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Knights of Arcadia Phalla: Night 8: Oh Osa, Where Art Thou?

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  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I don't see the case for JC or Uriel. One didn't die and the other is quiet?

    How is that solid?

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2011
    considering I haven't gotten a vote either tonight or last night and still haven't been booted for inactivity, I'd say it's worth a shot

    Don't mistake my overlooking for condoning. Do you want to keep playing the game?

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Our margin of error is too razor thin for that to work, I'm afraid. If we don't try to cut down who we can, we are boned in the long term. If we mess up on votes today, we are more boned in the short term, as the game might be over. But we need some breathing room, and getting rid of a single demon could be critical.

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I don't see the case for JC or Uriel. One didn't die and the other is quiet?

    How is that solid?

    I was just kinda throwing a shot in the dark at JC before, honestly.

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Just to restate a few things:

    -The vote was run up on JC of DI. He was the only votegetter of any consequence for some time. Late in the day, say the last 2 hours, a bandwagon formed on T4CT. He didn't help things by acting cagey. As of vote close, it ended up being a tie.

    -T4CT, who turned out to be a villager, died. There was no mention of a choice made between the two, a roll of the dice, just that it was T4CT that was clearly the lead target and he who was summarily lynched.

    -This points directly to a vote manipulation. If T4CT was a villager, the only reason to manipulate the vote off of him would be to protect JC of DI.


    Something else somewhat aside, we still haven't seen mention of The Butcher Knight, or The Crimson Alchemist since we used their names. It's a longshot that it's helping, but it doesn't require much investment from us to invoke their names nightly.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I don't see the case for JC or Uriel. One didn't die and the other is quiet?

    How is that solid?

    I...

    I hate you

    It is consistency in Uriel's case

    He has not said a damn thing, all has has done is show up at key moments to push bandwagons without commentary. and "I'm new" isn't an excuse, I wasn't reticent my first mafia game, and I doubt many of you guys were either

    he's hiding something goddammit

    as for JC, either the mafia wanted T4CT gone more, or they went out of their way to save him

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I'm trying to survive, m'lord, no more than that. I am most sorry if I've aroused your displeasure. I will endeavor to be more attentive from now on.

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I honestly don't see what is so concrete about either of them.

    Melding on
  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    anyone trying to act obtuse about JC of DI in the face of the above objective evidence is acting suspicious.

    Not that my claims are irrefutable, but you don't argue against something objective with something subjective. If you want to defend JC of DI, bring what you got.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    okay how about you guys come up with a case or stop trying to discredit the one guy who's been consistently anti-bandwagon

    cause it seems like you really don't want suspicion on either of them

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I've been part of my own network. Most of of it has been lost to petty squabbling. Perhaps I am too trusting of my accomplices, but all the same i look out for my own.

    I would ask you for your trust, but i've done nothing to deserve it. All I can say was Monkeyfeet's death was to JC of DI's detriment, mafia or not.

    Melding on
  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Melding are you claiming to be a member of a mafia

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  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Hullis wrote: »
    I don't see the case for JC or Uriel. One didn't die and the other is quiet?

    How is that solid?

    I...

    I hate you

    It is consistency in Uriel's case

    He has not said a damn thing, all has has done is show up at key moments to push bandwagons without commentary. and "I'm new" isn't an excuse, I wasn't reticent my first mafia game, and I doubt many of you guys were either

    he's hiding something goddammit

    as for JC, either the mafia wanted T4CT gone more, or they went out of their way to save him
    I was actually just defending Uriel but didn't want to seem suspicious for only choosing him, but fuck it.

    It's me defending him as a person not a player. Which is really fucking dangerous and I apologize. He and I chat a lot off the forums and so I care about him, he's a good friend of mine. I tend to get overly sensitive and defensive of him due to people not giving him a chance just because of his past. I just know that he's pretty quiet and reserved and shy. So I don't think him being quiet here is suspicious because that's just him.


    But you guys haven't spent the time with him that I have so your suspicion makes sense when I look at it from a perspective other than my own. Your vote is your vote, spend it as you please. But for my money, I think this is the wrong tree to bark up. Also holy shit this tool a long time to type on a phone.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    yes this is what happens with networks and that's why people should speculate in the thread

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  • JC of DIJC of DI I think we're fucked up. I know I am.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I'll simply quote my argument that I made the day after the vote tie.
    JC of DI wrote: »
    I really really wish I had an answer for why I lived through that.

