kingofpain

To anyone who is questioning why I came out with my identity, I think we can nail a couple of mafia early and cripple them since they pose the greatest danger to us. Also, this early in the game, the doctor and healer are still alive and can alternate saving me. Cheers! -- Vig

Naah... I think the Doc should protect me and the Healer and BG can look over other people.

But I still had to seem kinda reluctant about coming out with my identitity

Edited so it is complete

Ok...so brandon didn't catch on either... People, yes.. I am inspector. When I logged on, I saw that Brandon and dawh had voted for pwn0zd who I had found to be a mafioso. I tried to shroud my identity by repeating that one of us was an inspector. However, seeing as how dawh and Brandon claim NOT to be inspector, I might as well admit it. Protect me in the coming nights and don't lynch me during the day. I will find out the identity of another mafioso on the 3rd day Cheers! -- Vig

possible scenarios: Brandon is inspector and I am sage OR I am inspector and someone who voted behind me is sage In either case, I picked out dawh and Brandon in order to confuse the baddies as to who the inspector might be. Dawh didn't catch on, but oh! well...

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I have no intention of running against you in the upcoming elections... You needn't be intimidated by my charisma... What can I say, these politicians...they'll never change... *sigh* We all know that exposing criminals can't be a good thing for the Mayor's chances in the upcoming elections, but we still need to eradicate our town of the rot. Well, all I can do is to appeal to you medicine men. Doctor protect Brandon and Healer protect me as we are in the most danger. Bodyguard also make sure you protect someone who voted for pwn0zd but not someone who voted late (could be mafia jumping on the bandwagon to acquit themselves). Cheers! -- Vig

Thanks mayor. Seeign as you trust our judgment, could you also persuade the doctor and healer to protect us for this night?

Hmmm not sure why you would vote for a random character when I am literally telling you that one of us is an inspector. We were kin in a past life, does that not count for anything? GC, Brandonb and I were revolutionaries in a different town in a different time.... Cheers! -- Vig

I am from India too... (look at my pic), but I am in the US ...

OK... I was trying to use dawh as a red herring to throw the baddies off from who the inspector is. Now all of you need to understand that one of Brandonb and me is the inspector. The protective roles doctor and healer need to protect us until we can round up the mafias. If the innocents' numbers start to dwindle, I will announce the identity of the inspector so that the doctor and healer can do their jobs. Cheers! -- Vig

Wait... GC, are you voting for pwn0zd to be lynched or Lucifer? Don't fool yourself. At his point, if his name is the only reason you suspect Lucifer, pwn0zd is far more likely to be mafia. We really ought to focus on Lucifer at a later point and rid the city of pwn0zd right away. This does not in ANY way exculpate Lucifer. Just that we (Brandon, dawh and I) are sure that pwn0zd is guilty as hell. Cheers! -- Vig

Well, remember Brandon, dawh, you and me are all in this together ) Cheers! -- Vig

I have an excellent reason for backing dawh and Brandondb. Like I said, the baddies need to be worried about one of us. Look at it this way: I was hit by a QA => I am not a QA If pwn0zd is a mafia => I am not mafia This exclusion shows that I have a better probability of being honest than GC does. My claim is this: between dawh, Brandonb and myself, one of us is the inspector. If pwn0zd is a mafia, then we cannot be mafia. In the WORST case, Brandonb and dawh can be either QA or GR. I can only be a GR. Also remember, if you do not back us and pwn0zd ends up being lynched as mafia, you will look EXTREMELY suspicious if you attempt to divert votes away from pwn0zd. In fact, to me, GCalready does look suspect. Cheers! -- Vig

Sorry, messed up slick's pieman vote...

1) Brandonb - voting for pw0nzd 2) pw0nzd - voting for dawh 3) Frost - voting for Lucifer 4) Itachi - DEAD [?] Killed by Mafia 5) akaslickster - voting for Lucifer 6) kingofpain - pw0nzd 7) Scott - voting for Lucifer 8) Grey Cells 9) Ravi - voting for Lucifer 10) LIS 11) pieman 12) Nayana 13) Lucifer 14) dawh - voting for pw0nzd 15) johnson - voting for Ravi 16) tman - voting for dawh 17) Ben Law - voting for Lucifer 18) Ploper 19) sagekid - voting for Lucifer 20) SillouhetteMind 21) dnae - voting for Ploper

Sorry I haven't been on for the last 8 hours, but this is going FAST City folk, I have a proposition: Let us lynch pwn0zd. If mafia, then the doctor, healer and Bodyguard should protect dawh, Brandonb and me. If not, you kill us. I am telling all of you that between dawh, Brandonb and me, one of us is the inspector. Innocents of the world unite! If this DOES get accepted by enough people, Doc should save dawh, Healer should save Brandon and Bodyguard should save me.

