And this is another claim that there’s no useful way to test, right?
I mean, yeah, we could order her to protect two people tonight – the remaining mason and (claimed) beat cop, say – but all that would mean is that the mafia & sk would target others. Because if cowgirl is mafia, they’ll play along to keep us from lynching her tomorrow, and if she’s really the GA then they’d waste their kill going after a protectee.
Heck, even if she’s a vanilla townie – or how about the Serial Killer? – it doesn’t matter, the results the same.
I dunno, I dunno. I don’t think either Brewha or Malacandra is markedly scummy. What to do?
That puts me in the lead. Time for a role claim of my own:
I’m just a townie. I’m no one. You won’t learn anything from my death other than that my suspicions were sincere.
I only got about 25 min to get this changed, but ask yourselves why you are voting for me. I really hope it more than " Meh, he’s in the lead anyway."
Why would I publicly defend and nearly overturn the lynching of MTS if I were mafia? Look back at StarvingbutStrong’s analysis of me.
If my death does go through, reconsider Lakai - he’s scum. I’m also getting the impression that we are all being manipulated by Queuing. Does anyone else get the feeling that he just glosses over accusations with a lot of words? A couple of paragraphs from Aguecheek spawn a 1600+ word response from Queuing. I got about half way through before my brain rationalized that since he wrote so many words, he must be on our side. Actually read his response and make up your own minds. If noticed a trend with him. On the first accusation, he will respond politely and make you think he’s a nice guy. That convinced me to change my vote before. If you accuse him again he gets angry (within the roles of the game, I’m attacking the actor not the real Queuing) and tends to belittle your response and cause you to second guess yourself.
Since I’m the lone voter for Lakai, I’m switching to a horse that’s make beat me to the noose.
I can’t explain that. In part because I had just started the game and was so busy getting my head around everything else I didn’t have headspace to think about protecting anyone. In part because they had all survived so long I had no reason to expect they would all go that night.
Now my regret is huge because I don’t know who I would protect now.
It’s a hard role to have - I wouldn’t know what to do with it under ideal circumstances, which these are not.
You know what bothers me? She’s so busy she couldn’t get around to posting her defense until so late…and now has time to hang around to read and reply to questions. :dubious:
And yet, we’ve agree to believe all claims…and if she IS the GA, she might actually be of use near the end.
So, a very reluctant:
unvote cowgirl
vote Queuing
I have no idea what the counts are. If this ends in a tie, well, fine. Let fate (or random.org) sort it out.
Voting for me, starvingbutstrong? Ok, can I ask why?
Brewha, so I aguecheek attacks me for not answering him and you attack me for answering him? Sigh, it seems like I can’t win. I actually answered aguecheek a couple times, and then he started with the sarcasm. So I gave it back. I only answer the questions given to me, if that causes you to second guess yourself perhaps its because my answers make sense?
With the exception of last night, when I was overwhelmed and still trying to do Kat’s posting history, I answered all questions put to me at my first opportunity to do so.
It takes quite a bit less time to answer questions than to put together a list of someone’s postings.
This morning I was frantically gearing up for our event at 10:30, which is now finished. I will be responding to phone calls all day but will be able to check in periodically.
Please check my recent posting history at the board, you will find I have been extremely quiet lately as opposed to my normal habits, because of my week from hell.
Lynch me if you like; you will be lynching a townie. My strongest suspicions still reside with Malacandra, Pygmy Rugger and Lakai; if I die, please think about them.
Desperation, mostly. It’s suspicious if I don’t vote. It’s suspicious if I vote for someone with a claim. I don’t think either Brewha or Malacandra is scum, so I don’t want to vote for them. It’s unfair to vote for Rysto.
Mostly, I think, because I spent most of the weekend figuring out how you could be mafia and maybe some of that stuck.
I dunno. It’s not based on much of anything. Maybe I should unvote you and vote for myself. Yeah, that would be killing a townie, too, but at least it would be over for me.
I think the day’s over, brewha. I just wanna say that I hope everyone is paying very, very close attention to who is supporting whom right now, and who is fighting for whom right now, which I think is even bigger. If **Malacandra ** is scum, I think the game’s been blown wide open.
Holy crap. I was trying to work through the nine suspects listed in my last substantive post, and all of this happened. What now? I’m not switching my vote to Malacandra, because I don’t think he’s Mafia. I don’t know what to make of brewha; his vote seems to move around an awful lot, but I don’t know if that really signifies anything other than a confused townie.
On balance, I’m sticking with my vote, in the hopes that someone somewhere is paying attention. There’s no one on that list other than Pygmy Rugger that I feel comfortable with right now as a target. I realize that this makes me the damn Libertarian Party again, but this time I’m sticking with my ticket.
I’ll continue looking at everyone else, and post results later or at the beginning of our next Day.
In the meanwhile, what the heck do we do with cowgirl’s role claim? I feel like there’s some way we could use this to our advantage, but I haven’t thought it out enough and there’s so little time. These very late role claims are incredibly frustrating, because they essentially give information out that we have no time to act upon, but that the scum get the whole Night to consider. Crap.
Only thing I have to say about cowgirl’s role claim is that she uses it tonight, using the whole random thing, and hope we get lucky and she blocks someone. Of course we have no way of knowing if she does or not, but for right now I see no other options.