Do I seem uncertain? I don't feel that uncertain, but, well, I don't really KNOW any of these people, so it's hard for me to make statements with confidence.
What makes you think that you would die this night?
Half the players seem to think I'm mafia, and the mafia themselves probably consider me a primary target for removal. ESPECIALLY if it really is NJW2000.
Maxine's statements and responses feel very formulaic, like a somewhat inexperienced player thinking "I'd better do the townie thing here." I also have a bad gut feeling about Quarque's and Maxine's interactions. However, at the immediate moment, I don't care about this anymore.
If I interpret Elephant Parade in the last game as someone who was assuming he was on the side of town (until everyone became convinced Snowkiller was mafia), then NJW2000 and Elephant Parade are both within their expected town meta as people who tend to get really stuck on something not really all that important, so I currently think this is just a town fight. If it's not, I very very weakly find NJW2000 more suspicious of the two.
Who's left? Sniller, Cryre, "Sorry, eh?" cat, and... right, couch of God. Nobody I can really say much about, although Cat in the Hat and, uh... Slouch on the Couch seem fine. I'm comfortable eliminating Heat Miser if he doesn't vote. Actually, no, looking back, the Cat in America's Hat is really rubbing me the wrong way and may be the right place to move my vote if I decide to do that. At the moment, I am not interested in doing so.
All right, we need to worry about the night. Broadly, we want to avoid two possibilities: Everyone goes off half-cocked and shoots up the place, ending the game in a loss immediately, OR everyone shoots the same couple of people, wasting all the shots. However, at the same time, the mafia will want to shoot people who don't shoot, eliminating those shots. I'm certainly going to shoot since I don't expect to survive the night anyway. I think Cryre and Quark should follow through on their stated commitment, presuming we don't lynch either of them or Sniller. Everyone else, I'm going to recommend you flip a coin to decide whether or not to shoot. This will
most likely keep things from getting too fiery without giving any information away. Or at least that sounds really plausible to me right now. If I get lynched, though, I'm going to arbitrarily say that Elephant Parade should shoot. I also think it might be useful for the rest of the noobs to declare their preferred shooting targets now. I don't think it gives the mafia too much extra help, especially if you do what I said about flipping a coin, while it should make the next day easier to untangle.