The Hobbit Mafia [Town win]

[HotShot53]

I confirm that I read and basically understand my game role.

Sounds like he's playing the newbie card again, must mean he's scum again vote thorthoth

[madmitch]

No Doom !! who do I vote for oh wait there is always Dakky

[MudPuppy]

FOS madmitch for suggesting a vote against a short person with extraordinarily hairy feet.

[Minister Masket]

Look at Skoffin's profile picture and tell me that's not Gollum!

Vote: Skoffin

FOS Pika

Gollum can't die, cause then who will destroy the Ring?

Oh uhh....spoiler alert.

[BuJaber]

Vote riskllama for making jokes at this very serious hour.

[ZaBeast]

I confirm that I read and basically understand my game role.

Sounds like he's playing the newbie card again, must mean he's scum again vote thorthoth

5. All ‘votes’ and ‘unvotes’ must be in Bold and Green. If they are not, they will not be tallied. (I.E. Vote: Nagerous). You must first unvote and then vote to change your vote from someone.

Vote riskllama for making jokes at this very serious hour.

lama isn't playing btw

Vote Thorthoth for confirming late. Someone submarining already? And yes I know there are three people (8. FloresDelMal; 11. Iron Butterfly and 15. nickthesticks) that didn't confirm yet, but I can't be voting for three people at a time can I? <--- don't bother answering that one, it was rhetorical

[Thorthoth]

I'm not a full-newb anymore, but I am still relatively inexperienced.
Also I have a naturally inquisitive nature. I like to question, hypothesize and debate. I would do that regardless of role.

N.B. My policy within this game will be to not directly engage with non-players.
If the petty trolls of CC want to engage with me there are other forums and chat rooms for that.

[MudPuppy]

If the petty trolls of CC want to engage with me there are other forums and chat rooms for that.

Trolls, huh? Takes one to know one... right, Thorthoth... or is it BILL HUGGINS?!?
N.B., If you change two of the h's in his name to l's, "Thorthoth" is an anagram for "Hott Troll"

[dakky21]

Vote riskllama for making jokes at this very serious hour.

I don't know if this was intentional or a joke, but as I always say voting people who are not in the game is the same as not voting or voting for the sake of voting.

Vote BuJaber

[Pikanchion]

Look at Skoffin's profile picture and tell me that's not Gollum!

Vote: Skoffin

FOS Pika

Gollum can't die, cause then who will destroy the Ring?

Oh uhh....spoiler alert.

FOS Minister Masket

If Gollum dies he can't be tortured to reveal the location of Bilbo and The Ring to Sauron, thus preventing the Ring Wraiths their ability to give chase to the Hobbits prior to them forming The Fellowship. This would prevent Frodo from being stabbed by one of their blades and potentially prevent The Fellowship being broken up during Boromir's attempt to seize The Ring for himself as the probability of Orc attack at that time would be somewhat reduced. Whether this would have a negative consequence on the ability to fend off Saruman is a matter of some debate due to Merry and Pippin only meeting the Ents after their capture during the Boromir incident, however Gandalf seems knowledgable about the Ents and may have enlisted their help himself if not for the Hobbits. Without these setbacks Frodo would have carried The Ring for considerably less time, reducing its hold over him and preventing the need for Gollum to wrest it from Frodo's hand at Mount Doom.

Oh, and... spoiler alert.

[ZaBeast]

This is kinda OT, but I would expect the bad guys to be the orcs, and maybe have Smaug as a tier-party. I don't seee Gollum being in the setup.
And while I'm at it, I'm a bit confused by this line of the opening post:

"Now we are all here!" said Gandalf, looking at the row of thirteen hoods-the best detachable party hoods-and his own hat hanging on the pegs. "Quite a merry gathering!

I feel like 13/14 (if we include Gandalf) townies would make it pretty unbalanced. Then again, this post is probably only flavor.

[MudPuppy]

There is no way Smeagol is not in this game.

[madmitch]

@Zabeast,good catch, should be 14 hats including wizard and 15 total with Bilbo, so who is missing? @ Mudpuppy are you soft claiming Sméagol ?

[MudPuppy]

@Zabeast,good catch, should be 14 hats including wizard and 15 total with Bilbo, so who is missing?

Pretty sure one of those hoods belongs to Bilbo as he made the 13th person in the party... so, Zabeast's initial estimate of 13-14 starting adventurers would be the better guess. Initial thought is Smeagol & Smaug are the primary bad guys but trolls are an option too. Goblins are a possibility too.

@ Mudpuppy are you soft claiming Sméagol ?

