For my next trick, I need to call the lovely Biotop back onto the stage.
Thank you, sir. We’ve never met before, have we? What? I’ve been calling you up here repeatedly over the few days? I don’t think that’s right. Anyway, on with the show.
Biotop, on Day 10 you say this:
You also say this in the same post:
Later you say:
On Day 11, I voted for Texcat in post #10, and for reasons different than yours.
You say the following, three posts later:
Your next post (not counting answering a Captain Klutz question), is this:
This is out of nowhere! I was your strongest town lean the previous day. You, yourself, had been pushing a Texcat vote for some time. My vote on Texcat was neither a “me too” vote nor an “omgus,” but based on Texcat’s insistence that the patsy not claim. Besides - I had been pushing for a patsy claim well before you called me your towniest lean, so our disagreement on that issue couldn’t have been the reason.
So I don’t understand - how did my vote for Texcat suddenly shift me from “most likely to be town” into somebody who you would 100% vote for in the event that she flipped town?
Here’s how I’m reading it.
In the intervening period between your vote in post #13 and your calling me out in post #36, three more players voted for Texcat. Fast, fast, fast! So you picked the first person in the thread who voted for her (me) and invented a reason to find him suspicious and maybe even nudge him to rethink his vote.
Except for one thing: you forgot that you’d specifically said I was your TOWNIEST lean.
In a normal game, only scum forget their towniest leans, because they don’t have actual townie leans. This game isn’t normal, though. The wolves were still kicking, so you were doing regular analysis. You did have to decide who of the unconfirmed you thought was most likely to be town. That was me, and by that point nobody thought I was a wolf (maybe scum, probably not a wolf) - you included. So it was easy for you to pick me out as town.
But when Day 11 started, the wolves were gone. There was no more scum-hunting for you to do. You knew with 100% certainty who the townies were, and so you didn’t need the “who do I think is town?” datapoints any longer.
And so you slipped. You said that I was being generally townie, sure, but you forget that you’d already given me the Biotop Stamp of Big Towniehood.
Now, -since then-, you have found reasons to declare that the remaining scum ‘must’ be me or Plumpudding. Most of those revolve around the provably false assertion that the only case against you is based in meta, and that you just feel durned good about raventhief’s townieness.
Concluding:
**At D11#36, **what reason did Biotop have for calling out his towniest player in that way? Why was only one of the three other unconfirmed townies who had voted for Texcat worth that suspicion? Moreover, why did that suspicion only intensify after Texcat was proved to be scum?
Biotop’s entire campaign against me has been based upon a slip. He forgot that I was his most townie lean.
Biotop, you are currently my vote. I won’t officially place it yet because I still think we need to talk out all the angles.
Next on the agenda: Koldanar was very anti-Biotop yesterday. I’ll see if he said anything that might have struck a nerve. With the blackmail scheme failed, there was no role-based reason to kill Koldanar over sinjin. It might’ve been pure revenge, or it might’ve been his lines of reasoning.