The witches have the capability to protect him. NO OTHER PROTECTORS IF ANY EXIST SHOULD PROTECT HIM. If he is really a witch, they will take care of him.
Re-reading the rules, if he is protected by Witch power and gets targeted as a Night kill by multiple parties (which could very well happen), he’ll survive. I thought there may have been some trickle down chance of a successful kill to the other killers after Pleo reconciled the first in line for the kill (which is reconciled as the last to turn in their kill orders). My bad.
So the easiest test of his claim will be whether or not he is backed up by the coven and survives the night. Which still means there is no need to come up with some way to test him.
As such, a WiFoM game of cat and mouse would ensue on Night 2. He’ll either have to be perpetually protected, or risk being picked off every Night so long as there are any killing undead cabal wolves about.
Vote count is up to date now, but I’ll be slow to update over the weekend. We still have nine players who have not cast any vote at all. If you have not cast any vote by the time the Day ends, you will be automatically mod-killed (and lose, even if your side later wins). You don’t have to keep a vote active. Once you’ve made any vote you’re off the list. (The gimmick to vote and unvote yourself will prevent the mod-kill.)
Other voting rules to keep in mind:
- Largest vote wins; no majority is needed.
- Majority does not affect the time of the end of the Day.
- A tie means that no lynch takes place.
I’m getting this OAOW feeling here.
Oh well, so you have claimed Witch. If you are a real Witch, you are in the right group to sort it out. If your not a real Witch, I guess we will find out in a few Days or so. I just hope it is not to the town’s detriment.
I don’t like the fact that we have just your word for it and yes, an edited PM would have gone a long way towards easing my concern.
But as the chances of this town lynching you toDay just dropped to zero, time to go find some other scum I guess.
unvote Nanook of the North Shore
Seriously not impressed with the way the town has just rolled over. 
I just hope I am wrong.
Why? You have not explained this even a bit. I am not a Witch, and I could produce an edited PM claiming to be; it’s sitting in the GoogleDoc that Pleonast posted at the outset of the game. This makes no sense.
Oh, spare us the martyr routine. If you can supply an actual reason to be suspicious of this claim, or a reason to lynch the claimant in the absence of such evidence, have at it. But I’m not terribly impressed with “he didn’t copy and paste the PM from Pleo’s doc” as evidence. And your little role-over, unvote, and say “oh, well” song-and-dance is extremely uncharacteristic of you.
unvote Wanderers
vote CatinaSuit
Yes, that works.
I meant “roll-over,” up there, obviously.
I unvoted **Nanook ** because the chances of him being lynched today given the rest of the town are a BIG FAT ZERO.
I would rather go and find different scum and put my vote to good use than leave it on someone who I know is not going to get lynched toDay but as far as I am concerned seems scummy.
You don’t like that. Tough!
Nanook still leads by 7 votes, with a 7-way tie of one-offs for 2nd place. That is a far cry from a zero chance of being lynched. By my recollection, there have been times where post-game bandwagon exoduses are then followed by a re-wagoning, sometimes by the same people who were on the wagon the first time, and sometimes by a whole new set of wagon-riders.
Sorry Cookies, I think those 7 votes are going to fade faster than snowflakes in Death Valley.
If **Nanook ** is scum and slips up again later, then maybe. As it stands now, I don’t think so.
So you’re not going to actually answer any of my questions, then? The tough-guy routine you’re pulling here is an interesting gambit.
But it doesn’t explain why you’re pushing to see a role PM that’s freely accessible to all.
Or why you’d want Nanook to offer his role name in light of the points I’ve already raised.
Or why you backed off of your vote, saying there was zero chance of a Nanook lynch, after all of seven (out of thirty!) players had chimed in between your post saying you wouldn’t unvote and your post unvoting.
Ignore me all you want. I’ll just keep asking.
Oh - and what is the evidence on the basis of which you so strongly suspect Nanook to be lying? Just one more for the currently-unanswered questions file.
And again CIAS…why the rush? We know that Nanook has a big old nightime bullseye on his back. If nanook is a witch, i do not see why he would not be protected. If nanook is NOT a witch, he’s a prime target for one of the 2 factions he then wouldn’t be a part of. Why this issue today?
Can you explain this a little more? I’m wondering what you think would have been the best (or, perhaps, more impressive) course of action after his claim.
