(WHY AREN'T WE ALL VOTING FOR JUSTIN THIS GAME? Are you all so scared of him since he was Mayor and scum last game? He won didn't he? If he was a town role, he'd win it for us wouldn't he?)
I didn't even bother running for Mayor in this game for this reason. I figured it was a waste of time considering that I'm sure a bunch of players would use some genius deduction along the lines "He was scum Mayor last game, so he must be this game!". Besides, I'm not sure if I even want the responsibility of Mayor.
The Mafia is probably laughing at us all and manipulating us by allowing our doubts and paranoia get the best of us. Ever thought that the Mafia can be trying extremely hard to make damn sure that Karla doesn't get elected?
It certainly will be telling to look back at this day later on in the game when we have some confirmed roles/deaths to work with. Without naming anyone specifically, there are very clearly a couple players on each side fighting very strongly in an aggressive manner either for Karla or for anyone but Karla. Obviously, Karla is strongly
not wanted as Mayor by the mafia if he is town. It'll be good information to look at later on in the game, let's not forget to. Assuming I'm still alive, I will. You know since, unlike last game, I'm actually town this game and will be useful.
I'M BACK *****ES!
There's been a lot of debate about VillageDweller's godfather suspicion last game and if it's a good reason to vote for him. I don't have much of an opinion on that... but what is worth pointing out is his ordeal with claiming to Kayla, especially right after suspecting her the day before! Now, to be fair here, VD was by far not even close to the only blue role to suffer this mistake last game. However, doing this right after talking about how Kayla is probably Mafia shows an especially bad play. For this reason, I don't feel comfortable having VD as an elected role in this game. He isn't quite experienced enough yet I feel.
I would also personally help out anyone who's willing to contact me, via PM or w/e you want. I will gladly give advice, discuss things with you, personal planning etc and help you out as much as I possibly can.
^^^ Also, this is not necessarily a good thing... If anyone needs a reminder, this is what happened with many players last game regarding Kayla. Yes, you can certainly talk to the elected folks, but it's very easy to start trusting them too much simply because you've been talking. Super Penguin in particular fell into this trap last game. So I do find it a bit suspicious of VD to effectively encourage this sort of thing to happen again with him.
Related to VD, I do find it a bit odd how Oath put himself out there to nominate VD. Unless you are either scum mates together, or good friends (and to my knowledge, they aren't very good friends), I can't see why someone would nominate someone else. Players can post themselves to reveal their candiancy, they don't need someone else to do that for them to start. So Oath would be on my suspicion list later in the game if VD turns out mafia.
Now for Karla, there's no doubt in my mind that if he is a town member, he will be an excellent mayor. Of course... we don't know if he is town or not, as has been discussed for the last... every page of this game? We cannot answer that question for sure, it is impossible, aside from cheating. So it really comes down to... how much are we willing to risk possibly making one of the best players in the game Mafia Mayor/Sheriff? There is a part of me who feels that the best strategy may be to intentionally elect someone who is closer to the middle on the skill level chart. Someone who knows what they're doing and won't make obvious rookie mistakes, but not someone who is skilled enough to completely screw us over if they're mafia. Of course, this is a bit of a hard thing for me to suggest someone for, as it's basically telling them that I don't think they're an amazing player.
Well, speaking of that, I actually think Trundle would match that criteria fairly well. Please don't take offense man.
Trundle is a good player, he's played enough IRC and Forum mafia to know how the game works, and is well capable of analysing posts. But yet, I don't think he quite has the knowhow to grand scheme a plan screwing us over if he is Mafia. So a fairly safe choice in my mind.
The last two Mayor candidates that I've seen mentioned are River and LaurinaMN. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see River play much last game, but there was the first game where she was mafia. So we would have something to crosscheck for how she plays as scum. Her tells were quite obvious to be honest. So River as Mayor/Sheriff, I'm confident we'd figure out if she was scum fairly soon into the game. That's a good thing.
LaurinaMN actually has zero votes, but she's mentioned her candidacy so she should be included in this I think. The issue with her is that we have very, very little to go by on how she plays. She was killed the very first night last game, and wasn't present at all in the first game. So she could potentially be quite dangerous as we don't know how she usually plays much. Definitely a smart player though, there's a reason we picked to kill her the first night in the last game!
At this moment, I am placing my vote for Trundle. I may still change it though depending on some of the responses to this post. There's still quite a bit of time remaining in the day! I also encourage those of you with a vote currently on VD to take into consideration what I said earlier about him, and perhaps consider changing your vote to someone else.
