Bless you, Incognito. You are the first person who ever asked for one of these when I offered (except for Shteven in a game where I was hunting him to the ends of the earth, to make me take a break). Yeah, that same one where he was a doctor.
Anyway, here it is. Disciple Slayer. It breaks oddly at the end because of course that wasn't originally the end:
Nine posts total here. In his first post he takes up the notion of not random voting and points out he will be too busy to do much of anything else until the 9th of December.
On the 10th of December he posts this:
Disciple Slayer wrote:VOTE: APYADG
Because something seems off about you. There was no way MafiaSSK's initial vote could have been a serious one. Come on, who finds someone suspicious at the beginning of the random voting stage? That was obviously a joke vote. You look like you're trying to find something to cling to, like you're trying to build a case on nothing. Secondly, if he's still the scummiest person in the game to you, why'd you remove your vote? Is it because it doesn't really matter to you who gets lynched, as long as it isn't you or your scumbuddies?
So a quick dive into the scum hunting pool, just long enough to vote Apyadg. Not a really horrible reason for the vote, but he seems more suspicious of Apyadg’s original vote on MafiaSSK than he does the oddness surrounding Apyadg’s behavior when he took it off. Jumps on Apyadg hard, but I suppose that’s Disciple Slayer’s style. This seems too strong to me for the evidence Disciple Slayer provided, but it’s nothing ChronX, for example, didn’t do more of.
Some people have mentioned the “obviously a joke vote” bit, and that bothers me some too, because it was as good an early tell as anyone would be likely to give that early in the game, and Apyadg’s initial reactions are exactly the sort of activity that moves the game into serious territory. And it did, with MafiaSSK shedding additional early game scum tells that could reasonably have kept votes on him for awhile. But as Incognito pointed out, this may have come from Disciple Slayer commenting well after the fact of the behavior.
On the 11th Disciple Slayer calls (I suppose) me and Ythill grammar Nazis and posts that he is watching the thread and will be available for any questions.
On the 13th, after Incognito mentions that Disciple Slayer is getting questions but not answering them, Disciple Slayer points out, about 30 minutes after Incognito posts, that he will commence doing so on the 18th.
On the 26th, three days after I pointed out the possibly curious timing of Disciple Slayer’s post on the 13th, Disciple Slayer posts that he is now available for those questions. Nothing possibly curious about that timing, but Disciple Slayer doesn’t go back to find the questions himself, he asks them to be restated.
And this is curious, because of what comes next.
Ythill is nice enough to repost some of the questions for Disciple Slayer. About an hour and a half later Disciple Slayer responds with this:
Disciple Slayer wrote:Thanks, Ythill.
Apyadg just seems confused. He doesn't seem like he knows what he's doing. I'm going to UNVOTE him for now, pending my reread.
Player summaries will be posted after my reread.
I still think MSSK's vote was a joke vote.
I was fairly busy then, and my schedule kept changing. I have enough time for a quick reread and player summaries, then I'm going to be away 'til after new year's.
And this is curious, because apparently Disciple Slayer has changed his mind entirely about Apyadg.
What made Disciple Slayer do this?
Apyadg’s last post in thread was on the morning of the 11th. It is the evening of the 11th, hours after Apyadg’s last post in thread, when Disciple Slayer said he was ready for any questions and issued his opinion on grammar Nazis. In this case it is the grammar Nazis statement that is most important, because this indicates that Disciple Slayer was still reading the thread. And in the post above, in reply to Ythill, Discple Slayer indicates he hasn’t done a reread yet since he has returned.
Maybe Disciple Slayer had thought about it while he wasn’t posting. It’s a small thing, but another one that adds to the impression that Disciple Slayer may have been lurking instead of gone.
Disciple Slayer has yet to give us player summaries, just this:
Disciple Slayer wrote:I think most of the vocal people here are just townies arguing with each other. Only Shteven/NJH has really pinged my scumdar. My bet is that he's scum, with his buddies hiding in the shadows.
This was accompanied by a list of the players in the game. Why? To give the impression of doing more than he had? And as far as hiding in the shadows, who has done that more comprehensively, from the game’s opening bell to the present, than Disciple Slayer?