Bah. Just lost my post. It was starting a list of reasons for my vote. Let's do it again.
-Shadow flipped Lawful Evil. Shadow was not on either of my scumteams, and was in fact near the top of my townlist. That means that I was at least partially wrong in my reads.
-I'm still alive. Neither faction has tried to nightkill me, despite there being very little support for a wagon on me and many players having come to my defense as being, "Meh, it's Mastin". This tells me that I'm not on the right track--in fact, I'm probably mostly wrong, since if I were even CLOSE to being on the right track, I'd be a threat to the scum. The fact that I'm not dead is proof enough that I was wrong.
-This is further supported by MoS's thoughts on Tammy. It rules her out as Lawful Evil at the very least.
*Speaking of MoS,
His claim stinks to high heaven, and it's waaaaaaaay too convenient given Pine's claim. I'm strongly leaning toward him being the real roleblocker or scumbuddies with the real roleblocker.
This holds true a lot more than you'd think.
I didn't use it cause I didn't want to mess anything up.
When
-He could potentially block a scumkill by blocking a scumread,
Also the person I roleblocked may be able to confirm me.
-He might have had a player been able to verify his claim yesterday had he chosen to block,
And
...Because it's possible I could get tracker confirmation? Or watcher? Or something.
I mean I think I was worth a track, no?
This could have happened a day earlier. Yet he chose not to use it.
Moving on to day two.
-Why would there be a town roleblocker and a scum roleblocker? With two scumteams in effectively two towns, you'd expect some sort of symmetry to be involved. While the scumteams don't have to be mirrored, giving one a roleblocker means that you'd have to give the other team a fairly strong power role to counter it, and then give the town a counterpart to THAT. Which I can't think of. The alternative--mirrored scumteams--gives three roleblockers in a game, not only MASSIVELY reducing the amount of actions getting through, not only causing SEVERE potential for bad interactions (roleblocker versus roleblocker, when one roleblocker might--depending on the rules--be able to both block and kill during a night comes to mind), and ALSO screws over the scum roleblocker's chances of claiming.
Then there's this.
Shall I out my roleblock?
Why the heck wouldn't he claim who he roleblocked? There's no pro-town motivation to hold back that kind of information, especially with (from a town-his perspective) another roleblocker floating about which might have targeted a PR and had said PR think it was BBMolla. There is the scum motivation, in that BBMolla if he blocked Pine would have time to fish for reactions to see if he can pick out a commoner and claim to have roleblocked them, since if he claims to have roleblocked a player with a role which went through, he's screwed himself.
Then there are the quotes I brought up before--once more, this is not only fishing, but also hoping that someone else comes to HIS rescue. Instead of facing the music and bluntly coming out and saying it, he hides and tries to not reveal his results.
But NONE of this is as bad as THIS:
Also whoever is actually roleblocking Pine is stupid as hell, there's no point in blocking him.
...Where BBMolla scumclaims, because
if he were a town roleblocker, he would think any other roleblocker were scum
. And scum roleblocking Pine is not "stupid as hell" with "no point"; it'd be playing to their wincon.
Add in this comparison, when I was defending BBMolla--
BBMolla, defending me from chesskid wrote:Have you played with Mastin before
With regards to me using poor reasoning. Now after I vote him and suddenly have a potential wagon on me, see what that becomes:
VOTE: mastin
Mastin not giving a wall of reasoning?
Pretty sure that's a first.
Itself a load of BS in that BBMolla HAS seen my not give reasoning, several times. And who said anything about there not being a wall? I've held back on posting walls multiple times, including BBMolla's very first encounter with me, when it looked like I had nothing but I sprung quite an impressive one after that. This is not only OMGUS, but it's also opportunistic.
All in all, BBMolla did more than enough to reverse my opinion. I'm not an idiot who stubbornly defends his obsolete reads; I know when my reads are wrong.