OK, well since we are in a weird limbo and the day doesn’t seem to really be over, how about some light discussion.
I would like to hear what sachertorte thinks of the list he posted. The people he was surprised that had posted and the people he thought had posted a lot but had low post counts.
It’s going to be individual, but this sort of list thing without analysis can be dangerous, but with analysis might be a very useful tool.
Sorry, I didn’t have access to the internet yesterday like I expected to to end they day, and I won’t have time to do it until later today. So, even though I had pretty much decided not to extend the day, since I don’t see any reason to have everyone sitting around waiting for me, so consider this an extension until 5:00 PM today, and I’ll end it about then.
I was up at the crack of dawn checking and refreshing this page. And now that we all have the go ahead, I’m going to hold my vote off for now because I’m curious and hoping to get some clarification or a better explanation from Kat.
Not no suspicions at all, just that at the time I posted, I was planning on going over the thread again before I voted.
I never mentioned him at all? Are you sure? Have you actually read all my posts?
Because Mal was the first person I FOSed in my very first post (how could you miss it? I claimed that I was “judy boggled” at the time!). Was I supposed to every so often mention “Oh, I still suspect Mal.” or was the fact that I never retracted the FOS sufficent?
The most innocuous reason I could think of at the time of that first post for the garbled explanation was trying to hide that it was a random vote, but why someone would think that was better than just admitting it was random was beyond me.
I acknowledged the tie in post 1276, after (e.i. “subsequent to”) posting my vote. And like I said previously, “I’m not voting for Mal just to break the tie.” sounded fishy to me no matter how I worded it (I typed it out 4 times, and each time it sounded worse), so I just deleted the sentence. I figured everyone could see for themselves that it was a tie vote.
If you wanna know the truth, I was on at 7 am yesterday (Central Time) and put off voting for Malacandra then, because that would have brought he and I into a tie vote at that time and I wanted to read through the thread again if I could before I voted, just to make sure there wasn’t anybody else I could find more suspicious activity on. Because I was sure that if I caused the tie, somebody would jump all over me. Unfortunately, I was dragged out to breakfast, and then I had people over (and they weren’t exactly happy with me checking the internet in the middle of playing the longest Scrabble session in the county, either). Then I had the choice of voting for a person I’d felt suspicious of since my first read-through, or not voting. I decided that the not voting would be worse.
Even without having re-read the thread, I still had the notes I’d already taken, and since I’d already posted being suspicious of Malacandra, long before the voting got close, I decided I could take any lumps over the tie-breaking if I was wrong. Never occurred to me someone would claim I’d never brought up being suspicious of Mal at all.
As for now, since the day got extended, I have the time to look through the thread like I had hoped to yesterday. If I find something more suspicious than Malancandra’s explanation of his vote for zuma, I’ll let you know.
Hi everyone,so sorry for disappearing the last 10 days or so…I was called away…havent checked to see if I have been replaced yet,but was in contact with BM a few days ago and he said I might still be here when I got back in town…so I will read through the thread and check back in later, if I haven’t been replaced.Sorry again.
On top of that, I mentioned during the discussion with sachertorte not understanding why he didn’t find Mal’s vote scummy, so I technically did bring up still being suspicious of Mal’s vote and explanation, in addition to the original FOS. I listed sachertorte’s defense of the explanation as one of the reason’s I was voting for him in post 1124, then indicated that I didn’t understand why he didn’t find the explanation scummy in my response to his defense (post 1170), and repeated that in my unvote of sachertorte in post 1183. How many of my posts before the Malacandra vote did you actually read, Idle Thoughts?
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If I survive this Day: I used up the last of my narcotics this morning, so I should stop having so many egregious typos after today.
I’ve been reading them thus far and even went back and read them all again right now. You DO say you’re suspicious of him at the start, but you also do that with four other people, one of whom you vote for (sachetorte) and later on unvote when you make the reply I quoted in one of my last posts (how you need to find someone else to vote for). It was just something in the way you said that and how you put it that seemed off.
What about one of the two others you put "FOS"s on at the start of toDay? Again, you seemed to have more than one…but as the Day went on and is now ending, you seemed to focus first on sach and then on Mal with the other two just being forgotten.
