Cymsdale sets up his first day 1 vote on day 0. Can't really put a finger on this, but this feels a bit weird?
Then jumps from yak to alxeu which just shuffles around the people on the 2-vote tie. Tbh this kind of shuffling around is something more people should do (including myself here).
Other than that, we've got the usual day 1 create-a-large-tie behaviour we always get, until Cymsdale pushes ironhide up to 4 votes when the rest were still on 2.
Then MAW comes along an hour later and pushes it up to five, which feels a bit excessive of a pile-up. Only to then turn around and float the idea of doing a tie on purpose, which gets pushed back on immediately. He then jumps off the ironhide traint towards marty instead.
Then marty gets attention (first dedonus, then MAW and ike) for also being a zombie just like ironhide, but only ironhide getting all the 'he's a zombie, let's kill him' attention before that point. Seems fair enough of a reason to push someone, especially when ironhide was getting a bit far ahead.
Then wagon makes a push on historydude only 5 minutes before deadline, due to being also being a zombie without getting any real attention. This results in dedonus and ike joining, making a tie, and flockingbird failing to break the tie.
In terms of reads from this, cymsdale feels to me like a vill trying to force activity, though this is more gut feel than anything resembling an argument.
I don't believe wagon is really suspicious for this last minute push on historydude: The only people that were in any real danger at that point in time were ironhide and marty, who were both zombies. The main way in which such a push on historydude would be a wolftell is if we assume that wolf!wagon was saving a packmate. A somewhat competent wolf wouldn't be taking this kind of risk to save a zombie-packmate because they are very likely to die soon anyway (if anything, I'd be actively trying to kill them for goodie points). With the 'he's saving a packmate' line of logic not really applying here, I don't really see why a wolf!wagon would be doing this.
I'm also not convinced on Ike being vote-sniper here: his vote has timestamp 20:58, so at least a minute before deadline if I'm not mistaken? That seems like a rather large time period for a snipe. Is this a villager that purposely made a tie to kill two zombies, a villager that stumbled into the tie without realizing, or a wolf hoping to have the village sleepwalk into a tie while keeping plausible deniability? Should probably get some attention today.
MAW feels off to me.
Sounds good, I'm good with Ironhide today.
Unvote cymsdale
Vote Ironhide
Piling a fifth vote on ironhide when the rest was on 2, with a comment that gave me the impression he was trying to push a further wagon against ironhide just feels wolfy to me, trying to seal the deal on a runaway bandwagon before any packmates get put into contention.
Only to then turn around thinking he might get a double-kill by floating the idea of a tie in an innocent questionmark kind of way without really needing to take responsibility if it gets pushed back against too hard. He's been around here for longer than I have, and long enough to know that a day 1 tie is bad idea.
Agreed. I rolled a perception check with advantage using my heightened sense of smell class feature and got 2 nat 20's: something smells fishy.
Compared to most players here, I'm rather inexperienced, though it's true I'm definitely not new. Nonetheless I've never learned the intricacies of tie strategy.
Marty's not in contention yet and ironhide has almost all the votes, so if I'm not back, I'll at least help people be able to choose between the two.
Unvote ironhide
Vote marty
Then finally realizing the bandwagon isn't going any further, and jumping off unto marty which resulted in zombies being the only viable candidates for the day because everyone was too busy arguing about which zombie to lynch (which would be a reasonable outcome for the wolves even if marty had been a wolf: a zombie wolf is dead weight anyway. Also note he was also trying to push the zombies-as-only-candidates a bit before these posts). This might be a bit too unkind of a read of MAWs behaviour here, but this feels good enough for a vote from me.
Dedonus' main contribution was to suggest marty when ironhide was getting a runaway bandwagon. This helped (together with MAW) to setup the zombies as the only candidates in any real danger. He then also threw down a vote on historydude at 20:58 breaking a tie while setting up ike for another tie. The only argument that I could make here would just be a much weaker version of the argument against MAW, at which point I might as well push MAW. And he still has the 'tried to prevent a tie' factor going in his favour as well.
VOTE MAW
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