Alright, let's go back right to the beginning.
*Begin blasting favourite playlist in the background*
Do not put me on the team. I'm resistance but lazy.
The first odd thing to notice about this game. But frankly, I'm still struggling to find any reason for a spy to do this. So, goodie points? Unless his plan *was* to seem like a resistance member without actually doing anything that hurts him as a spy. Yeah, that's why you don't give goodie points on meaningless things let's just forget this.
Propose a team of:
Panzer, Alxeu
Approve
I make my proposal as usual and...
Ha. Ha. Very funny.
Yes, but what is the sense in rejecting?
We're more or less guaranteed to get a success, or somebody will narrow down to 1/2 possible spies.
There is no loss there.
This was Rovsea's comment on my proposed team of Myself+Alxeu. From a neutral perspective, the *actual* chance of that team being spy-free is ~28%. Now, Rovsea might have just known that spies rarely sabotage the first mission. If he did, on his very first game, good on him. But looking back at it, no matter which spy team we choose, from the perspective of Spy!Rovsea, this *was* a guaranteed success. Making the right deduction, or trying to set up goodie credit? I guess we'll see.
The team of Panzer and alxeu was REJECTED 4-3.
APPROVE: Panzer, Rovsea, alxeu
REJECT: Falc, Dexander, aedan, madchemist
alxeu becomes the leader.
My team was rejected by everyone except the two people on it, and Rovsea. Both our possible spy pairs rejected it. Goodie points for me and alxeu? Perhaps a bit less to alxeu, given he'd likely be on the next team anyway, but then...
In the interests of keeping the game alive, then:
The team of alxeu and Rovsea was REJECTED 4-3:
APPROVE: alxeu, Rovsea, Panzer
REJECT: Falc, aedan, Dexander, (madchemist)
Rovsea becomes the leader and must propose a 2-man team.
Not any better. Same approvers. Same rejecters. The problem is, alxeu, rovsea and I can't possibly all be resistance members.
Team of:
Falc
Rovsea
Approve
And now, the curious proposal. We've already talked about this. Baddie points to Rovsea.
That hurts Aedan, it really does. Have you no faith in me?
But I am glorious member of the resistance! Don't make me steal the first card you get.
Rovsea playing around. It struck me as odd and still does. That's a pretty darn confident attitude to be taking for a first time player, especially a confused, in-the-dark resistance member.
REJECT
See previous rejection for reason.
Wait, hold on for a sec... I AM on this team. Dammit.
APPROVE!!!
Falc faking carelessness. (You don't actually reject a team for not being on it without checking first)
I thought he was specifically rejecting them because he was not on the team? Oh wait, that's right, he was.
Rovsea being ostentatious again. Hm...
That's everyone then.
The team of Falc and Rovsea was REJECTED 4-3:
APPROVE: Rovsea, Falc, Panzer
REJECT: aedan, madchemist, Dexander, alxeu
Dexander becomes the leader.
Adding Falc to the team did not add any approvals. Strange, given this was the third proposal, we should have gotten more approvals naturally, even without any spies on. Then again, this was a non-standard proposal. And if Falc and Rovsea are both spymates, that could explain that.(Then again, why would Rovsea skip to him then? Unless he was being a smarty and thought proposing a two-spy team would make him look good) And if they're not, people might be worried about looking suspicious for approving a non-standard team that got sabotaged.
I feel as if my universe has been crushed. Thank you all. I'm going to go do soul-crushing things like paperwork now.
I feel like I'm multi-quoting all Rovsea's posts for being odd now. This is why you need to be serious as a resistance member - acting silly and careless just adds confusion and makes you hard to read.
APPROVE because it is now time to move on.
Is it? Or do you just like that team? I mean, you're not on it. The only difference from the previous ones is madchemist is on(And Dexander too, they might still all 3 be spies, but that's not something we'll consider for now)
Did Dexander approve my proposal? No?
Ok.
Reject
Christ, is he always that annoying?
"People who have nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say it" ~ Michonne.
Fascinating. Nice to see a spy other than myself and aedan daring enough to sabotage the first mission.
At least one (see last game, for example). But yeah, it is actually only one.
I wouldn't be so quick to reject out of hand everyone the prior proposals and the voting, but yes, as of now there is no obvious difference between Dexander and myself, based solely on voting. (Incidentally, I was going to repropose that mission if it got rejected, so yeah...).
