Rifka, I understand the temptation to say "I'm confirmed, now leave me alone and let me coast for the rest of the game" (particularly when you're falling behind and don't want to work to look town). But instead of trying to push your own scan, you just said, "candles are pretty!" So it was hard to tell how sincere you were being.
That said, I think you have a great point about MagnaofIllusion. I'd like to take a hard look at those on that Cow scan, because people who had other suspicions didn't push their own choices.
I know that Locke and Thor did the same thing.
diddin, I'll link to a few completed town games:
In the Fables game I played with danakillsu, I got into a bit of trouble for this post. I was basically the only person who didn't like the kpaca wagon. He was town, though, and ended up replaced and escaping the lynch by a total fluke.
This game was a no-reveal game, so although the player I white-knighted was town, no one knew it until the end of the game. A townie thought it would be a good idea to prepare a fake code to claim finder (Westeros terminology for "cop") and selflessly attract a nightkill, and an even better idea to use that code at L-1 to save himself from a lynch. I was the only one who bought his story. So since everyone was positive that he had to be scum, I looked like his only potential buddy by process of elimination, leading to me being forced to claim doctor ten minutes before the deadline, getting counterclaimed by one of the killers the next day, and somehow escaping the lynch because I was so paranoid about the confirmed vigilante that no one could believe I'd be that crazy as scum. Memorable (and embarrassing) game.
Oh, and for proof that self-deprecation isn't a scumtell for me, see mentat's response to Sir Thursday's quote of this post.
This game is a bit hard to follow, because it's alted, and since then we've changed all the alts to
The Wire
characters for another game. At the time, my alt was House Grandison, but my posts are now under the name Detective Carver. In this kingmaker game, everyone--EVERYONE--in the game wanted to lynch the same killer (House Cerwyn/Lieutenant Daniels) on D1, and yet I somehow executed someone else because "Cerwyn sounded kind of genuine in that one sentence!" But I was still killed on N1 anyway, because everyone alt-guessed me and I was playing 100% to my town meta (angst and panicky indecision). (Off-topic: Percy-scum reminds me a lot of House Yarwyck/Bubbles in that game.)
I'll review them as soon as I get some time. 