Also since Battle Mage reminded me of his posting, this feels the appropriate time to do this:
The game thread opened at Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:50 pm.
Everyone received the daystart PM on Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:59 pm.
So everyone, at approximately 5 pm pst on Friday December 4th, knew that D1 had began and was open.
In post 1943, Battle Mage wrote: In post 1887, Titus wrote:Because I was a) holding out for BM and b) was going to quick hammer if you voted him.
VLA until Sunday
weren't you voting me for hammering yesterday? (although it wasn't exactly quick, and was very much facilitated by superbowl)
This is a content post by Battle Mage made in that Normal on Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:01 pm. A full 20 hours after the start of our game.
In post 1944, Battle Mage wrote: In post 1908, Rannygazoo wrote: In post 1831, Battle Mage wrote:I figure it's obvious to scum that I'm a PR at this point anyway so I'll do my proper claim.
Hey BM why do you think this would be obvious to scum or to anyone? I didn’t see where you crumbed it.
lol! maybe ask Flavor Leaf or Titus since they both picked up on it. i was hinting at it for numerous posts today, after I figured there was a risk we wouldn't elim OWER unless I gave a bit more help.
This is another content post made by Battle Mage. On Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:05 pm.
In post 1945, Battle Mage wrote:also, i don't even have the paranoia of OWER-town in a weird setup with 2 town protectives and a roleblocker, given if that was the case scum would just have taken up my offer to elim him, then me.
This is
a third
content post by Battle Mage on Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:06 pm.
In post 1947, Battle Mage wrote: In post 1921, MathBlade wrote:Titus let me be blunt here. You’re acting an awful lot like a fourth scum and this is ELO. I get both NPOM’s and BM’s claims are suspect as fuck. But the fact you’re literally waiting out in the wings for a quick hammer (your words) instead of voting NPOM when in your world there is no way I could be scum is sus as fuck. You’re not even considering traitor which is normal, and I don’t know if the above is a slip. Give me a reason by play you’re town here. Not mechanics. Play.
how on earth is Titus acting like it's ELO? and how is my claim remotely "suspect"? I really hope, if my solve is right, you're just screwing around, and not actually going to throw the game for town.
This is a fourth content post by Battle Mage, on Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:10 pm.
In post 1948, Battle Mage wrote:I feel like there is probably not one town player left alive who has played well, and virtually every town player who is dead, had a better showing.
This is (an incredibly accurate on-point) fifth content post by Battle Mage, on Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:12 pm.
In post 1950, Battle Mage wrote:it seems very simple to me. We have 2 claimed protectives. Me and OWER. Unlikely, given all the other claimed and revealed roles. How the claimed masons don't see it, is beyond me. I figure it goes like this: Ranny sheeps Math
Math stalls but ultimately does whatever Titus and Flavor Leaf tell him
I have no idea why but whatever. Just seems a shitty way to lose when we can easily win this.
This is a seventh content post by Battle Mage, on Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:22 pm.
In post 1952, Battle Mage wrote: In post 1949, Rannygazoo wrote: In post 1944, Battle Mage wrote: In post 1908, Rannygazoo wrote: In post 1831, Battle Mage wrote:I figure it's obvious to scum that I'm a PR at this point anyway so I'll do my proper claim.
Hey BM why do you think this would be obvious to scum or to anyone? I didn’t see where you crumbed it.
lol! maybe ask Flavor Leaf or Titus since they both picked up on it. i was hinting at it for numerous posts today, after I figured there was a risk we wouldn't elim OWER unless I gave a bit more help.
So you started crumbing it day 3?
it wasn't really crumbing, i was dropping whole fking loaves. i was hoping Titus or FL would be town, take the hint, and we could bury it in content so I wouldnt have to claim.
This is the eighth content post from Battle Mage, on Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:23 pm.