I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. Aedan is quite capable of rejecting a mission favorable to the spies as a spy himself. Don't know how Rovsea plays just yet, but I wouldn't trust him right away.
Apparently, the answer is yes.
I'm a bit surprised by the fact that you are somehow absent on your "ideal team". I'm also going to say no to your suggestion. I have no real reason to trust either of those two just yet, and I'm a bit surprised you seem to want me on the second team, when I'm probably the more likely spy based on established playstyles, and if I was, I would hardly hesitate to sabotage openly if given the option to go up two missions already. As it happens, I'm not a spy, but you have no way of realizing that just yet.
OK now...
Strong Leader to alxeu (don't know why, but I sort of trust him at the moment)
ITS to aedan, just because I'm sure he'll use it next mission.
And I'll do a slightly off the wall proposal here:
madchemist
alxeu
Falc
Probably going to approve, but I want to see what people think of that first.
That was quite the strange proposal...
How do I respond? I hear that it's popular to reject missions that don't feature you.
Reject
Seems kind of egocentric. I'm not on the mission, ergo, it shall not succeed. I am not on the mission, therefore, somebody else on the mission is a communazi spy. Y'know, that sort of thing.
Hm... I think I'm going to stop quoting all of these and just accept that Rovsea is either a spy or a very bad resistance member.
Maybe it is a bit egocentric, but who says that's such a bad thing?
But the mathematical logic is that if you're Resistance and not on the mission, the only way this mission is good is if all three others are (at least in a 7 player game).
Strikingly little, I suppose. Alxeu's a gut feeling, and Falc, well, I'll explain my logic in a bit.
I guess I understand a bit better. Still think the logic is off, and I wouldn't play that way myself, but I sort of see the point.
Still not sold on the whole rejecting that last mission = goodie. Although I hadn't announced my plans for the fifth mission, and I am Resistance, so maybe the spies didn't want it to get to me in case I picked a perfect mission. There's a solid argument for it, I suppose.
As for the math, I'm too lazy to go back and redo it at the moment, but I've probably done it half a dozen times. Your odds are better if you pick one of the two from the initial mission. Of course, I know your odds are zero if you pick Dex, but yeah.
I wasn't expecting any of the people not on this mission to be too sanguine about it.
Suffice it to say that I did think it unusual, and that I'm pleasantly surprised that at least one more player has come around to my view of sabotaging the first mission. It means I know he's a spy for sure, but since it places substantial suspicion on me, nobody's going to trust that right away, obviously.
Why Falc? Simple. Rovsea's mission broke from the pattern established by the previous mission choices, skipping Dexander (and myself) and going to Falc. I wondered if that was simply random, or an attempt by spy Rovsea to avoid adding his spy teammate.
I rather doubt a Rovsea-Falc combination (If so, that was a daring mission proposal for a newbie spy.) One of the two being spies, I could buy. And I suppose Falc being a spy does make a bit more sense than Rovsea, of the two.
I'm convinced enough that I will
Reject
this one.
Rejecting your own team. Because there's another spy on it? No, most likely not, I think it's pretty obvious if they were both spies that Madchemist would have just sabotaged. I can see Resistance!Madchemist making a hasty proposal and regretting it. I... don't really see why a spy madchemist would do it. Unless it was specifically for that purpose, but that's always there.
Well there is no reason to trust MC over me either. I know I shouldn´t compare to earlier games but MC has said many times that he would sabotage right away if he was a spy...
I remember aedan doing the opposite... and I am not a spy it only leaves one option -> MC is a spy. So not going to approve team if MC is in it.
Reject
Yeah, Madchemist already pointed this out, the comment about aedan was odd, and would find a perfect rhyme in both of them being spies. It almost feels a bit *too* perfect, like a spy dexander would realize it's a bad idea, but... nah. The obvious explanation is they're both spies. I stick by the obvious explanations.
I approved that mission because it's the 4th and we need to get one going at some point. I doubt I was the only one thinking that.
Also, I find it a bit too much of a coincidence that madchemist goes on a mission that gets sabotaged and then somehow ends up Leader and hands out cards... Veeery suspicious.
I pointed out that I would get the cards next when I approved Dex's mission. Sure as heck wasn't my doing.
Also, if you distrust me so much, why the approval?
This strikes me as a conversation two high-caliber spymates may have after having gotten a bad team in.
"I approved a mission that got my spymate cards and got us a sabotage. How to not make others blame it on me? I know, let's blame it on others!"
