Mafia After Dark - Night 1: The Godfather

[Palathadric]

It looks to me as if you're trying to make something out of nothing.

He should go into business. Are you in business, Colin? Or just living off your brothers money?

[Pandora]

Well, this turned out to be a terrible evening. Byr fails, yet again, to perform any actual magic (a dead cat? what the hell were you thinking Byr? ), and gets attacked by a monkey in the process, and considerably more worryingly we all now fear for our lives and the family business. Can't the Ferraris just go away and find another family to be mean to?

[Palathadric]

Well, this turned out to be a terrible evening. Byr fails, yet again, to perform any actual magic (a dead cat? what the hell were you thinking Byr? ), and gets attacked by a monkey in the process, and considerably more worryingly we all now fear for our lives and the family business. Can't the Ferraris just go away and find another family to be mean to?

Checking the Police records, we seem to have little concrete information in regards to them. Which is rather worrisome. It makes me wonder if the sole purpose of the organization is to rid the world of Malones. I hope they won't go after my mother. Which reminds me, I should check up on her tomorrow morning.

[jimmynick]

Of course the Ferraris have it out for King Malone and his Arthurian court of murderous Mafiosi... they're jealous! We just need to get rid of all these Saurons and Mount Dooms Ferraris and their mole-hills and then up our security practices. And then Ole King Tam will rule over us forever .

[Adam]

We've got to lock up that monkey in iron bars. Now he's assaulting Malone family members. What kind of nonsense is this. You'd better keep him under control or I will collect a permit for his arrest from Tam himself and once I do you can't expect more than five minutes of mercy. Send the Ferraris to be eaten by a monkey. What kind of mongrel talks like that. I think we should follow correct protocol. Arrest them, try them, hang them. Anything other than that is just barbaric and things only Ferraris themselves would do.

My hubby would never send Baby away. Never. Isn't that right, Tammie? How could anybody want to lock up such an adorable little monkeypoo?

[Tamamono]

"Enough of this silly banter - find me a Ferrari!

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No, not a car, morons! I already have a Lamborghini! I want someone from the Ferrari Gang!"

Voting is now open. 48 hours until Dawn.

[jimmynick]

I don't really expect any of the scum to confess today, so short of that, I don't see much we can do until we've had a chance to do some investigating and watching and whatever else we can do.

We can poke at what attracts our attention. In fact, I am surprised that such an experienced mafioso as you would trot out the Day One "Well shucks, I don't know what to do" line.

In fact, I can picture the headline: "Cocaine ABS-addled Dealer Babbles Incoherently" How's that for a news story, Tam?

[CorneliusMurdock]

But...I never mentioned mountains or mole hills!

I'm starting to think you're not all there in the sanity department. You should see a specialist.

There are plenty of good doctors at the institution I've been staying at. I could give you one of their numbers. Just to warn you, though, they don't accept dead cats as payment. So you might run into some trouble there.

[Dragonator]

Wish I could afford a Ferrari... maybe if we kill a few we'll all be able to afford them!

Terrible business this, I forsee a lot of clothes being ruined in the near future. What, people die all the time, my artworks are meant to last for generations!

[Shadows]

We can poke at what attracts our attention. In fact, I am surprised that such an experienced mafioso as you would trot out the Day One "Well shucks, I don't know what to do" line.

Truth is truth and we shouldn't be afraid to say it, it's the way these things always start.

At this point, the only people making me suspicious are the quiet ones and that rarely ends up helpful this early.

[TheBoyWonder]

After the last time a criminal organisation tried to lynch quieter members didn't end well, I am extremely reluctant to suggest that.

[CorneliusMurdock]

After the last time a criminal organisation tried to lynch quieter members didn't end well, I am extremely reluctant to suggest that.

Then what, Dad? You've always been a man of action. What do you suggest?

Billie would know what to do. He was always a shoot first and fall into a nuclear reactor later kind of guy. I wish he hadn't done that second thing...

Anyway... Ferraris.... It seems to me that if we don't want to lynch the quiet ones, we should just make it to where the quiet ones don't exist. No one who wants to live should be quiet.

I'm gonna close my eyes and everyone should start talking. If I don't hear you, then you must not exist and I should vote for you. Because non-existant people suck and you can't trust them. I had an imaginary friend once and the bastard tried to kill me in my sleep.

