So I’m dying to know – what was the rationale behind trying to recruit me? (I haven’t been able to access the scum boards.) In return, I bring you:
The Priest’s Tale
I decided early on that I was going to try to outguess the scum rather than self-protecting. In retrospect, this may have been a mistake, but then again, it was more fun, and that’s kind of the point, isn’t it?
I self-protected on the first two nights, since I had no idea who was scum and who wasn’t.
On the third night, I protected Hockey Monkey since she was the only lead I had.
The next day, after the Oracle was killed, I went into a flurry of note-taking and re-reading, trying to find the Apprentice. And I almost – ALMOST – got it right that night. My two top picks were SnakesCatLady and USCDiver, both of whom caught my eye when they “shouted out” Hal’s name in apparent fluff posts shortly after he made his “Yo, Oracle, over here” post. SCL made several impassioned pleas for people to stop talking about Oracle / Apprentice stuff on Day 1, which made me think she might be the Apprentice; on the other hand, USCD made a couple of comments about how he wanted to wait for his scumdar to improve before he committed himself, which SCREAMED Apprentice to me. Then, too, USCD expressed moderate suspicions of MHaye at the end of Day 2 and reiterated them, much more strongly, at the beginning of Day 3, so I thought MHaye might be someone he had investigated overnight.
So I protected USCD, and damn, did I want to smash my head against the keyboard in the morning. I protected him on Nights 5 and 6, too, and when there was no kill on Night 6 I was SURE I had executed a successful block. (Which I had, in a sense, but I got way too cocky because I thought I knew what happened, and I was very wrong.)
On Night 7, I had a dilemma. USCD had made a post which made it clear that he did not know all the rules surrounding the Apprentice role, so I decided there was no way he was really the Apprentice. However, if I had blocked him, the scum might be under the impression that he was the Priest or Disciple instead, and try to kill him again. OTOH, I thought he was a citizen, and I figured we could lose a citizen more easily than we could lose a power role, so I decided to protect one of the exposed power roles. I didn’t think the scum would go after the Martyr if they didn’t know what he did, and I didn’t think they’d go after the Disciple because they’d figure he would be self-protecting. That left Hockey Monkey and Zeriel. I went with HM because I was hoping to prevent a recruitment (I did not think the scum had recruited on Night Six, but I thought for sure they’d be thinking of recruiting the Alchemist now that there had been so much talk about it.)
I should, of course, have self-protected, but it hadn’t even occurred to me that they might have tried to recruit me on the previous night. I knew for sure that they hadn’t tried to kill me, since I hadn’t been self-protecting, so I thought I was under deep cover.
So yeah, in retrospect I did almost nothing right, but at least I got to use my power for good 
You read Night Nine yet fully at the scum boards? 
