Interesting that Voltaire got so jazzed about the L-1. I want to say that's towny, although it could easily be forced. It would have been more genuine if it were actually an L-1 haha
At this point I would like to lynch, and I would like to lynch between our two lurkiest candidates, mcmc and manda. I think it is likely that there is scum among these two, and I feel that LALL'ing is our best move at this point. If we end up losing to lurker scum, we'll be all like "Awww man! I can't believe we lost to lurkers! What a bummer, shoulda LALL'ed." If we lose to crafty scum, at least we'll be like, "Oh ho ho! Well played you devious bastard." So let's avoid that feeling of hollow disappointment.
Now I actually did my homework and did a complete reread of mcmc, manda, and ash. After all that, I am still happy with my manda vote, although who knows, it could be both of them.
mcmc is actually less lurky than I thought this game. A quick ctrl-F will demonstrate that...of course there were also times of V/LA, but he can't hardly be blamed for that. So that's almost reason enough--I want to lynch a lurker here, not a pseudo-lurker. It's possible to construct scum narratives for his posts and reads and such, but there's definitely a town angle there too. And it just sort of feels like he's been a default scumread for the past couple days, and that kind of scares me...it's been very easy to get votes on him today for example.
manda has received so little attention and suspicion this game. Few votes, little suspicion, and a minimum of content. Practically every post is "Sorry I haven't been around, I'll post more later I promise!" If she were lynched, there would be so little to go by to find her partner(s), which is exactly what scum wants. The fact that she's skated by this long without much real scrutiny or pressure really raises an eyebrow for me. And if scum did in fact go for daychat, I could easily see them spurring her along--"Keep doing what you're doing, it's working great!" In GoT we had scum among the lurkiest of us and we completely succumbed to that. So maybe it's time to literally lynch the largest lurker.
Also, she and e are the only people whom I haven't roleblocked yet. So I'd want to roleblock her, but that would be WIFOMy.
Looking at the interactions with ash is tricky of course. Certainly he had much more salient interactions with Jimmmmm in particular, as well as Robz. But rereading him through the lens of mcmc vs. manda, I still think manda comes out behind.
mcmc is only mentioned a couple of times. The most notable thing ash said is "mcmc is scum. Write it down." He placed mcmc in his actilurker category, and comments on one of his ideas. That's about all I can remember.
manda on the other hand gets mentioned a LOT. Seriously, for a game where manda has been sort of in the background, ash makes an unnatural number of references to her. Early on he found that one post of hers scummy-sounding on semi-flimsy pretext, questions a D1 pass, then explained directly to her about why it felt hedgy. Calls her out twice directly for needing to post more. Defends her against Jimmmmm. Mentions her avatar (and its similarity to mcmc's, interestingly). Singles her out as a "scummy voter on Jorbles". Comments that her lurkiness is perhaps "part of her nefarious plan."
And so on! Go ahead, read for yourself if you want. There's just a higher than average manda reference density in ash's posts than I would have expected. Now you might think, wouldn't ash want to *not* talk about his scumpartners? Well that's a bag of WIFOM again...ash was all about purloined letters this game lol. But something definitely seems odd about it.
So I want to keep voting manda.
PPE: Apparently e disagrees.