Day 1 Sabotages

thanks for reminding me that i forgot a crucial part of the rule set

1.2 is actually rather easy if you know of a phrase that's famous for exactly that reason, but remembering to include it in every post is annoying

1.3 is much harder than you think it is, considering how commonplace pronouns are in speech

1.4 was intended to be the epoa trap but he's not playing, so one of the people who hate the joke phase will try to bid it up (keep in mind that having the right to do something does not mean that you have to do that thing)

1.6 is rather powerful if played correctly, that's why it's a late-day sabotage

auction 1.2 was sold to lhopitalified at a bargain price of $900, i am thinking that the real problem is a combination of people being very conservative with their bidding (can't do much about this) and the fact that each auction lasts only 1 non-weekend day

kairyu won auction 1.4 for $7,500 and nothing was nullified so the day has started

i guess because the day started, i can discuss 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 in more detail

1.2 - the workaround is actually rather easy, if you ever opened a windows font file you'll notice the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a common theme which conveniently contains every letter of the alphabet

1.3 - TKOrigins has most of the strategy covered, but there are so many types of pronouns it's hard to remember them all, but in general if you can replace it with a noun it's a pronoun (obviously, since that's what a pronoun does)

1.4 - the impact of this is mostly psychological, because the joke phase is actually when the mafia are super-vulnerable and people haven't caught on to that it seems, because both the mafia members bid on this (and doc for some reason)

i'll probably wait until sometime monday to give them 1.5 and see from there when i need to offer 1.6

ok, i guess it's time for some sabotage analysis

1.1 - functionally, this is a trap sabotage because it is far better in the hands of mafia (considering the sabotages are supposed to be analysis tools) and trying to hold on to it as town only works for so long (and it went for way too little anyways)
1.2 - the difficult letters are j, q, x, and z and knowing the famous statement that uses all the letters is a nice shortcut
1.3 - this one is much harder given the prevalence of pronouns, it's not quite as simple as speaking in third person all the time but that gets you most of the way there, and mental fatigue will be a thing with this one
1.4 - interesting no one insta-voted the winner (in this case kairyu815) of the sabotage, considering that the game began like a dud it's up to the other players to proactively do something

1.5 (was 1.6) - this one sounds worse than it actually is, but it requires some analysis before i offer it, and it's very likely to end up pairing two town players anyways
1.6 (was 1.5) - think of this as an in-thread bus driver, it lets you rearrange the sabotages and get more psychoanalysis, which is the best tool town has given the lack of traditional power roles