Mini 1349: Words with Scum (Game over!)

[Quilford]

(Modnote: Flavour has no bearing on the game and is not reflective of play or alignment. This includes kill flavour.)

Start of Day 2

You're all still playing your games, banishing all thoughts of Arugula from your head, when another player posts with details of an emergency in your IM convo. Originally playing a good game, everything went downhill when she started receiving bad letters after playing words. You ask her what she means by "bad letters". She takes a while to respond.

(7:53 PM) Hoopla: guys my rack of letters is ¿E¶ÆÇAD

You reply telling her to flag the game for cheating, but it looks like you've run into a spot of heavy lag. When your connection frees up you get a bunch of new IMs:

(7:53 PM) Hoopla: guys i dunno what i should do
(7:53 PM) Hoopla: should i play a word?
(7:53 PM) Hoopla: guys?
(7:54 PM) Hoopla: guys i'm gonna use his w to play 'wade', i'll tell you what happens

Oh no! Your message finally goes through, but it's too late. Hoopla's probably already played WADE. You can guess what happens when you have a rack full of unusable tiles: the game assumes you have an empty rack, ends the game and the person with the most points wins. Hoopla was good, but you're pretty sure she wasn't winning. Sure enough, Hoopla IMs back confirming your worst fears.

(7:54 PM) Hoopla: game over
(7:54 PM) Hoopla: sorry guys

Nuts. Hoopla, no doubt spent, disconnects from your convo. Who would perform such a dastardly act? You think it's your opponents, but there's no ruling out the possibility of someone amongst you attacking Hoopla in a misguided attempt to help your cause. There could be traitors amongst you, after all...

You turn back to your device and begin trying to think of the best way to snare the double word score without using a blank tile.

>>>

Hoopla,

VNL TWN

, ran out of letters Night 1!

<<<

It is now Day 2.

Eleven players remain.

[Quilford]

Game Board

Spoiler: Activity Log

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MagnaofIllusion has not used either his daily flip or collect.
AurorusVox has not used either his daily flip or collect.
IceGuy has not used either his daily flip or collect.
Lady Lambdadelta has not used either her daily flip or collect.
2minds1soul have not used either their daily flip or collect.
Robocopter87 has not used either his daily flip or collect.
whispersilk has not used either her daily flip or collect.
DCLXVI has not used either his daily flip or collect.
vijay2vasandani has not used either his daily flip or collect.
Amrun has not used either her daily flip or collect.
Voidedmafia has not used either his daily flip or collect.

--- DAY 1 ------------------------------------------------
MagnaofIllusion flipped tile E5, revealing an R.
Hoopla flipped tile K1, revealing a C.
Voidedmafia flipped tile K6, revealing an X.
Lady Lambdadelta flipped tile D4, revealing an N.
Lady Lambdadelta took tile D4, collecting an N.
Robocopter87 flipped tile J2, revealing a P.
Robocopter87 took tile J2, collecting a P.
IceGuy flipped tile A1, revealing a P.
vijay2vasandani flipped tile C4, revealing an R.
2minds1soul flipped tile H4, revealing a C.
AurorusVox flipped tile A6, revealing a T.
Amrun took tile A2, collecting an unknown...
DLCXVI flipped tile F6, revealing a D.
Amrun flipped tile B2, revealing a V.
Arugula flipped tile D2, revealing an M.
Hoopla took tile E5, collecting an R.
whispersilk flipped tile G2, revealing a Z.
AurorusVox took tile A1, collecting a P.
MagnaofIllusion took tile B2, collecting a V.
Voidedmafia took tile C4, collecting an R.
vijay2vasandani took tile K1, collecting a C.
whispersilk took tile D2, collecting an M.
2minds1soul took tile H4, collecting a C.
Arugula took tile C6, collecting an unknown...
DCLXVI took tile A6, collecting a T.
IceGuy took tile F6, collecting a D.

Day 2

Not Voting

(11) MagnaofIllusion, AurorusVox, IceGuy, Lady Lambdadelta, 2minds1soul, Robocopter87, whispersilk, DCLXVI, vijay2vasandani, Amrun, Voidedmafia

With 11 alive, it takes 6 to lynch.

Deadline hits in (expired on 2012-07-19 01:18:09).

MoI has declared Limited Access during weekends.
Amrun has declared V/LA until Mon, Jul 9, 2012.
2minds1soul's V/LA has ended.
Lady Lambdadelta's V/LA has ended.

[Voidedmafia]

Vote: IceGuy

Reasoning from yesterday still stands.

[Voidedmafia]

Flip: A4

[AurorusVox]

flip: g6

Vote:whisper

[Voidedmafia]

AVox, I don't see Whip-scum advocating or supporting a kill on the person who was calling her town as much as I was. Not for N1, anyways. I really don't think she should be a lynch candidate for today.

[IceGuy]

Flip: H6

Vote: MagnaofIllusion

[DCLXVI]

Flip: B:6

[AurorusVox]

VOTE: MoI

[MagnaofIllusion]

VOTE: Iceguy

If it wasn't clear that the Arugula wagon was scum-driven to save partner Iceguy to you then I suggest you read again. Classic "Woe is me AtE" followed by lurking by Icescum while a magical wagon appeared suddenly.

Flip B5

@Vijay and Robo

- Both of your votes for Arugula looked scummy. Why was he scummy in your own words?

[MagnaofIllusion]

@LLD

- Actually going to play the game today?

@DCL

- Now that your top scum read flipped Town who is scum?

[AurorusVox]

Actually yeah

Unvote; Vote: DCL

Terrible fucking start to the day.

I need more time to process ICEguy vs MoI - one of them is scum, MoI's last two posts have me wondering.

