FAM Thread 1 (Day 1)

[FoLAnnualMash]

Start of Game Flavor

January 12, 2020

Arete
Did you hear about what happened over on Chief Delphi?

DatBird
no what happened?

Arete
The mods decided to ban forum mafia from the site, in the middle of the game. We had to move to another site.

Chloe
what? why?

Arete
You are vastly overestimating the extent to which they explained their reasoning
As far as I can tell it’s half because we were posting a lot and half because they thought we were encouraging people to sell their soul

Datbird
well at least that won’t happen here

June 17, 2021

Arete
So, I have some news, but it’s kind of not the greatest, just a heads up.

Geyde
Is everything okay, Francis?

Arete
I literally just said it wasn’t??
anyways
remember how CDFM randomly got banned mid-game?

osieorb18
Yeah, we had to move sites mid-game.

Geyde
That was the game where you claimed Masons with sulit, right?

Arete
>:(
stop bullying me
anyways yeah that one
so
apparently
there are some users who want to ban FM here, too

DatBird
well tell them they are loosers and should go to another site

Arete
well there are a couple of issues
first, all of them regularly play ToL
so the people who own the forum might actually listen to them
second, all of them are players from our site
like FM players

Chloe
huh? so why do they want to ban FM?

Arete
¯_(ツ)_/¯

Geyde
Here’s an idea
We try to get them to leave the site

osieorb18
I’m not okay with that if it involves bullying them.

Geyde
I didn’t say that
I just implied it

Chloe
okok
I have a better idea

System Message: Initiating "NoLife" Simulation.

DatBird
chloe? whats happening?

Chloe
It’s a simulation of all the essential features of the forum, using virtual reality tech to render it in real life
Maybe they’ll realize how great FM is, and won’t want it to die

Arete
you can’t just throw ‘virtual reality’ in front of something and make it make sense
that’s not how any of this works

System Message: Loading "Infinite Scroll"...

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System Message: Infinite Scroll loaded.

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System Message: Loading "Like System"...

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System Message: Like System loaded.

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System Message: Loading "Guns"...

osieorb18
What are the guns for?

Chloe
idk
there aren’t supposed to be guns
wait
System, abort

System Message: Guns loaded.

Chloe
I think someone hacked the system. Probably the people who want to shut down the forum.

Geyde
wow
this wasn’t a stupid idea at all

System Message: Initiating "Die In Real Life" protocol.

Arete
is that bad
that sounds bad

Chloe
That’s the protocol to kill you if you die in the simulation.

DatBird
why would u even add something like that

Chloe
I was trying to test features!

Geyde
WHY WOULD YOU EVEN WANT THAT FEATURE

Chloe
It’s ok! As long as we can get out of the simulation, we can deactivate the protocol and restore people’s consciousnesses from backups.

Arete
that’s not how this works
that’s not how any of this works

Chloe
Are you the one who programmed it, Arete?
The point is, we have to be able to escape.
Which requires that we disconnect the people who want to shut down the forum first.

osieorb18
Great, let’s do that.

Chloe
There’s one minor problem.
None of us can actually act in the simulation.
So we have to make sure that the rest of the forum kicks them out. It’ll be just like a game of FM!

System Message: Scrambling avatars.

Datbird
whats that mean?

Chloe
Oh, that’s another feature. Essentially, it means that everyone will get the skills and appearance of another user.
Anyways, we’d better go explain it to them…

[FoLAnnualMash]

Start of Day 1

Day 1 has begun and will end: 2021-06-19T05:00:00Z

Actions submitted in the final hour of the Day will not be processed.

Both majority and plurality are in effect. With 47 players alive, it takes 24 to reach majority.

THERE ARE ANTICLAIM MECHANICS IN THIS GAME. CLAIM AT YOUR OWN RISK.

[katze]

Democracy is a flawed mechanic. We must not submit it to it. Rather, we must rise against it. To do so, I shall be taking over as the President, King, Emperor, Dictator, Head, Consul, Mayor, Supreme Leader, Pope, God, Deity, Overlord, and Sovereign of this Town.
We must overthrow this current corrupted system of “voting” and take power away from the people to give me complete control over everything.
I shall manage all affairs of this town. This includes executions, actions, and events.

I declare that today, there shall be no executions. All people of this fine Town shall be given time to pledge their loyalty towards my rule. Uniting the people under my leadership is our top priority. The act of killing an innocent townie will not happen.

/vote no execution

[Vulgard]

A quick note about FM theory and how I will play this game. Note that the arguments and facts presented here are indisputable, and that I will not engage in arguments about them, because those arguments are you wasting everyone else’s time about meta that is well and comprehensively established. Go make reads so we can read you.

