Now you've put me in a bit of a dilemma,
breadbocks. Going by what I've seen from your first game, then I wouldn't say that you're scum, only that you're a townie that has slipped up. A gargantuan and scummy slip-up, granted, but still just a townie. Not to mention that you don't know how to use your powers, and were scared into a roleclaim as a last resort to show your towniness. Which, from my perspective, being just as new to the game as you are, I can understand - it occured to me as a move to be made if shit goes really badly. I think you played that card a bit earlier than I would've, but each to their own I guess.
So, do I think that you're a scum that's wringing his hands together in glee, seeing just how brilliantly his devilish plan has come together? Frankly, no. Do I think that you're a scum that has made some stupid mistakes to get yourself in this position? Well, I doubt your scumteam would've let you get this deep in the first place, so no.
But the dilemma is... you HAVE made some immensely scummy calls.
And the danger of that doesn't finish with 'he could be mafia'. I'm thinking about how I mysself used it, as scum, in the beginners mafia. You survived day 1 (somehow), so I took the opportunity on day 2 to lay into your scumminess like nobody's business. The amount of townie-points it bought me saw me through a day when I was starting to come under some pressure, and gave me and USEC (my scumpartner) an easy target to vote for for the remainder of the game; a pretty great cover. Basically, it was a Godsend.
So. What's to be done about that? Is it a good enough reason to lynch you early so that mafia don't get the most out you? Would doing so be playing straight into the mafia's hands? Those are questions that I don't really know the answer to right now. That said, the bonus that we
might (though I really don't think so) hit on a mafioso if we lynch you might just swing it.
This calls for a bit more questioning, methinks.
Breadbocks:You are keen to point out that there's a difference between
saying that you've used your one-shot action, and actually using it. Backtracking, are we?
- If you want to cloud our perceptions in this way, then why bother roleclaiming in order to gain legitimacy at all?
Why are you (to use a phrase I don't particularly like, sorry) backing down from attacking a person (Mr P) that you think is scum? Not that you did all that attacking in the first place. Your argument has been, for both Jokerman and Mr Person, that they hadn't posted much, and what you saw you didn't like. Why not go an try and push them some? Get some more out of them to affirm your suspicions (something that ESPECIALLY applies for poisoning Jokerman)? And what about all of the other people that have been half-lurking today? Why aren't you as equally as suspicious of all of them?
- Why bother voting for Jokerman if you're going to kill him anyway? It's hard to believe that it simply 'occured' to you to kill him off so quickly, based on so little, without doing any pushing of your own or initiating any sort of discussion about it. It's... it's not good, man. It's very not good. Where did you get such confidence from? Cos it looks hella suspicious to use your one-shot ability when you didn't even take the time to substantiate your case in the slightest.
If you could step back in time, and start this thread afresh, would you do anything differently?
- If so, what and why? If not, why?
I'm looking forward to see what comes out of this.
(oh, yeah, hopefully that was a bit less garbled and martian than my other posts
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