SWAMPED: Alright, I said this just before, but alot of this comes down to how scum have decided to approach me. While they're patient, I imagine if I come out tomorrow with an actual read or a watcher comes out with a scum member, that patience might soon wear thin. They might try to play the long game, but it's easier if I'm lynched today or tomorrow. Maybe the day after. But I can totally see the night kill after that happening. It might even be that scum think they can get the lynch soon, but don't want each and every single one of their members to start advocating for my lynch at once.
Now coming into this, I didn't have too clear of a conviction of Swamped being on my scum-dar (that's a weird word, I'm not using it again). But I think, going through her posts, I am seeing things that are raising the alarm bells
There's a reason I voted for TAP at the end of D1 and kept my vote there for the rest of the day. We would have been better off lynching him instead of UJ, I stand by that firmly. UJ was so clearly a PR that it hurts, and after his claim I believed him more. Why on earth would scum claim to be such an ambiguous character? I wanted to be extremely suspicious of those who piled on UJ after his Golbez claim, but Sorian was one of them and he was Cosmos, so who knows how many other Cosmos Warriors made the same mistake. Still, there might be something there so I'll investigate.
I looked and this was the most I could find on this
Star, i have to ask since your vote on UJ came after his "defense" post, quoted above. Was it unsatisfactory in your eyes? And why?
To me it wasn't the best of defenses, but it's D1 so im not expecting a literature masterpiece anyway. Although i wasn't leaning towards a UJ vote in the first place...
I should be around at the deadline, how exciting!
And this, while somewhat near to the end of the day, wasn't that close to it that it could be considered a "HOLY SHIT GUYS UJ IS OBVIOUSLY A PR DON'T LYNCH HIM". It's nice that you though UJ wasn't lying, you did nothing at the end of the day to try and swing the vote away, other than plead with me to vote TAP before UJ claimed iirc
Anyway, the other alternative was Xam, whom I was initially ready to vote for. But when Darryl brought up the possibility that he was a PR, I hesitated. One of the reasons I was wary of him was his cautious play during the day, but a PR would act like that also. And now he's claiming to be the protagonist of FFVIII, so I'll leave him be.
I said this before, this is seriously flimsy logic to dismiss someone who I personally think of right now as acting incredible erratic at the very least
The other candidate was Hyper. When he asked for votes on him instead of the PRs, I felt that he HAD to be town - this is a very risky move for scum. So I left my vote on TAP. If Sorian had flipped scum, I would have let TAP go. But now that we know Sorian was town, I'm going to keep scrutinizing TAP - sorry buddy!
I'm actually sort of confused to this point. How does Sorian being or not being scum affect your perception of TAP. This just reminds me of what you said about Xam, it feels flimsly, pls elaborate
I'm leaning towards this bold Hyper gambit being a scum one. Alignment cop is an easy one for scum to fake. He implies he's ordinary to draw votes on himself (possibly to save a front runner?), and when it looks like he's about to go down he role claims. Why would a real alignment cop ever put himself in that sort of situation? I would argue that any other PR could get lynched, but alignment cops can still win us the game due to their information (if scum don't know who it is lol) (also I think they are waaaay OP). Besides, FF Mafia is essentially a role madness game, it's inevitable that we'll lynch some PRs.
I've said it before. I made a mistake in estimating how quickly the vote would swing towards me. Had I managed to live through the day, I would've been perfect. A scummy alignment cop scum would have never wasted their time on.
This feels alot more like a story to me. I have to ask, if I was scum, this is still an INCREDIBLY risky play. There is likely another cop to counter-claim once he himself gets enough reads, I was inches away from my lynch, etc. etc. This whole thing feels like a story, you're only presenting your version of the events
I think there's a real chance he's scum, and if he's not, he's getting roleblocked the rest of the game anyway.
I already addressed this, but why in the world would the fact that a roleblock is getting used on me a reason to lynch me? And how do you know for certain that the roleblock will be on me for the rest of the game?
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Really random point about Seath, but I am instantly wary of those who are pursuing him purely for activity reasons. He actually has more posts than me in this game! Pursue him because of his fluff if anything.
Lots more to come! ...later.
I think it all falls under the same category, and Idk what you are doing here
Ok, so there's a bunch of stuff, but to me the most alarming things were her post-mortem defense of UltraJay, her dismissal of Xam being scum (only to bring it up later), and the specific logic she uses to try and scrutinize TAP
I wasn't so sure at first, and again, alot of this has to do with how I think the scum team is acting towards me, but yeah, Swamped went up on my scum list a bit
