Petroleumjelly

petroleumjelly

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General

PJ has been a member of Mafia Scum since November 28, 2005.

(23-24-0-5-1) (Wins-Losses-Ties-Abandoned, Uncounted). Currently alive in 2 games, 3 are in progress. I'm modding and co-modding too many games for my own good.

My counterpart is Glork. I am also Co-Founder of those who use the Too Townie fallacy along with Ibaesha. Right paw of Zindaras; there are also ludicrous rumours that I am the right paw of Felinus Maximus. Enjoys slugging CrashTextDummie, huggling AmeliaSlay, and biting various people, such as al_kohaulec.

Based on the past half year of playing, however, I am considering changing my name to "He Who is Doomed to Lose", unless that handle is already taken.

Currently playing under the character Keln Whist in the Amstaad role-playing game.

Games played by petroleumjelly

Modding History

Total Modded Games: 17

• Mini #317, Jelly Mafia. 04/22/06 - 08/14/06. Reviewed by Mr. Flay.
  • Finished! The Double-Flavor Jelly Scums Win!
  • An amazingly played game by scum, and I would certainly suggest this game as a good read. The townspeople were left chasing their own tails for much of the game, and the scum generally avoided detection the entire time. Only an ill-timed Cop reveal with results put a dent in their gameplay, which was masterfully danced around as well.
• Themed Large, Royal Family. 11/16/06 - 10/01/07. Reviewed by Cadmium, Co-Modded by Ibaesha.
  • Finished! Royal Family Mafia Wins!
• Mini #406, Animaniacs!. 02/04/07 - 09/07/07. Reviewed by Ibaesha.
  • Game Over. Town Wins!
• Newbie #338, Jellyville I. 04/08/07 - 05/11/07.
  • Gave Over. Scum Wins!
• Newbie #344, Jellyville II. 04/12/07 - 05/09/07.
  • Game Over. Scum Wins!
• Newbie #369, Jellyville III. 05/12/07 - 08/25/07.
  • Game Over. Town Wins!
• Newbie #372, Jellyville IV. 05/17/07 - 06/16/07.
  • Game Over. Town Wins!
• Newbie #400, Jellyville V. 06/12/07 - 10/13/07.
  • Game Over. Scum Wins!
• Newbie #446, Jellyville VI. 08/13/07 - 03/08/08.
  • Game Over. Scum Wins!
• Newbie #455, Jellyville VII. 08/29/07 - 09/23/07.
  • Game Over. Town Wins!
• Newbie #474, Jellyville VIII. 09/22/07 - 12/01/07.
  • Game Over. Abandoned...
• Mini #509, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. 09/27/07 - 07/11/08.
  • Game over. Town Wins!
• Themed Large, Assassins in the Palace II. 03/30/08 - 04/09/08
  • Game Over. Assassins Win!
    • Note: Nominated for "Best Flavor" for 2008 Scummies.
• Newbie #633, Barroom Brawl. 06/17/08 - ??/??/??.
  • Currently Day Three.
• Newbie #634, Ballroom Blitz. 06/19/08 - ??/??/??.
  • Currently Night One.
• Mini #???, Time Capsule Mafia.  ??/??/?? - ??/??/??.
  • Currently just about in sign-up phase.
• Hot Potato Mafia, Large Theme.  ??/??/?? - ??/??/??. Co-Mod Yosarian2.
  • Currently in sign-up phase.

