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Game Over on Round 5 Day
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  • I’m starting to see the importance of both Cop and Bodyguard claiming today:

    Mafia Claims: Mafia either gets lynched on the 50/50 this day, or dies next day in the 100% guarantee due to their claim

    Mafia Doesn’t Claim: 1 Vanilla gets deleted today, Bodyguard can guard Cop to guarantee their own death or the vanilla villagers as Cop investigates one of the remaining supposed vanillas.

    If the Vanilla dies, then the Cop and Bodyguard know who is Mafia, because neither of them are.
    If the Bodyguard dies, then Cop knows who is or isn’t Mafia.


    @ExLight does the math work out here? Because if so, this seems like a town victory.
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  • (I accidentally said tonight instead of today for a part. Whoops.)
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  • The cop has no function anymore beyond being claimable, because the remaining mafioso is immune to the cop (godfather). I think it's important that discussion this phase be predominantly behavioral at least as much as mechanical, because I don't see a claims system that would provide better odds than just proceeding and having a power role claim if they are threatened toward EOD (or near a hammer of 3 votes). I could be mistaken; it has been a long day and it is difficult to think straight.
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  • The cop has no function anymore beyond being claimable, because the remaining mafioso is immune to the cop (godfather). I think it's important that discussion this phase be predominantly behavioral at least as much as mechanical, because I don't see a claims system that would provide better odds than just proceeding and having a power role claim if they are threatened toward EOD (or near a hammer of 3 votes). I could be mistaken; it has been a long day and it is difficult to think straight.
    I’m honestly feeling a bit worn out too, but if that is the case (where Cop cannot see Godfather as mafia), then this seems like we’re back to regular guessing…
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  • POE would suggest the answer is Serif. Maybe. I find myself troubled by one thing though: I'm not sure Serif would be likely to kill Caitlin as a wolf.

    Caitlin was effectively confirmed town, and perhaps that's all that needs to be said. Still, Caitlin was clearly the most pro-Serif player in this thread. I'm also not sure that Serif has been engaged with the game to such an extent that "make the mechanically appropriate kill" needs to be an assumption even for them as mafia. They seem kind of unaware in general (understandably, no offense intended).

    I acknowledge the wifom. I think we're sort of forced to confront wifom at this stage though. I'd like to really go through the game again and fully reassess. I have visitors here though, and it is not easy for me to get into this thread. I think I'll have time tomorrow evening if folks avoid any hammers until then. Before that time, I can still poke in on my phone a bit and at least talk the game over.
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  • The dialogue I had previously with ExLight about GloriousBob being killed makes me want to go back and look at Bob's posts more closely. Bob was killed for some reason, and that should be assessed (while acknowledging possibilities like "power role chasing" or "bodyguard dodging"). I'll make that a priority now while I have a moment.
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  • Spoiler

    I wanted a GloriousBob ISO, so I made one myself. Don't click the spoiler unless you want every single GloriousBob post on your screen.
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  • I note that Bob voted for all of Leesbra, ExLight, and callahan/Sugar Moon at least once during Day 1 (the latter two near EOD).

    So. lol

    I'm gonna stare at the details for a while and see if I can squeeze out some new insight.
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  • Note to self: serif replaced GoldenOne

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  • When I throw a big multi-quote ISO into a pile like that, does it randomize their order? I'm so confused about how that GloriousBob spoiler ended up. Oh well, at least there are timestamps.
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  • I'm trying to track the progressions of Bob's reads on the living players, and that is more difficult when the posts are in a crazy order. But I think this is how it went:

    Bob on ExLight -- started decent, became highly positive, and was highly positive for the majority of Day 1. Only at the very end did Bob vote for ExLight briefly when they seemed to think ExLight was sidelining EOD (or something like that). That looks more like a pressure move than something Bob would have wanted me to treat as a hard suspicion from a legacy standpoint. The vast majority of Bob's takes on ExLight were in the town-reads direction. Here's a late-Day 1 example:

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    ExLight is perhaps my top town for I do believe they are genuinely trying to solve my alignment and do not have it.

