The crux of Shanba's attack on me is actually misinterpreted, poorly...
She mentions my post 8 - and chides me on not attacking someone on something I pointed out. How this is scummy I don't really know - pointing out scummy behavior - but keeping my vote on someone who I believe to be more scummy seems like the better choice to me...
She says that I've been continuing to focus on Skruffs "well into day 2," well that's definitely not true - I came out of the gates against Cubsfan on day 2, and spent most of my time attacking him (albeit at a much smaller scale) on day 1. Cubsfan who ended up being the SK (which I couldn't have known even if I were scum) dying was the first victory for the town. Just because I question someones vote on me and ignore people who are likely lurking doesn't make me scum :-/ for not voting them. Seems a bit forced to me.
I will admit that I had defended UberTimmy. My reasoning for doing so was that he was not involved in the game - he had also disappeared from many other games I was in with him. It's a very scum tactic to focus on people who aren't around to defend themselves, and its very easy for a frustrated town to be persuaded by it. But as you'll note (or not since you want to get Skruffs to vote me off so you can win Shanba) I did ask him to start posting.
I've explained post 75 MANY times now. I thought Mert was claiming that Skruffs was "an investigation immune townie" which would have been impossible for Mert's cop claim to determine. You will notice I did NOT vote him and immediately retracted my statement upon Mert's clarification.
You hate the way I look to a cleared player in post 80 for information? Especially one I had been pretty wrong about the whole game?
I didn't defend ZF - when ZF showed up I asked for a claim, when ZF claimed and you had a crap reason for disbelieving it I called you on it. I defended people wanting to lynch UT because of lurking and a statement that could have been said by ANYone. I will admit that it was suspicious that UT had lived after that night - but then again the scum let Skruffs live last night too.
I put up a case, not an attack, a case against you. I also put a case up against SV. Had I not been really busy I would have done one on Skruffs as well (though I had assumed he would die last night, so I also didn't want to waste time on it). In the event that I had died I wanted my opinions of the game state to be known. That's always my play style. Its always in town's best interest to talk. If I didn't try and keep the claim going on Day 3, then we might not have a confirmed ZF scum, and a confirmed Skruffs townie. Given that scum did what they did LAST night - there would have been a far greater chance of a mislynch. But who was one of the people trying to curb the discussion? Shanba? Who jumped incredibly quickly to voting under dangerous circumstances Shanba? (not so dangerous now, since we know the two people you voted for were ZF and Thrawn... huh?).
My lack of votes on the now confirmed scum (especially thrawn) aren't damning evidence either. Thrawn wasn't under scrutiny of any kind from ANYone. And UT only made one suspicious statement at the end of day 1. How many people DID vote UT and Thrawn day one?
What I do understand now is this, however. If Skruffs had died last night - who would have been easier to convince? Me that SV was scum, or SV that I was scum. That might have been a hard sell. I didn't advertise that I thought SV was more likely scum (because of her under the radar play this whole game), so you wouldn't have known that. Perhaps you thought that the easiest sell was convincing Skruffs that *I* was scum - given his focus on me throughout this whole game. That could easily explain why SV died - because she was much more withdrawn and less predictable in your shaky end game.
If I were scum, the ONLY logical night kill would have been Skruffs- we fought the whole game - convincing him that someone else was the last scum would have been (might still be, based on his responses) impossible. And what is seriously the likely hood that I took out SV on the hopes I could get you to go with a Godfather scenario? You said yourself that I was your top pick for last scum. If I was going to try that it would have been far better to kill off you and let SV live. Especially since you've shown (multiple times) you're not afraid to haphazardly vote when it could cost the town the game.
I'm going to place my vote now - because Skruffs is 99% innocent in my mind, and its going to come down to him anyway. He could have ended the game already if he wasn't.
I have played this game consistantly Skruffs - I have said who I've been suspicious of and been completely open this entire game. I saw the problem signs of Cubsfan and - in danger of becoming lynched myself- stood by my scumdar and got the SK removed before he could kill again. I've acted with a level mind and always worked for more discussion. Even if my actions regarding the lynch of the doc were based on a false assumption on my part, and even if we didn't see eye to eye this game - I think you know I've been playing as hard as I can for a town win. Cautious behavior is not the same as scummy behavior. Rash quick voting is the sign of a desparate scum trying to bully others into acting.
That's about all I can say - but I'll respond if you have any questions.
Vote Shanba
PS: Harry Potter was awesome!
I'm suspicious - in every sense of the word.
I caught it on a re-read.
