VP Baltar

Philosophy

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.~HST

Also,

Sarcasm is not a scumtell.

Playstyle

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.~HST

Stats

Overall:10/9/2

Scum: 3/4/1

Town: 7/5/1

Played Games

Newbie

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Newbie 696: Nitoville,Orange Ward	Incognito	Mafia Goon	Survived	Mafia Win	Replaced Polybius in confirmations	This was my first game on MafiaScum. I was a mafia goon with Raider8169, who unfortunately had a lot of real life obligations at the time and left me high and dry by being lynched Day 1. Though I didn't play my hammer of Raider properly, I was able to recover as the days wore on and was able to spur town discord enough to never quite be the main suspect. Was graciously nominated by the moderator and Kmd4390 for a Best Newbie Scummy.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Newbie 715	Thestatusquo	Vanilla Townie	Endgamed	Mafia Win	Replaced Masque on Day 3	Came into this game with a town that had lynched two townies needlessly on the first two days and didn't seem to care much about having discussion. Zwetschenwasser was acting very scummy and I was fooled into attacking him while the scum, Empking and Signal, laid back to nab an easy win through quickvoting on Zwet when another player believed my case and dropped a vote on him. Guess you can't win them all.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Newbie 803	Zorblag	Vanilla Townie	Killed Night 1	Town Wins	Original Entrant	I fought hard to keep this game on the right track day 1, which once again resulted in my death. Thankfully, Head Honcho replaced in and started knocking heads when necessary. He and Col. Cathart did a good job in lylo fishing out the remaining scum, jammer. Good game played by both sides, but the town was just a little bit better here.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Newbie 832-Omod's Return	Oman	Vanilla Townie	Killed Night 2	Town Wins	Original Entrant	Though we had a mislynch on Day 1, I was able to help the town find Radical Pi scum after he had quick hammered. From there on out the town was in control and the scum didn't have much of a chance because they were too timid at the start of the game. RayFrost, AGar, Messiah, danielsound and the rest of the town did a good job after I was dead and never let the last scum have a chance of escape even though he claimed cop.

Mini Normal

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mini 845 - The Amish Village	Amished	Ongoing	Alive	Ongoing	Replaced Konowa Day 1	Ongoing

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mini 880 - Quick and Dirty	Big Bear	Ongoing	Alive	Ongoing	Invited by Zorblag	Ongoing

