Quick as possible because I'm dead on my feet here, but I want to get this out since Pietro is in quicklynch range and the day might not go to deadline.
Moses: No, none of the flavor you posted makes sense to me. My bodyguarding isn't even a supernatural power as far as I can tell. The bulletproof part was called out as supernatural (casting
flesh ward; anyone who's played CoC or Arkham Horror probably knows how it works
), but the method by which I bodyguard people wasn't beyond I take hits for others, and live through them with my spell.
If somebody did slowkill you, I guess that could be a type of kill I couldn't block, though. Maybe I can only block non-magical attacks or something. The only alternative explanation (aside from one of us lying, obviously) is that I'm an unwitting vessel for Hastur because of the play and he kills those I try to protect? It is VERY hard to believe this wouldn't even be hinted at in either of my PMs, though, and it wasn't.
As for why I didn't claim about being the target of the kill and bodyguarding you immediately? Initially I didn't want to explain how I survived right after another Bulletproof townie got lynched. Notice the "two Millers!" reaction Hellsnake's claim initially drew? That. (Especially when I was the first vote on the lynched BP Townie!) Then you came out with your slowkill worries and I was even more reluctant to say what happened the night before. To me it seemed better to wait and see what was scared up - such as pulling Aggro from Ethan, for instance.
Pietro: If I wanted to suffer Scum to live, I'd be voting for someone OTHER than you. Your apparent desperation to quicklynch Hellsnake would alone be enough for me to think he was non-Scum, if I hadn't previously assumed it was a bussing job. You've still yet to show one single argument that isn't either a load of bull or repeating someone else to jump on an "easy" train.
If we had no other Scummy-looking people to hunt, I would be disinclined to let Hellsnake go. But we do, starting with you. I'd certainly want to poke my nose into Kyle/Sopko and Ethan, both of whom have given me serious Scumtells, before going after someone with an easily provable claim like Hellsnake's.
And seriously, "we could already be in LYLO?" Please. We had Mod confirmation in the very last votecount that this isn't LYLO.
The only reason I would vote Hellsnake over you is if I had reason to believe he had a very powerful Scum power role - and I've been given no such reason.
Chad: Reread
the post you're talking about. I devoted a whole section to Kyle. This is the second time I've pointed this out, please reread it if it still concerns you.
If we are going to let Hellsnake either revive or not - and with another, at least as strong, Scum candidate, I believe we should - critiquing his play at this point is pretty much useless, IMO. This also goes for:
Sam: 4 Scum would not surprise me in light of just the claimed Town roles so far. I function almost like an invulnerable Doctor, and if Hellsnake is telling the truth he's arguably even MORE powerful because he could, in theory, get us back a confirmed Townie. (Of course, Raiser CAN be a Scum role, albeit a very shitty/difficult one.)
About the rest of your post, see above about the big Hellsnake reread. if your time is short spend it on people who haven't given us an on/off switch for whether they're lying or not.
OK, that's all I can do tonight. It's 4am and I'm probably rambling.
IN GENERAL: Please, please, please
nobody put Pietro at -1 before close to deadline! I don't want to give Kolmogorov an excuse to be all "oh, I was going to post the next day but you ended early" (hopefully in awesome Russian mad scientist flavor, but still!
), and if Pietro is indeed Scum he might selfhammer to end the day before we're finished hashing stuff out. (I'm less worried about another Scumhammer because it should be little more than a 1/1 trade since that's obviously a bad move.)
I *should* be back by deadline, so see you all in my AM, Marbury's evening!
::Ninja'd by Pietro::
Can't think about this tonight except to say Cop or Scum, Sane or Mad, you're STILL LYING. Hargreaves gives his reason: your push to quicklynch Hellsnake. Even if you think that's a bad reason, it IS a reason.
Nonetheless I'll:
##UNVOTE Pietro GiovanniTo make sure there's a chance to talk about this in the morning.