Let Doe Talk: Pokemalfia Aftermath Attempt #2

[Ashe]

Hopefully I keep this short and concise (never).

I want to be clear that any comments, rants, and ability uses or lack thereof were 100% intended. When I bitched about activity, I meant it. Its severely frustrating when people join a game and don't play, because it wrecks the balance of abilities in what are already very questionable balances as is. It goes as far as directly interfering with how the game runs.

Whenever I wanted to use my vote buff, I sent a PM. When I chose not to, I did not. I want to be clear that I did not forget to send it (and I understand no one has stated such) but did not want it to be something that was more or less a constant necessity. That said, those decisions had zero practical effect on what outcomes happened but could have (if I wanted to evolve and someone voted me, I was not going to use my power in case someone threw a last minute vote down assuming I was using it so they could bump the vote to 4, which meant that until the last minute, I could assess the situation).

Interestingly, I speculated (and think I posted as much) about how, as unreadable as everything was at that point, I thought it was possible that someone who wasn't mafia previously had become mafia (through whatever means). When I was killed, I figured that was precisely the thought process that had been the downfall. I also considered Kaden as that person given that when he is mafia, there's a tendency for me to be killed quickly (and I don't blame him, because I've done the same to him. If I evolved, I very strongly would have considered killing him just to be certain, even at risk). You son of a bitch. <3

Regarding the game itself, yeah, imbalances and missed interactions WILL happen and no one is clairvoyant enough to prevent all things broken while still taking risks. This is something that was made extremely clear to me by the guys that make Magic: the Gathering, actually, in articles where they showed time and time again that they could either play it safe and boring with no risk, or take risks and make wild, fun experiences that occasionally require some later re-evaluation and possible bannings for impeding such environments. I like this and its how I've run all of my LoM games, which for the most part I feel has turned out rather positively. So even with the outcome of this game, it doesn't bother me at all. The most important aspect is that all of the abilities contributed to what proved to be a very fun game (even with elements that could be tweaked) and I really enjoyed it. I will definitely participate again when able and appreciate Mal running this.

Regarding me "hating you", yeah, when it comes to my games, I want to break all of your fingers (in the most "I'm frustrated but don't actually hate you despite you driving me fucking crazy" tone possible). Its actually the exact reason why I didn't respond to that final PM after I died and didn't PM you at all unless I chose to use my ability that night. I don't want to cause an already hard to keep organized game to get more unorganized due to cluttering up someone's PM box with unnecessary messages.

I do want to state that I was immediately suspicious of Rose's ability the moment I got that PM, despite nothing being put in it. I actually believe I stated such in the PM, and later posted as much publicly. I think that is due to the nature of the ability, since (while this has been the opposite case in your games, I later gathered) in my games, abilities that do such have had a history of being mafia related coercion abilities.

Oh, and I can't believe Doe didn't protect me that night that I got axed. At that point, I figured that if he was protecting anyone (since he never succeeded), he was probably using it solely on himself the entire time and making claims of doing otherwise in hopes that the mafia would then waste a night targeting him while he was using self preservation to live through the game.