Several nights' straight of sleep deprivation have caught up with me, and to be honest, I'm going through another one of my jaded indecisive WIFOM paralysis phases. There's lots I should comment on, but don't expect any brilliant analysis from me tonight.
I was about to share what I thought of Elmo's defence, but I've decided to keep my cards close to my chest for a moment. Percy,
thanks for giving me an excuse not to write another wall post on Elmo tonight
I want an answer to something.
Percy wrote:Mina's vote on Elmo was quite surprising, but I nodded along to the case. Mina called him on the right things, imo, but the clarifications seem consistent and I found myself still with a townread of Elmo by the end of his defence. I'm keen to hear more from Mina, but I don't suspect Elmo at this time.
Percy wrote:I'm going to wait for Mina and put together my own version of the Lrdwhyt case before my next post and see how it compares to my Baby Spice case.
So...um, just what are you waiting for, anyway?
I take it from the context that you're waiting for me to respond to Elmo. Apparently, you've found him town all game, and continued in your town read afterward. So are you saying that you'd consider voting him if I came out with a kickass rebuttal to his defence?
Considering Baby Spice and Lrdwhyt have been your top two suspects for most of the game, whereas you read Elmo as town both before and after my case, why should whatever I said about Elmo remotely influence your vote? Do you have faith that my scumhunting skills are so much better than your own? Do you really think that I'm going to tear the wool from your eyes and help you see the light? Do you think there are flaws in Elmo's defence? What are you expecting me to say that will change your mind to the point that you'd be willing to vote Elmo over either Lrdwhyt or Baby Spice?
(EBWOPreview: WHAT THE FUCK, BENMAGE!!!! *headdesk* AAAAH! STOP BEING AN ANTITOWN IDIOT JUST SO YOU CAN MAKE A POINT! You're lucky you're obvtown, or you'd be speedlynched for that.)
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Gah, I was trying to be discreet and wait for if the kills would follow a pattern, but my comment about the nightkills inadvertently opened a can of worms. Thanks, Benmage. Now all analysis of future nightkills has been rendered WIFOM. Yes, what stuck out to me was that havingfitz was the
only
member of the "confirmed" players (him, Locke, jason, IAI) who wasn't voting for Percy (and didn't seem particularly interested in the case on him). If I were Percy, I might not have risked killing Benmage on N1 (although...uh, Benmage, you may just be overestimating how much people listen to dead townies if you think that would be treated as proof of Percy's guilt), but I'd have maybe gone for someone like Locke or jason, so as to reduce the pool of potential Percy voters from five to four. But unfortunately, havingfitz might have still been chosen by Percy for other reasons (being the strongest player in the pool (yes, I said that just to annoy Benmage
), not being lynchable, attacking Percy's buddy, framing someone like Sotty and not leading back to the killer).
I'll have more for Benmage and Percy
assuming I don't fall asleep yet again before posting them.