Auryxx's guide to becoming un-condemnable

## **Introduction**

Heya, I'm Auryxx and this is my brief guide to radiating so much town energy that you're virtually impossible to be miscondemned! This is kind of a playstyle guide that takes direct pieces from my playstyle, so finding how to apply that to your playstyle in a way that you're comfortable with is what you should be looking for while reading ^^. Also as a side-note, this isn't strictly a Town Guide, you can apply this to Scum play as well; sort of just an encompassing guide to not getting condemned.

This guide also assumes you have somewhat of an idea of what you're doing in-game, so let's get started.

## **Charisma**

In my opinion, charisma is paramount when playing Mafia. You can't do anything without high charisma levels so finding ways to boost your charisma is very important. This can be as simple as making jokes while playing or appealing to individual Players, this is a skill that you will improve accordingly as you play Mafia. Charisma will help you in all areas of Mafia and is a topic that deserves a guide in itself. I won't go into too much detail but appealing to the Player's playing the game will help you tremendously in having them listen to you and in effect, not voting you after you've explained your radiant towniness. This leads me to my next point.

## **Obv!towning**

One of the most important parts of not getting condemned is obv!towning, this means being such an obvious Town to the point that anyone who even places a vote on you looks bad in effect and there are a plethora of different ways you can do this! A lot of things you do in the early game will set the trajectory in whether or not you are going to be UTR'd (Universally Town-Read). My favorite (rational) way of doing this is just by town-casing yourself, spend some time showing people *why* you're Town. I think a lot of Player's fall here by not taking action in displaying their Alignment and instead hope that people townread them themselves. Taking action and giving people reasons why they should townread you, especially those that think you're slightly scummy is a great and simple way of becoming UTR'd.

I mentioned the previous example to be a rational way of becoming townread and I should probably clarify what the counterpart would be to that and a lot of times it involves Meta and WIFOM which are two very complicated topics to get into. A very short example of something I've said in a Private game that got me UTR'd and came off as incredibly townie during endgame was: "My ego is too big to flame myself" about the Mafia making *not-so-optimal* kills. This is probably one of my favorite and most fun ways of obv!towning; saying things that in a vacuum mean nothing but come off as extremely townie when a certain level of WIFOM is applied and thought through. It may take you some time to explain but if you do take that time to do so, you'll be able to reap the benefits.

## **Defending**

Once you've gotten past the early game and built a bit of towncred for yourself while setting the trajectory of your play in motion, you'll most likely still be scumread by a few Players. Defending yourself from these Player's is very important, once a Player interacts with you, they automatically have a stake in you and you should do your best to figure out these Player's alignments as it'll help you solve the rest of the game as well. One thing you should look out for is shade, Scum love to throw shade around in hopes of setting up a miscondemn on the shaded Player later by mentioning the Player's name with negative connotations and seeding doubt into Town's mind. Your job is to identify and call out anyone that is doing this, sure they can just be paranoid which is something you should look for, and make sure you aren't just omgus'ing paranoid Town which would be horrible because it'd just make them even more paranoid of you.

Mid-game to End-game is going to be fairly grueling to get through without a claim and it can be very exhausting to constantly defend yourself but it's very important to do so. *"You are confirmed Town from your point of view so letting yourself be condemned is detrimental for Town"*. -- You need to remember that you *know* your alignment so doing everything in your pro-town power to live is crucial. This doesn't mean lying about your role and such, lying is strictly anti-town in a vacuum and gambitting should only be done if you're comfortable enough in your play to get away with it while also defending against the Player's pushing you for it.

## **Trajectory**

You should take a step back every so often while playing and look at the full game and the trajectory of the gamestate, ask yourself questions like "How do I look in this situation?". This is a pretty important thing to do in making sure that you are having an impact on the game. If you feel like you're being ignored and your impact on the game isn't very large, you're going to be a prime candidate for an End of Day Panic!Condemn. Identifying the trajectory of the game and making sure that something like that doesn't happen is crucial.

There are many ways of doing this and it requires very careful methodical play, you need to be able to analyze the gamestate and notice if you're a candidate of condemning in the given situation. If you think you're getting an unnecessary amount of shade thrown your way then that can be a red flag that you're being set up for condemnation. Try to look at Player's intentions when they talk about you and see if they're pushing an agenda. If you've managed to get yourself UTR'd then you should be paying very close attention to the gamestate surrounding you because Scum doesn't want a UTR'd Player alive and if they're Nightkilling away from you and don't care too much for you being alive then you may need to reevaluate your reads.

## **Confidence**

Confidence falls under the Charisma category but I think I should talk about it in itself a bit. You need to be confident when you're doing the things I've listed above, if you are evidently uncomfortable then you're just going to make yourself even more of a target to be condemned, being able to adapt this guide to your liking and finding a way to convey these thoughts in a genuine comfortable way is very important.

This is something that you'll improve on the longer you play, but if you're actively practicing you'll improve a lot faster. This of course takes a bit more effort which is very important if you're trying to improve at Mafia; you're going to improve much faster if you put in more effort even if it can be exhausting at times.

## **Conclusion**

There's a lot that has gone unsaid in this guide but hopefully, everything I've mentioned will help you in your goals to improve at Mafia. I've mentioned it a few times but I'll say it again, this entire guide can be applied to Scum gameplay as well. You don't *need* to be Town to benefit from this guide. I encourage everyone to try out their own playstyles and to read other guides to find something that works for them. Anyway, thanks for reading