Total Co-Modded Games: 15

• Choose Someone Else's Role, Theme Park. 03/26/06 - 05/31/06 with Commodore Amazing.
  • Finished! The Emo Kids Mafia Wins!
  • A fairly quick game (four days and four nights), with a wide variety of roles with interesting relationships between the scum groups and the town.
• Evolution, Theme Park. 06/14/06 - 03/07/07 with Pie_is_good.
  • Finished! God's Mafia Ties with Fox!
  • I am honestly surprised this particular scum group was able to win this game at all. Fairly bad play on the town's part overall, which was furthermore definitely weighted towards the town in terms of the power the town would receive after only a few days of evolving.
• Mini #362, Open Role Bastard, Mini Theme. 08/10/06 - 09/28/06 with Pariah.
  • Finished! Town Wins!
  • An amusing game to watch unfold, with bastardness everywhere! This game certainly lived up to its name. Despite the town being misled at almost every possible interval, they managed to successfully weed out the scum.
• Meadow of Sorrow, Theme Park. 10/18/06 - 04/25/07 with Pariah and al_kohaulec.
  • Finished! Town Wins!
  • What a bastardly game. I didn't read much of it because the roles were so danged convoluted.
• PS2 Sucks, Theme Park. 10/10/06 - 07/18/07 with mikeburnfire.
  • Finished! Town and Sega 'Mafia' Wins!
• Mini #348, Charmed, Mini Theme. Replaced Mod 12/08/06 - 02/01/07, originally by Ibaesha.
  • Finished! Town Wins!
  • Comments to come later.
• No Pressure, Large Theme. 12/18/06 - 02/13/07 with Thok.
  • Finished! Scum Wins!
  • An intriguing set-up with an interesting premise to encourage lurking and non-posting. I think the set-up was fairly balanced; the town lost primarily due to the fact that they as a collective lynched incorrectly and vigged incorrectly.
• Mini #435, Julius Caesar, Mini Theme. 04/25/07 - 09/18/07 with PBuG.
  • After taking over on Day Three, the game was Player Abandoned.
• Mini #450, Evil Genius, Mini Theme. 05/28/07 - ??/??/?? with Zindaras.
  • Finished! Scum Wins!
• New York #64, The "New" C9, Large Regular. 05/22/07 - 06/14/08 with LoudmouthLee. Replaced Mod 12/03/07.
  • Finished! Town Wins!
• Mini #489, Short and Sweet, Mini Theme. 08/12/07 - 9/28/07 with Ibaesha.
  • Game Over. Town Wins!
• Mini #524, Short and Sweet 2, Mini Theme. 11/01/07 - 02/08/08 with Ibaesha. Replaced Mod 01/13/08.
  • Game Over. Town Wins!
• Pikmin Mafia, Large Theme. 03/23/08 - ??/??/?? with mikeburnfire.
  • Currently Day Five.
• Pick Your Poison 3, Large Theme. 04/06/08 - ??/??/?? with Patrick.
  • Currently Day Five.
• Mini #586, Blood Red Mafia, Mini Theme. Taken over 07/15/08 - ??/??/?? for Cogito Ergo Scum.
  • Currently Day Six.

Sketchy Ideas for Modded Games

• Jury Mafia (12 player or 14 player)
• Time Capsule Mafia (12 player or Large)
• Portal Mafia (16 player)
• Misleading Mafia (12 player)
• 'Do You Feel Lucky?' Mafia (Large Theme), Co-Mod Yosarian2

Overall Statistics for Finished Games

Total Wins: 23

• Town Wins: 16
• Mafia Wins: 7
• Serial Killer Wins: 0
• Cult Wins: 0
• Alternate Win Wins: 0

Total Losses: 24

• Town Losses: 17
• Gorilla Losses: 1
• Mafia Losses: 5
• Serial Killer Losses: 1
• Cult Losses: 0
• Alternate Win Losses: 0

Total Deaths: 36

• Nightkilled: 24 (Twenty Town, Four Mafia)
• Lynched: 6 (Five Mafia, One SK)
• Survived: 14 (Nine Town, Five Mafia)
• Killed in Endgame: 6 (Five Town, One Gorilla)