[Capt. Redblade]

I don't really expect any of the scum to confess today, so short of that, I don't see much we can do until we've had a chance to do some investigating and watching and whatever else we can do. Until then, I have some, uh, product to sample. Quality control and all that.

We can poke at what attracts our attention. In fact, I am surprised that such an experienced mafioso as you would trot out the Day One "Well shucks, I don't know what to do" line.

In fact, I can picture the headline: "Cocaine ABS-addled Dealer Babbles Incoherently" How's that for a news story, Tam?

Yo, Jamie's right. First day we always got nothin' to go on, so we talk and we poke around and we see what comes up. You been around the block a few times, you should know that by now.

We got way less experienced folks here should be sayin' stuff like that. You should be above that kinda talk.

[Adam]

I'm also discontent with policy lynching quiet people. *yip! yip!* What's that, Pablo? You don't like it either? What a smart doggypoo! Tammie and the rest of the family have told me many stories about other families that have tried to root out moles, and policy lynching has never been very successful. I do recognize that it feels more viable on the first night because we have so little to go on, but I stand by my discontent! What do you say, Baby? Do you- oh dear, your diapers need a changing...

[Shadows]

We got way less experienced folks here should be sayin' stuff like that. You should be above that kinda talk.

I think it's worth reminding the less experienced folks, as you call them. If you've paid close attention, you'll find that I'm always against the shot in the dark day 1 lynch, and you'll also find from experience that it's so rarely right that it isn't worth the risk. To me, that says that people who are too confident about voting on day 1 know that they can't hurt their team, and the only people in that position are the scum or whatever neutrals we've been cursed with, assuming we have.

This is why I dislike day 1, no one can actually say anything useful because no one knows anything (except the scum). It's all roleplay and posturing and people thinking they can spot the scum magically based on some slip of the tongue that never happens. Then if you do say something meant to be informative to newer members of the family, you get looked at funny. Saying nothing often gets you lynched, which as I said earlier, rarely works out either.

Day 1 is basically free day for the scum and I'd rather not see us play into their hands. Do you disagree?

[TrumpetKing]

Tony and I definitely would not like a policy lynch, and we certainly don't want day one to "play into their hands". I want to bang some scum!

.....With my banging sausage of course.

Candy, I thought I told you to put that aw-oh!! Continue!

[Capt. Redblade]

I think it's worth reminding the less experienced folks, as you call them. If you've paid close attention, you'll find that I'm always against the shot in the dark day 1 lynch, and you'll also find from experience that it's so rarely right that it isn't worth the risk. To me, that says that people who are too confident about voting on day 1 know that they can't hurt their team, and the only people in that position are the scum or whatever neutrals we've been cursed with, assuming we have.

This is why I dislike day 1, no one can actually say anything useful because no one knows anything (except the scum). It's all roleplay and posturing and people thinking they can spot the scum magically based on some slip of the tongue that never happens. Then if you do say something meant to be informative to newer members of the family, you get looked at funny. Saying nothing often gets you lynched, which as I said earlier, rarely works out either.

Day 1 is basically free day for the scum and I'd rather not see us play into their hands. Do you disagree?

Fair enough. The initial wording made it sound like you were saying we should do nothing.

Hit return too early. Sorry.

I was going to add that, if the policy lynch has an upside, it's that analyzing the voting patterns therein can be a good jumping-off point on the next day. When a townie is lynched on the first day, it allows town to look for clues in who said what and who accused/defended whom and who jumped on what bandwagon. Occasionally you will find a scum who was too eager to put the screws to a defenceless townie on the first day and thus presents themselves as an easy lynch. Yes, the Day One lynch is more often than not a bit of a gong show, but its worth can be bared out in subsequent days.

[CorneliusMurdock]

No, Cap that's exactly what he says we should do. By all means, Shane, let's all sit back and not play into the scums hands by doing anything. This is an information game. You have information, you've got some game. Someone may not slip up but someone may. We might not get cum on the first try, but we might. It's not unheard of. We do nothing, what do we have at the end of the day? Nothing. But by all means, everyone, let's all sit on our hands and let the scum have their quality time. Wait patiently for the day to end and for the scum to get their first kill.

