I WAS BUSY
Hi, Iām Arete, and Iām a Mafia Rolecop.
Uh, anyways, I figured I would make this wallpost to talk about this game, and explain some of the more 
plays I did? Feel free to skip this if you donāt want to hear about my personal approach to the game/etc.
General Approach
In general I think most players overvalue āacting townieā as scum, and undervalue pushing agenda. (Relatedly, most players bus way too much.) That is, uh, definitely a mistake I made this game ā I was too focused on trying to look like a villager, and didnāt manage to ensure that either of my partners lived past N1.
Rolling scum in this playerlist
I didnāt want to roll scum in this playerlist, for reasons that should be fairly obvious. I was ā¦ not happy ā¦ about the rerand, although I guess maybe itās my fault for necessitating it. I tried to be positive in scumchat while it still had other people in it, because I know itās important to keep peopleās WiM up, but you can kind of see me having a breakdown as the game went on. Anyways, I spent most of this game feeling boxed in and like I had no chance, which means that you all did really well! If thatās how wolves feel, that means the village is playing well.
Conceding
I put a lot of thought on day 3 into whether I wished to concede. From my point of view, even knowing kat was lying about her claim, the game was likely to be mechanically locked unless the Bodyguard randomly decided not to protect Geyde for some reason. I ultimately decided that even if my path to victory was very narrow and possibly non-existent, I owed it to my teammates to keep trying, just in case there was technically a possible way I could win.
just imagine if I spent the same amount of time on my coursework that I spent trying to win a game that was mechlocked
PR hunting
Arete: āwow, I really think X seems like a VTā
Arete: ābut what if theyāre a PR, though, I should kill themā
X was Vanilla Town
Arete: surprised Pikachu face
Other Miscellaneous Things
I treated katās claim really weirdly because I knew it was false. Like, I literally rolecopped her as VT-or-Goon N1, and then the actual 1-shot vig decided not to CC her for some reason? But I knew that her claim was false, and I didnāt really have a graceful way to pull out of my tunnel on her (especially since I needed to be able to miselim her later).
Me CCing Mist wasnāt really planned, it was pretty spur-of-the-moment. I was hoping it would get me towncred but it didnāt really work, and may have backfired? Geyde was right when he said I was specifically appealing to my history of that sort of FPS (e.g. in the finale).
My sucky treatment of Conroy was the result of me trying to avoid TMIing him V and accidentally going too far in the other direction.
I had multiple versions of my SoD2 wallpost prepared, I posted the anti-Dat version after Dat got vigged. When orange was like ābut Arete could have had two versions of their wallpostā I was like
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oh I was super sure that arete was rolecop if they were scum since they clearly had copped you if they were scum
hence lynching sulit first
they laughed at him
they called him a madman
but in the end, he turned out to be the hero we needed
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i thoguht arete was exactly mafia JK
everything lined up to it
butā¦ them being a rolecop also makes sense too ig
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This went from one of the most scumsided rands (as much as possible in this playerlist) to possibly one of the most townsided
I apologize that we had to re-rand
But it was fun to watch regardless
Well played, town! (and aroot ^^)
Killing Cent allowed the extra cop off which made arete have basically no chance
it was also funny
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dude was good but I donāt think that still happened if he spewed himself non-pr somehow
i was going to come into today deathtunneling you on the assumption you jailkept geyde and 50/50ed the BG in Solic/Hippo
so lol
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i find it hysterical that geydeās meme vote on the meme day turned out to be correct
also i lolvillaged this game
I was afraid of that if it was sulit
if it was arete it was 100% rolecop that had checked you