People probably think I am just scum trying to dodge a lynch right now. I realize that it looks like that. I AM town, so I will do my best to explain my thought process as well as I can during this game.
So first of all, all of my recent decisions have been colored by my increasing annoyance with Faust's wrong assumption that I am scum, along with the undue control he has had over this game so far, which I will now go out on the record and say are not necessarily scum traits or town traits. I have definitely made poor plays in this game, based on the assumptions that my mislynch was at various times unavoidable or necessary. At times, I have made posts with the goal in mind of making Faust look silly when I flip town. Toward that end, probably I have only made myself look silly, and scummy, and validated everyone's scumread on me. And I am sorry for that.
Now, let's go
Faust first gave a scumread on me based on my interactions with Xerxes, who we now know is scum. I don't know exactly what the basis for that scumread was, but I imagine that it has to do with the fact that we voted for each other or claimed to want to vote for each other at non-critical times, but then never followed up those votes by actually being on the wagon at lynch.
I don't think this is a very good argument. I cannot speak for Xerxes, but as for myself, I have obviously been floundering a lot this game and changing my vote a lot. I am prone to changing my mind, especially when new evidence comes up, and am perhaps too susceptible to listening to other people's arguments or ideas. The result of that was a series of bad timing with my votes on Xerxes, such that none of them ended up making a difference. In the end, Xerxes' weak "town should listen to my scumreads after my death" argument, combined with Faust's suspicion of me and his confidence that he has the game "solved" pushed me over the edge. That doesn't change the fact that I did find Xerxes to be scummy, and wanted him lynched. If I had gotten my lynch on Faust, and he had flipped town, I would have gone after Xerxes next for sure. Obviously, it didn't happen that way and I can't prove that. Let's put that aside, I guess.
Last night, when I was choosing who to target, I did in fact choose Witherweaver first. However, I changed my target to Hydrad before the end of the night. Again, we can't both be scum at this point, so the fact that I am reporting it and Hydrad is confirming it should be enough to prove that at least I targeted Hydrad with some kind of action. Once I am dead or this game is over, you will all see that the action was jailkeeping. At any rate, the line of reasoning I used was this: at the end of yesterday, Witherweaver looked more and more like town. He proved ready to vote Xerxes before it was a sure thing that the Xerxes wagon took off, and didn't want to go after Faust even though it would have been a real possibility if he flipped. He looked like he was trying to honestly figure things out, and so after some time I questioned myself. I remembered that on jailkeeping Hydrad on N2, there had in fact been no deaths, and wondered whether the deaths on N3/N4 were because scum knew I was jailkeeping Hydrad and decided to have Xerxes perform the kill instead.
I was greedy and wanted a clean end to the game. I convinced myself that Hydrad was most likely the remaining scum player and decided to jailkeep him, thinking that if there were no deaths last night I would be able to explain the phenomenon and have scum!Hydrad lynched, without town needing to go through the process of my mislynch. I had the glowing stars of MVP in my eyes, dreaming the pipe dream that I for once would be able to use my power role effectively and turn things around from being the most hated player to the most loved.
It was all of course to no avail. There was a kill last night, most likely either because Hydrad can break through a jailkeep or Witherweaver has found a way to cheat Faust's scum check. And yes, it is also possible that Faust is playing a very risky game here, and he is the remaining scum player.
I wish I could tell anyone anything with certainty, but the only role I know is my own.
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