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Blind Wolf is pretty useless though. Sure we got a strong night 0 but there was a pretty indication by night 1 who people were and we had a hard time even picking who we wanted to see.
Yeah, hence the planning thing. Doing it blind (hurrhurr!) is going to leave a lot of viable options at the wayside.

I will say that a surprising number of townies did lie/layer claims effectively though, and that's awesome. We need more of that!

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If I had to pick out our biggest blunder - it was us targeting Jawneh with Nightmare instead of Vash, but I don't know who Alu had targeted so even that may have backfired.
I would say it's Local and Kelly both relying on your false check and not laying claims for themselves on Day 1 was probably the biggest mistake. When the fingers started getting pointed, they both came up repeatedly on most people's lists because of that.

It's still going to be hard for the wolves to win - I did say as much in Day 2 lol - and especially if the Solo Killer isn't making successful kills. But that's normal and so I don't really weigh that too heavily.
 
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I would say it's Local and Kelly both relying on your false check and not laying claims for themselves on Day 1 was probably the biggest mistake. When the fingers started getting pointed, they both came up repeatedly on most people's lists because of that.
Yeah - that too. Didn't help that Local basically wasn't around for work and that most my team was relatively quiet/busy.
 

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I knew it would happen. I was just hoping Jon would have done the obvious move of protecting Vash. He pointed out that he thought Vash and I were coupled in the sheet so I thought that meant people would figure it out.

Oh well. Glad we were able to figure out 3 of the wolves in the lovers chat.
Yeah I expected him to protect me. Ah well.
 

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I'm pretty confident they're going to second guess going for Local.
If only Jon protected Vash lol.

We totally were gunning for Local next if we were still alive. Benzine should 100% do that now that there's literally nothing to prove his innocence other than the exact same Bell Ringer play Benzine did as a wolf. I hope he jumps on it.
 
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If only Jon protected Vash lol.

We totally were gunning for Local next if we were still alive. Benzine should 100% do that now that there's literally nothing to prove his innocence other than the exact same Bell Ringer play Benzine did as a wolf. I hope he jumps on it.
Yeah, I definitely figured Vash would go for Local, didn't expect you though since we didn't know you were Cupid'd lol.
 

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Yeah, I definitely figured Vash would go for Local, didn't expect you though since we didn't know you were Cupid'd lol.
I figured you wouldn't believe Vash's claim of why he protected me. I just thought it would have made you think we were coupled as opposed to going after your own team lol.
 
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I figured you wouldn't believe Vash's claim of why he protected me.
Honestly I was just hoping the whole "he's a confirmed townie" would do the heavy lifting for me because that explanation was some of the worst lying work I've ever done :link
 
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Honestly I was just hoping the whole "he's a confirmed townie" would do the heavy lifting for me because that explanation was some of the worst lying work I've ever done :link
"Uh he's playing looser in this game but also playing like he's trying to help me, but not caring while doing it."

*Protect*
 

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Honestly I was just hoping the whole "he's a confirmed townie" would do the heavy lifting for me because that explanation was some of the worst lying work I've ever done :link
I mean...

Your lie kinda worked but not how you intended.

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I immediately regretted outing Alu and admitting he was attacked because I should have at least thought it through but this was right after Zell's post about people watching what other players were doing and I was really annoyed that people would do shit like that, which goes against the concept of the game. Just wanted to post and be done with things for a bit and not get all wound up over that.
 
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I haven't really seen too much of the thread yet, but: This Voodoo Wolf idea is super not great? The only way this works is if nobody alive understands what they're actually being asked to believe from a metagame perspective.

But even beyond that: Why Local, is what you have to ask as a townie. Does not remotely compute. This Voodoo Wolf targets nobody the first two days, then targets Tommy (makes sense), and then... Local? Who may or may not show up anyway because he's "busy." Over shortkut, who is a known entity and has been working with the town?

I get that it's not something that the wolves can control, and I get that technically everyone has suspicions so "the Voodoo Wolf doesn't want to exonerate anyone," but... but...

For someone like me, independent of knowing who they are, this play just blatantly outs Tommy as the final wolf. 👀
 

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I haven't really seen too much of the thread yet, but: This Voodoo Wolf idea is super not great? The only way this works is if nobody alive understands what they're actually being asked to believe from a metagame perspective.

But even beyond that: Why Local, is what you have to ask as a townie. Does not remotely compute. This Voodoo Wolf targets nobody the first two days, then targets Tommy (makes sense), and then... Local? Who may or may not show up anyway because he's "busy." Over shortkut, who is a known entity and has been working with the town?

I get that it's not something that the wolves can control, and I get that technically everyone has suspicions so "the Voodoo Wolf doesn't want to exonerate anyone," but... but...

For someone like me, independent of knowing who they are, this play just blatantly outs Tommy as the final wolf. 👀
For sure. Preacher is 100% a good voodoo target.

A spent and also unproven Bell Ringer? Nope.
 

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I immediately regretted outing Alu and admitting he was attacked because I should have at least thought it through but this was right after Zell's post about people watching what other players were doing and I was really annoyed that people would do shit like that, which goes against the concept of the game. Just wanted to post and be done with things for a bit and not get all wound up over that.
I was mad about it too but for transparency.

