First things to address-the early wagon on Livingod. He had accumulated 3 pretty insignificant votes up to this point, and K-Scope jumped on with a reasonable case. Seems pretty genuine enough.
However later, Livingod provides an explanation for his actions. K-Scope responds by placing further confidence in his vote. Now if anything, his conviction at Livingod being scum might suggest bussing. After all, K-Scope isn’t the sort of person who suffers fools gladly, and I wouldn’t be atall surprised that he decided to bus Livingod, in order to get some long term security.
In post 151 he continues his staunch attack of Livingod, whilst revealing his desperation to end the day quickly, with the likely intention of getting on with killing some protown players.
Later he requests a Livingod-claim. A reasonable request. As a GF, Livingod would possibly have been able to blag any reasonable claim, but really this is a null tell.
Day 2 begins. K-Scope starts by joining a BW on me, with absolutely no explanation. Presumably looking for a scapegoat after the day before.
Post 245-K-Scope again deliberately refrains from recognising the concept of bussing-suggesting that his pressure on Livingod confirmed him as protown. In the same post, he BW’s Theo, with, wait for it, NO reason given. :p
Post again, over 4 pages later, with more fluff.
Then, as soon as the wagon on Theo begins to deteriorate, he switches his vote back to me, following the same move from Riverwind.
Protown points to K-Scope on the same page, when Yellowbounder (later to be Fonz-scum) adds his vote to the K-Scope wagon. Its hard to conceive so much bussing within a scumgroup…
However, as the wagon on K-Scope grows, he chooses to OMGUS FoS, ONLY YellowBounder. Why? There were several people who had joined the wagon. Yellowbounder had provided more reasoning than any of them. So why just single him out? Similarly, it is perplexing as to why he only gave an FoS. I’ve never known K-Scope to be conservative with his vote (rofl) but he didn’t want to actually vote for his scumbuddy, seems like the only explanation, though obviously, should he have died, YellowBounder would gain the same protown points he had, for bussing a scumbag.
Lol just an interesting point to mention is that in post 416, Mole-scum, votes for YellowBounder-scum, without a great deal of content. This proves not only that the scum in this game have an affinity with bussing, but also perhaps that Mole was somehow angry with YellowBounder-maybe because he pushed the K-Scope wagon?
Post 446, K-Scope proves that OMGUS really is his sole purpose in this game.
Post 448, K-Scope hints that the mafia shouldn’t be seeking a second scum-lynch in a row. This seems to be consistent with the above picture.
Post 454-OH THE IRONY.
Nothing else particularly scummy from Scope (mainly due to confessed lurking while the Lowell wagon builds up) until he receives some pressure, and returns solely to defend himself.
Later he pops up to say that he now has 2 more suspects: Twito and Cheesefan (both confirmed town). I ask him his reasons, and he deliberately ignores me.
His next post is the one where he joins the N9V wagon, just before deadline, which basically acts as a decision to No-Lynch (I know we have had this discussion before, but it does still have some significance). Obviously, whilst K-Scopes vote was UNLIKELY to result in a lynch before DL wherever it was placed, he didn’t know that, and he made a clear choice to not lynch Lowell. In light of Lowell coming up town, this is a relatively strong town-tell, but tbh, the impression I get of K-Scope is that his sole care is himself. If it meant maintaining his image within the town, he would stop a mislynch for it.
Next morning, Lowell has been killed. A whole host of reasons link this to K-Scope. Perhaps his reason for not joining the Lowell wagon was that he couldn’t validate with enough reason-making NKing him the optimum choice. Or, more likely, his scumbuddies were pissed off that he cost them a lynch, and killed Lowell anyway.
Post 846-Al_Ko (scum) lies to protect K-Scope, from a reasonably quick wagon at the start of the day. Later he changes his tune completely, and puts further pressure on K-Scope. Note, no vote yet though.
Something else of note, is that Scotmany also comes to K-Scopes defence, stating that the scum are trying to set him up.
Again Al_Ko scum tries to subtly derail the K-Scope wagon.
K-Scopes response to his BW is that he DIDN’T REALISE THAT IF WE DIDN’T GET A MAJORITY, WE WOULDN’T LYNCH. I mean, COME ON! K-Scope had been playing Mafia here for longer than me, and I think a newb who has been here a week realises what happens at a deadline.
Oh and he OMGUS votes me. Lol
Post 886-K-Scope backtracks, stating that he voluntarily took us to No-Lynch bcause he didn’t want to hammer Lowell.
8 posts later, he changes his story again, back to the ‘I don’t know how a deadline works’ BS.
K-Scope then changes his 3rd suspect from Cheesefan to Panzer.
Post 1007 by Panzer is an absolute gem. If you don’t reread anything else, you should read that.
K-Scope pops up again a little later, solely to say that he might selfvote, just to see what happens.
Aside from taunts, K-Scopes posting for a while is basically fluff.
Page 44-Al Ko again provides an excuse for K-Scopes actions on the previous day, using a WIFOM argument.
Ah here’s the bit where we lost a lot of posts due to the site going down.
Theo BWs K-Scope, before K-Scope selfvotes, with the ‘giving up’ scumtell.
Just as the K-Scope bandwagon increases to the point of being the dominant one, Al Ko requests replacement. I don’t blame him. If I was Al Ko at that point, already a GF down, and with another buddy about to be lynched, its not looking good.
Of course its possible that this is merely a coincidence. But I don’t think so.
Post 1171 is a good one to reference aswell. K-Scopes bandwagon is still growing at this point, and Al Ko (despite having just requested replacement) takes one more stab at derailing the wagon. I recommend you read the post for yourself. Basically he tried his hardest to derail the Scope wagon, while pushing a lynch on N9V.
