An interesting chain of events. Was not expecting that Rorschach of all people would be willing to kill people he thought guilty in cold blood. Or perhaps not. Shame that he didn't pick better.
That said. With Manhattan dead and our nuclear shield exiled, the time of apocalypse is *now*, make no mistake. I hypothesize that the murder of one such as Rorschach could only be the result of a conspiracy. If there are multiple traitors among us, then we must be perfect from now on, or it'll be bad for us heroes.
Actually. Let's put this in mafia terms to be crystal clear. We are currently in psuedo-LYLO at the moment, thanks to the vigilante (which I did not expect in a game so small, hence the comment about Rorshcach). Let's assume 2 scum (likely). Before, we had 4 lynches of which 2 had to hit. Now we have just three, so we need to hit scum twice in a row, and we don't have much to go on, at least assuming no further vigs / failed scumkills. If we hit town again, then Day 3 will be 2 townies and 2 scum = unresolvable neverending sudden death = no lynch = scumwin. Same with missing tomorrow even if we hit today, which would lead to a 1-town 1-scum final day. A rules clarification if that is not true appreciated, but my understanding is that equal scum and townies in an SD game is a scum win.
So... two Americans voting for an American = scumhammer to try to end game is possible (admittedly a risk for the scum, since a doctor or bulletproof townie could interfere leading to a quick scum loss). It is the weekend, so it's also possible that they haven't logged on yet. With those provisos... I think it's quite likely one of Ozymandias, Captain Carnage, or Nite Owl 2 is scum since there's been no scumhammer.
Which one of these is the most suspicious? Ozymandias, of course. Ozy seems quick to forget that he also supported Manhattan's lynch, and he now picks one of the "easy" targets. I obviously still agree that they are, if nothing else, not being helpful townies by not giving us anything to work with, and certainly ARE suspicious, but it's also obviously possible that they are merely unhelpful townies. In which case Ozy makes a defensible attack on someone we probably should have executed yesterday to thin the herd, we Americans go along with it not thinking too hard, and all of the sudden we former masks our dead and Nixon is forced to unilaterally disarm our nukes or something. Can't have that.
I'm also suspicious for dirty metagame reasons of Ozymandias. Ozy, as the smartest poster on the forum, is probably a veteran of many such life-or-death confrontations I'd imagine. Yet he didn't raise at all the fact that this is a day to vote VERY, VERY CAREFULLY due to the psuedo-LYLO. Why not? A miscalculation on one of our parts, perhaps, but certainly a source of suspicion. He instead opens with an attack on possibly the easiest target about.
##VOTE Ozymandias
But please be careful about voting with me on this - I'm certainly in no hurry to hammer here, see the LYLO notes otherwise. Nite Owl II would be my second choice currently (as Ozymandias's points obviously stand, though they're far from a conviction), with everyone else a lot farther behind.
