A Glimpse at my Emotions

Town of Salem SALT STORY #2

2017-10-23, 11:29 AM

I know, I'm supposed to be tuning in to class right now, but I can't do that. I'm still salty after a rather unsatisfying game on Town of Salem--a game that I highly doubt I will ever play again because of what I've just witnessed.

Believe me when I say right now that there's never really such thing as an absolutely perfect faction all around. You get some players who completely corrupt the game for your team, and you get some players who know exactly what they're doing. Well, not all the time, but sometimes there are cases in which your faction doesn't die at all.

In this case, you'd get the Sicilian award. And I have gotten it before. But that's not important.

The thing is, everything relies on teamwork, and with the mystery of who your neighbour might be may end up corrupting everything but in the end, it's all just a game. And it seems like some of us think that a few of us are absolutely stupid.

I've played this game since July 2016, and got the Coven approximately 4 months ago. I know how to work my way around the game, and I know some strategies. And there are a few that I wanted to try because believe me, I know the dangers of going around at night oblivious to knowing what you'd find until 40 seconds of nighttime are up.

So I was the Mafioso. Meep the Mafioso. And I didn't want to kill anyone the first night.

Also on my team there was a Janitor and two Consiglieres, and so I sent the both of them to investigate stuff while I stayed at home doing nothing. Janitor got salty and told me to get off my lazy ass but I said no.

In the end we lost a Consig to a vampire, and by the second night the Janitor got impatient. He told me to kill someone because "everything relies on numbers and if you don't kill anyone we could die pretty quickly so why don't you learn how to play the game right?"

You don't know how livid I got.

I mean, I raise cautions, alright? I was playing a Coven All Any, and I had no idea if I was going to accidentally visit a Veteran on alert or a Medusa who had her stone gaze activated. I didn't want to take that risk. I get that I'm delaying his ability to wipe a role off of someone, but I'm not risking losing anyone to a Vet or Medusa like that. I don't want anyone else dead from my "reckless" decisions.

It was almost as if he was calling me a newb, and believe me, I know exactly what I was going for. I wanted the Consigs to tell me the roles of the others so that I know who to shoot.

I've eventually had it. I ended up outing the Janitor in my will when I got bitten by a vampire the third night after shooting the Jester, and the Janitor became Mafioso.

The entire town saw my will and someone asked, "So is [Janitor's Name] a part of the Mafia as well?"

Janitor may have thought that I was gamethrowing, but by that point I was just so done. I hated being called a newbie when I knew exactly what I was doing, and I knew my strategy well enough to bring my team to victory.

And believe me, I had conflicts between other Mafia members before, every time I was a member of the Mafia, but never to this extent where I end up stating the name of the guy who completely pissed me off. It's not like I don't know the game--I just didn't know what that kind of strategy would eventually lead to! And if it didn't work, fine, let it be a game and let's move on with life!

APPARENTLY NOT FOR THIS JANITOR!

And I ended up leaving halfway so I had no idea what the final result was. I didn't care. All I knew is that the Janitor had completely jeopardized everything and there's all the more reason for me to curse at him.

I mean, HE CALLED ME A NEWBIE

HE CLAIMED I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO

IF THAT'S REALLY HOW YOU WANT TO PLAY IT

WELL I GUESS I'D HAVE NO CHOICE

(*sighs*)

(no, I didn't take a screenshot of the will I showed to the town upon my death, so don't ask for it. But the general idea was that the Janitor was practically being rude to me and if he hadn't been so closed-minded he would have seen that my strategy could have worked had it not been for him screaming at me to kill someone.)

I'm just done right now. There are so many reasons I hate playing this game now, and this is one of them.

And there are quite a few reasons in which I couldn't think of ideas for The Witch's Afflictions. Okay, this isn't one of them but still, I hate this game so much I can't even begin to bother with that story at all. What's the point? I have no more drive to write it.

So yeah.

Honestly I can't even right now.

To be called a newb, and to be considered someone who can't take the game seriously...

(*sticks middle finger up in the air and storms off*)