Literary UPICK || Prologue - Chapter 6

hugs Lux I'm not making fun of you. You guys are being mean. *pouts*

@five
they don't taste good... the meat's kinda tough...

@high seraph
tbh i didn't realise aeiou already had a vote on her at the time i made the vote - i realised afterwards but i wasn't really bothered by it because i'm pretty sure alca's town and i don't really mind wagonning b/c it creates pressure on people to talk & vote. the primary basis for my aeiou vote at the time was (1) i want to pressure for more information and didn't have anything next to her name in my notes for who she supports or FOSes which imo is important information for after someone flips, and (2) she voted NL d1.

i'm very comfortable w where my vote is rn honestly b/c i don't believe deo's maf. i'm awake currently and will be around all day so i'm ok with waiting a few more hours to spec if anyone has any questions for me, but please expect me to swap votes at last minute if it'll save me from the lynch lol.

current reads from most to least strong:
- town lean: alca, mix of reads & night information (not 100%)
- town lean: eleni & t3tsuya shared information i'm willing to believe
- town lean: drandahl, gut
- town lean: i believe rasei's information is true and she is town
- town lean: mr alice imo acted scummily during d1 but would have had no reason to vote last minute on deo if they were mafia
- town lean: because i believe rasei is town and she has claimed the n0 stun on high seraph, i'm inclined to believe chinomi was stunned by mafia n0 and is also town, but that's dependent on a lot of factors

I got all my information I wanted from the Luxaria/Five situation. I'm not sure how I feel about Luxaria but I have some idea of what Five is doing and am leaning a little bit town on Five?

unvote, vote: nautilus

I know these votes are not very helpful since I'm voting for people who don't already have votes on them, but I feel like they are maybe encouraging people to speak more, so...! ;v;

Umm, nautilus has made a lot of very long posts and some of the posts have speculation in the footnotes, but I feel like I haven't heard much of nautilus's thoughts. Maybe because those long posts take a very long time to write. I feel like in the last literary mafia, nautilus spent a lot of time analyzing the flavor hints and stuff whereas she hasn't really done much of that this game, so I would like to point it out and have nautilus address this I guess! She may just be busy. ;v;

ribs are messy and not worth it tbqh

BUT HM.

Vote: drandahl only because that exchange with chinomi re: vote spread felt off to me. :|a and honestly. i don't find much reason just yet for lulu or deo??

i hate early game

since nautilus brought it up, i'll address it: i think i have an idea of what five's role is and why they think i'm suspicious based on what i've said in thread so far, but i'd like to point out that dishonesty isn't only beneficial to maf. i'd like to think i have the sense to weigh the pros and cons of disclosing certain information to thread based on the information i have from night phases.

if this lynch continues in this direction it's likely to lead to multiple town power roles getting revealed in a single phase, so i'm starting to get quite uncomfortable.

T3tsuya wrote:High seraph has been making larger posts than usual and specifically said they're not comfortable with inactivity while also saying there's probably a mafia hiding in the no voters. Not sure what to make of that either.

omg T3t I always make large posts, it's not my fault you can't be bothered to read through them ok. Also I'm just, like, really prepared for this game ok. I'm like. Really prepared. ok.

And it's a matter of statistics, basically. I am definitely not comfortable lynching a player based on inactivity, because I feel like we've collected some valuable information from past rollovers that should let us make a more informed decision than just "oh well this person is inactive let's lynch them". I'm even perfectly fine with unvoting and reassessing the situation, given that deo has posted, even if it wasn't... a very... interesting post... Either way, statistically speaking, I think there's a good chance that a mafia might be among late no lynchers and people who didn't vote (Tiki, Pan, plot, Aeiou and Sammie are in the first group; drandahl, T3t, nautilus, Angel and deo are in the second). Is it really that crazy to think that at least one mafia must be in this group of ten players?

Ok. If you'd like me to narrow the group down, I can bring it to the 7 people I'm most willing to vote at the moment: Tiki, Pan, plot, Aeiou, drandahl, Angel and deo. Sammiya was stunned on N0, which means she couldn't have sent the NK (could still be mafia though); T3tsuya has been involved in shenanigans with eleni that I'm willing to believe for the time being; and I have reasons to believe nautilus isn't mafia.

ninja'd by nautilus.

I'm going to be around and I will definitely throw another vote in the box after I've gone through some posts and notes c ya l8r losers

I'm guessing the vote from Rasei is for activity.

EARLY PHASES ARE A PAIN TO VOTE IN. Since you never know whom to vote for.

I finished a math test a couple of hours ago and am still trying to unwind from it, though. I'll definitely vote later/before rollover, though.

Believe me, I'd rather be anywhere else than where I was during that time. Left and right, people voting on who our was they wanted to kill. We'd already had one murder on our hands, a relative innocent. Believe me, I found the choice and the result a relief.¹ After all, that meant, not only was I still alive, but that there were no fewer allies among me. The choice still bothered me, as Ninfia has not been known to be as disruptive to subversive plans as others, and that meant I may not have been as safe at night as I had hoped. But again, that only meant that it was all the better I had more allies around me than not.

Of course, ensuring they saw me the same way was going to be no easy matter. And at that moment they wanted nothing short of blood. Yet there I was, mind preoccupied with all sorts of more important, less suicidal situations, while they talked off entire novellas of thought on our situation. For better or worse, that also meant any attempts at misdirection has simply flown right on by me, allowing me to make an easy decision.

