Rodion wrote:Iliad:
1 - That + the "Paris" speculation
2 - I demanded a "name" claim, not a "full" claim. What I had was enough and that can be seen by the fact that his speculation suggested a shakespearean character, which he later acknowledged he wasn't.
Well obviously you're not an idiot. Asking for a full role claim without a well-founded reason would have meant instant bandwagon against you and I am sure you knew that. That with your continued under-appreciation of the weight of a name claim.
Rody wrote:3 - Guilty as charged. Would have done it again if given another opportunity.
It was a natural reaction to question someone who asks for a name claim out of the blue and expects everyone to be fine with it based on faith. It is not a good reaction to FOS everyone going against it.
Rody wrote:4 - Can you explain that, please? I just made another question that would actually lower my odds of catching a contradiction, but I still managed to catch it. Should I have dropped everything just because people didn't see through Bleed's inconsistent speculation as far as I did?
5/6 - You're correct. The one difference here is that I think that is enough and you don't.
It is flavor speculation and Bleed did later give a very weak but somewhat understandable coming from a new player looking too far into theme reason why his character may have been connected to Shakespeare.
Rody wrote:7 - So stop skimming and get your facts straight before you try to disagree with me just for the sake of it.
safariguy5 wrote:Now I see where Rodion is going with this, quite clever. I'd put some pressure on Bleed_Green, but it seems that certain people *ahem freezie and ndrs ahem* think that I'm pushing for the easy lynch, so I'll wait and hammer later if need be.
Here is the thing...No one actually said they wanted to hammer. Freezie and Naxus said they were willing to pressure more if the scenario called for it and Saf lended support to the wagon and said he was willing to hammer if it came to that point...basically if bleed was not able to come up with a decent defense and he was the consensus lynch for the day he would lynch. Let's look at what Safari has said about the bleed case since:
safariguy5 wrote:freezie wrote:Rodion wrote:Joan of Arc?
You, sir, are growing in rank on my scum list.
We have NO reasons for gim to claim. Just shut it up instead of pressing infos of random people.
Gim, unless you are pressured with the threat of a lynch, or unless you have solid info that will help the town, you should not reveal info about your character. It gives the evil guys a better view on who to kill to harm us more.
Your info, however, revealed something that everyone should take in consideration now: The game's theme is broad enough that questioning and trying to find it out will hurt us more than help at this point of the game. Later, we'll see. For now, it helps more the mafia to make fake claims than help us.
I want to see bleed getting some more pressure simply because of his weird acting that Rodion found out. Right now we're wasting time trying to find something we don't need to figure out yet.
I tried to warn that making bleed give up information without pressure was a slippery slope, and this is simply proving that warning. As of right now Rodion, with Bleed at the very least nameclaiming, I see no real case on him besides flavor speculation. Sure, additional pressure may cause him to reveal the role, I will give you that, but to continue to speculate on individual roles is much more detrimental to town than speculating on the game theme. Of course the question could be begged, if Bleed wasn't from a Shakespeare game, why the speculation about just Shakespeare characters, but I don't think it's a lynchable offense in and of itself.
safariguy5 wrote:Rodion wrote:gimli1990 wrote:i am starting to get the feeling that i revealed to much
but this quote below is why i did. i thought it would help the town more if i revealed some information on my charactor.
strike wolf wrote:however it is best not to unless you know it will help the town.
but from what i have read it helped the mafia more.
Not really, man, don't worry. People are overreacting to put me in a bad light and get
some suspicion away from Bleed.You said "french character from the beggining of the 1400s". I don't see how that weakens the town at all. Why?
a) we don't know if you're telling the truth
b) assuming you're telling the truth, we don't know if your character is, to put it simply (since this is your first game), "good" or "evil"
c) if you're "evil" (mafia or 3rd-party) the town didn't get weak at all, as nothing from their own side was revealed
d) if you're "good" (town or some harmless types of 3rd-party), the evil guys know that already, in part (mafia knows you are not mafia, multiplayer 3rd-parties know you're not part of their 3rd-party)
The way I see it, that is all harmless. I'll know tell you how what you did could harm the town.
a) there's some lyncher out there (or some other role) trying to get a french character from the early 1400s killed (or recruited for whatever winning condition they have). You did make it easier on them by saying you're french from early 1400s.
