Sorry that I didn’t get time to post yesterday. Work and family are tricky to balance this time of year.
I’ve put together a Google doc with everyone’s Dossier. I’m still missing a few. I’ll go back through the thread and do a more thorough search. (On preview, Hockey has out-done me. Great job!)
zuma, thanks that you trust me, but trust lists haven’t worked so well in the past. Scum like to use them as target lists (taking out the Townies that people trust). Scum will also publish their own trust lists to try to gain the confidence of Townies (oh, he trusts me, he must be on my side) or bring down Townies when they go down. Better to avoid using trust lists altogether. Mistrust lists are useful, of course.
About delaying the end of the Day: as a game mod, I would never extend the Day, but I used firm-fixed end points in my game. Flexible end points are too easy to game. But since our handsome moderators have given themselves some flexibility, I don’t see any harm in begging for an extension.
We’ve kind of screwed ourselves by concentrating too much on the Dossiers, which is why I advocated everyone throwing them out quickly. They’re not going to help us immediately; we simply needed them on the record quickly so the Scum couldn’t manipulate them. I suggest we concentrate on picking our lynch target now, and do analysis later.
For the moment, I’m going to
vote Hal Briston
for encouraging everyone to post their Dossier, while conveniently keeping for his last. And no explanation of his “secret”.
On preview: he’s revealed now. But his explanation really bugs me. faith made a bad “slip”. I’m not sure about his alignment, but I’ll give the benefit of a doubt at this point. I’m not going to meta-game about Mtgman’s reply. For now, faith has an extra mark of suspicion, but not enough for a Day one vote. Yes, I’m soft-hearted to newbies.
But then Hal says faith is truthful about the Dossier. He claims it’s because he knows his Dossier. No one else’s, only faith’s. Well, because of the set up with this game, I’m extremely suspicious of any claims of perfect knowledge. Their aren’t supposed to be any power roles, so the only players with extra knowledge should be the Scum.
So I see three scenarios:
- Hal is Town and telling the truth. This doesn’t say anything about faith’s alignment, since some Scum may decide to tell the truth. A very strange secret. I’m inclined to disbelieve.
- Hal is Scum and clumsily trying to “save” fellow Scum faith. While I wouldn’t expect Scum to do something so blatant, it could be a great bluff because no one would expect Scum to do it.
- Hal is Scum and is trying to WIFOM with Townie faith. Playing off the obvious and risky option 2, Hal is trying to play games with us. He builds our confidence in faith (and faith’s confidence in him). If we do lynch him, that confidence is likely to lead us to faith who already has a strong scum tell (which explains why Hal picked faith to target).
Overall, I’m happy with my vote on Hal.
On second preview: I got to stop typing and post at some point. 