Also more of your 'gambit'; why did you do it? what were you trying to gain from it? you haven't even discussed it yet today despite posting a couple times, why not?
Again, I just wanted to give the other people in the room their space, see what gets said, without causing a D1 fiasco. Try not to congratulate me too hard for giving patience a chance.
Seemed like a good idea at the time, but it's kinda pointless to follow up with it now - mainly because if the goal of any gambit is trying to trip people and knock scum off balance, the trap is now easily visible. So, I have to move on.
As for the question, "did we gain anything from it?" - we have some kind of day end voting pattern to look at, and it's mostly as a reaction to whatever I did. What is odd is how few people voted.
If there is truth to the chat silence, it's most likely a scum or neutral power. It doesn't make much sense for town to have a "power" like that unless there's some sort of other condition attached to it. Thus the fact that they got hit by it would imply they're town or neutral. I have no interest in speculating on what Burb may or may not have included tho. For now, the power is unconfirmed.
I agree that spending too much time on this today is a waste, but just to respond to the talk about it - I think about PRs a lot in terms of negative utility and a balancing mechanism.
NeutralSilencer would be a repeat of LB1, so this seems the least likely.
ScumSilencer is a possibility, but I am considering two possibilities:
1) If we compare a mafia Silencer power to other, typical mafia powers (Strongman, Godfather, etc., ), it seems kinda weak? I know Love Boat is all about the chats for me, but apparently not everybody uses them, so it seems like a wash. I guess the likelihood would depend on how strong the Town PRs are - something we're not gonna be able to assess until the end. Pointless rabbithole.
2) The power almost seems slightly bastard in mafia's hands, because they would know who they're targeting with it, and it then becomes all about griefing the town players. This is especially harsh for Ordinary Town people.
TownSilencer is what makes more sense to me, because you still get that blind luck of the draw as you would a Vig.
A town aligned chat silencer could easily just as hit town as much as it could scum, so I don't think the power is town-aligned. Which makes this post...
.. stand out as mildly curious because it almost sounds like Kark thinks it's a town-aligned power?
I did assume that at the time, mainly out of caution for fully outing a PR. I had to make this decision in a snap, too, because I had no idea how Xbro was gonna react, or if he recognized the importance of being vague about it for now. It clearly did not work out.
Anyway, let's shelf this topic until something else comes up with it.
Xbro is making me read that boat as town btw
I don't wanna go too far, I've been fooled by newbies before, but he feels pure
I've lost interest in thinking Kark is scum and think this is just mind bending lazy town play at this point (plus Xbro seems too pure and I think scum was using him as an easy wagon before Orb got pushed yesterday) but you really have been known to take a step back for like 72 hours or a game just to watch?
That's odd
