Two Island Mafia - Discussion Thread

I will agree, xBTAx was a complete surprise. But then again, what did he contribute on the last day? And the first day? Nothing, that I remember. It shouldn't have been as big of a surprise as it was. He participated just enough to get out of the spotlight.

So the thing about me not participating at the start was... I legitimately did not know that the game had started (or that I was mafia!) until Shidoshi hunted me down on Steam, oops. At that point I also realized that I had totally forgotten that Memorial Day weekend was a thing and how busy I was going to be on Saturday; after that I was mostly not posting because of hanging out with family and the other reason I vaguely stated in the thread (not really understanding the mafia logic/terms most people seemed very familiar with) rather than just lying low in general. Then I was back home, so posting (close to) normally happened.

As for the last day, I was completely willing to post again after my vote for Meta... and then everyone acted like I was COMPLETELY OBVIOUSLY TOWN and so I figured saying anything would, well, make you guys remember that there was absolutely nothing to prove that was the case (and that I had posted just about as much as Meta did that day). And then when I was finally brought up as likely being a mafia member, Holy showed no signs of switching his vote, so there was no need for me to convince him.

...the other mafia members have also kindly not mentioned the fact that thanks to my currently terrible sleep schedule messing with my sense of time, I totally thought the game would end a real life day earlier and then at like... 9:50 that night realized that we'd have to hold out for another day. That was kinda really embarrassing.

Yeah, being the second time I run this setup, people really needed more incentive to change islands.

I don't feel the town was underpowered, the PRs were limited, but they still could do work. Sega not using his knowledge to innocent Words was pretty dumb. Holypie not protecting MasPan or y0y0y0y0shi0 when they were pretty clear mafia targets wasn't the smartest either. The mafia had a small number of members and double-lynching could quickly win the game for the survivors.

I was pretty sure VerrKol and Corn were gonna be lynched on Day 4, with how scummy they were acting on the last day. But it didn't happen.

I think town wasn't necessarily underpowered as written, but the fact that many of them centered around the islands made them that way when nobody was changing. Also, the only way Holy could have protected either of them would have been to switch islands, immediately placing him under suspicion. If he then claimed the lack of a kill would likely be seen as proof... but then we would have killed him and used my power to kill someone else that night anyway and we'd have the same number of deaths, and that's assuming one of us mafia didn't claim before he did. It could have also set a precedent for needing to claim after an island switch, etc. etc. and that wouldn't really have helped anything either. Of course, he couldn't know about my power, but it still would have been incredibly risky for him to do that (though, maybe it would have been worth doing for y0; the delay then could have helped them win the game if they were lucky).