    Bob on Leesbra -- Bob suspected Leesbra arguably more than anyone else for much of Day 1. While some players were town reading Leesbra early, Bob was expressing misgivings (and responding to Leesbra's mutual suspicion of them with more misgivings). However, Bob ended Day 1 with a different viewpoint:

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    Leesbra, at an earlier point of the game I felt like Leesbra was coming off awkward... "stilted" being the word. But Luka dropped a very flippant townread on them. My thought at the time was, well maybe Luka can be wrong. But as the game has unfolded Caitlin has also come to the defense of Leesbra strongly. I learn over time that this means Leesbra is probably town, particularly when one of the players shielding them is mafia.

    This is important to me, because this is the kind of read that is Bob's bread and butter. Indeed, they wrote a literal article about making this kind of read (click here). This tells me that Bob placed a lot of value in this process that arrived at a town read on Leesbra and probably would have stuck to it given time. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean Leesbra would understand that dynamic -- but nonetheless, the final read by Bob on Leesbra was a town read.

    Bob on serif -- There's not a whole lot here. That's understandable, there wasn't much to say about the serif slot in general. When they provided the reads list from which I extracted the quotes above, this was the serif note:

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    Serif's entry was quite nice. I felt some joy. There was no apprehension. A little bit of playfulness. I give them time.

    It's at least a little positive. Certainly not negative. I'm not sure there's a clear behavioral reason for serif to want Bob removed.

    Bob on callahan/Sugar Moon -- Bob's initial take on callahan was positive. They seemed to interpret the argument between callahan and I as "town/town", and served as a sort of mediator in that moment. Props to Bob for doing that, by the way. Regardless of callahan's alignment, that is a very pro-town thing to do, and others should take note in future games. Very well managed. Anyway, that read trajectory was probably the one that changed the most for the worse. For example:

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    Callahan I was perhaps wrong on. In that I defended them to Jay. But subsequent to this interaction they have not profiled as the same type of player in further interactions. Their Jay read developed into a quite oddball townread and outside of their flirtation with tunneling KOFM himself their play has been chaotic in a way that doesn't feel townie. Less pursuit of solutions and more pursuit of resolutions if you catch my meaning.

    Bob seemed to change their impression of the "town/town" argument based upon callahan's progression after that event, and this isn't accompanied by the same late Day 1 town read nods Bob afforded to the others in this analysis. Bob also voted callahan in the vicinity of EOD, and I don't get the impression it had the same pressure-based function that their vote on ExLight may have had.

    Based on all of this, if Bob was killed at least in part due to their reads, my first guess would be callahan/Sugar Moon being a part of that decision. Still, I add two critical caveats:

    1) It's possible that Bob was killed for mechanical reasons instead of behavioral reasons. If so, much of this conjecture is rendered moot. We can't really know on this point. I think it is important to survey all of the evidence available to us anyway, and this is something we can certainly discuss today.

    2) Unfortunately, this is entirely about GloriousBob and callahan. That leaves Sugar Moon in a rather crappy position. I'm not sure how they are supposed to address any of this, and I acknowledge that that's lame. Replacements be like that. Nonetheless, I very much welcome your input, Sugar Moon, whether about anything I said regarding callahan or especially the other three.

    Ranking the most behavioral evidence suggesting a killing motive, most-to-least:

    callahan/Sugar Moon
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  • I'm treating GloriousBob as the kill comfortably worth the most from a night kill analysis perspective. Icet and Caitlin dying have much more readily apparent mechanical explanations.
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  • Gonna make a 10th post just in case I get frozen out tomorrow due to my visitors. Unlikely, but whatever I want to ensure the rules are followed.

    Plenty to talk about in the meantime, gang.
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  • Actually that was pointless, because I want to say one more thing.

    My analyzing the Bob kill should not be confused with my overall reads. That ranked list I provided (Sugar Moon > Leesbra > ExLight > serif) refers solely to a single slice of the evidence pie (Bob being killed). My broader POE had led me to the opposite end with serif as the top suspect, so there's some turbulence here for me. This is not an easy choice. I will think it over for now.
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  • Actually that was pointless, because I want to say one more thing.

    My analyzing the Bob kill should not be confused with my overall reads. That ranked list I provided (Sugar Moon > Leesbra > ExLight > serif) refers solely to a single slice of the evidence pie (Bob being killed). My broader POE had led me to the opposite end with serif as the top suspect, so there's some turbulence here for me. This is not an easy choice. I will think it over for now.

    I would like to hear your thoughts on the merits of having the PRs claim today.
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