So here's what I think. 2 main points.
1.
Day 3 mathdude and Didds were bussing each other.
joth said so:
Didds is playing right into the “Didds and math are partners” narrative with that switch.
Kinda answers the “who could possibly be bussing?” Question nicely, doesn’t it?
That sucks. Somebody vote math. It’s so obvious what’s happening here.
Looking at other stuff from day 3 I agree with him. Then joth was the night kill.
2.
Day 1 mathdude reminded us of the importance of listening to dead townie players:
Then, even though f.ds usually doesn't look at dead townie players' posts and reads (and I really think they should, and will continue to say that)...
... but he has not continued to say that.
Maybe because the dead townies (especially the ones that have been night-killed) have been correctly identifying his scum partners.
I've already mentioned joth's final words.
Here are e's final words:
Vote: scola
Your partner to the rescue didds
e was the only one seriously suspicious of gkrieg.
So, as of start of day 4, I would have said the team is mathdude+Didds. And probably gkrieg.
The things I've seen happening Day 4 are:
- Swowl working hard to figure things out.
- mathdude, Didds and gkrieg initially unsure what to do (presumably their overnight plan involved throwing shade on me, after how day 3 ended), then trying to figure out whether they need to be bussing each other or not.
- Jack Rudd is the mystery. It is also weird how no-one else seems to have been trying to get Jack to give any views or commit to any positions or anything.
I do still feel that f.ds should more often look back at dead townie players (especially those that are night-killed). In this case, your quotes from joth show that he had wrong reads.
Where are the conf-town votes each EoD?
D1: 2 on Dylan (they were wrong), 4 on 2.71 (they were were wrong), 1 not voting.
D2: 1 on pasta (he was wrong), 4 on Didds (jury's still out).
D3: 1 on MiX (fang was wrong), 2 on me (I and scum know they are wrong, but from other POV, jury's still out).
Conf-town players from D1 give us nothing. From D2, they seem to strongly suggest we vote Didds. From D3, it looks like they point to me. But the 2 that were voting for me were MiX (the D2 Exile) and joth (who scum killed at night, presumably the point to me... note that they could have also killed EFHW with the same result). Note that if scum killed anyone else last night, it would have resulted in a nothing!burger - killing a town among gkrieg, fang, me, or Didds would have been a conf!town on conf!town!MiX, and killing Swowl or Galz (if either are town) would be a conf!town not voting. By killing from joth/EFHW, they can point to me for the final mix-exile.
Where are the votes from the remaining 6 who could be scum (from fang's POV) each EoD?
D1: math, gkrieg, Didds all on Dylan (we were wrong); EFHW, Swowl, Galz all on me.
D2: math, EFHW, gkrieg, Didds all on pasta (we were wrong); Galz, Swowl both on me.
D3: gkrieg, math, Didds all on MiX (we were wrong); EFHW on me; Galz, Swowl not voting.
So gkrieg, me, and Didds were always on the "winning" wagon, which always voted out town. EFHW joined once. EFHW, Swowl, and Galz all want me exiled. So me, gkrieg, and Didds all know there's at least 1 scum in that latter group (EFHW, Swow, and Galz/Jack). By the same logic that says (from an outside POV) that it's not me/gkrieg/Didds (why would we all vote the same all game?), I'm fairly certain it's not all of EFHW, Galz/Jack, and Swowl (they are way too united all game against me)... so that leads me to believe it's at least 1 of gkrieg or Didds again - maybe both, but probably 1?
I don't know how else to look at things. I've tried a number of different perspectives, and I don't know what I've gained. Maybe it helps someone else? We need a red flip to actually start parsing things out. Where is the most likely red today? Given all the possible scum-teams, is Galz/Jack the common denominator? Is it Didds?