Scripten: I'm a little surprised by their inactivity as by looking through their recent posts, both Nerjin and Deathsword appear to have been online today. Do you think that in later days activity will skyrocket, plummet, or remain steady?
From what I've played, it usually remains fairly steady, though the ends of days are generally a little more hectic. People start setting up votes and bandwagons form, all the fun daytime stuff.
Just because someone is a newbie doesn't mean they can't be scum. Flailing newbie scum drop a lot more tells than flailing town.
Since this is the only bit of non-IC content in your post that wasn't a pointed question for someone else, I'm going to make a comment here. Obviously, newbies are going to flail, and scum newbies a bit more, but what separates those tells? Is an evasive/confused newbie inherently more scummy to you than one who is active lurking, or vice versa? Does your strategy change with experienced players?
This question was very careful, and that's exactly what i mean. You've been dutifully posting a lot, but your posts seem carefully designed so as not to seem dangerous, and not slip up. A lot of banter and chat, but not really any content that would make someone accuse you of something, and nothing that would make someone else feel like you're attacking them either.
It seems to me that this would be an exellent scum tactic. What do you think?
You mean being clear? I haven't avoided any questions that I'm aware of, though if I've missed any, please go ahead and let me know. Obviously, I'm not going to go out of my way to be or seem dangerous, but I haven't held any punches. I just see no reason why I should need to attack anyone outright in the current climate. I've made my thoughts and suspicions clear. And, just to clarify, I focused on lurkers because we had two ICs doing just, which was really worrisome. (I've been in multiple games where scum literally posted twice or three times in the entire game and won.) Now that everyone's showed up, I have some content to go on.
Frankly, you could construe a lot as a good scum tactic during RVS. There's just not enough evidence to make good claims until we've all said our pieces. That being said, I do have my eyes set on
BlitzDungeoneer. However, I'm keeping my vote on Nirjin for reasons I'll get into below.
Well, I honestly don't care. All that matters to me is that we get the scum in the end. If I die in the process... Meh. I trust people in the game to play logically. If you see something up with my play then you need to press me on it.
Why did you vote me? Was it because I've done something that warrents getting voted? No? So it was a pressure vote right out of the gate with no real pressure behind it. I hate when people vote just to vote. Your vote is a weapon. I wouldn't appreciate you pointing a loaded gun at my face for giggles. Treat your vote like a loaded gun. It's going to get somebody killed.
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In my opinion your vote is a loaded gun. You should use it only if you are certain someone is scum or you want to pressure them. Just voting to vote is annoying and makes me view that person as trying to put on an act.
Everything else you've said is fine with me, but as far as this goes... NOOOOOOOOOPE.
Putting pressure on other players with a vote is not anything like waving a gun in their face, and the implication goes against the entire idea of your vote being a power, which is something you guys touched upon earlier. I chose you because, out of everyone who hadn't spoken, I thought you would be the most interesting to hear from. Regardless, trying to bully people into not using their votes is basically telling the entire town not to use their most common and powerful tool for taking care of scum. If this was a situation where you were at L-1 (One vote left to lynch) I would have held my vote if I wasn't mostly sure, but that's not often the situation.
BlitzDungeoneer's (lack of meaningful) actions have made him very suspicious, as I mentioned above. However, this bit here is the most scummy to me thus far, so my vote stays where it is for now.
On last thing, you haven't used your lime IC text for any of your explanations yet. Does that mean that nothing you've said so far is to be objectively trustworthy? And does that mean you don't think we're pretty enough? Because we are.