Oh, come on guys. We've just got to the point where things have got really interesting and we can really start working things out and it feels like everyone's got bored and given up.
Charles di Britannia: The vote for Nilie came from Tom, not Kaze.
In any case, here are my thoughts on the other players. I had intended for this to be short, but it once again feels like if I want there to be activity I'm going to have to stir it myself.
Nilie: Ignoring the first two posts (joke vote and response to mod), in day one we're left with a fairly cryptic message only clearly stating that the joke vote for ShiChelle has become a serious one due to inactivity, and a post insisting that the aforementioned cryptic message is important (I still read nothing out of it other than potential breadcrumbing) and that the pointless vote on ShiChelle is in fact not pointless despite how pressed for time we are. Day two brings us basically just another two posts (the first one being an apology for absence), which both looked fairly substantial at first sight, but don't actually contain much content, and nothing come the point we hit the trains on zooyork and Delta.
Sum total of opinions from these posts:
-ShiChelle retains my vote due to inactivity (fair enough)
-I like Xanth and think he's innocent, if wordy
-I get neutral reads from Andrew, Remo and Silver (it seems odd that you highlight this particular issue but draw no conclusion from it)
-I do not want to vote for Silver on the grounds of inactivity (this really made me boggle, given that Silver's been one of the more active players, and had already posted twice by that point on day two)
-My one and only second day vote goes to roflknife for a one-line infraction. I say that this is the most suspicious in comparison to other people who've justified themselves, but I won't say which people I'm talking about, why they were reading suspiciously nor why they've since cleared themselves (actually, on getting around to looking into Roflknife I can see a case on him, but the worrying part is that you were using just this one line to justify the vote)
Which is to say, not much at all. The trouble here is that I want to believe, which is inevitably going to be my downfall somewhere. I'm suspicious of any praise in my direction, but I'm taken in by his attitude of having a bit of fun on the side. I'm particularly willing to be on the lenient side here given the promise of more detailed information already given early in day three. The relative lack of content, rolefishing and such compel me to FoS: Nilie, but I'm really just looking for something solid at this point. Call this the scummy side of a neutral read for now.
schnwtfhisname: Surprisingly little to be said on the first day. After his joke vote inadvertantly landed him three votes, his second and third posts simply question Delta's aggression (fair enough), asks for more people to show up (fair enough) and then latches on to the doubts on Delta that El Cid and Andrew brought up. Nothing new there, but then it is only halfway down page 2. Fourth post adds little, but I'm less concerned about that (we're only a handful of posts after the third posts and still on page 2) as I am that the language has become quite soft (to the effect of 'I disagree with you but can see where you're coming from. Also I don't think you're suspicious, just in case you thought I might think so' at Delta and 'odd, but I'm not going after you' at Xanth (sorry guys, you're going to have to get used to this use of the third person perspective for the sake of equal highlighting)), as even though you've evaded the three votes they seem to have made you docile. Final post of the day is just another shortlist of people you don't think it necessarily is (fine if it's attached to a list of people you think it might be), along with a vote that you can't be blamed for (specifically "as suggested"). My conclusion from this point is that this little content is still more than many others, and that the tail between his legs was just a bad reaction to the initial votes on his head. It'd be extra weight on top of a bad day two, but water under the bridge with a good day two.
And the second day is indeed far better. Plenty of opinions offered on a decent range of people, and sensible handling of both the zooyork and Delta trains. Whilst being involved with the two bandwagons and nothing else, I'm happy with the timing and justification of both (his justification for Delta in his fifth post in particular). Tiny warning bells are going off on this voting pattern, but if nothing else we have his opinions pinned down anyway. I can hardly say that I'm convinced of his innocence at this point, but I'm willing to put him on the town side of neutral for now.
Roflknife: The principal problem with Roflknife is that he comes out as a majorly town read if you play the WIFOM game. It's quite hard to believe that a lot of things that have happened or he's said could have happened if he's scum and has scum buddies to help him out. But no, therein lies the various trappings of WIFOM, and so I shall look at his actual gameplay.
There's bugger all to say about day one for obvious reasons. I accept his explanation for his tardiness (myself and zooyork mistook the threads as well), and while it was well over a day between my call for people there and his first reply here this doesn't strike me as being unreasonable (I called him out for it at the time without checking the times, and I think I must have thought that day one lasted a lot longer than it did). The vote for Remo goes down with no explanation, but I'll put it down to bad timing of having three pages and a new gaming style to digest and only two hours in which to make his voice heard at all.
At first glimpse 11 posts on the second day would imply a lot of input, but a lot of it is fluff. The first three posts can be discarded almost entirely (other than a few misguided intentions that are slightly worrying). The vote in the fourth post is fine as a pressure vote, but there's yet to be any individual thought. Fifth post is worryingly defeatist and somewhat implies that he'll follow pretty much any lynch on what's effectively still day one. I'm uneasy with Tom strong response to him on Kaze, but the rationale offered back is even worse ('I'm not suspicious, guv' by itself does not mean anything). By the eighth post we're finally out of the realms of two lines replies. It's almost only all defensive, but at least we can infer from it that only Disland and zooyork read any worse than neutral to him, and that he's hedged himself into acting strongly now that there are lynch and NK trails to follow. Negative points for following the bandwagon for the sake of following a bandwagon and defending it (but confusing WIFOM points for it being such a stupid idea in the first place).
Third day starts with finally some interest in getting his hands dirty, but it's all 'we should look at X, Y and Z' without actually looking at X, Y and Z himself. Finally an actual opinion, albeit with "I might" attached to the front of "have suspicion on Andrew". Second post is back to self-defence in the form of deflection.
Before I started this post assessment I had you pegged in my mind as a purely neutral read, but now I can't help but read you at least being the scummy side of neutral and casting FoS: Roflknife. Come on, all of your excuses of why not to analyse and have stronger opinions have gone. For all of the fluff I don't know your opinion on practically anything at any point, as all you seem to want to do is talk about how it isn't you. You have the information you said you were waiting for, so get on and use it. Don't worry about being wrong somehow being an auto-lynch or something (you don't see people immediately ganging up on me for Delta's lynch, do you?) - the more you say the more we can discuss and get on with things. If people disagree with you, then just work to convince each other. Being submissive is bad for town regardless of your role.
I'm splitting this into three parts (next part Andrew, Tom and Kaze, final part Disland, Remo and Silver) due to length and time concerns. I'll probably change my mind as I actually look through everyone's posts, but at the moment my suspicions stand as:
FoS: Nilie, Roflknife, Silver
HoS: Disland
##VOTE: Kaze
For reasons I'll get around to. That assessment may be too light on Tom, but I haven't got to his posts yet, and I'm already plenty suspicious of half of the remaining players. It's a little frustrating that my vote follows Andrew's for the second day in a row (not his fault, of course), but it's for slightly different reasons and it's not like I should shy away from it for a daft reason like that.
