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I hadn't heard of any of this stuff either, I'd heard of tarot cards but didn't know what they were, but I searched google using the image I was given for my role and it led me to tarot card pages, which is where I learnt my role was a tarot card, then I googled 'arcana' to see if that gave any clues and it said it was linked to tarot cards, so I googled the cards and viola
smart
Then I did a bit (not a lot, more should be done!!!) of research into the common interpretations and history behind the cards to see if that gave any clues as to what allignment/roles they're linked to
while we probably shouldnt rely 100% on their interpretations, when someone claims, it will be good to take a deeper look into it.
And a hieophant is some kind of religious figure of some sort. I found one website that likened it to a shaman, so maybe it's similar to a werewolf shaman somehow or something, no idea
huh
Also notty was posting elephants earlier and elephant, hieophant, maybe she's softing that idk
reminded me of Oliphant form LOTR but ye, basically the same thing, so :D
 

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It could be possible that the lovers are tied, if there are two of them. If one dies, the other dies.

Inversely, however, it could be possible that it's the other way around, and both must be killed, otherwise neither shall die.

I think that justice may have something to do with the whole "eye for an eye". i.e. if killed, they are able to kill someone of their choice. Thoughts?

(now for the silly part)

The hierophant gives you two soul hearts.
I think that makes sense for lover.

For Justice, maybe, but I think the Hanged Man could also be something like that. The Hanged Man is about a man who is willingly hanged, he wants to be hung because it benefits him somehow, from what I read on this website. So it's probably like a Hunter role of some sort, who gets to kill someone when they die. Or maybe there's a different benefit, and it's Justice who gets to kill someone when they die instead.
 

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Also roobarb why do you want to no-lynch? Why no-lynch over lynch someone? Not saying I disagree with the decision but just wondering what your reasoning is
I've realised I was rushing too hard in to this game. We don't want to make any wrong moves until we have a better understanding of the playing field.
 

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This is why we need every town to be honest, since if we do that and the allignments and roles aren't actually clearly linked, we've outed our power roles in exchange for nothing. If it's a really obvious link though, like the one I suggested last page, then it could be worth outing everyone since it'd probably be more useful than a series of cop reports on different people anyway
 

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And if Mafia wants to lie about their role, they'll trigger a cc, which makes things easier for us

And if they want to tell the truth about their role, they'll have to speak up and say their role isn't clearly linked to their allignment, and then they can be investigated and if they're mafia, then we know that it's likely the roles do clearly link to allignment and then we can force a mass claim
 

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And like I said before, if any townies are concerned about giving info, what you'll be giving is very vague and unhelpful to mafia so it's worth it, since, if you are a town role assigned with a really suspicious rolename, it's important you tell everyone so that we don't out all our PR's and it be a waste

Anyway I'm off to bed now
 

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But yeah don't necessarily say "I have a scummy role and I'm town", since there may be another reason - maybe you have information about the setup in general that isn't completely tied to your role. And if you make it clear you're a certain role, if the mafia all know each other's roles it's possible they'll be able to deduct what your role is, depending on what their roles are, so be careful with it. e.g. you're death and you're town, you say you're a scummy role but town - all mafia are every other scummy role apart from death, so they know you're probably death since that's the only scummy role you could be.

Obviously this whole tactic comes with a risk but if we minimize that risk by getting everyone to answer this question then it should be worth it!!! Having a list of a handful of likely mafia is likely more useful than if we just let the cop get a few results too, depending on how strong that likelihood is (which is what this question process will determine)

Sorry for lots of posts
 

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And if they want to tell the truth about their role, they'll have to speak up and say their role isn't clearly linked to their allignment, and then they can be investigated and if they're mafia, then we know that it's likely the roles do clearly link to allignment and then we can force a mass claim
And it's POSSIBLE Mafia will sacrifice someone to do this and make us mass claim even though not all mafia are scummy roles, but that would only happen if a townie with a scummy name stayed silent and allowed us to be tricked into mass claiming so if townies are honest that won't happen!

ANYWAY I'M FOR REAL GONNA SLEEP NOW BYE
 

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Alright im here, sooo

First

And also im end this fuker before he does too much dmg with his weird plays

shoot inffy Arelic

On a serious note, you role division table is wrong, at least for my role, and probably 1 other (though im still contemplating about that one) *this will probably make sense later, but dont want to claim yet*
 

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Also for mafia i suggest:
-The hanged man.
-Death
-The devil
-The tower
-The moon

Although i dont know if the cards would be tied so closely to roles, since these seem to be the 'bad' cards.

While we are on the topic of cards, i think we should def consider a fool role to exist.

I can look into the cards some more later if we feel its necesarry, i could also just leave it at this (if we dont think the cards meaning are relevant)
 

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And it's POSSIBLE Mafia will sacrifice someone to do this and make us mass claim even though not all mafia are scummy roles, but that would only happen if a townie with a scummy name stayed silent and allowed us to be tricked into mass claiming so if townies are honest that won't happen!

ANYWAY I'M FOR REAL GONNA SLEEP NOW BYE
Now that you've pointed it out I think you've pretty much overruled the possibility.

But yes I think Inffy's plan holds water? We know 22/23 of the roles, lovers could be a double (thus 23/23). So technically if we mass claim and town doesn't fake their claims, we'd have some CC's which would make some parties suspicious, if their alignment isn't already obvious enough.

All for it.

Let's remember that some Mafia peeps may want to jump the gun and claim potentially town-aligning roles first if we go ahead with this. So I think we should be prepared for some sort of chaos.

Still no information, but chaos, welcome!
 

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Idk it just doesnt make sense to me that a role like the devil or death would be town (same for moon, tower and hanged man actually, if you look into the meaning of the cards). Could just be my opinion, but i dont think the cards wouldnt somehow be linked to roles.
 

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well i wouldn't mind mass claiming but i feel like there would be something to make this more difficult
I mean I agree to a mass claim but inf's pairing of roles to cards is just speculation anyway; it would be silly to use that as evidence for a lynch. Then again in terms of the lovers thing or the extra card it could provide useful incite.
 
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