Benicia Bear

Congratulations Scum, very well played and a deserved win. There's a lot of stuff I said in the game which wasn't actually true, and really considering I was playing a Neutral role that should be obvious, but it seems it bears reminding (no pun intended). So yes, despite having a ridiculous amount of scum to be able to confuse and misdirect discussion, and being able to use both your scum abilities and those I assigned you, I do think you deserved the win. I will say that some of you played better than others, but with so goddamn many of you that's pretty much a given. Some of you were better winners than others too. Anyway, I was never really into scum hunting as much as people think (and in retrospect I should have been), I wanted everyone dead after all, but I also know what my town game looks like, and considering I had a (justifiable) paranoia about being exposed as the Trickster I had to play up to that. That meant cosying up to people who seemed to everyone to be townie, not just who I thought was town. In my private messages I told people what I wanted them to know and kept my narrative simple and consistent. I fashioned what I thought was a reasonable spectrum of who I found townie and who I found scummy, which was indeed based on my views and observations, but to say I ever trusted anyone is quite wrong. I was a team of just one, after all. I chose my roles for plausible deniability for the role of Trickster, and I ignored any absorbed roles and eschewed the kill when it became available. I wanted to move seamlessly through the game as a townie, trying her best, which is why I had those conversations with my "trusted" friends, for instance to make sure they knew I was commuting (so you don't waste your action on me!) but more so nobody could say that it was a convenient claim the next day. Being accused of being the Trickster for posting that I had received the Baby Dwagon Lullaby action was frustrating. That, unfortunately, made me more defensive and had an impact on my later game. I had a conversation with Hinckley much later where I said I'd been talking to Corrina who (in a particular sequence of messages) came off quite scummy and that as a result everything I thought was probably wrong. Honestly if I had really considered there'd be that many scum (so many scum! ) then I would have taken the true scum hunting much more seriously, or at least tried to do so within the confines of trying to protect myself from random accusations of being the Trickster. Oh well. I would like to say that the conversations with @Corrina Cow were really nice (I know that's an odd thing to say, but it's true), and I truly loved how you played her character, even in PMs. I think you played the best in your team, so congratulations on a game well played. That is a very kind thing to say, thank you. Congratulations on your win. You ended up with a PGO at the end because of Corrina's message to me about keeping on giving you the benefit of the doubt. It was one of those situations where someone I had just realised was scummy was saying scummy things about you and my view turned upside down and considering there couldn't possibly be more than three remaining scum (hahahaha! ) that put you weirdly into the town box with @Gilford Goat (who I thought would enjoy being a bomb) so you got the PGO. At least after giving you all those roles you didn't like (I thought they were ok, actually) I didn't give you the shit-shoveller or sleepwalker role! No, I knew. I had to spend a long time looking things up on MafiaScum or asking Hinck about the myriad of different roles that kept appearing on the three lists every game day. I think it was only the Vengeful that I didn't bloody ask about, and that turned out to be a pointless role to give to myself and a wasted night. Anyway, confusion is helpful. I chipped stuff in where I thought I needed to look town, but really I just wanted to thin the numbers. Scum were very helpful with that until ultimately they were too helpful and it went a little skew-whiff. Again, this is very kind, thank you. Congratulations on your win. Night two I was going to track your Fruit Vending, wanting to see what you did, but decided instead to send in the action to track Rutherford as he was the nearly-lynched and I knew he had the Vig, not expecting he would hit a scum (mind you... with so many to choose from it would have been hard not to ). You gave your Fruit anyway, and in retrospect it didn't actually change my opinion of you. I may have missed something, but I don't get this. Oh Hinckle-Stinckle I do love you and your beautiful, crazy games. All the discussions, all the planning, me asking endless questions about what would happen with roles a and b in the context of absorbing x and using y and all that guff - it was exhaustingly wonderful, thank you. Your hosting is, in my opinon, the best mafia game hosting we have, and continues to improve each time. I would like to point out, in reference to the highlighted segments, all the options you dropped for each day were crazy, and night five's actions were really not all that crazy by comparison! So yes, it was ridiculous to think I'd pick up on it, especially when you'd been telling me about how much better you were at not messing with things! Day Five really... yeah it was quite an unpleasant sensation really, going from thinking I might have a chance with two townies (who I thought were Gilford and probably Parvani), to quite quickly the penny dropping and basically feeling a bit like a punching bag, so it was a really crap way to end the game. I am grateful to have had this role and to be so weirdly involved in the game mechanics and I love your MOCs, photography, comics, sense of humour and the time you give to produce all this, so thank you Hinckley, for being a wonderful host of a wonderful game.

WELL, I THINK THAT WOULD DEPEND ON A NUMBER OF FACTORS, BUT LET’S WORK ON THE BASIS THAT YOU COMPLETELY WOULD UNVOTE ME NOW PLS

NOT LYNCHING ME WOULD BE A START....