    Preferably one that cleared me of any suspicion.

    Though perhaps enough suspicion will fall on me at this point that a seer will check me out and verify my innocence.

    Again: This is my first phalla and I"m not entirely sure how all these special abilities work, so maybe this speculation is completely nonsensical. If there was a vote manipulation in my favor, it would only send smoke signals my way. What benefit would this be for a mafia member? The only way I can imagine this benefits the mafia is that everyone sees this as evidence against me and votes for my death - the death of another villager.

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Melding are you claiming to be a member of a mafia

    No, if i was doing that then the village would be winning right now because most the mafia would be dead.

    Melding on
  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    you knowing him doesn't make him not a mafia

    i have been in the same situation and objectivity is paramount

    i do sympathize though

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Deumos Mammon, Broodmother Sin,

    Melchom Mammon, Sin's Heir,

    Tarkin Mua’lib, The Butcher Knight,

    Samson Sandrosa, the Ogre's Storm,

    Blight!

    We know you still walk and hide among us. You fear your name's use in the open because knowledge is power, and you prey on the weak!

    So I'll scratch your names here in the dirt of the square with my crude implements. We'll not forget your presence soon.

    ZeroFill on
  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Indeed, but i was there when deals were being made. Deals that required monkeyfeet to be alive today.

    Melding on
  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I know, that's why I was apologizing. Just explaining why I'm so quick to defend.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    i... i'm not sure we want to take out the ogre's storm yet

    the name implies that maybe he has power over the ogre?

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    His description is that he is the ogre himself.

    Name: Samson Sandrosa, the Ogre's Storm
    Description: A huge, hulking monstrocity. Has achieved a state far beyond mankind. Whatever shell of humanity he had when he was born was lost when he transformed. Dark black skin and slimey silver hair cover his gigantic body, huge chucks of teeth are jammed inconsistently along his immense jaw.
    Background: Samson was once a researcher of lost and ancient magicks, longing for the day where his discoveries would make him famous across the Realm. Samson's wish was granted when he found magickal scrolls from the Underland High-Intensity Magick ruins. In an attempt to prove the authenticity of the spells he had found, Samon attempted to cast one in front of a prospective client. Ultimately, Samson botched the spell and absorbed all of the greed and sinful aspirations of the men in the room, bound to his soul by a demons heart.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Melding wrote: »
    Indeed, but i was there when deals were being made. Deals that required monkeyfeet to be alive today.

    names

    of everyone in the network

    get them public, i don't give a fuck

    somebody wasn't secure enough and it got infiltrated

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    This is a small thing that's been bugging me, but maybe someone has insight:
    Day 1: He is Kind

    Welcome to the Game gentlemen! I shall be your host for the duration of your stay here, I do so hope you have enjoyed yourselves so far.

    Ah, but how rude of me. I know who all of you are but none of you know who I am! And in fact some of you, I would say about Thirteen of you, are not who you think they are either! Ho ho ho!

    The looks on your little faces right now. I bet you’re wondering which among you are the villains! I bet you are wondering which of you are the heros? I bet some of you think you are pretty special? That’s not the kind of game I run. I don’t like special heros, I love the rush of the crowd, the cheers! The rush to bandwagon one sap after another! Oh, but angering that sap could be a terrible mistake. Who knows what kind of reveal might occur to switch sides suddenly back on to the person who made all the accusations!

    Could it be you?

    Ah yes, but back to the subject, Eye Ee, who am I?

    You see gentlemen, while I do a little sorcery on the side, I am only a part time magician. My real hobby is lying, cheating, and swindling. I have already lied to you once. I will lie to you again. I will change the rules suddenly, abruptly, and without warning. Or not.


    In the preceding paragraph, what is the lie?

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  • SalSal Damnedest Little Fellow Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    JC of DI wrote: »
    I'll simply quote my argument that I made the day after the vote tie.
    JC of DI wrote: »
    I really really wish I had an answer for why I lived through that.

    Preferably one that cleared me of any suspicion.

    Though perhaps enough suspicion will fall on me at this point that a seer will check me out and verify my innocence.

