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Old 24th March 2015, 06:05 PM
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Old 24th March 2015, 08:14 PM
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Old 24th March 2015, 09:18 PM
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Old 24th March 2015, 09:42 PM
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Nice job not replying to me lightfoot
and just what was I supposed to reply to?

- you voted me
-you are distracted
-you metagame ( which I didn't get)
- I am posting but not leading( and have you read my posts?)
at least I have been posting.............y'know playing the game............


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Old 24th March 2015, 09:47 PM
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Metagame what? I noticed similarities with your scum game and mentioned them. The perfect response would be to show me you doing a bit more than lots of questioning. You like to have content without content. Lots of words, little actions.

While yes, I haven't exactly been a pinnacle of activity, I'm still here.
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Old 24th March 2015, 10:10 PM
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Metagame what? I noticed similarities with your scum game and mentioned them. The perfect response would be to show me you doing a bit more than lots of questioning. You like to have content without content. Lots of words, little actions.

While yes, I haven't exactly been a pinnacle of activity, I'm still here.

because of course a scum would want to make sure that all players had a spreadsheet that showed what every one claimed and investigated- yep I am a slacker- not questioning anyone- unlike your ever so helpful self


- I am being grouchy - not the games fault or yours-


he started it
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Old 24th March 2015, 11:44 PM
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I'm surprised that you find the name thing too difficult. You're a smarter and more experienced player than me, and open set-ups are something I usually struggle with, but I didn't have any real problems with this.

I find myself wondering if you were just paralysed by indecision at the start (too many variables plus the possibility of exposure can do that to anyone), and have only picked up your involvement now that the town's organisers - Swammi and Guiri - are gone, and it looks as if the name claims won't prove quite as decisive as at first it seemed they might.
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Old 25th March 2015, 06:26 AM
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How do you know there are no Itos left? What makes you think scum are being truthful about their names? The investigation power seems to be for more than just to confirm Town; it should be used for scum hunting also. What harm would an investigation of lightfoot caused? I see absolutely no downside to investigating the designated candidate from outside your pool, while the downside to not investigating is that possible scum are going unchecked. I would expect a Townie to be scum hunting every chance they get. Why aren't you?
I think I have answered all of these, but let me repeat.
I only know that there are no more claimed Itos left. Scum cannot be truthful about their names since they don't know them. There was obviously no harm in investigating Lightfoot and I would have done so if I hadn't missed Guiri's assignment.

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No, I never breadcrumbed my name. I was the first to announce that my name contained 3 letters. Where do you think scum's investigation has been the last two nights? What investigation would you block if you were scum?
I don't know, but why do you assume the scum wouldn't be using their investigative power to actually investigate and try to learn Town's names? If the only value of scum investigations was to block Town investigations, why even give scum an investigation, why not just give them a block?

Looking back at Day one, I see where you claimed -- it was a quick "me too" after Bill's name claim:
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Gnarly, my name is Ito. It appears that Mahaloth's name is Ito. I don't think Bill is a good vote for Today.
Note that all Mahaloth said was that he'd investigate Bill, which you took to mean he was definitely an Ito. Not a huge leap, but you didn't think to confirm that he wasn't just being dubious of Bill's claim? If you two were talking off-board, that could have been you overeagerly telegraphing a previously constructed plan of claiming the first name anyone mentioned. (I'll note you were also one of the early proponents of a name claim.)
If MrsMcGinty is town, scum already know her name is Ark Steamer. If I am lynched, scum will know Scathach's name. If SisC and Buff are town, a NK of one of them will reveal the other's name. Scum does not need to use their investigations to learn town names. Scum has been blocking Scathach.

I was the first to say that my name was 3 letters. I left a hint that my name was the same as Bill's immediately after Bill claimed with my reference 139 to "To Tell the Truth" where the show started with 3 people all saying "My name is Ito". I wasn't planning on saying more, but when Gnarly voted Bill, I thought I needed to confirm Bill's claim.

I am confirmable and Scathach can confirm me, if scum allow her to do so. At least with me alive, we know where scum's investigation is going and they aren't interfering with anyone else.
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Old 25th March 2015, 07:10 AM
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Old 25th March 2015, 08:33 AM
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Old 25th March 2015, 09:02 AM
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I meant I never left a clue like I'm in a shit of trouble. Bill outed our name fairly early on D1, before Swammi started the whole breadcrumbing thing.
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Old 25th March 2015, 09:33 AM
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I don't see the case on Texcat as strong enough to justify making him a serious lynch candidate just yet.