Mini Themes

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mini 763-Carnival Mafia	SilverPhoenix	Waffle Vendor	Endgamed	Town Wins	Original Entrant	This was a very fun game that was unfortunately easy for town because SilverPhoenix forgot to put a VT sample role claim in the rules. ChiefSkye4 got into trouble because of this and then made matters worse by claiming 'The Bearded Lady', who coincidentally had died in the opening scene of the game. Her mafia partner, Empking, then made a shoddy claim on D3 and was lynched for the victory. It should have been a perfect win, but people wouldn't listen to me when I said that Debonair Danny DiPietro was a Jester trying to get himself lynched on D2. He succeeded, unfortunately.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mini 770-Amnesia Mafia	elvis_knits	Hypnotist Goon	Lynched Day 4	Town Wins	Original Entrant	This was a very fun game with the mechanic that every day the posts disappear. I was scum partners with julienvonwolfe and Chiefskye4. We didn't really have a chance to win after serial killer Wall-E axed julien and Chief on N1 and N2, thus preventing any of our kills from going through. By the time Day 4 came around a majority of the town had cleared one another through night actions. I tried my best to get a mislynch going on forbiddanlight, but even though I came close the town didn't quite bite. Oh, and my Hypnotist Goon role gave me the power to save and manipulate two posts on any night that I did not perform the scum group's kill. Fun game overall.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mini 799-One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest	Stef	Nurse Ratched	Survived	Mod abandoned	Original Entrant	This seemed to be a very cool setup that Stef took a lot of time to design. Unfortunately, RL intervened and he was unable to complete his modding duties. The game was quite complex and probably would not have been able to be handled by a replacement mod. Oh well.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mini 803-Pale Moon Risin'	SpyreX	Peasant	Lynched Day 1	Town Wins	Original Entrant (invited)	I played very badly in this game, probably my worst game on MS. I got way too overzealous on Day 1 and made some poor choices of words when I attacked mykonian and Zilla. This was what ultimately led to my lynch. Furthermore, most of my reads of town and scum were out of place. I have no clue really what I was thinking this game, but the rest of the town did fairly well and the scum finished each other off in the end. Can't win them all I guess. Solid town performances from Zilla and Incognito.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mini 783-Cowboy Bebop Mafia	Jahudo	Spike Spiegel	Lynched Day 5	Town Wins	Original Entrant	This was a really great game and was made moreso by a fantastic player list that all played reasonably well. Though the scum team had 4 members, there were some special voting mechanics for the town that made it very difficult for us, especially after players like Juls and Vi nailed the whole scum group. I think as a whole scum team played well together, but there were just too many confirmable or semi-confirmed town roles floating around for us to be able to get viable mislynches. Jahudo also made some really great flavor and was more than capable in his modding duties. Probably one of my favorite games so far on MS.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mini 809-Mafia ViPod	Vi	Tarhalindur, Cthulhu over Mafia	Survived	Haruhist Cult Wins	Original Entrant	This was a unique setup of two cults with limited recruiting abilities facing off. The first night I recruited Sotty7, which turned out to be a wonderful choice. We worked together very well and felt we were in control of the game most of the time. Little did we know that a series of coincidences was hiding the second cult of X and elvis_knits. A difficult claim to defend was ultimately X's downfall and sealed the win for Sotty and me. This game was probably balanced a little in favor of the scum, but for having two cults in it, it was certainly more balanced than I would have imagined. Props to Vi.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mini 819-WWF Battle Royal	Porkens	The Ultimate Warrior, Tag-team Partner	Chokeslammed out of the ring Night 1	Scum Wins	Original Entrant	This was a really fun theme to play and showed that limiting the words of town can actually add to the excitement of the game and not be detrimental to town. It stinks I was killed so early in the game (as seems to be my trend recently). I think the town could have made a better lynch decision on the last day, but the swingy mechanics of two Avengers is really what gave the scum the win, so I can't complain too much.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mini 828-Lost Season 5 Mafia	Porochaz	Jack Shepard	Shot Day 3	Serialkiller Wins	Original Entrant	I don't think there has been a word invented yet to express how frustrating this game was. I had some major arguments with Emptyger and curiouskarmadog during the course of events (both of whom were town). Despite all of that and some bad mislynches early on, town gained major ground when Emptyger was able to cure Zoneace of being the SK. The scum were successfully lynched, but unfortunately there was a mechanic in the game that allowed Zone to TURN BACK into a serialkiller unbeknownst to everyone else. Yeah, lesson to you is don't ever put bastard mechanics into your games.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mini 862-Mafia of Order	Vi	Townie Vigilante	Endgamed	Scum Wins	Original Entrant	This game was a lesson in how much of a team game mafia is. Not only was there a lot of excessive noise and poor scumhunting efforts early on from the town, but the later half of the game saw basically the entirety of the town lurking while I argued myself blue in the face with the scum to lynch one another. Even though I had all of the scum pegged for various reasons, I couldn't get my town teammates to show up for long enough to vote them. It was a pitiful effort on the part of the town and the scum definitely deserved to win for such dismal play.

