I dunno, guys. the whole Lifeline/Terra thing a couple pages back was the weirdest thing the whole game. First, Lifeline is questioned into why he's tunneling on Acohrs so much and pushing for a lynch.
Nothing too obvious, but lots of subtle things like
#217 and
#236
Both posts seem to be there to boost Fireblend's rep and get town to trust him.
Isn't the whole point of this game to kill Batman?
Because everything relies on Acorns being mafia. Dr. Worm being Batman doesn't confirm the rest of my list. But Acorns being mafia confirms i was reading all the connections correctly. If Acorns is Mafia we can start going after the others on my list next.
Then, completely out of the blue, we have Terra (who WAS voting for Lifeline, let's remember) deciding to "humor" Lifeline with a vote on Acohrs.
Your conviction is commendable.
Heh. We've got time, I'll humor you.
VOTE: Acohrs
Then, obviously, people see that as suspicious, and a few votes go out. Lifeline is quick to defend the person who is now listening to him (even though Terra had just had his vote on lifeline, earlier). So now, conveniently Terra is on lifeline's town list. Andagin, pressure to lynch acorns again:
Terra votes are dumb.
Terra voted for me right after i called out acorns, no way Mafia would make a risky play like that. That's why I put him on my town list.
Town needs to band together and pressure Acorns.
Terra's logic for voting acorns.
We have over 24 hours, I want to see what on Earth he has going on in his mind.
Then we get people criticizing the whole exchange, getting confused at what the hell just went down, and so Lifeline decides to back off a little (but not really), saying terra's votes for acorns shouldn't be driving Terra votes but votes for Acorns. He is not stopping with the acorns tunneling no matter what happens, it seems.
We should be putting this kind of pressure on Acorns instead.
Terra's justification, nothing that scummy here:
At this point of the game? Not really. With the time we have, on day one, I don't see why we can't be a little experimental and see someone's suggestion play out. It give us more to work with than, "X is scummy because..." And reads lists that barely amount to anything.
And Lifeline's and Terra's defense on what they are doing:
I've been calling out Acorns since this game stated. Sorian basically didn't even let him respond and defended him for a while. Which is weird because Sorian also got upset when Kolar made a random kinda defense for me. When Sorian himself had spent the last couple posts defending Acorns.
Something is seriously suspect about Acorns, I think vote pressure is the best way to figure out what's going on.
Also something that really bugs me and I just don't get.
You guys act like my vote for lifeline was me saying I thought for sure he was scum. I voted him in my first post of the game. No, it wasn't RNG, but it's not like I was trying to make a whole wagon out of it. Looking at the vote count, you guys clear see voting in a far different way than I do. You see it as a finger of suspicion, I see it as a tool. I wanted to see how a newbie who was rubbing me wrong way would react so I voted him. Now I want to see his scheme play out, so I put my vote there.
Why? Because it gives us something to talk about. Heck, it's already working in a way.
Now we get the "timeline" from lifeline. Here's the whole reason the acorns vote exist. Surely, this will change a few minds:
I know it's too early to make a entire Mafia read, but almost every person i have leaning in the Mafia category are behaving the same way.
So it's not acorns in particular that has me going against him, but how everyone has been behaving around him.
Here's my timeline:
- Sorian defends himself and gets ready for being targeted because he's going to be active
- Fireblend also defends Sorian from being targeting for being too active.
- acohrs sets up a Sorian defense.
All of this seems unnatural, Acohrs defense being the most out of place feeling.
So I vote for Acohrs
- Immediately Sorian comes to his defense
- Dr. Worm kinda comes to his defense, playing it super safe
- Fireblend downplays the situation.
I remove the Acohrs vote
- Dr. Worm now feels confident enough to say that Acohrs list was "strange". Probably to cover himself
Kolar says something that could be considered a defense of my post:
- Fireblend, Sorian, Dr. Worm all slowly jump on the Kolar train as a easy townie to pick off.
- Acohrs lays low
Except, after a couple more back and forth from other posters, Lifeline decides this is the point where he will back off and vote Dr. Worm. Nothing to see here, everyone.
Okay, maybe i'm starting with the wrong person on my list.
VOTE: Dr. Worm
I played a game called Town of Salem like a couple years ago. And I didn't really think about that. I was looking at this as a town vs mafia game.
Terra decides to unvote.
Well then, that went nowhere.
UNVOTE
Let's also not forget that Terra's vote, that previously was on Lifeline is now on nobody.
Then, Dr. Worm's defense.
I was a little hesitant to pile onto Lifeline, since I know he's new and a couple of other people were coming after him, and then went on him again when he backed down.
I'm... less reticent now that he's tried again, but I try to be fair with people. I'm naturally trusting and have a tendency to seek consensus, and I'm entirely cognizant of how that's landed me where I am now.
And with that, Lifeline is quick to unvote Dr. Worm, whom he had voted for minutes earlier, because of one post. While acorns took an almost terra bandwagon for him to realize pursuing acorns wasn't the best idea
(after it "backfired", which, I might add, is an interesting term for votes to shift to Terrabyte).
So we had:
1. Terra votes Lifeline
Reporting In.
First, I think some people are starting to rely on meta too much. Just because someone is playing similar to a game doesn't mean they are the same alignment. I can't tell you how many times scum me has died for a post that town me made or vice versa. It helps when it comes to checking consistency but if someone is acting differently there can be plenty of reasons besides alignment change.
Moving on:
VOTE: Lifeline.
2. Lifeline votes acorns.
Like I said, I have no idea what I'm doing.
UNVOTE: achors.
These two actions are within 10 minutes of eachother, for whatever that's worth. The "setup", if you will.
3. A while later, Lifeline doubles down on acorns and makes his case (see above).
4. Terra almost immediately decides to "humor" lifeline, and moves his vote there
5. People get really confused
6. Lifeline gives his acorn timeline/accusation and people call him out
7. Lifeline votes Dr Worm
8. Terra UNVOTES lifeline, and does nothing with his vote
9. Lifeline unvotes Dr Worm after ONE post defense
Something smells.