Roles

• Vanilla Townie: 10 (Newbie #166), (Newbie #254), (Mini #319), (Mini #361), (Mini #368), (Lights Out 2), (Mini #424), (Mini #423), (Mini #491), (GoT Slow #2)
• 'Misled' Vanilla Townie: 1 (Thespival)
• Not-Vanilla Townie: 2 (Mini #261), (Mini #461)
• Gorilla: 1 (Space Monkeys)
• Doc Finder: 1 (Mini #324)
• Sane Cop: 4 (Mini #260), (Mini #275), (Newbie #206), (Mini #313)
• Insane Cop: 0
• Paranoid Cop: 0
• Naive Cop: 0
• Tracker: 1 (Mini #334)
• Watcher: 0
• Vigilante: 2 (Mini #310), (Wheel of Time)
• Role-Blocker: 0
• Doctor: 5 (Mini #261), (Mini #305), (Newbie #224), (Committee), (Newbie #556)
• Mason/Night-Talker: 6 (Mini #270), (Mini #298), (Literary), (Verbose 2), (New York #51), (Chrono Trigger)
• Recruiting Mason: 1 (Survivor)
• Mason Inventor: 1 (#375)
• Mason without Partner: 1 (Mini #356)
• Masonizer: 1 (Mini #347)
• Cupid: 1 (Mini #323)
• Mafia: 10 (New York #45), (Mini #292), (Stephen King), (College), (New York #47), (Marathon Open #2), (Kingmaker 2), (Mini #433), (Mini #527), (Mini #565)
• Mafia Godfather: 3 (Mini #308), (2-Headed), (Snakes on a Plane)
• Mafia Role-Blocker: 1 (Mini #318)
• Serial Killer: 1 (Mini #276)
• Cult Leader: 0

Total

• Town: 37
• Gorilla: 1
• Mafia: 14
• SK: 1
• Cult: 0

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Tidbits about PJ on MafiaScum

• My favorite role is undecided between Townie and Mason: I enjoy being uninformed, but I also like the intricacies of night-talking with Masons as well as planning strategies with others for during the day. Edit: I think I prefer Mason.
• My least favorite role is Mafia. I always feel like there's a large burden on me not to screw everything up (which seems to inevitably happen anyways). In fact, if I draw Mafia, I would rather not know who my partners are! Edit: Actually, I do prefer knowing who my partners are.
• I have never been lynched while I have been pro-town. Don't you dare break that record!
• Recruiting roles have a strange attraction to me in games, and fittingly enough, these recruitment attempts have always failed. They have all tried to recruit me on N2. Here are the four games which were completed, and contained recruiting roles:
  • A.) Scumchat Mini Mafia: Cult failed to recruit me N2, because I was not town (but a Serial Killer)
  • B.) Mormon Town Mini I: Mafia failed to recruit me N2, because I was not a Townie (but a Mason)
  • C.) Wheel of Time, Large: Seanchan Mafia failed to recruit me N2, because I was not a female channeler (but Rand Al'Thor)
  • D.) Robotics Mini Mafia: The Cult failed to recruit me on N2 because I was not one of the predetermined "parts of the machine" which could be converted.
• Jelly's three biggest hates in Mafia:
  • 1.) Cults
  • 2.) Deadlines
  • 3.) Lurkers / Non-participants
    • Note: Cultists lurking at deadline would be super-hate...
• Jelly's Top 5 Least Favorite "Don't Lynch Me!" Arguments:
  • 1.) "Help me lynch X, and I will convert you to the cult so we will win."
  • 2.) "Give me just one more day!"
  • 3.) "Trust me."
  • 4.) "But I'm always scummy."
  • 5.) "You're better than this."

Information about PJ

Bustin' spam makes him feel good!

• I am 22 years old, and an alumni from WSU '08: I majored in Philosophy Pre-Law. I will be attending the Mississippi College School of Law for (at least) the next year, with plans to live with Thesp and kristocker!
• I am easily addicted to games. In the past, I have been hopelessly addicted to Scrabble, Chess, Crosswords, and Logic Puzzles, all of which I still find myself reverting back to every so often. I have even submitted some crosswords to Will Shortz for publishing (turned down), and a few Logic Puzzles to Dell for publishing (also turned down), but I will probably do so again when I find spare time.