Aww, crap… in going back over the PM to answer this, I just realized that I completely misread the PM. And it is, in fact, consistent with her claim. So, on that note, my sincere apologies to Cookies. And on that note,
Unvote Cookies
However, I think I can still answer this question in a meaningful way. In reviewing the thread Yesterday, I came to the conclusion that 1) Cookies was a likely lynch candidate from all the heat she was getting and 2) NAF was highly unlikely to investigate her. As such, I decided that she was a reasonable person to target with my power.
The thing is, the power I used is not an investigation; however, I can infer information from the results. In this case, I had an expected result if she were telling the truth, and that is not what occurred, which is why I thought it was inconsistent with her claim. What happened, however, in my haste reading the PM I apparently missed the explanation for why I did not receive the expected result.
I suppose if that is too vague, I can provide a little more information about what my expected results were and why, but I hope that’s enough.
Not ditching cookies. The way BlaM phrased things he left open the possibility that he is wrong about cookies, so Cookies is still my investigation of choice toDay. But Dot was up tomorrow, and he wasn’t in any way ambiguous (sorry can’t spell for beans) about her. If he is willing to state that he is town I am willing to move Zeiel into Dot’s position and investigate BlaM later. Why not BlaM tomorrow you ask? Because as of right now I don’t actually believe him so Zeriel get’s priority, and if he is telling the truth I don’t know that he will live all that long anyway and will likely not be alive the Day after tomorrow.
I’m just going to have to echo some others. Your towniness most certainly does not go without saying Blam, and this assumption of yours that it does worries me. And no, if you had come in playing the same way as SDMB Mafia, I for one would not have given you much of a hairy eyeball for it. I generally don’t read too much into playstyle, unless it’s radically changed or blantantly obvious in it’s scumminess.
I’m getting a Santo-like gambit feel to your magic bags. A desperate attempt to avoid being killed one more Day for some reason or another perhaps? An attempt to distract Naf or others from specific targets? I’m not sure yet, but without more useful information I will be voting for you later on Today.
Actually, it sounds to me like the scum were letting me slide, as I’d expected, hoping I’d eventually become a lynch candidate, and then the scum would all jump on me for lurking. I have to figure scum thought I was either vanilla town who had either lost interest or forgot or that I had something juicy that I was sitting on.
So let’s see, if I AM sitting on something juicy, why exactly would I come right out and completely spill the beans about everything? That is completely illogical. As I said, one of the major reasons for me not posting was precisely to avoid having to make any claim for a while so that I could be afforded the opportunity to utilize my role to the best of my ability.
And with regard to NAF’s question, I’m glad that you deliberately misworded what I said. What I said was “[it] goes without saying” which, is a very common idiom. Does that really bother you so much? Would you prefer that I say “yes”? I can say it if it makes you feel better. Yes. Do you feel better? Sorry for, you know, typing how I speak. :dubious:
So I have to ask you, if I am scum, how exactly is anything that I’ve done been, in anyway pro-scum? Don’t you think that I’d know better than to lurk like that as scum? And then, of all things, encourage myself to be investigated? My life expectancy, if I’m lying scum, is a maximum of Tomorrow, because he’d investigate, see I’m lying, and I’d get lynched. If I had just been super lurky scum, I’d have had much better luck of potentially extending my life expectency by not being so convoluted.
I’m inclined to give BLaM the benefit of the doubt for now, and unless someone steps up to say that they targeted me in some way, I’m inclined to believe that BLaM did indeed target me with some sort of power. Yes, BLaM himself could be the hideously evil and scaly one, or one of his scummy brethren. BUT…I don’t think a scummy BLaM would’ve done an about face on his vote for me like that. I think it would’ve been relatively easy for a scummy BLaM to catalyze a sizable bandwagon against me toDay, and he chose not to take that route, ergo I don’t think he’s scum. I’m not convinced that he’s not scum, just doubtful.
Dodging around that phrase is a bad idea right now. I really, really don’t buy the “made a mistake about Cookies” thing. “Desperate gambit that went wrong” is what I’m getting. Cookies has a lot of townie cred going for her, IMHO (even though others don’t see it the same way I do), and you messed up by smearing her. We’re going to find out she’s definitively town when NAF investigates and you just realized that.
By the way, as I was re-reading, I went back over my own town claim post and realized I didn’t state it plainly myself. So, because I don’t believe in poking BlaM unless I’m willing to do the same: I am Town. If it matters. I’m not on the list, as far as I know.
Seriously? No one is familiar with that idiom used as an affirmation before? I’ve already set yes, so I’m not really sure what else is wanted here.
As for my playstyle, it’s a personal choice. I think it’s far more interesting to peg people for how they play in a particular game than based upon style changes from different games. I like to vary it up, and I find it makes the games more interesting. I may have been wrong.
They’re not magic bags, at least not in the traditional sense. I’ve provided the information I have, I just haven’t provided the manner in which I obtained it. I’m wary about providing the mechanics because I think the scum have a mechanism for defeating it, but only if they’re aware of what it is. I’m prepared to provide as much information as necessary, but I think it’s a bad idea to provide scum with information they would find useful. The last bit of information, for instance, is actually something that is mostly confirming of my claims, but I simply think the information is more useful to scum, since I believe that my actions are completely inconsistent with how scum would play, and I simply do not want to state it unless I absolutely must.
I was under the impression that intention was sufficient because it has, at least, been my experience thus far, that my intentions have been appropriately interpreted by our illustrious mod.
I thought so too, but story has specifically told me that I can’t read intentions. It’s one of my roles weaknesses. I am a dog and don’t do shades of grey. He has promised me that we can talk about it post game though.
Three-person simulpost on asking you to claim Townie!
Anyway, Cookies, your post makes me even more certain about my vote. He probably had no idea you’d be notified about it. He may have backed off his vote because he didn’t want to be the one who looked bad when the bandwagon took off and we ended up lynching you. I’m going to get my spreadsheet updated and take a look at toDay, but I think it’s a mistake if we don’t string up Blaster ASAP.
That just doesn’t make any sense. Why would I do that? I specifically said I targetted her last Night, she confirmed that she was targetted, and I will also say that the PM that she got is consistent with the results I received this Morning.
Yeah, since my initial benefit of the doubt reaction basically boils down to “scum would never do that” I’m not going to stand in the way of the BLaM wagon, and may even find myself jumping on at some point.
My reading is that you’re the hideous doppelganger who visited her. I don’t really see how else to interpret it, unless you’re willing to explain more.
NETA: Maybe I just need to sort this out in my mind…I’m really confused here. BlaM, if you ARE town and really don’t want to spill more about your powers, then don’t. I suppose there are other ways to interpret what went on, but my mind is only slowly wrapping around them.
One observation about the level of lurking. I think a symptom of the non-posting players might play out in that I feel a lot of suspicion directed against me, while Millit seems to think I have managed to build up a lot of townie cred. Do we each of tunnel-vision about the opposing vocal minorities while we ignore those players who either just aren’t participating in those conversations or in the game in general?
I’m still not sure which one of us is right, or if it is basically even split between both, but I’m trying to not give too much emphasis to those who are speaking out against me, which is a challenge.