First of all, normally I give zero fucks about proving I’m town; traditionally the only way to do that is to die so the priority should always go to finding scum. However while driving home from Boxing Day obligations I did think of one question for everybody voting for me: Why did I go to Comms on Night One?
Remember, Akarin posted a plan that listed everybody but Reck and I going to the rooms Cafeteria/Electric/Security/Admin/Comms. I stated that I would be going to a room that had people in it. It was clarified that “Comms” on the plan was supposed to be “Reactor”. I went to Comms anyway because that’s where my short task was. What is the motivation for Scumschel to go to Comms? Hope that Reck went there too? Hope that the people I locked out of Electrical will join me but only one of them even though I know that all of those people have stated they want to group up and are likely to join one of the other listed locations? Seriously, what’s my endgame there? As it turns out I did indeed end up with one other person, and neither of us killed each other. Which is more likely: 1) I stated I would be in a room with other people and then when the group plan swapped to Reactor I decided that it was important to go to Comms anyway instead of any of the other rooms I could have gone to that would have bolstered my statement, for no scum gain whatsoever, or 2) I had a task in Comms and went there to do it?
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Anyway. Let’s find scum.
Here’s Bell.
We know Bell is scum.
I thought that Titus was suspicious on Day 1, but after we ended up in Comms together she became not an optimal elimination for Day 2. Nevertheless, Bell goes for her hard despite not indicating strong feelings about Titus the day before. Is this some sort of extreme bus? Doubtful, since 1) all it did was attract attention to Bell, and 2) it was 100% unnecessary for scum to bus there. Conclusion: Titus is town.
Who was on the wagon?
First thing we can see is that Flea was the second vote on the wagon that Bell was pushing, on a player I have concluded is town.
Here’s everything that Flea said about Bell, as well as Flea’s list of reads.
Nothing committal about Bell at all, and says he “was where he said he would be” as way of explanation why fae is not joining the Bellwagon and is instead joining the Tituswagon. We also see dismay that Bell was hammered, and a scumread on a player we know 100% is town.
I’m gonna come back to the Bellwagon chart in a bit, but faer play today is pretty bad as well.
Flea wrote:As much as I'd love to clarify those posts, theyre over my 50 word limit and blatently breaching that is liable to be bad, especially as this is my long task I'll have a read over once I've slept (whoo 4am) and break them down for you.
Unless there is also a postcount restriction, which we haven’t been given any indication exists, there is literally nothing preventing Flea from clarifying the posts in question over time. Unless, of course, fae doesn’t want to.
Flea wrote:I still have no idea why Hasc is voting me.
Consider this Intent then I guess? I should look at their ISO.
Bullshit. I dedicated an entire paragraph to Flea in the same post I made my vote. Here it is again:
HC wrote:I was asked to explain my scumreads. First of all, I mentioned Murdercat in my previous post; there are connections to known scum Bell that I don't like at all. I also think Flea is scummy for multiple reasons; faer reads have very little substance behind them, the late no-lim vote was bad, and if you parse the no-vowel thing Flea says "I'll have read and the Bell case is priority tomorrow but I'm not expecting to be convinced" which doesn't look great in light of Bell's flip. In fact, on Day 1 Flea said a lot of things about Murdercat that ended up in a shrug and no conclusions; I can absolutely see a Bell/Murdercat/Flea team.
Don’t pretend you have no idea about something that was spelled out and then say you’re announcing intent. Also, putting somebody at E-1 because their ISO leaves you “massively unimpressed” is not a good look, especially when it’s the holidays and that person hasn’t had a chance to get back to the game yet to post about a wagon that flared up for shaky reasons.
Can anybody else in this game look at Flea today and honestly say they are doing any scumhunting at all? Even a little bit? I can’t say that; Flea has spent the entire day talking about faer post restriction and talking about how claiming was a bad idea after all. The latter was obvious from the start of the game. Normally I’d say there’s no followup but Flea is not producing anything with which to follow up on in the first place! Flea, you think I’m scum? Fucking interrogate me. Don’t just speak vague “I don’t understand why HC is voting for me”s in my general direction.
Oh, I forgot about this but check out post #210. Specifically this part of #210:
Flea wrote:
There is no Storage room on the ship.
Okay this took a lot longer than I thought it would take and I’m not even done yet. Tomorrow afternoon I’ll go back to the diagram but focus it on Murdercat this time. For now, though, sleep.
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