That's not a good mentality to have as a goodie, and in fact is something a baddie would say...Well, to all of you who think I'm inactive:
I really am, but it is ONLY because I can't contribute anything. I need experience.
Vote Audren
Probably the most absurd part of Euro's "case" against me is that it is equally applicable against himself. Euro says a smart wolf would hunt Hax, but then that means he knows the smart move would be to hunt hax, ergo he would also be a smart wolf who could have made the hunt. It's a silly case either way, but anyone following it should rethink their votes on me based on the above.
Regardless of how Euro puts his reasoning, any voting strategy that targets the village at lynching smart players is exceedingly likely to be bad for the village if and when it backfires and kills villagers. I'm not saying players considered smart or good should be above the lynch, but lynching them because they are smart or good is not a helpful strategy for the village, except by wild chance.
Anyways I'm not a wolf (or due to the RP I guess I am, that was a confusing PM to get when I skipped reading the RP roles), so lynching me is a bad idea. Yesterday wasn't overly helpful in giving us actual information to go on though, and anyone reading much into who voted the seer is being silly, since no one, villagers or wolves, knew he was the seer. Most that can be said is that Audren rose above Health and Alynkio is the votes, so maybe there was something of a save attempt. Claude was one of the late Audren voters, giving his vote right before deadline with no explanation, and hasn't been on since to give any later explanation or add other commentary. Not good for a case, but I'd like to pressure some activity out of him.
Vote Claude
Why? Alynkio was a late voter on Audren, but since he was tied with Audren and Health before he switched to Audren, he'd have an interest in lynching Audren regardless of his role, since he wouldn't want to be lynched himself. Even if we assume that Audren was lynched to save another major candidate, it could be either of Health and Alynkio that is implicated. Plus Alynkio's made a decent length post today, and generally explains himself, unlike Claude. As I said in the section you're quoting, I don't think it's a great case against Claude, but I want some activity from him.
Well, as Wagon pointed out yesterday, we didn't have a free tie to begin with, since there was no night 0 hunt, but now that we got a tie, we have a free one. So I think it would be a good idea to tie again today, particularly since we seem to have a number of candidates with fairly decent reasons lined up against them. Seems the main options to choose from are Yakman, Arkasas, Aramael, and Health. I'm not overly fond of lynching the latter two, since Aramael was voted by wolf Alynkio (I'm ignoring RP roles for simplicity's sake), and Health voted Alynkio. Obviously the possibility of selling out packmates exists, but with the seer dead, and the race close as it was, I'm not at all confident the wolves would be inclined to sell out at such a stage.
So I'm in favor of a Yakman/Arkasas tie. Both have a somewhat suspicious record, and little in the way of contribution.
Vote Arkasas
I think he's behind Yakman in votes.
i have the worst feeling about aedan. talk me out of it
What does this even mean?
I don't know where to begin here. My votes may have been on villagers, and my advocacy for lynches directed against villagers, but they were not detrimental to the village. I provide extensive reasoning for my votes, and no one challenged any of my proposals as being bad before they got villagers lynched (excepting day 1, which is almost always random anyways). The recipients of my votes were also relatively inactive players, and by removing them, the surviving players can maintain activity, providing more information to analyse, whereas if active players were lynched, we would have less to work with.
As for better candidates for today, I think it might be a good idea to shake up our approach and instead focus on players who haven't received much focus previously, such as Euro and Slinky. Neither voted Alynkio, and euro seems to keep wanting to direct attention against me on flimsy pretexts.
Votes on me remain a poor move. I think Euro has been rather flakey and inconsistent so far. On day two he comes out immediately against me for a flimsy pretext, that doesn't even implicate me specifically. Then he easily drops any pressure against me, not because of my actual arguments, but because of a side comment about role PMs. Now today he's back on the aedan train for no real reason, and with no mention of the previous comment he implied cleared me. He's also been completely unwilling to consider other candidates today, which is also not usual for Euro. I don't know why he's chosen me as his lynch target, but he's not gone about this in a way that indicates he's a villager. Therefore I think Euro is a wolf. He's also avoided scrutiny and votes in previous days.
