Jitsu - Reaction to Oman's daykill is neither here nor there, I don't think anyone really falls for that one any more. Post 129 set off major alarm bells for me, as he tries to paint himself as having been aware for some time that the wagon on me was non-serious, and was simply waiting for someone to admit it. The tone of his previous posts, such as 98 (where he responds seriously to Oman's joke case), don't tally with this assertion. His subsequent defence against Incognito's case smacks of revisionism, as he was obviously attempting to give the impression in 129 that he'd known for a while, whereas in 180 he says that he only realised this when Oman said it was a joke (in 120). Overall, 129 looks like a massive backdown brought on by the realisation that the position he has taken is seen as suspicious by the town as a whole. I wouldn't be surprised at all if opie is town caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, and Jitsu is the scum that was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to run away.
I admit that my phrasing in the first part of 129 was very poor and gave an incorrect impression of my thoughts. I apologize to the town for that, but it was unintentional. I don't fault Incognito or Erg0 for pointing that out that inconsistency. Erg0's case on me was well explained.
I'll try to explain. I absolutely did bite on Oman's joke case as being serious. This is my second game of Mafia ever, and I really was unprepared for an opening game stuffed full of that many gambits, joke cases, fake dayvig's and the like. I really wasn't expecting that all along that the case wasn't serious. If I had, I would not have attacked Oman like I did. In post 98, I thought there might be a chance that Oman wasn't completely serious, but I really wasn't sure. *At that point in time*, I did expect that if it were a non-serious case, that Oman would have admitted it as such. I miscalculated though, because I admit Oman was right that there was really no reason for him to jump off the wagon at that point. Post 180 is a more clearly worded explanation of what I was thinking. When Oman did finally confirm that the case was not serious, I realized that at least some of my assumptions were wrong, so I went back and reread to try to get a fresh perspective on things.
As for the turnaround on Opie, my earlier explanation is accurate. I liked his initial thoughts on Guardian in post 73 and when he pointed out in 75 that he thought Guardian intended "Those of you not voting for Erg0, explain yourself" in his post 65, it explained my suspicions well. But when he made the FoS on Adel, I disagreed (I even said such in 77). In retrospect, I probably should have asserted my disagreement more forcefully. It was a difficult line for me to walk because I thought some of Opie's observations had some merit (I still do think that some of them did), but I didn't agree with some of his other conclusions. It looked like Guardian was trying to lump me together with Opie at that point and since I didn't agree with everything Opie said, I tried to distance myself from Opie a bit, but I feel I explained why I was doing it.
When Adel presented her case on Opie, I did agree with her point that Opie seemed to overreach a bit by extending his suspicion from the person he really thought scummy (Guardian) to Oman and Adel largely by association. I agreed less with some of Adel's other points.
(Another post to comment on more recent events will be more forthcoming.)
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