OK, Chapter Two. I haven’t caught up with the thread since posting last night, so I apologize for ignoring any questions…I’ll get to them after Dawn…I hope…
When we left off, Nanook had just voted SG to put him into a 5-2 lead over Angel and Chronos. Then Mahaloth unvoted…I addressed this in yesterday’s post. Then I (post 217) voted for Angel while being very critical of the Spurious bandwagon. So all of a sudden it’s back to 4-3.
Then there’s no voting for quite a while…most of Page Six consists of me and ed arguing with Angel. I would encourage you all to go back and re-read those interactions.
I would like to note the conduct of Freudian Slit at this point. Although she kept her vote parked on Chronos all day (based on the impeccable reasoning that he was “being weird” and “stirring the pot too early”), she made many drive-by comments (including 218, 257, and 263, for example) expressing the belief that voting to execute was a very bad thing, but that editing was not necessarily anti-Town. IOW, seems like she was trying to steer votes away from Angel toward Spurious without actually putting her own vote on the record. I’m moderately suspicious of her for this.
In post 304, Angel votes Spurious to take it to 5-3. She says that she was reacting to Spurious’ vote to execute, and indeed she had already cast one vote (for me) based on that same logic, so that’s consistent. I imagine it may have also crossed her mind that she would probably get lynched if Spurious didn’t, and of course self-preservation is always a null tell. So although I remain very suspicious of Angel, this vote doesn’t increase my suspicion level at all.
Comes then Captain Pinkies to take it to 6-3, based on executing. Moderate suspicion based on timing.
At this point the writing is pretty much on the wall… It’s hard to know what to make of the players who came on to add their votes to a stack that pretty clearly didn’t need them. The simplest and likeliest explanation is that they just took a while to make up their minds and honestly decided Spurious was the scummiest candidate (and I don’t think we can repeat too often that in this game, just because someone spends their Days sincerely hunting scum doesn’t mean that they themselves are NOT scum!). Another possibility is self-preservation; they may have hoped that by going along with the crowd, they could avoid drawing attention on Day Two. This is better play for scum than town, but still very much something town might do.
So ordinarily I wouldn’t have much to say about these last few votes, but two of them are notably weird.
350: Meeko votes for Spurious, the only voter to offer no explanation whatsoever! We know it couldn’t have had to do with his vote to execute, since Meeko himself had earlier voted to execute. And this contrasts so markedly with his original vote for Chronos in post 181, when he practically wet himself trying to justify his vote. It makes me wonder if he might have gotten advice on his vote and/or his posting style…not on this board but, y’know, somewhere else. Moderate suspicion.
Telcontar had earlier voted for Ed, based on his being overaggressive in his pursuit of Angel (a criticism which, though I obviously didn’t feel as strongly about it as Telcontar did, I can certainly see as being reasonable and justified). Now, in post 384…well, I addressed it in post398. He claimes that “the vote is scattered” when it’s 7-3, and he now is somehow forced to choose between two candidates, both of whom he had earlier (see posts 151 and 258) defended…and somehow this is ed’s fault? This just reeks of nervous scum feeling the need to change his vote and straining too hard to justify it. It would be hard to see scum motivation here, since clearly there was no urgent need to move the vote from 7-3 to 8-3 late in the Day…but in his post, Telcontar implies that he thinks the vote is still 4-3. I can’t think why he would lie about that, so I think he probably really was confused. Which means that I should judge him as I would have if he had made that vote with that justification when it really was a close vote. Which means that I think he looks very scummy.
Bear Nenno, vote 9, just subbed in. Basically no suspicion.
Alright, that’s it for today. Sorry, I didn’t have time to go through and bold the names.
//oog// I’m going to see the Dead tonight!! Whee!!! :D:cool:
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