Ever watch a nature documentary of crabs fighting each other? They hold their claws out, circle each other. Posture. Posture. bring claw close, then back away. Posture. Posture. etc.. Reminds me of this game. A lot of people are posturing, but are being scared away from following their convictions.
For this catch-up post, I'm not going to do a full game breakdown. Since our back is against the deadline, I'm going to list my thoughts on vezokpiraka,
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4 players who I will be pursuing/questioning tomorrow, then my thoughts on the top 3 wagons. Then vote.
vezokpiraka - So vezokpiraka claimed VT pre-game and effectively killed the RVS stage. Kudos to him. As a general meta, I acknolwedge that he's a horrible player. I mean, horrible beyond what should be rationally possible. (secretly, I suspect that he's an alt of someone testing the ability of being able to play with the scummiest meta possible).
But despite his braindead fork-in-a-plugged-in-toaster strategy for playing a vanilla role, he's actually scum-hunting. A little. Sorta. I agree that he'd be horrible in an Endgame scenario, but that's why mods invented vigs. No vezokpiraka lynch today.
Albert B. Rampage - I love this sequence:
Albert B. Rampage (474) wrote:You got it wrong boy. Furcolow
is
the easy target scum are voting for.
Furcolow (480) wrote:let's prove ABR right, shall we?
vote: Furcolow
Albert B. Rampage (483) wrote:Unvote, vote Furcolow
I hate self-voters
Albert B. Rampage was also quick to vote vezokpiraka for the win condition thing.
Also,
Albert B. Rampage (343) wrote:But...Surye....he's always like this. Always has an incredibly scummy plan, even when he's town. You have to catch him later in the game with his connections to scum.
This is inconsistent. He thinks vezokpiraka and Furcolow should be lynched for scummy play, yet Surye's scummy plans get a meta-waiver. There a double standard at play.
I also strongly disliked his 4th vote on Medicated Lain with 5 days to go from deadline. Something fishy was going on there.
Internet Stranger - White Knighting like a motherfucker.
Kison - The appointed lurker-hunter. Seems to be actively working to keep interactions with posting players at a minimum. Great way for scum to look busy and productive but actually coast through opening days.
ReaperCharlie - Replaced into the game 2 days before I did, yet couldn't be bothered to read up. Instead brags about beating Portal 2, then posts to say he's fine with {whatever} lynch.
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Furcolow - Like LlamaFluff, I've seen him play better when he's motivated by more exciting (i.e. power) roles. VT claim + shitty play makes sense for him.
Medicated Lain - No go. The case against her si incredibly trumped up.
Surye - Defended himself really badly against the case that Internet Stranger made. (In fact, he only seemed to defend himself against a made-up case that nobody made). Does seem to be floundering and is another VT claim. I'm on board for this lynch.
Vote: Surye