UberNinja/Games/Newbie 1206

Newbie 1206 (modded by Sotty7; mostly recovered from the 2012 Crash)

   I was a cop. This game was probably my favorite that I've played on this site so far. I replaced in soon after the game had begun, and from what I could tell, it had started out pretty normally. RayFrost was the IC in the game, and the two SE players were Lastsurvivor and Dean Harper (later Chrimi). The players were getting into the game with a fair amount of gusto, and I decided to join them in their efforts. I picked out two people quite early on (by post seven of the game) who I thought were scum: RayFrost and Metabot. Most of it was due to a comment made by Metabot, but I was only 50% right.

   During the first day, Gunhaver replaced in for somebody, and I decided he was as good a target as any to start reaction-testing on. I launched a scathing attack on him, accusing him of all sorts of things, notably of being an alt and not a newbie. He defended as best he could, but others began to pile on his wagon along with me. I didn't know what the outcome would be of my reaction test, but it turned out that others' reactions to it were just as valuable in determining alignments as his own reaction. Gunhaver was town. Moving on, I tested RachMarie next. She also proved to be town via her reactions.

   At the end of my reaction tests on both of them, I knew that RayFrost needed to be lynched. He had been lurking, promising content "later" (and not delivering), and in most ways just utterly failing in his role as the game's IC. I knew I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if he was able to win the game while playing in this manner, so I was a major proponent of his lynch. I wasn't sure he would flip scum, but it was close enough and he had been scummy enough that I really didn't care. He had lots of experience and I'll be damned if I'm going to let an "IC" nametag make a difference.

   So, he flips town and we go into night. By this time I either have a fairly clear read on people (Gunhaver, RachMarie, and a few others) or I'm simply not sure on them. One of the people who I wasn't very sure on was Lastsurvivor, and he seemed experienced enough to take in quite a few people. Oh, I've forgotten something. During Day 1, I asked for Doc protection that night, and RachMarie said something like "If there is a Doc, I'm sure they heard you". This basically confirmed her as town (and Doc!) to me, but RayFrost (who was voting her at the time) did not unvote, and so I was sure he was scum because why else would he try to get the doc lynched, and hope that nobody else noticed her breadcrumb? So that was another big reason I wanted him gone. I thought he was being sinister, and had spotted it as well, and was trying to fool us all.

   Night 1 rolls around, and Lastsurvivor was sticking out to me as the clear investigation target. I investigated him, and sure enough, he turned up scum. I knew Day 2 would be all about finding his scum buddy. Challenge accepted. I started Day 2 very nonchalantly. The scum had killed Gunhaver, nearly confirmed townie. Not a bad choice. Their first choice had been me, but in the mafia QT they had decided not to because they were worried that the doc (if there was one) would decide to listen to my plea for protection (Hint: It was RachMarie, and she did listen!). I began doing the exact same thing as Day 1; reaction fishing and systematically determining the alignments of everyone I could, whether good or bad, as efficiently as possible. Only today, one of my targets was someone who I knew without a doubt was scum. Lastsurvivor was a tricksy little hobbit, and tried his utmost to weasel out from under my all-seeing eye. But he didn't account for the fact that I knew, without a doubt, that he was scum, and therefore had obscene amounts of confirmation bias and confident rhetoric to throw at him.

   It wasn't very fair, and I admit he did an excellent job trying to allay suspicion. But I was outspoken enough to sway opinion against him. My real goal of the day was not to get him lynched. That was a foregone conclusion and I knew that'd happen one way or another: I could claim at any time and get him lynched via my cop result. The only thing which was particularly worrisome that day was trying to find his scumbuddy, or at least someone I was confident enough was his scumbuddy to investigate them and hopefully get another guilty result. I wavered all throughout Day 2, between Luckyjt (I eventually saw enough stuff from him that could not possibly be scum-motivated, and wrote him off as LS' buddy), Elmo TeH AzN (he was a strong contender, particularly early on, but during the later moments of the day said some things I think were conclusive enough to let him live another day or so), Chrimi (really the only person who gave me extreme amounts of pause; I very nearly investigated him instead of...), Metabot (who I had pegged as scum very early on, as I mentioned earlier, and I very much could not resolve the things he did, against a town mindset).

   So it was between Chrimi and Metabot, and I agonized a good portion of the latter part of Day 2, reaction testing them both mercilessly. I had made up my mind to try to draw out a fake counter-claim from somebody, and since there had been no other power role claims (I had a very strong suspicion that RachMarie was the doc, and I wanted to figure out if anyone else would counter-claim my cop claim, or claim another power role, so I could catch them!), I decided to go for it. I also thought it'd be a significant reaction test to insinuate that I had a guilty result on Metabot. Ultimately, his reaction to it was the reason I decided to investigate him that night. I asked for Doc protection once again (and once again, RachMarie replied with "I am sure the Doctor heard you, Uber"... *facepalm*), and we went into Night 2.

   I investigated Metabot, and just as planned... wait! Day 3 dawned, and I had been the one killed! Had I been wrong about RachMarie being the doctor? No! What was this! I clicked the dead QT link in my death notification post, and sotty7's "Welcome Uber, hot shot cop." made my ears burn red with embarrassment. Had I been wrong all along? Noooooo! I was so sure! ... So, I asked sotty7 if I could have the results of my investigation as long as I didn't share them with anyone else. She agreed, and told me that Metabot as well had a guilty result. Oh, vindication! How happy I was! I watched the game with anticipation, knowing that everyone would read my comments at the end of Day 2 and lynch Metabot and soon we would all be back in the thread rejoicing about a glorious town victory!

   But instead, they decided to quicklynch Luckyjt, an innocent bystander! And soon after, the unthinkable happened. Tragedy struck, and the whole game was lost to the aether. Luckily, I was able to recover most of it through the cache feature on Google (I wanted my team to win, dammit!). But I couldn't recover the whole game, just about 90% of it, and when the forum finally came back, sotty7 had decided not to continue the game after all! I was pretty bummed, so I decided to sweet-talk her into finishing it. As it turned out, the dear sweet Haylen also had a copy of the destroyed game, and hers was even more complete than my own! About 95% of the game had been saved! There was a bit of lead time trying to get sotty7 to agree to continue the game, and a little difficulty getting the downloaded game into a manageable format for everyone else, but after a while, everyone was back in the game again, and things got underway.

   Long story short, Metabot killed off Chrimi, leaving an endgame of himself, RachMarie, and Elmo TeH AzN. Unfortunately, he was able to buddy up to RachMarie and sweet talk her into lynching Elmo TeH AzN with him, despite some very obvious scum tells he committed while trying to secure the win. But secure it he did, and as much as I don't like to admit it, he did what was necessary to get the win, and that's all that matters in this game. So, hats off to the scum and especially to the mod and Haylen, who did their best to get the game going again after it was destroyed by the crash! I had a ton of fun and hope to play more games like this in the future!

Quotes from this game

"I have to say, Uber would make a great IC." – Chrimi (SE)

"Everyone's fending for themselves from the big bad Uberwolf." – Elmo TeH AzN

"UberNinja is fucking beast at this." – Chrimi (SE)

"Stop sheeping Uber!" – Lastsurvivor (SE)