Here I am. Notes and rambles as I go through stuffs.
Basically:
I still am not comfortable with Gorrad's claim that he didn't take a role because he was afraid he'd get NK'd - but more importantly, I think it's a bad sign that I understood more than he claimed to have from
his
Role PM. It just seems to reek of . . . something which might be feigned stupidity. On the other point:
Yosarian2 wrote:So, basically, Gorrad's actions there just make more sense from a scum point of view then from a town point of view. It's not a slam dunk; foolish as it is, I've seen some town make the mistake of being overly worried about the nightkill to the point where they didn't play as well as they could have been in order to avoid the kill; but that's just bad stratagy. Basically, it's a strike against Gorrad, no question.
I agree with Yosarian2.
If we lynch someone other than Gorrad, I support Gorrad taking the info role of his choice - I don't think him announcing it would help anyone but the scum - but, you know, please put some thought into it.
Yos has pointed out that we're at - hey aren't we at five on two? In that case, a mislynch would cause 4:2 going into Night and 3:2 assuming the scum NK isn't blocked. Another missed shot (Vig, Weak Doc death) would be scum auto-win. Thus it does seem pretty clear that attempting such should not be on our agenda for tonight.
I'm not entirely comfortable with Gorrad's vote on Porochaz. We're about a day off of LYLO. Gorrad says he's 'cynical enough' to believe we can't find a way to be sure of a good lynch today and therefore votes Porochaz to remove the Doublevoter as a harsh LYLO scumpower and to get rid of a 'useless lurker'. Personally I'd rather go beyond a lurker lynch. Scary power is, in fact, scary, though. As Yos, again, I agree that we shouldn't lynch him because of the Role by any means. He does have to step up to the plate and convince us he's fairly trustworthy.
Gorrad posts an amusing ditty. Flavor points but no townie points. Moving on, let's see if Porochaz posts something relevant. The case boils down to lurking, lack of contribution, active lurking, and posting while drunk, and the fact that he's too dangerous if he's scum. The first is a null-tell, the second two are quite moderate scumtells, the fourth is (correct me if I'm wrong) a nulltell for Poro at least, and the last one isn't so much as an attack but a statement based on assumption of Poro's guilt. Not quite as strong as the Gorrad case, especially considering the fact that as Yos, again, pointed out, Gorrad could gain that power and help the scum spedlynch tomorrow if he's scum and Poro is lynched - he's almost as dangerous as he claims Poro is.
Master Ruck mentions my Governor ability. I'd just like to clarify - I can either preemt a lynch before someone is lynched or cancel a lynch after the lynch number has been reached but before the lynch scene is posted, yes? In that case, how best to go about preventing a scum speedlynch if they have enough votes to do it? I have some thoughts but if there's something I'm missing here it's best to say? My ability is used up in the open anyway.
Oh, Gorrad claims he's taken the JK ability, so never mind on theoretically taking Poro's ability, if he's telling the truth . . . I'll have to think a bit longer on what to make of that. Unless you can explain whyit would be a bad idea to do so, Gorrad, will you please clarify when you took the JK ability and why, please? I found the post in which you claimed to have done so to be somewhat unclear. Thanks.
In conclusion: Gorrad is scummiest in my mind and quite frankly my preferred lynch. Deadline appears to be Saturday. Unless some stuff changes I'll probably prefer to be voting Gorrad. If I'm very lucky I'll get the time to do a brief reread on some players before deadline, too.
