In post 196, ofmercia wrote:Me refusing to answer a question has really brought a lot of attention and I rolled with it in order for it to be a town tell, but now that I stated it to be a town tell the jig is up. Not sure in what universe scum flat out denies to answer a simple question with a lot of pressure from multiple players. I guess I assumed wrong and somehow it's actually a scum tell. Or maybe players feel it's town but have been convinced by others or by their self conscience that it's "anti town" for 1 question not to be answered. But then the dilemma is that town is ok with lynching town, which makes no sense to me. So I give up hope. Townies pull it together for the rest of the game for the love of god.
Intent to hammer.
I mean I've acknowledged myself that it's really bizarre for mafia to just actively avoid answering such a basic question to the point that it makes me wonder if you're town after all, but I still don't get what you're actually aiming to achieve through such an approach? It's an incredibly simple question to answer which would help us, as a town, to get a better idea of your experience and past as a player, but you're still refusing to actually answer that! TT correctly pointed out if you're under pressure the best way to try and ease the heat on you is to answer any queries players may have provided doing so isn't harmful to the town as a whole. Like...I'm reading your post, and I still don't know why you've avoided it? Doing something deliberately to make you appear like a town player doesn't automatically make it so, especially if that is your actual tactic. Like, I'm still unsure if you are mafia or not at this point, because your strategy just seems incredibly bizarre, but why have you actively played in a way which makes things more difficult for yourself if you are part of the town?
Your argument seems to be here that if you do things that make you look like mafia then you inherently can't be mafia because someone working against the town wouldn't make such basic errors. But, again, we don't know how experienced you are, so we have no idea if it not answering questions is a rookie error or a panicked newbie mafia not wanting to give the game away or whatever else.
I'm still open to being swayed to vote for someone else. I've not cast my vote yet and I'd prefer we hold off for a while. But making yourself seem like a prime suspect on the first day when we inherently lack information is always going to make you a target for elimination because we can't go on voting records or a lot of past contradictory information. I'm up for changing my vote if better evidence against someone else emerges, but thus far your argument seems to rest on your suspects being the exact people who have either pushed to vote for you or who have questioned you, which isn't convincing at all.
