Since the game is going to begin soon: How are we going to approach this? Should we play it straight, i.e. like any ordinary town would?

I believe in Miracle.

Oh and as far as how to play the game: just play it straight. We don't have any roles other than being a towns person so as long as we don't draw any unneeded negative attention to ourselves we should be fine.

Any idea on how to approach this mess of a first day?

I still have work to do, but afterwards I'll continue to go through every post, summarize them and hopefully make sense of all this.

Hooray! Pandas! Woo!

Hi. I'm optimistic I will be able to catch up (more or less) today. The sheer mass of posts has made that a bit difficult. Almost 500 posts within 24 hours on the first day is just insane.

I cannot think of a good reason to make such a role-claim on D1, nor can I think of a good reason not to lynch him. It bothers me that Blarg/Kawl have attached themselves to him, though I strongly doubt both are mafia.

1)He is town, but not a cop.
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His role claim risks that our actual cop slips up. In addition, he is drawing a lot of attention, both friendly and otherwise. I assume he might attempt to be some sort of lightning pole and detract mafia from town roles, but that seems like a pointless and risky gambit that could (and should) backfire hard. Either way, since he cannot provide any actual evidence, he will get lynched on D2. All in all, a waste of time.

2)He is town and a cop.
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No. Just no. That would be the worst role-claim in Gafia history.

3)He is neutral.
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No reason not to lynch him.

4)He is scum.
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Even more important to lynch him, since he might be able to fake knowledge on D2 or even accurately give role names (if such a role exists among mafia).

I don't think he is mafia, since role-claiming cop on the first day is really horrendous, but when the best defense I can think of is "Too stupid to be a lie", that's...not good.

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Splinter has been very active, a useful town player, but why kill him over a presumably confirmed power role? A ploy to confuse us?

It would be more information for the town to work with, but it would also be more info for the scum to work with if it is a town role. I am leaning towards it being a scum role, but it could be a town role. If it is a town role and they hit scum, then there would be chaos in the scum team which would be really useful. I would say that was what happened to scum Night 1, but of course the Chat Blocker couldn't have used it by that point.

Shame Splabot died. After Blarg flipped I was sure they were town.

No problem. I assume they'll lynch us today. This is the kind of nonsense that they'll use against us, combined with "You were against Splabot" and "You voted for different candidates". Can't believe we're letting TimeFlux roam around. They should've been lynched D1.

I'm wondering, since Kark is giving us an out, if we should indirectly pretend/mention that we have a power role. He asked if the chat bomb is reactive, so we could just say something like "D2 rules it out". That would draw tension away from power roles and (since Kark has practically confirmed our town identity) would not cause further confusion.