DO YOU REALISE, ASSUMING THAT ANYBODY HERE IS ACTUALLY TOWN, YOU HAVE ALREADY LOST? WITH ME COMES THE END; THERE WILL NOT BE A TOMORROW, NOR EVEN A TONIGHT IT MIGHT BE A BIT OF A SLOW DAY, THOUGH

NOW YOU'RE JUST BEING UNPLEASANT. YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO.

APOLOGIES DEAR LAMB PANDA? SUBTLETY IS SUBTLE. WELL.... YOU COULD JUST NOT LYNCH ME? I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU. IT'S THE BABY DWAGONS I FEEL SORRY FOR. I LOVE THOSE DWAGONS AS IF THEY WERE MY OWN CHILDREN. I DON'T WANT THE BABY DWAGONS TO BE SHOVELLED OFF THE SHIP!!

HELLO EVERYBODY! ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? YES YOU'RE NOT? YOU ARE THE DEVIL YOU KNOW I'M NOT OK WITH IT I NEVER EVEN TOUCHED YOU! HOW DARE YOU! MARVELLOUS! LET'S VOTE FOR SCUM! YOU THINK THE BUS DRIVER IS A STUPID ROLE? MAYBE YOU GAVE IT TO YOURSELF? WELL, WHEN THE INVESTIGATOR IS SCUM TOO.... I DON'T WELL, YOU COULD LOOK AT THE PEOPLE WHO'VE TOLD YOU THEY'RE SCUM, IF YOU WANT TO.... I'M RIGHT HERE AND I DON'T LOOK A BIT LIKE SPIDERMAN I AM AN APEX PREDATOR, PLUS I DON'T SEE ANY WOODS AROUND HERE VOTE: CORRINA COW

THAT WAS .... THE JOKE I WAS... oh never mind ARE YOU TRYING to say there was only one scum and now what, we're all town with a Trickster somewhere? I COULD GO FOR LAMB.... ....LAMB SANDWICH!! WELL, YEAH in amongst the other million things that might have happened last night, that's one of them I suppose. I commuted; what Parvani did is between her and the Walrus. SHE WOULDN'T, I was talking to Holbrook. If you stopped lying low a bit earlier you'd be able to remember who everyone is and keep up. IT'S CALLED COORDINATING night actions with people you believe to be town. They claimed their roles to me, I claimed mine to them because we believe each other to be town after observation in the thread and discussion in private. Corrina didn't directly claim, but still indicated she wanted to coordinate. If you want to shout at me, then go and shout at all of them too. How have you been trying to help sheepy?

OH YEAH OH YEAH OH YEAH WE'RE ALL HERE NOW, CAN WE HAVE BREAKFAST? OR YOU were blocked anyway, or you were busy doing something else... ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT YOU DON'T need to shout! I was offered protection by Gilford, and I declined because it would have been wasted on me because I was commuting, and I was involved in a discussion about investigations with Holbrook and the consideration of confirming town came up, so thought it fair to let him know as part of that to not waste his valuable action on me, as I'd be commuting. I wasn't expecting that. NO, I ASKED you to consider whether or not you would trust a "not scum" investigation result on Leatrix, and who you might consider to give a reliable result. We talked about a variety of possibilities. THIS IS uncomfortably true, but I agree with Giford that scum pose a more imminent threat. THANK YOU GENTLEMEN.

YOU DO ME too much credit, I merely said that it appeared to me that I thought Parvani was scummier than you did.

INDEED

HOW DID ME WONDERING about the framer/tailor make you decide to investigate Corrina? THEY UNEXPECTEDLY end up in a lot of sausages?

YES, BUT IS it, though? Who did you think would have been a better choice? Answering that question may be helpful. I like your umbrella by the way, umbrellas are very cool. NICE. You asked me and I gave you a range of options. I did not advise one single action. SO DEFENSIVE so early in the day. I've not even had my sausages.

WHAT THE SHIT? WHAT THE SHIT? WHAT THE SHIT? Everyone else is saying it, and it's appropriate in many ways. NOT ALL of that is blood. PLEASE DON'T eat any. HMMM. I'M INTERESTED. I commuted my ass out of here last night, as a couple of people know I did, so that'll be why you were unsuccessful. HMMM. BUT IT COULD also be because I commuted my ass out of here, like you knew I was going to. It's out of character for you to jump to conclusions.

SHOUTY SHOUTY *GENERAL BEAR NOISES* VERY NICE BUT, A lot of roles didn't really do anything, conveniently or otherwise Rutherford was not the only player I claimed to in the night Nobody else has claimed my role, so I either had that one or another not very interesting role, and I would have had to have made a good guess on the whole "vengeful" plot twist that has been confirmed by Shainen The fact you have nothing to say AT ALL about PARVANI speaks volumes. Sorry, I meant VOLUMES! SO YOU'RE WANTING TO implicate either Emeric or Gilford. Emeric's investigation result means little right now, as I've already said, especially in the light of possible manipulation from whatever the scum's mystery role was. I don't think this implicates Gilford necessarily, but if Emeric is the trickster then current evidence suggests he doesn't have a killing role. Scum do have a killing role, and I think you're one of them. VOTE STANDS.