That's it. The Joan of Arc question (know I'm talking to everyone) I made is really irrelevant from a searching perspective. Why? Well, in a game with so many themes and centuries, if I had to kill/recruit/lynch a character named Joan of Arc, for instance, knowing Gimli was a french character from the early 1400s would've been enough. I would not have risked myself by openly asking it (that's WIFOM, I know - you can trust me if you want to).
Other than that slim possibility, the one way you could have hurt the town was if you mentioned your power, which you didn't. So, as I said in the beginning of this post, man, it's cool, don't worry about what you've done as people are just trying to make a tempest in a teapot.
But, yes, do not reveal your powers.

Again, where is the suspicion on bleed. Half your case revolved around him nameclaiming, and now that he did so, I don't see how the case you have on him can continue. Flavor spec is all well and good, but I don't believe that basing an entire case on just flavor spec is valid. It looks a bit like tunnel vision to me.
safariguy5 wrote:Rodion wrote:Safari, you want to talk about Bleed?
How could Dante Alighieri see Templars and shadows and still only speculate about Romeo and Juliet characters? And not understand the Templar's involvement?
Quoting just for you.
Think of it this way (simplified version for didactic purposes):
1 - Your character is "triangle".
2 - You see someone claiming "grape" and saying he was lovers with someone everyone considers to be "apple" (from the famous "Grape and Apple" book by this famous writer called "Farmer").
3 - Then you see N1 scene mentioning "shield" defending "sword", "shield" dying and his brother "spear" mourning his death.
4 - There's also this "dolphin" guy lurking in the shadows and surviving only due to his inhuman powers.
5 - Then you start to speculate on 3rd-parties, being only able to name fruits ("watermellon") and have the hardest time ever understanding why there would be "weapon" characters in what is obviously a "fruit game".
6 - Someone asks: "buddy, what's your name?"
7 - Everyone dislikes the question and forces him to ultimately rephrase it.
8 - That guy rephrases his question to "can you at least tell me if you are a fruit?"
9 - You answer: "I'm a geometric shape."
Does that even make sense?!
No, I'm saying I understand that argument. What I'm saying is that not understanding the theme (especially since the theme was hidden from us) in and of itself is not enough for me to vote him. I'm saying I'll need more evidence to throw my vote on Bleed. Flavor spec+ say bandwagonning or something is enough for me to vote someone, but pure flavor spec isn't to me.
safariguy5 wrote:Man I could cut the sarcasm with a knife... Really Rodion, I understand the case, I just don't think it's strong enough to warrant a vote. Props for trying, but I'm not buying it.
safariguy5 wrote:Rodion wrote:Iliad wrote:Not an admission of guilt, nor anything that conclusively points to guilt. Sure he isn't a Shakespearean character, but considering his name claim it isn't too hard to see why he thought that the game might have a Shakespearen theme.
Because if you're Dante Alighieri (italian writer) you're totally expected to think the game might have a Shakespearean theme? Can you please make some sense out of that before I get even
more scummy for OMGUSing you?
But what exactly does that have to do with being mafia? You're saying that if he had claimed a shakespeare character, then he would have been innocent, but on the flip side, if he doesn't he's automatically scummy? That's not necessarily scummy, there's no logical opposite that would automatically make him mafia. It's definitely noteworthy, and noted by me, but not an indictment of guilt in and solely by itself.
So basically you are trying to exaggerate the support your case got and use it as a shield against those accusing you now.
Rody wrote:8/9/10 - I'm too new in mafia to know what you mean by "flagrantry rolefishing", but all I did in searching for roles was:
a) ask for someone's name after he seemed really suspicious
b) merely ask a player who had already given a huge hint towards his name to confirm the most obvious candidate
I did not ask for powers, alignments or anything else you might deem important, I only asked for 2 names: 1 from a player that was really suspicious and 1 from a player that had already given like 80% of his character's name. If you think that is "flagrantry rolefishing all day", you (all) can try to get me lynched and see what happens.
As has been said. Any unnecessarily spilt information in a day tends to be bad for the town. Yes he had said information that agrees with Joan of Arc's profile but he did not say Joan of Arc specifically and there could be other characters from the time line. It is at the very least you can not guarantee scum won't over look as long as it's not pressed.