And what better way to hide than to do what you always advocate doing, huh?

I see no harm in making people talk. I like talking. Prevents me from having the time to think. Why should anyone not be talking? Let's do something. Sing campfire songs, roast marshmallows. Roast a turkey. Tie our own shoelaces together. Or, I don't know, find Ferraris.

[Purpearljellyblob]

I'm also discontent with policy lynching quiet people. *yip! yip!* What's that, Pablo? You don't like it either? What a smart doggypoo! Tammie and the rest of the family have told me many stories about other families that have tried to root out moles, and policy lynching has never been very successful. I do recognize that it feels more viable on the first night because we have so little to go on, but I stand by my discontent! What do you say, Baby? Do you- oh dear, your diapers need a changing...

So you are not for policy lynch but is willing to do it anyway?

[TrumpetKing]

No, Cap that's exactly what he says we should do. By all means, Shane, let's all sit back and not play into the scums hands by doing anything. This is an information game. You have information, you've got some game. Someone may not slip up but someone may. We might not get cum on the first try, but we might. It's not unheard of. We do nothing, what do we have at the end of the day? Nothing. But by all means, everyone, let's all sit on our hands and let the scum have their quality time. Wait patiently for the day to end and for the scum to get their first kill.

This has been a very, very quiet night so far, and usually they always are until voting starts. But we can't just sit here quietly, because the scum aren't going to just come out, and we all know that they benefit from us being quiet. While I agree that we have nothing to go off of quite yet, I think it's imperative that we all speak up, especially those who are quieter, and give everyone to successfully read, analyze, and scumhunt. I'm sure we've all heard this before, and we're probably tired of hearing it, but it's entirely true, and we need to act on it. The problem is that just saying this isn't going to help immediately, or even at all, and this is where I can see voting for quieter people to come in handy. While I definitely don't think lynching those who are quiet, I feel that a few votes on them is warranted, just as a reminder to speak up.

Well, that slightly rambled on.

[Cecilie]

I feel like I'm having a bit of a déja vu here . Yep, it's the typical start of such on ordeal. We must be doing something right then!

Well, except for the fact that it rarely leads to a successful lynch... Not that I have any better ideas. Given the predicament we're in, not being able to talk in private is likely going to make the coming days more interesting... But also dangerous for our PRs

[def]

I am for a day one lynch. There is always a chance we will catch someone, especially if the pressure is put on some people and we see them react. I can think of three times we nailed Ferrari like scumbags on day one. On top of that, it really is something we can use in future days, once some of these scumbags start showing up.

Unfortunately, the longer we wait, the less time we have to unvote and shift things around. I want to put my money where my mouth is, but I am on a lunch break from enforcing, and can't read all that's been said to throw a vote.

Has everybody showed up?

Back later, I have some knees to break. Some kid didn't cough up their lunch money.

[Shadows]

No, Cap that's exactly what he says we should do. By all means, Shane, let's all sit back and not play into the scums hands by doing anything.

I worry when people try to misrepresent what I say, and more when they advocate that the likely killing of one of our own is somehow going to help us figure things out when in reality everyone will just say "oops, day 1, always happens, not our fault."

Ping.

We might not get cum on the first try, but we might. It's not unheard of.

I'm not sure how that's going to help, but I'm up for it, as long as the job is in the hands of professionals. Hey Candy, want to help me out here?

[Palathadric]

I definitely think that we shouldn't just randomly start hanging people around the block. I mean, do you fellows have no respect for life. I understand that you're all mafiosi whatevers, but still...

We are supposed to be looking for those who are trying to kill Mr. Tam not just anyone... sometimes I wonder if those who try to jump on any little strain of evidence they can find are the ferrari gang members themselves. But then again, though ferraris may try to draw suspicion on we Malones, they are more likely to hide in the shadows. Still, I think I would give our captain a shiny question mark for his overeager statements.

[Kristel]

I'd be happy not to lynch anyone today because the odds are that we will lynch a Malone. Unless someone slips up, it is unlikely that we will have anything solid on which to base our votes.

There is potentially some information to be gained from voting patterns, if we were to policy lynch. I guess the question is whether the additional information gained is worth a Malone's life. On balance, I doubt it will.

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What is your stance on the policy lynch?