Umlaut

Prefer to be a Pro-Mafia Player.

Hey all, I'm Umlaut.

My username is the same one I had on my old home site, where I first learned of Mafia in 2001 when mith introduced it there. I pretty much stopped playing when I stopped frequenting that site, and finally got around to joining MS.net in 2015 when I started missing the game. If you remember me from way back when, let me know!

I don't think I'm either an amazing or a terrible player, but I keep running into people saying I'm good (and usually scumreading me for it).

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My played games

Win	Loss	Draw	%	Faction
27	17	0	61.36%	as All Factions
18	14	0	56.25%	as Town
9	3	0	75%	as Mafia / Werewolves
0	0	0	0%	as Cult
0	0	0	0%	as Self-Aligned

	Game	W/L	Moderator	Role	Team	Death / Status	My play
1	Newbie 1661	Win	Zaicon	Roleblocker	Mafia	Survived
2	Newbie 1668: Welcome to the Mafias	Win	Fraggernaut	Vanilla Townie	Town	Survived
3	Blitz 11: Pick Your Power X/Y	Win	Rob14	Cop	Town	Shot Night 3
4	Blitz 15: Monks and Masons in Serona II	Loss	fferyllt	Mason	Town	Shot Night 1
5	Open 645: C9++	Win	Not_Mafia	Goon	Mafia	Shot Night 2
6	Newbie 1719: Volcanic Mafia	Win	SirCakez	Jailkeeper	Town	Survived
7	Micro 634: Wolf Hunt	Win	SnarkySnowman	2-Shot Commuter	Town	Survived
8	Micro 635: 09:12	Win	shaddowez	Vanilla Townie	Town	Survived
9	Micro 639: Noughts and Crosses Blitz	Loss	Firebringer	Vanilla Townie	Town	Shot Night 2
10	Open 654: Surrealism	Loss	Creature	Goon	Mafia	Mauled Night 1
11	Newbie 1740: MS Pain	Loss	Creature	Vanilla Townie	Town	Shot Night 4
12	Mini 1858: Aeronaut's Drunken Christmas Party	Win	Aeronaut	Stephen King (Cop)	Town	Killed Night 2
13	Micro 667: Chosen Mafia	Win	ChaosOmega	Townie	Town	Survived
14	Mini 1852: The Most Bastard Game	Loss	vonflare	Mason	Town	Mauled Night 4
15	Open 679: Jungle Oligarchy	Win	davesaz	Goon	Mafia	Survived
16	Large Normal 202: Flavorful Mafia	Loss	Fro99er	Vanilla Townie	Town	Lynched Day 3
17	Open 680.1: C9++	Win	ThinkBig	Goon	Mafia	Survived
18	Micro 706: Restrictive Mafia	Loss	Nexus	Vanilla Townie	Town	Endgamed
19	Micro 716: Marked for Death #1	Win	Toto	Vanilla Townie	Town	Lynched Day 1
20	Mini Normal 1919	Win	ThinkBig	Odd-Night Cop	Town	Lynched Day 4
21	Open 692: Two-Fold Matrix6	Loss	BTD6_maker	Vanilla Townie	Town	Shot Night 5
22	Micro 724: Scumhunter's Speed: 9 Players	Win	ThinkBig	Goon	Mafia	Lynched Day 1
23	Mini 2014: Succinct Mafia	Loss	mastina	Vanilla Townie	Town	Shot Night 2
24	Micro 739: Nano-Multiball	Loss	BTD6_maker	Vanilla Townie	Town	Endgamed
25	Micro 820: Truth and Justice	Loss	Micc	2-Shot Roleblocker	Mafia	Lynched Day 3
26	Mini Normal 2139: No Flavor Allowed	Win	Ircher	Vanilla Townie	Town	Survived
27	Micro 938: Butterfly Mafia	Win	Datisi	Goon	Mafia	Survived
28	Micro 940: A Normal Blitz II	Loss	Micc	Vanilla Townie	Town	Lynched Day 3
29	Large Normal 288: Bananas	Loss	gobbledygook	Jailkeeper	Town	Shot Night 2
30	Newbie 2010: Pride Month	Loss	keyenpeydee	Goon	Mafia	Lynched Day 1
31	Newbie 2013: Water	Win	Datisi	Goon	Mafia	Survived
32	Smuggler's Port	Win	FakeGod	Tomboy Daughter	Town	Survived
33	Micro 956: 2of4	Loss	Blair	Vanilla Townie	Town	Canceled Day 3
34	Newbie 2026: Space	Win	Plotinus	Goon	Mafia	Eliminated Day 2
35	Open 794: Pick Your Power X/Y	Win	Davesaz	Vanilla Townie	Town	Shot Night 3
36	Micro 968: Your Nightmare (But 4 Scarier)	Win	Jingle	Losing Their Mind	Town	Survived
37	Open 799: Chosen Mafia	Loss	T-Bone	Vanilla Townie	Town	Shot Night 1
38	Newbie 2040: The First Dark Age	Loss	fferyllt	Vanilla Townie	Town	Eliminated Day 1
39	Large Normal 230	Win	SirCakez	Vanilla Townie	Town	Shot Night 3
40	Mini Normal 2191	Win	Sirius9121	1-Shot Neighborizer	Town	Survived
41	Mini Normal 2201: Silly Stock Photos	Win	Foxbird	Goon	Mafia	Executed Day 5
42	Mini Normal 2211: Summer Meet	Win	Cook	Vanilla Townie	Town	Shot Night 2
43	Open 816: C9++	Win	Menalque	Roleblocker	Town	Shot Night 3
44	Newbie 2066: Gelato 2	Win	fferyllt	Friendly Neighbor	Town	Survived

