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Post by Mei Yun on May 17, 2009 11:14:01 GMT -5
YOU ROBBED ME OF MY SLEEP SAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...
TOO EXCITED AS USUAL. :\
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Post by Mei Yun on May 17, 2009 11:14:35 GMT -5
HOLY COW. My photo looks too nice to type in all caps.
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Post by Mei Yun on May 17, 2009 17:02:48 GMT -5
First of all, to those who don't know me, I am Ross. I am know for my performances in the previous spy games as Tenchi, Sherri and David. After two seasons of being the "fake character" or "puppet" I am back to take a stab on what challenge the Spies series has to offer me.
I come back bringing new insight and experience as I have watched forty others who have tried their luck in Spies 4 and 5. In my silence I have prepared in Mafiascum.net, hoping to hone my skills in the art and science and mafia. Though in the few months that I have been there, I have never won a forum game, I am hoping that I have learned things that could help me advance through this new game.
And finally, DC... as nice as you are, you need to lose one game. :-p I wonder if we will be on opposing factions?
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Post by Mei Yun on May 17, 2009 17:06:42 GMT -5
So far I have talked to about half of my own team, and 1/3 of the whole cast (which isn't that bad). I hope that I didn't look too much like my former characters. That is actually like my biggest worry in this game. If they catch me as Tenchi, I feel like I am easier to read, or maybe a great target for Exile.
I was involved with this small drama against Rey for his racist comments, and Yvette was backing me up 100%. It seems she is a feminist of some sort.
On another note, Faith and I are apparently BFFs. We both "like" High School Musical and Levi, one of the "hotter" members of the Burg.
Looking at my state, I feel like I have more "cliques" from other teams, rather on my own. Hopefulyl I can find some alliance within my group so I can at least stay until the teams are dissolved.
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Post by Mei Yun on May 17, 2009 19:14:15 GMT -5
I played a mini-mafia game today with some of the cast members and I was scum with Almathea. We won, like ownage won, Spies 3 style.
I am kinda conscious now that I feel like I have shown my hand early on, that I have some good spy experience and I can put it to good use. Apparently also, I have revealed my natural aggression, which could get me in trouble early on.
I think the best move for me right now is to stay inquisitive, without being too aggressive and pushing too many exiles. I must continue to have a stance, but avoid to form some kind of campaign to promote my interests.
I hope I can still be consistent.
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Post by Mei Yun on May 17, 2009 19:16:55 GMT -5
Oh yeah, just saying it here:
I was the Spy Bitch.
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Post by Mei Yun on May 17, 2009 21:04:32 GMT -5
Interesting night. I'm quite happy that we have one crazy cast. I think we have around 22 people who are playing tonight and I think its awesome we have an active cast.
The challenges were odd. I'm just gonna guess for the minor one, and I'm just gonna try my best for the bigger prize. At least I am not giving the spies an easy time to get this.
The blueprint was weird, but I am not going to stress myself over it. I'll just try to do my best getting through each exile.
And finally, on my Citizen alignment: I actually hate it. I hate being a citizen just becuase I suck at it, and it brings me even more stress to be one. I actually have to "think" and find cases on people and try to weed out Spies, and when the Spies choose to gang up on you or something to get you exiled, I feel that would be the worst feeling in the world. Not to mention I have to dread Imprisonments now. And I hate dreading things, I really stress about them... things that are uncertain and other crap.
The silver lining here is that I can look forward to the opportunities for finding Spies in every event that happens, and maybe investigations that happen, that make Spies scramble.
Overall, this is going to be a VERY CHALLENGING EXPERIENCE FOR ME. I have never won in Mafiascum, and I am not dreaming to win here. I will try to do my best though.
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Post by Judge Sam on May 18, 2009 13:49:04 GMT -5
Oh yeah, just saying it here: I was the Spy Bitch. lol i was wondering who that was.
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Post by Mei Yun on May 18, 2009 23:06:08 GMT -5
I think I am done for the day and I will take a break tomorrow. It has been a long Spies ordeal for me for the past few days.
That challenge was so long and excruciating. I didn't expect to last that long and even come to second place. In online reality games, the challenges that I hate the most are the Endurance and the ones where you have to do repetitive tasks for a long period of time. I am even surprised that I even tried to go for that prize. Sam, I hope you don't do that again.
