Posted February 03, 2012
Right. My theorizing. I was totally on top of this, and then I started watching TV. Curses.
I'll admit Vitek's claim threw me off guard, because I thought John Smith sounded, well, really fake (it's certainly far less colourful/unusual than my name). Ok, so the revelation that Twilightbard's name matches up to Vitek's proves here must be elements of truth to Twilightbard's claim. But I'm still pegging him as scum. "Why, Penut?" you may ask. Well, the only thing this reveals is that TB's flavour text reveals the name of another player. It doesn't confirm him as town or scum. He could just as easily be a scum that used the shared name to get in. Or he could have some flavour text that reveals it. Or he has a list of names, like nmillar possibly had. Claiming a role would be to suspicious, so then he just makes up a backstory for a vanilla town and there we go, a decent claim. The easiest way to hide a lie is by concealing it among the truth.
Vitek: @Peanut; Mostly it's the fact you never come with something yourself. Only when some case appeared you started to get involved. You "let others find scum" and then you chimmed in with some your own thoughts. Ok, I figured this was the case. And I agree with you. As much as I don't like to play the newbie card, I kind of feel like it's because I'm still not super sure how to play the game. But regardless of reason, you are absolutely correct.
But that's a tangent that need not be delved into, when there are far more juicer lines in your post to dig into. Very interesting thoughts on Pazzar. That, combined with the "I'm super townly" posts Muttly pointed out and his more recent posts—particularly his bizarre argument for me as mafia because I pointed out his vote (say what?)—has me moving him up the scale from an admittedly scum leaning position to begin with.
So I'm thinking theoretical three person mafia: Twilightbard, Pazzar and one other. Looking back, it seems that neither has attacked each other, which adds to the believability. But who for a theoretical third? Itai? It seems like more of a stretch, but still possible. Or someone out of left field like stuart or Joe? Hrum. It sort of adds up based on what I've eliminated already. Not sure. I suppose I'd be uncomfortably tolerant with pursuing Pazzar, but I'm sticking to what I'm confident in before someone accuses me of jumping on another wagon.
I'll admit Vitek's claim threw me off guard, because I thought John Smith sounded, well, really fake (it's certainly far less colourful/unusual than my name). Ok, so the revelation that Twilightbard's name matches up to Vitek's proves here must be elements of truth to Twilightbard's claim. But I'm still pegging him as scum. "Why, Penut?" you may ask. Well, the only thing this reveals is that TB's flavour text reveals the name of another player. It doesn't confirm him as town or scum. He could just as easily be a scum that used the shared name to get in. Or he could have some flavour text that reveals it. Or he has a list of names, like nmillar possibly had. Claiming a role would be to suspicious, so then he just makes up a backstory for a vanilla town and there we go, a decent claim. The easiest way to hide a lie is by concealing it among the truth.
But that's a tangent that need not be delved into, when there are far more juicer lines in your post to dig into. Very interesting thoughts on Pazzar. That, combined with the "I'm super townly" posts Muttly pointed out and his more recent posts—particularly his bizarre argument for me as mafia because I pointed out his vote (say what?)—has me moving him up the scale from an admittedly scum leaning position to begin with.
So I'm thinking theoretical three person mafia: Twilightbard, Pazzar and one other. Looking back, it seems that neither has attacked each other, which adds to the believability. But who for a theoretical third? Itai? It seems like more of a stretch, but still possible. Or someone out of left field like stuart or Joe? Hrum. It sort of adds up based on what I've eliminated already. Not sure. I suppose I'd be uncomfortably tolerant with pursuing Pazzar, but I'm sticking to what I'm confident in before someone accuses me of jumping on another wagon.
