Okay, reread on Blam. He basically doesn’t say anything on Day One for a good while. Posts early saying that he moved over the weekend and internet is spotty.
Storyteller makes his well-known slip at post #285. Blaster Master makes his first catch-up post at #307. Mentions strategy about how the town should deal with Dracula.
#317: Mentions suspicions of storyteller for his logic on Fretful Porpentine vote.
#318: Votes storyteller, citing that Fretful’s Scout speculation is at worst a null tell, possibly a slight townie tell.
!#324: Says the following:
[QUOTE=Blaster Master]
I’ve said this in past games, but I want to make it clear. I consider lurking to be against the spirit of the game. If you’re barely posting, you’re barely playing; if you’re barely playing, what’s the point? Sure, you may have avoided suspicion but at that point it’s in large part do to simply not participating and not to actually good play.
So, if I’m not posting, it’s because life or work or something has gotten in the way. It may be valid to look at my posts and go “usually he’s a top poster, but now he’s near the middle, something’s weird”. As such, I think it is valid to look at post count in general, because it’s a valid game mechanic, but simply going “hey this guy hasn’t posted” is at best a metagame reason, and more likely completely useless as life has no correlation to a role.
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!#325 and #326 are responses to responses about one of his recent post. In one he says:
[QUOTE=Blaster Master]
I’m not caught up yet, but from what I can tell it looks like you’ve got some suspicion. This looks like a subtle hint that you have a power role. If this is the case, you might as well tell it now, because I can’t imagine the scum would miss something this blatant if, in fact, you are pro-town.
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So at this point, Blaster Master has voted for storyteller and knows there’s suspicion on him.
#328: Weighs in on debate between sachertorte, says:
[QUOTE=Blaster Master]
That is going “I think so-and-so is town” is useless, but going “I think such-and-such that so-and-so did is a town tell” is more useful. Because really, how you weight it is either a matter of personal style or scummy manipulation, so it’s just better to make the points instead.
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#334: Weighs in and says we should lynch a wolf before Dracula if given the option of both.
#345: Response to sachertorte about Dracula, saying it’s to Drac’s and the town’s advantage if the scum are afraid of outing him for fear of counterclaim.
!#347: First of Blam’s comments on storyteller’s slip. Says he sees it as a null tell, despite the fact that he is already voting for him.
(Note: this is after storyteller has already claimed Constable at post #333, as sachertorte later points out.)
#350: Math stuff about probabilities of 5 wolves in response to storyteller about Fretful.
#354: Unvotes storyteller, says:
[QUOTE=Blaster Master]
I will also say that I agree that the baiting by OAOW is fairly scummy if/when storyteller turns out to be anything other than wolf.
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#355: Confirms that he was still in the process of catching up when he made post #347.
(Note: He says he was still in the process of catching up, but he has responded at least twice to recent posts before this.)
#358: Responds to Fretful’s vote of OAOW, says that while he finds OAOW suspicious, his unvote of storyteller is a null tell.
!#359: Responds to OAOW’s FOS of him, says he just made the point about the unvote and since OAOW is FOSing that clearly wasn’t his logic, and then votes OAOW.
#376: Responds to sachertorte’s questioning of the OAOW bandwagon. Mentions motivational transference, says OAOW outlined his own motivation but attributed it to Blam. Says since he FOSed Blam because Blam didn’t want to take the risk of killing a Constable, it couldn’t also be OAOW’s motivation. (I think I’m summarizing this correctly, but my head hurts a little bit from reading all of Blam’s posts, heh.)
#378: Says OAOW’s pressure of storyteller is interesting but not enough to vote for him. The unvote is also reasonable, and the FOS of Blam is reasonable, but all three actions together = anti-town behavior.
!#379: Says:
[QUOTE=Blaster Master]
First, the Day doesn’t end until Thursday, so stalling on voting doesn’t hurt anything unless you have someone else really high on your suspicion list. Second, it’s only Day one, so it’s unreasonable to have a very high threshold for a case to require a vote. For most people, the pressure is enough Today and probably wouldn’t be in a Day or two. However, I really think that between the pressure, the motivational transference, and most of all the lack of pro-town motivation, it’s a pretty strong case that would be enough for me to vote for him even a few Days from now.
