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on second thought... csarmi, you had your chance and promised to do so D1. You didn't... so too late :tongue:

 

and now, for something serious: 

 

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Vote:##Cass

 

I just can't shake her gameplay EOD for D2... it's bugging me lots. She seemed very protective of Kivam and unwilling to lynch him. 

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@ Thane,

 

I knew that one was coming *g*

 

Dude - I made the deciding vote. If I was wolf, why the hell would I have done that, if Kiv was on 'my' team I don't think that'd be a player I'd be throwing away? And, I was actually really proud of that decision. Even though I sweated about it right up until I hit the spoiler button at the end of night, in case I had been wrong.

 

My hesitation was real. I was leaning towards voting Kiv anyway, I say that in several posts before EoD, if you've looked? But I was scared of being wrong. It may be hard to imagine since you weren't there, but look at the timing of those posts. I was getting hammered by Wom and that made me extremely nervous. I asked him why he put forward Kiv 'cos I was looking to justify my vote against a big player before I took that step again (voted DPR on D1, remember, and not even Des followed cos he was too 'big'). Wom wasn't answering my questions, he was making flurries in the thread, rushing me to a decision. The speed that that was happening at, against a new player, felt very wolfy. I wanted to make my own decision, and I wanted some sort of confirmation that it was 'right'. You can see the thought progression I took to get there, too, I think, if you look at everything I wrote.

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ah Cass, you have an excellent mentor and could well survive a long time as lone wolf. Plus, the fact that you're a brandnew player means that most players (me included) would be willing to cut you some slack. Hypothetically, if everybody in QT would have agreed on sacrificing a wolf to let another continue without problems, it would be done. 

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The point is - no wolf would have had to be sacrificed if I hadn't voted Kiv. Voting for the hell of it would make no sense. Also, you'd think, if I was being led by a pack of wolves that were planning that, they would've known you'd see my hesitation as scummy?

 

I honestly hesitated, and didn't think anything of it after I'd decided that to hell with Wom and his flurries, I was gonna vote Kiv because Kiv had been on my radar all game.

 

As mentioned previously, my actual mentor has barely spoken to me all game. In the last three days he has said less than 11 words to me in our QT: My name, 'Nice lynch!!!!!' and 'the best way to learn is to play.' None of these were whilst I was online, and I have had no direct advice or explanations other than random expressions and abbreviations. 

 

I don't know what sort of mentoring everybody thinks I'm getting, but I explained what the setup was at the beginning and I seriously doubt monstr would've let me walk into a couple of the holes I have if I'd told him what I was doing (The claiming VT and hesitating on my vote against Kiv after all the 'evidence' I'd been working on for two. And I'm sure he would have redirected me to not abandon the conversation with Yates, as well).

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if you'd have randed SK for your first game, looking at your current gameplay, you're doing a good job too (from an outsider point of view). Me, not so thrilled, because you'd still be anti-town

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  On 11/20/2014 at 1:05 PM, Despothera said:

I don't think Dice is mafia. I think Yates was trying to picket him.

 

I DO think he might be SK. The way he initially tried to act like Yates "cleared" him, and his posts today generally kind of stink.

 

If given preference over lynch order today tho, mine would prob look like Tress>Dice>Rags>Cass

If Dice is SK, do you think he shot Yates D1? Especially, if he was SK, he would be sure that Yates is lying. But, wouldn't know whether scum or seer covering.

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Did some hunting. These aren't all of the posts I did relating to thinking Kiv was sus, but there's enough of them that I hope you'll get my point. Surely you can see my brain working away here, piecing it all together? Do you really think I would have laid all of this out as Wolf? This is totally Town me trying to piece together a cohesive argument/case against someone I've been told (by Dice) is one of the best DM's ever had...
 
Will bold and explain the parts I think may help. Please don't skim, even if it's big. Read this, using the mindset that I'm writing my own stuff, keeping in mind that Kiv would still be here and we'd be facing two wolves if I hadn't had the guts to stick to my gut, then see if your vote still makes sense, k?
 
 
  On 11/17/2014 at 6:02 AM, Cass said:

Should have also added - during the re-read I'm doing, I'm noticing Kiv (like DPR and a couple of others), often doesn't answer all the questions directed his way. Kiv answers some of them - so well that you can't help but consider they might be true - and then skillfully leads the discussion around or away from other things, in ways that make them seem as if they didn't even matter to the case/game at hand. I'm pretty sure that would be deliberate, the thing I can't decide is whether he does exactly that in every game no matter what he rands, or if it's significant in this game.

 

 

  On 11/17/2014 at 6:47 AM, Cass said:

Since we're talking about Kiv and I promised earlier I had thoughts brewing on Kiv and DPR, here they are. (Nyn  - the verbarm thing is coming, changed note-taking systems (heh) just have to tidy it up a bit).

