CatinaSuit will be taking the place of Malacandra.
The updated player list and an updated vote count will be posted later tonight, because I forgot to bring my spreadsheet to work today.
Hello all,
I will post what I have picked up from following the game shortly
Welcome, CatinaSuit, to our very dysfunctional family. 
hands over baton
Bye Mal, see you next time!
Howdy Catina!
How did you know Mad wasn’t scum?
Good point, how were you certain that Mad wasn’t scum?
We look forward to hearing from you.
Zuma I am also looking forward to hearing from you. Coming after me so hard right at the end of the Day, and now nothing?
Experience.
His behaviour on Day 4 was very similar to the way he acted in the Hispaniola game. At least twice, he did a sort of “fan dance” to try and draw reactions out from the scum. After he made his claim I put two and two together.
I said so in post [post=8797265]1933[/post].
Ok, first up. Here is how I think the current town population stands
5 Cult : Prophet, 4 Cultists (inc. 1 Avatar)
3 Non-believers : Alchemist, 2 non-believer,
1 Special Role: Martyr
7 Town: Disciple, Apprentice, 2 Monks, 3 vanilla town
Current role claims:
Hockey Monkey: Alchemist
Zeriel: Monk
Pleonast: Martyr
Malacandra (aka me): Disciple
All numbers are approximate, only Blaster Master knows if they are accurate, but they seemed to me to fill the criteria for balancing the game out given the people who have been killed. You can work back to get what I think the intial starting point was.
No, I don’t think there are two Alchemists in the town, I couldn’t fit the extra one in and keep a balance between Cultist and Town.
Of course if there are less than 5 Cultists left, then I am not complaining.
In that post, quoted below, you say you’re not sure what it means.
And, if at the time you said that, nobody except himself, Blam, and the scum knew his alignment. Even if he was doing his “fan dance”, as you call it, there’s no reason he couldn’t do it as scum, drawing on your experience and using it against you. This is too big to ignore, and your explanation has not been satisfactory.
Vote MHaye.
Crazy Theory No.1
Having had to catch up on 50 pages of this game, only one thing really caught my eye.
In post #1785 , **Zuma ** remarked on the following from Hal Briston’s postings
If you check the post it goes as follows
To my eyes, this looks like Hal Briston dropping a breadcrumb that Hockey Monkey is a townie and believer, as all Cultists would turn up as non-believer.
However, a few posts later, Hockey Monkey claims to be the Alchemist.
This is a bit of a problem, because if **Hockey Monkey ** is the Alchemist, then she would not turn up as believer. Of course, this leads to one question, why would a townie claim a non-town power role?
Any cultists could claim to be the **Alchemist ** to try and buy a couple more days. The real **Alchemist ** would not want to role claim, as they would then have a target to try and night block although the chances of success are actually pretty low at the moment.
A discussion on two **Alchemists ** would mean that if the original one was killed, then the role-claim could still be argued to be true.
However, only one Cultist would come up town which would be the **Prophet **, so the only conclusion I can find is that **Hockey Monkey ** is the Prophet
I think Hal Briston’s post is the one which pointed him out as the **Oracle ** and got him killed by the Cult and has been swept over afterwards by other Cultists.
So - when all is said and done
vote Hockey Monkey
takes baton
dons ceremonial robe with bullseye on the back
I can totally get behind this, for the reasons I stated earlier.
Anyone who can totally get behind this would have to know that I am not the Prophet by either being the Prophet themselves or a Cultist. I am the Alchemist. My vote goes to Pygmy Rugger.
Zuma I am also looking forward to hearing from you. Coming after me so hard right at the end of the Day, and now nothing?
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Hi, Cupcakes.
I haven’t even left work yet, give it a rest.
Interesting. If this is true then the real alchemist is still out there. I suppose that person would know the Hockey Monkey was scum for sure. So that person would be attempting to block Hockey Monkey every night. Giving a 1/5 (at worst we all think) chance of actually blocking the scum.
So we have 1 night that is unaccounted for. This could be what happened, or the conversion was attempted, or there was no night kill or something else I am not thinking of at this moment.
Here is where I stand. I am not generally in favour in going after people who have role claimed. The role claim proclaims who they are. Once we get to end game what we want is claimed people. Then unverifiable claims get killed one by one hopefully resulting in a believer win.
I grant that the role of the prophet and the ability to convert changes this. So here is what I propose;
Hockey Monkey has volunteered to due the killing. What if we took her up on this offer? We get some sort of consensus vote. Or whomever is in the lead with say 16 hours to go. In all likelihood that person is going to down. So EVERYONE unvotes. I see NO REASON why anyone who was a BELIEVER would be unwilling to do this. Then Hockey Monkey places the death vote on whomever that leading person is.
This could maybe get rid of 2 scum at once. Or it could not, but eventually we will hit the avatar. Hitting that avatar with a highly suspect person who isn’t even a believer who has a role that isn’t that useful doesn’t seem like a giant loss or risk.
What say you all? Of course I realize that this requires actual participation from everyone which has been a problem all game, but really it shouldn’t be hard to come in and unvote at sometime on Thursday. That is all it requires.
One problem I just thought of; the person selected for death will most likely/probably/maybe vote for someone just to tie it up. If/when this happens I volunteer to cast the 2nd vote for that person.
ETA: Oh wow, some more participation from zuma, what an honour.
ETA actually means on preview in my world.
Hi, Cupcakes.
I haven’t even left work yet, give it a rest.
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So touchy!
Anyway I thought you had posted once since Dawn, however that was Zeriel (confirmed after I actually went back and checked). Sorry about that, I look forward to your accusations.
My reasons have to do with my theory of you being recruited. Notice I only quoted the vote in my reply, and none of the “crazy theory”. I can get behind the vote. I never said anything about you being the Prophet as the “crazy theory” suggests, I’ve only talked about you being recruited.
I’m also confused how you say that I would “know you are not the Prophet”, when the “crazy theory” that you think I said I could go along with specifically says you are the Prophet. It just doesn’t make sense.