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So if you're consig and claim inves to the jailor and they force you to feed them results daily, would complying to avoid getting lynched be considered gamethrowing? I never ratted out any mafia members and told them who the jailor was the next night, but by the time they tried to kill them they already had protection. I was the only mafia member left and then we ended up losing and I don't know if we would've won if I just let myself be executed or?

Gamethrowing is the act of intentionally acting against your faction / victory condition. Keeping yourself alive by feeding investigation results to the town, real or not, does not necessarily do this as it lowers suspicion towards you, and is in itself not harmful to the mafia. If this passed information turns out to be used by the town against the mafia, then it’s more of a bad call than gamethrowing.

At tip I will give is to feed false records of you having checked your fellow mafia members together with your real investigations so that who you have and haven’t visited can’t be used to discern your team mates.

 - Invenblocker

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…what the fuck

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If your a vigilante and get roleblocked on a night that you choose to shoot, do you waste a bullet or does it just not shoot and not count?

You just don’t shoot and therefore get to save your bullet.

 - Invenblocker

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so whenever i play tos I always choose the name SK b/c I never actually get serial killer. But this one time I'm playing, someone's already chosen that as their name so I'm like fuck it I'll just let the game choose my name this time. I get med, and out of sheer habit and stupidity I put "SK the Med" on my will. When I die, EVERYONE thinks that SK must be a disguiser and lynch him. As soon as he died he started yelling at me for 'gamethrowing my will' and i have to be like, no, im just an idiot.

But… That’s not what disguiser does anymore. They changed that years ago.

Trust me, your fellow townies are the idiots here.

 - Invenblocker

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To be honest I don’t have any tips or tricks for winning as the Witch role. I got my first Witch role today and I only managed to do it by getting lucky with town ignoring all the invest results.

Some Witch tips and advice would be appreciated.

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If you can find the mafia, try to establish contact with them. An organized group of allies will always be better than trying to team up with a single neutral killing.

If the town knows there’s a witch, be wary of vigilante claims, as they might be veterans looking to bait you with a double kill.

If someone tries to claim investigator in a witch game, that can be suspicous since investigator is a very easy claim for witches. Depending on the level, you should be wary of claiming investigator for this very reason. Lategame, try to throw suspicion on investigators using this very reasoning.

If someone claims survivor, they might be neutral killing or a jester, checking them could be worth an action.

In ranked play, you are the only Neutral Evil role, so don’t try to claim Jester or Executioner, since the town knows there’s a Witch. You can also be sure that the Neutral Killing will be working alone with no duplicate, while the mafia is guaranteed 4 members. 5 evil people working together can tear through most towns, so you should find them as fast as possible. Whispering in games like these can easily be interpreted as a witch trying to establish conversation with the mafia for this very reason, so be mindful of a good time where contacting them won’t arise suspicion.

Preserve your own life. Dying is an instant loss, so don’t take unnecessary risks. It’s better that one of your mafia buddies dies than you do.

 - Invenblocker

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A word is worth three lives

Just a little something that happened in a recent Ranked Practice game I was in, where a medium managed to be responsible for the deaths of 3 townies.

I was a transporter who transported myself with a player named Angel. The following day, Angel claimed to have been controlled and a lookout claimed to have seen me visit her.

I told them that I’m a transporter who had transported myself with Angel. The witch mucst have targeted me but hit Angel instead. Angel is asked to confirm that she was transported, but remained silent, thus, I was put on trial, voted guilty and lynched.

Town agrees that the only reason Angel would have had for causing a townie to die in this way would be if she’s evil, so a vigilante shoots her. She turns out to be a medium, which means that the vigilante then committed suicide the following night.

So in one act of silence, she managed to cause the death of 3 townies, granting the mafia an easy victory.

 - Invenblocker

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NINE NINE!

 - Invenblocker

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You know, I’m starting to suspect that I have bad luck.

Not depicted is me getting killed by both a bodyguard and a serial killer on night one.

 - Invenblocker

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Gee, thanks a lot transporter.

 - Invenblocker

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A little message to all of the annoying jesters.

 - Invenblocker

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Just a final little beatdown I’ll share before @staff kills all of us.

 - Invenblocker

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5 dead players right out of the gate, what a night 1.

 - Invenblocker

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“Doctors” hate him.

Thanks to @davidrycan​ for providing me with the screenshot.

 - Invenblocker

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They did “cure” his case of undeath.

 - Invenblocker

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“Doctors” hate him.

Thanks to @davidrycan​ for providing me with the screenshot.

 - Invenblocker

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Both Arsonists ignited the same night and that means people got double burned.

 - Invenblocker

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Trustworthy Town

Was playing Classic solo to warmup. I got the role of Mafioso, they asked for my role after N1 and claimed Lookout. Another Lookout came out and town started getting suspicious.

Next day, the real Lookout comes around and claims someone as Mafia. They get lynched and turns out they’re Investigator. I know I can use this to my advantage.

Mafia attack someone, they’re immune. Serial Killer then.

I ask why the Serial Killer visited their latest kill and get the Serial Killer lynched. By now, the town trust me.

Following day, we lynch the real Lookout using the fact they got the Investigator killed against them.

By the time they realize I’m NOT the Lookout, there’s only one townie left and we lynch them.

Won with full Mafia and the Exe, basically carried my team :D

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