 

Darthe is right (thanks for that addition) - nobody else really got in on the debate after DPR suggested I was being coached/over-mentored/pupeteered/used. All that really happened was DPR suggested I was working as if I wasn't on my own, Kivam rationalised the argument, hints that him and DPR are Town, then ends it with a warning to everyone that I could/would kick your ass, Des got 'offended' and Yates and Nyn added 'non-committal' affirmations to the arguments of Kiv and DPR (which, in effect only served to heighten the suspicion and the 'she might be wolfy' vibe). 

 

This post was initially going to be raising concerns about the link/interaction specifically between DPR and Kiv on the matter, but now I found the quote and it includes both Yates and Nyn?

 

I find it really strange that the only people running with that are the people I have high up on my list o' susAnd Des, as I've already mentioned, since my re-read is getting right on up there too.

 

collective effort at "Flatter the newbie, Freak out the Town?" Is that what was going on here? (And yes  :blush:, I may have been slightly more blind to that til my review).  

 

 

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  On 11/17/2014 at 10:21 PM, Cass said:

I actually have to agree that at this point I probably have stronger scum reads on Kiv and Thane than DPR and Wom.

Trying to break some notes down, will see where this goes.

(lol - this. Are you omgus'ing me, law-breaker? If it helps, I really have no idea where you lie right now)

 

  On 11/17/2014 at 10:27 PM, Cass said:

Wom, why you voting AJ again? Do you have Kiv as scum?

- Me, concerned that someone I had just been thinking of as an ally in voting down Kiv was suddenly voting for AJ - someone I knew little about (this is pre-flurry and my omgusing Wom)

 

  On 11/17/2014 at 10:30 PM, WWWwombat said:

 

  On 11/17/2014 at 10:27 PM, Cass said:

Wom, why you voting AJ again? Do you have Kiv as scum?

 

I'm voting AJ because I feel like it.  I have Kivam as a scum lean.

 

Wom, not answering my question/reassuring the self-conscious noob.

 

  On 11/17/2014 at 10:35 PM, WWWwombat said:

 

  On 11/17/2014 at 10:34 PM, Cass said:

I have Kiv higher on my scum read than AJ, and about the same as VerBarm. What does the competing train suggest to you?

 

By this logic, shouldn't you be voting VerBarm?

 

 

  On 11/17/2014 at 10:36 PM, Cass said:

@Wom - I should, unless people are going to shift to Kiv - which is why I asked you why you're voting AJ, since I thought you were reading Kiv as scum.

Hint-hint - Because if people will support a lynch against Kiv I'd prefer that over VerBarm.

 

  On 11/17/2014 at 10:45 PM, Cass said:

I want my decision backed up by other players - not rushed by them. I have a bad habit of reading things the way I want to when I think someone is scum - and if your arguments against Kiv don't make sense to me, it might make me see a hole in my own 'reasoning'. My concern is what if I am wrong?

 

Darthe's take on it the EoD thing and me potentially being Wolf.

 

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  On 11/18/2014 at 12:10 AM, Cass said:

@ Kiv - You twist stuff to potential wolf advantage. DPR does the same.

 

The main way you guys are both doing this is by coming up with ways to 'scare' the Town about threats which are entirely possible but not necessarily true.

('Cass is gonna kick your ass' 'Sili/Wombat is SK' (You), 'Cass is working with the Scum' (DPR)). It's the direct association with a particular threat that does the trick. Yet neither of you are willing to say anything direct about the potential risk posed by the other player. It's all 'DPR has his general reasons, yep he is a risk, we all are (downplay)', and the same from him on you. You're talking up all the risks with direct hypotheses - except about each other. And I find that strange. Cohesive almost. Because, what it manages to do in practice is get the Town to be 'legitimately' scared of everyone but the two of you.

Why would Kiv let me point this out, if we were working on the same team? (I was super proud about this logic, too, btw).

 

  On 11/18/2014 at 12:14 AM, Cass said:

(and from what I've heard, you two are the most experienced threats around). 

 

My problem is, I am reading your actions, interactions and consequent Town reactions as something it makes sense that Scum would do. I don't, however, know the intricacies of the game enough to understand the possible pros and cons of what your actions and interrelations  mean.

 

 

  On 11/18/2014 at 1:19 AM, Cass said:

 

  On 11/18/2014 at 1:04 AM, Kivam said:

This makes no sense. Play this out in your head.  Assume I'm town, and haven't seen anything specific from Wes to make me suspect him of being scum beyond general wariness, but have seen specific things from others that do.  How would I present my arguments?

 

In my mind?

 

In the context of the others? The same way that you have.

