Let me say right now before I start, Faust, Haddock, and ADK are so very pro-town in my eyes. Let's see if this re-read changes my opinion.
The Haddock lynch is where it's at. Time to get this guy dead as dead can be.
Heap 'em on.
Let's start here, the day before the lynch period. Iguana pushes for Haddock, which is a little scummy, but not damning by any means, let's be honest.
OK, so the final day is upon us and apparently I'm still the one in the lead to be lynched. Which is super frustrating, especially since my wagon basically isn't any bigger than the competing ones. It also hurts that my vote has been essentially rendered useless by Awaclus refusing to move.
I don't really know what to say at this point. I'm aware that my play for the first half of the day was really weak; but it really bugs me that noone has noted how I've stepped up my game since I found the time more recently. In particular since Fruit Ninja ended.
Lots of people look towny here, scum must be playing well, so I understand that there's a lot of PoE doing work. But we can do better than me. I have been scumhunting as well as anyone else in recent times, and have been contributing much more effectively than the current alternative wagons.
Can the people currently on my wagon please explain why? The person who made the case (faust) has even moved away, and you guys haven't really offered anything.
ADK in particular, can you rethink your vote please?
This feels so genuine. Haddock plays scummy sometimes, but he can really start the violins and hit you in the feels when he wants to.
From before:
So, summary of my reads:
People I would like to lynch:
iguana (some posts that read like his town meta but also lots of scummy things)
gkrieg (I stand by my stance on his recent slip. And he's not done anything towny except his reads list)
People I could lynch:
ced (Many questions, and fair enough if that's his style, but he hasn't been super towny in general)
Jimmm (lurker)
People I probably wouldn't want to lynch:
ADK (towny in general)
Seprix (lots of idiotic posts that make no sense, but I've come to expect that)
silver (makes a lot of sense, which is a nulltell for him but he's handy to have around as a result)
People I definitely wouldn't want to lynch:
Joseph, RR, faust, Awaclus. All for fairly obvious reasons.
This reads list
yesterday reflects how I feel today mostly. It's really really weird. I've been looking again at Ced recently (he was my scum case before), because scum is not playing an aggressive game by any means. He's been asking questions, sure, but not contributing all that much. Now he's pushing for my lynch, and sure, there's the whole OMGUS argument, but it's honestly not that. I'm such a super easy mislynch for that gambit, let's be honest. It's really safe to push my lynch. That's Awaclus, pushing the safe lynch. He never takes gambles. But Ced is a good player, you'd think he'd be more aggressive as town, right?
I think deadline is in about 6 hours.
Vote: Jimmmmm out of self-preservation.
This is why I think Awaclus is town. He's just so hard to read, and I know it's about 6 hours to the lynch, but he never moves his vote after.
I'm not a big fan of the Jimmmmm wagon. Too many not-so-towny people on it.
More town posts from obvious town.
Iguana is voting for Haddock at this point. Gkreig is voting for Haddock at this point. No way all three scum votes on Haddock. Faust and Jimmmmm are also voting here at this point. In addition, Joseph and RR are both voting for Jimmmmm, along with Haddock and Awaclus. Silverspawn is the lone wolf voting for Awaclus, with that awful awful bussing attempt from him, likely trying to repeat the Fruit Ninja trick again. Ced is not voting. I think Silverspawn is almost given to be scum as well, and then pick among Gkreig, Iguana, Joseph, RR and Ced for the third.
So FTR I think that faust's 587 presents a good case on Haddock.
As for Haddock's more recent posting:
There's an obvious self-survival motive at work here (e.g. voting Jimmmmm), but I think that's a given regardless of alignment. There's something else driving Haddock's posts here, though: he's trying to solve the game. 675 is insightful in this regard. The voting restrictions are making a mess of the deadline situation, for example me not being able to productively vote iguana. He's not just saying that though - he is also actively trying to scumhunt outside of just going for Jimmmmm.
Jimmmmm and Awaclus meanwhile are mainly preoccupied with self-survival votes. In Jimmm's case, this goes back further. I did note his previous posts were complaining about Lynch all Lurkers when he got the first two votes from RR/Joseph.
Vote Jimmmmm
Lurker lynches suck but I really don't like the alternatives.
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EWP: Man. If you're gonna flame me iguana, then I don't think I want to play.
EWP2: Oh.
And there might go the Ced scum case, single handedly. This is a bold bus move if Ced is scum. He is a good player, but is it necessary? Haddock is practically the lynch at this point, and nobody would really knock Ced all that much for doing so. So it's down to SS, Iguana, RR, Joseph, and Gkreig.
Feels bad man
What does this mean?
Vote: Seprix instead.
Shit. I might be number one lynch again.
Hold on.
Jimmmm's emotional time zone plea got me.
WOW is this a bad post. I hear people say it's typical RR, but he could be looking for the first chance possible to get another wagon going. He also does a lot of other scummy stuff I remembered, such opportunistic stuff, which I may or may not quote as I go through the end of the day, because it might not be there.
Time to make a bold (ba dum Tsss) statement:
A no lynch is better than lynching Jimmmmm
Well, like this. Speak of the devil.
Awaclus. You are forgetting Awaclus.
We should lynch Awaclus.
Man, I just don't like this last second push for Awaclus. The last time that happened left a Monarch Butterfly-like taste in my mouth.
let's do that then
vote: Awaclus
SS was already voting Awaclus when he did this. Not sure how relevant this is.
vote: Jimmmm then
Ooooooh, there goes my SS case. That's crazy insane for SS to do as scum. Like, wow. Crazy bus gamble as scum. If anybody would do it, SS would, but man.
I think I'm scummier than Seprix. I was over there blowing my nose at Jimmmmm's defense. Still though. Let's here Seprix's pitiful excuse, if he even has one.
Ewwwwwwwww, ew ew ew. He first says he's scummier, then instantly flip flops like Romney and turns on me like a rabid dog. As SS says, "classic RR". I can't read this. Can anybody read this?
Okay, so we're down to RR, Joseph, Gkreig, and Iguana.