I was thinking someone who hadn't been inspected yet, like maybe TMS or BHK
juicebox: BHK sounds good. I'm a bit wary about inspecting TMS, mostly because TMS asked to be inspected tonight.
Also(2x) can I request a repost of a summary of the nightplan, made in order to deter a fixer (or what was that term that I used earlier that says 'give lie result on this person'?) and recheck on everyone?
Tiruin: Nightplan, as far as I recall:
*TMS won't inspect tonight, and wants to be inspected.
*BHK is inspecting you.
*Some people are inspecting one member of their three-person list or something.
*Juicebox and I are inspecting BHK unless something changes that.
*Something something plan?
*Stuff happens N2, things occur as a result.
GayArchaea: Wouldn't no-lynching today mean that the game-ending lynch would leave an even number of players? Think 5 person LYLO: lynch your target and you get 4 players remaining at endgame.
This day is dying, and it's dying without quite enough players on any target.
Let's try to fix that.
Everyone: There are five people with votes on them: Tiruin, Fallacy, OSG, GA, and I. Even discounting BHK's Tiruin vote (
accidentally left on, I guess?), there are a few different lynch targets people are interested in.
Those of you who are voting: please explain why your proposed lynch is the best of all proposed lynches. Include engagement with the other cases.
Those who are not voting: please explain why you are not voting. Include engagement with the various cases.
I'll go first:
I'm not reiterating the case against Fallacy unless someone asks for it: I've already filled too much space with that. Instead, I'll make a few arguments and comparisons.
There is a lot of talk about lynching primarily to gain mechanical information. I understand part of where this is coming from: the cop and non-cop stuff is a messy puzzle, and if we solve it in time, we have a good chance of victory. That being said, I do not see good reason for our wish for information to be the main guide for our lynch. In practice, it does little to guide us (most potential lynch targets are about equal in informativeness, with how the inspects were spread, and we have little idea what info we would get from an OSG lynch), and at the same time, it actively misguides us.
By that, I mean that info-lynching drives us away from our core goal: lynching scum. We only have a few chances to lynch scum, and we've already thrown one away. Charging after someone we don't see as having an above-average chance of being scum just to gain information means we have an improperly high chance of lynching town (hurting us) without even gaining much more information than we would if we went after someone we thought was scummy. In fact, the weaker positions on scumhood for a pure info lynch may very well leave us with less information: much the same mechanical info as otherwise, but worse daygame info. Perhaps it would work as a fallback, but if we need a fallback from lynching likely scum, we've screwed up.
As for the other potential lynches:
*BHK's Tiruin vote has lost its reason for existing, and
I'm pretty sure Tiruin's town.
*GayArchaea is not town, certainly (I'm surprised that question worked), but he and OSG say he has a one-shot revive. GA's right: with that, he's not worth lynching yet. Besides, I'd rather hit Mafia.
*Being neither a jester nor Tiruin, I'm not going to back my own lynch. Fallacy does not even have a case against me, and his cause for lynching me is that he got a Mafia inspect on me (in this of all games) and that it will help him (quite specifically him) determine his sanity. There is no cause to believe any inspect result is accurate right now, and Fallacy has given no reason why anyone other than him should want me lynched. This isn't even an optimal information lynch.
*The core point against OSG, expressed by all the players who have gone after him through the game, is that he claimed seven powers. This isn't unbelievable and he was open about it (and seemingly surprised that it was abnormal). I find it hard to call that worth a lynch.
Tiruin gives a bit more:
I'm of the opinion that YOU should be the lynch target, for organization rather than outright scum-points (as my only suspicion of you is your MANY POWAHS in contrast to the rest of us). a key telling point is that we ALL are probably cop-likes, so that may be a lead towards the nature of the game itself.
Why I say OSG is a probable target is because he can both PROVE HIMSELF AND GA (because the latter, if town, should resurrect OSG if his flip is town).
I revive (once) out of pure hatred of Scilians. deterring the Mafia from silencing me in the middle of the night, or from hanging me upon a tree in order to distract us for at least another day. If I were any good at hunting scum, how could this possibly harm our chances of winning?
That's not what I learned, GayArchaea. My relelation said that youcan revive once out of pure hatred. (period) It seems that you just tacked that extra part on. If you have no other powers, why are you afraid of being silenced in the middle of the night? hmm!?
Oh dear, good sir.
How come you never mentioned that beforehand :v Aaaaaand only now are telling more of those details? :^
What provokes that blue part to have credibility in your eyes?
I'm pretty sure much of Tiruin's reason for wanting OSG lynched, aside from the seven powers, is built on confusion from skimming too much in too little time.
OSG had already mentioned and discussed the details Tiruin thought were not mentioned before (in fact, that was why they were being discussed), two players (Deus and GA) had already claimed not to be cop-likes, GA's revive is a self-revive only,
rolecop is generally used to refer to ability inspectors,
GA has not claimed rolecop...pretty much all that's left, as far as I can tell, is Seven Powers!!!!.
Tiruin: Please correct me if I'm mistaken about your cause for backing an OSG lynch.
Simply, I see Fallacy as having a chance of being scum significantly above the baseline, and I see no other good case.
fillipk: Please prod TMS, OSG, Deus, and BHK.