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#384: More explanation of why he voted for OAOW. Says OAOW was twisting his words.
#386: Question posed towards Diggit about accusing sachertorte having PIS.
#392: Response to post from OAOW, says he failed to address his case and repeats his case against him.
#397: Responding again to OAOW.
!#398: Responds to Diggit, saying:
[QUOTE=Blaster Master]
Thank you, I appreciate the ellaboration. I had been feeling a bit uneasy about sachetorte, but I was unable to substantiate it, but this could be why. I’ll keep him on my list of people to watch very carefully.
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#453: Another response to OAOW, who failed to answer his question from the previous response.
#457: Talks about lynching lurkers. Says “lurking is relative.” Questions OAOW’s accusation that he is Dracula.
#458: Says:
[QUOTE=Blaster Master]
sachetorte, again with the strange defenses. Timing, IMO, is moot. This is a game of veterans, so I think it’s only fair to expect some basic pieces of game logic to be standard. One of those pieces is to unvote certain claims (like doctor, detective, and mason) unless there’s good reason to do so. Not buying the claim is not good reason to do so.
I find the motivation that he was pressuring him, probably expecting a different claim, was caught off-guard, and made a mistake, and took the first opportunity he could to correct it, far more likely. I think the off-guard aspect is fairly reasonable because storyteller’s “I have a claimable role” made it seem like he was probably going to claim mason rather than detective.
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#459: Mentions Dracula, says lynching him is not a waste but is sub-optimal and it’s better to try and get the wolves to use a Nightkill on him.
#460: Says his issue with OAOW’s pressure is that it went too far and that it was certainly anti-town.
#462: Responds to WF Tomba’s attacks on his OAOW reasoning. More explanations of the same things he’s already said, such as motivational transference.
#465: Responds to sachertorte. Says:
[QUOTE=Blaster Master]
The motivation appears to make the most with OAOW’s being scum and storyteller either being town, or scum of the other faction. However, considering I find OAOW’s actions inconsistent with my expectations of how Dracula would play, and that a Detective claim is, eventually, a death setence for Dracula, I find it hard to believe either is Dracula. And, considering OAOW’s behavior is much more consistent with scum motivation than with town, I’m inclined to believe he is scum. storyteller’s actually alignment is irrelevant because we can evaluate all the possible scenarios without him being dead, and the most consistent one is with OAOW’s as scum.
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In this post also he says that sachertore is right on OAOW’s tail for scumminess.
!#466: Says it’s possible to evaluate the scenarios around storyteller’s alignment without actually having to kill him. Also says we may not find out if storyteller is telling the truth or lying for Days, and that leaving OAOW alive as a second unknown variable would “increase chaos” and reduce information.
#476: Does some math and probabilities on storyteller being the constable.
#506: Does more math and probabilities on constable and detectiveness.
#507: Says that he’s tried to find “the most consistent role distribution for the motivations at hand” regarding OAOW and storyteller, and he thinks the most consistent is OAOW is scum and storyteller is not part of the same faction.
#508: Mentions that if storyteller is lying, he’ll eventually screw up.
#513: Response to sachertorte, says there’s potential PIS in his post about potential wolf role claims (specifically about the Doctor), and is tempted to just vote for sachertorte.
#515: Says he’ll stop answering sachertorte’s questions after sach complains that Blam is the only one answering things.
#517: Says sachertorte’s martyr attitude makes no sense.
#518: Finds out he was mistaken about Doctor protection rule, but says his point still stands since sachertorte made the same mistake.
#525: Says he’s done with sachertorte and will vote for him tomorrow.
#533: Says confirming storyteller confirms his results, but his results don’t confirm him.
#534: Says Freudian Slit showing her vanilla PM is a bad idea.
#573: Says Freudian Slit’s forgetting that the vanilla PM was already posted is more likely to be a town tell than a scum one.
And that’s the end of Day One.
Damn, maybe I shouldn’t have started with Blam. My head hurts like hell.
The exclamation marks are self-notes for myself as points of interest. I was going to do Day Two next but I need to take a break and step away from the computer. Phew.
) but I’m going to go ahead and