Vote Euro
There's chaotic Euro, and there's unhelpful detrimental Euro. They look similar, but chaotic Euro usually can be seen to be maneuvering for more activity. See his initial push against me this game to get activity from me, which I normally avoid doing for the first couple days. But Voting you yesterday for questioning him, despite you voting a wolf twice, and staying on you was unhelpful and pointless, as is his sudden push against me today for flimsy pretexts, without any mention of the prior comment he implied cleared me. This is Euro using his reputation to cover up harmful activity against the village.
Vote Alynkio.
This argumentation is too du-*screech*-mb. Well, mine is not better, but anyways.
Too bad.
Vote Claude.
A-*screech*-rgumentation of Jeray seems quite legit, though I'm not really sure yet.
And then after Euro has made his vote aedan post, Griffin just follows without independent thought.Alynkio, I see why you are suspicious, but I have no experience and see no other clever arguments (other than flawed logic of Euro).
By the way...
Unvote Claude, Vote Euro for flawed logic.
And late in the day he switches to Aramael as she's starting to get switched to. Seems like somebody wanting to pretend to be active, but actually not really doing anything independently.Ok, Euro, I think I'll take the risk.
Vote Aedan.
Well, Aramael doesn't seem too active, and her last vote is quite suspicious. I think I'll join others.
Unvote aedan
Vote Aramael
And yesterday he just followed the EURO case arguing that EURO was bad for trying to lynch aedan.Vote Aramael for non-sufficient arguments. And being not so active and in general suspicious.
Well, 2 of these arguments can also be told about me, but I'm different.
This doesn't seem good.
Vote Euro.
He voted Arkasas for absolutely no reason, provoking the tie, he tried to lynch Aedan just because he was smart (Euro is also smart) and now is voting Aedan again just because.
And this smells like videonfanning.Oh well...
Now we are dead.
Why?I'm far more suspicious of aedan now.
Wouldn't that speak to aedan's benefit?aedan wasn't amongst the alynkio voters when he was tied with Claude.
No. Alynkio was a baddie.Wouldn't that speak to aedan's benefit?
Helping to kill off goodie Euro, and their ongoing tiff. That said, Euro wasn't exactly helping the village with his standard chaotic play.Why?
Probably the most absurd part of Euro's "case" against me is that it is equally applicable against himself. Euro says a smart wolf would hunt Hax, but then that means he knows the smart move would be to hunt hax, ergo he would also be a smart wolf who could have made the hunt. It's a silly case either way, but anyone following it should rethink their votes on me based on the above.
Regardless of how Euro puts his reasoning, any voting strategy that targets the village at lynching smart players is exceedingly likely to be bad for the village if and when it backfires and kills villagers. I'm not saying players considered smart or good should be above the lynch, but lynching them because they are smart or good is not a helpful strategy for the village, except by wild chance.
Anyways I'm not a wolf (or due to the RP I guess I am, that was a confusing PM to get when I skipped reading the RP roles), so lynching me is a bad idea. Yesterday wasn't overly helpful in giving us actual information to go on though, and anyone reading much into who voted the seer is being silly, since no one, villagers or wolves, knew he was the seer. Most that can be said is that Audren rose above Health and Alynkio is the votes, so maybe there was something of a save attempt. Claude was one of the late Audren voters, giving his vote right before deadline with no explanation, and hasn't been on since to give any later explanation or add other commentary. Not good for a case, but I'd like to pressure some activity out of him.
Vote Claude
Vote Griffin
Hello aedan.
At some stage, do you think it might be worth asking people about the exact wording of their role PM from Voyager?
Is that a bit too 'meta'?
Combination of the following:Asking just as the matter of principle: why?
