Here is the analysis of the brewha wagon I promised (other than the case on Drain Bead.:()
Chronos of blessed memory pointed out brewha’s lie at post 536. At that time, the voting was very spread out; Pleonast led with only three votes, and six others were tied with two. Then, the pile-on began.
crys75 claimed shortly thereafter and attracted voters; at one point, she actually led brewha 8-7. Then, seven people piled onto brewha in pretty short order:raventhief, paulwhoisaghost, Khameleon, Lakai, Hooker Chemical, Meeko, and Toejam.
Here’s the Mod votecount at post 866, about 16 1/2 hours before EoD:
Pleonast (2 votes) – Lightfoot (288), Thing Fish (297)
PLAYERS WITH ONE VOTE:
ToeJam (Idle Thoughts – 32); Hockey Monkey (Hoopy Frood – 665); Texcat (Plumpudding – 68); Thing Fish (Pleonast -121); Chronos (Nanook – 151); sachertorte(brewha - 806); snfaulkner(1)(koldanar -819)
Just after that, this dialogue begins: (the very first quoted post is actually from paulwhoisaghost around 699)
jsgoddess nicely explains why this makes no sense:
This makes no sense at all. A hypothetical Townie holding the other Batman switch would somehow know that the other switch was held by scum, and know to counterclaim:confused:
I explore the question further (snipped):
Then,** Biotop** quotes my post and begins the eleventh-hour evacuation from the** brewha** and crys wagons and onto ToeJam. I agree with everything he said here, and judging from the vote shift it was a widespread sentiment.
I have bolded the part which, IMO, is the major reason people decided lynching** brewha** was a bad idea.
It is my theory that scum realized this earlier than we did, and embraced the** brewha** lynch wagon. I’m sure many of the 17** brewha** voters in the vote count above were Town, but I’m betting scum are overrepresented there, and I imagine I will be voting within that group Today. I am especially suspicious of those who hung back at first and then jumped on** brewha** when the** crys** wagon looked like a serious threat: raventhief, paulwhoisaghost, Khameleon, Lakai, Hooker Chemical, Meeko, and Toejam.
paul aggressively confronts Biotop about his vote switch:
This makes no sense. Biotop doesn’t want** brewha** to be lynched, so he should…vote for brewha?
A bit later, sachertorte claims Lutha. Again,** paul’s** only response to this development is to view it as a threat to the** brewha** lynch which he is clearly very invested in.
I think paul comes out of this looking pretty scummy, but at least he isn’t lurking, so I’ll hold off on the vote for now.