Alright everyone, D2 has now begun. This is when mafia games begin to get interesting, and accusations with real weight can be thrown out. There are now one or two deaths available for viewing, the lynch and potentially a mafiakill (I'm writing this during the night so I don't know for sure). The lynch is perhaps the best thing to analyze: who voted for the deceased, why, and with what reasoning. This can lend some small insights into the players who were involved. The mafiakill is much trickier and more unreliable to analyze: the death could have happened for all kinds of reasons. To list a few possible rationales: the player was getting too close to finding the scum, the player was an easy target who wouldn't raise suspicion, the death of the player would frame someone else, or the player was deemed to be a potential threat in the future. In the end, we as town don't know why the scum made the kill that they did, and in general analyzing it is a waste of time.
Remember, however, that while analyzing the lynch is all well and good it isn't the sole source of information the town has at its disposal. If possible, read back over D1: what catches your eye in both good and bad ways. If you find that a person is consistently feeling scummy to you, call them on it. Quote or link every post and discuss what makes you feel uneasy. Vote them. Don't hold back. See how they respond and see how others respond. Remember that mafia is a game of personal opinion and ideas, so don't shy away if some others don't agree with you. However, be careful not to tunnel so much into the person that you lose track of everyone else.
Alright, time for an apology. I wanted to post and vote on Friday, when the day ended, but I was physically unable to due to being at home ill and discovering that the internet on my ipad is only online from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm PST, and the already-known-by-me fact that the computer blocks Bay12 (my parents are over-paranoid about my schoolwork getting done). But still, I must apologize for not being able to be around (for reference, the day ended somewhere around noon my time, I can't say the exact time because I'm on a bus and can't check).
Now time to read back over the thread at some point and figure stuff out.