Skruffs

Skruffs

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Skruffs is a mafia player. He joined in July of 2005, but didn't actually sign up for a game until July of 2006. He's pretty out there.

Comments:

"I love Skruffs! How can you not?" -someone he knows

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Game History

Completed Games

• Newbie 256 - Alien Invader Mafia

On Tuesday, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:03 pm, I made my first appearance in a mafia game. I replaced into Newbie 256 - Alien Invader Mafia, being run by mathcam, as scum with Thok. I made an initial post, and then voted for Chess83, who had put up a valiant fight... and died. The game was over one hour and twenty five minutes, thanks to Thok and townie thedocsalive after I replaced into it. Scum win! It was a pretty exciting experience. And an interesting foray in the world of Scum and Townies.

• Newbie 276 - Actor Mafia

I was a townie. I was NKed after successfully hammering Sprontalic scum. Chess83 - who I had just lynched off in my replacement game - won as scum in this game after a TIGHT showdown between Ether, Save the Dragons, and Chess83. Even though Save the Dragons went so far as to write a song to help persuade her, Ether wound up voting him. I think the one aspect of this game I learned from the most was the fight between the witty, logical, and beautiful Ether, and scum sprontalic about the differences in play styles. I also got my first hint of bait-trappers - which if you look through my other games, you will notice I do not react well to.

• Newbie 293 - Immune System Mafia

This was my first complete game as scum. I was paired up with the beautiful spectrumvoid. Day one I helped coerce a mislynch on Twito, for almost the sole reason of bait-trapping. He had claimed that he was not going to read his PM, and then, when we called him out on that as scummy, said that he was just saying it as a ruse to draw out scum. Lynch! That night, me and the intelligent, sparkling, fearsome VoidyBuns decided to kill Zindaras. This is important, because it started a trend... you'll see. Day three, after tentatively testing the waters and giving lots of time to claim, me and SV started a campaign to lynch Y.C, the most scummiest of the three remaining townies. I claimed cop and got him mislynched for a scum win. This could have been avoided if Mr. Finch, the REAL cop, had counter claimed. I believe Hemisphere Dancer cost the fatal misvote that ended the game. Oh well, it was just a newbie. :)

• Two Headed Mafia

I replaced in at a 6 player near-end game scenario, paired up with Zindaras. This was a horrible game for me, because I replaced into it just before killing Zindaras off in the aforementioned newbie game. After he realized it, I felt like relations were kind of.. strained. The showdown had occurred into a situation with 1 or 2 possible cultists, a vig or sk, and a mafia member. I got me and Zindaras mislynched by advocating attempting to go after a killer instead of after cult-recruits that may or may not have existed. Even though it ended the game for us, I was right about the no cultist theory. This was my first ever lynching!!! After we died, the vig killed a townie and the mafia killed the vig. A tight three player endgame was won by Cogito Ergo Sum/OverTheUnder & Lowell/sprontalic. petroleumjelly should be commended for swallowing his pride and claiming cultist while actually a mafia member. :)

• Post Restriction 3

This may have been my FAVORITE GAME to replace into. I replaced in at the middle of day five. My first post restriction - Very Verbose Townie - meant I had to post at least 400 words in each of my first three posts of every day. We lynched scum day after day and STILL had a very close endgame. This was also the first game I survived to the end in as town. I was quite exhilarated at the win. :D

• Mini 405 - Loveboat Mafia

I signed up to play in this game being run by Sailor Jerry. I was the cop that didn't save the day. I hammered Massive - the doctor - day one. My strategy of the game was to act semi-scummy in order to keep the scum from killing me, while also not getting lynched by the town. Because I had just gotten Y.C mislynched in Newbie 293 - Immune System Mafia, I decided to inspect him the first night. He was also a double voter in the lynch, both the third voter on, and the -1 voter, which I considered suspicious. He was not guilty, however. The next day the conversation faltered - I left a single clue that I had inspected Y.C earlier in the day. The cult recruiter had died the night before through suicide, and over time I realized in scum chat - which was not part of this game and so couldn't count - that the cult recruiter considered fircoal to be his favorite scummer. To me, that was a clue, but not enough to go on. However when LyingBrian appeared out of nowhere and started attacking me for probing at Fircoal a bit, I counter-attacked, and he was lynched. Another townie. That night I investigated ac1983fan, who was acting the least helpful to town during the day. HE was also town. The next day I claimed, and posted my first pro-town compelling case. I thought we had it in the bag - however - a cleared townie put a vote on the only uncleared townie left. Scum quickly wagoned, and with a speedlynch, the game was over. Even though I did not win this game, I enjoyed playing it, and I think my strategy was semi-intelligent.

