Draynth's behavior today makes complete sense if he's scum.
He needs two mislynches to win
- Spangled/Jam are basically unattainable
- I'm a very difficult lynch
His ideal endgame if he's scum is two of Spangled/Jam/Me, himself, his partner, and an easy push. He cannot have Ethos alive as Ethos will snap vote him, creating a difficult thunderdome to win in considering he's highly townread by Spangled. Spew from a Spangled nightkill would make this even harder.
As a result, he needs to lynch Ethos today and nightkill one of Spangled/Jam/Me.
This explains him entirely ignoring 501 in the context of mechanically based pushes; faustiv is the ideal mislynch tomorrow
How he goes about pushing Ethos is by trying to let other players make their own perspectives of it. Ethos is a difficult lynch, but he has some tools in the fake mason claim to push that. Additionally, it's entirely necessary to do in order for him to win for reasons I've already explored.
I've evaluated the perspective from the other side, but Ethos pushing on Draynth isn't nearly as necessary today if he's scum
Draynth showed no interest in snap voting Ethos, and Spangled basically locked Ethos as town
His play just makes his job more difficult if he is scum.
This along with the fake mason slip makes me think he can't be scum here.
In post 548, Egix96 wrote:Considering that you've been tunnelling on that slot since last Monday, I highly doubt that. If you were town I would not have expected you to believe him at all.In post 546, faüstiv wrote:I want to believe this.In post 534, eth0s wrote:Self meta sucks but here's one thing I will say about myself that is true. I do not self vote as scum. If I have ever done it than that was before my return to the site a few months ago. I do, however self vote as town. Take this with a grain of salt. I shouldn't have done it here regardless. I was mad. I was actually in a horrible mood towards the end of Day 1 and that isn't much of an excuse for my bad play there but I am genuinely sorry for shitting the bed there. I've been trying to work on forcing myself not to play when I am in a bad mood, but it's a work in progress.
Anyway VOTE: Egix96
Not to mention it makes a big change from this:I would hardly say that self-meta is a 'good reason'.In post 525, faüstiv wrote:eth0s you better give me a good reason not to get you lynched today.