I was resigned to being lynched. I did not see any means of proving my town-status short of that (I could not have predicted Fonz's slip-up, nor his later outing of himself entirely as scum), and I thought it better to lynch us both now (regardless of who you believed) and go forward with the better information to be gained from definitely knowing the alignment of two people.
I did not anticipate Fonz quickhammering town, but I should have. That behaviour cost him nothing in terms of outing scum, and if we'd lynched him (and me) at that point, as Skruffs argued should be done, then scum could not have quickhammered town and cut off discussion without any repercussions to the scumteam.
That said, we have three scum left in the game. And we have ironically enough too much information to make clearcut decisions. In the course of this game every single person has committed some scumtell or other, made some connection to another player.
My original suspicions were of Zindaras (Korlash) and Sarcastro/LoudmouthLee (Elmo). I don't know why I had those suspicions now, but I guess I'd be willing to trust my gut reaction on entering the game lo these many years ago, and vote either of them. I don't want to vote Elmo, because he's actually contributing in a way that I don't think scum would do, but I have no level of trust in my read on him. Recent events look like distancing (a scum vote on another scum is a perfectly safe gambit for distancing at this point) but again, I don't have any faith that this would be true.
Ether: Right now Elmo is defending you, which does make me nervous. I'm pretty sure that Skruffs is town. I could be wrong on that, but I'm not going to vote him when I think he's town.
And I don't understand the lack of suspicion on ryan, Ether, when you've said things like this:
Ether wrote:(From your perspective, the people of indeterminate alignment on the Ryanwagon were {Fonz, Jalyn, Jordan}. Ryan scumbuddies? o.0)
I reread you in isolation. You have pushed lynches nearly exclusively on people now known to be town. You've been insistent that you knew they were scum. That's consistent with your general town play, I think, except... you've been very consistently WRONG. And you've said things like:
Ether wrote:My attention span sucks.
Ether wrote:I should reread the thread at some point. I probably won't, knowing myself, but that statement was necessary to maintain good form.
But most telling is that you thought ryan was town, thought he was scum enough to want to lynch when it was between him and Numenorean, and moved to Numenorean to lynch him, all the while telling ryan you thought he was scum, and then went back to ryan is town, now.
Is ryan town?
Why is ryan town?
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
