FG: Mafia XXIV: Jurassic Park

[Spaced Cowboy]

Quite a long post for a mafia.

[Hercules]

Spaced

Not much hope for the only citizen.

What sort of nonsense is that. Oh I get it, you to trying to mislead Gamecube64 into believing you are only a citizen but in a self sacrificing gesture (martyr) you will help him take me out. Then next turn Gamecube wakes up to discover his mouth stuffed with ''veriformans'.

I am not sure there are two mafia left now. And I don't think Ben Kenobi was one. It was clever of you to kill Ben in the way you did knowing Kuci set a pattern of varying the kill method. So after your poisoning kill would come a forceful method.

[rah]

Ah the classic dilemma, it's down to three and you're the mafia. Do you vote first and try to deflect attention to someone, or wait to be second.
If you're second and the first person doesn't name you, you win. If they do name you, you quickly post to try to make the first poster look guilty since voting for the one that hasn't, at best gets you a tie. Voting first makes you look suspicious and that usually sways the third person.

The one time I got that far as the mafia I chose second

But the clues seem to point to Spaced. Thank god I'm not the third person.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Hello....knock, knock. I was the mafia last time. That make the odds outstanding that it is not me this one. However, Herc is making a convincing arguement for GC.

[rah]

If it's random selection, odds mean nothing.

And I did say that when I was the mafia, I voted second.

And if it's GC, he has already won. Since he can vote for one and kill the other.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Although it is random, the odds of being selected in 2 games in a row are very high.

[Gamecube64]

Hercules!

[Hercules]

Well that's me dead, congratulations Spaced, you win.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Nah, cuz I'm not the mafia.....good game GC

[Ljube]

Hercules was one of the mafias. Since you are not the other, I guess I was right and Ben Kenobi was the other.

[Hercules]

Spaced Cowboy: I hadn't followed the previous game (Kass's Psycho - multi personality game) so missed that you had been the Mafia in that one.

So when the game participants got down to the last 5/6 surviving park people I started looking at the clues, which seemed to involve 'italic' hints. Most didn't make sense, except those related to me. I figured it was Spaced, ' hell' in italics but got a tad confused by the kill methods, Kuci ascribed.

Up to a certain point I reckoned there were two mafia left and mentally went through the process of contemplating a double mafia victory: hence the 'hell of a chance' comment.

Frozzy's non appearance though on the tied vote threw my 'plan' awry. I kept you alive because I counted on Frozzy voting against you (killing, as I thought, a mafia from a distance).

L-L's intervention though had two effects. It drew attention to me and to Ben Kenobi. As I still thought Spaced was the mafia ( but having increasing doubts) I killed Ben Kenobi (just in case LL was right - but also to have a counter against SC if he voted for me which he did). I was counting on Gamecubes previous voting choice to lead him to vote against SC. But he didn't. Those strong man clues were hard to refute.

interestingly if my plan had gone according to plan, SC would have been killed by Frozzy and Gamecube would have been 'my next kill -as I assumed SC was the other Mafia and still alive.

If Ben Kenobi was the other Mafia (it could have been Frozzy) it would be interesting to know his or Frozzy's views on unfolding events.

I nearly made it and it was good fun. And as probably former Mafia know, getting revenge, for early exits from games way back, but well disguised is satisfying.

Like you I will be interested in Kuciwalker's explanation of the clues. Were they simply the first letter of the italicised words or the words themselves.? And why the variation in the Kill methods- unless the other mafia was killed even earlier.

[Ben Kenobi]

We should have had allied Mafia victory!

I'm willing to partner with Hercules to win, but his treachery ensured the defeat of us both.

However, it is a testament of the competence of the villagers that the only thing that could stop the mafia were the mafia themselves.

[Ben Kenobi]

L-L's intervention though had two effects. It drew attention to me and to Ben Kenobi.

Unfortunately, but I figured with Frozzy dead, anything he could throw at us could not deprive us of allied Mafia victory, given 4 people left, and two mafia after the defeat of Frozzy.

As I still thought Spaced was the mafia ( but having increasing doubts) I killed Ben Kenobi (just in case LL was right - but also to have a counter against SC if he voted for me which he did).

Look at my orders to Kassi. I figured you were Mafia some time ago, and left you alone. You never appeared even on my final list because I wanted a cool allied Mafia victory.

[joncha]

Lj-lj was right?!?

Surely this is one of the signs of the Apocalypse...

[Ben Kenobi]

And why would I start a dogpile against Ljube?

It worked perfectly. Ljube survived, and the fact that I started a dogpile eliminated me from suspicion.

Later on, I could pick on Ljube again, to get a free kill of a non-mafia without drawing inordinate attention to myself. Who else could I safely pick on, but Ljube.

I was a little afraid of DarkCloud's hints about the Park Guide, but I ignored them, because then no one paid attention to his ramblings.

Ljube's, I could not, because he was spot on, so I had to rebut his case, which obviously worked because Hercules did not know I was Mafia, even when we were down to 3.