• Open 11

I replaced ShadowLurker in this game being run by bird1111 on day one. After mislynching fircoal, of the fircoal and Twito gang, town woke up to find no bodies. After a bit of speculation, we began to claim roles. Patrick and ripley were suspicious of me, and I was very suspicious of them. This was my first game playing with Patrick where we were both still alive, it was very intricate. Twito and Ripley both wound up claiming doctor, and after a while, nightfall (the uncounterclaimed cop) revealed he had investigated Ripley and had not been blocked. We lynched Twito/The fonz, for a town win. Woo!

• Marathon 11 (Speed)

I was coerced into playing this game by its runner, Zindaras. I think to spite me, and hoping I would die, he made me a completely vanilla townie. Boy did I show him! I outlasted a vig, a reviver, a roleblocker, potentially unkillable Mafia, and helped split apart a mason group which had a mafia buddy in it that was dominating the game. It was one hell of an experience, and it rebolstered my faith in myself. Awww! :D

• Meadow of Sorrow

I replaced into this game being run by al_kohaulec Day Three. I helped cause the death of Zindaras, the third time this has happened. I had my vote stolen by Thesp day three. Night four, I was given a Totem of the Night by Dahen, which protected me from nightkills. One of the most stressful aspects of this game was the role- and alignment-altering abilities of the scum. Namely.. Spectrumvoid, Blackberry, and Zindaras. (hee hee hee) Evil Zindaras. I felt SO BAD for getting him lynched at deadline, and it turns out he was scum after all. Blackberry showed up as a mason on being lynched, too, which was disheartening. I thought it was game over. Town never really understood what was going on with the scum until Dahen showed up as an Alignment Changer. That didn't make any sense, because I believed his claim about being an Indian Giver. When SV voted herself, though, the game was over. I was a vanilla townie. An awesome game that I enjoyed replacing into.

• Mafia 59 - Hell On Earth

I replaced into this game (run by Kelly Chen) in a LYLO situation of sorts day five. I was Borg Scum with theopor_COD. We got an alien lynched day 6 and endgamed everyone else. Including Spectrumvoid (who was also scum).

• Newbie 367 - Glork Mafia

Yaus! This was amazingly a perfect win for the town. I lynched scummy mc scumbucket SpinWizard by accident on day one, and day two, we took a 50/50 chance (of sorts) on lynching one of two uncleared townies, and happened to hit right. MachiavellanMafia was crushed! It was actually mostly just luck, but I saw one of my first instances of spotting pro-town play. Muerrto, a newb, said something day one that struck me amazingly as a very pro-town thing to say, and he turns out to eb that way, too. Yay!

• Newbie 341

This is a normal newbie game being hosted by the talented, sensual MeMe. This game was HORRIBLE for me. It's probably MeMe's fault. After pushing hard to generate discussion day one, I wound up hammering a townie without any reasoning other than that it was deadline. This was to kind of polarize the mafia and town all into targetting other people - which would make it more likely for a doctor to successfully protect or a cop to hit a scum, etc. Anyways, the doctor WAS successful, but it didn't matter, we were still at lylo. Me and Abbott had a tiff and he stormed out of the game, and I wound up gtting eventually mislynched in a rather ugly manner, It hink. It was my first mislynch as town in a newbie game. :( Oh well, learning experience. This game ended the same time as the perfect one above, which is just unusual, to get such contrasting endings from two newbie games. Still, it was fun.

• Mini 404 - Diablo Mafia

I replaced into this game run by Zindaras on day one. I hammered TheJiveMachine, who was scum, day one. I hammered myself day three. I was a vanilla townie. This was an awesome game, for me. I very much enjoyed my day three lynch. The game is over. TheSheaMuffin played a great game after his buddies got lynched, and it was fun to watch town rather obliviously plod along, after I was gone. SO SAD! Couldn't they see what I saw, that TSQ had staunchly defended both scum buddies and then turned viciously on me - who turned out to be a townie - for believing in the VERY REASONS he pushed??? Well, oh well. It was still fun.

• Open 2

I replaced Rosso Carne on day three. I hammered MNOWAX, who was scum, and was nightkilled night three. What an honor! ^.^ I was a [[[vanilla townie]] The game is now over. Scum won. :( I had a great quote from that game.

