Oh, come on. I haven't even been ninja'ed yet. I was hoping that the benefit of having the deadline on a Sunday would at least mean that as many people would be around as possible, but I guess it's still too early for some in America.
I'll be as clear as I can in my reasoning with
Silver. In short (at least until I hit his most recent post), his second joke vote was mildly dangerous in how it stuck, his
first post against me on the grounds of being vague and stand-offish was itself vague and stand-offish he wouldn't even put his weight behind his one train of thought until
forced. He certainly shouldn't have kept his 'joke' vote for
schnwtfhisname up for that long, as little danger as there was of a lynching then.
Now, I must say that I enjoyed the flavour of his most recent post, but it does nothing for doubt that should be as transient as the wind on day one.
You've acted like I thought. Simply firing back with a statement like "No YOU are the one that is suspicious". It seems that you're a bit nervous.
You bark at me in a quiet game with no defence to go with the attack? I bet everyone could have predicted my response of not changing my vote. Look at how everything you say applies to your own treatment of me.
Although your attempts to make me out to be the villain in this story have been somewhat successful,
Because you haven't defended yourself, nor bothered to push me with anything other than OMGUS. How much effort does it take to say that it was all in good humour as a joke vote, that this or that minor slip was just due to being unfamiliar with how things are done here? Very little, especially since you made two minor formatting errors in good faith early on.
You're basing everything off loose threads,
Loose is what we're dealt with to begin with, and these are the tightest I have to hand.
in an attempt to draw attention away from yourself.
I want to put a little emphasis on this for a second, because this is plain wrong. As meaningless as it would be at this point, if people were to list people from most to least suspicious, you're going to find me high up on a lot of those lists. If I'm trying to keep attention firmly away from myself then I'm doing a hideous job of it.
I'm not afraid, and I'm willing to get a few votes against me as long as you go down.
These are very strong words indeed, as they smack of one glorious OMGUS vendetta, or you really are convinced beyond any doubt I'm scum. If it's the latter, please explain why, bearing in mind your own criticism of my vote for you. How can you be so sure that I'm not a townsman who's just made an honest mistake? You've certainly never treated it that way. At the very least try to be more articulate so that you might actually stand a chance of convincing some of the others.
And remember, I'm not out for your blood in the same way you seem to be for mine. If you're innocent, try working with me rather than biting the stick that prods you every time. It really shouldn't be hard to convince me that you're better than a lurker, but you keep on making it harder for yourself.
On the other loose cases at hand:
schnwtfhisname: The OMGUS was clearly a joke, but a little timely. Over the course of his posts it just feels like he's trying to fit in and not get lynched, which in this context is neutral rather than the scummy side of neutral in my book. About as worth keeping an eye on as anyone else, but I'm more worried by his neutering than his initial hijinx.
Delta: I've read (okay, mostly skimmed) through a bunch of the recent games, and this just looks to me like
Delta being
Delta, and the two votes he's picked up as a result of it look like they're there to spank him into some sort of coherence, which at least pulled more out of him.
Delta feels maybe slightly off, but in no way I'd put any weight behind at this point.
Andrew and
El Cid both seem justified so far. Maybe the slightest of niggles on
Andrew depending on if he actually expects to get anything out of
Delta or not, but working on meta-gaming about two people I don't know would be laughable.
Stop looking at the people who are contributing guys, start looking at the lurkers. Townies, we are already tearing eachother to bits here and It is DAY ONE!!!
You already know my vote, schwtfhisname really does look suspicious...
Disregarding your own piece of advice in the very next line. Just saying.
I suspect that with the deadline in little more than eight hours from now the most likely lynch we could manage would be of a [non-terminal] lurker, the problem being that the chances are that at least one of them won't talk, and hence it could convince other people who fear the limelight that they needn't bother risk themselves until the votes are clearly elsewhere. I'll support a lynch so long as it's a lurker or worse, assuming it isn't for me. I'd rather we weren't on the level of dealing with lurkers, but I'd want to deal with a lack of a lynch even less.
As such, let's at least go with:
FoS: zooyork, Disland, Remo, Nilie(terminal cases have their own problems to worry about already)
I'll be able to be here for much of the time up to the deadline, so you can count me in for any speedy plans.
