To Nitori (and OK), I would have cut it as close as I possibly could have to the deadline/an intent to hammer and killed QR to set back the train and protect Tom. It isn't guaranteed, of course, but I felt, with how close it was at the time, it could well save Tom's life. It is also why I'm coming 100% clear about what the power was right now, as I didn't want people getting it into their heads that I was a Governor and have a literal lynch stopping power and lynch me on the LAL(iars) basis. In other words, I didn't want to let my opaque came become a lie.
I tried to avoid letting it be clear what exactly my power was (hence the "I won't elaborate further on this point" part of my post), and more let the threat do my work for me. To try and keep it clear though, when I made that threat, it was well within my power to stop a Tom lynch. We had tied votes and less than an hour left.
To Carth, sure. Provided I live through the night, I'll put my knives to work for town. I'd much rather avoid using my kills at night anyway. Daykills have a lot more power.
To QR...
I was desperately hoping you were going to say Governor or something, but one shot vig? Thank heavens you didn't use it! You'd have killed off what would most likely have been a townie, we'd still have been out Tom and if you think that you would have survived long after making such a play, you're off your rocker. Talk about a potential clusterf*ck narrowly averted.
And you know what? It was still 100% less stupid than trying to lynch Tom. I was willing to put myself on the block to protect someone who might have been cop. You were willing to waste our first lynch on a potential cop. And honestly, I don't think it would have been that large a clusterfuck. I had as good a chance at tagging scum as anyone else, and I couldn't have anticipated that Tom would die on night 1. Obviously, I didn't want to have to use it (hence putting out a vague threat instead of vigging someone), but I was willing.
*shrugs* It would have been pretty obvious and I would have been, omg, in danger today. Big change from earlier today. But I stand by this one particular point. I was trying to save someone claiming cop. You were trying to lynch them.
To Patch...
Except the "counter-claims r bad" was in reference to you. Hence, "Cop should Counter-Claim/Andy/Blah". When did you bring this up? Day 1. Hurhur.
I've also clarified that counter-claims need to be substantiated, as they are useless otherwise. You're rehashing points I've already gone over and cleared up as if I haven't posted. This is silly and misleading. More to the point, your logic is, at best, implied, meaning that looks at least as much like you are trying to discourage counter-claims as you claim I was fishing for claims, if that makes sense. In other words, it is the pot calling the kettle black.
As for your Strago vote, I didn't bring up that you didn't vote for Tom, which is the response you gave me. We know you didn't want Tom to die. We get it. But how is voting for Strago saving Tom, exactly?
Uh... well. If Strago has more votes than Tom, or hits majority, he gets lynched and Tom does not. Tom and Strago were neck and neck for votes. if I voted for Strago, he could be lynched instead of Tom. 2 + 2 = 4!
Also, how exactly would being able to have a 1shot day or night vig save Tom? It's misleading to say that you could've stopped Tom's lynch using that when there's no guarantee. What I'm saying is, what if the votes were like 10 Tom/7 Strago? You can't fix that. Even if you killed a person on Tom and voted Strago, then it'd become 9/8, still in favor of Tom.
I didn't make my threat at that point however. I made my threat at a point where I was confident I could do it, not when I had no ability to. Again, this is why I'm clarifying my power now. I made an opaque threat that was honest. I don't want it biting me in the ass later.
Also, why do you say you have a 1shot of vig then say "voters" in the next sentence like you could've killed multiple ones of them?
Poor sentence structure, sadly. Was trying to get it to sound right and ended up with the plural, embarassingly.
