Hmm... quite a lot of questions pointed at me, here, and a couple of things I want to address too. I have to go soon, but I'll see how many I can answer in about 5 minutes.
Actually, this is my first game I tried to push this hard. But I've seen it work.
Bayer used this tactic in the last Beginner's game, like I already said. It winded up with him calling the Godfather town, allowed me as Maf to score a lynch on a scummy player, and would have been a very easy lynch himself for the next day, had the game not been killed by lurkers - lurkers primarily brought on by how Bayer was playing, according to the post-game review. Perhaps one of us would have died before the end of the game, had we let our guard down and had the game been allowed to continue, but I doubt it.
Point being? Over-aggression kills more than townies, if left unleashed. =/
I've stated a couple of times now, that I only used Azure's argument to push.
Why do you think I used that particular quote of yours, when I called you out? The one where you ultimately declared -
declared - that Elegy was scum? Because it was at
exactly that point where you didn't think you needed to push any more. If you hadn't tried to dismiss him as scum while still trying to use my bogus argument, thn I wouldn't have my vote on you right now. Fancy that, huh?
I'm almost sure Azure will then survive the night, because he would either be mafia himself or a good daytime target for them to blame.
But he ain't, so I'm probably dead. Ah, well; good luck tomorrow, guys.
Azure You have any reads on who you might think the second scum is?
Since I'm probably a dead man, I'll offer my suspects:
Kamina - I never trust the fourth/third people on a scum lynch, and since I'm the third and I have an actual agrument, I can only suspect the fourth. In my experience in IRC games, it's more often scum bussig their team mate than anything else. This is highly speculative, of course, and relies on statistical information too heavily to be of much use in an individual game... but I noticed he sat on the fence for quite a while, before he joined the Otto lynch. Almost as if hoping he could pull off a lynch on Elegy instead. He also seemed much more interested in my reasons for lynching Otto than Otto's for lynching Elegy, despite the fact that mine were much clearer.
Mindmaker - I just can't forget this:
Flinutus just seems to have been drawn into the bandwagon, however Azure seems to know exactly what he is doing.
And so does Elegy.
This was such a lazy attempt to turn the town against an Otto lynch that its almost laughable. It just sounds like he's whining that the argument against Otto make's too much sense. For this alone, he's about equal with Kamina on my list of scum-partners.
Flintus - He's on the other end of the spectrum, for the moment. He caught on to the basis of my trap against Otto before I'd even posted it, and was the first person to vote for him; absolving him instantly of any 'bandwagoning' claim - and didn't try to back off onto Elegy when things clearly went south for Otto. However - even if I don't believe this myself - I should still point out that, if Otto does actually flip town, then you should consider my position on Flintus reversed assuming I'm dead. Make of that what you will.
Everyone else I'm still in two minds about. Consider yourselves about equal, depending on the outcome of tomorrow.