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Vote:Bookwyrm627
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Lifthrasil: Well, the official vote count directly behind the inofficial might be moot...
Given my track record with not getting the unofficial ones 100% correct, I believe everyone (including me) appreciates the confirmation. ;)
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mchack: if we assume all of the four that "claimed" town vanilla truly are that (and each of you can look up your own pm to reassert that it is) flub, trent, leonard, adalia (though I'm not at all sure about leonard and adalia, just don't want to mislynch)
then scum has to be 3-4 in: mchack, bookwyrm, dedo, hsl, zfr, krypsyn, gogtrial. And since I do know the 3 masons in there all the others either have to be scum, or we don't have a convert and there's still a vanilla in there, too.
Nice try.

While your conclusions here are correct when based on the assumptions you state here, even YOU don't believe the assumptions you list here (you've got Adalia down as scum). So your conclusions here are worthless.

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mchack: He went away for 3 days when the discussion on flubs lynch was hottest, sitting on a RVS vote for him (#187) not joining the discussion, to not have to defend that vote until he was prodded (#487) after which he insisted on flub as lynch while still having him down as town.
*yawn* I was away for a weekend. After I left work on Friday, I didn't post again until Monday. You can check the dates. Flub's lynch was irrelevant to my absence, and even you admit that I defended my vote on Flub when I was present.

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mchack: in #521 he asks an interesting question that is mostly only relevant for scum to know: "Does the new convert get read access when converted, or can they not see the scum thread at all until they start a night as scum? " he later concedes HSL already asked it but he wanted to be sure what his converts get the next day exactly (#530)
It is relevant for town to know, since it helps inform town of whether the new scum can be in on a game plan created by the other scum even if the new scum can't help create that game plan. It was relevant to me, specifically, because the answer to a previous question in the thread left doubt on my assumption about how this would work. My post #530 (answering Dedo's question about HSL having already covered this) covers this already AND states the difference between my question and HSL's question.

If you remind me post game, I'll tell you yet another reason that I asked.

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mchack: in #561 he calls vanillas expendable troops that should be epended and when I said that I hope they'll get him, he said "They probably will." (#566) adding to the feeling he isn't one of them himself which means he can only be scum.
So all you "Expendable Troops": go get him!
*snerk* That quote was in support of my argument that Adalia was arguing for something more than simple indiscriminate slaughter. He was arguing for indiscriminate slaughter for a purpose, and one of the main purposes behind vanilla townies is to do the dying for their team (the other being to help find and lynch scum). A vanilla townie biting it is a better scenario than a town PR (like a mason) biting it.

Hopefully you'll see the irony later.

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mchack: (#687) he concedes that there is probably not going to be a lynch of me but rather than switching to HSL he tries to start a whole new wagon for sage. He hasn't said anything to bind him to HSL and simply saying he thought him town today is not enough. I know they are not masons. He was working hard to achieve a lynch yesterday but chose no-lynch over lynching HSL. I think this is a very strong indication the two of them are a team (or at least he suspected HSL of being in the other scum team and chose he rather had no-lynch than help town)
I was reading HSL as town, so of course I was less inclined to lynch him; you've been strongly advocating for this concept all game. The difference between HSL and Flub (or Trent) was that I didn't see HSL claiming vanilla, so I couldn't deny the possibility that he was a mason.

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mchack: #696 he's first to post after night ended with a ready-made post listing all possibilities. And comes to the conclusion that the only scum he can see in that is me, flub or trent. (has he just before sent his nightaction in and had discussed all night what possibilities he and his scumpartner have?)
You mean townies can't look at the flip and quickly figure out the possible scenarios of what happened? Should I have avoided posting until someone else posted?

I resumed with my list of lynch candidates from the previous day. I don't have an investigative PR, so why shouldn't I?

This is ridiculous even as a smear.

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mchack: (#711) "Are all members of the relevant scum team told if a conversion is successful?" another question that mostly interests scum only. Maybe he is hunters scumbuddy after all, not knowing if the conversion was successful and hunter just nk by the other team or the conversion was unsuccesful.
It was something of great interest to me because it might tell us something about voting patterns from Day 2. If Hunter tried to recruit someone on N1, then his scum partner might not know whether the recruitment was successful and they had no way of prearranging a signal to confirm it.