There are three possibilities:

1) He's town, and Scathach's reciprocal investigations have been blocked to prevent mutual confirmation.

2) He's scum, and claimed a successful investigation of Scathach to make himself look more innocent.

3) Both he and Scathach are scum, and he claimed a successful investigation to make the pair of them look more innocent.

To me, the first possibility seems plausible. For what I think are pretty obvious reasons, the scum wanted Swammi and Guiri dead asap, which would make blocking Scathach a no-brainer.

Moreover, we can see that, without confirmation, Texcat's claimed investigation hasn't done much for his town cred and, indeed, seems to have done more to make him a suspect. That much is, to my mind, quite predictable.

Now, of course, this doesn't write off the second and third possibilities - the scum might have felt they could rely on exactly the kind of defence I'm now putting up. But that still leaves us with the question of why they thought it worthwhile to take the risk of drawing more attention to one of their number, and also of tying him to another player so early on in the game.

Perhaps others can see something I can't here, but, whilst he should remain a suspect, Texcat looks to me like a bad lynch for today, especially when we've got other players around who did nothing at all to indicate they knew their names on day one, and have done little since to deserve any real town cred.
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Old 25th March 2015, 11:05 AM
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I don't think Texcat is very scummy. I think Visor is the better candidate for today

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McGiny's post rings all of my sentiments on the matter
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Old 25th March 2015, 01:23 PM
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1. although not impossible- why the focus?
2. makes most sense to me
3. irrational- it should /would have been reciprocated if that were true



add to what I have already stated the " I didn't leave a clue" to " look see here is my clue"

if I am missing something please elaborate
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Old 25th March 2015, 01:51 PM
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I don't see the case on Texcat as strong enough to justify making him a serious lynch candidate just yet.

There are three possibilities:

1) He's town, and Scathach's reciprocal investigations have been blocked to prevent mutual confirmation.

2) He's scum, and claimed a successful investigation of Scathach to make himself look more innocent.

3) Both he and Scathach are scum, and he claimed a successful investigation to make the pair of them look more innocent.
My argument with #3 is that scum Scathach would have claimed a successful investigation right back on scum TexCat. I can't imagine a universe in which two scum decide to take the course of action most likely to get one or both of them lynched.

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To me, the first possibility seems plausible. For what I think are pretty obvious reasons, the scum wanted Swammi and Guiri dead asap, which would make blocking Scathach a no-brainer.

Moreover, we can see that, without confirmation, Texcat's claimed investigation hasn't done much for his town cred and, indeed, seems to have done more to make him a suspect. That much is, to my mind, quite predictable.

Now, of course, this doesn't write off the second and third possibilities - the scum might have felt they could rely on exactly the kind of defence I'm now putting up. But that still leaves us with the question of why they thought it worthwhile to take the risk of drawing more attention to one of their number, and also of tying him to another player so early on in the game.

Perhaps others can see something I can't here, but, whilst he should remain a suspect, Texcat looks to me like a bad lynch for today, especially when we've got other players around who did nothing at all to indicate they knew their names on day one, and have done little since to deserve any real town cred.
TexCat to me is more suspicious in this regard, jumping quickly on the first name claim that came out of the gate and following it up immediately with a claimed successful Night investigation. Even if you disregard Scathach's investigation results as possible scum manipulation, TexCat's actions feel much more like the sort of strategy scum who don't know their names would employ than Visorslash's behavior thus far. Visorslash has struck me as the lazy, non-participatory player you get when Town doesn't get an exciting role and just checks out of the game. While he could be scum, I feel like a scum Visorslash would try harder.
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Old 25th March 2015, 01:55 PM
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I'll add that I'm now thinking Mrs McGinty has a good chance of being scum as well. She claimed a positive Town investigation on Heterometrus on the same Night TexCat claimed one on Scathach: maybe scum decided to "prove" their knowledge of their first names by claiming to have the same one as a Town player. If TexCat flips scum, I'd argue she would be a good next lynch.
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Old 25th March 2015, 01:57 PM
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1. although not impossible- why the focus?
If a reciprocal investigation succeeded, then they'd have two townies who know each other innocent. In that case, killing either one would confirm the other. There's also the fact that people will inevitably find it suspicious that the reciprocal investigation has not succeeded, making Texcat a good chance for a mislynch.