I dunno, how I read it all it just seems like, to me, that you singled Mal out for the sole purpose of saving your own neck…although you claim that’s not the case. But let’s not forget something that, so far, MANY people have pointed out…and that being on Day One, your predacessor, AZteach was almost put in the noose too, but then was saved by a bevy of votes against Mtgman. Had you not put in your vote on Mal, toDay would have either ended as a tie (and you’d be more in danger of being dunked), or someone could have easily come along and put an extra vote on you had the Day been extended (which it was). Therefore I just see your vote on him as being a saving your own neck one, although you say it’s not. And since this is not the first time this has happened (all the people pointing this out to be the case on Day One didn’t really trip anything for me but then again, I didn’t dismiss it either) I’m now noticing more.
I’m puzzled over this and why you’d think it. If anything I’d think more people would jump all over you and find you shady for breaking the tie and casting the killing vote (which you thought you were doing).
But you also mentioned three other names at the beginning and your suspicions thereof of them. Like I said above, combined with your position’s escape on the first Day, it really looks like you’re just targetting him to get out of another close call. If that’s the case, fine, but you just seem to be saying that it’s not (at all) and that just seemed/s off to me. If you are really town and suspicious of him, I’d think you’d use this reason in your vote. If you are scum, well, then what you’re claiming would, of course, be something you’d say.
At the time, two, but then I went back and reread all of the earlier stuff, which didn’t change my puzzlement or radar hits from you much since you also had "FOS"s out on others.
So all of it combined, the escape the first day and about to have another, the no-mention of any of the other suspicions you had and making it really easy to dunk Mal (who JUST HAPPENED to be tied with you), and just the way you worded things before you voted and when you did made me pause.
And lastly, there was this, which you just said:
Bolding mine.
NOW you say that and put it that way…yet before, when you and I didn’t know if there’d be an extention, it was:
Bolding and correction mine.
Here you don’t seem to think there isn’t any possiblity that you won’t be around come the Dawn.
Forgetfulness? Or slip-up?
Dangit, forgot to include vote Kat
Er…because at the time I posted that, I was assuming there was no extension, and that everything after the assumed cutoff time was moot, including your unvote. At the time of the later “if I survive” post, it was tied again, thus even if no other votes changed, there was a 50/50 shot of me dying.
Exactly. But by that point, I’d decided to bite the bullet and take the flak. Which I explicitly said in the part of my post that you quoted right after this comment. I’ll even repeat it below.
blinks It’s suspicious that I focused on the people I found most suspicious?
By my clock it’s two PM, which means it’s five PM Blaster’s time. So I’ll just reply to this…
It doesn’t matter, in either case, you seemed sure you’d be around for the Dawn, and thus have survived the Night.
I don’t see how your explanation there covers how or why you said what you did and seemed sure you’d be around for the next Dawn at all. Like I said, maybe forgetfulness, maybe a slip-up. With everything that I pointed out that was combined against you, in my mind, I gave a bit more weight to slip-up and voted accordingly.
Okay, I’m checking in. I’m really sorry about the delay this weekend. I’m going to count the votes up now and post the end of Day presently.
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I would like to hear what sachertorte thinks of the list he posted. The people he was surprised that had posted and the people he thought had posted a lot but had low post counts./QUOTE]
Ugh.
I thought I didn’t have time to write up a full out post regarding the list I made. I posted it shortly before what was supposed to be the end of the day. Now I see that the day didn’t really end and I could have posted more, but I didn’t know the day didn’t end so I didn’t.
And now the day has ended.
Ugh.
This just isn’t a good weekend… the internet went out and just came back on. I’m going to post the Day end now.
There were a total of 24 out of 28 votes cast.
