Not much time right now to post (past my bedtime, been playing Fable 3 all night), but that last post pushed it over the edge for me. I’ve been finding him a bit suspicious, along with a few others, but that whole “I’m not sure I find anyone particularly scummy right now” thing is a) a classic scum tell, and b) ridiculous, given the amount of discussion that’s been going on. Seriously, you can’t come up with a reason to suspect anyone in all this? There are like 4500 posts in this thread. I’m sure someone who is still alive said something suspicious, somewhere.
I’m having trouble remembering. Can you refresh my memory on what made you suspect Telcontar aside from ‘the way he played in a game’ that you were unable to back up. I think I just have had that so stuck in my mind that I’ve forgotten anything else.
(aside from the burning mark on his forehead, that is)
For Pete’s sake, I provided post numbers. I guess that’s not enough…
So here’s what I was talking about:
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Then, in the next post:
Normal Phase asks peeker to share his PM in post 1426, then gets back to lilflower:
**Normal Phase **has several interactions not concerning lilflower, then
lilflower was quite accusatory toward Normal Phase in these posts, and at first blush it struck me that she was being defensive about Telcontar, who, after all turned out to be Scum. However, this morning it occurs to me that lilflower could be a mason with one of the other three people Normal Phase mentioned: OneandonlyWanderers, Drain Bead, or Mrs McGinty. I think we can eliminate Drain Bead from that list as a possible mason; she is either the Town Librarian or she is not Town. But the other two could conceivably be masons with lilflower, and that might account for her defensiveness toward them and her offense on Normal Phase. lilflower could be legitimately suspicious of Normal Phase for that. Or lilflower could be Scum, defending one or more Scum-buddies. Dunno.
I haven’t found anything particularly striking about lilflower posts otherwise. I’ve really had to push myself to participate at all in this; I can understand the desire to lurk unobtrusively in order not to make a fool of oneself. On the other hand, I also understand that sitting quietly and keeping your mouth shut (except for non-controversial posts, for example explaining game play to a newbie, as she did for me) is a good way to play Scum.
I just thought that the fact that Mrs McGinty was equally defensive in the face of a ridiculous accusation from peeker that was getting no ground at all and a somewhat more credible accusation from me that looked like people might be buying it might indicate someone who was prickly about being accused, period. I’ve never played with Mrs McGinty, but some of you have. Has he been this prickly about accusations before?
As for Suburban Plankton, my vote is still there, but I’m not feeling it very strongly. His claim seems legit, but as has been pointed out, Scum are certainly down to enough numbers for everyone to have a false role available, and again, the role he did claim was something that could have been tweaked from an original Scum role. So I just don’t know.
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You’re in Denmark? Is English your first language, because if not, well done!
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You know, I wasn’t sure what to think about you until I read this paragraph. Your ‘legitimate effort to locate Scum’ is indistinguishable to me from any other Scum led case, so using that as part of your defense is meaningless.
**vote Suburban **
Also, out of game. I’m going out of town today. I’ll be at my parents’ house where I should be able to follow along, but I’ll be pretty busy. I’ll be back Saturday.
My problem with this is that all the points you’ve made here except number 4 and the first number 5 (you had two) could apply equally well to me, and I’m Town:
I thought **NAF **was being Scummy. Now, admittedly, I voted for him, while SP did not, but still, I agreed with SP.
I thought Peeker was innocent, or at least that Peeker’s behavior was not sufficient to vote against him. I never did vote Peeker, but SP did.
I thought the case on Romanic was very iffy, although it was also “egregious.” I found a single other reason to vote on him, so how does what SP did differ from what I did?
5 (the second). I may not have questioned you on your watching Chipa (actually, I did question you about it), but I sure as hell had doubts about it. I still do, for that matter. For the moment, they are superseded by the fact that I feel your suspicion of Telcontar was sufficient to justify a Scum attack on you, but I haven’t forgotten my doubts.
So I’m left wondering, just how Scummy does SP look after all? And if SP is town, well, you were the first one to push him, I think. Does that make you Scum?
There’s enough doubt about SP that I am going to leave my vote on him. Worst case, we lynch a vanilla Town. But I must say, Normal, that if SP flips Town, I will be looking at you quite hard. It’s not a slam dunk by any means, but you’ll have my attention.*
*Please don’t take any of that personally. You’ve been lovely to me and I’ve appreciated it.
And when Ed shows up and starts telling you all my mis-spells over the years, don’t listen to him - okay
I’ve been thinking a lot about my vote and I’ll keep it where it is. I can’t know for sure if it’s on scum or not. But sometimes you have to trust your instinct.
This is where I do that.
My case on Sub P might seem based only on the “Scum would put up a defense”-statement.
But it’s also a ping - that has been there for a while. Do I remember when it started? I’m trying to think and I’m sure it was before the beginning of Day 2.
But it’s enough for me to feel the uncertainty is going to take up a lot of time and space.
I don’t like mis-lynches. But if we have to have them (and I’ve only played in one game ever where we didn’t have any) then early and ahead is the best way.
Taking out someone I can see playing Town ATM is where I want to go.
So my vote will stay. Despite the vanilla claim.
I know you can’t answer this - because it’s not really a question - but I’d like to know if you have something to add to my speculations:
The way I see it… if I had the power to know the number of Scum (but could see no player but one act scummy) and the power to know the number of 3rd parties with a unique wincon (and - this is me putting words into your mouth - could see no one act in this sort of manner). I know I’d want to know the number of Scum. Because that’s where I spend most time in the hunt to figure out how to win.
You say stuff like “you don’t see anyone scummy” however you spend the power on the 3rd parties. So I kind of wonder why…
Anyway - I guess I can put it too you as a question after all:
Do you find anyone behaving in a not pro-town manner?
I did read it and no matter how many times and how many ways you try to explain it, it’s still crap. And since when does every vote need to be “out on a limb?”
This still bothers me. It’s just difficult to get out of my mind no matter how much I try.
Maybe the fact that Mahaoth really burned me with this approach in random Mafia. I was so confident that he was Scum (he was) but his defense that he had voted for a Scum before the Scum was even seen as Scummy won over the rest of the Town.
So maybe part of it is personal.
I know my vote is still on Suburban. The whole no defense defense still bugs me, despite Suburban otherwise acquitting himself well.
When I get home, I’ll look through the thread again.
Deal with it. And, I was basing that tactic on the fact that I had also voted for Kelly in the previous game and gotten lynched instead of him. When he flipped scum the next Day, I vowed I would point out my successes in finding scum in the future. Since I was scum, it worked out well for me.
I’m not rubbing the whole “I got Telcontar early” thing in anyone’s face this time, though