No... no, I am not... but Gollum is arguably the 2nd most important character in the book. I'm confident he'll be lurking around.

[Skoffin]

Smaug would make an excellent serial killer.

[Thorthoth]

I've read The Hobbit, but it's been awhile. SO... I did what I always do and consulted Wikipedia.

You can too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_T ... characters

We have 16 players.
Gandalf, Bilbo, Golem and Smaug seem very likely.

Obviously also some of the dwarves, but I doubt it could be all 13...

Elrond, The Necromancer (AKA: Sauron), Bard the Bowman (Smaug's slayer) seem like possibilities...

Maybe the Lord of the Eagles could be a busser?

[BuJaber]

Fuckin well done on the troll llama.

I am sorry I didn't read the player list. I've never seen a non player vote after the game started before.. didn't expect it.

Obviously still early but so far:

Anyone else feel that Pika is intentionally trying to confuse and distract?

Seems like thor might be pulling the "look how helpful I'm being" scum strategy while not actually giving any game-specific info.

The way I read the prompt, the 13 people are wearing hoods, means we can't really be sure who's who. I'm guessing some are imposters.

[Samlen]

I've read The Hobbit, but it's been awhile. SO... I did what I always do and consulted Wikipedia.

You can too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_T ... characters

We have 16 players.
Gandalf, Bilbo, Golem and Smaug seem very likely.

Obviously also some of the dwarves, but I doubt it could be all 13...

Elrond, The Necromancer (AKA: Sauron), Bard the Bowman (Smaug's slayer) seem like possibilities...

Maybe the Lord of the Eagles could be a busser?

First four obviously should be in this(*cough*gollum*cough*) and Bard seems pretty likely, elrond maybe and sauron not too likely imo. Of dwarves probably the only we can be sure of is thorin. Everything else is a tossup.

[HotShot53]

I confirm that I read and basically understand my game role.

Sounds like he's playing the newbie card again, must mean he's scum again vote thorthoth

5. All ‘votes’ and ‘unvotes’ must be in Bold and Green. If they are not, they will not be tallied. (I.E. Vote: Nagerous). You must first unvote and then vote to change your vote from someone.

Vote riskllama for making jokes at this very serious hour.

lama isn't playing btw

Vote Thorthoth for confirming late. Someone submarining already? And yes I know there are three people (8. FloresDelMal; 11. Iron Butterfly and 15. nickthesticks) that didn't confirm yet, but I can't be voting for three people at a time can I? <--- don't bother answering that one, it was rhetorical

Oh yeah, forgot about the whole voting in green thing... vote Skoffin for posting in red, making us vote in green

[Skoffin]

Maybe if you start posting in green the mod will then be forced to pick another colour. Oh the shenanigans we could have!

[lord voldemort]

Maybe if you start posting in green the mod will then be forced to pick another colour. Oh the shenanigans we could have!

Don't do that

[Skoffin]

[madmitch]

Well Sam you better take care of that cold or are you trying to claim something

[ZaBeast]

Well Sam you better take care of that cold or are you trying to claim something

I think he was just pointing out it wasn't written well in the post he quoted

Obviously still early but so far:

Anyone else feel that Pika is intentionally trying to confuse and distract?

There's not enough posts from him to actually know, but he seems confused himself, he made two posts about Gollum, including one explaining why he is important using the Lord of the Rings story. (Talking about Gollum, I don't remember seeing him much in the Hobbit (at least the movie). If it was a Lord of the Rings mafia, of course he'd be there but I'm not so sure about this one.)

Of dwarves probably the only we can be sure of is thorin. Everything else is a tossup.

You're probably right, I would expect some dwarves to be saved as fake claims for mafia. Sad part is it makes it hard to guess the setup.

[Thorthoth]

Seems like thor might be pulling the "look how helpful I'm being" scum strategy while not actually giving any game-specific info.

Hmm, this is the second time Bujaber took a first round potshot at me...
Last time that happened, it was dakky in Mass Effects trying to divert suspicion off himself because he was the cult recruiter... I FOSed him about it at the time, but everybody ignored me and decided that dakky was obviously the shining knight of the Town and obviously above suspicion. FOOLS! The rest of the game was just a victorious cakewalk for the Cult....

Now the complicating fact in that situation, was that, last time, I actually happened to be one of the scum... but that was ENTIRELY COINCIDENTAL. dakky had nothing on me and only targeted me because I was a noob that made an easy target.

FOS @ BuJaber

NO. Change that. I'm not pussyfooting around this time.

VOTE Bujaber.