I even had a strategy going in. I will bore them to death with "sdffsafsd" and I used a timer. I didn't realize that my timer actually produces stress (which probably knocked out Rey) since my competitors were so anxious of me not posting. I only realized the stress factor later in the game when Rey was starting to say "Awww" everytime I post within the four-minute limit.
All I can do now for that challenge is hope that Ariel is a Citizen and she makes good use of the power.
On other news, I have made myself vocal on the inactive issue. I feel like I can't keep myself from shutting up, even for one episode. I don't know why but I feel like if I had to say something I just had to do it. Although I have successfully stopped myself on a couple of occasions, I feel that my "performance" right now is not a subtle as I want it to be. I feel like I could be in big trouble for the next Imprisonment.
In my team, we have a lot of lurkers. I have met them all except Gretchen. (I hope she gets replaced). Levi and I hopefully are in this tight partnership in finding the Spies. Roxy is silent and is apparently riding my reasons for voting. Boris is weird. Oswald is also odd. William is so reserved and shady. Amelia hopefully catches up. I am so not sure on Donald and I feel like Kirsten could be a Citizen. In other words, I have no clue who to vote for. Everybody has spoken at some point but I am not sure who we vote. And I am so paranoid that I am going to get hit by a rogue Exile without the chance of defending myself.
I just exploded on Rey about an hour ago regarding suspecting me as a Spy without confronting me and with the Recist comments. Real life revelations aside, I feel that I have made myself more suspicious on his eyes, which I felt was a mistake. But looking back, I think I would need a "Jennipher" to spread crap about me so that I would not risk getting Imprisoned. I just hope that I am not suspicious enough to be Exiled.
Finally, I have a role. A lot would be surprised for me to say this but I hate having a role. I feel like I am to mess this whole thing up because I am so suspicious right now and I am wasting this fabulous chance. I'd rather have the freedom of just voicing out my suspicions and attacking those spies but now I have to take care of this role that was given to me. It is like some ball and chain to keep me from going "too far" with my aggression. And of course, no question, I'd rather be a spy.
I will make the most of what I have right now and just hope for the best. Right now, I don't feel so happy with everything.
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Post by Mei Yun on May 19, 2009 14:35:31 GMT -5
Right now I have been reviewing past Spies games. It is so easy for me to shift Tenchi into a vanilla Citizen. But for Tenchi to be a Citizen with a very valuable role? That has been a challenge for me, especially that I have been pinned as one of the more active players.
In Spies 3, we always out players that are silent threats. Meaning we cannot easily exile them and we don't have a connection to manipulate them. Part of it was motivated with searching with roles. We almost got Taylor, we got Shane. Anneliese was the only vocal exception.
In Spies 4, imprisonment choices were driven by vocal, unsuspected players, with the possibility of having a role an exception (Gordy and Johan). The rest were imprisoned because they were very active.
In Spies 5, the spies were brilliant at imprisoning the silent role holders (Desmond, Vince, Guile?), with Brody being the only vocal exception. I think they worked through the less vocal and odd players and tried to pry out possible role holders and got the vocal players exiled (Carly, Cookie).
I also looking at the play styles of those who lasted in the game: Darla/Summer, Singe and especially Candy. And I am like struck by the similarities of their play during the early stages of the game (Day 1 and Day 2) that they are all silent. They usually are fun to talk to but they all talk strategy when they need to. They rarely post content in the forums though.
Now I feel like I have screwed up this game for myself. One, for speaking up a lot in the past few days and two, for being highly suspected for being friendly. In both cases I don't know if it puts me or removes me as a candidate for Imprisonment AND Exile.
Well, Tenchi has been known to be very unorthodox and unpredictable... maybe I am the person who can pull this off.
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Post by Mei Yun on May 20, 2009 0:19:17 GMT -5
Sorry Sam for screwing this up. I feel like I am wasting this whole role and I am about to be Exiled.
Maybe I should have played a fake character again...
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Post by Mei Yun on May 21, 2009 2:05:15 GMT -5
It has been a long day defending myself. I owe you a juicy confessional tomorrow.
