Originally my plan had been to lie low, trying to seem as little of a threat to the scum as possible, by appearing to be slightly scummy. Hopefully, I would be able to survive the night, with the mafia thinking that killing me would be a waste of a NK, because town would lynch me Day 2. My goal was to try and get involved as little as possible and be an observer as much as possible, to let things unfold and take a back seat. Then in Day 2, claim doctor, do stuff and win. I didn't really think that part through.
However, I naturally fucked up in my brilliant plan, specifically at 235-261. I became too involved in the razorback incident, and made myself seem far too scummy. Now, getting lynched on Day 1 would be a huge hit to town (kinda), and I was at a loss. Then I realised that if I claimed, some idiot might counterclaim and give town an easy target for tomorrow. After all, I consider a doc-for-scum trade an excellent deal. However, if no-one counterclaimed, my plan was to publically declare that I am protecting X and that they are guaranteed to survive the night. Scum, seeing this, would naturally not bother trying to NK X, and instead try to kill someone else. However, I wouldn't be protecting X, in the hope scum believes this, and in fact defending another person. Naturally, this is WIFOM, and really likely to fail miserably. Time will tell.
Crap, I just realised, what if the scum have a roleblocker?! They'd remove my ability to protect people, which means that they'd kill someone else anyway, and leave me alive for me to be brutally lynched by the town Day 2, paving the way for a scum victory. This is really bad... How the hell can I fix this mess I made? Hopefully, in such a situation, the cop will still have been able to make a search. If they find scum, brilliant! If they do not, well, town is likely to gang up on me, and lynch me, leaving town 6-2 against scum. If the cop investigated me, then I'd be in the clear, and scumhunting could commence in earnest. If someone claims to have investigated me and returned a guilty result, then I know that person is scum, and I will begin to vote.
Gah! So many situations, so many possibilities. Why was I such an idiot?! Ok, best thing to do, claim to protect X. Scum will not attack X, giving him 'protection', and they will most likely attack the most the person doing the most scumhunting. Then, I will defend myself, meaning scum doesn't get a NK. However, if they roleblock me, kill X, and frame me, then I will need to hope that there is a cop and that they made an investigation. If they get a guilty result on me, lynch them. If they get a guilty result on someone else, lynch that person. If they get an innocent result on me, start scumhunting. There will be plenty of time, so we should be very, very careful.
Originally, I had planned to defend Exilon, as he was composing the most content-filled posts, but then I noticed something. Exilon and skerterg were congratulating each other, with both saying that the other had a high chance of being town. For now, I'm inclined to believe in a two-scum tag team taking control of the town (yay for alliteration!) and trying to steer it, and doing a really good job of it. So no, I'm not protecting either of them. In fact, I'm personally inclined to protect kelikar, and I will in fact post so in the thread right now, 10:06am GMT, 27th April. If I die tonight due to being roleblocked, I hope the town wins. In such a situation, I will post this at the end of the game.
Ok, it seems that razorback was scum. Yay for lucky guess! Anyway, this eliminates the possibility of an Exilon/skerterg team, so I have decided to protect Exilon instead of kelikar. Please work.
~Red Star out~
Honestly, I think scum was just completely idiotic right then. In my opinion, they decided to leave me alive so that town decides to lynch me, wasting Day 2. Hopefully this won't come to pass.
Ok, I currently suspect popsofctown due to his rather poor defence of razorback, consisting of "He's funny, let's not lynch him". Then he hammers razorback after saying that I'm his final vote and he's going V/LA. Overall, that is suspicious enough to warrant a vote from me.