A brief history of the XP wagon (with the quote tag fixed)
by joth
This is, I think, the first mention of XP as even a possible lynch candidate, pretty late in the day, IG is currently the vote leader but only has like 2 votes on him, and a wagon has just started to form on Eevee (with XP as one of the Eevee voters):
I agree with your points ADK. Though I don't think XP has gotten much suspicion either from what I remember.
Neither he nor Jimmmmm were around for my wagon though.
Still don't get much of the votes on Eevee. And not sure what to make of silver here either. Blah, I feel like something else has to happen to get this game rolling again. Some town points go to everyone that's at least around and posting a fair amount I guess.
then, sometime later, XP says "can we just lynch someone already" and silverspawn posts:
I think IG is by far the best case so far. I'll definitely do him.
I'll also consider Hydrad or XP.
then silver and XP put IG to L1. IG makes the first vote for XP, out of desperation:
Just woke up. I am at L-1
Wow, guess I'll be derphammered twice this game.
I've said what I've said in my defense. If that hasn't convinced you or the multiple insane ramp ups of my wagon, I don't know.
I still don't like WW trying to force a claim out of me under false pretenses--no matter how he tries to defend it. So vote: WW
I will repeat that I stand by my decision to not claim. I really can't believe the lazy votes on me, and all I ask is that people look at the poor votes on me.
PPE: vote: XP
XP unvotes IG and then revotes him in the next post. Then Eevee joins the wagon and legitimizes it with a "real case"
Vote: Xerxes
His last few posts that seemed like sort of quietly slipping onto the wagon and got me to rereading him, and wow has he been lurking, to the magnitude of only having 15 posts in the entire game. All his votes have been on growing wagons.
I don't know, reread him for yourself, but he has done a masterful job of avoiding all scrutiny despite playing quite scummy.
I question Eevee's case on XP, saying it seems like very clumsy scum play. There's a lot more conversation. The day stalls again. Ichi makes a sly dig at XP:
I see a lot of people calling townie stuff scummy and scummy stuff townie, which frankly is confusing me.
These are the kind of things you want to call out! What are you referring to?
-Joth saying derphammering is townie and acting like ending the day super early is a good idea
-WW defending him pushing me to claim even though I wasn't hammered
-No one really picking up on XP's hugely scummy behavior: lurking, sheeping votes, joining easy wagons and pushing them, not being around for important events like silver's claim--and not really commenting on them.
-People finding you (Eevee) scummy for reasons that make no sense to me
-Everyone just accepting silver's claim
I don't know, most of that behavior that I list makes very little sense to me, and I feel like scum is just getting away with blatantly sheeping my wagon and trying to mislynch me for the second time today.
So people can just claim VT right away and get virtually no pressure, that must be great. I understand that I distracted from it, but silver's claim is still a very important event of this day that people seem to be ignoring.
and then silver:
The XP case is looking strong. I have to reread him in James Bond Mafia, but right now I think he's almost as good as IG.
One of these two should be our lynch.
Witherweaver throws his support (but not his vote) behind the lynch. Oh boy I was hoping to find something like that.
XP always feels like town!XP to me.
Ichi and Hydrad always feel like scum to me.
The things XP always gets called out for are traits he always displays as town, so I tend to always see him that way. I don't have much of a gut town instinct on him here.. more, like I think, "would he talk about how suspicious or scummy he is as scum?"
I wouldn't oppose XP. The only player I have a real town read on is Joth.
faust posts a reads list. relevant excerpt:
xerxes - is super careless, almost in a mail-mi way sheeping people (and admitting that it's sheeping)... this could be fake. His L-1 on Ichi looks constructed.
witherweaver - lots of jokes early. In general, I don't quite buy his suspicion of Ichi, and a lot of his posts feel like he's twisting people's words instead of looking for scum. Gets defensive when people (hydrad) revisit my case on him.
So WW and Xerxes seem like the best options here. Don't want to lynch ashersky really, but I hope we'll get more from him when his VLA ends. I could do Jimmmmm or Hydrad. Other lynches are not so good.
I'm keeping my vote on WW for now, to see where this is going. Willing to change to Xerxes later.
Ichi gets to L1 AGAIN. Hydrad jumps lamely onto the XP wagon:
Rereading XP I am finding him scummier. I don't like all of his vote swapping. I would much rather a XP lynch then a IG one.
Vote: XP
Silver jumps on officially:
vote: XP
A strong case.
L-2
I vote for XP. I know it's scummy to say this, but I regret this vote. We were nearing deadline and Ichi was really repeatedly refusing to happen.
alright, you've all convinced me. I'll make the switch to vote: XP. That's L1. Last words time.
ADK declares intent to hammer
I don't find XP particularly towny and I find this quickly building wagon intriguing. Intent to hammer.
I unvote, because of a confusion of what "intent to hammer" means. I revote upon clearing up the confusion. XP claims VT, ADK quickhammers, and that's all she wrote. Thoughts to come in next post.