I've been prodded, and I apologize for needing to be, but real life has been absolutely brutal recently. I got pretty close to finishing rereading last night and brought my game notes to work with me this morning in hopes that I might be able to read the rest over lunch (which turned out to be impossible) and then I accidentally left my notes at work when I came home tonight. So, I don't have them, but I will try to post the crux of my take on each player from memory.
Drake: As I mentioned previously, the timing of his doctor claim is weird (read: unnecessary, unjustified, and therefore suspicious). His "case" on me was contrived and based on selective quoting and outright misrepresentation as I set out in my responding post, to which he never replied. His following of Fishy in jumping on and off the Freeko and DDD wagons on Day 1 still doesn't sit right, and his Day 2 actions in making a case on Fishy, voting Fishy, unvoting Fishy, and then defending Fishy seems very odd as well. It almost looks like he's deliberately 'following' Fishy and then deliberately 'accusing' Fishy for purposes of later 'defending' Fishy. I don't know what to make of this, really, but it sure looks strange.
Howard: his predecessor was useless, but so was mine. He's been reasonably active and his posts generally make sense, but I have to question his recent agreement with Drake about Drake's "case" on me, since it was so obviously contrived and selective. And he seems to be pushing hard for a Looker lynch, while I don't get scum-vibes from Looker, so this makes me wonder about him.
Looker: I've played several games with Looker and in none of them was she scum, despite playing the same way as she is playing here. In one of them, in fact, she was a town power role, and in one of them she was my town lover-partner. While I take the point that Howard made about that being a nice meta for Looker to have if she's scum, I'm just not getting a scum feeling from her here.
Netlava: Her predecessors both look scummy (ZEEnon for freaking out as he did early on Day 1, as previously set out in an earlier post, and hohum for replacing in and then not posting at all). Rereading her posts, she looks scummier to me than she had previously for reasons raised by others, and I just remembered that I played a game with her in which she was scum and I was a town mason, and in that game she played much like she has here. So, that's something I will have to look at later in more detail, but I don't think she's the play of the day on the basis of that.
Light-kun: I believe his claim for the reasons I've already set out. I could be wrong, of course, but his play fits with my take on him since when I replaced in. If I'm right and he's town Vig, great. If I'm wrong and he's a SK, we can deal with that tomorrow, but either way, he's of better use to us alive than dead today.
Tubby: I am not getting very much from his posts as they seem to be minimalist in nature. I've never played with him before so I don't have any first hand meta info on him either. His predecessor, Nuwen, struck me as pretty pro-town, though, so I'm not really seeing much there to be suspicious of yet.
JereIC: Rereading, he looks more town to me than I previously thought (as I mentioned earlier) and I haven't seen anything overtly scummy emanating from him.
Fishy: I've already set out the reasons that I think Fishy is scum previously, and rereading has not really done much to undermine or change that. While I do think that some of Fishy's responses have been valid, and while I have questioned myself about my take on his alignment as a result, it hasn't been enough to sway me from thinking that he is, in fact, scum. He has continued to misrepresent facts in subsequent posts (i.e. when he said that Looker hopped to Jazz then to Fishy after "we" voted for him - I never voted for Looker) (i.e. when he said that Looker "tried to set up a conflict" between Fishy and Jazz - which is silly since I was voting for Fishy at the time, which is about the biggest 'conflict' you could possibly have, and was not in any way 'set up' by Looker). And then there is the sheer disingenuousness of his post to Jere when he names the "possible scumpartners" for Looker and names Jere, me, Tubby, Netlava, DraketheFake, and Howard - i.e., everyone but himself.
Previously, Fishy went after LK, (then backed off), went after Drake (then backed off), went after me (then backed off) and now is going after Looker. All of this seems to have been spawned by Fishy trying to deflect votes to anyone but himself.
In the result, I sure hope I am not wrong about this but everyone is voting at present for either Fishy or Looker (except Netlava, who is voting for Jere and is unlikely to do anything but float along trying to avoid any wagon on anyone at any time) and nobody loves a coward, so
Vote: Fishy
Regards,
Jazz
You'll never get anywhere if you keep going about things that way