My modded games

Mini 2156: Launch Mob
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Mini Normal	10	Day 4	Town
This is the simplest setup I've ever run except for maybe Mini 1922, and it went quite well. Kerset almost managed to carry the game solo after losing her partner on day 1, but in the end her PR claim was just not quite enough to keep her alive in lilo.

Newbie 2018: Ferrets
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Newbie	9	Day 2	Town
The Mafia was mechanically stomped. They lost their Roleblocker on Day 1, and their Goon was jailkept on Night 1. Better luck next time, newbscum!

Micro 948: Noughts and Crosses Blitz
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Micro	9	Night 2	Town
Mafia had all but lost mechanically after Dunnstral was the first one flipped, but really gave it their all and only threw in the towel after all avenues had been exhausted. Blair very nearly convinced an Innocent Child to lynch herself, which in my opinion is worth all the style points in the world.

Micro 818: Nano-Multiball
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Micro	5	Day 2	Werewolf
I really like this setup and I think it deserves more play to see how balanced it is in practice. In the end Giygas won the old-fashioned way, by out-towning the townies in lylo.

Micro 817: Umlaut's “The Micro Normal Queue Is Empty” Special
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Micro	9	Day 3	Mafia
Maybe someday I'll design a closed setup that will actually run as intended, as opposed to one side just mopping the floor with the other. This was not that day.

Newbie 1884: Expressionism
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Newbie	9	Day 4	Town

Mini 1922: Bondage & Discipline
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Mini Theme	13	Day 3	Mafia
Players had a finite number of posts available per day. I think this more or less worked as intended, and I don't believe it significantly hindered the town (the game went to final 3, and Vedith won by legitimately outplaying the town rather than by taking advantage of the mechanic somehow). I'm not sure if anyone would want to play it again though -- if nothing else, all-vanilla games are usually not that popular.

Micro 723: Untitled
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Micro	9	Day 3	Mafia
Yet another Mafia curb stomp, this time thanks to town quickhammering town on early day 1 leading to a policy lynch on day 2, followed by another townie claiming a role that was literally impossible in a normal game. The game ran less than a week.

Micro 695: Scumhunter's Speed 8p
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Micro	9	Day 3	Mafia
This was a slaughter. Day 1 ended on the first page when ThinkBig realized he had no reason not to quickhammer as scum in this setup, leaving the town with absolutely nothing to go on the next day. No one so much as voted for scum the entire game.

Micro 691: Just Mafia
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Micro	9	Day 2	Town
Town lynched the scum PR day 1 and then the jailkeeper successfully jailed the remaining goon overnight. Kind of a disappointing outcome after a full week spent tweaking the balance with the NRG.

Open 661: Pick Your Poison
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Open	13	Day 5	Town
The Mafia had a rough start, with one of them being lynched Day 1 and confirmed town popping up at a dangerous rate, but culted managed to carry through to 3-player lylo and very nearly won the game.