That said, I could very well be wrong. I'm a pretty cautious scumbag, and lying about a successful scan on day 2 would strike me as carrying too many risks to be worthwhile. Since I don't really know the players around here - or the way in which scum tend to play on this forum - I can only make judgements on what seems rational to me, and not on how others are likely to behave based on prior experience.
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Old 25th March 2015, 02:29 PM
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I'll add that I'm now thinking Mrs McGinty has a good chance of being scum as well. She claimed a positive Town investigation on Heterometrus on the same Night TexCat claimed one on Scathach: maybe scum decided to "prove" their knowledge of their first names by claiming to have the same one as a Town player. If TexCat flips scum, I'd argue she would be a good next lynch.
And don't leave SisC and Buff out of this equation please. I keep wondering why Guiri was killed last night instead of Buff.

MrsMc & Dizzy, do you really think Visor is a better lynch than Mahaloth? I'm willing to go along with either one.
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Old 25th March 2015, 02:55 PM
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My argument with #3 is that scum Scathach would have claimed a successful investigation right back on scum TexCat. I can't imagine a universe in which two scum decide to take the course of action most likely to get one or both of them lynched.
Yeah, that seems very unlikely. But I was listing the possibilities and, however unlikely, that is one of them.

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TexCat to me is more suspicious in this regard, jumping quickly on the first name claim that came out of the gate and following it up immediately with a claimed successful Night investigation. Even if you disregard Scathach's investigation results as possible scum manipulation, TexCat's actions feel much more like the sort of strategy scum who don't know their names would employ than Visorslash's behavior thus far. Visorslash has struck me as the lazy, non-participatory player you get when Town doesn't get an exciting role and just checks out of the game. While he could be scum, I feel like a scum Visorslash would try harder.
This makes little sense to me, pushing the scum as having taken major risks for no obvious gain, whilst townies play cautious for, once again, no obvious gain.

The set-up with the names here looks to have posed an instant danger for the scum, whose lack of knowledge of their first names meant they could get caught out by the kind of gradual reveal strategy adopted by a decent chunk of the players (with all three of those nightkilled so far having championed that approach). To my mind, the most rational move for scum at the start of this game was either to try and disrupt any kind of mass claim, or simply to duck the issue altogether, in both cases hoping to try and make it past the next couple of days until they'd managed to do away with the town leaders and the remaining players had stopped focusing on the initial name claims quite so much.

I'd add that it's always worth bearing in mind that scum don't need to avoid looking suspicious - they just need to get other people lynched instead of them. The most reliable approach is often simply to ensure that they don't invite undue attention at the key moments, and just let other people make targets of themselves (in much the way that Zuma and Colby did here). By claiming successful investigations on day 2, Texcat and I inevitably invited attention on ourselves, and both of us have since acted in ways unlikely to let us fade into the background.

For my own part, I'm fully aware that being more talkative makes me much more likely to get lynched, whilst hiding in the background makes me much less so (especially on a forum where I'm virtually unknown - I survived to the end of a recent game at GitP by doing exactly that; I gave away absolutely nothing, and invited no suspicion at all, not catching a single vote until the penultimate day, when my scum buddies and I already had the game pretty much wrapped up).

As far as Texcat is concerned, I don't know his style, so I can't say if he'd have invited such attention as scum. All I know is that it would have been a bad move if he did. I will say, though, that I can quite believe a townie might have acted as he has, even up to admitting his failure to investigate last night, which was always likely to attract more suspicion than an easy 'no result' claim.

One more thing: Visor slacking off as a townie? I'll accept that it's possible, but I've played quite a few games with him and not seen that. And in a game where townie activity early on was pretty much essential to taking advantage of the set-up with the names, it strikes me as weird to say he looks more townie for being quiet.
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Old 25th March 2015, 03:34 PM
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MrsMc & Dizzy, do you really think Visor is a better lynch than Mahaloth? I'm willing to go along with either one.
I'd say they're both decent lynches. There's still plenty left of this day, though, so I wouldn't rush to bandwagon anybody too hard just yet. No sense risking another drop of the hammer.
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i'm not against a Texcat lynch but i echo the sentiment that Lightfoot says a lot but really seem doesn't say anything.