The Fonz replaces Al Ko, and seems to take a slightly different stance towards him. Of the 3 lynch candidates for the day, Fonz comments in favour of Theo, and casts suspicion onto K-Scope and N9V. Possibly a towntell for K-Scope, only it should be noted, that despite picking apart K-Scopes posts, Fonz never votes for him. Rather he joins the N9V wagon, thus ensuring that K-Scope was not lynched.
No Lynch occurs.
Next day, I begin with a vote for N9V. Yeah I know, I suck. :p
Anyway, K-Scope immediately hops on, and then N9V does a ‘K-Scope’ and self-votes. After a bit of discussion, The Fonz also hops on the BW.
In post 1307 K-Scope maintains the image of scum looking for consistency points, whilst occasionally taking time out to run up some townies.
He continues pushing N9V, even when the wagon stalls. Post 1473, K-Scope also admits the inherent weaknesses in his case against me (which is the same now as it was then). He continues pushing the N9V-lynch, despite saying that I am scummier.
1592-K-Scope once again shows his opportunism, and evident desperation to get some mislynches.
On Page 65 he pops up to make a sarcy comment at Twito, but neglects to answer the questions that has been posed to everyone regarding their suspicions.
Post 1636-Scope makes some unfathomable comment about me and Kelly. I think he’s trying to infer that we are both scum, but I guess he’ll have to explain that himself.
Post 1652-Oh the irony! K-Scope criticises Panzer for not making a productive vote. Lol
The K-Scope goes on to defend those who started the N9V wagon-including Fonz, also commenting that the wagon needs more speed.
Post 1696 just gives me a bad vibe. Its basically K-Scopes excuse for BWing N9V. Nothing concrete about it that makes it scummy, just a vibe. Read it for yourselves.
He comes back a bit later with more WIFOMy humour.
Then Fonz appears, to say that he would accept a Scot-lynch, but would prefer a Panzer/BM lynch. Completely ignored K-Scope who was his top suspect not long before.
K-Scope then pops up to try and derail the growing Panzer wagon. YB doesn’t vote Panzer immediately, which he did do with N9V. Could indicate that either YB actually learnt from his mistakes, or perhaps that he doesn’t want to bus another buddy.
Usually Fonz comes down hard on lurkers, but he completely ignores K-Scope at this point. Fonz foses YB-distancing. It seems unlikely that he would be pressurising all 3 of his scumbuddies simultaneously.
Meanwhile K-Scope continues to lurk, and is one of the only players not to comment atall on YB-scum. When he does show up, it is only to try pathetically to derail the YB wagon, and lynch me instead.
Next day, and TCS posts first, with a guilty result on Fonz. Either K-Scope is exceptionally lazy, ignorant town, who doesn’t bother to read his games, or he is simply lazy scum who was past caring, since YB died.
Regardless, he doesn’t comment on The Fonz, instead putting his vote on me again.
Post 1888-K-Scope admits again that his sole purpose in the game (aside from BWing relentlessly) is to play for consistency points.
Only when The Fonz claims, does K-Scope react, and when I say react, I mean vote for him immediately. Lol
This could well be because he didn’t think Fonz would be believed-as at the time, Kelly had already voiced doubts over it.
Page 78-IH gets lynched. In K-Scopes favour, he didn’t join the wagon on IH, keeping his vote on Fonz. Of course, he only posted twice during the course of the day, so its possible that he didn’t notice.
Both myself and K-Scope hop onto the Fonz wagon, the latter with no reason given, though to be fair, it was pretty obvious.
However, in post 1970, he again makes it clear that he wants to get the lynch over with quickly. Sound familiar? It’s the exact same thing he said when bussing Livingod!
Post 1979-K-Scope clearly doesn’t care who dies as long as it isn’t him.
Post 2017- K-Scope reiterates this selfish view, expressing the benefits of another mislynch, which pretty much confirms my view that we are in LyLo.
In the next post he changes his view, in an attempt to fit in with the views of Theo (confirmed town). Not only that, but his arguments backing his views are gradually making less and less sense. Lol
2026-more of the consistency rubbish.
Post 2032 pretty much sums K-Scope up. His case on me amounts to 2 words: “Defended Godfather”. I explained why this reason is total BS 2 posts afterwards fyi.
2047-Finally we get some honesty from K-Scope. He does not have a case against me. He merely has a vibe that I am scum. He now seems to stand by a BM-Scot scumpair, but I wouldn’t put any emphasis onto that. Very few posts ago, K-Scope ‘thought’ Panzer was scum. He also accuses me of failing to elaborate on any of my suspicions. I hope this satiates him.
Then the funny part. He accuses me of ‘Stalling, so I can fit in with the views of others’. Hilariously ironic, seeing as he just did the same thing with Theo. Interesting that he considers me to be the scummiest person, yet he is happy to lynch Scot today, when we are at LyLo. This too wreaks of scumminess.
I may need a translator for post 2050, but I think K-Scope is saying that he doesn’t want to elaborate on his suspicions…
His reasoning for choosing Scot-scum over Panzer-scum in post 2060 is BS.
Note also that K-Scopes rate of posting seems to have increased since we are at LyLo.
Anyway, that’s my analysis of K-Scope. I’ll admit, there are some weaknesses in there. I’d like to think I’ve done a fairly balanced analysis of him. However, I’m ever confident that he is scum. That’s not to say he’s the only player I’m suspicious of. However, we are almost certainly at LyLo today, and letting K-Scope survive would be idiotic…
Vote: K-Scope
Something else i will note however, is K-Scopes attitude towards Panzer and Scot. I'm finding it very hard to see which of those 2 could be his scumbuddy. Still, i guess we'll deal with that tomorrow.
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