A note from achester for graveyard's amusement:
"Let's say you['ve just gotten in a beef with a townie]. What should you do?
The answer is immediately post to town square, "PERSON X IS MAFIA!!!!""
-ksedlar, from her tips about being mafia, from the last time I was mafia.
A gchat conversation between achester and Alex:
Aleksandr: apparently ksedlar never passed on my gay knight claim? I was confused this whole time why nobody would let me in on anything
Sent at 6:30 PM on Thursday
me: Yep, she didn't.
Aleksandr: i am in fact gay knights with andytsai and set to do
i thought it was because my partner didn't confirm and this was thought sketchy
which was true as well
me: Yep. Ksedlar must just have missed your claim.
I'm going through possible sets of mafia now and seeing for which of them we could still win.
Aleksandr: i have a gay knight kill, if it works it puts us in a good position
me: You should probably do the same, because making your revenge kill is likely to be necessary to have any chance.
Aleksandr: yup
unfortunately i won't have much time to spend on it tonight
me: Also, making it today proves you good.
Aleksandr: i would go over to campus in case of a positive, but I can't exhaustively check all the possilibilities
me: Ok. I'm working on sets of possibilities now, and then you can investigate.
Aleksandr: ok thanks
Sent at 6:32 PM on Thursday
Aleksandr: who is still alive that was in the innocence den?
me: me, csvoss, and sammyluo.
Sent at 6:39 PM on Thursday
Aleksandr: any reason for me not to investigate sammyluo?
maybe a group investigate coming up?
me: csvoss just claims to have investigated him negative.
Aleksandr: oh
me: She has one investigation left.
(For the other kill, not yours.)
So maybe maxmurin first?
(It's possible that one of them made each kill.)
(It's also possible that maxmurin isn't one of the other mafia, although that seems unlikely.)
I'd go for sammyluo and maxmurin.
Sent at 7:27 PM on Thursday
Aleksandr: if sammyluo is mafia, he'd know that I'm gay knights with andy and would likely catch him here
me: No matter who the mafia are, they know that you're gay knights with andy.
(Since the GCSN knew that, and there's a security breach.)
Go for maxmurin and sammyluo, I'd say.
Sent at 7:31 PM on Thursday
Aleksandr: maxmurin is stalked
me: Ooh, right.
It's still possible that Lucy's bad, so that's not a guarantee.
But good catch.
Sent at 7:34 PM on Thursday
me: Nastya would be a reasonable choice, since the first kill today was of the person stalking her.
Aleksandr: nastya is also stalked
me: But by ajliu, who was the first person killed today.
Aleksandr: wait, it works that way?
me: There's not much good if the stalker gets told who made a kill if they're already too dead to share it.
(Stalking isn't a tase; it just informs the stalker of kills.)
Aleksandr: oh right, of course
Sent at 7:37 PM on Thursday
me: Note that I don't alibi Lucy back, and I don't actually think I went downstairs to rinse off something at the time, so maxmurin isn't ridiculous, and she might also be reasonable..
I'd go with some two of nastya (because her stalker was killed first), maxmurin (because sammyluo's defending him, although this requires the set to be exactly {maxmurin, Lucy, sammyluo}), and sammyluo.
Sent at 7:40 PM on Thursday
me: You should talk with csvoss (the other dying GN) to coordinate investigations.
You should do so ASAP, since time is running low to make a kill today. If you don't both trust me, that discussion might have to be just between you two.
Sent at 8:04 PM on Thursday
me: Also, if you two go anywhere, you should make a petition to impeach the mayor and bring it around with you.