In post 4635, Breakfast With Sandy wrote:Timing mattered. So did a divided town. wagons are sometimes more volatile near deadline.
Who were the scum pushing the orci wagon?
If I am right about Mastin/Rancid/AP being scum, then they are the scum that helped derail the wagon and were happy to "work" with townies who wanted a different wagon, not so much in the way of votes but more of influencing the direction of the lynch with their voice. This makes any counterwagon much easier to push than Rancid themselves. Not that they pushed Orc in particular but helped push those multiple other wagons along with you and Nacho. In that way, forming a counterwagon is obviously easy. And it will be easy today (for you or anyone else) to form a counterwagon to Mastin at deadline depending on who the target is.
I think it has to do with players like Mastin or Rancid being active and polarizing that people form strong opinions on them. If enough people read them as hard town (which hapenned with Rancid), even if a bunch of people read them as hard scum, they will be difficult to lynch because the people strong-townreading them would go for
any
wagon that is not them with the intention of saving them as opposed to pushing a particular lynch of their choice. It can be advantageous as scum to be polarizing as opposed to being universally townread and Rancid certainly were. I think it is possible for town to be polarizing figures. I just don't know if that is the case here.
Do you think the nature of how the wagon formed says anything about Rancid's alignment?