[@BrokenPromise]
Yeah, this is about what I was expecting to see once you told me it was the overall meta and not a winning strategy for one side or the other. Since it helps both sides - as you mentioned - I'm all on board with it being posted here, and - as stated previous - I'll be quoting it into my original post.

It's all stuff I was aware of, so I'm wondering how much you've seen of this game (like I said, it's a staple on my role-playing sites). I've been the host most of the time, never really the player outside of one time I did it for the laughs and played very casually, but due to my affinity for and tendency towards psychology and strategy the meta of this game was just common sense to me.

Most sites which have this game - that I've seen - seem to consider it an unspoken rule not to tell people how to actually play, so they need to work the meta out on their own, but I've allowed it because it could make things interesting to see if it has an impact on how people play from this point. I never actually said anything in the rules about people not being allowed to use the PM system, and that was meant to be the subtle hint that you were allowed to do this sort of thing ([@Luna_Maria] actually tried it in the first game).

Granted, the whole concept of friendships can get convoluted if the murderer plays multiple people as a friend, or if people end up making more than one friend and subsequently get forced to pick between them, but in general the meta works at least in principle. We've also had a few instances so far in this game where someone not voting for someone - with the basis being that they were on friendly terms - actually allowed the murderer to get off free. It's all just part of the deception game though.

Overall, yeah, Luna's acting at the end of the first round were [i]too[/i] clean, and most of the antics that were present in previous games more or less disappeared during this one -- though I'll emphasize that this could've been due to them not wanting to get eliminated too early again, it's still a fact.

Edit: Added into the opening post -- I had to make an alteration to prevent a quote-in-quote error.