Post 1,000 has been reached. My notes on the posts just read follow.
Continuing from 901.
Just before I broke off, PetW raised his head above the battlements in [post=14958654]post 835[/post]and got shot at, picking up three votes in short order. That first sentence has attracted two of the first three votes; Normal Phase reads it as Mafia gloating, and Astral Rejection thinks it might be PIS, and votes to put pressure on.
I’ve seen Mafia gloating before, from new players even. My first reaction on reading that was it could be a Mafia gloat. It could also be misdirection, suggesting that all three deaths are due to the Mafia when one is from PetW the serial killer.
Normal’s case builds further, with PetW’s plan (impractical for several reasons), and challenging PetW’s vote for Gadarene as Gad is the least likely target for the Mafia Nightkill (they generally don’t kill people with significant levels of suspicion on them, hoping to get them lynched instead – unless they know the player is a cop role, or something else they really need to get rid of.) Against that, if Gad is Mafia aligned, and they successfully saved him Yesterday, that would explain his survival – but it’s not the only reason, or (imo) even likely. Just a hypothesis to bear in mind for now. Normal also notes problems with PetW’s second and third choice cases.
Gad’s vote in 871 follows; he’s largely piggybacking on Normal’s case.
Gnarly’s is a pressure vote because the first sentence might be PIS, ignoring the rest of the post. That’s a slippery reason for a third vote. When I’ve done the reread, Gnarly will be my first candidate for close examination. That’s subject to nothing arising later in the Day. (PetW is second right now.)
Silver Jan followed with a vote in [post=14959868]post 902[/post], primarily because PetW’s plan might result in her having to vote someone she believes Town – a valid objection to the plan, although it smacks of voting someone for A Bad Idea.
A discussion breaks out as to whether trying to eliminate people from your suspicion list is a reasonable strategy – that is, if you form an opinion that a particular player is Town, should you say so? Some people think it’s the best way to proceed, others that it misses the point of the game.
Gad decides to quote the PM from his correspondent regarding the wealth wincon – see [post=14960576]951[/post]. My reaction initial was that this doesn’t help Gad much. Particularly, why, if his correspondent really believes the Town needs to know this, enough to put it in all capitals, didn’t they themselves come out and say it instead of using Gad as a stalking horse? No, either Gad is making it up, or the other guy is using Gad as a stalking horse.
[post=14960942]Post 967[/post] sees fubbleskag vote Gadarene, and offer half-price iunspections to people voting Gadarene. That feels very panicky to me, trying to buy votes. ToeJam votes in [post=14961035post ]977[/post[/post]. Fubbleskag defends himself by suggesting ToeJam is worried about him winning on Day 1 (see [post=14961052]post 983[/post]); this doesn’t really hod water as ToeJam never mentioned it.
While I think fubbleskag may have a wealth-accumulation wincon, and indeed suspect that there is more than one player with that wincon, it is quite plausible that these are third party players who share wins with Town or Mafia. So I’m not voting for him, on this basis anyway.
I’d like to make a point to a couple of people, particularly Choie, who I don’t tink I’ve played with before.
My 20 posts on Day 1 was a lot for me. Really. I typically manage 10 to 15. So to accuse me of making a small number of posts is not correct.
I made a miscalculation early on in N1 and left reading up for too long. And you lot were far too garrulous.
You are skimming just like (your fellow?) Scum, Bob. Both of you have managed to invert my meanings.