** Kat (repl. ArizonaTeach) ** (6) - Fretful Porpentine, Autolycus, SnakesCatLady, Kyrie Eleison, Scuba_Ben, Idle Thoughts
** Malacandra ** (5) - Pleonast, fluiddruid, sachertorte, Hal Briston, Kat
** fluiddruid ** (3) - Zeriel, NAF1138, Pasta
** sachertorte ** (2) - Nava, MHaye
** Autolycus ** (1) - Captain Klutz
** DiggitCamara ** (1) - HazelNutCoffee
** Fretful Porpentine ** (1) - Hockey Monkey
** Hal Briston ** (1) - Queuing
** Hockey Monkey ** (1) - storyteller0910
** MHaye ** (1) - USCDiver
** MonkeyMensch ** (1) - DiggitCamara
** Pleonast ** (1) - FlyingCowOfDoom
** Voter - Action - Votee - Post **
** Pleonast ** - Vote - ** Malacandra ** - 1004
** fluiddruid ** - Vote - ** Malacandra ** - 1031
** FlyingCowOfDoom ** - Vote - ** Pleonast ** - 1038
** Fretful Porpentine ** - Vote - ** Kat ** - 1064
** Pasta ** - Vote - ** SnakesCatLady ** - 1081
** sachertorte ** - Vote - ** Malacandra ** - 1119
** Autolycus ** - Vote - ** Kat ** - 1120
** Kat ** - Vote - ** sachertorte ** - 1124
** Pasta ** - Unvote - ** SnakesCatLady ** - 1127
** Pasta ** - Vote - ** MHaye ** - 1127
** Queuing ** - Vote - ** Hal Briston ** - 1141
** SnakesCatLady ** - Vote - ** Kat ** - 1142
** DiggitCamara ** - Vote - ** MadTheSwine ** - 1146
** NAF1138 ** - Vote - ** fluiddruid ** - 1148
** ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies ** - Vote - ** Kat ** - 1154
** DiggitCamara ** - Unvote - ** MadTheSwine ** - 1160
** DiggitCamara ** - Vote - ** MonkeyMensch ** - 1160
** Kyrie Eleison ** - Vote - ** Kat ** - 1166
** Idle Thoughts ** - Vote - ** Malacandra ** - 1167
** ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies ** - Unvote - ** Kat ** - 1171
** NAF1138 ** - Unvote - ** fluiddruid ** - 1175
** Kat ** - Unvote - ** sachertorte ** - 1183
** Zeriel ** - Vote - ** fluiddruid ** - 1200
** NAF1138 ** - Vote - ** fluiddruid ** - 1208
** Hockey Monkey ** - Vote - ** Fretful Propentine ** - 1215
** Scuba_Ben ** - Vote - ** Kat ** - 1233
** storyteller0910 ** - Vote - ** Hockey Monkey ** - 1252
** HazelNutCoffee ** - Vote - ** DiggitCamara ** - 1254
** Pasta ** - Unvote - ** MHaye ** - 1255
** Pasta ** - Vote - ** fluiddruid ** - 1255
** Nava ** - Vote - ** sachertorte ** - 1256
** MHaye ** - Vote - ** sachertorte ** - 1263
** Captain Klutz ** - Vote - ** Autolycus ** - 1264
** Hal Briston ** - Vote - ** Malacandra ** - 1267
** USCDiver ** - Vote - ** MHaye ** - 1268
** Kat ** - Vote - ** Malacandra ** - 1273
** Idle Thoughts ** - Unvote - ** Malacandra ** - 1281
** Idle Thoughts ** - Vote - ** Kat ** - 1309
crosses fingers fidgits
It had been another long day of accusations and pointing fingers. Yet, by the end of the day, there remained two suspects in the town’s search for the cultists, the befuddling Malacandra and the mad Kat. By the time the final bell struck at the end of the day, it had seemed as though it would be Malacandra who would face the long walk off the short plank into the sacred water of Nairu. But just as he was being led up, one citizen noted aloud that though day light savings had been some time ago, in fact someone had forgotten to set the all important town clock. Quickly, the moment was seized and accusations flew once again as just enough suspicion was switched from Malacandra to Kat, it ended up being her neck on the line this time. Shackled and as she was led up the steps, she resolved not to go quietly as she was pushed into the pool, and yet did not sink to a simultaneous gasp.
Anxiety arose over the town; had they foolishly again convicted someone other than a cultist? No there could not be more than one Non-Believer, surely the light of Nairu was ever present and quickly the town turned on her. Savagely, she was pulled from the water, and dragged; her body nearly torn apart by the citizens as she was tied to the stake where only the day before Mtgman had been burned. A grimmace crossed the face of even the stoic executioner as her desperate pleas became a blood curdling scream as her flesh was consumed in the flame… and then the silence.
In her remains was found a small talisman, a chain with a seven pointed star of fine silver. It was the symbol of Sekham.
Kat, a Cultist has been burned at the stake.
The Night will end at 9:15 PM on Tuesday, or when all Night instructions have been received.
Damn you, followers of Nairu! shakes fist fruitlessly in the direction of the townsfolk
We got one!
Who’s buying the first round?
Hey, I can go eat nachos in the Forbidden Thread now! (The Word of Nairu prohibits nachos, so I can’t share, sorry :p)
maliciously turns all the alcohol into water as she leaves