Thing Fish
I am going to focus a lot on the posts of Thing Fish during Day1, probably more so than any other player. I am doing this because I don’t know exactly what to make of it all, and I hope others will comment. I do not want to make the same “conspiracy theory” mistake I made with septimus on Day1. Indeed, perhaps instead of reading all this, folks could reread all the Day1 posts now that we know JSexton was a wolf, and that Chronos would be their first night target. My choices below are cherry-picked, and I quite acknowledge Thing Fish made many very helpful and insightful comments on Day1 and indeed throughout this game.
Post #232: Disagrees with JSexton on whether Chronos said we should engineer a tie.
Post #240: Says “sorry” to JSexton and votes for Chronos. He is the first to do so.
Posts #244, 245, 247, 275: All helpful posts analyzing the tie-breaker. Makes many more such posts on Day 1.
Post# 277: Thing Fish is praised by JSexton for his analysis and awarded “townie points.”
Post #321: Analyzes the dispute between Chronos and JSexton over snipped posts. Comes down on Chronos’ side. Though there are dashes of accusations against Chronos here as well.
Post #346: JSexton unvotes Chronos based on the obvious fact that the various rigged tie-breaking plans are pro-town.
Post #352: Thing Fish reasonably appeals to storyteller to change the tie-breaking rule.
Posts #373, #376, #377, #381: He still believes Chronos is scum despite the vote rigging plan, though he believes my original plan had “real advantages.” Defends JSexton against suspicions of Jimmy Chitwood.
Post #398: Unvotes Chronos and votes for himself in septimus organized tie-breaker.
Post #422: Nice post analyzing the tie breaker and why it would be good on Day1. Pro-Town.
Post #433: Votes for** Sario** for several reasons, including that he “smudged” Plumpudding.
Post #464: Declares that he believes septimus and I are town, but is *still *unsure of Chronos.
Post #591: Returns and unvotes Sario, then votes for TexCat.
No more posting until the end of Day1
Post #715: The “Clusterfuck” Post. Very interesting and full of helpful information. This took time to create and is very well thought out. On the other hand, if we believe that TexCat is Town as is septimus, then the whole horrible ending of day 1 is just a huge town screw-up with wolves laughing at us. And I think that’s what we believe now, isn’t it? That said, at the time I thought much of what Thing Fish was posting here was dead-on and that TexCat was wolf. So how can I fault **Thing Fish **for thinking that?
Post #717: Can’t argue at all with Thing Fish’s very negative response to Plumpudding’s ill-advised “exhilerating” comment. I was disturbed by it too.
Post #718: Precambrianmollusc votes for Thing Fish because of the “protect septimus” comment. There is some back and forth on this topic involving several players.
Post #753: JSexton praises Thing Fish for “quality” Post#715.
Post #793: JSexton weighs in on the 'protecting septimus" commentary and indirectly defends Thing Fish.
Post #893: Thing Fish defends JSexton.
Post #991: Votes for JSexton after the Bayard reveal. No hesitation.
Posts #1031, #1032: I agree with most of the thinking here, except for the part about Jimmy Chitwood and Prof. Pepperwinkle being suspicious.
Post #1038: Good analysis of** JSexton**'s praising of his “Clusterfuck” posting.
Post #1042: Says we should be cautious in interpreting JSexton’s posts. He is right, of course.
Post #1114: The Plumpudding accusation, well thought out —though I currently believe it too be wrong.
Posts #1126, #1127: These seem a bit over the top and not in keeping with the usual reasoned Thing Fish posts. See, I just don’t believe **Plumpudding ** simply copied his “supposed” PM off storyteller’s post #50. Sure Plum could have, but once he saw how easy it is to do (if he was indeed wolf), I don’t think he would have thought he could just slip that past us and we’d just say “OK.” But I sure can see Plum posting his PM as a “proving” defense without realizing it could be copied from post #50. Plum’s play has been a lot of things, but I don’t think I would call it “crafty.”
I have been dreading all day trying to sum up my feelings on Thing Fish. His case pro or con is the hardest of all for me to read. I am disturbed by all the praising from JSexton and some mutual defending. But on the other hand, Thing Fish has been a prolific player never timid to post as I imagine many wolves might be. Thing Fish has been wrong at times (as have I and others) but he is not afraid to admit when he has been wrong.
There are so many other Thing Fish posts to go over, and they are almost always reasoned and usually seem sincere. I want to be fair to Thing Fish because I know I tended to point out here what seem to me are the more problematic posts while not commenting on many good ones. JSexton is probably too smart a player to praise another wolf so much --though Thing Fish is the player most praised by our known wolf and I gotta say it does bug me. Maybe JSexton just wanted to get on the good side of a smart town player in Thing Fish. I never mentioned the posts where Thing Fish is suspicious of Cygnus42 after Cygnus’ last second attempt to save septimus. I think Cygnus is very likely town and I am hard-pressed to see this action as suspicious. I only wish I could have unvoted septimus in time.
As Thing Fish said about me in post #715, I will now say about him: “Who the hell knows.”
Verdict: Undecided