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Old 26th March 2015, 09:38 AM
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Texcat (4): Scáthach (9), LightFoot (21), Giraffe (32), bufftabby (39)
Lightfoot (2): Visorslash (47), gnarlycharlie (73)
Mahaloth (1): TexCat (26), Giraffe (30)[32]
Visorslash (1): Mrs McGinty (57)
Gnarlycharlie (1): SisterCoyote (24)
Three people still haven't voted (Chaos, Mahaloth and Dizzymrslizzy), but we have another ~30 hours or so.
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Old 26th March 2015, 09:45 AM
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@Dizzymrslizzy, the vote robot missed your voted for Visor, can you recast it to make sure it counts?
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Old 26th March 2015, 10:04 AM
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This makes little sense to me, pushing the scum as having taken major risks for no obvious gain, whilst townies play cautious for, once again, no obvious gain.
But as you say below, scum had to figure out a way to get around the name issue once the name claim idea got thrown around. What I'm suggesting as TexCat's (and perhaps your) early game scum strategy isn't a major risk for no reason, it's a rational way to spin an initial lack of knowledge into a possible quasi-confirmation.
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The set-up with the names here looks to have posed an instant danger for the scum, whose lack of knowledge of their first names meant they could get caught out by the kind of gradual reveal strategy adopted by a decent chunk of the players (with all three of those nightkilled so far having championed that approach). To my mind, the most rational move for scum at the start of this game was either to try and disrupt any kind of mass claim, or simply to duck the issue altogether, in both cases hoping to try and make it past the next couple of days until they'd managed to do away with the town leaders and the remaining players had stopped focusing on the initial name claims quite so much.
See, this to me seems like a losing strategy for scum to take: hanging back and saying nothing while Town all confirm each other's name knowledge and then just hoping no one remembers to mention it again? That just seems cartoonishly bad.

Anyway, let's leave TexCat aside for a moment. Who else do you think is possible scum besides Visorslash? What are your thoughts on Mahaloth?
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I'd also be ok with a Mahaloth lynch, I can see the name confusion thing that Lightfoot pointed out as being scummy dithering.

Visorslash I'm not sure what the case is exactly - is it just that he hasn't had much to say?

Chaos posted once yesterday and not at all today & I'm rather a fan of lynch-the-lurker.

In general though, I'm not sure why scum would bother deliberately blocking my investigation twice, there were other confirmed name matches they could have blocked?
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Old 26th March 2015, 11:11 AM
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Sorry, my focus is distracted but I have done a bit of reading - ignoring most of the name stuff because I'm not good with those things, but I do see similarities to lightfoots scum game in the previous game. A lot of questioning, not a lot of leading. I'll quote some tomorrow night, I'm busy most of the day tomorrow.

re gnarly - i think buff found sisc town, i think scat found someone town.
You are bit off here buff/sis cross confirmed Town
Tex said they found Scat was Town ( no cross confirmation)
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Old 26th March 2015, 12:18 PM
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See, this to me seems like a losing strategy for scum to take: hanging back and saying nothing while Town all confirm each other's name knowledge and then just hoping no one remembers to mention it again? That just seems cartoonishly bad.
You know what's funny here? Both of us are saying people are less suspicious because we think the way they've been acting would be bad scum play, when, by definition, good scum play is about avoiding suspicion.

And this, I think, is why we love mafia.

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Anyway, let's leave TexCat aside for a moment. Who else do you think is possible scum besides Visorslash? What are your thoughts on Mahaloth?
I had him high on the list yesterday, but, scanning back over his posts, Mahaloth doesn't seem quite so scummy to me today. The apparent name confusion is a fairly major mark against him, but didn't Colby do something similar?

As for other possible scum, I'm paranoid enough to include more-or-less everyone.

Until bufftabby's result claim, I would probably have put Lightfoot as most likely town, but I'm rather less confident now. The same is true in reverse for SisterCoyote, who I had as quite suspect until the investigation claim. You, meanwhile, don't come off as all that scummy, but you do come off as smart enough to fake townie behaviour pretty effectively. Inactivity makes Chaos scummy in much the same way as it does Visor, albeit slightly less so as I can see him having just given up and stopped paying attention. And dizzymrslizzy I've hardly noticed at all despite her thirty-odd posts, which I guess would represent better play for scum than it would for town.