Tommy figured it out when looking at online players a few minutes before the day phase and noticed us all showing as Engaged in Conversation so we panicked and thought we were fucked, so Zell got ahead of it.

It's unclear if anyone is or has been using it to their advantage.
 

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I immediately regretted outing Alu and admitting he was attacked because I should have at least thought it through but this was right after Zell's post about people watching what other players were doing and I was really annoyed that people would do shit like that, which goes against the concept of the game. Just wanted to post and be done with things for a bit and not get all wound up over that.
Oh is this what was happening... Now things make a lot more sense to me.
 
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I was mad about it too but for transparency.

Tommy figured it out when looking at online players a few minutes before the day phase and noticed us all showing as Engaged in Conversation so we panicked and thought we were fucked, so Zell got ahead of it.

It's unclear if anyone is or has been using it to their advantage.
Yeah I would have liked a comment along the lines of "I have no reason to believe if anyone HAS been doing it but now I know it's possible"

Because I took the post to mean "Someone's triflin"
 

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Yeah I would have liked a comment along the lines of "I have no reason to believe if anyone HAS been doing it but now I know it's possible"

Because I took the post to mean "Someone's triflin"
Yeah between that and another wolf incident for me, it's been a frustrating couple days of wolf for me.
 

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Yeah I would have liked a comment along the lines of "I have no reason to believe if anyone HAS been doing it but now I know it's possible"

Because I took the post to mean "Someone's triflin"
Big same.

But I also thought "how would Zell know someone has been doing this unless the person who was doing this told Zell"
 

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I was mad about it too but for transparency.

Tommy figured it out when looking at online players a few minutes before the day phase and noticed us all showing as Engaged in Conversation so we panicked and thought we were fucked, so Zell got ahead of it.

It's unclear if anyone is or has been using it to their advantage.
Oh... is that all? I thought we had some confirmed shenanigans or something to worry about.

Thankfully it's just paranoia. :giggle
 

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Oh... is that all? I thought we had some confirmed shenanigans or something to worry about.

Thankfully it's just paranoia. :giggle
I honestly feel like it's been used at one point or another by someone, there's no way it's gone this long unnoticed in my honest opinion.
 

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I honestly feel like it's been used at one point or another by someone, there's no way it's gone this long unnoticed in my honest opinion.
Possibly? Definitely not unnoticed though. I mean I can tell you with absolute certainty that I've seen @Smacktard "Engaged in Conversation" many times over the last few months, because he's still on when I check in before work and that time period has only a couple of names in the online field. But I don't really think too much of it, and my track record with (not lmao) pinning wolves speaks to how effectively that would've been used on this end if nothing else? I'm sure I see Crystal, Mark and people like Webster in PMs a lot to as a result of accidental hovers and whatnot too.

Like, I do get the concern. I just haven't noticed anyone making hail mary gut checks on the regular and nailing people with exclusively open profiles. There's still a big gap between "engaged in conversation" and "this is my evidence for why this person is a wolf," so I'm not personally too worried.

For the super paranoid: The forum isn't a live tracker, so it just shows whatever thing you've opened last. My profile has always been open, and I've always just opened a PM in a new tab and immediately clicked to something else (the main page, the active thread, whatever) after and the latter's what's shown. That's the thing I mentioned before that's not super convenient on mobile/in the app.
 

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Benzine seems to be aligning with Jon, Jawneh, and Dean so far. Just need Kut to jump on board.

It'll be interesting to see how Tommy responds to this if the plan is to have Local stay silent today. He'd be unable to defend himself, and if he does come back and post then the idea of a voodoo wolf should vanish.
 

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Sup I'm trying to get caught up but
Nothing new in here, literally just copy-pasting. And I'll take a pass on the post-game smack-talk and discussion, I think. It is what it is.

(Insert blind wolf discussions)
Yeah by the end of Night 1 we had no need for any wolf seers but we had 3. Two blind wolves is completely redundant, a wolf seer is just taking the piss. If one of us had an alpha wolf, it would've completely changed the tides.

As for talk about strong/weak townies, the bully is classified as strong, but I'd argue that the witch is stronger. Vash pulled off a kill AND a protection, which significantly altered the game as a result. What would the bully have done? Made us unable to use a night seer? We should've kept the bully alive another night and gone after Vash.

So IMO "strong" isn't always a helpful seer result, and we'd be better off targetting normal roles occasionally. If we'd hit an avenger, it's likely they'd have taken out a townie based on what I've read so far.
 

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Completely agree with Kelly.

Getting stuck with two blind wolfs and a wolf seer was utter trash. We didn't really have any weapons.
 

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2x Bully is not a way I would've liked to start the game either, but yeah - is what it is.

The ONLY advantage of Blind Seer is avoiding Spirit Seer.
 

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Also I said it before in the wolf chat but I'll say it again here:
I think it's stupid that someone can claim avenger and then hold the town hostage by saying they'll kill a townie if they get lynched
literally WHAT

Also also, I think if I hadn't been away much of my day, I maybe could've fought to stay alive. I thought the "lynch Dean, Dean tag me" gambit made the most sense from a pure stats PoV. It's a shame I only became active when everyone else had already gone to bed and there was no time to influence the vote :/
 
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