Nesta – a quick overview
34 posts at time of writing.
I’m not going to list all of them, so don’t try and reconcile later. I have a general policy on these reviews that, if one post quickly follows another, and is an amendment or addendum to the one it follow, I treat it as if it had been part of the original post.
Pregame : four posts. Look them up yourself if you’re desperate.
Day 1 sees 13 posts. Five of them (475, 485, 489, 524 and 525) are not related to this game.
Post [post=13836829]227[/post]. Pushed case on Astral and his misunderstandings.
Post [post=13842347]391[/post]. Asked Astral if he could act Night 0.
Post [post=13842592]394[/post]. Questions Pleo about Astral.
Post [post=13842703]395[/post]. More pressure on Astral arising from 393, an answer to 391.
Post [post=13847219]476[/post]. Queries the use of “Calvin game” by Silver Jan.
Post [post=13849268]523[/post]. Turns attention (and voting heat) on Fubbleskag.
Post [post=13855450]602[/post]. Continues to build Fubbleskag case.
Post [post=13855663]604[/post]. Challenges a statement of Gnarlycharlie’s.
In the remaining eight, he’s focussed on two players, Astral Rejection and Fubbleskag. My impression was slightly tilted towards the Town side of things at this point.
Day 2.
Post [post=13873616]773[/post]. Trying to work out why Ed was killed is a WIFOM exercise.
Post [post=13873919]776[/post]. Categorises Gnarlycharlies’ self-vote as antitown. Asks why he’s adamant he won’t unvote.
Post [post=13885610]873[/post]. Votes for Gnarly over Hirka, on the grounds that Gnarly is more
concerned about self-image than he should be.
Night falls with no further contribution. Nesta did note that he was busy during the period covered by the Day. I felt his participation was light, compared to that of the previous Day. It’s the sort of thing a player on any side could do, though.
Day 3.
Post [post=13899118]960[/post]. Summarises the claims that happened in Day 3, then tries to draw some conclusions.
Post [post=13899125]961[/post]. Asks who Zeriel directed [post=13899027]959[/post] at.
Post [post=13899341]962[/post]. What he was thinking about night 0 actions, and why he grew suspicious of fubbleskag.
Post [post=13911951]1069[/post]. The very last post of the Day, a vote for Texcat. The justification seems slim; it fails to acknowledge the benefit to Town of Texcat’s claiming.
That’s the end of Day 3 for nesta. I was a little twinged by nesta’s vote, but not much else.
Day 4.
Post [post=13925672]1181[/post]. Analyses claims to date, and cconcludes that either we’vebeen unlucky or are power-role heavy. Proposes mass claim.
Post [post=13925684]1182[/post]. Points out an omission in Normal Phase’s claim list.
Post [post=13933536]1259[/post]. Claims Evey Hammond, vanilla Slumlord.
Post [post=13937591]1305[/post]. Is against wasting a lynch on pedescribe. Turns attention to Silver Jan, points out she criticised Gnarly for self-voting and then did so, waffled and adopted an “aw shucks” style. Votes in 1307.
Again, nesta makes the last post, this time about 40 minutes before Dusk, rather than 8. While Day 3 had some feel of “last-minute” to it, 40 minutes is plenty of time for people to have seen the post and responded.
The vote has a strong bandwagon feel to it. Silver Jan’s lynch was pretty inevitable by then. That being said, any vote at that point would attract criticism; if nesta had voted for (say) Tom Scud, he’d have come into criticism for placing a one-off vote.
Day 5. nesta was AWOL for the entire Day. After making the last post in Day 4, he does not post again until Day 6 is under way. That, given the events of that Day, makes me wonder.
Day 6.
Post [post=13960200]1472[/post]. Denies any knowledge of a Cunning Plan of Winston’s.
Post [post=13960303]1473[/post]. Asks IS for a summary of reasons for IS’s vote. Notes that he failed to respond to Normal Phase before the end of the Day.
Post [post=13960635]1475[/post]. Responds to Normal Phase’s case against him from the previous Day.
Post [post=13960652]1476[/post]. Responds to Inner Stickler’s reply to his 1473.
That’s it.
The thing that raises a red flag for me is something nesta didn’t do. He didn’t post at all on Day 5.
Out of curiosity, I went and dug up some timestamps. Dawn was announced in post [post=13946496]1339[/post] at 12:13am on 23rd June. Winston’s explosion was in post [post==13952738]1397[/post] timed at 3:41pm on 24th June, less than 40 hours into a 120-hour Day. It’s quite possible that an ALE-drinking nesta chose to keep his head down rather than try and defend Winston, and then got caught by the hammer before he could get a plausible vote in for Winston.
On the other hand, he might have been caught by the hammer falling, which was less than 12 hours after Winston’s explosion, and on a Saturday; post [post=13955147]1441[/post] was at 1:53am the next day.
(Before you ask, all times are BST.)
If I vote now the hammer falls, and there’s someone I want to at least peer at before the end of the Day. Give me an hour or so.