• Open 18

I replaced mole in this game. The gamge is now over. This was my first successful game as a cop, where I inspected two townies who were not nightkilled and one scum. The doctor and scum picked up on my tells and so my nightkill was avoided. YAY IH! We had two consecutive scum lynches for a town win. YAY! Spectrumvoid was scum in this game.

• PS2SUX Mafia

I replaced into this game (currently) being run by petroleumjelly on Day Three and helped lynch Romanus, who was part of the Microsoft scum group. I did so by counterclcaiming his flavor. Poor Romanus. I helped lynch Shadowlurker by debunking his claim that he was a lyncher on me. And I helped Nintendo mafia almost win by postulating about a possibly third mafia group. I was Tidus, from Final Fantasy X, a vanilla townie, and won. Yay! Spectrumvoid was scum in this game.

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Abandoned Games

• Normal 53

I replaced into this game during the night phase as a combat medic, and the game was abandoned before the next day started.

• Exile Mafia

I signed up for this fascinating game by GreenLiquid, which I am excited to be played in. The lynching mechanics are unusual. I was lynched day one, out of me, RagingRabbit, JDodge, and Cheesefan, I was lynched. I enjoyed my part in this intriguing, complex game. I was a vanilla townie. This game was abandoned day two, and it turns out I was at least semi-right in both my theory and the relationships between certain players. I knew Maz was scum! KNEW IT!

• Mini Mafia 415

This game, run by Jules, has no significant flavor. In a way, the lack of flavor.. gives it flavor! I replaced ixnayonthehombre. It was modkilled by MeMe after Jules disappeared after the server upgrade.

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Ongoing Games - Dead

• Kingmaker

I waited MONTHS to replace into this game, and was nightkilled the first night after joining. I must have been too obvious, as I was the kingmaker. It sucks because I was going to replace Shanba, who I think deserved to win. Sorry Shanba!

• Mafia 65: The Pursuit of New Vinci

@&#$@#! I was finally a MASON, and I was starting a large normal from scratch, and I get NK'd NIGHT 0. Shot *AND* forked or something, what the hell!! GRRRR!! I HOPE THAT SCUM PAY FOR MY DEATH!!! AND PAY DEARLY! I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS GAME!!!

• Open 14

I replaced into this game being hosted by TheCentralScrutinizer on day one. It is day four. I was lynched Day one. I was a vanilla townie.

• Animaniacs! Mafia

This is a game being run by petroleumjelly. I replaced mole on day two, just so I could be in another game with the wonderfully intelligent, and charming too, Ether. After a successful lynch on day two, I was nightkilled. (I was not part of the succesful lynch). I was a vanilla townie.

• Mafia 61

I replaced IH in this game being run by AndrewS, day one. I helped get a successful lynch on Scum Lalmstreak day one, and survived to day five, which is what it is, now. I was a TRACKER.

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Ongoing Games - Alive

• Open 19

It is now day three, and there are no nights. I replaced now_a_ranger. This is an interesting game, too. I've never played in a nightless game. Mafia don't night kill, so after day oen starts, they have to try and survive to a point of outnumbering the others players. One has been lynched.

• Mafia 63: Wolves!

This is a game with a werewolf theme. Yay! When I play mafia in real life, we use a werewolf theme, and I'm getting tired of hearing about all my friends getting shot. Now they just get eaten. Still better than being shot, as far as death wise though. I replaced The Goat on night one, and it is now night 3, and I am still alive.

• Death of a Towns Person

This is a game being run by Mr.Flay. It is day two. I am still alive.

Mafia 68 - Ork Mafia Mini 479 - Carebears BM's Mystery Mafia Newbie #433 - Death of a Townsperson Open 35 - Big Love Mafia Open 20 - Mafia 63 - Wolves Mini 442 - Beast Wars

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Off Site Games

These games are all on Other websites which host Mafia Games. Check them out, they are fun!

Wifom.net

• Roman Mafia

This was my first game on WiFom, and was run by Strelz. It was my first time in any forum mafia game being scum! I was in the Barbarian Mafia with Cyan and DivineChaos. It was a very convoluted game - we tried to kill the opposing Mafia's godfather night one, which failed. Lots of power roles and role blocks wound up getting Cyan lynched and DivineChaos night-killed by day three. I tried my best to get the roman mafia lynched, but Primate, unfortunately, saw through my plans. :( I got lynched. Really sad, I hadn't been lynched as scum before (obviously). Town did wind up winning that game.

