For those who have been distracted, the answer is, obviously, yes. A positive previous answer serves to introduce the second 'question-assertion':

Straw man. Sophistry 101.

Within a continued series of seeds in preparation for this... The first seeds planted by yogs a few hundred posts ago. Hum.

Not the reaction to be expected from Town. Trent reacts more authentically (he keeps earning Town points even as he earns scum points now and then).

Yes to the reaction of scum trying to add confusion when there is already a short list of suspects that keeps becoming provisionally shorter.

Nothing definitive, though. And would hate to be mistaken with Joe, too.

The pool is draining and those little tadpoles will soon have nowhere to hide.

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Now on something completely different:

NON TOWN: DO NOT GIVE UP!!!! Even if you have had a bad start, you have the rare chance of achieving an epic victory against difficult odds. Just try to not get burnt too early. Above all: do not make it too easy for Town. Town has played well so far and deserves to be facing all the skill and grit that you can summon.

TOWN: Keep your head cool! Seriously. Town knows so much (because of good tactical decisions and the success of keeping an IC alive, etc) that by playing it safe, success is very close. Just keep it cool.
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Does anybody know if Joppo was going to be busy for the weekend? (ConsulCaesar was).

Had missed Joppo's post. Nice to see.

Agreed. Also, votes after yogsloth's self-vote provide zero Town points.

You agree to what? That I might have been reluctant to bus a scum buddy, then seeing that there was no turning back trying to salvage some town points?

I know there's no way of proving it, but I wrote the first vote before yogsloth self-voted, faffed around with the rest of my post, then unvoted after yogsloth self-voted because I didn't understand what it meant.

You didn't say what you meant by 'mud the waters'.

You seem to have gotten most of what I was trying to say, but not all.....i.e. the wording of my starting PM from OP/ZFR words each of the possible results in such a way that the third party is(if i'm reading it right) likely to NOT be a danger to town and/or need town to lose for themselves to win...as in the third party is almost certain(if I read the PM right) to be pure neutral and not a threat to town(or at least not as big a threat).

(@OP: Above is NOT a vote)

I could wait until start of monday(as in 12:01 AM on Monday) for such, I suppose....dunno if the others are willing to do so as well, though.

My List:
(1 is certain town, and 0 is certain scum/third party....0.5 is neutral leaning/don't know which way to lean them atm)

Micro 1
Agent 1
Carradice 0.9 (As the GF theory could hold some truth to it...but beyond that imo you are lock town)

Joppo 0.5
Joe 0.5
Lift 0.5
Caesar 0.5

Pooka+Trent 0.3 (I combined them as the way they are "fighting" I figure one of them is very likely to be scum/third party)
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Please don't encourage scum. :p ;D

Eh, I feel it was more luck....at least in my case.....I only found Yog due to RNG choice(I had a few choices at the time, and he was one of them), and with how "subtle" I was in breadcrumbing i'm shocked I wasn't taken out earlier. o.0

(Maybe our bodyguard protected me? If so then he has my thanks)
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No problemo....though to be clear it'll be the last one....all my precious "monoculars" are now kaput/gone. :\

Good points, though I think they should stay hidden unless doing so would help us immensely. :)
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Dude, Yog clearly said to read the SCUM CHAT at end of game, and the self voted AFTER I made my posts essentially nailing him to the wall....how hard would that be to figure out? o.0

(@OP: Above is NOT a vote)
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To all: Done for now....am willing to wait until Monday or so to cast a vote and give time to Carradice to make their lists and charts and whatnot. What say you all on this....is everyone else willing to do this or no? And why? All thoughts and input arr appreciated. :)

(@OP: Above is NOT a vote)

Vote Count

trent 2 - Pooka, Lift
Pooka 2 - trent, Joe

Not voting - Carradice, GameRager, Caesar, Micro, joppo, agent

10 Players. Takes 6 to lynch.

D4 will end Friday afternoon/evening UTC.

I reread some of my last post and don't recall what i was thinking, but i fell asleep while making it, so....

my chart
me = 0
GR = 0
Agent = 0
Carradice = 0.1

Trent = 0.8
Lift = 0.3
Joe = 0.7 (vote hopping being among primary reasons)
Caesar = 0.6
Joppo = 0.5
Pooka = 0.8

might tweak this a bit before EOD, but am busy IRL today & tomorrow AM (through 7 PM UTC)

dus driver if present should prob not claim unless he knows one of the non-lock!town was targeted. then we have to choose to believe him (clearing two town) or not.

random musing: a scum busdriver would be amusingly useless, right?

laters! have yourselves a great weekend!

This cold is doing some great work reducing me to a bedridden Pooka with stuff like coughing, sore throat, lots of mucus, unstable temperature, ruined sleep and hunger. Made worse by the fact that I did go to the interview but was underdressed, so the cold air finished me off.

But hey, I have a job now. Let's hope I can do well with the managers enough to get a five day work week instead of six day, they seemed easygoing people so I might just love the work place. We'll see.

Back on topic. Let me explain it better. From where I am standing, there seems to be hints of Night 0 shenanigans what's with yogsloth's code. Trent is aaserting there isn't a night because barely any games used it. So while I approach it from "huh, there might be a night 0," his approach is "nope, don't even count on it."

Now it gets even better with him saying that he'd rather have yogs win if I'm Town. This is all sorts of yikes. So your disagreement with one player means you'd rather all of Town lose? I'd rather have his flip even if I was lynched today, and put the issue of yogs+trent to rest.

You also fall asleep while online/at your PC sometimes? What a small world. :)

Agreed, also LOL@ DUS driver. :D

U 2! :)

As said before, I have had similar & somewhat recently.....plus tooth/gum pain(abscess/etc) and a headache....so I can sympathize(especially on the lack of sleep part).

When it happened I took sleeping/pain meds and such, and had 3 choices: Use the semi-pain free time to try to sleep, eat, or post to the game on GOG. :\

So yer a GHOST then? Spoopy. o.0

I find it "funny"(interesting type of funny) that you got the job when you're more out of it due to being sick than when you were less so....maybe you should make a note of it and write a book on it to sell to potential job seekers?

Call it "(Barely) Dressed for Success: The Pooka Way", maybe. :D

You make a strong case...to be honest either of you seem a viable lynch(as you've both been going at it so much).....hmm, what to do, what to do.

All this prater Pooka continues with is nothing but a distraction. Lynch me today, it’s obvious most people will not be able to get past feeling my play as being viewed as scummy. I’ll 100% flip Town, then y’all can proceed with lynching Pooka as he tries to save himself with as I can imagine “well trent was acting so anti town he deserved to be lynched just so we could actually work together to figure this out without him distracting us” or something along those lines. Whatever he starts spouting to wiggle his way out of being the scum he is just ignore him and lynch him.

Question: If we choose to lynch both of you in turn, what's the difference between lynching Pooka then focusing on you vs the other way around?

If town, wouldn't you want Pooka to be lynched first to help us save a potential town(i.e. you)?

Thought: what if yer a third party who wins if they get lynched(is that a thing in mafia games at all?). o.0