In post 1736, MathBlade wrote:Everyone except you Ghostlin has provided the team they think it is or at least enough insight into their thought process to know where they are coming from.
You should be doing that but you’re just like “Chip” as if stating something on a tape recorder changes things and progresses the game along.
Talk with me. Who is scum if Chip is? Because your “case” on Chip is so underwhelming right now and we have to get this lynch right to win and every sign I see is pointing towards we lynch you as that seems to be where the consensus is.
So here's the thing. I think Chip is scum for multiple reasons, and I'll get the mechanical reason(s) out first and get it out of the way:
-a scum in the IN would help counter my role nicely, along with an RB countering skitters role, and the scum IN would also counter the INs as well, particularly if scum have daytalk and neighbors do what neighborhoods do.
-I don't think it's reasonable that my role be limited to what it is and be scum. That's entirely up to you if you believe my role claim; but it'd be shit to investigate that neighborhood and get the information scum needs from the IN; all three INs cannot be Town. Full stop.
So now, we've got the more problematic bullshit out of the way...let's talk about a few reasons why Chip's actually scum.
-His entire interaction with Esp had Esp literally saying Chip was hiding information from Town from the neighborhood---closer to misrepresenting the lynch via Flairs. That came down to who did we want to trust more, Esp (who occupied Flairs slot) or Chip, and we lynched Flairs--who was Town. Now, if Chip was misrepresenting what was happening in the neighborhood and Esp wasn't engaging in gross hyperbole, that tells us not positive things about Chip's alignment. Yet, really, I'm the only one to remind Town of this argument.
Frankly, guys, unless there was a gross misunderstanding, one of Chip/Esp was lying, which do you believe, unflipped!Chip or Town!Esp (although it seems I owe Esp an apology at this point).
-His push on me has him focused almost entirely on me not announcing L-1 when he forgot to count to hammer. Now, hypocrisy in and of itself doesn't make a person scum; but it's almost like he WANTS to pass the guilt of hammering off to me; as if he was caught with it and he'd better have an excuse of why he was caught with it.
Now, to the rest of it. I have no reason or at least no reasonable reason to doubt my investigation of Fishy not having a PT beginning of Day 2 was tampered with; I don't think scum could of expected an investigative role after the skitter flip. So I'm going to PoE him out of here.
That leaves Math or FN. If I believe my investigations, and just follow them, then the scum has to be Math. There is a question that Math has been, in fact, universally Town-read at least the last two days and hasn't been scum read at least one, so there's a fair bit of paranoia there; and I'm also paranoid about Math's tone, which has vacillated between being conciliatory towards me and almost mocking. Choose a tone, dude--mock me for my positions or try to talk to me, but both ISN'T going to endear me here.
If I were going to get off my paranoia and ignore Day 3's investigation, it'd be FN. I've been unimpressed with FN's play all game and frankly, I would of probably laid my vote down on him if I ignore each and every other factor (the fuckery with the IN, the investigation, the paranoia of Math being alive this late) today. If I was forced to play this game VT, as it were. (If I was forced to play it VT, it'd probably be FN/Fishy/Chip/Math from scum to town. Then again, we would of still lynched Flairs at some point so that's a thing.)
Unless someone gives me a compelling reason to vote Fishy today and ignore Day 2's investigation, I ain't. Math seems to want a vote now, so I WILL for the sake of Town cohesion:
Vote: Chip
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