First off, I need to apologize to you XX, I did a horrible job of continuing our chat. Yeah, it takes some time to get used to it - there's so many and yet so few text edit buttons. It took me a while to figure out how to link to a tab without copy/pasting the entire url.
It's currently about 3 in the morning my time, the lynch is in 7 hours. I'll try to be around then, but I could oversleep and I'll be groggy if I do make it. I'll do my best though!
I'll do some addressing in the direction of gkrieg. Yep, I've been spending a lot of time lurking on the forums lately, especially in the mafia games (I don't know if the 'creepy' was for you and me, but it's definitely very creepy of me). I should probably be working, but I have no attention span whatsoever. Hopefully for my sake, I'll start spending less time once summer break ends (since I've never done an official intro, if you hadn't already guessed that I'm one of the younger ones here, I'm 20 years old - I'll get around to the introductions thread later).
I didn't know much about the mafia here before like a month ago, now I do. Probably never would've joined, but M100 was too crazy to not inspire me. But I don't really read through posts that much at all - the lynches and the reveals are the fun part. Most of my pre-formed notions of players' skills are based on how long they've been active on f.ds, which corresponds well for the most part to their experience with mafia.
This is my freebie game - nobody knows anything about how I play, they just have to believe me when I say I'm town. After this game when you find out I am indeed telling the truth, you'll have a baseline for me and will indeed have an easy time trusting me when I'm town and immediately seeing through my weak deceptions when I'm skum. I just need you all to go out on a limb for me this once. So when you say 'I do every townie thing ever'...yeah, it's cause I'm a bad liar so there will be a very clear difference between Skumpy and Skummy Skumpy. If you (anyone-you, not gkrieg-you) don't think I'm town after my post where I basically spilled my life story on an internet forum whereas I never have IRL, then you're just a heartless bastard
In defense of XX, if he has little previous experience and doesn't know how to approach it, then I'd make for a very reasonable and sensible first accusation. Which is not at all to say he is in fact town, but I can see rational in it if he is.
Now for the upcoming lynch:
I also really like the way TWM approached it all in #321. I really do hope he's town because he's done a masterful job otherwise arguing his side. Gkrieg got his back, which I'd think would either confirm my hopes or pinpoint them both as scum...I'd think the former's more likely (note I didn't say that necessarily means gkrieg would be town, but I'd lean that way). As a newbie town player, I've done some thinking with regards to TWM's using-Skumpy's-wagon-to-judge plan, and I've had some ideas:
That a scum could gain some trust by an accurate, early, yet undefended, town read off an active newbie
That they wouldn't be aware how different/strange/suspiciously skummy Skumpy is at the time of the post
That they wouldn't have had the foresight to start a lynch mob on him
And when the lynch mob does start, they can pledge their support to cast suspicion on someone else, and make a vote that's very justified
And when a defense is made and the wagon breaks down, they lose all interest in furthering discussion either towards town or skum
All of which matches up very nicely with one person in particular...
Vote: RobzStill totally fine with a Jake lynch, but I'm more partial to Robz I think. If I'm alive for day 2, the other's my first first pick for a lynch then. I'll try to be around at the deadline, but I can't make promises. Best of luck to everybody - may we all see each other in the morning safely!