Explain what about my presentation is aggrivating, please. ... I am confident that I've done nothing but examine facts in a clinical fashion.
Huh, thanks. I wasn't quite sure what exactly it was that was bugging me, but I think that helped me cut to the core of it. If you want to know more I'd be glad to chat after game is over, but I think knowing exactly what's going on should help a lot in keeping it from inerfering with play.
Now, on to actually finding scum (yeah, I know there's cases on me, but most of them are now process of elimination against which the only defense is a good offense, Cid, who is using scum hunting as a scum tell, and Yoshi, who I will be glad to answer after I'm done with this.) Also, much as the meat of my last few posts of Day 3 were effectively written as Day 4 content, these are mostly going to be written for Day 5. If you want to listen early, I'd love it, but yeah.
Anyways, it seems that at this point everyone who's left has done their part to help hammer scum, or they're Tom.
Anyways, Tom has the benefit of a confirmed Townie saying he's good. So he's good.
Xanth not only has the Day 1 headache behind him, he also has the fact that he stepped in and tied Tom with the other two candidates.
Yoshi has the fact that he decided to take a risk on Andy instead of making the safe play of saving himself, that no one would even look at him funny for.
Delta has... pushed Meeple into the lead.
Cid has, he pushed Meeple into the lead, and was the tie-breaker for Andy.
And Snow has... that he didn't lynch Xanth when he had the chance. And that's about it.
So, let's start with the obvious, that Snow hasn't actually cleared himself. The main point in favour of Snowfire is that he didn't just try to avoid passing the buck, but that he was trying to find a third option. But here's the thing. If he's scum, then he knows Xanth is town, so why be seen as overly in favour of that. Also, he knows who Meeple is, and has a cop claim backing him up in that argument. Finally, as Cid said, Snow could simply have panicked and went for what seemed like the best idea. All said, he doesn't have anything backing him up.
As for the rest, it involves arguments of bussing. But, honestly, there's not a case of bussing on Andy that really makes sense for the first three. It would have been so much easier for any of them to have gotten a mislynch in that case, so why bus? Cid is the only one where a case makes sense as he might have worried that someone who'd vote Andy would return before Andy himself did and take the credit. Especially bad would have been if I showed up, as that would have shot down Andy and given me something solid.
As for Meeple, that lynch was less sudden, and the cop claim may have been planned, allowing for a bus there to be hoped to be countered with the cop claim. He gets off, but if something does go wrong, credit for the people on him. Of the people on Meeple, only Cid and Delta are left, so their claim to freedom isn't quite absolute, and of lesser quality than the Andy lynch.
So, this leaves us with Snow, Delta, and Cid as the ones without alibis, in ascending order of strength. So, let's look at them in descending order.
Honestly, my biggest thing against Cid is that he's been late onto all of the scum trains he's been on. He was the last vote for both Meeple and Andy, and ended Day 2 by trying to advocate a double lynch of town. That's all I've got on him at present, in large part because my time is short, and he's got a ton of posts. And partly because I'm currently leaning town for him. Scummiest of the people I'm seeing as town, but still town.
Delta comes next. And I'll be honest, I did read over all of his stuff, especially when I noticed that he was basically not here for Day 3. Then I noticed that after he showed up on Day 1 he was pretty prolific until the end of Day 2. And what he did have felt pretty strongly pro-town, so, yeah. I've actually got no issues with him aside from after the near lynch at the opening of Day 3, he just asked people not to lynch instead of actually retractig his vote.
Which leaves me with Snow.
The guy did next to nothing day 1 besides flail around a bit, talk game theory, and request an extension. Granted, he did give a valid excuse, but scum can have those as well. Did at least telegraph his Tom vote early though. Also joined the near quicklynch as the -1 vote, and claimed that it was in part because he was ninjaed, despite a warning and preview text. That, and his random Yoshi vote at the end. Though, honestly, in this scenario, it's a win/win scenario for him.
Sigh... hopefully this out lines my thoughts. Still not entirely confident with Snow, but he fits best. And I'm running low on time.
Yoshi, I'll get to you, but there's something else I'm doing at the same time that gets priority, so it may be a while.
