Andy MacLeod

Here's what I'm getting... Zander, Dice and Turin seem to act as a team and ask each other's opinion under cover of being experienced players and so openly that they are going to say Mafia would never do it in the open... but hiding in plain sight is as old a strategy as the world... Here's how I see them play: - Zander's seeds confusion by creating an avalanche of posts - his task seems to be to create confusion through sheer explosion of posts and accusations in every direction... Meanwhile, he throws very half-hearted dirt at Turin but in the same post clears Dice... smells like a well-oiled team at work to me. - Turin "takes the fall" with one vote against him from his team to dispel suspicion that they might be working together, while Dice and Zander continue to saw suspicion towards other players. His role is to articulate very reasonable reasons and play friendly with the Town folks - Dice shapes the narrative towards Cairos being a wolf and calls to his teammates to maintain the appearance that he's not in cohoot with them... but in effect, both him and Turin vote for Cairos... I saw veteran-wolfs are piling on... maybe? ALSO: I like you all, this is a game, please don't hate me 🫣 You asked for patterns of people that could go together, and, well, that's what I see...

What's a flip, please?

Yup, first time and, off the record, I'll play this once 'cause you are all nice, but I hate games where you have to throw dirt at others. Frankly, there's enough of that going on in the world. End parenthesis. For me, it was the stuff Turin said that could be true either way ("we can't protect you at night", speaking to the cop/sheriff, is true whether if he's Town or Mafia). It felt like a clever use of word that must be hiding something (like Moiraine tells Verin, when Verin comes to help Rand escape because Verin was at best playing with truth in what she told Leanne). I'm kind of taking the same approach as when rooting out the Black Ajah: find lies or inconsistencies... In the same post, Turin used "we" to suggest he was Town and it seemed a sign of strategy. Since then, overall, he's been pretty good at shaping the conversation... Good player or Mafia? 🧐

Wait... is this the right thread?? Obviously, I need to readback a few pages 😅

*whistles* Like the Game of Houses... Thank you, makes sense! 🙏

You calling Zander for his advice... but maybe it's just that you guys know each other from past games 🙃 Not sure what's signal and what's noise yet...

Wait, are there alliances, like on the reality tv shows? 🧐

Hi @dicetosser1! (I am sorry, I am unsure of the proper title for you in the Band) Glad to see you here 🙂 I try not to derail the mafia game beyond my first timer bloopers lol, but we do have a welcome nom nom voucher for returning members going in on Gray... I'll tag you there 😉 *moves out of the way and looks around, intimidated by the swift response to the food call... 😄* So, are you going to grab a cookie and tell us of your adventures around the fire?

I don't understand this paragraph, but since I made the Godfather allusion, my bad if it's an actual thing. I just thought of it from folk culture because of the "mafia" component. Apologies if I somehow triggered a thing from a non-basic game level...

Sounds like a challenge to me...

Parenthesis: it's my first time playing and I feel like Rand, when he first comes to Cairhien and everybody is playing the Game of Houses and reads things into anything he does or doesn't do 😅

Here, Dear, you can hold on to these pants. They're the ones I mended the other day. *pats @Donchadh's cheek* Careful with that long sword of yours... you wouldn't want to lend yourself in trouble with this GodFather fellow the kind sheriff told us about. I do think this Turin was very clever with his words... VOTE: TURIN

Sorry, sorry, not meaning to cause havoc. This was a joke 🫣 and duly noted. First timer here...

Blueberry mead!! 💙😋 ... and now I'm ravenous. Someone bring me that steak, please...

Didn't you nominate yourself, earlier @Donchadh? Just being thorough...

Let's not forget that roses are gorgeously red🌹🥰... and plums are Blue!

Love this info, @HeavyHalfMoonBlade, thank you! And, of course, there's blue cheese... a personal favorite!

Yays! Welcome returning members!! I'm Andy, a newbie Novice 👋 it is good to meet you, @dicetosser1, @Sooh, @Zander? Surely you will stay for tea? Here's a cookie from the Band

A subtle claim at being a Townie, I see... 🧐 Double points for passing the Oath Rod test: if you are Mafia, you indeed can't protect the cop at night... Hmm, smart move @Turin Turambar...

Nice to meet you, @Sooh! I'm a newbie 👋

Oh my... here's what I've got so far... Being young in a nursing home = suspicious. That makes me and @HeavyHalfMoonBlade and @Donchadh suspicious - which seems like what long-time Aes Sedai and Warder in league for centuries would do, to steer suspicion away from all their years of plotting...

Lol, I feel the same... confused ^^ Wasn't this supposed to be an easy game? lol

Ahh, Carbonara... you speak my language... This thread is making me seriously hungry!

In Homer's "Iliad," the color blue is notably absent, meaning there are no descriptions of anything as blue throughout the epic poem -neither sky nor sea, leading scholars to believe that ancient Greeks may not have had a specific word for the color blue, until blue dies were introduced from the far East. Another blue food: the Java Banana

Here is a lavender-blueberry ice cream...