"No, but I'll make it look like I'm putting some suspicion on you so no one knows we're mates"
The team of madchemist, alxeu and Falc was REJECTED 6-1:
APPROVE: Falc
REJECT: Rovsea, Panzer, madchemist, Dexander, alxeu, aedan
Falc becomes the leader.
Madchemist's team was only approved by Falc. Why did I quote this post again?
Maybe Falc is your spymate.
And mean aedan doing the opposite, few games back, being in the 1st mission team, being a spy and not sabotaging it...
I trust no one...
I'm not sure how, but this sounds like a newbie spy. Call it a gut feeling. It's a bit like how Alxeu used to play here or how Dutchguy used to be in Werewolf.
Additional apologies for the additional delay.
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The thing is, I am resistance, though I know I've not been very helpful. So I want to make a useful proposal.
I'm slightly tempted to propose Dexander / MC / Rovsea. I know there's a spy on there, but we have an ITS card to use and Rovsea seems to be the least likely spy, if I read your opinions correctly.
Then again, being two missions down and knowing one spy isn't all that good of a situation to be in.
I don't want to drag the game on too much, so I'd like to get some feedback on this idea. Do I make this bold proposal, or do I go for something safer? Let's say I'll make the actual proposal in 4 hours or earlier.
Yeah, that proposal... Then again, Madchemist called him out on it.
Hmmm...
Rovsea off-team approved a team with Panzer on
Panzer off-team approved a team with Rovsea on, TWICE
And now you want him on the mission.
If I add Dexander and MC to that list, just to make sure, I'm left with:
FALC
AEDAN
ALXEU
PROPOSAL MADE AND APPROVED
Falc makes a strange, unworkable proposal based on a feeling that Rovsea and I might be spymates and...
Rovsea approves it. Huh. The only explanation I can see is if he was a spy and had a spymate on, which caused him to approve without thinking further. A resistance member would have more thinking to do about his vote and would realize what's what.
Reject
Put me in the team so I can prove myself...
This gives me the opposite gut feeling of the last post. Then again, I can see spy!Dexander saying this.
I'm doubtful that both Dexander and Madchemist are baddies, so Rovsea approving this team certainly doesn't fit well.
You don't say? We had pointed this out already, several times.
And I still think falc is a possibility as a spy. Though me being on the team is a plus. Rovsea-Falc-Dexander spy group? Probably not, that'd be too easy. I'd still rather a team without them though.
Reject
Frankly, this felt like a spy's attempt at gaining credit after seeing that even though a team was good for him, it was gonna get rejected. Hm...
Alxeu still being strange.
The team of Falc, aedan and alxeu was REJECTED 6-1:
APPROVE: Falc
REJECT: Panzer, madchemist, aedan, Dexander, Rovsea, alxeu
Aedan becomes the leader.
Falc's strange proposal got rejected by everyone but him.
Aedan
Alxeu
Madchemist
I think this is the best team we can get, since I know I'm resistance, alxeu strikes me as a likely resistance member, and I think Dexander is the more likely spy from the first mission based on his responses.
Though for safety's sake I will also use ITS, but I won't announce on who I'd use it.
Approve
This would be perfect for a spy!Aedan. "I trust Madchemist now(even though I didn't before) so I can have only one spy on this team, and then blame him for its failure later!"
Not a bad proposal, actually, though I'm still wary of aedan and still not 100% on alxeu. I'm actually starting to come around on Panzer being a good guy at the moment, too.
Anyway, by all means use ITS (in fact, I will insist on it, and will automatically consider you a spy if you fail to use it), although you do have to announce whom you are planning to use it on, just because of how the card works.
The point of that card is that you vote ASAP and can't change your mind.
Well, it's not as bad an approval as that last one, but it's still a bit odd.
Trying to decide whether to reject and let it get re-proposed if I like the way the votes looked, or if I accept it and hope that Panzer getting the cards is a favorable result.
Voting in PM
Rejected and chose to see if he liked the way the votes looked.
Looking at the number of approvals so far, I doubt my vote will make much difference.
REJECT
I believe that MC is the slightly more likely spy.
Okay... Goodie points for both
Use ITS on Madchemist if passed
Aedan, why were you using it on Madchemist who'd already said he'd sabotaged if a spy even if somebody used ITS on him and not tried to maybe intimidate Alxeu with it?
I'd be happy with that first change (alxeu for Panzer). Also would not even mind aedan for Panzer. Not sure about Falc at the moment, as Rovsea could just be clueless newbie, but wouldn't strongly object to Falc on a mission.