• Mini-Stapler Mafia

This game run by CPE started a streak of very bad day one endings for me. I was an Insane Day Cop/Vig (50% chance of either). I investigated Cubus day one, got a guilty, claimed, got him mis-lynched, and died that night. It's horrifying just to remember. Town did win, though. Yay.

• Unluckyville

This is a game run by Primate. I'm still alive in it, and on day three used an ability that skipped an entire night phase and went straight on to the next day. Two scum were successfully lynched without a night phase in between. YAY! The game is over, and town won, and I lived through it! Awesome game by Primate, this man is very smart. The roles and background flavors were amazing. Scum accidentally trapped themselves into a lynch by claiming a vengeful townie - we lynched him expecting him to kill one of the other two uncleared townies, and he wound up just dying instead. Yay!

• Heroes Mafia

This game, being run by Sentinel99, has been abandoned. I was The Haitian, a roleblocker. My cohort was Jobie, who NK'd Jathan after Jathan literally claimed IN THE GAME what our roles were day one.

• Forum Lyncher

This is an experimental game being run by Colin. A seven player Lyncher game with 4 townies, a lyncher, a jester, and a mafia. I was nightkilled night two, and Mafia wound up winning! Of course. A Skruffs-less town always loses. :)

• Faction Mafia

This game, run by Strelz, had a very unique setup. Three 3-party factions and 3 'miscellaneous' roles vie for control of a small town. I replaced IH in this game on Night Four. I won as the sole surviving mafia, too, after killing Primate fanatic, getting the other fanatic lynched, and then nightkilling the remaining townie. I like replacing in near end game as scum.

• GOO Mafia!

This is a game based on the concepts of GOO. I think. Basically targetting or being targetted by goos of other colors can affect your alignment, role, etc. A Black goo for example is a reverse-targetting cult. If you target it you also become black goo. This game has been abandoned. I was Lavender Goo - a reverse doctor.

• Blinding Light and Darkness Mafia

You should definitely click this link! Thestatusquo is taking signups for this game - It's worth signing up for! I promise!

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Magic the Gathering Forums

• Mafia : A Universe in Peril

Speaking of games run by TheStatusQuo, this was an awesome game he ran. Stormtroopers are good, Padme is evil, and Savethedragons gets killed twice! Doesn't get better than that. I was lynched, Day 6, as a Vanilla Townie. Le sigh. You can not win them all. One of my favorite games, regardless. I got mislynched in a rather futile culthunt at the end of the game after pouring my HEART AND SOULD into this game! Oh well. Thanks Shea!. :)

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Modding

• My mini normal, which is titled "Early Morning Mafia", is done. I am rather pleased about the game and have learned a good bit about running games. Namely, don't make them contrived! The scum won.

• Self-Guided Mafia - This game is currently on day four.

These are all games I plan to run at some point.

• Double Newbie Mafia - Hee Hee Hee.
• Good Cult, Bad Cult - Light vs Darkness mafia game. White, dark, plenty of grey. Ready to go!
• Office Hours Mafia - A possible Sequel to the mini I am running now.
• Page by Page Mafia - Speculative game similar to a Marathon game.
• Paint Easel Mafia - Speculative themed game.
• The Thing Mafia - One bad guy, but who? A Designer Style mafia with one 'bad guy'.

These are games that I probably will not be modding, or are being modded already.

• Forum Mafia Mafia - Possibly Co-Hosting with IH, if that chance comes around.
• Ghost Mafia - Dead players are not prevented from talking about the game.

And others..

Raw Stats

Newbie Games:

• 256 - Alien Invader Mafia (Replaced in) - Mafia, Lived, Won.
• 276 - Acting Mafia - Townie, NK'd night 2, Town Loss Day Three.
• 293 - Immune System Mafia - Mafia, Survived, Perfect Win Day 2
• 341 - MeMe Mafia - Townie, Lynched Day 2, Game Loss Day Three
• 367 - Glork Mafia - Townie, Perfect Win Day Two!
• 395 - Thok Mafia - S.I.P.
• 419 - You do the Math Mafia!