    Again: This is my first phalla and I"m not entirely sure how all these special abilities work, so maybe this speculation is completely nonsensical. If there was a vote manipulation in my favor, it would only send smoke signals my way. What benefit would this be for a mafia member? The only way I can imagine this benefits the mafia is that everyone sees this as evidence against me and votes for my death - the death of another villager.

    You know

    This is pretty much the same thing I said last game, when I was mafia

    So given this and what Zerofill has pointed out I feel inclined to vote for you

    !JC

    Sal on
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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I don't really think the names are helping, I mean it never hurts, but I just think we haven't seen the recurrence of some of the demons because there is only one a night, so munkus has to highlight different ones to aid narration.

    edit: also, The narrator in that paragraph is the acquaintance, right? If so, it could mean that his lie to the you in that narration is the previous part, when he has you to dinner and transports you there.

    But it could be a clue in the preceding paragraph. Man, see, if it wasn't impossible, I would say that the lie is that he loves the rush of the crowd, the bandwagoning, and that the whole set up is a test to have people refuse to choose someone to kill. But anyway, I don't know.

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I will not out my sources. besides at this rate all we be dead in two days time.

    Plus it was no secret that monkeyfeet was a part of Lww's group.

    And Monkeyfeet did well to get his own secret's hidden. Enough that I can't make contact with his people now.

    Melding on
  • TayaTaya Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Just a heads up... in the last phalla all the "confirmed villagers" were listed in public to avoid being voted on. The mafia could easily target the network heads and the non-villagers/non-mafia, and that's even without me infiltrating the network. :)

    So I would advise not to name names.

    Also, Sal, you've been acting very similar in this game as you have the last game. Does that mean anything?

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  • SalSal Damnedest Little Fellow Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    It means I started a 9-5 job last week and can commit much less time to this game than I had originally intended

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    guys

    we are standing on the razor's edge right now

    we need every scrap of information we can get before making a decision and voting now is incredibly silly

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  • TayaTaya Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Sal wrote: »
    It means I started a 9-5 job last week and can commit much less time to this game than I had originally intended
    Is the job making wanted posters?

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  • SalSal Damnedest Little Fellow Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    p-possibly

    Sal on
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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Ugh, I was consumed by finals and completely forgot to vote. I must apologize for my negligence.

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Sal wrote: »
    JC of DI wrote: »
    I'll simply quote my argument that I made the day after the vote tie.
    JC of DI wrote: »
    I really really wish I had an answer for why I lived through that.

    Preferably one that cleared me of any suspicion.

    Though perhaps enough suspicion will fall on me at this point that a seer will check me out and verify my innocence.

    Again: This is my first phalla and I"m not entirely sure how all these special abilities work, so maybe this speculation is completely nonsensical. If there was a vote manipulation in my favor, it would only send smoke signals my way. What benefit would this be for a mafia member? The only way I can imagine this benefits the mafia is that everyone sees this as evidence against me and votes for my death - the death of another villager.

    You know

    This is pretty much the same thing I said last game, when I was mafia

    So given this and what Zerofill has pointed out I feel inclined to vote for you

    !JC

    you were actually exactly who I was thinking of, Sal

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    hey sal remember when you were at Pax East and then you wouldn't even say hi to me?

    I remember

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    if JC's first phalla defense isn't valid then why haven't people looked at Uriel besides me and Zon?

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Taya wrote: »
    Just a heads up... in the last phalla all the "confirmed villagers" were listed in public to avoid being voted on. The mafia could easily target the network heads and the non-villagers/non-mafia, and that's even without me infiltrating the network. :)

    So I would advise not to name names.

    Also, Sal, you've been acting very similar in this game as you have the last game. Does that mean anything?

    the list that was posted publicly wasn't completely accurate

    and you infiltrated the network :) because of a shoddy game mechanic

    I wouldn't use the last phalla for many examples, particularly to point out the good fortune you fell ass-backwards into

    aside from all this though, I don't think lists of anyone other than suspects need to be posted.

    ZeroFill on
  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Taya is reticent to see the list go public because Taya is most likely mafia anyways and doesn't want anybody's cover blown

    and before anybody says I'm seeing mafia every it's because they are and we're about to lose

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  • SalSal Damnedest Little Fellow Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I felt super terrible about that Langly

    I didn't see your PM on my ipod touch's tiny screen :(

    Sal on
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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    well let me tell you I am not having any trouble seeing this huge vote for sal button on my desktop's screen

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