That's just off the top of my head. I'll need to spend a bit of time reading and making notes to speak with any more confidence. Hopefully I'll have time tomorrow; probably not before this day ends, though.
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Old 26th March 2015, 01:03 PM
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I find your "hiding" comment a bit weird Mrs. because I feel like I have been out there and scum hunting and helping come up with investigation targets for my group.
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Old 26th March 2015, 01:12 PM
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I didn't mean you've been hiding. I just meant that, for whatever reason, you haven't caught my attention.
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I had him high on the list yesterday, but, scanning back over his posts, Mahaloth doesn't seem quite so scummy to me today. The apparent name confusion is a fairly major mark against him, but didn't Colby do something similar?

As for other possible scum, I'm paranoid enough to include more-or-less everyone.

Until bufftabby's result claim, I would probably have put Lightfoot as most likely town, but I'm rather less confident now. The same is true in reverse for SisterCoyote, who I had as quite suspect until the investigation claim. You, meanwhile, don't come off as all that scummy, but you do come off as smart enough to fake townie behaviour pretty effectively. Inactivity makes Chaos scummy in much the same way as it does Visor, albeit slightly less so as I can see him having just given up and stopped paying attention. And dizzymrslizzy I've hardly noticed at all despite her thirty-odd posts, which I guess would represent better play for scum than it would for town.

That's just off the top of my head. I'll need to spend a bit of time reading and making notes to speak with any more confidence. Hopefully I'll have time tomorrow; probably not before this day ends, though.
Thank you for answering, but you said a lot while committing to very little. Let me put it another way: if you had to chose the lynches for the next three Days single-handledly based on only what you know right now, who would be your top three scum candidates for lynching? Who, specifically, do you think Town's highest probability lynches are?
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I'd also be ok with a Mahaloth lynch, I can see the name confusion thing that Lightfoot pointed out as being scummy dithering.

Visorslash I'm not sure what the case is exactly - is it just that he hasn't had much to say?

Chaos posted once yesterday and not at all today & I'm rather a fan of lynch-the-lurker.
I have to agree with these sentiments. I still don't like Texcat's failure to act and his evasion of my questions after that, but even if he is scum he is not the only one. Mahaloth's name-waffling doesn't sit right with me, and I agree with Giraffe that the following post seems pretty scummy to me:

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Lightfoot made a good case Yesterday. I just wish Colby hadn't made it look like the case on him was better.
Honestly, I have no idea and can't even argue against my lynch. I'm surprised that not only have we not killed a scum, but that we haven't even found one in our investigations. Massive bad luck for us town players.

It's a total shot in the dark from me at this point. I have no idea who to lynch.
So at this point, I could get behind a Mahaloth lynch as well. It seems like a lot of us are picking up on something being off with him/her.
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Old 26th March 2015, 04:44 PM
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And Mahaloth hasn't bothered to vote.
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Old 26th March 2015, 05:11 PM
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Thank you for answering, but you said a lot while committing to very little. Let me put it another way: if you had to chose the lynches for the next three Days single-handledly based on only what you know right now, who would be your top three scum candidates for lynching? Who, specifically, do you think Town's highest probability lynches are?
That's difficult. Very difficult. Scum hunting needs to be taken a day at a time. And, without a proper review of the thread, I've not got much of a handle on who breadcrumbed when, and how the failed investigation claims stack up.

Nevertheless, if I had to lynch three players right now...

Visor's the only call I have any shred of confidence in, so he's one.

Chaos because inactivity means he's not helping either way.

For the third, I guess Mahaloth. Scanning back over his posts reduced my suspicions, but the name thing still looks bad. The fact we've already lynched two players for being a bit hapless is the main thing giving me pause right now.

What about you?
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Old 26th March 2015, 05:48 PM
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I think it is Texcat and Mcginty. Vibe. I accept either's lynch.

