It's not the "no, not that one!" by and of itself, it's how he tried to downplay it as a simple, i.e. with no implications, statement of "I'm not voting him".

As you said, it's Ixamyakxim, so perhaps mafia!Ixamyakxim thought he'd get town-cred defending PR town!ZFR? I'd not do it that way, you probably wouldn't either, but... Ixamyakxim.

And as cristigale said, it doesn't make sense for town!Ixamyakxim to draw attention to a breadcrumb if all he wanted to tell the board is that he won't vote him. Even for Ixamyakxim, while Ixamyakxim.

The buddy theory makes sense. Not sure what to make of ZFR wanting to get Ixamyakxim lynched, or so he appears. Though I've not seen mafia!ZFR before, I definitely don't put it past him to bus his fellow scum-buddy if that'd get him town cred, especially if we have a three-man mafia team and said buddy is a Goon.

I prefer ZFR over Ixamyakxim, the latter's lynch yields rather little in terms of info (he's not even deemed it worth to answer your question regarding his vote on me), while there's quite some stuff around ZFR. I've been watching ZFR, and his ISO I don't like. The things that caught my eye have been pointed out, most of them by you, his latest replies to you included, so not going over them again.

Additional things:

I also think that his post #320 seems to serve several things, among them a bit of additional support to his #258 - he's doubly covered with the self-preserving and ending up being a late comer on JoeSapphire's wagon, given all that thought sharing that followed in post #329.

Now he's pushing a double lynch based on his (alleged) PoE. Which allegedly was made for "post-game bragging rights". Yet when JoeSapphire did something similar, he thought it could be coming from mafia!JoeSapphire, and voted him after the latter replied.

What's perhaps even more interesting is that this PoE allegedly lists SirPrimalform's mafia buddies. SirPrimalform being his favourite lynch candidate since D1, and vice versa. And yet somehow, when it comes down to it, neither one is pushing for the other's lynch. Same Yesterday, same Today. And Today they're not even voting each other, both sitting pretty on Ixamyakxim.

I will go on record and say that I don't like this PoE angle in the early game days, as it gives people a good excuse not to (fully) explain/justify their (alleged) scum-reads, while having enough room to claim "oops, I really thought such and such was town" after a mislynch.

And while this may come across as self-serving, it's definitely anti-town to try to exploit a Phase 2 self-vote to get someone lynched, let alone push a double lynch on it, more so based on some early bragging-rights PoE. I also find it mind-boggling that he thought it possible I'd miss the EoD when I knew that I was self-voting. Apparently because ZFR has never played or observed me before. And because Lifthrasil's has introduced the vague deadline, then demonstrated that he's in favour of rushing it to catch as many as possible players off guard. He went on and on about it for D1, and he goes about it Today, even after having the D1 data on this.

And I also don't like that on occasions, he has to be prodded more than once to answer questions/address things directed at him.

I'm good voting here. Should he get lynched, and flip town, I'm going on record that ZFR's play has been quite anti-town on several fronts. I'm sure he disagrees.


agentcarr16 has also raised my eyebrow, but this isn't the moment to get (more) into that.



Remarkable confidence. In yourself for all your town-reads being correct, as apparently nobody can fool you.


Well, it wouldn't look organic if you'd waited to see first where the wind's blowing, would it?


That's some impeccable town play right there.


And here's that certainty again...