Open 708: Pick Your Poison - Game Over

[Transcend]

let's replicate a legendary survivor scene from last season

hewhoswims will play the role of lauren's idol

everyone else will play the role of dr. mike

we throw it in the fire!

VOTE: hewhoswims

[Transcend]

oh he changed his avi

still tho'

do it

[Flubbernugget]

There are less votes on Beefster than before I claimed IC, and no other viable wagon is popping up. There are three days before deadline. Get your shit together before today ends in a no lynch.

Thank you.

you oprefer Beef to Thor?

I would like Thor over beef, but if Thor gets wagoned he's going to strong-arm the thread and induce apathy.

[Transcend]

i'm so glad i get to kill whoever the fuck i want tonight after you guys mislynch someone

[Beefster]

Everyone should list their top 3 lynch picks. We'll lynch the player who appears on the most lists.

mozamis

CultOfAthena

Moneybags

[Transcend]

Coa But throw hws in the pot as well

Actually coa or money

[Transcend]

Wait misread

Coa
Money
Hws

Still spishus of Klick but eh

[Moneybags]

Tex has 3 votes right now, as does beef. A handful of other people have 1. We have 48 hours here, we don't have time to push a lynch on someone like CoA which will only get 3 people at best. I'd much rather lynch Tex before moz. I could go for a Thor lynch but we'd need 6 other people to agree with that out of thin air.
Apparently maf would rather force a NL than simply bandwangon on tex. Hmmmmm.

[Maxous]

Who hasn't confirmed VT?
Is it just Thor and Errant?

[Moneybags]

That is correct. Although I feel like lynching a cc isn't going to happen today if Errant does not even make it back in time to claim.

[Flubbernugget]

Lynch is between tex and beef now.

[Transcend]

Lynch is between town and town now.

[Flubbernugget]

Wahhh

[Errantparabola]

Alright, I'm back. I skimmed the first several pages since I've been gone, but before I catch up and give reads in earnest, a few points:

1) Once again, I'm sorry for being unavailable this weekend.
2) If anyone suspects me of pretending to be V/LA, I'm sorry for whatever I did to give you such a low opinion of my character.
3) I've pretty clearly softed VT already. I'm VT.
4) I'm not particularly interested in defending myself. I think the burden of proof falls on RC/Thor, if they're town there's not much I can or want to do to argue with them or change their minds. Maybe they've elaborated on why they think I'm scum, we'll see when I read.

[HeWhoSwims]

I appreciate the reference Transcend.

@EP I don't think anyone's doubting you. You mentioned you had stuff to tend to, obviously that's more important. Good luck with everything coming up.

Moz I don't see what's so unclear about my posts. I talked from the train of thought that scum would be on either the Beef or Flub wagon or one of the wagoneers themselves. Removing conftowns this left you, COA, Beef, Money and I expressed what I thought about them briefly. So what's unclear? I've said multiple times that it's in my playstyle and my nature to not jump on anything right away, I need to be more sure of it.

Having said this my list of 3 right now would be any 4 of Tex, Moz, COA, maybe Max. The thing with Tex is that lurking may be playstyle, but that argument surely wouldn't hurt a scum lurker. I'll give EP a freebie on this and assume he's not lying about real life issues because let's face it, please just don't do that.

[Moneybags]

Ok so here we go. I think that Tex is

Scum

. All game I've been writing her off as a lurking player that scum will go for lynchbait. But again I've been overthinking everything. And if someone lurks all the time, well, a broken clock is right at least twice a day right? Eventually it'll work out in your favor, and you can just claim to always do this. Which she does, in post 247.

Post 182, where she insubstantially claims flub is OMGUS voting her, has always bothered me. After flubber replied I did agree, but even then I said that this post was just such a long shot. If you randomly vote someone and they vote you back, for that very reason (as well as from lurking), you can't just say it's OMGUS and call it a day. You're just using it to push a lynch on the person you're randomly voting.