And baddie points for the MC-Falc pair again by Madchemist objecting ever so slightly to a team with both of them on
Last team was ok, but replace MC....
I think you knew I wasn't gonna do that
Propose:
Panzer
Aedan
Madchemist
Approve
Why did i quote this?
Rovsea always approving all teams.
Should I be paranoid about Rovsea's constant acceptances yet?
Glad I'm not the only one that noticed.
I'm still far from convinced, so REJECT
Wouldn't a spy!Falc approve?
Approve
Use ITS on Panzer
Well, at least *this time* he used it on me
At least this post looks normal
Reject
Purely ceremonial, this team has a greater chance to fail, as I am not on it and I am a resistance member. Furthermore, it is ceremonial because it has been approved by four people.
This reminds me of
this
Well this confirms that Madchemist was the spy from team one. Shouldn't have trusted him, wouldn't make sense for a new player like Dexander to have the guts to sabotage the first mission like that. KACEOY is worthless, but OC is useful. Giving it to falc means he could check madchemist or I, but I don't know if we can trust him. I trust dexander now, but having him check anyone won't help prove it. Panzer seems an unlikely spy, but he and Madchemist could've set-up the team with two spies so they'd know how to sabotage by my ITS, avoiding a double sabotage easily. If that's the case, then we're pretty screwed. We need the OC to get in the hands of someone trustworthy, but I can't think of anyone who that might be, besides possible alxeu himself, but that's not an option, since he's passing out the cards.
Another post that I don't know why I quoted. Both spy!Aedan and resistance!Aedan would say these things.
Of course. Why should I expect anything different?
If nothing else, after the game, this should very, very clearly establish that aedan should not be trusted merely upon rejecting a failed mission.
However, if we want to win this game, you have two options. Take a chance on me one more time, and try to find the third spy with the OC, knowing that Dex and aedan are two of them. I know you have no reason to trust me, and that this would be a dangerous shot in the dark. It would pay off for you this time, but I quite understand if you decide against it. Otherwise, give the OC to Falc, for goodness sake, and have him check me, or aedan. Either one should serve to tell the truth, unless Falc is the third spy, though I would honestly prefer that you check me. If you trust Dex and aedan, the game is over already.
I'm still weary of this post. I think the first thing resistance!Madchemist would have wanted would have been for us to check him
So, if MC is not a spy, we have two of them - aedan and Dexander.
Which, if you look at the votes so far, might just fit. For 7 proposals, they've either voted the same way, or one of them made the proposal and the other rejected it.
Granted, this last proposal did break that mold, but still.
I don't like this post. Once again, Falc seems to just be throwing accusations around more for the sake of appearing helpful than actually catching spies.
That's actually not that suspicious. We've voted the same way on 5 proposals. 2 of those proposals were universally rejected by everyone except for you. So voting the same there means nothing. And for the other three it was mission one teams which contained neither of us, so either approving in such a scenario is more unusual than both rejecting. We've also both rejected all the teams containing the other on it, further hurting that theory. I only consider Dexander cleared now because I know Madchemist is a spy, and I think it is unlikely a double spy team like that would've passed and gone with only 1 sabotage. Regardless this attempt to cast suspicion on us through dubious means certainly is making me less trusting of you.
As aedan points out, while I've found plenty of reasons they're both suspicious, that was a really lackluster post.
Well, this was exhausting. What did we learn?
-Both groups have things incriminating them, sadly. Anyone cares to count who's got more?
-Both also seem to have things apparently clearing them. Though this time, MC and Falc pretty obviously more so.
-If I'm to judge people instead of groups, I'd say I trust madchemist to some extent, but Falc not so much. Meanwhile I'm neutral to aedan and Dex gives me a gut feeling of newbite baddie, but so did many people who actually weren't.
-Meanwhile, alxeu is pretty clear(he's his usual, strange self, but he's too in the middle of the action without anyone caring much)
-And Rovsea is almost certainly a spy, or would do better to take things more seriously or stop playing. That he started out not caring much, I understand, but that he continued that way after we were 1 down and 2 down? You just don't do that. Unless you're a spy feeling closer and closer to victory.
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Thanks for the explanations on voting in PM.
Voting in PM.
(Once I decide, I have to go over this a bit more first - Also, I'd really appreciate it if others could pitch in too. This wasn't me building a case, it was me trying to make sense of everything, and the more people help, the more we can spot threads and reach the right conclusion)
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