Open Setup

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Open 122-Near Vanilla	ZazieR	Vanilla Townie	Killed Night 5	Town Wins	Replaced AWA on Day 2	This game started with a lot of needless bickering and not a lot of scumhunting going on, which put the town in a bad position overall. Luckily, SpyreX and camn replaced in and helped to right the direction of the game after I had talked myself blue in the face. Ac1983fan, hewitt and Ztife were the scum in this game and were more than content to let the town self-destruct. Thankfully, camn took a bold move and outted herself as jailkeeper, which resulted in three consecutive deaths of our scum and a town win.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Open 150-Crossfire	Kaiveran	Vanilla Townie	Killed Night 1	Mod Abandoned	Original Entrant	Nothing exciting to report here. This game died a long, painful death that I saw coming for quite sometime. Nerts.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Open 160-Bird 7P	Light-kun	Cop	Survived	Town Wins	Original Entrant	Strong play by hohum and myself basically guaranteed a town win in this game. Together we nailed bloodcovenant and he panicked as scum before fakeclaiming Doctor. He was lynched on D1 to greatly set back the scum team. The Bird setup is very interesting in terms of when to claim and how to claim. I was able to lay a bit under the radar as cop on D1 and clear Charnel as VT with my investigation. Because I didn't investigate the doc, which was hohum, it was basically impossible for the second scum, Octupis, to have a chance for victory. Great play by town as a whole.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Open 161-Pie E7	Debonair Danny DiPietro	Doctor	Killed Night 1	Town Wins	Replaced Mack_and_Cheese42 Day 1	This game started off well enough, and I had high expectations given the player list when I started. saberwolf acted very scummy Day 1 and ended up as a mislynch, but it was probably better for the overall health of the game. After I was killed, populartajo tried to counter claim the cop with a guilty on him, but didn't make it too far. The final day was pretty much a staring contest with no activity, but ekiM came through in the end and nailed the last scum. Kudos to him.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Open 164-Bird 7P	Sironigous	Vanilla Townie	Survived	Town Wins	Replaced OneGunman Day 1	I started the game off on the wrong foot by going after brothernature, who was the doc. I then almost jumped on a mislynch as Day 1 rapidly approached deadline, but used some very good meta on zwetschenwasser to nail him as scum at the last minute. The next day I did a solid analysis of Day 1 and determined that hohum was the second scum. Getting him lynched was more work than it probably should have been, but all is well that ends well I suppose. Overall, I think I played a very good game as town here.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Open 173 - Pie E7	MiteyMouse	Mafia Roleblocker	Survived	Scum Wins	Original Entrant	I was scum with dramonic in this game and we had a perfect victory thanks to a combination of good play on our part and hohum and charter having an epic clash of personalities on Day 1. Hohum got a little over zealous and hammered charter before he claimed that he was the doctor. That put us in a great position the next day and there was little that the town could do to prevent our victory.

Large

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mafia 91-Hell Aboard the Purple Flower	StrangerCoug and MafiaSSK	Sicilian Mafia Role Cop	Lynched Day 5	Town Wins	Original Entrant	I think my scum team actually played really well in this and probably should have won. Being a scum role cop was kind of interesting and gave our team a good insight into what was going on overall and how to best manipulate the game in our favor. It would have given me a great fakeclaim later too if it hadn't been for Vi claiming the night after I investigated her. The next night she investigated me and signed my death warrant. Did I mention I knew she was a cop from the night before? Yeah. Too late on that one. There were three town cops in this game of varying sanities and they could not be killed (even if both scum teams targetted them) as long as the doc (Image, who remained hidden) protected them. I consider this a loss due to circumstance rather than good play on the town's part.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mafia 96-Murder in Emerald City	Iamausername	Cop	Killed Night 2	Scum Wins	Replaced Johnny Rotten Day 1	Kublai Khan made an epic claim as a miller Day 1 without knowing my predecessor had investigated him. He epically rode this claim to one of the cleanest scum victories I have ever seen. My death came as a result of leaning too hard on Mastin, which I should have known better than doing as the cop. I died before I could get my investigations out there, which was really my own mistake. Kublai's team definitely deserved the win here, however.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
Mafia 98-Apennine Mafia	Yaw	Vanilla Townie	Killed Night 1	Scum Wins	Original Entrant (invited)	I was killed night 1 and then people talked...and talked and talked and talked. This game is a perfect example of how people need to sometimes just pick the scummiest player and lynch him or her without looking back. Thus continues my losing streak in large games.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
/in-Vitational Game 4	mith	Mafia Roleblocker	Lynched Day 7	Town Wins	Original Entrant	Turns out that being scum in a game of elite town players who you think are really good players is very challenging. Who would have thought. As a scum team, roflcopter, Yosarian2, zu_faul, populartajo, and myself did alright, but we got very bunched together as the game went on. Late in the game it became obvious to me that we weren't going to be able to get our last two mislynches for the perfect victory. I decided to bus and came close to victory, but charter and Pookythemagicalbear had me nailed big time due to our early buddying. Probably one of the most challenging games I've played in terms of how much work needed to be put in to win the game. Guess I shouldn't have been so lazy early on.

Game	Moderator(s)	Role	Outcome	Decision	Entry	Notes
The Dark Goma Mafia	curiouskarmadog	Ongoing	Alive	Ongoing	Original Entrant (invited)	Ongoing

Modded Games

Open

Game	Town Roles	Scum Roles	Outcome	Notes
Open 166-Lovers Mafia	4 x Vanilla Townie	2 x Mafia Lovers	Town Wins	Town had this game on lockdown once Amished replaced in and took charge. This game is also a perfect example that an active scum team is a happy scum team.