Nope, I’m afraid I just got ordinary rancher.
But if you think about it, it does make sense that it’s not that easy. If it was so reliable, the game would be pretty easy. Maybe it’s just being put in to stir up trouble. I don’t know. I do know that if my death will help you guys to figure out what I am that it’ll be helpful in the long run, even though I don’t want another town death.
One follow-up thought.
If FS is indeed another vanilla Rancher, then I think we should re-think our strategy pretty significantly on the Testerizer. As the rules say,
One possibility I hadn’t previously considered is that it gives a random different result, except for wolves. Thus, you’d have to test two wolves to get a real result, and otherwise it acts in a confusing way (that we wouldn’t work out too early on). It’s called the Werewolf Testerizer anyway; there’s no assurances it would pick out Farmers or Ranchers at all.
NETA: the “it” in my last post refers to the Testerizer.
Sigh. I had this nice post planned out and everything for why I thought Freudian Slit was a waste of a Test, but now this.
Vote Freudian Slit
I’m going to make my post anyway. I may be confused, but it seems most of the votes against Freudian Slit were driven by the fact that she had a middling number of posts (indicative of running with the herd/flying under the radar/hiding her scummitude) and that she supported Daphne Black, a player who reads as scummy to some because of her high number of posts (most in the thread after the GM), and her… helpfulness and sound advice. Yeah, real scummy, that Daphne Black.
People seemed to read this as werewolf Freudian Slit covering for her fellow scum Daphne Black. This didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. If Ms. Slit was covering for Black, shouldn’t we try to test/lynch Black? The whole hypothesis rests on Black being scummy. Why is one more preferable than the other?
Um, and some other stuff, but I’ve been trying to post this for the last 2 friggin’ hours, so I’ll just have to come back.
Oh, I did that wrong, didn’t I?
Unvote Seeker of Truth & Beauty
Vote Freudian Slit
Well, no offense FS, but I’ll believe you after you hang. I’m very much hoping my interpretation of your posts is correct. In the interests of everyone, though, what are your final thoughts? Who do you believe should be our vote for tomorrow?
That’s a very good point.
For obvious reasons, I stand by my earlier vote… and even feel a little vindicated.
So far Elendil’s Heir, I thought was kind of off for not posting enough and for being really quick to “me too” me. But then I found a post of his from last Night when he was saying how he was relieved to not have been eaten before night had even ended. Which makes me think he’s not a wolf, or he’d know, so he’s just a noob who forgot how things work. (Or he’s a super, super clever wolf trying to hide his tracks, but it feels more like a noob town error.)
I also think that Seeker going after first Daphne and then me for supporting Daphne was odd. I just think he was a little trigger happy. Perhaps trying to deflect some suspicion. And I still don’t think that Daphne is scum. If she is, I’ll be really surprised and actually kind of impressed.
Damn, I never considered this at all. It’s not surprising because the Testerizer isn’t supposed to be very powerful so there had to be some glitch. If that is the case I don’t see any reason to change our plans. We keep running the Days from Wednesday to Wednesday and test the biggest scum in the pond. Eventually we will figure out the testerizer, or not, but it doesn’t matter because we are still lynching the consensus scum.
I’m also sorry it has to end this way, but you guys do need to figure out the Testerizer. And if you don’t kill me, we’re going to have had a huge waste of a Test. So I guess the plan from here on out should be treat all testers as potential scum, and try not to test someone unless you’re really sure they were already a werewolf. Which was kind of the plan already, I suppose.
I just hope my death will prevent future town deaths.
That is a good point. I’m just wandering what the second color would represent in this case. If FS is townie and the Testerizer is random for all values townie, then green, red, aqua, and teal are all Not-Wolf colors. If FS is wolf and the Testerizer is random for all values townie, then either aqua or teal is wolf, but which one, and what does the other represent?
Nevermind my mutterings. I’d really like to meet this contraption’s developer. Probably the same brains behind Microsoft Vista (I kid, I kid!).
Freudian Slit (9): Fluiddruid, Elendil’s Heir, Rexnervous, Jimmy Chitwood, Oredigger77, DaphneBlack, [Undecided] Adrian, Mahaloth, Ichini Sanshigo
Yeah, I hadn’t even considered the possibility that it would just code for townsperson vs wolf. Or that indeed the only distinct result could be wolf.
In either case it does seem that it would have to give something distinctive for the wolves. Therefore, I see now, we’ve got to keep with the plan, regardless of whether FS comes up rancher or wolf. My moment of panic has passed somewhat.
On another note,
Has Zeriel even posted in this thread toDay?
I was voting for strategic reasons, not because I thought Freudian was the best overall candidate (note my initial vote for Daphne). If you were moving away from Seeker (I was working under the incorrect assumption that I had misremembered the time voting ended), then the situation might have change. Also note that I didn’t vote for anyone else, I was moving into a wait and see posture.
Given the test I think we have to go after Freudian.
lynch Freudian Slit
Wait…what if the scientist is a wolf? We’re doomed!
I updated Scuba’s doc, for those who are referring to it.
As far as Testerizer colors, don’t forget (though unlikely) that the code may be based on something other than just the actual color representation. For example, it occurred to me that either the # of letters in the color, or the first letter of a color, might be the code.
But it doesn’t seem that’s the case.
Now, off to our primary focus here on out, which is Hunt. The. Scum.
Or colorblind 
I have to say, I would be awfully surprised if Slit comes up anything other than rancher at this point.
Should we start testerizer analysis(so to speak) now, or wait until we learn the truer idenity of Freudian? By “testerizer analysis”, I mean discussing the significance of Slit being a normal rancher and yet producing different results than our first lynching?
Wolves are like dogs. And dogs are colorblind, after all!