flip scum, and we lost on the following night when I was recruited into the cult.

Notes: Existence of a cult that can recruit every night plus obscene amount of lurking equals town loss. Very frustrating, but it was interesting to see how a lot of my observations would have fit together perfectly if I'd realized there were so many cult members on day 3. After one game of experience, it's official: I hate cults.

Mini 842

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Quotes

Lame humor, running gags, and cultured contempt are permitted. Compliments, criticisms, and attacks lacking in comedic value are forbidden.

Newbie 777

"And, to parrot what crypto said" James.Denholm

"My thinking has been more-or-less paralell to crypto's at this moment" James.Denholm

"My comments wouldn't aid the town at all, after all, crypto has already covered them." James.Denholm

"The thing is, crypto's already covered all my points. There's no point in me parroting him." James.Denholm

"A mixture of my own suspicions and being convinced by crypto." James.Denholm

"Once again, my thoughts more-or-less mirror crypto's" James.Denholm

Newbie 805

"This man speaks the truth." James.Denholm

"Oh, crypto is a House-fan. This explains a lot of his ridiculous behavior." Tuberkulos

"As I said earlier today, I think Excedrin or BAS is scum. But it's fun that we lynched crypto." Tuberkulos

"Crypto made this game very interesting, it was a shame that we didn't get the time to butt some heads on day 2." Tuberkulos

Mini 827

"Crypto lives up to his signature." Hyl

"Crypto lives up to his username as well." Hyl

"A wild quadruple post appears!" Hyl

"Secondly im a grown woman and i can say sincerely to Crypto im the retard here who cant read and i will answer any questions/theories you want an opinion on to the best of my retarded ability. Jk." Snow White

"You are bloodthirsty, cruel, and do not seem to understand that I am as concerned with the capture of scum as you are." CoCo (converted from Spanish with Google Translate and edited for clarity)

"I feel like you're attacking me to have something to post about." Hyl

"However Crypto i must say HowardRoark was neither scum nor Serial Killer. So you may wanna flush your head down that toilet anywho." Snow White

"Could you elaborate on why you think it's scummy of crypto to repeatedly call you out as scummy?" Tuberkulos