BlueTrin wrote:Ranger, did your reads get less accurate because of the setup ?
Maybe? I mean, I did have at least some justification for my reads: Killthestory WAS scum who hammered the moment an opportunity arose. (And, yes. I legitimately did not notice that Rhaegar had been hammered, would not have scumread Rhaegar near the end if I had realized this.) So Not_Mafia hammering made every bit of sense coming from scum and none from town.
RC acting town did help of course, but Not_Mafia's hammer was the real clincher. If Not_Mafia had not hammered me, then it would have done two things. One, given me serious reason to doubt he would be scum, and two, force RC to interact with me in a way that RC would potentially reveal his alignment. (Thus, why I cast the self-vote in the first place. I knew from the setup that it was a viable strategy for gathering information and also not the end of the world should I get lynched, since I would still have the vengekill.) But because he
did
hammer me, that never happened.
Postie wrote:An impressive amount of thought went into that.
Of course. When I was lynched, there was a time crunch: Maestro could have logged on at literally any moment and locked the thread, so I was forced to do short, uninformative, vague posts to act as a guideline. (For instance, had PantherPunt been lynched and flipped town, I can guarantee I'd have vengekilled either KTS or TheTrollie, probably TheTrollie, but since the
one player I said not to lynch
was lynched, the guaranteed-win I had in mind suddenly became a 50/50 at best.)
When I was in the twilight thread, there was no such time limitation. As a result, I could spend my time explaining myself. As for why I didn't explain prior to that: the game was short. It was still in the early phases of the game, and I never explain things then. We were reaching the point where if I was asked to explain, I would, but nobody did, thus, why it never materialized until after I was dead.
I generally do whatever I like to in games, but usually, "whatever I like to" is still "make plans of some sort for the objectively-best plays".
And I maintain this setup is town-sided if played properly. Killthestory was exposed as scum because you were obvtown. Had we lynched one of {TheTrollie, PantherPunt}, we would have exposed scum either way because TIMU was obviously town (the play here being literally
identical
to the play last game). The one failing point in this is RC, but that would have been out of my hands anyway since had we vengekilled scum it'd have been one of {Killthestory, TheTrollie}, you guys probably would have lynched the other, and RC would have arranged for you (the only player capable of catching him) to die, leaving him in a position where he'd win 3p lylo anyway. (It didn't help that, immediately after TIMU self-hammered, Not_Mafia said all three lynches were on town, a fact which Not_Mafia should not have been predicting if he was town given his hammer on me. That really DID read as a
serious
scum flip.)
Since TIMU was lynched, my plan for winning the game was thrown out of whack.
And I guess that does answer BlueTrin's question. One curveball I could handle. Three (missing KTS's hammer, Not_Mafia hammering, TIMU being lynched instead of someone else in that group), not so much.
