In post 3678, MastinSSK wrote: In post 3675, The Fox and the Hound wrote:I'm starting to find it difficult to believe scum would bother doing the amount of wheel-spinning that Mastin seems to be doing right now. And if they did they would realize they just kept saying the same things and stop.
Don't take this as encouragement though, I'd still prefer that it stop v.v
In post 3677, AngryPidgeon wrote:Mastin, you do realize that you are flooding the thread with nothing of relevance. Your last posts are a revolving door of waffles on reads and assertions that your town core could have scum in it but doesnt.
Holy crap.
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(This can't be coincidence.)
Just realized PV also made a similar point about me.
By the way, worth mentioning. As I was driving home, I had another thought. I fucked up my chances at getting nightkilled by claiming. But...well. That doesn't mean I can't make the scumteam miserable enough to wish I was nightkillable. I want to have that. That paragon of mafia hunters level of play. Or rather...more specifically, to channel the Fate/somebodyelseIdontremember hydra in RPG Mafia II that was a treestump and had the entire scumteam nailed. (Not Fate's style, of course. I mean Fate's success.)
I don't have nearly as much time as I need to have in order to pull a full analysis. Gods, I wish I did. I wish that I could put that much time and effort in. But I already put far too damn much into it already. So I can't. I can only put in as much time as I can put in, and make the most of that time, and do the best that I can with that time.
...All of this basically means that while I think the points by PV, Fox/Hound, and AP are likely to have been made by primarily scum, that they're not entirely unjustified. I'm trying to do analysis. But I'm not getting very far with it. I'm trying to figure it all out, here, on what is essentially a day one since our natural D1 was never given to us.
And part of this? Part of this is that, well. I know I wasn't great in Xeno. (Venmar called. He wants neck back.) But while I was wrong there, I feel like, in this case, potentially making that same mistake again. That game? That game, I said a fair amount of this. "Yeah, I know, I suck. I screwed up. I have no confidence. But I truly believe this." With 'this' being something that was also wrong. But honestly. As I was driving home, I realized that, well. I was kinda letting myself get trapped in the past, of that game. Not on reading others.
...Of my own skills. I'm afraid.
Truly afraid.
To ever risk taking up the mantle of town leader.
I really, really am afraid each and every time.
Because every single time in recent history, I've fucked up.
I've done wrong when in charge.
And who's to say that this game would be any better?
What would make me magically suddenly be good when I haven't been?
Thus the fear. Because there's a history of me being wrong, and a history of me being confident that in spite of having been wrong, that "this time, I'm right", only to be wrong again.
Yet I don't want that.
I want to move on from the past.
And actually succeed.
And honestly, that's why I've felt the pressure to have the answer, yet frustratingly have been doubting that. Because while I always feel like I'm close, that fear of me being wrong is overwhelmingly strong. I am not good at making calculations as town. I pretend I am. I am not good at leading towns, though I pretend to all the time. I am not good at logic, contrary to what Natirasha insists. I'm, well. Just a girl who is okay at everything, but never exceeds in anything. With my best skill being bridging rifts in the town.
But know what I'm beginning to feel like?
That might be the real me. But I want more than that. I'm greedy. Ambitious. And bluntly, my feeling towards yet again not being control is to say, "fuck that".
So know what?
I feel like taking control of the town.
Oh, I'll probably change my mind at some point down the line.
But unlike in Xeno where this was merely a threat.
This is me making a promise.
I will not blame any mislynch. None. I will place absolutely zero percent of the blame on any player I cause the death of. And take 100% of the accountability for it. For their death, be it via lynch or nightkill. If I lead to a town loss, I will own up about it. I won't give a list of excuses. I won't say that this wasn't all on me. I will take all of it in, as having been purely my fault for having led the town astray. And I'll live with any consequences of the decision. People declaring they don't want to play with me again. People asking me not to play at all. People lecturing me. They'll have every right to be right, and I won't fight them in their lectures.
This I promise you.
Right or wrong.
I'm sick of feeling like a piece of fucking trash. And right or wrong, I'm going to be directing players this game. Oh, I realize there are plenty of town players here who can be leaders. A fair amount scumreading me. Don't give a damn. I've resolved to this. And if it divides the town, then I will take full blame for that, too. But I'm done with that self-doubt. I'm planting my foot firmly down in the ground and shouting out to the world.
I won't claim to have all the answers.
I won't claim to have a perfect picture of the scumteam.
But I will hunt down the scum.
One by one.
So I don't give a damn about scumreads on me.
SHEEP ME.
VOTE: PeregrineV.