You tunnel.
I prefer to think of it as being
focused. If I find a scummy thread, I'll pull it, and sometimes a big fish (like you) is caught, which is great. But if not, then I'll move on; and I never entirely ignore everyone else, which is the definition of tunneling.
I really don't think that I'm either deflecting or trying to be intimidating.
This is a deflection:
Archangel has 2 posts; the last 16 hours ago. Red text: Posts: [1][2]
Org has 2 posts; the last 45 hours ago. Red text: Posts: [1][2]
This is inexcusible. You have 2/3 as many posts PUT TOGETHER as the MODERATOR for crying out loud.
It's not false. They both should get their ass in here and play, but you pulling it out
just when people are focusing on you is exactly what a deflection is. "Quit bugging me! There are perfectly good targets here! Go get them instead! Zathras, you like hounding lurkers, don't you? How about these?" That's a clear deflection.
This is an intimidation attempt:
You're jumping from bandwagon to bandwagon without giving your reasoning. That *is* scummy around here.
Telling the new guy "
*this* is how we roll around here", threatening to "nail" him for a major scumtell (for bogus reasons), explicitly after you saw how he reacted to earlier differences in playstyle (moving votes, pointing contradictions); it seems to me you were trying to provoke him into a reaction like
here or
here. Get him to back down; it'll be one less vote to shake off later in the day.
Oh, are you playing the "if you lynch me you'll regret it!" card? Yeah, that's another nail in your coffin.
I hesitated posting that because I knew that's how you (and possibly others would react), but it's exactly my point. If you lynch me today, the Mafia kills an another of the more active players tonight, and one or more of the remaining ones is scum, they can easily just lurk to victory. Happened before, sure it will happen again. Would rather it not be this game.
There are *always* mislynches built into Mafia. I really do think that even if you're 80% convinced I'm scum, you can always lynch me later.
Bah. I want to be clear: you are definitely scummy enough to hang. However, I will concede that Org is nearly as much, and your continued presence is better for the day game than his, so I'll go on record and say: I'm ready to support a lynch of
Org, who is my second scummiest target, if it seems like it's doable by the end of the day. If we decide to go this route, then I request investigative roles, blockers or somesuch to try to get a reading on Janus.
If I could, I'd vote them both.