I knew this was coming (of course) and so I had a few days to think about my response to this.
On the one hand, I can’t really argue the logic to a point. It does make sense to look at me because I did move my vote and for reasons that most people don’t seem to buy. Fine. There’s really not a lot for me to argue other than the fact that I did think MadTheSwine was scummy, but not as scummy as pedescribe. Turns out that’s (likely) not the case, but, in my own defense, I’ll say this.
Why did I ride MadTheSwine so hard for most of the Day? On Day 2, there are an awful lot of possible contenders and I came after him early and repeatedly. He fished about the Detective - I was right about that, at least. Is he supposed to have done so intentionally? If so why wouldn’t I have waited longer to accuse him to see if we could get any slips?
Secondly, let’s look at his role. I’m going to presume by the name that “Lead Assassin” is fairly important. If the opposing team is an “assassins” team, I’m assuming he’s a Godfather equivalent role. There are only two other options that I see.
- Each member got a relatively meaningless but colorful role. I find this unlikely. sachertorte knows that what information he gives us will be most likely carefully considered, if not agonized over. I don’t think he would give a “lead” role who wasn’t “leading” anything.
2.) There are multiple factions on the opposing team and Lead Assassin is leading one of those. Unlikely. We’re looking at 3-5 (likely 3 or 4) scum so multiple groups of scum is extremely unlikely.
So, I’m going to presume that I was right originally in pegging MadTheSwine as Godfather-equivalent. So, therefore, to vote for me (at least on this basis) you will have to assume all of the following:
1.) The scum team decided to fight inwardly amongst themselves early in Day 2. I’ve already argued that this is unlikely. Why draw unneeded attention to team members rather than waiting a bit to see which way the wind is blowing? Plus, this strategy tends not work repeatedly in one game so it makes sense to use it later. Further, with only 3 or 4 likely scum members, why risk 2 so early?
2.) They decided to risk their most powerful role (again, presumably) in this bluff’s most vulnerable role. Why? To give me street cred if he dies? It’s just not worth the risk so early in the game to lose a scum player on Day 2.
So, I just don’t think it makes a whole lot of sense to presume that MadTheSwine and I did this on purpose. Whether or not I changed my vote at the end, I had a role in him being lynched and my vote for the guy wasn’t throwaway - read the thread, I pushed the point repeatedly.
Now, in regards to switching my vote. All I can say is what I said yesterday, I honestly thought I found a reasonably accurate scum tell so I switched my vote. I don’t regret it really because I think the Town could stand to kill me to look back on what happened on Day 2 with a bit more information. Along the same lines I think we might learn something for killing pedescribe. But I’m not quite willing to do so yet. I have to admit that he hasn’t continued to ping me on any level, and recapping my posts was done reasonably fairly. My personal jury is still out, but while I don’t think he’s the worst candidate, I have to presume there’s better information after lynching MadTheSwine.
So, I guess in summary, I’ll cop to this - my judgement apparently wasn’t exceptional because I did change my vote and I allowed myself to be convinced that Mad wasn’t the best target. Given his role, of course, we know that’s wrong, but being wrong doesn’t make me scum.
I’m quite curious however to see how pedescribe turns out role-wise though because I got very little sympathy on my vote which would have been one way to save Mad (and got a few votes myself in the process). I have to wonder what that means. I will say though that I in no way think all of my critics are scum. In fact, for one, the opposite. Knowing he was going down, I sincerely doubt that Mad would have cast attention on another scum player when he said:
I think it’s pretty safe to assume ShadowFacts is town.
I’m working on potential suspects, though I know my voice doesn’t have much credence with the town. Oh well, it might tomorrow. Next post in a few.