"Lulu," I said, looking upon the woman who had gathered so much surgeon of the soet I was seeking to avoid. "You are being tried among a group of your peers. And given the evidence, of immediately trying to eliminate someone who had been apparently attacked herself, and bring known to immediately jump at the necks of those who could be troublesome to conspiracies that you yourself are a part of²...my judgement is, vote: Lulu.

I could only hope me best judgement was right, and that the blood spilled here wouldn't be blinded by my own, at the hands of the pent up maniacs.

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1. Truth be told, this loss upset him more than he even let himself to believe. While he often prattles on about his selfish, cowardly ways, he has a bigger heart than he'd ever about to having.
   
2. This was in reference to the happenings in Gakuen Mafia Season 2: School Festival.
   

just checking in to say i'm around, just waiting around for more votes!

the vote on eleni is my usual playstyle, and i voted similarly in gakuen 1. i don't blame people for finding it suspicious but imo it did bear some useful discussion.

i'd like to point out that when i tunneled kiyoko in gakuen 2 which everyone seems to be citing, it was because (1) we couldn't see any other way to kill her at the time because our instant gun was on cooldown, (2) she was leading lynches against mafia and (3) discrediting her ideas and making town double-guess her spec would be useful because mafia had a janitor role that could wipe rollover and make people doubt her alignment. there's no reason for me to do the same thing with eleni d1 when at the time she hadn't contributed any spec for me to work with. additionally, the alternative votes for me were RL or NL.

i'm still not too concerned about today b/c i can still hard claim but i was thinking it'd be a good idea to wait to see some more votes first. if anyone thinks it's a better idea to claim asap i can do so but i'd like more discussion if possible...

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Luxaria - You might have picked up Luxaria: A Life Without Ribs from the shelf and expected to get lost in a nearly tolkienesque narrative spanning several pages. You would, however, quickly realize that the new installment in this award-winning series weighs a lot less than its predecessors, much to the disappointment of its die-hard fanbase. If we were to continue witht the Tolkien comparison, we would say this new, refreshing and short novel is The Hobbit of the Luxaria series. We can only hope that director Peter Jackson will be able to stretch its contents for all they're worth and give fans all around the world a run for their money with an exhausting and profitable movie triology.

drandahl - The main character of Drandahl, DJ, could be described with a variety of adjectives, this writer's favorite being intriguing. His behavior may make you wonder about what his real intentions are, but you will the ending is guaranteed to surprise you no matter what your initial impressions were. The story makes several twists and turns along the way, eventually bringing focus onto characters that don't seem to be entirely relevant to the plot. The reader must be careful not to get lost in those moments, and commit them to memory -- they might be relevant at a later point.

ezzelin - This particular blogger is terrible in the kitchen, but Ezzelin's Cooking with Ezzelin: Easy Recipes For Disaster has been of some help! I feel like most recipes are sorely lacking a pinch of Comic Sans, but not a single one of them has been proven useless so far. However, the recipes on pages D1 and D2 both rely heavily on a special ingredient: deo. You might ask, "but what if you're allergic to deo?" The author offers no alternative. It makes you wonder if she just really likes deo in all her recipes, or if it's really such an essential ingredient.

Rasei - Zura (lit. "Rasei") is a Japanese manga that follows the adventures of Rasei, a samurai with the power of hitting people with their own words, essentially incapacitating them. Their first target was Lucas, a 20-something year-old college student who Rasei obviously has a crush on, but, sadly, does not reciprocate Rasei's feelings. The more central conflict in the manga, however, is the existence of an anonymous organization composed of samurai with the same abilities as Rasei -- which she must defeat in order to save the world. It's an exciting tale that reinforces traditional Japanese values such as honor, courage and randomly voting all players in the roster. The protagonist's character, however, cannot be doubted.

chinomi - its about gay sex, so i totally recommend it. i also totally recommend gay sex (i really really do).

[i dont really have the energy to do this for every one in the roster ok]

so uh I have finally finished with my homework hell, but I am currently driving across the state (and I'll be out of town all weekend which I kind of forgot about...... hopefully I can still check in often enough though) and wow reading the thread and writing a post on a phone is much harder than I thought. I think I've managed to skim through the thread through bouts of carsickness, though I don't have my notes on hand so I don't really know who to vote.... the best I have is a couple of town leanings, so I might have to resort to following someone I trust's vote. I also haven't played with any of you recently as town, so I'm a bit wary of my gut reads BUT... hopefully... it'll be ok.....

I'm going to no vote for now but hopefully I'll be back with a vote on someone once I've given my head a break from staring at a screen for this long on a bumpy road orz.

I FAILED TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOW HERE AND I DON'T HAVE SIGNAL RIP

okay I have returned to civilization hello

well hot diggedy that sure was a lotta words to go through but i did it, i did yall someone give me ten dollars

so it looks like lulu is the prime lynch candidate this phase? well hmm, i'm not really getting a sneaky snek feeling from her too-too much, but if it comes down to it, i guess i'd be ok w/ it cuz i mean t3t's right, that's a lotta neck, but have you ever hung one upside down? do snakes get nauseous? is it possible for snakes to vomit? hang in there lulu, have some ginger

i'm gonna wait a lil longer before i make a vote cuz i'm hoping? someone might have more info about anything, anything at all, any ol' thing, but if not, i'll probably throw my ticket in the snake drum as well