Yeah, I see the Rat post, but unless I suddenly end up replacing Snow as the lynchee of note, that's not a terribly pressing matter at present. Now, as for Snow.
He's good at seeming reasonable when he actually talks, but that's fairly neutral. Now, looking at what he's talked about. His one Day 1 post basically was an attempt to toss out names without actually participating, making him the only person without a vote who I actually find suspicious. All the more so since both of the other folks without votes made a note of who they intended to vote for first.
Then, on Day 2 he follows up with his now infamous attack on Bard coupled with his suicide plea. I'll skip all of the jumping around he did after the fact, seeing as I didn't notice that until Shale was kind enough to point that out on the last page.
Now, Day 3 is the interesting bit. Let's start with the lesser of the two evils, which would be the return of his fatalistic tendancies. He's not only playing the pity card again now that he's back in trouble, but he seems to be revelling in causing grief for his detractors, as well as focussing most of his vitriol against them. This is mildly troublesome, however, it isn't the main thing that concerns me.
The main thing that concerns me is his role blocking of Rat, and the fact that what he's said about it does not add up.
Now, let's be fair. Day 3 isn't the only time Snow's shown a good deal of suspicion of the Rat, and then gone after Shale with little to no other reason than "he's not here". Let's take a look at this Day 2 quote.
Now, the one person that still consistently bothers me for the general sum is the rodent. I can't shake off the feeling that he is hiding something under his sleeve with the no-voting issue, and I can't help but feel he's getting too comfortable with the sudden freedom he seems to get with it. Call it metagaming, but his situation is pretty oddball in and out of itself, and the idea of a role only having this sudden, crippling drawback and no sort of compensation, either on alignment or underlying power, doesn't seem right. Coupled with his usual aggroness -and- the knowledge on how poorly it works for town in the DL Mafia environment, this sets me off particularly badly.
But this is just food for thought. I guess that I'll just go with what seems more immediately worrying now. Since unwanted roles have managed to get under the radar for excess lurking time and again, and I think his absence has reached the point of insufferable by now...
##VOTE: Shale
So, that's prior confirmation that Snow not only thought Rat was scummy, but also that seeming scummy but present is worth less than seeming scummy by being unable to be present. Now, I'm sure you're all wondering, but doesn't this provide the case against Rat that makes the roleblock on him make sense?
Hells no.
It highlights that Snow's main concern with Shale is that he's a scum with a valuable power role to make up for the fact that he isn't being misleading. If anything, if he was being honest in that post, then his target should have been Shale. But let's assume that Snow thought that any scum power Rat had had to be better than what Shale could possibly have. I mean, he does have to give up his vote for it, right? Well, that's still a bad reason, because, hey. One of the possible boons he listed for Rat is simply that he is, in fact, scum. And there was the chance that his power might well give the scum an extra vote on the table. So, odds were that gunning for Rat might not just provide the scum a benefit, but also do so while not doing anything detrimental to them to balance that out in any way, shape, or form. And this is what we're comparing to Shale, the person Snow voted for twice because he suspected the guy was a scum power role.
It does not add up, does not compute, and makes him look the worst of the candidates we have at the moment.
