I was hoping Queuing would check in today to hear his defense, but I guess he wasn’t able to make it back to the computer like he hoped he would.
I’ve been contemplating switching my vote so I reviewed some of the posts that originally made me cast it for Queuing in the first place.
I cast it because I think it’s obvious that Menocchio was CaerieD’s breadcrumb, and I remembered Queuing and then Gadarene saying that no, it was Blaster Master. After looking through all CaerieD’s posts, I stand by the fact that the breadcrumb was for trusting Menocchio.
In post 296 she says:
[QUOTE=CaerieD]
Rysto - Not a bad strategy. If everyone starts tossing out their “investigations” it’ll be completely useless until one of the people who’s posted “investigations” has been killed. Once Cops start getting killed, those seemingly useless bits of information will suddenly be a treasure trove.
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This makes me believe that she, the Detective, was endorsing the idea and planned to put her breadcrumbs in her trust/mistrust list. In her very next post (post 326) she posts just such a list, with only one name on each side:
[QUOTE=CaerieD]
Trust: Menocchio.
Distrust: Enfant Terrible. There are just lots of different things that are adding up to make me suspicious. I’m somewhat suspicious of Autolycus, too, but I can’t tell if he’s scum and baiting or just really sadistic.
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We already know Enfant Terrible was a civilian, so that only leaves trusting Menocchio. If she endorsed posting breadcrumbs in trust lists, and then posts one the very next post, it strongly suggests that this was her breadcrumb. She didn’t post anything at all about Blaster Master until post 478:
[QUOTE=CaerieD]
My mistrust of Blaster Master is one of several reasons why I decided against voting for Enfant Terrible. There’s just something a little overly gung-ho there, when there’s no particular reason to be quite that impassioned. It made me think Mafia trying to turn us against one another and so I couldn’t go with his endorsement.
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This isn’t even in the trust list format that she had already endorsed. I don’t think this can be her breadcrumb.
Also of note is that CaerieD didn’t vote for Blaster Master like you might expect from a Detective who knows someone is scum. Instead she voted with Menocchio for sturmhauke. This seems very consistent with her knowing that Menochhio was a civilian. What better way to make sure you aren’t falling into a Mafia bandwagon than to vote with someone you know isn’t on their side?
That’s my argument for why we shouldn’t suspect Blaster Master because of CaerieD’s distrust of him. I can’t decide myself if I entirely trust him or not. He could be scum, or maybe he isn’t, but CaerieD’s distrust shouldn’t factor into it at all.
Now on review Queuing didn’t outright say that Blaster Master was the breadcrumb. I think this long, long thread has confused me a little. What he did say about it was in post 581 and post 679, where he says to Blaster Master:
[QUOTE=Queuing]
Yes you are missing something. You were on our fair detective’s mistrust list. You are scum IMO, and must die.
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I didn’t quote post 581 because it was mostly him quoting Blaster Master, but the relevant part worth mentioning is his quote of post 388:
[QUOTE=Blaster Master]
After some more re-reads, here’s another update of who is suspicious to me
Trust: Rysto, Lakai, Storyteller0910, chrisk (but only for today, if he stops posting his investigations, he goes right to my mistrust list)
Mistrust: Enfant Terrible, Queuing, CaerieD, Autolycus, MonkeyMensch
Thus, I would say we should lynch Enfant, the VIG should kill Queuing, and the SK should kill CaerieD.
I have a gut on a couple of the other roles too, but it’s obviously not to our benefit to air those suspicions.
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Queuing then says at the end of post 581 that his vote for Blaster Master was because of the SK comment:
[QUOTE=Queuing]
Either one of these 2 people is fine by me. We lynch either Sturmhauke or Blaster Master.
Since I don’t know how much I will be able to post this weekend (and the growth of this thread), I vote to <attempted color>lynch Blaster Master<attempted color>.
This is because of his SK comment.
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My question to you Queuing is do you still think Blaster Master was CaerieD’s breadcrumb? If so, can you defend that? If you still want to cast doubt that Menocchio was the breadcrumb but don’t have a really good reason I like my vote.