Ehh, there's a few things I'd like to cover but without interactive involvement from Squill and bsnott I'm shooting in the dark.
Tiruin, hope you know that on my list of grievances this game, 'How Tiruin acted as an IC (or as a player)' doesn't number among them. My plaint's about the need for consistent rules enforcement, primarily.
However, since my second 'explosion' about it, the rules and the 'standards' of the game -have- been very consistently and fairly enforced. *deep nod to zombie urist* Thank you.
I -had- said that I'd take any unagreed upon shortens as a sure sign of scummitude, but I'm going to excuse Tiruin's from that assumption.
I am not joining her in voting shorten. I might not be able to get any deeper feel of any players than what I have right now, but we have Squill at least currently saying 'tomorrow I read and post'.
If I'm to keep playing to my wincon, I need to try to figure out who I do and don't think is Scum. Playing to my wincon is BIG to me. Ahem, -I- am not in this BM to learn. Learning is a given, I'd learn no matter what Mafia game I joined. I am here to win and I was here to win the moment I inned.
If I'm to get out of this game, because the game is canceled - my wincon's not violated, it's obliterated. It's gone, I'm free, no fault or blame. Game 'went bad', I have 'permission' to stop playing.
If I'm to get out of this game, because it is pushed to an end, any end - my wincon's probably getting not going to happen -and if pushing to a fast end is my focus then I'm not playing to my wincon. I can't do that. I can look there, then I have to close that door. I -can't- do that. In a sense games are sacred to me. I can change how I play, especially for the better - but I don't break the game's core precepts unless I've realized that there's an entire new way to play that doesn't 'break the game' even if it looks terribly wrong to others. That doesn't apply here either.
I can also walk away from games I'm done with, 'wincon' be darned, I have stopped caring - game ended for me already, no matter how unfinished it seems to anyone else. But I am definitely not done with Mafia, and that's not happening here.
So I -can't- support a shorten. Shortens -hurt my wincon-. I don't believe Town loses this N (but if it does - that's actually an acceptable loss to me. If Rolepgeek isn't actually Scum - I'm ready to accept losing) but I know we need to lynch Scum tomorrow too.
And yeah, I would see the game stopped before I'd step down and say, "Alright, I guess I give up, alright, defeat me cause I accept that I lose.' It's one thing for my best possible play to lose. It's another for everyone to rush to an end that would probably cause a loss.
Grrrrrr. Alright, I'm done venting. But I have nothing more to say until I have answers from Squill/bsnott.
If they have no answers I guess I've done my best already, and I'm ready to move to the next Night. But it's not for -me- to say they've no further answers to give. And Squill at least has said he was going to post. I wonder if that post will contain answers or dodges. And if dodges are the answers. But really. Grrrrrr.