Everyone[Think about this carefully. If I'm scum, where's my scum team to make an alternative case? Look at the votes-- they're evenly spread except for on me. I'm willing to bet that this pattern has never been seen on a day 1 scum lynch before. All it takes for evil to prevail is you all doing nothing.
The case against me seems to boil down to excessive roleplaying, focus on 'flavour', indignation at being called 3rd party, some Dariush bullshit about lazy scumhunting, and of course starting off the soft claim.
Let me counter these points.
1. I love roleplaying and engaging with the setting, I do it nearly every game I play. Read the OP: LNCP specifically encouraged embodying a role in this game. Wherever appropriate, like now, I have dropped the RP in favour of responding directly.
2. I can see why people think I focus excessively on setting details over mechanics. But let's put this in perspective: the mod specifically signalled that setting was important, Toaster confirmed that in a previous Witch game he caught the serial killer this way. The most notable thing to date has been the claims. There have been no flips, and this subforum's usual way of playing day 1 almost never finds scum.
3. Toaster seemed to be calling me out as 3rd party for being out of town when he was out of town, so damn right I was indignant. On a reread it seems more to have been a persistent misreading of one another's intentions.
4. The reason I asked people about their votes wasn't to give the appearance of scumhunting, but to try and get people to think about things from a we-might-be-letting-town-be-mislynched-due-to-doing-nothing-with-our-votes perspective.
5. Everyone but Leafsnail has claimed and he isn't voting me, so voting me for starting the claims is hypocrisy par excellence. Ottofar or Tiruin are probably the worst offenders on this point.
Town, it's your job to critically examine the votes against the Day 1 lynch lead. Do it.
ToasterThe answering of the question wasn't the point- it was the fact you pointed fingers elsewhere on the out-of-town issue, and how it got you so riled up. Also, the vote wasn't and has never been a random vote- it was specifically directed at you on the grounds of something you said. It got a scummy reaction, so it stuck.
[I feel we're talking at cross-purposes here. I was only 'riled up' because your reasoning was seemed to me to be so bugnuts insane. You seemed to have been calling me a third-party for being out of town when you yourself were out of town. I realise now that it was my reaction that kept the vote on me. Sometimes I let righteous indignation get in the way of good play. I don't agree with your vote but at least I understand it now. Think back to your previous Witches games and look at my actions, you'll know exactly why I'm not a witch.]
Tiruin[I don't care if your busy, you've done nothing of value all game. Replace out if you don't have time. Don't just bandwagon then disappear. That's scummy whichever way you swing it.]
LenglonYour explanation doesn't match up with what I remember. In the revolution, your last game, and one in which you were scum, you made very minimalistic posts, and generally was very reactive and not very proactive. During that game I called you out on this, and it was a key aspect of why I could identify that you were scum, and a key part of how I identified one of your scumbuddies. Your actions and posting style this game seem strongly like a counter-reaction to what happened there, and I find it odd that your explanation of this could be summed up as "I always act like this as town." As town I would have expected some kind of proper explanation, and quite likely a reference to what happened there. As scum your goal is to make yourself look as townie as possible, and that being the case, an explanation where you call your own actions a towntell benefits you. do you have an explanation for what I'm seeing here?
[A fair question. If I'm wholly honest, once people fingered me as a spy in Revolution I gave up defending myself as there didn't seem any point, especially when in the first Revolution I wasn't able to convince the rebels of my innocence when I genuinely was innocent and knew who the spies were. Also there was RL stuff that was keeping me busy. Ironically, the game I cared least about is the only one I've ever won.You want to know my meta, Lenglon? I
always lose. In 13 games I've only won once and that was in spite of the fact that everyone knew I was scum. Draw from that what you will.]
OttofarOut of all the awfully reasoned votes on me, yours is one of the worst. You still haven't responded to my earlier rebuttal. Laughing to yourself is not an argument. Make a case already.
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