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mchack: (#790) he still goes after the "safe town targets" trent or flubs even insinuating they may have been scum D1 after all when questioned about it he doesn't answer. (#798)
*snort* I was basically busy for the weekend again. Your question came after I'd left, and rather than respond post-by-post, possibly creating useless clutter in the thread by talking about old news, I decided to catch up on the thread first. You dropped the mason claim while I was away, so I sidelined all my notes while I tried to sort that mess out.

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mchack: he only comes back with #913 #914 saying he'll openly talk about who is mason now because he wants to.
If that isn't the last nail in his coffin than I don't know what is.
That is SO WEIRD how I more interested in talking about the biggest news of the past few days. Just amazing, really. Like wow, why wouldn't I rather talk about more trivial things? :P

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mchack: please do vote for him, town. I know I am and will not likely move the vote again.
I've seen active pinballs that were more stationary than your vote.

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mchack: (hint we can actually lynch bookwyrm before he records his elephant list..)
Agreed; I've deliberately left this option open to town. There are enough total votes from any of the three main groups of players (mason, vanilla town, scum) that any two of them can kill me before I get into that in detail. None of them can do it by themselves.
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Leonard03: [...] I don't see how whether the deadline was fixed or not makes a difference, we knew about how much time we had left. When I voted you there was still around 24 hours left, if I remember correctly. [...]
It was less than 24hrs, but no way to prove it now with GOG's timestamps, something you are, or course, aware of.
This is also not your first game here, so you know how we struggle with the D1 Lynch, and that even 24hrs is not a safe amount of time for us to reach a consensus. So yeah, after what I saw from you Yesterday, you coming in, and effectively starting a new wagon, with no explanation, and never returning to the thread, is telling.


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Leonard03: [...] ?
If there are 3 masons, any mason has to have 2 buddies. If I don't see mchack having two buddies that could be masons... he couldn't be a mason. [...]
There's quite the distance between "I don't see any two other players being his mason partners" and "no, there's no way he's a mason". It is, however, a nice PoE attempt to figure out who they are.


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Leonard03: [...] reactions of players today [...]
And this is exactly what I think your goal was from the beginning with that "no, there's no way he's a mason", and I don't mean just to see if mchack's claim is true.


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Leonard03: [...] Based on my conclusion that he is false-claiming mason (see above), he must be scum. [...]
So your argument basically is "he's scum because I concluded he's scum". Gotcha.


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Leonard03: [...] Sorry, I'm not going to be more specific, especially not when asked by you, I'm afraid. [...]
I always find it funny when people start to imply or claim to scum-read me as soon as they become aware that I'm scum-reading them first; I guess it is a way to attempt to discredit what I say.
Which makes this even funnier, after how things progressed. Or a(nother) subtle fishing attempt.


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Leonard03: [...] So, my reasoning, if this occurs to adalia so quickly, why didn't he offer himself up to start with? I came to the conclusion that he was in fact, not vanilla. This is actually the reason I chose to vote mchack today, I was pretty sure adalia was not vanilla, but there was a chance he was a mason, a chance I did not want to risk taking. As I'm sure is obvious, I didn't think mchack could be a mason. Since it's clear they can't both be masons, and I doubt adalia is vanilla, we have my vote.
[emphasis added]

I don't know if adaliabooks is town or scum Today, but if he is scum, he's not w/w with you, and I don't mean that as you being town; I've been scum-reading you since Yesterday, and I can go into why.

Regarding the reasoning you provide here, and the part I highlighted, I'd like to refer everyone to your reply-post #805 to adaliabooks from earlier Today, which was before mchack claimed Mason (post #823), something you're basing your reasoning on, and I quote [emphasis added]:
I'd vote you as well, if people are up for it.
Actually, wagons I'd vote for are: adaliabooks, mchack, HSL, and trentonlf if need be.
Is this how not wanting to risk lynching a Mason looks like? At the time, mchack hadn't claimed yet, and even after he did, you insisted that he's scum false-claiming Mason, and only went back on mchack because you couldn't get enough support (said so yourself). You certainly didn't seem worried, and try now to use mchack claim to prove that adaliabooks is scum. But not until you tried your best to get at least hints about one or both of the hidden Masons, if not out them; it's not the first time you've done it, though I'll give you that you've made a somewhat decent effort to be subtle about it.


