YAY! I lived and can post this!!! I put several hours of work into it. First off, a salute to zuma, may you rest in peace my friend.
As promised, I investigated Fern Forest last night. After I got my ID, I went back and scoured his posts, and after looking at his posts with fresh eyes, I think I got the correct ID on him.
:::cue music from Psycho shower scene:::
Fern Forest is the Serial Killer
:::cue thunder and lightning:::
Go back and read these posts with fresh eyes, and see if you agree. Taken one by one, they don’t amount to a whole lot, but take them all together and you see a pattern. (I will allow for the fact that I could be completely wrong here.)
Post #376
[QUOTE=Fern Forest]
The Serial Killer’s goal should be to rid the town of Mafia first. A Mafioso majority will insure them victory and him loserdom. If only the town plus the SK is left then he had a hope of being the last alive in a town where the streets run red with blood. Tough job but I hope he does well, just not great. There should be no reason to claim SK since doing so would mean you lose. You don’t get to claim town or mafia victory, you have only your own victory to shoot for.
The vigilante’s goal should also be to rid the town of Mafia first. Then once they are gone, find and kill the SK for Town victory. If he kills the SK too early we’re left with 1 town kill versus 1 mafia kill rather then 3 to 1. A vigilante could claim. Who they attack that night would still go through even if they die. And they could hope to have the doctor protect them giving the town basically two discusable kills per day/night cycle. You know, this could work. Claim and let the town help you decide. Although it’s even better if you keep quiet and the town help you make a decision by talking about who the VG should kill. SK too. If we’re smart we can help direct the three kills. This might help us get even more information by seeing who was urging who else to be killed.
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And the last line from the same post:
[QUOTE=Fern Forest]
Now who to kill? Who to kill? I feel like a kid in a candy shop. Only the kid is Pugsley and the candy is actually candied eyeballs.
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Post #639 Here he tries to steer the Vigilante to kill **Autolycus ** and asks the SK to off Pleonast.
Post #646 He does some analysis on how the SK wins the game.
Post #730 See the pattern developing yet?
Post # 885. Right here he is talking about Autolycus. He asks both the Vig and SK to target him.
Out “stalking” people, eh?
Post #999
BOLDING FOR EMPHASIS
[QUOTE=Fern Forest]
Well,ok then. Almost in the spirit of what I meant but not quite. Can you defend your vote and convince people to agree with you? Well I guess you’re right I do talk a lot. Hasn’t convinced me that I’m scum but then I do know what I am.
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This day has covered a lot of posts. It looks like tempers are starting to flare. And I do talk a lot, I’m sorry. When I die you’ll … well you’ll have a lot of posts to review from this guy who didn’t actually know anymore then you guys do. But wasn’t afriad to push for things he thought would work, despite the enemies it may have made him.
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Post #1123 A little more theory on the SK.
Asking if the Doc will protect Blaster Master or Jsexton.
Telling Blaster Master that he is doomed, and to make his next kill count. Plus another jab at Autolycus.
Talking to the SK again.
More thoughts on the SK.
Post # 1891
[QUOTE=Fern Forest]
Should we ask the Miller to block hocow? Then if there are two kills tonight we’d know a little more.
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He knows full well that a block on **hocow ** won’t stop a SK kill, but he could choose not to kill and “confirm” **hocow ** as the SK.
Suggests the miller block **hocow ** again.
Post #1911 Talking to the SK again. See the pattern?
Seemingly fixated on the SK wouldn’t you say?
Suggests SK and Vig attacks…again.
Suggests **FCOD ** is the SK AFTER we know he is either Mafia or Miller per my investigation.
And finally… this.
Of course, please draw your own conclusions from this evidence.
I stumbled upon quite a bit more in my re-read and heavy analysis of the thread. I think I know who the other Beat Cop is, so I will watch for your clues. Maybe we can work together without having to out you.
Do you want to know who the Godfather is? I am pretty sure I’ve figured it out and can provide all my reasoning to go along with it, but someone suggested I don’t reveal power roles except the serial killer. I know not to reveal a mason, or doctor, or GA, or miller, but dontcha wanna know who the GF is? :::biting at the bit to tell:::
Also, for future consideration, we need to look closely at Lakai as mafia. He tried to derail the Suburban Plankton lynch train in post #2194. I noticed this when re-reading.