Frostmoon:It is good to finally have you back!
I get that you feel like fillipk's scum partner question was irrelevant (and you're right, it's not exactly the most important question), but a question is far better than nothing. Heck, even RVS, as horrid as it may be, is still better than nothing.
My point, was that he had a great deal of options which were quite a bit better than a blah question that took the pressure off of everyone.
Because they are an IC, obviously.
Nope, entirely premeditated.
That was sarcasm, right?
Completely serious, no sarcasm. I've been thinking about various gambits for a few days, and this was one I wanted to try out. The vote was primarily a means of gathering information, and seeing how
everyone reacted to it. At it's very heart, it is a simple, absurd action; it is entirely against what is considered standard good play. As I mentioned to you
here, I am trying to not be bullish and dog after every little suspicion, but play more by intuition. And so I need to make as many waves as possible: if I voted a non-IC then people might just glaze over it, but by dropping my vote on an IC more people would take notice and hopefully react. Then Moonlit voted for Kilakan and made all that planning moot in the best possible way. His vote was comparable to a work of modern performance art, forcing everyone to react to the beautiful absurdity of it.
Your reactions in particular were interesting to me. You seemed confused certainly, but I didn't feel like it shook your views of either of us. Your questions seemed to take away from the absurdity of it, and downplay things rather than try to genuinely get more information about us from your questions. Which made you feel like you already knew more about what was happening there than you should have if you only knew that you were town.
Also, your comments seemed to be more concerned with getting approval of your views, rather than actually developing them. For example:
Moonlit: Huh. So you had practically no reason to vote for kilakan, in other words. Why go for a target someone else had already voted for?
NJW2000: You see, if Moonlit is scum, than the more answers--however dumb they may be--mean the more content to go off of if he's lynched, and the more content means the more ways to see if we could catch his scum buddy. Heck, even if he's town, his past content may still be useful. However, if you think he's so scummy, why aren't you voting him, NJW2000? The reason why I'm not voting Moonlit is mainly because of my previous game, in which the people who flailed the hardest were, in fact, town.
Anyone, but especially the ICs: What do you think of Moonlit's play so far? Do newbs of various alignments tend to flail like this?
This may be a bit nit-picky but you are trying to downplay his action as "flailing" when he seems quite confident and decidedly un-flaily in his casual dismissal of pressure from
fillipk here. And you refuse to place down your vote in spite of the fact that you claim he's scummy? It
really feels to me you know he's a town and are hesitant to go after him for play that seems weird and absurd, as you know that he is town and you are trying to gauge our reactions to you giving him a pass on his behavior. Later when NJW2000 calls you out on this, you claim that you were getting
"a bit of a noob town" read on him which seems to contradict your earlier statements about how him being town was an outside chance (implied by your "heck, even if he's town..." in the above quote).
Also, it's a very small thing, but it bothers me that your phrase here:
I'm pursing Moonlit because first of all, his "bandwagon" RVS vote was so far the most notable thing to happen in this game.
was pretty much verbatim my response to Moonlit here:
That it is, yet your question is still the most notable thing to happen in this game.
And so you may have my vote
FrostmoonUh, Everyone, what exactly does a scum IC do?
...huh. I...think this is what's called a "townslip". I...huh. (That, or NQT's inactive in the scum chat. I guess that's possible, too.)
He wasn't, but you already knew that.
fillipkYou kinda ninja'd me... I am going to assume I answered your question.
Btw, you missed this part of her question:
What were you trying to get from that question?