California Trilogy: City of Angels - On Camera (Game Over)

[Kise]

I think the reasons heads bumped in our QT is because we had natural leaders; both with great plans, but ultimately only able to choose a single route as a unit. Thankfully it didn't tear you guys up too bad.

[Kise]

Starkiss has done nothing right all game other than follow Valentine in the first scene, and I can see a lonely scum (all of the confirmeds were off-stage) doing that to fit in.

Nailed it, buddy.

[Kise]

5 noms for VP! Pooky had my sides hurting also.

BTW... as a fervent Anonymous supporter during the war...

Not so anonymous any more.

I'm actually pretty surprised that Starkiss lasted as long as they did.

If you check the QT, you'll see I strategize a bit for what should be done after I'm lynched rather than what can be done while I'm alive. If Zito didn't accidentally hammer Tal, then I was sure to finally get what I deserved. Thanks to what happened with the numbers in the previous scene, Talilan wanted to leave "liars" off-camera with SL, so I was not even a lynch option. I agree with CKD that with him, Thesp, zu and myself off-camera, I wasn't getting lynched there -- not with the mystery surrounding SMG. Before that, I was opposed to the Gaspar lynch but dram hammered him (Gaspar didn't believe us to be scum so I believed he was one of our scum-mates). I think the Gaspar situation was when I was really being put under heavy suspicion. Before, if I recall, I was suspicious for my belief in the 3rd party that KY Krew was talking about and also not voting him. Speaking of which, KY called me assistant director by mistake and I thought that was a hint that he was my partner. In reality, none of the Sci' knew about me.

After a while, I have to admit that I no longer wanted to be careful about not lynching one of my own. I said to dram that we should just scumhunt and lynch whoever -- except DAB since that was the only buddy we knew of. I think it was Talilan that mentioned my 1st off-camera vote was against them in Scene 4.

It got semi-frustrating trying to figure out whether I was being put under suspicion by buddies or not because I wasn't certain of how to retaliate/reply (wouldn't want to make my partners look too bad). When Gaspar flipped innocent, I couldn't believe it due to the support I got from him/them. It was suspenseful at times waiting on flips. Even hewitt had me thinking we were partners after a few scenes where he and DAB (who rode my nuts when I first came off-camera, lol) backed off of me. Back when I had that page-long battle against Tal and they admitted to second guessing whether I could be scum (and something about everyone agreeing I'm scum so that I'm not lynched), I even figured that hydra was with me. Any time someone backed off of me, I made the same assumption, so my stances changed occasionally.

The only person I was definite was

not

a buddy of mine was CKD due to his advocate PM. I thought Sci' were 3rd party and the SMG were the main scum, so this also influenced me to be careless about who I voted for. I played the sideline more often than not because, in my (and maybe dram's) head, I had to figure out who was likely our partners, who was likely SMG, and who was innocent.

It does feel good to have experience as the traitor-role (a surviving one, at that) and could have been more fun if I had more time to invest in reading instead of skimming. There were times where I thought Goof was tipping me off as to who the other Sci' members were (when she'd claim someone as town in the same sentence as me), but, obviously, that wasn't the case.

[Kise]

In fact, when hewitt, CKD & Tal mentioned (pre-scene) that they found me suspicious, I thought they were SMG ganging up on me -- if you remember, I said CKD is already scum that wanted town points by letting panzer drive scene 1. DAB backed off of Gaspar, and both were saying they found me town so this also screwed with my head. Then when hewitt and Tal didn't pursue my lynch, I really started pulling my hair out.

[Kise]

Second-to-last post.