I’m currently reviewing Storyteller’s self-defence posts at the end of Day 2, in the knowledge that he was in fact Good and therefore not out to deceive us.
Post [post=10868530]555[/post].
Storyteller’s belief that Team Evil would not curse a Cleric is founded on an erroneous assumption; the belief that a Cleric cannot cure themselves. They can in fact do so, as the Cleric power description explicitly notes.
An Evil Cleric could easily claim to be Cursed, then “heal” themselves. This would require Team Evil actually not curse that Day; if we have two claimed Curses, we stand back and watch to see who dies, then Disintegrate the survivor the next Day.
Of course, since TDPats is also dead and known to be Good this loses a lot of it’s force.
Post [post=10868630]559[/post].
This is the big one laying out a case against Sachertorte. The meat of the case is this; that Sach (in [post=]525[/post]) misrepresented the case Storyteller made against sinjin in post [post=10848267]216[/post]. Storyteller’s reasoning for voting sinjin was that she “misrepresented Sachertorte’s arguments.” Sach, however, characterised it as “harping on me for my ideas”, whereas that better describes Storyteller’s case against Chucara. This might be a simple slip, or an intentional obfuscation; if the latter, it could be to protect Chucara or smear sinjin.
Then we come to post [post=10868902]574[/post]. In this, Storyteller begs for death and lays out an interesting argument. Not against Sach, but against Hawkeyeop, for claiming that TDPats case against Storyteller was “credible.” I have to say that I disagree with this; the argument is a stretch. It’s convoluted, and it depends on the Curse killing (which cannot be guaranteed; a Cleric could attempt a Cure, and the Orb of Healing, which was then in the Hoard, provides another 1d2 weakened Curses.)
As I already mentioned, one reason Team Evil might not Curse a Good Cleric is that said Cleric can cure himself. A failure of the Curse will pretty much confirm the investigator in the minds of others, and they’ve had their Kill action nullified. (Of course, they could have foregone Cursing and simply said they’d Cursed their Cleric – but they didn’t).
This leaves me somewhat suspicious of both Hawk and Sach. However, I don’t think it’s really advisable to vote right now, as I haven’t considered the case against Hockey Monkey yet.
One other thing I’ve been thinking about is whether it is strategically viable to Disintegrate both candidates. Yesterday, the optimum action was not to disintegrate two players, to play around the possibility that Team Evil might win if we did so. That’s the primary reason I placed no vote; I was watching for shenanigans forcing a tie and was prepared to break it if necessary.
(Which brings up a point. Darth Sensitive did vote to create a tie, and that means he’ll be under the microscope after HM.)
Today, however, Disintegrating both is a viable strategic ploy if we really cannot decide between them. It reduces the risk of losing this Turn, at the cost of throwing away the chance of improving our position.
I now have to reexamine the posts of HM and Sachertorte before voting.
Life is unfair.