Happy as I am that we caught Jackson the duplicitous wolf, I am a little disappointed that both Hax and Claude proved goodies as I was pretty confident I had cracked the game. This means that my analysis was flawed and I must return to the drawing board.
So, what can we learn from Jackson's revealed wolfdom?
Vote Tornadoli
#MakeWerewolfFunAgain
This was only the 2nd vote on Torn. This ties him with Aedan at 2 votes at the time. It's still relatively early in the day and this sort of establishes Torn as a major candidate for the day. Not inconceivable that the wolves could try to vote up 2 of their own day 1, but combined with Torn's votes on Aedan and Jackson, Torn on the balance is looking pretty good.
I’m honestly not too high on the wagon case really, I just don’t see him sticking his neck so far out for a packmate even if said packmate is Aedan. Day 1 is a crapshoot and I’m not getting a wagon wolf read at the moment so I’m going to pursue else where, mainly the wagon voters because it looks like wagon is an easy scapegoat that wolves can hide behind.
this post doesn’t sit well with me I think it’s how arky words this with such wushu washyness it may be over reading but it reads like a wolf trying to be non commital so some suspicion points to arky.
Jerays vote also looks pretty wolffish if you ask me, as he doesn’t even try to provide a reason or even think about today, I see it as a lazy vote on a convenient scapegoat.
Since arky is already a candidate I think I’ll put my vote on him for the time being.
Vote Arkasas
Jackson would have known Wagon's innocence in advance. As Capage suggested also may have been the case with me, this looks like a wolf trying to give demonstrate his foresight and predictive powers to the village by voicing concern about the Wagon bandwagon; however Jackson probably might have expected villagers to try to save poor Wagon (it wasn't a great vote), and could be trying to set up Arky as the target if people start switching off Wagon. Not impossible that this is an alibi vote, but this was before Castor but Wagon out of reach and so Arky was a legitimate contender. On the whole, I think this makes Arky look good.
I'm surprised how spread out we are so late into the day, we probably need to consolidate a little so we have control over the lynch. I still believe that Arky is a good candidate, and the very unexpected result of the Wagon lynch only reaffirms my suspicions so I still think he's a good candidate. I like the case on Alynike and while his response is nice to see I'm not entirely convinced of his innocence, so I have no problems seeing him up there in the voting. I also still think Jeray is a good candidate as I stated yesterday and his response to me didn't do him any favors. Those 3 are the best candidates today (I don't have a Wolf Rovsea read nor do I think Alyniko's case is good enough to attack Castor as of yet) so for today I think I'm going to go with Jeray.
Vote Jeray
Repeats desire to kill Arky. Tries to establish me as a possible other candidate. Seems to try be trying to lay the groundwork for cases against villagers who haven't obviously been cleared yet. Jeray has been relatively quiet, but between this and his Aedan vote, I think he's also looking pretty good.
I'm not reading wolf from Rovsea, Capage, or Hax thus far. Rovsea has been quite out there and very unlike his wolf self, and has somehow managed to convince me that Claude is a decent candidate heading forward. Capage has been providing extremely good analysis and while I don't always agree with his conclusions I don't see him as a wolf, at least not yet. Hax hasn't been as bold as the past few games but I'm fairly confident that I am getting a villager vibe on him.
For wolfish vibes Jeray and Arkasas are still up there, and the past 24 hours haven't exactly changed much of that. Especially with Jeray, he's provided nothing exceptional and his vote on Wagonlitz still bothers me greatly.
Where on earth are Torn and BC, they have been walking zombies the entire game and I'd be rather inclined to vote Torn except I don't see a wolf Torn so intent on killing his packmate Day 1, especially not Aedan. BC I can see as a wolf choosing to throw his packmate under the bus as his vote on Aedan was late and had fairly large consequences on the outcome of the lynch. But besides that he has provided absolutely nothing of value and I have half a mind to vote him as a lazy vote trying to lay low through the entire game. Alyniko is a wild card for me because I have absolutely no solid read on him and I can't exactly put my finger on why.
I still think Jeray is my preferred candidate, followed by BlackCrown and Arky/Claude.
Vote Jeray
I don't think Jackson was expecting to die yesterday, and so probably wasn't especially worried about distancing himself from his packmates, so he was looking for a village patsy to run up and was less concerned with alibi-voting. Though he did ultimately switch away from Jeray the day before, this is his 2nd time declaring Jeray his preferred candidate.
What can be learned from these votes? Arky and Jeray are very likely innocent.
Some emphasis added.
I'd rather not a dead Rovsea, either.
Hmmm... Imma guess Rovsea's innocent too. As this game is probably winding toward a village victory, I'm less scared to say it; this is probably the JL. If I'm wrong, this changes everything. If I'm wrong, I would have little compunction about killing Rovsea.
I refuse to believe BC is a wolf. I do not see him betraying Aedan day 1 with one of the most aggressive votes against him.
Thus, process of elimination leaves...
Capage and....
Torn??? I basically was already sure that Capage was a wolf (no offense Capage! You have done an excellent job providing analysis), but this second result surprises me greatly. I feel like I'm missing something. For today, the answer is definitely...
VOTE CAPAGE