 

 

 

In the context of Wes?

 

Like this: "I always suspect him of being scum, beyond a general wariness, but I have not seen specific things this game which point to scum."

 

Not (ever) like this:

 

  On 11/13/2014 at 7:58 PM, Kivam said:

Re Wes - I answered you on this earlier.  The plays you're reading as scummy are typical of him as town.  Can't explain why without destroying whatever effectiveness they might otherwise have

 

 

Especially not when he had effectively done something much the same:

 

 
  On 11/14/2014 at 6:25 PM, DreadPirateRoberts said:
  On 11/14/2014 at 5:48 PM, Cass said:

c) @DPR - What's your read on Kiv? When you suggested a Scum team that didn't include you or Kiv - why did you suggest Kiv should be out too? I can think of a 'plausible' reason for you, now. But not quite one for Kiv....?

 

 

So, for various reasons, I'm not going to go into detail on all of the possibilities regarding Kiv. 

 

 

 

^ My closing argument, and the one Kiv had nothing to reply with. That's when I was most certain about my decision - when he had no other way to twist my words (lawyered a lawyer! heh!)

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Why were you so reluctant to place a vote on Kivam? Am i remembering that wrong? And also that you had Kiv/DPR but preferring DPR lynch?

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Good morning all.

 

Won't be around for EOD and I won't have a ton of time before I go into work this afternoon but I'll post what I can.

 

Also, for the record, Kivam was still the lead wagon before Hallia or Cass voted him. The wagons were all tied at 3 but he got there first and so was facing the rope. Characterizing votes afterwards as the deciding factor in that situation is patently false.

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  On 11/20/2014 at 2:29 PM, Thane Vakarian said:

it could well be that you're playing a very good first game ever, and i would hate for you to be a wolf (for real). But, i do hope that you understand why i find your actions EOD D2 odd.

Thanks :smile:  I actually think/know I've dug myself quite a few silly holes (eg the walking away from Yates despite my gut, mid-debate because I got stuck on associating Sili with DPR, the VT thing, the being too nervous about being wrong to make a decision thing, the massive eye-glazing over-explanation posts thing, and yes, the hesitation at the EoD 'cos of Wom thing) but hey, I'm learning and I can only get better right? :) and no, I'm not SK.

 

 

  On 11/20/2014 at 3:01 PM, csarmi said:

Why were you so reluctant to place a vote on Kivam? Am i remembering that wrong? And also that you had Kiv/DPR but preferring DPR lynch?

 
Csarmi, you actually asked the same thing earlier and I did respond in the madness of EoD (see spoilers) but basically, I was absolutely reluctant, short answer is because I was nervous (the possibility of being wrong and once bitten, twice shy with leading a vote on a big player (DPR) ) and then, compounding that, Wom started acting all Wolfy, rushing me and not answering any questions but pushing me to make the vote - without backing it up with any justifications. On top of already being nervous, I felt like that whole CFD thing was just a wolf strategy to take over and incite a mob mentality to push the vote, and I didn't want to mislynch if that was the case. It was only when I realised I did have a solid argument against Kiv that I put in the vote. And even then I was slightly petrified.
 
The second point is one you've missed/read incorrectly though - I definitely had Kiv as higher than DPR by that point, and for that reason had unvoted him earlier in the day:
 
  On 11/17/2014 at 10:21 PM, Cass said:

I actually have to agree that at this point I probably have stronger scum reads on Kiv and Thane than DPR and Wom.

 

Trying to break some notes down, will see where this goes.

 

 

Longer response from EoD highlighted here:

 

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@Salamipot - Get it together. Seeing the disconnect between you two on thread is weird.

 

Also, Csarmi, what makes you think Dice as the SK would shoot Yates N1 if he had 'cleared' him? Even if Yates was the Seer and Dice was the Godfather'd SK then Yates had just done him a huge solid by clearing him early.

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AJ I disagree with the vote thing.

 

Hallia and DPR voted Kiv and AJ respectively at exactly the same time: 1149 by AEST , tying them at 4 votes each.

 

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I then voted Kiv at 11:53, which meant Kiv took the lead..

 

  On 11/18/2014 at 1:53 AM, Tommyrod said:

Vote Count D2.21:

Kivam (5): AJ [#2373], Deslami [#2623], Darthe [#2728], Hallia [#2835], Cass [#2837]
AJ (4): Verbarm [#2562], Kivam [#2785], Wombat [#2823], DPR [#2836]
Verbarm (3): Nyn [#2192], Dicetosser [#2202], Pral [#2500]
Pral (2): Thane [#1931], Krak [#2826]

Not Voting (2): Rags, Tress

At the gallows: Kivam

Reminder: players not voting at EOD will be voting for themselves.

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