Crowds gather along the stained cobbled roads; murmurs and hushed voices echo throughout the once bustling streets... The chaos of festivities seems to have died for but the moment, but it is piercing. The once brilliant splendor of the masquerade has been stained black by the sight of blood...
Mercutio enters the stage....
"Make way! Make way I say!" he shoves he way through the masses collecting like vultures to the corpses of the newly dead, baking in the Venetian sun. "Spostare fuori strada!" The scene is gruesome, and Mercutio quickly covers his face with the sleeve of his cloak as he finds himself in the vicinity of the bodies, already beginning to decay. Clenching his fists, he kneels, cursing under his breath at the sight before him.
"Why?" The people of Venice, this glorious city, is under siege from within, but why? Why now? For what reason to attack these people? Have the people of Venice done any harm? No! It is simply madness, a tragedy on such a glorious event! Mercutio's face, hidden behind his mask, darkness. He stands and walks away without another word. It appears that the whispers of yesteryear are indeed coming to pass...
...Machiavelli... Just what is this shadow blanketing the Masquerade with its dark hand?
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Okay, interesting night; lots of roles and events I
really didn't expect to occur, especially FOUR KILLS?! Luckily for the town one of these happened to be Mafia.... endersteve5....
But what's even more interesting is the fact that there is an.... Assassins Guild? Now, it is difficult to tell if this added name is simply for flair and the story, or it actually symbolizes a potential 3rd party group involved in this game. (Can they talk to each other like Mafia could in past games? Or do they not know who they are?)
The purple naming of coolio most likely symbolizes it to be a 3rd party, and I would say this is a more likely assumption as coolio's role is actually a combination of 2 roles: Tracker and Ninja, one of which happens to be Town-sided, and the other being Mafia-sided (at least, according to the role list provided by EpicMafia.), though anything can be possible at this point in time.
I to want to address what @
Fiestaguy brought up in his post above, involving the the two "visitors," if you will:
Now a question for @
std1997 and @
nitasu987. Care to collaborate who you visited? and if you want; For what reason? (With reason i mean as in 'Why this person' not as in 'What's your role do?')
There are not that many roles that I know of that directly "visist" a player doing the night. For the most part, those roles that visit during the night tends to boil down to vigilantes, cops, Mafia, various other roles that KILL (ex: serial killer), and role-blocking roles such as a town drunk or hooker.
Because of these limited selections, I have a theory involving these two players: they are not roles that want to kill anyone. Now, since I haven't played with any one of these roles before since I haven't played that many EpicMafia games nor did I play the past few Mafia Games, but in Supernatural Hotel there was a role known as the
Rough Sleeper that, should anyone visist that player, their name would show up on the following day on a complaint board, similar to our current situation now. I'm not sure of any other roles that can do this, but I feel this is a likely theory.
Instead of a killing role, I feel @
std1997 and @
nitasu987 are both either third-party roles that have different winning conditions (such as Alien which wanted to probe everyone), or possible role-blocking roles, specifically Town Drunk or Hooker-related.
HOWEVER... I would say they could also be hybrid roles similar to the recently deceased Ninja Tracker coolio.
My opinion on this matter: I would say it is likely ONE of them could be Mafia, but I also suspect that there is a high chance that they are also role-blocking characters.
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Though I don't want to make this post any longer, I also have something else I wanted to bring up.
Over the course of the previous night period, I went and looked back over the posts of the previous day (cause honestly, it was kind of a confusing mess of posts >.<), and through it, I noticed something interesting regarding @
Fiestaguy
Take a look at this quote:
(these are in picture form so I could remember them; if you want to see the actual quote they are on page 6 and 9)
Now, frankly this may just be me being idiotic/looking into things to closely/assuming wrong here but... Does it now strike anyone odd that
you don't know how a third party is supposed to work?
(first paragraph) I know that it may just be worded strangely or that you were simply implying that you didn't know how a third party worked in THIS game...
However, I don't think either really fit the bill, because you tend to reference the other possibilities of "not knowing how third party works" being implied differently in your following sentences:
"I have no idea how to prevent me from looking like third-party..." "closed setup is definitely not helping..." You're first sentence feels out of place in a Mafia game, and it actually seems like it is a
litteral answer in response to endersteve suggesting you were most likely third-party.
Since it does seem like a litteral answer, it makes little sense in conjunction with a previous quote you did on page 6:
You have experience with third-parties from your time in Supernatural hotel, and even blatantly show knowledge of how a third-party can work, which seems quite strange in relation to the previous quote.
But where am I getting at with this? Frankly, it's a bit of a stretch, I must say, and this is all very shaky evidence on my part. However... in the first quote I mentioned with fiesta responding to endersteve:
I wouldn't bet on him as mafia, but the possibility of him being a third-party is in my opinion possible.
Again, this is a bit of a stretch, but I can't get this nagging feeling out of the back of my mind that through these series of responses, and specifically this quote alone, it really feels like endersteve, whom we have confirmed as a
Machiavelli this night, is sort of
throwing Fiesta under the rug of being a "Mafia", and thus sort of throwing suspicion away from
that specific set of roles.
(possible teammates?) It just feels that way to me, and I'm curious if anyone else is getting that vibe or if I'm just a tad crazy.
That is about all I have to say for now. I'll be going to bed now and probably won't respond for awhile. Sorry for the long post.