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Leonard03: [...] First game was #27 back in April, '15. Looks like I played in 7. Rolled neutral survivor once and scum once... in the all scum game.
Impressive improvement of your memory.



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Bookwyrm627: [...] [and they had no way of prearranging a signal to confirm it. [...]
Are you sure?



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Krypsyn: Given my track record with not getting the unofficial ones 100% correct, I believe everyone (including me) appreciates the confirmation. ;)
*looks at Krypsyn's latest vote count, spots Bookwyrm627's missing unvote of trentonlf (post #913)*

I'm appreciative of both vote counts, helps me cross-check with the one I keep myself.
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Krypsyn: Vote:Bookwyrm627
Vote Bookwyrm
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Bookwyrm627: [...] Mchack, if you are a mason, then you and your allies have seriously miscalculated and some people will have surprised me with how willing they were to whip it out, slap it down, and dare people to do something about it. Because DAMN.
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HypersomniacLive: What is this supposed to mean?
My meaning will become clear as part of my talk on the masons. I can't explain it without said talk.

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HypersomniacLive: I don't think I follow this. Assuming you're town, and have narrowed it down correctly, how do the real Masons stay hidden if they come out to deny being Masons with mchack?

And what if they neither deny nor confirm mchack? What does your plan clear up, and how does it help with hitting scum, and especially the Cyborg team you say we really need to hit Today?
If Mchack is a mason, then they're already out.

If Mchack is not a mason, then those who are supposedly aligned with him can deny being a mason with him (even if they are a mason with someone else), and as far as I'm concerned that would be proof that he's scum.

If his supposed allies neither confirm nor deny, then people can decide whether they think Mchack is lying and act accordingly. My plan goes into what (I think) we should do as a group to hit scum. I believe that my plan also allows us to talk much more openly about who is and is not aligned with whom, and the accusations and arguments can proceed as per a more normal game.

And if (generic) you disagree with any point of my logic, then you can point out where I'm wrong or you can just ignore it.

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HypersomniacLive: Given that you acknowledge your shortcoming, how confident are you about your list? Or is it (more) the result of PoE? Which in turn is based on what, how you read other people?
If Mchack is telling the truth, then I'm pretty certain I've got it right. It uses Mchack's own statements and then some simple POE that I'm very confident about.

After looking at the results of my list, I can see how several things fit together, and that helps inform who I think is probably which kind of scum.
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Bookwyrm627: [...] [and they had no way of prearranging a signal to confirm it. [...]
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HypersomniacLive: Are you sure?
If the newly recruited scum cannot read the scum thread until they've started the night as scum, then there is no way to prearrange a signal for the new convert to use in order to confirm the conversion was successful. The old scum could make such a signal, but the new scum wouldn't see it until the point was moot.

This is not to say that the new scum and old scum can't shake hands in the thread, just that they can't use some signal (ex. talking about fruit) to do so.

If all old scum are told whether the conversion was successful, then the question is moot (they all know the answer), but that information is not public.

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ZFR: Vote Bookwyrm
That's (effectively?) four votes. Two more will kill a townie and save me some writing.

As an appeal to save said townie, please consider whether scum!me would bother pointing this out in the first place (thereby risking a rather immediate lynch) to warn his buddy(-ies); regardless of Mchack's constant harping on it, I wasn't near the top of the lynch order for Day 2. Also consider whether scum me, wanting to warn his buddies, would clearly broadcast what I'm planning to do and then continue to wait for town to make the lynch decision (instead of, you know, warning my buddies). And if you're going to claim that I'm the only mutant, then ask yourself what I hope to gain from doing this (thereby risking losing the game entirely) instead of just quietly going about my business at night with this information in hand.
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adaliabooks: I am indeed vanilla, doesn't really seem any point in concealing that fact any more. I've got a fairly strong guess as to who mchack's mason buddies are, so scum probably do too.
And despite mchack's claims of oscar winning performances, I don't think anyone suspects we are both masons together.
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mchack: fair enough. I really don't want to mislynch today (which is why I went off leonard).

