Yeah, so this is sort of like jumping on a moving train. (Sorry for the wall but I am behind.)
I agree that it’s highly unlikely Plum would have forgotten who Edge/Fate is as he’s not the type of player easily forgotten. It
could
happen, but it’s unlikely.
That being said, there has been some questioning of Edge’s case on Plum (i.e., why would Scum-Plum lie about forgetting who Edge was?) Go back and look at those original posts (basically 19-20, 38, 41, and 65) that triggered this entire discussion.
Summary and Commentary
1. Edge did nothing townie or scummy in confirmation stage;
2. He immediately called Plum out on her comment and blatant buddying;
3. Plum laughs off his question and says she didn’t remember him; later in that post she questions Mariyta’s vote on Edge:
Plum 65 wrote: Are you pretty damn sure that Edge is a good lynch today? If not, why are you voting to lynch him? ANSWER: Because there's no harm in early-game imbue votes. Hell, I'd forgotten who Edge was and he got some extra Townpoints in my book for having a Fate-like approach (more intuitive as Town and harder to pull off as scum) until I realized that, oh yeah, he is Fate (and RC).
Awkward. The question has nothing to do with imbuing; Mari’s vote on Edge had nothing to do with imbuing. The subsequent comments about forgetting who Edge was are gratuitous, and an unnecessary explanation like that reeks of nervous energy which makes me believe she is scum trying to cover a slip.
4. The root issue is Plum’s comment about how uber-town Edge is when he wasn’t doing ANYTHING townie (or scummy, for that matter), which triggered Edge’s scumdar and made him question her, which prompted the explanation that she had temporary amnesia;THAT is Scum-Plum’s motivation for lying.
5. If Plum were town, she would have been able to brush off Edge's question about her buddying and she would never have invented the story that she forgot who Fate was. Instead she addresses her memory lapse not once but twice in #65, once in a comment addressed to Edge and once in a comment addressed to Mariyta, thus drawing undue attention to it.
6. At THAT point, Plum
had
to respond by referencing the other game, and from that point on in THIS game, the question became about if she truly forgot who Edge was…evidenced in post 80, Quadz says
Plum not remembering that Edge = Fate is odd, but not really relevant or scummy.
In #98, Esurio says
On a side note, as someone with a horrible memory myself, I am skeptical that anyone could seriously consider forgetting who the heads of a hydra are a scumtell.
The argument continues to disintegrate from that point on (thanks in part to the ALL CAPS and expletive barrage) and becomes about the lie itself, not about the reason for the lie…which has been there all along. (By the way, Edge addresses most of this in 71.)
Is it possible Plum really forgot who Edge really is? Sure—but WHY would that EVER have needed to be mentioned? SHE brought it up—not him. He questioned her on page
two
; her response was a self-protecting overreaction to his question. Her knowledge of his identity did not have any bearing on the question of whether she was buddying him or not.
VOTE: PLUM
L-1
I have some other things to say but it's almost 5:30 a.m. and I'm in need of sleep. I will be back later today for more.
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