As Scum: Won 2/2 Games. Survived: 2/2

As Town: Won 1/3 Games. Survived: 1/3

In Progress: 1 Game

Mini Games:

• Two Headed Mafia (Themed Mini)(Replaced in) - Town, Lynched, Town Win
• 405 - Loveboat - Cop, Endgamed, Loss
• 404 - Diablo (Replaced In)- Diablo - Townie, Lynched, Town Win
• Animaniacs (Replaced In)- Townie, NKd Night Two, S.I.P.
• 414 - Anime (Replaced in)- Still Alive, S.I.P.
• C&H - Still Alive, S.I.P.
• Famous Cats - (Replaced in)- Still Alive, S.I.P.
• Mostly Mute Haiku Mafia (Replaced in)- Still Alive, S.I.P.

As Scum: Won 0/0 Games. Survived: 0/0

As Town: Won 1/4 Games. Survived: 0/4

In Progress: 5 Games

Open Games:

• Open 2 (Replaced in) - Townie, Nightkilled, S.I.P.
• Open 11 (Replaced in)- Townie, Survived, Won
• Open 14 (Replaced in) - Townie, Lynched Day One, S.I.P.
• Open 18 (Replaced in)- Still Alive, S.I.P.
• Open 19 (Replaced in)- Still Alive, S.I.P.

As Scum: Won 0/0 Games. Survived: 0/0

As Town: Won 1/1 Games. Survived: 1/1

In Progress: 4 Games

Large Games:

• Post Restriction 3 (Themed)(Replaced In) - Verbose Townie, Survived, Won.
• Meadows of Sorrow (Themed) (Replaced In) - Townie, Survived, Won.
• Kingmaker (Themed) (Replaced In) - Kingmaker, NKd, S.I.P.
• PS2SUX - Still Alive, S.I.P.
• Themed 59 - Hell On Earth - Borg Mafia, Survived, Won.
• Normal 61 - Still Alive, S.I.P.
• Normal 64 - Still Alive, S.I.P.
• Normal 65 - NK'd N0, S.I.P.

As Scum: Won 1/1 Games. Survived: 1/1

As Town: Won 2/2 Games. Survived: 2/2

In Progress: 3 Games

Marathon Games:

• Marathon 11 - Townie, Survived, Won.

As Scum: Won 0/0 Games. Survived: 0/0

As Town: Won 1/1 Games. Survived: 1/1

In Progress: 0 Games

Abandoned Games:

• Large Normal 53 - CPR Medic - Game Abandoned by Mod.
• Mini Normal 415 - Game Abandoned by Mod.

Total Stats:

Finished Games:

As Scum : Won 3/3 Games. Survived: 3/3 Games.

As Town: Won 6/9 Games. Survived: 5/9 Games.

In Progress : 16 Games.

Games In Progress:

Alive: 10 Games

Dead as scum : 0 Games

Dead as Town : 6 Games

Roles(Only of known roles, current games are not factored in)

Townie - - - 12

Mafia - - - 3

Cop - - - 1

King Maker - - - 1

Mason - - - 1

Survivor - - - 0*

Serial Killer - - - 0*

Cultist - - - 0*

Redirecter/Shuffler/School Bus Driver - - - 0*

• Note that a * indicates that I would like to try one of these roles out.

Skruffs and Other Scummers

A few people stand out to Skruffs in terms of how they play and who they are.

• Zindaras is an awesome guy who has the unfortunate knack of being in front of the Skruffs train in any game we are both in together. I've nightkilled him as town when I was scum, gotten us both lynched as town in Double Headed Mafia, and gotten him barely lynched at deadling as scum (sneaky Zindaras!) in Meadows of Sorrow. I made him King in Kingmaker 2 the night I was killed. I replaced into Famous Cats Mafia with his clone after Zindaras One was knocked off. And I bug him daily on AIM. Yay!
• Spectrumvoid is perhaps the scummiest female I've ever met. She was my first scumbuddy in a newbie game, turned out to be scum WITH Zindaras in Meadows of Sorrow, and was scum in Hell on Earth, too. Shame on you, SV. Shame! Endgaming SV in Hell on Earth was a very happy thing for me to be able to do. Secondarily, I believe that she has a secret 'thing' for being endgamed.
• Ether is the LEAST scummy female I've ever met. She's always town. :)
• now_a_ranger is perhaps my favorite 'newb' on the site. He's a very fun and enthusiastic player, if you can keep his attention long enough to keep him in the game.
• Primate and Patrick are excellent foreigners who I turn to a good deal for questions about modding and possible setups in games I am in.
• Thestatusquo is.. sexy. I think?
• Glork is undefinable. But he likes meatloaf.. so he's good.

See also my To Kill list.