The Post Count that Maha gave us for storyteller still doesn’t add up. I just looked now (post count doesn’t show in the thread, but is listed under a user’s profile) and story’s post count is 2958. Maha’s PM shows story’s post count at 2955 back on October 4. He has most definitely made more than 3 posts since then (though it seems quite plausible that 2955 was story’s post count at the time Maha made his post). Even if the member/guest problem can be explained by assuming story’s membership lapsed within the last couple days, I see no way the post count in the PM can be genuine.
There’s also the issue of the line in Maha’s PM: “Please see the rules for formal definitions of “Town,” “Scum,” and “Third-Party” in this context.” Guiri pointed out that he couldn’t find any “formal definitions” anywhere in the rules for this game. I don’t see anything either.
As to the question of why Mahaloth would include the ‘header’ information in his post, when it’s really irrelevant to his case, I wondered about that as well. But when people are lying, they have a tendency to want to give out ‘extra information’, because they are aware of all the holes in their story and are already anticipating the questions they are going to get concerning them. The tendency is to try to answer those questions before they are asked. But since the answers have to be manufactured, the chances of providing information that is inconsistent with reality are greatly increased. I think that’s what happened here. Maha wanted to provide extra ‘proof’ that his PM was genuine. But in his effort to do so, he did just the opposite.
It appears quite clear that Mahaloth’s PM was borrowed from some source outside this game and then modified. I can see no reason for Town to do that. Part of me says “wait until dawn to cast a vote”, to see if anything new is revealed that might change the situation. But the case here seems very clear cut, and I can always change my vote if new evidence ‘proves’ Mahaloth’s Townness.
vote Mahaloth