I wondered if/when you were going to bring up that PM.I'll admit I look rather bad for repeatedly voting for villagers in significant ways, and having done a bit to direct votes away from the only wolf we know of on day 2. However, why would I go to such trouble as wolf to direct the village against villagers? If I were a wolf and the village was aimless or focused on villager candidates, I wouldn't then insert myself to take a leading role in the lynches of villagers to draw attention to myself. On day 3 we had four major candidates, Arkasas, Yakman, Aramael, and Health. We now know the first three were villagers. Of those Health had the least votes, so the three candidates in danger, all were villagers. In such circumstances, what do I have to gain by stepping up to push for and support a tie between two villagers? It didn't bring parity any closer, it didn't remove major voices of the village, and it was far from a move to save a potential packmate. All it did was damage my credibility and put more of a spotlight on myself, wholly unnecessarily if I was a wolf.
To further extend this point, as Wagonlitz seems to be implying, I'm well known to sellout packmates rather than defend them. Indeed, more than a few times I've been considered a likely wolf for being involved in the lynching of multiple wolves.
Needless to say, I'm not a wolf, simply a villager who has been following/making cases that happen to be against villagers. This leaves me much less confident about potential wolves among the remaining players, though by pure probability I have a fifty percent chance of being right accusing one of you of being a wolf.
That said, I'm not sold in Griffin as the alternative candidate for today. He put a second vote on Alynkio pretty early in the day day 1, and kept it there, even when Alynkio got later votes. Very risky for a newb wolf to do to a packmate, and I don't think his actions so far indicate the level of ruthlessness or team apathy that would go with such an action. Health and Wagonlitz put important votes on Alynkio day 2, so they've avoided suspicion, since it would have been very easy to avoid voting Alynkio while Claude was in the lead. That would indicate the wolfpack is Slinky, JCan, and Jeray. This fits with the voting record so far and is quite possible.
But JCan isn't a wolf. I don't like bringing in a semi-meta point like this, but it can't be ignored. On day 2, shortly after the issue of the RP for villagers being wolves, he sent me this PM-
I told him it was, and I stand by that. However, by asking me this, JCan all but cleared himself in my eyes, and I tried to keep this limited to myself to limit meta arguments. But with my credibility in the drain after prior lynches, and with the group of players lacking votes on wolves (myself, JCan, jeray, and Slinky) containing two confirmed villagers in my book (myself and JCan), I can't keep this information secret anymore. So I think wolf pack is most likely being jeray, Slinky, and one of Health and Wagonlitz. The latter two did vote a wolf, but based on what I know, at least one wolf did vote Alynkio, and I believe two factors make them more likely wolves than Griffin. Griffin is a new player, while Health and Wagon are more familiar, particularly Wagon. Also, on day 2 Alynkio getting more votes again indicates that he might be a constant vote magnet, whereas an early second vote on day 1 is much more detrimental to the wolves. Because of this, I think Griffin is a less likely wolf than Health or Wagon.
So in summary, we should lynch Jeray or Slinky today. And since we lose if a villager is lynched, we need to have all players agree on a candidate.
Vote Slinky
Yep. Hence why aedan is less likely a wolf.No. Alynkio was a baddie.
EURO was being really strange.Helping to kill off goodie Euro, and their ongoing tiff. That said, Euro wasn't exactly helping the village with his standard chaotic play.
It was really early though as you said and new wolves have been known to vote mates. He could then easily have been trapped on that vote. Also Alynkio wasn't in the front when he voted, so it was a rather safe vote. Plus Alynkio could save himself.He put a second vote on Alynkio pretty early in the day day 1, and kept it there, even when Alynkio got later votes.
I'm confused.Yep. Hence why aedan is less likely a wolf.
It was early, but it was the second vote on him, and it didn't put him singularly in the lead, but it put him in tie for the lead. The issue also isn't so much that his vote ended up being dangerous, but that it was dangerous when he first made it, and a new player is unlikely to vote a packmate right off the bat.It was really early though as you said and new wolves have been known to vote mates. He could then easily have been trapped on that vote. Also Alynkio wasn't in the front when he voted, so it was a rather safe vote. Plus Alynkio could save himself.