@Auro, you seem to be convinced that scum was on your L-1 wagon. If you are town, you already know my stance is that I would agree that this is likely -- it is unlikely for any townie to get up to L-1 without scum involvement, and I still say this in spite of the fact that it happened to me on day one of Newbie 1893. What I'm not understanding is, if you are convinced of this, then why haven't you taken a more critical look at the buildup of your wagon:
I placed an RVS vote for you on 11/14/18 at 10:20 P.M. PST in post
28:
In post 28, volxen wrote: In post 20, Auro wrote:
I had always been bothered by the rumours that a few early M.A.F.I.A prototypes had been released into the populace. Word was that it was *very* hard to distinguish them from a normal human -- an ever so slight thirst to annihilate the rest and conquer. Maybe the manufacturers changed that for the robots they released? No one knows.
One thing always bothered me, though. What if I was one of them? What if I wasn't born a simple, free, human; but a bloodthirsty robot who lacked any true identity? This single thought had always taken a backseat in my mind. It increasingly began to have a greater effect on my daily life, leading to an eventual obsession. I could not invest my energies in anything else, and lost everything I had.
When I was offered a chance to 'volunteer' for the experiment, I was told that I would know my identity -- whether I was human, or a bot --- before the experiment started. Apparently RandomAccess, one of the volunteers, had failed to read his instruction card (a malfunctioning robot or an unwilling human, there was no point keeping him) and I replaced him instead.
Miss Star repeated the instructions for me, and guided me to the glass room. I saw that most others had taken their cards from the tesseract table, and proceeded to take my own and read it.
I breathed a sigh of relief. I finally knew what I was. Or to be more precise, who I am.
And then it hit me that if I did not find out which ones were the M.A.F.I.A, I'd... probably die anyway.
I had a good, hard look around the room. I recognized a few of the volunteers - Lamees, Volxen, and Not_Mafia, from before. Volxen's avatar looked like what they called a "Transformer" to me. A sentient robot. It seemed obvious what my starting point should be.
VOTE: Volxen
The tone of this post is fairly robotic. Seems more likely to come from robot!Auro than human!Auro.
VOTE: Auro
Then
six days later
, Flavor Leaf and Lamees vote you back-to-back in rapid succession. First Flavor Leaf voted for you on 11/20/18 at 11:19 A.M. PST in post
166:
In post 166, Flavor Leaf wrote:NM is the easier wagon based on playstyle, and I could have targeted people who jumped on for jumping on him for NAI reasons.
VOTE: Auro
More likely scum than Ariana. Auro’s sheep was opportunistic.
Less than 1.5 hours later after Flavor Leaf voted for you, Lamees voted for you on 11/20/18 at 12:47 P.M. PST in post
205:
In post 205, Lamees wrote:VOTE: auro
Yeah yeah I know, opportunistic. I mean, we need 5 votes so of course any vote after the first or second one is now gonna get called opportunistic as a defense mechanism and because it's the in-word. Good luck getting 5 votes without being called opportunistic though lol.
I just don't think auro has taken this vote pressure from FL well. He is kinda flailing imo, he was all about votes for pressure but when it's on him the pressure was a bit too much. Pair that with the feeling I have that he has been prodding me all game in hopes I say something scummy for him to latch onto. High chance we got scum here. Also I really dont mind auro vs lamees too. So we can do that. By all means vote me if you think I'm scum.
And a little bit over 18 hours after Lamees voted for you, Snowbeast hopped onto to your wagon and put you at L-1 on 11/21/18 at 7:05 A.M. PST in post
285:
So my vote is on you for six days before the next person votes for you (Flavor Leaf). After that, Flavor Leaf and Lamees vote you back-to-back within less than 1.5 hours of each other, and all three of Flavor Leaf, Lamees, and Snowbeast voted for you within a 20 hour window that started six days after my vote for you was placed. Flavor Leaf is arguing that the only possible explanation for all of this is that I am scum. Do you really believe that to be the case: that the only possible explanation for the build up of your wagon is that scum!me started it, and three different townies all flocked to your wagon six days later within a 20 hour window (two of them within a 1.5 hour window)?
If you put so much stock in doing VCA on your wagon as you appear to be, then I'm not understanding why you haven't done this type of analysis on your own wagon. This VCA is of limited value to me because I don't know your alignment, but you do. If you are scum then your wagon being all-town is very likely; if you are town it is very unlikely.
Either you believe that doing VCA on a day 1 L-1 wagon is worthwhile or you don't. This is your wagon, and you are by far in the best position to do VCA on it if you are town. But you haven't really talked about your wagon beyond reminding us that it was {Volxen, Flavor Leaf, Lamees, Snowbeast}. But why haven't you looked beyond that and taken a look at the actual buildup of your wagon? That's equally important to looking at the wagon composition itself.