13 years later, I haven't had too many such moments Cheers! -- Vig

Well, GC, I think you are referring to something along the lines of 'fortune favours the brave'. I think that is a different definition of luck you are using. If you invest more into X, the probability of 'successful outcome' (however you choose to define that) generally increases (at least in your perception. Otherwise, you as a rational being won't work at it). This is like saying that if I bet $5, my odds of winning $10 at blackjack are lower than if I bet $20. I agree with this view, but purely as a probabilistic phenomenon. I however, do not believe in the "If I bet $5 with a simian appendage in my hand, my odds of winning $10 improve" kind of luck Cheers! -- Vig

Well, if they'll bury me and then use that land (and the nutrients my decomposed body would undoubtedly provide), then I would prefer burial too! Too bad people will be squeamish about eating food that is grown over MY DEAD BODY!

Don't really care. I believe funerals mean more for the loved than for the dead. If I have any theist loved ones, they can decide what they want to do. If it is truly my call, I will most likely have my body incinerated so my ashes can be retained in a convenient form for my loved ones to remember me by. I would consider my burial a waste of real estate and I'll pick a small waste of electricity over using up real estate. However, all this is after my body gets harvested thoroughly for organs Cheers! -- Vig

If just the two of us manage to remain as engrossed in this game as we were the last time, we'll probably beat some topic length records for BD. And that is not counting Brandonb, pieman, Itachi, unreality, grey cells ....*shudder*...

Mr. Mayor, Good day, innit? I heard of a spate of crimes over yonder in Awesomeville. I figured we might need the Doctor and Healer to be saving some of us townsfolk in the coming days if there's any crimes like that in our city. That got me thinking and I gave them a call to tell them that if they're gonna be saving our townsfolk, what they need to do is look up the town phone directory here and pick the two people most in danger from the mafia. And then the Doctor ought to go save the guy who's alphabetically first on the list and the Healer goes to the guy who's last alphabetically. Of course, that creepy Illusionist who a lot of people seem to believe in can just pick the person most in danger from spiritually demented characters. Medicine can't help against monsters with scythes eh? Well you go on ahead and have yourself a nice day Mr. Mayor! Cheers! -- Vig

If you rotate it and look at it as a square, it incidentally was my first "mathematical discovery". Bear with me through this (rather boastful) story, but in 4th grade, our evil teacher had required us to memorize all the squares from 1 to 100. This was in India about 13 years ago when teachers had the permission to dish out corporal punishment. He was kind of a jerk who hit you on your open palm with a cane (or slapped the s*** out of you if he forgot the cane) if you didn't do your homework. He was so horrible that we used to hope he had the cane with him so that he wouldn't slap us. I had heard of Gauss's story (of adding 1 to 100 in a flash) and wanted to be just as cool as he was. So I decided I'll find an easy way to compute squares instead of memorizing like a good boy. I knew the squares from 1 through 10 (through tables), so that was 20 odd numbers right there. I also found out (from a Russian book called "Miracles on Wheels") that to square a number like 65, you simply omitted the 5, did 6*7 and added 25 to the end (4225). So that was 30 numbers I had. For the rest of the numbers, I started racking my head, drawing pictures and stuff. And then the following thoughts poured forth Take a visual square of symbols (shown with x's and s's) of a random size. If you want to increase its size by one, you replicate the secondary diagonal - which is the length of the sides i.e. square root (this is shown with r's) - and then insert a longer diagonal (shown with d's) x x s x s x s x x x x s r x s r x s r x x x x s d x s d r s d r x d r x x With this visualization, I struck on the most awesome theorem of my life!: Take a number. Add the number to it's square. Add the next number. Voila! you have the square of the next number! And it worked equally well going backwards! This meant that I was never more that 2 numbers away from the nearest "easy" number (numbers ending in 0 or 5) and a few mathematical operations later, I had square to all numbers from 1 to 100! I waltzed in confidently to school the next day (we'd had a week to memorize, but I started the night before ) and half the kids were missing. He made us start from 1 and go round with successive squares (even easier for me since I had ample time to prepare for my number) and almost everyone got caned that day but for me and a couple of others. The ones who didn't get caned were picked to compete in a math quiz which I won a small trophy for placing first in Once I learnt algebra, it became kind of LAME to know that what I did was very boring (basically that n^2 + n + (n + 1) = (n+1)^2), but this was one of those moments in life I will always be proud of! Cheers! -- Vig