I'll stop spamming the thread soon, but just for a lark, I ISO'd mongoose, and this stood out to me:
mongoose wrote:looking at furcolows last 4 posts he says he thinks we should hurry up and lynch someone, but doesn't say anything contributive as for WHO to lynch. then he gives a vote without information. I don't like that at all.
nothing else really jumped out at me
unvote, vote furcolow
mongoose wrote:I dont see anything wrong with dryfit to be honest. I think everything he has said can be justified.
n00b scum are adorable and unsubtle. But anyway, based on the contrast between his DF and Furc interaction, I doubt mongoose would have distanced that hard from Furcolow. So okay, I'd rule Furcolow as an unlikely mongoose partner.
Baby Spice is slightly craftier; at least she puts DF among her suspects, and her first scum list consists of Benmage, jason, Nikanor, Furc, and DF. It's WIFOM as to whether she'd include more than one of her buddies in that list. Oh, dear God. Her first posts basically just call every sentence in the game scummy for silly reasons. (I always get that cringeworthy feeling when I reread a flipped scum player of, "Ick, why didn't I notice the signs?" Maybe I should be entirely honest and admit my eyes sort of glazed over some of her earlier posts. In my defence, I find her thought process just so confusing and hard to follow that it masks her contradictions and distortions and lack of follow-through.) Never mentions IKD/LW or Kaleidoscope (or me). Just one comment--she openly listed Elmo as one of her three town reads. And then she says this:
Baby Spice wrote:Also Elmo is so obv town that he should be in the dictionary for it.
This is WIFOM, but I'd actually say that makes Elmo
less
likely to be her buddy.
AAAH, I'm half-asleep right now. I'm going to skim a bit, since a lot of this is WIFOM. Suffice it to say that Benmage is super-extra-confirmed town now.
At first, her LW vote looks like an opportunistic hop on a townie (which makes sense since Percy, the player she'd declared very loudly was town, was in the lead with four votes, and LW was tied with her at two). This is what makes me most nervous. Given how badly she played, would she have risked voting Lrdwhyt instead of a player she'd claimed to suspect? But I guess the fact that she mentioned "bussing" in the first place in her vote might be an example of protesting too much.
But yeah, then she REEEAAALLY goes on and on about how Sotty/Lrdwhyt is the most likely scum pairing, Sotty is bussing, etc. In retrospect, I agree with all those who said she might be trying to link them together as a scumteam, particularly since her only other link-based cases were (i) a minor point saying Percy
might
be scum if Benmage was, and (ii) this:
Baby Spice wrote:One of jason or Nik is scum. Bet on it. Unlikely both.
In retrospect, it looks like she's setting up two mislynches in a row--if one of them flips scum, hey, it doesn't cost her anything! It'd be a bit risky to rule a townie you're trying to scum up out as being scum. It makes jason and Thor yet
more
unlikely to be scum--jason in particular, since she was pushing him first. (Maybe I'm attributing too much logic to her, though.)
Also just noticed that jason was the swing vote from Percy to Baby Spice. Yet more town points for him. Good thing, or else I'd be wary of him for his "let's policy lynch Percy if Baby flips scum!" routine.
Aaah, I started looking at the vote counts, but some of them are from VP Baltar and some from Zachrulez, and oh my God,
why am I not in bed right now
? It's hard to follow if the timing of her votes make more sense for bussing or for trying to push a mislynch. Unfortunately, my Elmo wagon muddies the waters a bit. But anyway, she jumps off LW and votes Sotty after I vote Elmo. Hmm. Considering both Sotty and LW's wagons were less viable at that point and she claimed to suspect Sotty more, it's kind of null. LW voting Elmo, the only other wagon other than Percy to compete with LW, on the other hand, is very far from null.
That said, I noticed that as of this count, she
still
isn't on LW, even though it would save her skin:
Baby Spice - 4 (Percy, Sotty7, Thor665, JasonT1981)
Lrdwhyt - 4 (Locke Lamora, Benmage, Elmo, Furcolow)
Elmo - 2 (Mina, Lrdwhyt)
Percy - 2 (I Am Innocent, KaleiÐoscøpe)
Sotty7 - 1 (Baby Spice)
She only votes LW when IAI threatens to put her at L-1. Nothing to rule them out as buddies.
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I'm not really sure why I stayed up until past 4 AM doing this when I have work tomorrow morning and Empking's lynch is an inevitability. Probably because I'm obsessive-compulsive, and because I want to say I was right about
something
this game. I'll save rereading IKD/LW and seeing if DF and BS fit as partners for another day. So far, I don't see anything that makes someone else fit better as her partner. Um...she has zero interaction with Kaleidoscope, and she
could
be distancing with Nikanor early on, I guess. And she and Elmo fit as buddies only if they're doing a very postmodern "openly defending and kissing up to each other is the new distancing" routine. I once got away with that off-site, but I doubt it would fly on mafiascum.
