If third parties cannot be converted, mass buy-in is unlikely and Everyone Wins, by the methods we know of, is impossible.
I've been holding this case/vote back for a while, waiting to get a key answer without tainting the response (TolyK can confirm this). It's increasingly clear that I will not be answered within any reasonable time frame.
TheDarkStar is my top suspect, but I would be happy with a
4maskwolf lynch.
Throughout D1, TDS
made statements
indicating that
he suspected Fallacy
ofUrist.
Caveats at times, and TDS's statements were pretty light at times. Alright. TDS laid his vote on
TheBiggerFish and let it sit there for the day. In general, a pretty good set of moves for scum: away from the scum-favouring lynch that has mass support, a bit of distance from the partner, and a credible (though TBF) vote away from the attention-grabbing wagons. If it wasn't for D2 and the flip, I wouldn't suspect him.
D2, TDS started with a
quick FoS and
vote on flabort. Reason given: flabort targeted doll, and doll was a townie who suspected flabort of being a redirector. flabort had, of course, repeatedly stated strong suspicion of doll the previous day, right up to the end. That flabort would target doll is far from shocking. The
malicious block TDS guessed happened wasn't even possible. TDS's case against flabort was a baseless case to lynch someone who looked like an easy target, propped up with a mention of investigative powers as a substitute for reasoning.
After that fizzled, TDS did not vote. He did not vote for Fallacy,
who he said he suspected. He completely abandoned the TBF push. Now, he was clearly busy for the rest of the day, but the complete abandonment of his D1 vote is strange. The D2 behaviour is scummy, and the full set of behaviours work quite well with Fallacy as a teammate.
I'm also a bit troubled by TDS's claim, which seems to flip between watcher and tracker at will (the tracker result against flabort, the watcher result against Tiruin with the declaration that he was watching flabort N1, the later tracker claim...), hence my last question to him. This is why I held back: I wanted an untainted response. I did not get a response, and I cannot hold back forever.
My 4mask read is quite similar to my TDS read. The two played in quite similar ways: reasonable but scum-consistent D1 play, dropped cases and low-effort baffling new ones D2, strange behaviour beyond. I find TDS's flabort rush D2 more troubling than 4mask's FoU NYAHvote, though, and while Monster Within makes me want to see 4mask's claim, I'm less convinced by it than most: that wasn't just some line about monsters in the breadcrumb, but Nietzsche's most famous quote. The connection is quite possible, but there are a lot of places that breadcrumb could reasonably lead and there is a lot of unclaimed flavour.
His in-thread behaviour alone, though, is troubling, and I would be happy with a 4mask lynch.