@VM, please explain more closely why I'm not voting Whiskers today - you're not dead, so why would the fact that Whiskers wouldn't kill you as scum make him any less likely to be scum?

@Vijay, uscumbro?

[Quilford]

Mod Announcement

Quick heads up: I'll be away from the computer for about 24 hours; I won't be able to process the flips and votes until then. Sorry!

[IceGuy]

VOTE: Iceguy

If it wasn't clear that the Arugula wagon was scum-driven to save partner Iceguy to you then I suggest you read again. Classic "Woe is me AtE" followed by lurking by Icescum while a magical wagon appeared suddenly.

You know who was the first to jump off my wagon after I posted what you're referring to as "AtE" (if you had actually read the game, you would have noticed that it was an accurate summation of the "case" presented against me so far)? That was whispersilk in #374. In one of your last posts yesterday, you specifically said you do not want to lynch whispersilk, although you suspected her earlier.

Your "associative" tell (without a single flip, just a bunch of assumptions) doesn't even hold water compared to your own claims and reads.

[AurorusVox]

Scum must be amongst the following:
[MoI/ICEguy] / DCL / Vijay / Whisper

Strong Town:
Robo is town and I actually read LLD as town this game~

WeakTown: Amrun, 2minds, VM.

[AurorusVox]

I want to put ICE in the strong town section...MoI inspired paranoia says no.

[MagnaofIllusion]

So once we flip Iceguy scum we can move on to deciding if both his partners joined him on the mislynch wagon (which not ironically AV has indicated is within his scum tool-belt) or if one is in the floaters who didn't cast any meaningful votes Day 1.

[IceGuy]

So once we flip Iceguy scum we can move on to deciding if both his partners joined him on the mislynch wagon (which not ironically AV has indicated is within his scum tool-belt) or if one is in the floaters who didn't cast any meaningful votes Day 1.

Read, "I don't actually have anything to say so I hope I can just repeat it often enough and I'll get my mislynch through".

[Voidedmafia]

AVox Post 511 - Well, I am basing this on the logic that Whisp-scum would want to try and keep those most pushing for her as town alive, which were myself and Hoopla yesterday. Going just by this NK analysis, I suppose it shouldn't be enough to change her read a lot, but I still feel it points more to Whisp-town than Whisp-scum.

I will admit that it's still likely that, since Hoopla wasn't AS adamant as me about Whisp-town (or at least not as vocal), she was a safe bet for offing, but still.

IG Post 513 - A) He's still right, though.

B) I see no mention of Whisper from the post of MoI you linked.

C) ...And your point about Whisper is what?

AVox Post 514 - I really don't see how LLD has shown herself to be town.

IG [post=517] - Read: "I don't actually have anything to defend so I hope I can just keep being snarky and hope it drips enough that people don't lynch me:.

[IceGuy]

IG Post 513 - A) He's still right, though.

B) I see no mention of Whisper from the post of MoI you linked.

C) ...And your point about Whisper is what?

Can you start quoting instead of throwing out lines?

The point is: MoI claimed that the jump-off from my wagon and the subsequent Arugula wagon were scum-driven, but in one of his last posts yesterday claimed that whisper is not amongst the people he'd feel comfortable lynching, i.e. not scum. So he's contradicting his own reads.

[Voidedmafia]

I already explained why I'm not. And I refuse to until they get that fixed (or explain how to fix it).

Also, so what if Whisper wasn't one of the ones he's comfortable lynching? Scum obviously aren't everyone on the wagon, and since he's still got a fairly strong townread on her as far as I remember, it's not THAT contradictory to leave her off.

Are you really trying to claim that because he's not listing everyone who was on the Arug wagon as comfortable lynches is contradictory?

[vijay2vasandani]

VOTE: Iceguy

If it wasn't clear that the Arugula wagon was scum-driven to save partner Iceguy to you then I suggest you read again. Classic "Woe is me AtE" followed by lurking by Icescum while a magical wagon appeared suddenly.

Flip B5

@Vijay and Robo

- Both of your votes for Arugula looked scummy. Why was he scummy in your own words?

Because he wasn't playing like Arugula town, who is meeker than that.

Flip: I4

VOTE: DCLXVI

and no AVox, I'm not scum. Anyway, give me your thoughts on the letters people got yesterday.

[IceGuy]

Are you really trying to claim that because he's not listing everyone who was on the Arug wagon as comfortable lynches is contradictory?

No - I'm claiming his reads are made up and his statements today contradict them because of that.

He claims scum derailed my wagon and set up the Arugula one.

The first player to jump off my wagon was whisper - not a scum suspect according to him.
L-1 and hammer on Arugula were done by you and Amrun respectively - also not scum suspects according to him.

And that's although he listed six scum suspects (i.e. half the game that was not confirmed town to him):

As to me - if Arugula is indeed Town (which would guess is the case given what I have seen) I'd be confortable lynching in the following -

Iceguy, AV, DCL, Robo, Vijay, LLD

He's basically saying "that was a scum-driven derail and new wagon, but neither the person starting it nor the people ending it are scum". How the fuck does that make any sense?

At most, he could claim that the people in-between are scum for jumping on the mislynch wagon - but he can't use that narrative because it would make me town, and he can't have that because I'm the designated mislynch.

[AurorusVox]

Ice goes back to strong town.

Vijay, I'll look over when I'm not on my phone unless someone wants to summarise letters people took for me? Vijay needs to explain his voting yesterday.

Vm I know, strange right? I rarely agree with lld (i think she fooled me in defcon) but I found things she posted tickled me nicely in a gut town read sorta way. I can point to specifics when I'm back home with laptop access.

[DCLXVI]

I need more time to process ICEguy vs MoI - one of them is scum, MoI's last two posts have me wondering.
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Ice goes back to strong town.

Why is your vote not on MoI?