Day 7: In which we mourn Vertrou

[Alegis]

Message from tayrun

'Sup Mafia.

How's it going?

I am interested in working with you.

Gonna play dumb. If he seered me there would be no conceivable way for him to want to work together with me, so the seering is a bluff.

[matev]

I got a similar message. Then a message almost immediately after where he said his GF had sent the message. I played it off like a big joke.

I'm suspicious though too.

[Alegis]

Oh damn it, I had assumed he only sent it to me because fishing around is dumb

Uhhh, fishing around randomly like that isn't going to work if you target multiple mafias, they'll know it was just fishing when they talk on their proboards about it

although it might work if you target one person, wait for response, and only then target someone else.

I'm vanilla : <

good thing I said the last phrase

[smooveop]

With the amount of networking I've done, I really expected to be seered earlier. Its bound to happen sooner rather than later, so may want to start thinking of how to get this done with just the 4 dmg fire hit.

Also, I got attacked last night, which isnt a good sign for people's goodwill towards me.

[matev]

Just gotta off the right people. Tayrun just made a highly interesting reply...

Ok cool, well as I said to Alegis I'm survival neutral wanting to make it to the end.

I'm having trouble dealing with village heat at the moment. I'd like it taken off me. I have some info that can help you do that.

In exchange, I want to live to the end.

So, you know, chat to Alegis about it then get back to me.

Seer? Networked? I must admit, this is delicious bait for an infophile like myself...

[Alegis]

I expected vigs to hit you smoovep, you were sorta in the thread radar. People always wanted to vote for you early in the day

seems like you lads were right in hitting spoit, with him crawling out of the woodwork because he got hit.

What tayrun sent me

Nah I'm just chatting to you and Matev, what with you two being the mafia and all.

I have some information that may be of use to you.

In exchange - survival. I'm a survival neutral and I've been feeling a bit of heat from the village, help me deal with the village and leave me alone so we can all win?

How come he targeted us two. Hmm. More convincing than just one, that's for sure, but how did he/network stack up to two of our 'seer names' without trying to vote/kill us?
And how 'heaty' is the village being?

I don't buy it.

[Alegis]

I'm just vanilla. If someone told you otherwise he/she is feeding you bullshit, but I assume you're just fishing.

How are we giving you heat, I cant recall seeing you get voted much or even get a wagon?

[matev]

This is just gambity, but I'll play for a bit, see what kind of rabbit hole decides to lead me down. Plus I'm curious what he's basing this on.

I can give you some juicy intel that'll assist your targetting tonight.

As for not getting roasted? That's your lookout, I'm just saying I'll help you hit your enemies where they're weak in exchange for not being targetted. Plus obviously the benefit that I want you to kill the people hunting me.

I trust neutrals about as far as I can throw him, I'm just baffled. If it's seer results, Tayrun should've just come forward and smashed us. No, there's a lot more to this....

I'm playing like I don't understand what he's talking about, but definitely opening lines of communication.

At the very least, it'll give us leverage if we want to offload him on the town as a potential traitor.

[Alegis]

it's good that we're acting different.

Can't really see how he KNOWS we're mafia and yet works with the village/gets heat. If he had 2 mafia names he could hand them to the network on a platter. Why the hell would he get heat.

Thinking he's simply an expendable pawn in the network and they wanted to prod the possibility that we're 2 mafia this way.

[matev]

I'm sadly alone.

I did some soft-networking back at gamestart but they're all dead now.

I got hit recently and sense that the village network's wrath is heading my way, when all I want is to survive to the end!

I haven't alerted anyone else because at this point all talking to people can do is attract attention to myself, which I don't want. I'm only talking to you because I think the odds of you being paranoid and killing me out of hand are lower than the odds of you being mafia and killing someone who is hunting me.

Hrm, I'll keep my guard cover for right now. Potentially feed him to the village tomorrow if things start getting hot.

[Alegis]

his response

HP-damage based behind-the-scenes type heat.

Alrighty, well. If I'm not dead tomorrow and you're suddenly mafia desperate to survive, let me know.

So the network has been attacking him, how does he know it wasnt mafias?

[Alegis]

responded with

Are you sure it's not the mafia or an SK attacking you instead of the network?

[matev]

Said I was a guard and that I'd try to keep him alive cause I'm not a jerk.

Queried how he'd get info if he wasn't with a network. Definitely enough rope to hang him with if I went to Langly with it and he's not networked.

[Alegis]

Taynrum:

Not 100%, but I have some info pointing towards it coming from the village network. Plus that makes the most sense - the mafia must have a good idea who's in the village network by now.

me:

There was a cartel hit missing in narration right? Or did you get this through PM info or your own power or whatever

[Alegis]

OH FUCK I just realized I made a boo-boo with that cartel thing

well the cartel dude died as red so I'll just say I assume they're the same.