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Mrs M, Dizzy

1. although not impossible- why the focus?
2. makes most sense to me
3. irrational- it should /would have been reciprocated if that were true



add to what I have already stated the " I didn't leave a clue" to " look see here is my clue"

if I am missing something please elaborate
For me, at this point the runaway vote on Texcat makes me very nervous. Tex is my number 1 suspect with Visor and Mahaloth being a close second. I've waffled back and forth over my thoughts about Mahaloth, at the moment I'm leaning back towards scummy.

Texcat makes me nervous also, but the lack of a runner up candidate, when there's a whole Scum team out there scares me. We've (Town) have played really poorly up until now. We don't have many "clears" (Investigated Town incase my verbage confuses people) and we haven't caught a scum yet.

Here's another suggestion for tonight at least. Scum knew that we were all trying to pair off. Why not throw themselves in pools where they knew they wouldn't get caught. Put a RIP in with the ARK and an ITO in with the RIPs. They would come up with No result, and look nice and clean and Townie for participating in the whole charade. So that's why Texcat not wanting to investigate people last night and going forward is flawed at best.
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Old 26th March 2015, 05:57 PM
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Dizzy, Yes, I made a mistake. If I were scum I wouldn't have announced it. I would have just told everyone I got no result.
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As a number of scum are obviously doing.
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What about you?
If I had to off three people all at once, I'd go TexCat, Mahaloth and you. I think that would net 1-3 scum. If I was going sequentially, I'd start with TexCat and then lynch you if she flipped scum, probably Mahaloth if she flipped Town. It would depend on how the voting went down, though.
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Here's another suggestion for tonight at least. Scum knew that we were all trying to pair off. Why not throw themselves in pools where they knew they wouldn't get caught. Put a RIP in with the ARK and an ITO in with the RIPs. They would come up with No result, and look nice and clean and Townie for participating in the whole charade.
I agree completely, I think we should start doing random investigations (see my post #23 earlier in this thread). I think we've cleared all the Town we're going to at this point, all of our investigative powers should be now spent on finding scum.
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Here's another suggestion for tonight at least. Scum knew that we were all trying to pair off. Why not throw themselves in pools where they knew they wouldn't get caught. Put a RIP in with the ARK and an ITO in with the RIPs. They would come up with No result, and look nice and clean and Townie for participating in the whole charade.
Except Scum didn't know going in what their name was ( maybe some do now- since we don't know what sort of results they can get/ have gotten)

I do agree- as stated before- cross clique investigations are our best solution now.
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When does Day end? I'm at work but I'd like to make sure to be around the last couple hours if I can.
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Old 27th March 2015, 09:03 AM
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I find myself in the strange position of hoping Texcat is scum, even though it will first make me into lynchbait, and then make me look rather foolish for having defended him.
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When does Day end? I'm at work but I'd like to make sure to be around the last couple hours if I can.
7pm EDT today, i.e. a little over five hours from now. Current vote count:

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Texcat (5): Scáthach (9), LightFoot (21), Giraffe (32), bufftabby (39), Mahaloth (87)
Visorslash (2): Mrs McGinty (57), Dizzymrslizzy (81)
Lightfoot (2): Visorslash (47), gnarlycharlie (73)
Mahaloth (1): TexCat (26), Giraffe (30)[32]
Gnarlycharlie (1): SisterCoyote (24)
I believe everyone has voted except Chaos.
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Old 27th March 2015, 10:00 AM
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My last plea to town. Don't lynch me. I am town. If scum started with 4 players, this is town's last mislynch. You'll need to be perfect from here on out to win.

I was the first to disclose that my name had 3 letters.
I was the first to suggest reverse investigations. I wanted to be confirmed by Scathach. I have confirmed that Scathach is town, and am confirmable by her if only scum will quit interfering. There have been no other matches amongst the Ito's. It should seem likely that Scathach and I are a match.

Things town will learn from my lynch:
Scathach's name. Oh, wait this is useful only to scum.
Scathach is indisputably town.
Her investigation was blocked N2 & N3. All other investigations therefore were not blocked.

My best guess for the 4 scum: Visorslash, SisC, Buff, Giraffe
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The good news about me being town for you, MrsMc, is that you won't be the day kill today.
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Old 27th March 2015, 10:18 AM
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The good news about me being town for you, MrsMc, is that you won't be the day kill today.
That's a very slender silver lining.
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I find Texcat oddly compelling and am impressed if I have been fooled.

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