I never get email notifications from the forums anymore RIP.
Anyways, it is quite late and I'm very tired so I'll try my best to formulate an actual response to everything to the best of my ability.
First of all, something that I feel we really need to determine here is the autocrat. They've missed townies twice now which I'm sure they're not too happy about either. We have to figure out who the autocrat is and kill them soon. How soon is the question? Can we ignore them for now and focus on the problem that is the mafia? Well I think that requires a bit more game analysis regarding game size. If we had 18 players, I'd personally guess around 4-5 of them in total would be mafia (Not some crazy voodoo number I've conjured because I'm mafia but more just some thing I'd personally implement if I were running a game with 18 players). This means that we need to make sure that at any given night, we have at least 2 mafia alive. This is because of the fact that if the autocrat manages to kill the last remaining mafia in the night then they steal the win from the town.
Personally, I'd say we do some detective work and figure out who it is before all else. From there, we let them live and hope they'll benefit the town since they still want to win by trying to kill mafia during the night. Then when we have approx 2 mafia's left, we lynch the autocrat and try to move on from there. This is looking a solid 2-3 days deeper though which means that we will eventually need a PR or two to come forward and help us with more information since otherwise we're just shooting blanks in the dark. My best guess has already been voiced for who the autocrat is: Infected_Alien.
It would make sense to attempt to lay low at first as the autocrat. Not pull much attention to yourself and try to seem like an ordinary townie. But if Infy is the autocrat then he accidentally took it 1 step too far. He stayed silent for a while attempting to even push discussion about why he was silenced. Honestly if it hadn't been for the day grinding to a stop discussion wise, I think he may have gone even longer without speaking. But then he instantly jumps into action and pushes town into discussion and trying to do things. An extremely unconventional tactic that then simply leads into Infy doing what he seems to regularly do in mafia games? Fine I'd believe it meant nothing IF nothing like an autocrat were present. Alongside this, what better place to hide from the town then at the front leading it? When everyone seems to believe you're 100% confirmed townie, no one would suddenly flip and call you out as the autocrat.
For now, I'm gonna stick to that as my best guess as to who the autocrat is. If Infy isn't the autocrat well then there may be a point that comes along in the game where the town is losing hard enough that the autocrat has to out themselves and either force someone like Infy to claim or cooperate as the towns "hired killer" so to speak.
Onto Rune, I've already mentioned how i feel like it's TOO convenient that he claims canadian right after Iggish mentions the possibility of Canada being in the game. Easy way for someone to hide and avoid any CC. And then you just say you're the one globally recognized canadian politician (Justin Trudeau) and since no one else seemed to claim canadian there's no way anyone can prove or disprove you. Some of his other behaviour (as mentioned by both Iggish and Infy above) has also looked suspicious. One final thing I'd like to point out, maybe it's my pride (since I am a canadian citizen in real life) or maybe it's because a distinctive lack of any sort of PR influence has occurred, but the odds that someone like Justin Trudeau would be a vanilla townie are near nothing. Rune may have just done that to try and protect himself as a PR and I may be exposing one of our own but it's an important point that needs to be made. If you're going to claim right now when the spotlight is on you, then personally I'm looking for a hard claim with all info including (if this doesn't break PM mechanics) the bolded flavour text you got describing what role you are. You seem the most suspicious and are the most likely to get lynched right now. If you are a town PR then claim, we all pray a doctor exists and tries to save you, and start giving us some info to go off of instead of nothing but hidden town PR's making moves with their knowledge and the rest of us trying to make some sense of everyone's back and forth discussion.
As for Ender's vote on me, hell honestly I don't know what to make of it and don't particularly care (although I still think it's amazing that you won the most extravagant 3rd party way possible). If he's still in the game then all we can do is hope that he decides to side with town and help us instead of randomly bandwagoning and possibly confusing us (pls don't troll us Ender).
Last but certainly not least, TheWeakGuy. I think we're grasping at straws trying to say he's mafia just because Unu claimed so. I mean even Infy says he's grasping at straws when mentioning it but that we don't have more to go off of. Well if we don't have much to go off of, why are we going off of some random strange pattern that's happened over the past few games? Saying TWG has to be mafia this game because of Unu's feelings being right every game before this is like saying that after flipping a coin 4 times and it landing heads, the 5th time also has to land heads. It's not guaranteed and not worth the risk of losing another townie. That being said, I have not read too much into TWG's posts and I feel like i want to go back and see a recap of it all to maybe try and put together what Unu did before he died.
That is all from me. Some thing's I will try to address sometime tomorrow either in school or once I get back are the autocrat's decision in who to kill, a contradiction in my own post here (which I'm not gonna point out till tomorrow for the sake of suspense and as to not push away discussion or thoughts from what I've already brought up), and whatever else comes to mind. If possible, people try and already discuss this so I don't have only my own thoughts to rely on pls
TL;DR: I think we can use the autocrat to our advantage and that Inf is the autocrat, Rune seems suspicious and i want him to hard claim, Ender pls don't troll us, TWG doesn't seem suspicious to me but i need to read more into it, and expect more from me tomorrow.