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Post by Mei Yun on May 21, 2009 12:24:09 GMT -5
Yesterday I would have been pretty much exiled. Today, I am confident that I will be staying. I think I have convinced William and Oswald to retract their votes, or at leas seriously consider not voting for me. Also, I think that those voting for me would actually look bad tomorrow regardless of me getting lynched or not. I am sure one spy is so itching to get rid of me just because of such shitty reasons: being nice, the spy slip and going invisible. I am really hoping that my activity had been enough to redeem myself. In the off chance that I get four votes and leave tonight, at least I know I did my best and I am positive those who voted for me will pay.
If I do survive, I am not worrying about the Imprisonment, although I feel I have to look for another Jennipher. I think Rey is too active for me to turn him into my "punching bag" (no offense to Jennipher, I was just doing my spy job back then.). If we do merge, I have to find another replacement soon. I really need suspicion on me being a Spy a little bit up but I have to get the right active people on my side. And have the less active people suspect me. I think the better way to call this is the Cassandra Effect.
All I am hoping right now is that the Spies have information on what Roles exist in the game and they go into a wild goosehunt for those roles in useless under-the-radar people, using up their Imprisonments. From what I see, Spies Five had strong role information before the game, which led to their streak. Spies Four Spies had been Imprisoning possible Fatemakers. Spies Three looked for the Gift Giver when it came out.
I hope I am right.
On a final note, I have a gut feel that Levi might be a spy after all, but I guess my soft alliance with him is for my own good. I will see what happens in the next few days.
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Post by Mei Yun on May 21, 2009 14:05:08 GMT -5
Critical Day today:
1 Oswald --> MEI 2 Georgia --> MEI 3 Roxy ---> MEI 4 Levi ---> ROXY 5 Donald ---> KIRSTEN? 6 William ---> DONALD 7 Kirsten ---> LEVI 8 Boris ---> GRETCHEN? 9 Gretchen ---> ROXY 10 Mei Yun ---> ROXY 11 Amelia ---> KIRSTEN
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Faith
Faith
Daddy's Dead Princess
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Post by Faith on Jul 31, 2009 12:15:39 GMT -5
On another note, Faith and I are apparently BFFs. We both "like" High School Musical and Levi, one of the "hotter" members of the Burg. Clearly we were! lmao. I loved how I had no clue what I was actually talking about when we first chatted.
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DC
Alumni
Yves is my butt-monkey
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Post by DC on Jul 31, 2009 13:02:07 GMT -5
1. I agree: The girl in the Mei Yun photo is a cutie.
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Forum mafia - bah. You came in Spies 3 completely untrained and rocked the house. Don't let forum mafia tell you what to do in Spies.
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Karma
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You did that a little too well. Even from a forum standpoint it was obvious that if you were a Citizen, you were one to be reckoned with. Maybe there is something to not being as vocal in earlier rounds. On the other hand, it lets Spies get way further than they should sometimes. But you did have a role, with investigation benefits?, so maybe laying low should have been more of a priority for you.
5. You and David BFFs - LOL
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Post by Mei Yun on Jul 31, 2009 13:15:39 GMT -5
On another note, Faith and I are apparently BFFs. We both "like" High School Musical and Levi, one of the "hotter" members of the Burg. Clearly we were! lmao. I loved how I had no clue what I was actually talking about when we first chatted.
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Post by Mei Yun on Jul 31, 2009 13:18:26 GMT -5
1. I agree: The girl in the Mei Yun photo is a cutie. 2. Forum mafia - bah. You came in Spies 3 completely untrained and rocked the house. Don't let forum mafia tell you what to do in Spies. 3. Karma 4. You did that a little too well. Even from a forum standpoint it was obvious that if you were a Citizen, you were one to be reckoned with. Maybe there is something to not being as vocal in earlier rounds. On the other hand, it lets Spies get way further than they should sometimes. But you did have a role, with investigation benefits?, so maybe laying low should have been more of a priority for you. 5. You and David BFFs - LOL 1. Too cute. :-p Still, I have good taste! 2. Yeah, both are totally different beasts but the thing is I apparently have not "found" scum in my mafia career. And I was hoping that Jenya/Mirela would be my first. I guess not! 3. Ugh, you need to LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE. :-p 4. I almost got Exiled Ep. 1. I think I balanced it out. I think the mistake here was not toning it down Episode 2. 5.
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