HypersomniacLive: [...] OK, you do realise, however, that the assumption that you are town is a problem for me, yes? You say you are town, but for me it's still an assumption you are asking me to make. And as the scum points about adaliabooks remain for you, I got mine about you, so there's that.
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trentonlf: Yes I do understand you are having trouble seeing me as town, and unfortunately there's not much I can do to change that view. You have to base your thoughts on me by how the events have unfolded in the game, the same way I have to base my thoughts on adalia.
Actually, this was not addressed to you, but noted that you commented on it.
RWarehall: Let's put it this way...
If someone is seeing a scum team that does not include Adalia, nor any of the three players voting Adalia, then the real question becomes what the two scum off the mislynch are waiting for (the 5th town to join?). In this case you have a mislynch which would put the game to LyLo and place a lot of suspicion on the 3 people on the wagon.
If Hyper and I were the scum team, why wouldn't one of us (probably me) be hammering? I mean, the game would be at LyLo and the next two lynches would have to be me and Hyper and not Drealmer, Trent, or Lift who pushed the mislynch. As I said, it would be game over and I doubt we'd be trying to stretch this out. Does anyone see any real way, Hyper gets lynched first in that scenario? So why would we be waiting?
Just because the matrix allows something doesn't mean all combos make sense vs. events.
The hammer always draws attention, so there's that. But I can't disagree that the flow and development of events is to be taken into account.
Brasas: [...] Big thanks for the wagon references. I'll copy them and shift them around into chronological sequence (not that I'll get the time stamps though) as I find that more interesting. [...]
I don't know if you already did the copying and shifting, or if I"m breaking any rules here (nothing that isn't public knowledge already), but I already keep track of the votes in chronological order. (dates are based on my timezone), so could save you the time and trouble Save the first of the attached files, and rename the extension from "png" to "xlsx".
Brasas: [...] On the 12 possible pairs, unless I royally screwed up that's correct. Yes I did exclude those with me (I prefer the expression: duh). Maybe the delta is that you forgot to exclude the picks that we know are town pair picks based on the flips and mine?
Actually, per my above logic, the actual scum pairs are in a even smaller pool than 12. Even if scum lied about a pick, their pick excludes them and therefore is a reliable not scum pair pick. So thanks mate, I can tick off a couple more in my list. :) I don't get your 15 by the way, nor what you mean by outside POV. Any town looking at the picks and excluding pairs should have a similar number to mine? I haven't actually counted that - maybe plus / less 1? I'll try to have a looksie at this but actually the above point reducing the pairs seems more relevant rght now. [...]
By outsider's PoV i mean a third party not playing, hence would not have a reason to exclude any of the living players. Same as '"if one doesn't exclude themselves"; probably should have worded it like this.
Taking into account the town flips of Hunter65536 and GammaEmerald/JMich, and the pairs that are excluded by players' picks, the possible scum-pairs are currently 15, if one doesn't exclude themselves (see second attached file). So, unless I missed/screwed up something big, from your PoV you should be looking at 10, not 12. And no, I don't take out your possible 5, I don't know your alignment, and you could well be one of the scum; I take out mine, as the only alignment I can be 100% sure as town among the living players is my own.
Brasas: [...]
I will assume your question means: why would scum lie, and not really how - the answer to which (in what way they would lie) is either very prosaic or requires me to mindmeld to an astonishing degree.
I think the answer to why is obvious though, there was certainly enough focus on the repeat picks that I saw. And indeed I was being a subtle asshole by implication... ermm... I mean a brilliant inquisite investigator... when
I followed up by asking you about that maybe cheeky / naughty intro to then picking not one, but two repeats. And that despite only having 4 other pair picks before yours, of the total 16 (excluding yours ofc). What a coincidence - chronologically speaking that is. [...]
I can actually think of a couple of answers to the "how/ in what way scum would lie" question without having to resort to any mind-melding, and I wanted to see what you had thought about it. And while you shifted the question to the "why", what you said also answers the "how".
As I said, you are free to think that I was stupid, or cheeky as you want to believe, enough to come out third and repeat two of the four picks that were already out there, especially after the discussion about the attention and scrutiny repeats would, and did, draw; since you've read through D1, you must know which players pointed a finger in my direction for that, and in what fashion. So, that argument cuts both ways, and if I were you, I'd look for something actually solid to base my suspicion of a player on.
Brasas: @all
If there is a post (and there should be) where you summarized the scum case on your vote please ping me?
Would be helpful if you also mention who you think Adalia's / Lift's partner and why. [...]
I was about to link you to my posts, but after refreshing I see you're all caught up, so not sure It's needed any longer?
I assume you are going to share why you're looking at Lifthrasil, yes?
Speaking of him and going back to track my posts/arguments about him, I realised that I left out something I wanted to include in my post #613 to him in regards to his dancing around the arguments about his scumminess, so here it is.
He protested about not having the time or inclination to
fish out things addressed to him hidden in a shitload of other stuff, yet managed just fine to notice my first comment to him in my post #598 (because that gave him another opportunity to proclaim his innocence while pushing for adaliabooks... nah!) but somehow completely missed my next comment to him, right under the one he replied to, about his hasty and suspicious vote on adaliabooks that put him at L-1.