Well, while I fear there may be some OMGUS in this, e does appear different from his usual town self. He's usually reluctant to vote early on. I am also used to him making better cases han the one against me, but here of course my perception may be skewed because I know I'm town. What's interesting is that he is defending ash that strongly, which would be a dangerous move for scum to make D1. So one of them could be town. But, at this point, I also think that only one of them is town.
Ignoring the OMGUS, which I don't really mind, I will address your concerns about my play:
I am not my usual town self
1) I am reluctant to vote early on- This is somewhat true. I do not usually like to vote early. But you can see from Toy Story, for example, that I will vote early if I decide that a person is worthy of my vote. In fact, I wish I had kept my initial scum read on Robz because he turned out to be scum! Now, what would be more accurate to say is that I do not usually partake in RVS voting. I did in this game, but quickly removed that vote as soon as we started discussing things. I like to have my vote somewhere that I actually believe is scum. Another point is that it is no longer early. We have about 3 days until the deadline. We need to get something rolling. A vote is one way to help that along
2) I usually make better cases- Again, true. I am glad that I have established some sort of meta for doing this after having only finished one game while in the midst of another currently. I like to be rational and well thought out. However, in a game where it is impossible to make a case against anyone because no one has done anything, I will make whatever case that I can. When doing my reread, you popped off the pages with some scummy statements. Let me go over them again:
1) You made a joke about being lynched D1, which I find to be pretty scummy. It is like saying "everyone remember that I have been lynched D1 in the past so you better not do it today." In other words, trying to create a D1 pass for yourself
2) You immediately jumped on Ash for claiming "early" before we "knew" that flavor names did not give away PRs. Then you said that Ashersky makes a good mislynch because he claimed. What are you trying to do? Discourage other people from claiming because you are scum and haven't been given a fake claim? (I will leave that there, I am not going back into a flavor discussion today) Whatever you are doing, looking for a "good mislynch" is not where you want to be as town
3) You move on to talking about policy lynching Voltaire for even bringing up the flavor stuff. Scared of flavor that much? Basically your reasoning is that Voltaire side-tracked town into an irrelevant discussion, and should therefore be lynched. Well at least he moved us toward discussion, no matter how futile it ended up being. But again, policy-lynching is something that takes little effort from you. It tells nothing of your alignment or motives, because it was a "policy lynch." A great place for scum. Lynch a townie, escape free.
After reviewing my case again, I am wondering why you even brought up that "you are used to me making better cases." Are you scared scum and want to discredit the case I made? Did you find this to be a good opportunity because others (Robz for example) do not find the case convincing?
As far as your point about defending Ash strongly: True. Because I think that he is town. I have also defended Voltaire this game. Because I think he is town. I have town reads on both of them. I still want them both to respond to the cases brought against them, but I thought that I would defend them, because people spending time on them is people distracted from the real scum, Faust.