gorckat, continued
Starts off this half of the reread by
voting for Gorgon based on Gorgon's
Post #255, from what I can garner. Two things to note about this. Firstly, gorckat had posted three times (Posts #262, 267, and 273) before voting for Gorgon. This suggests to me that something occurred during that time-frame which made gorckat look at Gorgon specifically... which brings me to the second to note. During this time period was when the deadline for Day One was dropped (Post #268). This pushes me towards thinking gorckat's vote for Gorgon may have been influenced by the placement of a deadline. I have nothing against placing votes after deadline have been placed (obviously), but the lack of acknowledging Gorgon
until
the deadline was placed is what pushes me towards thinking this is more scummish than townish.
gorckat has a small conversation with Gorgon (over why Gorgon is not voting for Sikario8), and gorckat comes to his voting ultimatum in
Post #297, narrowing his choices down to Gorgon, SirWario, and Sikario8 (though he does mention he sees the case on Pra which MeMe had just made prior to his post). Nothing wrong with this. Switches to SirWario (no reasons cited) in
Post #314.
Blanket explanation for votes in
Post #318. Probably a good post to keep in mind while assessing gorckat.
Unvotes SirWario to vote for soupfly in
Post #327, no reasoning provided – and notably,
soupfly was not on gorckat's list of three suspects
. Arakorn posts, and gorckat
FoS's him (for not having suspicions, from what I can gather). MeMe comes in to push a separate bandwagon on Arakorn in her
Post #331. I will note at this junction that this is a fairly common scum-tactic; if gorckat is scum, MeMe would naturally push a different wagon: this would give the town
two
possible wrong wagons to hop aboard on, both of them being wagons
away
from Sikario8/DR.
Important Section:
neko2086 correctly calls out gorckat for his voting inconsistency in
Post #332. gorckat
responds. I think it reasonable to say gorckat was under some pressure at this moment in time (seeing that he knew he had deviated from his suspicions list), and then Arakorn raises the pressure in
Post #341 by voting for gorckat, putting him at the second most highest number of votes (just below soupfly). gorckat then
votes for Arakorn for "taking the easy way out" (strange, since soupfly was the "easier" way out).
It definitely looks like gorckat was floundering around on Page 14 in general once pressure starts to be applied to him. He then takes the simplest path to salvation; Guardian pops in to
votes for Dead Rikimaru, and gorckat is perfectly happy voting for him in the
very next post.
Contrary to what a good number of players think, this vote – more than any of the others on Dead Rikimaru – looks like the most likely to have been a bussing vote. gorckat was under considerable pressure (which he may have been afraid would turn into a bandwagon), so it would only be natural to vote out a partner who basically being
useless
the entire game. This would (of course) give gorckat substantially more leeway later in the game, since he could from thereon point that he had helped lynch the Godfather.
Also Important
: Even after gorckat had voted for DR, the posts can be read in such a way that MeMe and gorckat may have been trying to coordinate themselves into both voting for Arakorn (which would only work if they got others to vote for Arakorn so they would look justified also voting for him). In
Post #349 and
Post #351, MeMe explains why she is still voting for Arakorn. gorckat then poked at Arakorn a couple times in
Post #356 and
Post #359.
Deadline then hits without players having switched to Arakorn.
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The very first post of Day Two belongs to gorckat, he suggests that people
start looking at votes, which is of course only going to make himself look better seeing as he had just helped lynch to Godfather.
Tarhalindur does his "lock on" in
Post #379. Unfortunately we do not get immediate feedback from gorckat on this matter due to one his dogs dying (explained in
Post #413). MeMe then lynches herself, and that's all she wrote. There is some posting after MeMe's self-lynching, but none of it includes gorckat.
Hard to tell exactly if gorckat's post indicates anything either way. MeMe's ending the day so quickly certainly had the effect of making Day Two pretty much useless in terms of scumhunting.
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gorckat continues from his Day One comments in voting for Arakorn in
Post #447. He then claims to have not remembered MeMe pushing for Arakorn in
Post #452. Unfortunately, I do not think this is a tell either way: from what I understand, this whole
game
has been slow, and it is easy to forget things which happened months ago (although his not remembering
does
indicate that gorckat had not done a reread for some time).
gorckat unvotes in
Post #459 to decide between Gorgon and Arakorn. Agrees with the "lynch Gorgon, vig MBF" plan in
Post #466, effectively adding MBF to his pool. gorckat then extends his pool to include myself in
Post #490.
This is followed by a bam-bam-bam voting of Gorgon by Tarhalindur, soupfly, and Arakorn. Gorgon claims vanilla town in
Post #500. gorckat takes the time to
FoS: MBF, and then after neko2086 votes for Arakorn, gorckat
drops the hammer. He claims "soup should do what he sees fit", but of course after already having agreed to the "lynch Gorgon, vig MBF" plan, and just prior to voting
FoSing
MBF, I can definitely see these posts as trying to get soupfly to vig MBF.
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Day Four begins (the first post again being gorckat), and he does the only thing reasonably left in his arsenal: he FoS's both myself and Arakorn in
Post #514. I am finding it striking that gorckat has claimed to be suspicious of Arakorn since Day One, then on Day Four makes a
Post #520post against Arakorn[/url], then proceeds to vote for me without explanation in
Post #526. His vote boils down to "gut" and "he doesn't trust me", which are the simplest explanation anybody can give when they have one of two choices and
need to get both choices lynched
. I rebut, and I think everybody knows what this resulted in, so I will stop my reread here