I just skimmed through the thread; I'm going to throw out a list as it seems the most concise way to sum up my feelings on everyone at the moment (arranged from dead-to-lurking-to-most-scummy)
Jokerman - Why'd he die? What was the scum thinking when they killed him? It was a poor play on their part, I'll say that much, and it didn't make much sense... unless they were nervous. Joker was acting rather scummy yesterday -- he threw around his vote a bit too casually.
That was what I thought at first. Thinking further, it's possible scum did thus to subtly throw us town off. Usually new players will attack whoever votes for a confirmed townie (in this case, Spitfire). "Surely whoever voted for Spitfire is scum, as he flipped town!" they say. Let's look at who voted for him:
Blargityblarg, Siquo, Jokerman. By taking out Joker, attention is focused toward Siquo and Blargityblarg. We could be dealing with manipulative high-level scum right now.
Spitfire - He was a logical lynch and his defeatism toward the end is what really drove the nail into his coffin, I think. He succumbed to the train of thought many newbies share, 'I know I'm town, and <x> person voted for me, thus he's scum'; note his buddying with Cript on page 6 (default page size). Newbish player who was mistaken as scum.
Blargityblarg, Char13magne - These two are lurking. A lot. Come on guys. Get out here!
Toaster - Toaster skimmed under the radar, acting like a typical town player. He's playing textbook town, really; he's not in the spotlight but he's making accusations and defending himself, which is a surprise in a newbie game. He suspected Knight as early as page 4, but only said that he 'might be mistaking new play for scum tells'. He didn't actually attack Knight until page 7.
Criptfeind - I'll be completely honest: I really felt that the argument between Cript/Siquo on page 6 reeked of distancing. They're both skilled players, so I wouldn't put it past them to distance early and distance often.
Siquo - Early game he was aggressive, but not necessarily constructively -- it felt like he was attacking people to avoid suspicion, not to find scum. He's also rather a good town player, looking at the original BMX. If he were town, he'd probably be dead now -- or at least scum would like us to come to that conclusion.
Knight - He didn't do much at all late Day 1. He defended himself from Toaster, unvoted Char13magne, then threw around a few passive-aggressive threats.
Then, Day 2 rolls around...
First of all I'd like to ask for a mass role claim.
WHAT. Day 2? Are you joking? This early? It's a beginner's match, the only thing a roleclaim would serve wold to help pinpoint the power-roles for scum! This is ridiculously scummy.
What? I did not use a last second vote. Jokerman did. I could not decide between you and Spitfire. I was actually starting to lean to you when Jokerman voted. But I decided not to tie things back up.
Convenient excuse, you we're "doing the best for the town by making sure there was a lynch" either that, or you were waiting to make sure you had the last vote you could make sure no-lynch wouldn't happen with two townies as the main suspects.
A no-lynch day one is worse for town than a mislynch. At least a mislynch gives us something to go on -- while a dead townie may sound bad, we have to always look at the silver lining, the information we can glean from such a death. If we had no-lynched yesterday, we'd still be suspicious of spitfire and we wouldn't have moved on.
Knight, you're scum, 100%. You killed Jokerman to help your case against Siquo today. If not, please explain your logic behind asking for a role-claim so early!
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