The question I’ve been asking myself since percypercy turned out to be town is why her bandwagon took off when Projammer’s stalled so early. If we believe the Mafia had a hand in solidifying the percypercy bandwagon (which is an assumption I think is correct) then why didn’t they choose the Projammer bandwagon that was already started?
I see a few possibilities:
a) Projammer is scum, and they were ready to jump on the most likely bandwagon so that he wouldn’t be lynched.
b) Projammer is town, but they were scared that it would lead back to them if they bandwagoned him.
c) Projammer is town, and they just didn’t think his bandwagon was as likely as percypercy’s to go the distance.
Starting with option c first, I don’t think this is likely. At the crucial time when votes were falling off of Lightnin’ Projammer had three votes, and was actually a better candidate for the bandwagon. Projammer’s bandwagon had me, NAF1138, and percypercy on it. NAF1138 was controversial, but had also garnered a little trust. They would have also had my and NAF1138’s simul-post analysis of our suspicion for Projammer to fall back on as a defense for why they voted for him. They could also be pretty sure that percypercy, already a little suspected, would take much of the heat. If I were scum and had to choose a townie to bandwagon, and Projammer was town, I would have chosen him.
For option b, I think many of the same arguments as option c apply. The only addition is that a few people had openly voiced suspicion of the Projammer bandwagon. Notably post 449 where Idle Thoughts says this:
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This sudden (seeming) bandwagon on Projammer is opening up new suspicions to me.
I, personally, haven’t seen anything weird with him (her?). I’ve read over all the past posts that people linked too but I just don’t see the intentions that some seem to be attributing to them. Granted people said the same thing about things I found off with fluidruid, so maybe it’s just what one interprets from one’s own POV.
The only odd thing I saw him make was the whole masons will be against townies post that nesta pointed out. Other than that though, nothing hits me.
I’m going to start keeping my eye on his posts more, that’s for sure…but for right now I’m a bit more leery of those suddenly rushing in to vote for him then him himself.
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And in post 452 CaerieD says this:
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Oh…dear. I’m not really sure what I think about the rush against Projammer. It seems a bit out of left field, which makes me think scum, but NAF1138’s points seem solid. The vote just seems so sudden.
I’m hoping there’s going to be some defense from Projammer and more explanation from those casting votes in that direction. After that, I’m a bit suspicious of those three.
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And in post 461 dnooman says this:
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percypercy has only voted for people that other people have voted for, plus there is next to nothing in his/her posts.
The Projammerwagon needs to stop and be inspected IMO.
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So there were a few people who thought the Projammer bandwagon was suspicious and needed to be stopped. We aren’t sure if some of them might be scum, though, trying to halt it before it started. Assuming they were all town for a moment, it might have given the Mafia players pause. I don’t know.
I do keep having to remember that the Mafia wasn’t able to talk and give each other advice before day 1, so each of them was flying blind about what the others were going to do. If Projammer is scum I find it hard to believe that when Lightnin’ was suddenly losing votes that at least one of them wouldn’t have picked the Projammer bandwagon to jump onto, if only to spread out the votes a little and hope to convince other townies to join them.
This is why I think option a, that Projammer is scum, is the most likely, and the Lightnin’ and percypercy bandwagons were just “anyone but Projammer” bandwagons of opportunity.
To refresh everyone’s memory of my original suspicion of Projammer I outlined it in post 443. NAF1138’s voicing of the same suspicions is the next post.
The way yesterday ended has only strengthened my suspicion of Projammer.
Vote Projammer.