Here are my thoughts on the claim: we’d be idiots to lynch a claimed Witch immediately. Witch power diminishes with each dead Witch, so the risk is too great. If Nanook is lying, he’s likely to get night-killed by another scum faction, investigated by someone on our side and revealed eventually, or revealed by a later Witch claim (hopefully a planned claim at an opportune time). We need to keep the hairy eyeball on him, of course.
In fact, we can test this claim, if I am not mistaken. Unless we lynch Nanook, the witches should investigate someone tonight. Nanook can report the result, and if it’s a scum result, we lynch that person. If it’s Town, well, that doesn’t help us in the short term, but it could give us a confirmed Town down the line. When life give you lemons and all that…
Seriously, CatInASuit, what do you want from him? Do you want his full PM with secret powers if any? How could that possibly help the town? If he isn’t a witch, he’ll probably get night-killed; if he is, the witches will protect him. At any rate, if he lives, his information will be testable. If he posted his PM without secret powers it would be the information we already have; with powers it can only hurt the town.
vote CatInASuit
I thought we needed to dunk him in water? Or was that meant for ducks?
Unvote Nanook
<Snipped all to heck>
Just gotta be my normal cantankerous self.
What would lead you to that conclusion? 
In the absence of a counter-claim…
Unvote Nanook
And the next auditionee will be:
Vote CIAS
I think that he is probably Romeo. If he claims Juliet he is still neck stretching but for a whole bunch of different reasons.
Well to start off lynch the lurker is not the closest that we are going to get in this game because apparently a place holder vote is another name for a random vote. But I’ll get to that. The data from my list was not manipulated in any way. The only part of the list that you would get different would be on the non-fluff part and that is because it is subjective and even there I stated what I based my call on. But I see its not my numbers that you object to instead it is my definition of a lurker. I think a lurker is someone who is reading the game but not posting. That way by voting for them you can get them to come out of the wood work and begin posting. The reason that I eliminated the bottom three is they never commented on the game or gave me any reason that believe they were out there watching the game and Ro0sh posted that he would be away so was eliminated from consideration. Voting for someone who is not reading defeats the purpose.
(#378)
I guess I have trouble wrapping my mind around playing just for fun, but then again I’m a hyper-competitive asshole. I’m not sure if you’re counting 378 as your post during Night one or your recent one. I can understand being surprised by the numbers of posts but I figure that this rate will keep up until people die or start getting burned out so I guess the still surprised bit does seem weird to me. But what also seems weird to me is you make it pretty clear in 378 that you haven’t read up to that point and maybe its just me but when I’m catching up I go from below my last post, so starting over just to read your own post also seems weird. But speaking of weird you find that figuring out who is lying about being town is more fun then figuring out who is lying about their roles? I got to admit I don’t see a difference. As for the random vote I can understand not wanting to get modkilled but unless you’re planning on not posting again or letting this vote sit for the rest of the Day I don’t get the purpose. There are several people who haven’t made up their mind and because of this have held off voting. As for unvoting you I don’t think so just yet. Can I get some people to weight in on the weirdness I’m seeing?
You’re right I did miss that “fully” maybe that means he read the last posts of the Night. But the discussion of Nanooks slip had already started by his post so if he read it then wouldn’t it make sense for him to comment on it?
Wow, I started typing this post yesterday at noon and as I’m reading to catch up before posting this crops up. My first thought is that being a witch alone does not explain his statements that everyone has a secret power especially when he states in #639 that he doesn’t have a power. This could end up being the worst slip of all time. But I don’t think that we have any choice but to see if he survives the night because if nothing else the other scum groups should want to kill him which should solve our problem for us. Hopefully next week won’t be as busy. Sorry for the delays.
A question to those who have access to the offboard for this game… this is going to be ultra super duper beyond metagaming, but help me out. Diomedes, as a witch last game, busted me because I tried to set up a new account to support my claim. It didn’t work, but I was wondering if we could have Nanook tell us the name of the offboard site, and then look at it and ask him to log on at a predetermined time. Then we would all see “witch 2” or whatever logging on at, say 0934, and it’d be a self verifying claim.
For now,
Unvote Nanook
Just in case the dope goes on a week long hiatus.
vote hawkeyeop