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I feel like it's frankly a hard sell that kokorico was vigged/A Gunned by a town player. sure, aspersions were cast on em throughout the Day, but I feel like EoD and Trebek's flip makes it very difficult to sustain those suspicions for anyone who was paying attention. that said, a thought occours to me: I was about to say the same of Seshas, but... she did, for whatever undiscernible reason, switch the vote from Trebek to herself in the last moments of the day; while I feel like that reads most intuitively as either an incomprehensible joke or the consequence of believing Trebek's roleclaim and assuming his role was more useful (although that would be... also incomprehensible), I suppose it's not necessarily a surprise if someone out there took that for an attempt at sneaky jesterplay and delivered the adequate response
I remember giving it a new glance at nighttime, but all I really extracted was that trebek's stance seems amusingly convenient in retrospect. discourage lynching mr. ultracool, but also try to steer town away from acquiring A Gun for themselves. that does, at least, mean that trebek probably did believe in mr. ultracool's claim, and in the possibility of exploiting it; which would thus exclude the scenario where mr. ultracool is in-group mafia completely fabricating the claim. but eh, my top suspicion of him is of being third-party scum, anyway
I suppose this is a good segue to explain to the class why I'm parked on you as we speak. (incidentally, that's another sentence that would sound fantastic out of context). I feel like, throughout D1, you were making these multiple noncommittal micropushes, like you were reading a lot of people as schrödinger's alignment, and only properly dove into any of them if someone else agreed with you. sure, that's possible to chalk up to insecurity, but it's at least as easy to chalk up to fishing for wagon. (and I mean, at some point back there all of us were indeed frantic for an even halfway good idea for a lynch, but I specifically allude to some practice of gauging one's apparent suspicion of someone to the likelihood that they will be lynched)
additionally, there were some interactions between you, kyeugh, and trebek which smacked to me distinctively of the wolfslash. lots of building up each other's suspicions of seshas and kokorico, and the occasional defense of trebek... now, one might argue that you changing your read on trebek was the point that really pivoted the lynch against him, but I think it's also a highly plausible bit of bussing. one, because the wagon on him might have seemed worse than it was at the time you switched, because keeping the votes straight in that EoD was a nightmare (and indeed, kyeugh took a count herself at one point); and two, because trebek openly waffling about whether to vote in self-defense could have been the point where his scumbuddies go "welp, he's not surviving that move, best I make swift time on taking the credit for burying him over it".
now, all of that said, there are a couple things that make me a little more hesitant about these suspicions. the first:
and also, my faith in my ability to toneread is very limited, but mewtini does sound remarkably different toDay, more genuinely solvy. and less stressed! which, yeah, there are external reasons why that changed, but it also serves to ease my suspicions that the previous stress might also have been because, usually, being scum is pretty stressful
other than that his usertitle is, best as I understand, a direct expression of disbelief at being outplayed by rari_teh at cats mafia? although for all I know that's an inside joke I'm completely not privy to
come to think of it, kokorico's table of reactions to mr. ultracool (#262) might come in really handy now, huh?
I remember giving it a new glance at nighttime, but all I really extracted was that trebek's stance seems amusingly convenient in retrospect. discourage lynching mr. ultracool, but also try to steer town away from acquiring A Gun for themselves. that does, at least, mean that trebek probably did believe in mr. ultracool's claim, and in the possibility of exploiting it; which would thus exclude the scenario where mr. ultracool is in-group mafia completely fabricating the claim. but eh, my top suspicion of him is of being third-party scum, anyway
it was a bit of a hasty decision, but as far as I was seeing at that point in the thread, it seemed like you were often defending him and also like kokorico was out for his blood, so I figured one of you two would come out of it looking worse depending on what he flipped. ... it sure isn't fun that the player I'd have potentially cleared by this process was subsequently killed, although that's just an additional reason why eir death sucks. (the original reason is still only for Later)
I suppose this is a good segue to explain to the class why I'm parked on you as we speak. (incidentally, that's another sentence that would sound fantastic out of context). I feel like, throughout D1, you were making these multiple noncommittal micropushes, like you were reading a lot of people as schrödinger's alignment, and only properly dove into any of them if someone else agreed with you. sure, that's possible to chalk up to insecurity, but it's at least as easy to chalk up to fishing for wagon. (and I mean, at some point back there all of us were indeed frantic for an even halfway good idea for a lynch, but I specifically allude to some practice of gauging one's apparent suspicion of someone to the likelihood that they will be lynched)
additionally, there were some interactions between you, kyeugh, and trebek which smacked to me distinctively of the wolfslash. lots of building up each other's suspicions of seshas and kokorico, and the occasional defense of trebek... now, one might argue that you changing your read on trebek was the point that really pivoted the lynch against him, but I think it's also a highly plausible bit of bussing. one, because the wagon on him might have seemed worse than it was at the time you switched, because keeping the votes straight in that EoD was a nightmare (and indeed, kyeugh took a count herself at one point); and two, because trebek openly waffling about whether to vote in self-defense could have been the point where his scumbuddies go "welp, he's not surviving that move, best I make swift time on taking the credit for burying him over it".
now, all of that said, there are a couple things that make me a little more hesitant about these suspicions. the first:
bussing your scumbuddy and proceeding to pretend it was a borderline accident would be a bold move to say the least;
and also, my faith in my ability to toneread is very limited, but mewtini does sound remarkably different toDay, more genuinely solvy. and less stressed! which, yeah, there are external reasons why that changed, but it also serves to ease my suspicions that the previous stress might also have been because, usually, being scum is pretty stressful