Then what happens after that? I start pushing flub. Thor pushes flub. This is part of the reason I have Thor as leaning scum. Did he try and hammer home the push started by Tex so it's spread between them, and suspicion is alleviated? That's basically a conspiracy theory so I have no idea, but it's something to chew on. Especially if one of them flips red.
I'd also like to note Thor

has never once addressed Texcat this game.

And this is after siding with Tex v Flubber.

Anyways, back to Tex. After being accusing of lurking we see a few low effort posts. She asks some questions. Finally gives reads (for the first time all game) in post 496. Says Thor is town, which is funny cause a lot of other people say he's null. Still riding on scum!Flubber.

And so here's what I really find interesting. It's a little bit of a stretch but I think in context to the above it could be something of substance.

Well, carp. That's a revolting development.
UNVOTE:

I would have cc'd long before now, if I were not VT.

Cc'd who exactly? Why would it have at all made sense to out as the 3rd pr, if that's what you meant?

We almost certainly had an IC in the game. So if I had a PR, for example if I were a jailkeeper, I would have know that either Transcend or RC was lying about their role, and I would have claimed. I guess that's not exactly a cc.

The first posts of hers triggered me cause it feels really weird to me.

What do you mean you would have cc'd?

You say that like ccing was always an option for you.

But because you haven't, you're

obviously

just a VT. Why would that have ever made sense to out, if you were a PR?
The excuse you come up with doesn't cut it for me either. It feels like you made the original comment offhand and realized that as town you would not have had any reason at all to CC.

Why would you, theoretically, assume that we'd have an IC when you are the Jailkeeper? Why would that be a reason to out?

It wouldn't be. It'd be a reason to massclaim sure, but not for you to "cc". Even in your reply you make it sound like you know, or have always known the PRs for this game.

I feel like both these posts are just straight up scum slips. In isolation they might not hold any weight but I think in context of tex's gameplay it's the best lead I have.

VOTE: Texcat

I implore you all to consider this. I feel like it's a significantly better option than anyone else currently on the table.

If I flip before tex,

please

start with her tomorrow.

Putting my tex argument here for additional visibility. Tex is a much better vote than Beef, but a long shot.

[Moneybags]

Lynch is between town and town now.

Then vote the "town" that has been lurking all game while parked in the IC, only to just now bail out and go on the other town wagon.

[HeWhoSwims]

I mean

TL on Beefy and he's talking which is good.

SL on Tex who's... not talking.

There could easily be one scum between those and if so I'd say it's tex every time, 90% of the time.

[mozamis]

Lynch is between tex and beef now.

i dont mind tex, and beefs reads are so whack i guess hes an option, but could you get on Hewho? there are 3 votes on him already, so it could happen.

[Moneybags]

Tex is absolutely a better lynch than HWS. At least HeWho is contributing and participating in discussion.

[mozamis]

Who hasn't confirmed VT?
Is it just Thor and Errant?

could just lynch this, max shows no interest in lynching anyone.

[RadiantCowbells]

Just vote tex I guess.

Hope you shoot well transc.

[mozamis]

Lynch is between tex and beef now.

i dont mind tex, and beefs reads are so whack i guess hes an option, but could you get on Hewho? there are 3 votes on him already, so it could happen.

sorry, wrong about that. but if you get behind Hewho, it could happen, sinc e you are IC.
Tex could be scum, but worried that both tex and Beef are lycnhbait.
Wheres Hewho is very likely to flip scum. Once agin his last post...it's breathtaking in it's obfuscation "scum on the wagons, or maybe the wagoneers themselves" I mean LOL, that doesnt exactly narrow it down.
Or Max.
Hewho swims or Max people! Lets actually lynch scum!

[mozamis]

Tex is absolutely a better lynch than HWS. At least HeWho is contributing and participating in discussion.

you have to vote to participate, guy still is doing nothing,his reads are so effing vague. he is doing nothing to advance the game state.

[mozamis]

Tex is absolutely a better lynch than HWS. At least HeWho is contributing and participating in discussion.

then you are up for lynching Max? he has done even less than Tex.