Ah, so you ARE going for the "mislynch Mastin" path. In-thread, I knew you'd have one of two reactions.
1: Say there is very little to defend against from me. (Kinda sorta true, considering I haven't built the case, yet.
) But that I am now acting as typical town Mastin, annoying as that may be. This is the path you would take if you had given up on trying to mislynch me, and accepted that it was no longer possible to achieve. Logically, this was a viable option, since you have seen my play before, and are aware that I am more likely to think you are town if you essentially shrug off my attack. Additionally, having seen my play before, going down this path could potentially have turned me into an ally. (I might be forgetting a few of the details which made this a more logical choice, but you get the idea.)
2: Point out exactly what's wrong and try to point out exactly how full of holes my logic is. The obvious reason for choosing this path is, of course, to try and make me look less credible. If done well, at worst, it gives you extra time to live. At best, it makes me a suspect in the eyes of others. Logically, I can see why you thought it was a good idea to go down this path: you historically know my logic to be poor, and have access to me saying things which can grant you an advantage. For instance, you could try and make me look less credible at the cost of me never moving off of you. (Which it kinda looks like you're attempting to do.) In a battle of pure logic, you know yourself to be superior to me. Additionally, it makes logical sense to keep me as a suspect--if you accepted that I was town, that is one more mislynch you must shut down. Perhaps not permanently due to your "everyone's a suspect" meta (annoyingly null), but at least for a day or two, in which time I can devastate your scumteam, potentially, something you wish to avoid. (Like with the first, I'm probably forgetting a few details which make this position stronger logically than it seems right now, but you can still get the idea.)
Unfortunately for you, you chose the wrong path. Since you're forgetting one vital detail: I'm Mastin.
Out-of-thread, I'm going to assume since the neighborhood apparently has daytalk, the scum do as well.
And that your in-thread post has an equivalent QT post. Now, I'm not sure which of these you posted, but I'm betting you said something along the lines of one of these three:
1: "How. HOW DOES HE DO IT?!? When he has not a single scrap of credible evidence, when he has no conclusive logical proof, how does he manage to somehow figure it out?!?"
2: "HOW CAN HE READ THROUGH MY DISGUISE?!? I've spent endless hours perfecting my mask, putting up the most logical viewpoint I could muster, yet he manages to see through me and my true intentions. HOW?!?"
3: "How is it that one of our planned mislynches just managed to nail us?"
They all have the same answer: because I think differently than you.
Because I think differently, because I use things which aren't concrete, because I use things which are invisible on the surface, I can form conclusions which can devastate a scumteam. For instance, WormyKrew and Alduskkel fell to my wrath, despite my extremely poor logic. (I've additionally toppled Vollkan, and would've toppled Maxous as well had David listened to my scumlist rather than his own reads.
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Because I don't think logically, your mask of logic is absolutely seethrough to me. It helps that I was in a similar situation to you--this is your first scumgame, no? Breaking a solid streak of town, correct? Replacing into a situation which has become helpless? Yeah, I just had that in Flash Mafia 3, breaking my solid streak of town (in particular, VT) PMs. Because I've been through it, I know how people in said situation feel.
Additionally, you answered my questions. In much the way I was anticipating. What you couldn't have known (nor could I have known, either, until recently) is that by answering the questions about how you'd play as scum/town and what your plan was, you gave me your thought process and a view into your intentions. So, I can read your mind.
As for the third, that's because I've discovered now that I play better as a replacement than I do as an original player. "...But you're an original player in this game..." Technically, yes. I have been a player since the beginning. In practice, no. I was last on something like page five, active lurking just enough to avoid being replaced in this game. I was a dead slot, someone giving absolutely nothing. Like a newbie about to be replaced by a vet.
Effectively, I replaced myself.
Reading 60 pages from scratch, with only glimpses into the future game. It effectively made me a replacement in this game. And as everyone knows, replacements tend to play better than who they replace, since they have a new, fresh, interesting perspective on the game and can work with material already established and come in with no personal biases already formed.
Because I looked at things in a way you couldn't have anticipated, I managed to see what you hadn't thought of, and from this all, I have nailed you, Ironhead.
(Though I must thank you. The realization that I play better as a replacement is new to me, as of this moment. That means I'll probably be playing more as a replacement in the future, to test this "mastin can nail the scum instantly upon replacing" theory I have.)
I'll point out how wrong Ironhead's defense is when I get around to making the case against all three. Though I really shouldn't need to; Ironhead's obvious scum at this point.
Oh well. Hindsight is 20/20