In post 1954, Battle Mage wrote:it seems to me that you're about to throw away the game regardless of anything I say because you are listening to Titus and FL and not me. You'll forgive me if I don't waste my time going back to dig out quotes which you can easily find yourself (you were here when this all happened and I know you're not stupid). absolutely ridiculous
This is the ninth content post from Battle Mage, on Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:27 pm.
But here's the important part, and the REAL bombshell.
In post 1959, Battle Mage wrote:can you just look at the claims please, and tell me setup-wise what makes sense - 1 protective and investigative on alternating nights - yes. 2 protectives which overlap awkwardly - no. that's essentially what this boils down to. i only 'crumbed' when i knew it was necessary to risk outting my role to get OWER-elimmed. it doesn't make sense for me to do that as a gambit to save hypothetical partner NPOM when it buys me maximum of 1 mis-elim for 2 consecutive scum elims, or potentially 2 consecutive scum-elims and conftowning somebody else.
If you are masons, think about the permutations here - what makes sense in terms of setup and also the way each player has approached it. It's not like BM doesn't fakeclaim as town often if there's a reason, and it's pretty obvious that the manner I claimed VT (under no pressure, and using the excuse of being neighbourhooded to make it believable) was just to stop me being NKed. My role is alternate night so it kinda relies on me surviving a few night phases to get value from it.
This is the tenth content post from Battle Mage on Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:41 pm.
Notice something?
In post 704, Battle Mage wrote:I'm here buddy. 28 pages on the weekend I'm VLA.
shiiiiiiit
I'm town anyway, I guess Pooky wasn't given the opportunity to pick me.
Team FL go go go!
This was Battle Mage's first post in this game, a declaration that he's V/LA on weekends...at Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:32 pm.
Battle Mage made nine content posts in another game before declaring V/LA in this game, then
went back to that game to post more
and still doing nothing.
He made his
eleventh content post at Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:44 pm.
His
twelfth content post at Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:44 pm.
His
thirteenth content post at Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:47 pm.
And then he came back to this thread to post:
In post 731, Battle Mage wrote:i turned up
i saw 28 pages
i used search function for "battle mage"
I spent 5 minutes wondering why the fuck somebody had posted Morning Mage quotes.
i responded to a nice msg from Norwee
Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:50 pm.
He claimed V/LA as an excuse to not make content at Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:51 pm.
And why is this important? Because after claiming V/LA as an excuse to not make content in this game...
In post 1980, Battle Mage wrote:lol scumslip? dude get real.
also, ftr i am never "coached" as scum - people who try, get bussed to death immediately. consider me checked out for the day, as I think this is a lost cause. Math seems more interested in keeping FL happy than elimming scum or even talking about the possibility of elimming scum, or even talking to me about anything actually useful.
...He made his fourteenth content post of that game, AFTER this, at Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:04 pm.
And a fifteenth, at Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:07 pm.
And
a sixteenth, at Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:09 pm.
Here's his seventeenth content post, at Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:11 pm.
Here's his eighteenth content post on Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:17 pm.
And then, there is a timegap from him posting again there...which doesn't correlate to him posting here. (Because his last post here that day was at Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:58 pm.)
In post 2022, Battle Mage wrote:VOTE: Nopoweroverme
doesn't look like we can do anything else anyway. what a joke. at least there's a statistical chance he can be scum. It's virtually unanimous anyway, and I'm obviously wasting my breath with Mathblade. But I'm sure my solve is right and this probably flips town. Whatever.
He does however return to make his twentieth content post of the day at Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:35 pm.
Followed by
21st content at Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:36 pm.
And
22nd content post on Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:38 pm.
With other slight gaps following, because his
23rd content post was at Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:44 pm;
His
24th content post was at Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:53 pm.
And that was it for him in that game.
He made 24 posts of content in another game, all the while clinging to "I'm V/LA, I can't post content over the weekend" in this game.
That game was him as town, posting up a storm during the time he's V/LA.
So yes.
I have a pretty damn compelling case that Battle Mage's claim of not making content due to being V/LA over the weekend is utter bullshit.