Personally think Flay/Hiro deserve most of the credit for pushing through the day 1/2 lynches. I figure scum morale was pretty much trashed after that. I know town felt very unfocused after Hiro died and I was starting to get worried after Kirk flipped town that there was scum hiding in one of the players I'd taken for granted (and yep, there was). Honestly don't think I did a heckuva lot apart from night actions. The only scum cases I got on were ones other people had started. I mean, sure, I was onto Planet early, but I did almost nothing to convince people about him and that's half the battle (yes the other half of the battle is knowing; it's a shame there were no G.I. Joes here). Other stuffs:
-Didn't call most of the player identities correctly. Just got the blatantly obvious ones (Tai, Rat, Ciato). And no, Kilga, I didn't think you were Alex. Know who else I didn't think was Alex? BATMANUEL.
-Sad that so many people guessed who I was, but I did totally fall out of character on day 3. Partly due to day 3 just dragging on and on, partly due to exhaustion from trying to follow two games, partly because Smax is more of a jerk than I can really be without a heckuva lot of effort.
-Setup was definitely town-slanted but this only partially contributed to the town victory. Strong town play from several people, mostly inexperienced scum players, scum getting their power roles lynched the first two days, incredibly bad luck with night actions and mislynches (they only ever hit vanilla town. Well, night five, but). Almost everything that could go wrong for them did.
-Props to Glen for filling in for the Comedian. Just ow, taking up the role of most suspected player in the game.
-My reason for making the full claim was exactly as stated in-game. Didn't want people going, "Wait, self-protecting doc is too broken. He must be lying." Though it occurred to me that, given Hazel's claim, we couldn't really lose any more even if I died. I prevent Hazel from dying, Hazel watches me in case someone kills me. Didn't want to say it out loud because why tell scum exactly what you're doing, but I was kinda assuming I would die night five and Hazel would see who did it. Barring a LYLO situation with the two of us and Axel, it was only a matter of time before the final scum got noticed through night actions.
-Tom was incredibly lucky that he was a mason. He totally would've been the day 2 lynch otherwise. Heck, part of the motivation for self-protection night 4 was that Tick's whole "Oops I just accidentally hammered a townie" blunder at the end of day 4 made me worry people were going to start wondering about scum Flay/Tick again and I wanted to be sure I was around to stomp on that shit like it was a rabid goomba. Otherwise it was mostly just a process of elimination: I figured they would assume the doc was sitting on Flay and not try him again, killing Tick would be pointless because he didn't contribute a whole lot (sorry, Tom!) and his flip would only confirm Flay for everyone to see, Almaz/Gordon/Bats/Comedian would likely be saved for mislynches later if they weren't actually scum...so it was one of Hazel/Hilda/Axel/me. 25% chance of dying wasn't encouraging odds when I wanted to make sure I was around to at some point to confirm Flay's alignment via night 3 actions.
-I wanted an excuse to claim day five even before Hazel gave me a better reason. I was worried about getting NK'd without the ability to self-protect again, and if that happened then some scum player could see the flip and go, "Oh yeah, he prevented me from getting killed night 4," and get away with it. (Not that they could have because, y'know, Hazel, but I didn't know that at the start of the day.)
-The crazy thing about night 4? It could easily have not happened. I sent in my night action PM for night 2 to Yoshi just as the day ended; when I woke up for work the next morning and checked on the topic I saw the "Where's the doc--he's gone" or whatever line in Axel's flavor post, spazzed out and went all SCUM GOING TO KILL ME and sent in a PM to revise my night action to self-protection. Yoshi had already sent out PMs for people's night action results, though, and couldn't change it. Good thing, obviously, especially since it occurred to me five minutes later when I was on the road how dumb that was on my part (scum wouldn't announce who they were killing in a flavor post, seriously. This is why important decisions should not be made at 6AM). Was very relieved when I got home to see that my one shot of self-protection didn't get wasted by a sudden attack of paranoia.
-Read Top Ten, you mooks.
