Yeah dev really shouldn't have held on to his inventions or he should have lied about what they were, or at least not confirmed to us they were returned to him. Usually x-shot roles don't get them back if they are blocked. If he had gotten off one action to a townie we were dead.
strike wolf wrote:What I noted and probably would have screwed over mafia had town noticed is that by this point in the game, Mafia Roleblocker and Busdriver were basically confirmed roles. With that kind of manipulation out there, there was no reason mafia should have missed a kill when the "doctor" was known. Mafia had just too many ways to subvert the protection and town could have called you out on it. Town probably also could have figured out balance wise town was already heavy on protective roles. It also slowed down the game when mafia was in control and if 5 had been alive, I felt there was a good chance you could have forced a bad lynch on either Devante or Fusi. 6 alive on the other hand gave town an extra night to get information and think it through. You played it really well but I think more often than not that second guilty result on you would lead to your lynch, then without the role block, Devante gets cleared by giving out his inventions and then Charle probably becomes the odd duck since Fusi and you made it pretty clear you weren't on the same side.
I think you are right in that 5 vs 6 is a massive disadvantage and we probably made it slightly harder, but that was kind of the whole point. Fusi and me becoming polarised was not my plan, my plan was to basically shut up and say nothing and neither vote for Dev or fusi, so either would look more like my partner than charle, but then fusi connected the dots and ruined that.
As for the, "where were the roleblocker and busdriver" narrative I think there were two lines we never explored.
First the explanation I was going to have had ewe not hammered was that devante couldn't roleblock because he needed to use up all his items one night so as to not appear like wolf. What's more likely, mafia skip a kill to look innocent or they skip a roleblock to look innocent?
The fusi investigation by ewe was also the worst possible outcome for us, because I expected someone to pick up on swangs claim that busdrive, roleblock and kill couldn't be used on the same night. This kills me but confirms charle as town as long as ewe doesn't investigate fusi. Imagine charle is investigated by ewe and seen as town, dev with OP roles is blocked, no kill, with the assumption that you can't do all 3 in one night.
I do think we tried to control the game a bit too much, which is very hard with so many PRs. I felt the need to set it up to look guaranteed innocent rather than rely on argumentation during the days.