One of my favorite Mafia stories: It was relatively early in my Mafia career, so I made silly mistakes, but this one ended up paying off. I was dayvig (Sawyer in Lost mafia; dunno why Sawyer was dayvig.) I had one shot that I had to take during the day, and that's all I could do.
Took a wacky gambit and laid low and never took my shot. My strategy was to act scummy enough that scum would keep me alive so I was always a viable lynch target, but basically escape actually being lynched through superior argumentative ability when I was pressed. This strategy was 'aided' by the fact that our Cop was an N1 kill. Several days in I was finally pressed enough to be forced to claim, and I deliberately claimed I was Townie 'nilla (chose a redshirt character to claim) in hopes that if I got too close to lynching I could announce a sudden daykill and we'd have even more information of who was likely scum (who was on the lynch-MWIS train.)
Instead scum actually left me alone. Scum actually left me alive under the premise I was 'unconfirmed' and therefore a viable lynch candidate; better to keep me around because I was antagonistic enough to draw town's fire.
When it was me, two other unconfirmeds (both of whom were scum) and several confirmeds left, I finally had a lynch train on me that'd do me in, so to everyone's absolute shock, I typed "Dayvig (Name)" in the standard format there.
Keep in mind that at this forum incorrectly typing the Dayvig message if you were not in fact a Dayvig meant a Modkill, so the actual assumption was that I had just Modkilled myself (in some sort of rebellion for clearly about to having been lynched.)
Instead I killed the scum and basically won the game for town.
Hysterically, this was something like my third or fourth game there, and since I was a newbie at least one or two established Mafia players still got on my back for being foolish enough to have not taken my shot earlier. Like, I had literally won Town the game with my play, and yet I was still to blame for taking the risk that I'd be nightkilled before taking my shot.
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