I’ve reflected on my role and realized that there is a GOAT play for me in this game, and therefore I am compelled to pursue it. I am going to brute force my clearness immediately upon the opening of the thread.

I am hard-claiming, and I will never be rescinding. I am an ALIGNMENT COP. When it becomes prudent I will provide my check.

Benefits:

1. I will survive tonight: I do not believe the wolves are able to kill me tonight, because it is so objectively unlikely that I would ever do this as a cop. I believe that this decision reduces the importance of the PR cover to be provided by all of you to the point of it being negligible. The wolves have already been outplayed, as it were.

2. I’m lock clear: All of you already know I’m lock clear, because it is so objectively unlikely that I would do this as a wolf. You know this for at least two reasons. First, this is the easiest, lowest-stress, lowest-demand game to wolf in that I’ve ever played in (except for turbos). I have no need to complicate my life, as a wolf, by open-claiming on thread open, when all I have to do is provide like a C-level wolf game to probably win. This is the rare instance where you literally know that I have a billion other options as a wolf, AND that I would pursue probably ALL of them before pursuing this. Second, I engage in FPS exceedingly rarely, which necessarily means that I know that this will look WEIRD and SHOCKING to you. There is no merit to a wolf play that instantly generates WEIRD and SHOCKED responses that I would be obligated to finesse and manage for the remainder of the game. As a villager, which I am, the burden is totally on you to not mess up and yeet me. Makes my life super awesome.

3. There are only 45 players you need to try to read, rather than 46: I have already provided a “free” check of me in a game with a mere 47 players. Our win equity is dramatically improved by my being entirely off the table for the entire game.

Conclusion:

The burden of sound reasoning is now entirely upon you. I am a cop, and thus a villager, and thus lock clear. The game is immediately simpler than it would otherwise have been, because of my decision. Now, let us enjoy that benefit and win the game.

Also, to preempt a lengthy and pointless discussion.

It is NOT dumb to ponder this post and convince yourself of its wisdom. That is your obligation as a villager, and I encourage you to think it over for as long as it takes to quell your (initially valid but ultimately unnecessary) concerns.

It IS dumb to, AFTER doing that pondering, conclude that I’m “neutral” or “wolfy.” That is legitimately stupid, and I won’t entertain it. ONE of the reasons it is a stupid conclusion is that the upside of this play as a wolf is absolutely DWARFED by the upside of this play as a villager. There is no equivalency between the EV gain for wolf-me in this position and villager-me in this position. They’re universes apart. That means I wouldn’t DO the poorer option of the two (by extension, wolf-me also wouldn’t BELIEVE that I could convince the entire game of the truth of these assertions for the entire game, which as an end-game wolf I would have to believe if this strategem were to be worth pursuing). A SECOND reason that conclusion is stupid is that the EV bonus of oding this as a wolf is COMPLETELY DWARFED by me baseline wolf EV anyway. Anything that complicates my wolfing life is RIDICULOUSLY stupid for me to do, given that my wolfing life is ALREADY one of the smoothest, highest expectation wolfing lives in WW history anyway. A THIRD reason that conclusion is stupid is that you would probably have to worry about being EXPLOITED by this gambit in order to get there. However, I have NEVER engaged in this, or any similar, gambit in my entire career, meaning that if there IS exploitation to be had with this play, it is in FUTURE GAMES, not this game. For these reasons, pressuring me is extremely wolfy and should not be engaged in by any villager, ever, in this game. There will be no less productive pursuit than that in this game.

Sucks for the wolves when meta is wielded this brutally, but my allegiance is plain and my strategy perfect. Get #rekt.

[MaximusPrime]

/vote Ailen

[Intensify]

Insert wallpost here

[Centuries]

shotlist spammer here

[sulit]

wouldn’t it be funny if you rolled town 15 times in a row lol

[clonedcheese]

@FoLAnnualMash

Did you hear about what happened over on Chief Delphi?

Why u gotta do this to me

[Marshal]

im mafia

[orangeandblack5]

if you die in the game you die for real

/vote zorua whatever she’s called here

[Vulgard]

We don’t have enough information to execute someone day 1, it’s too risky.

/vote no elimination

[Emilia]

I will ITA anyone who ITAs a person with less than 10 people wagon regardless of the flip

[Marshal]

/vote noelim

[Blizer]

/vote.exe

Vote Program is sus

[Centuries]

there is a voting thread you doofuses

[nutella]

Hey nerds

[MaximusPrime]

still ahve to vote in main thread doofus

[min]

Hi