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If this refers to osu!, moddingV2 was released a couple of months ago and is the default modding/discussion platform for any map submitted since then.
see https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6291683 for details.

I had to cover my bases on N2, tupsu's "breadcrumbs" were grinded down to some sub-atomic particle size as there really is no sign of them in her message history from what I saw (even when I know what role I was supposed to be looking for), leading me to suspect her somewhat. If tupsu had nk'd Hika on night 2, there was no fucking way to ever salvage this game for the town. Hika played day 2 poorly enough to incriminate themselves regardless of tupsu's survival of night 2, so I figured my best chances were to try to counter the possibility of tupsu being the scum...

For N1 I have no excuse tho, should've thought about it more back then.

A victory is a victory, I'll take it. I think my inexperience in this kind of mafia setting showed pretty clearly, so I'm happy to have been able to not fuck it up too badly.

Thanks to moderation for hosting, it was a fun game~

And here we are.

I have to convince Fittan's ghost now. Let's get into it.

Day 1
What Hika did
Hika joined halfway into the day as Granger had to drop out, and the first real contribution from them was this read:

Everything is wrong here.

• There was no scum between the 3 first named, those were simply the 3 active players so they were the easiest to point fingers at.

• Defending their scum-partner Mara (ex-Sonar)

• Pointing out their predecessor as scum-leaning while distancing themselves from that person at the same time

Now that we know Hika is scum, this initial read is incredibly discriminating.

Additionally, during day 1 Hika does not ever try to defend a townie that is being accused, they only ever defend Soner/Mara. They also point fingers at tupsu/abraker/fittan, the three most active and two most town-leaning players at that point. The one time they mention suspecting mara is here:

At this point boat had considerable heat on him already, and was looking like the one that was getting lynched. Convenient time to try to distance from your scum partner, eh?

What I did

• Started with RVing fittan, until abraker pointed a reasonable eought reason to drop that vote.

• Defended Soner, or at least read them as townie/third party.

• Pressured Multtari with an RV since he wasn't contributing much.

• Started picking on abraker out of boredom, and because it felt like his overwhelming presence was skewing the entire game at this point. It didn't amount to much tbh, I got to explain myself a bit I guess.

• Expressed my dissatisfaction with mara's delayed and shitty read, and laid my vote down on boat (based on an earlier post explaining why). Hika ended up voiting boat at the same time, so I felt the need to point out my vote was in fact an independent decision rather than bandwagoning. Probably didn't need to do that tbh.

• Wrapped up the convo with abraker (as he died the following night) and commented on my role-leak since tupsu brought it up.

Generally my day one was spent just poking around, with not much central thought behind any of it. Just information hunting. Like I have said before, if losing 3 people on night 1 was a possibility that I had thought of, I'd have put more of an effort into day 1.

Night 1
Hika plots with mara, and they for some reason decide to go for a kill on abraker. Mara dies in the process.
I RNG-heal Mara, that falls through.

Day 2
What Hika did
As day 2 dawns, Hika finds themselves in a pretty shitty situation. Alone against 3 town, one of which they know to be a (nerfed) doctor. Hika goes into confusion/sheep mode. Tupsu posts a big wall of text that sets out to discriminate fitta, and does a good job at it. Hika follows up with:

and after I pile up on fittan too:

Hika then proceeds to role-claim:

It's convenient to claim this, but it is in fact a pretty big mistake here: Hika knows my role. I have not role-claimed yet, nor have I hinted towards it in any way. The play here would have been to claim Faith Healer. Thank god Hika didn't do that. They're too scared at this point to make anything but the most inconspicious play.

As the day proceeds, fittan defends himself against our attacks and attacks me. fittan ends up role-claiming as Restess Spirit. Since Hika knows fittan is town, there's no reason for them to doubt this claim. Killing a Restless Spirit is also the worst possible outcome of day 2 for Hika, so they try for a desperate nonsensical defense of fittan:

as I go on to point out later in the day, voting fittan is in fact the only acceptable play for town on day 2. Even fittan themselves realizes I'm right, and lynches himself.

Hika ends the day with a truly defeated-sounding message:

they are now entirely at the mercy of RNG, as my healing power will likely end up deciding the game the following night. Except that Hika played day 2 so poorly, that even though my heal failed, he's still easily pointed out as the true remaining mafia member of the game.

What I did
I was a bit late to the start of this day, tupsu's massive blame-post on fittan was already up and it was mostly what I had thought too plus a couple extra convincing points. Only one important (in my opinnion) part was missing from it, so I added it in. I did not place my vote on fittan yet, though, because on the off chance that he was innocent, Hika as the mafia would've gotten a free lynch on him with next to no info being gained on day 2 (the perfect result for Hika, who was in a bad spot after night 1 as pointed out earlier).

I then moved on to address Mara's shitty read from day 1, in preparation for the role-claiming that was now looming in the immediate future of this game. I intentionally went for a non-meta approach when analyzing his read, which seemed to confuse the playerbase. My goal was to point out that Mara's read was in fact thought out and not to be taken too lightly now that his true colors were shown. Lastly I point out that the lone living mafia member should by all means know my role, which I still strongly believe is the case. I brought it up here to later be able to point out how stupid it was from the mafia member to claim neutral townie when they knew the identity of an unclaimed townie already.

I then addressed fittan's attacks against me, pointing out his reads to be fundamentally wrong andtherefore of little signifigance. I also role-claimed here, since others were role-claiming and the mafia knew already anyways. Additionally, since fittan roleclaimed as a Restless Spirit, I placed my vote on him as he was now a 100% positive lynch to make.

Next I had to address tupsu's questions of my night actions, and my lack of effort in day 1. I spoke truthfully and bluntly here:

fittan proceeds to attack me one more time, Hika chimes in with some last ditch nonsense that just seems panicing at this point, I refute both of them and seal the day by pointing out how nonsensical it would be to not lynch fittan today. tupsu and fittan agree with me and lay their votes down on fittan (notice how Hika has fallen completely silent at this point! Giving up already?), and fittan is lynched and revealed as indeed being the Restless Spirit.

finally I point out what awaits us on day 3 if the 50/50 does not go town's way (which it didn't, since tupsu is dead), and Hika kills tupsu on night 2. Now the keys to the game lie firmly in fittan's hands. Make the right decision, please. The truth is obvious.

Vote: Hika

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Hindsight is 20/20

I have no idea how good or bad some of you are at picking up on clues, so why would I risk it when I don't even really trust myself to be able to pull it off safely?

I did, actually. Observe, on page 5:

see above quote from page 5.

as I mentioned earlier on this page, my heal (or prayer, RNG as it was) was on Mara on N1. Misplay, I fully admit that, but I had my reasons for it (also explained in the aforementioned post).

And of course, finally this:

Definitely yes, in fact it's the only sensible play to make right now. There are only two outcomes:

• You are the lone remaining scum, and as you die we win the game

• You are the Wandering Spirit, and even though die and we lose a town member, we don't lose a townie vote

Lynching a blank character (Hika, I can't give a proper read on them like I said), or lynching an apparent member of town (tupsu), or lynching you? Easiest decision of my life.