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trentonlf: I can see Leonard being scum, I still don't see mchack as scum. I think mchack has tunnel vision on you for some reason, and I think he's got it wrong. Whatever happens today we need to lynch scum, a town lynch and I'm not sure we can win unless we get extremely lucky.
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mchack: this. so much this.
ok. I said last game I should have listened to you when I tunneled on some town while you suspected the real scum D1 already. So I'll believe your gut feeling is right for now and leave off adalia. Who do you think is scum?

unvote adaliabooks

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Bookwyrm627: Unless Mchack is lying, there really isn't much speculation to be done. Looking at the player list, any/all of us could figure it out pretty simply. I expect that most of us already have, especially the cyborgs.

If we don't name names, then we're dancing around the elephant in the room, much like the last days of the all scum game. Everyone knows the secret, but no one is actually saying it. The difference here is that town gains significantly from being open, since people can start defending their cases without trying to avoid saying the open secret.

Alternatively, everyone could just stick a knife in my face before I say anything, if they want to keep playing "in the dark". This cloak and dagger crap was already old for me on Day 1.

I'm off to bed now. You've got at least 8 hours to lynch me before I have a chance to open my mouth, and possibly 10-12.
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mchack: why not dance around the elephant in the room? the masons know each other. Town can be sure I won't vote for any mason. The only one that can gain from this is scum.

vote bookwyrm
As I said when the day started I believe our best chance of hitting scum today is either dedo or HSL. At this point I also would have no issue lynching Leonard or bookwyrm as both have made statements they make my eyebrows raise as to why someone with town’s interests at heart would say that making me believe they don’t have town’s interest at heart. Of the four I would still rather go with HSL or dedo, but I’m not sure that will happen today.

Vote bookwyrm
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ZFR: Leonard suddenly "does some re-reads" and accuses adalia
My vote on adalia is not anything new. Remember all the trouble I was given for it back in day 1?

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ZFR: Guys, come on. I'm standing right here.
Uhhh... Hi, how's it going?

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adaliabooks: To me that means getting stuck in, being at the centre of things. That is my idea of fun.
Then you sure better be having a heck of a lot of fun this game. Dang, I don't know if I should believe you or not. I've mistaken the town enthusiasm of adalia as scum before.
Unvote: adaliabooks

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HypersomniacLive: It was less than 24hrs, but no way to prove it now with GOG's timestamps, something you are, or course, aware of.
This is also not your first game here, so you know how we struggle with the D1 Lynch, and that even 24hrs is not a safe amount of time for us to reach a consensus. So yeah, after what I saw from you Yesterday, you coming in, and effectively starting a new wagon, with no explanation, and never returning to the thread, is telling.
Ok, maybe it was less than 24hrs.
Well let's try and find out what it is telling of. It's possible that scum would try and start a new wagon near day end. The purpose of this is to change the lynch target, the only reason that makes sense for them to do so is to save one of their scum buddies from day 1 lynch. Therefore, if I tried to start a new wagon with this purpose, it was to save the current lynch candidate. Who was the lynch target? mchack. If you think he and I are scum buddies... I don't know what to say.
I'll also note it was pretty darn close to a consensus.

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Leonard03: [...] ?
If there are 3 masons, any mason has to have 2 buddies. If I don't see mchack having two buddies that could be masons... he couldn't be a mason. [...]
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HypersomniacLive: There's quite the distance between "I don't see any two other players being his mason partners" and "no, there's no way he's a mason". It is, however, a nice PoE attempt to figure out who they are.
No, really, there's not. If he can't have two mason buddies, it is the logical conclusion that he also cannot be a mason.

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Leonard03: [...] Based on my conclusion that he is false-claiming mason (see above), he must be scum. [...]
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HypersomniacLive: So your argument basically is "he's scum because I concluded he's scum". Gotcha.
Now wait just a second. You are taking that out of context quite badly. I was answering your question on why he was part of the 3-man cyborg team, the reason for him being scum was earlier in the post.

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Leonard03: [...] Sorry, I'm not going to be more specific, especially not when asked by you, I'm afraid. [...]
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HypersomniacLive: I always find it funny when people start to imply or claim to scum-read me as soon as they become aware that I'm scum-reading them first; I guess it is a way to attempt to discredit what I say.
Which makes this even funnier, after how things progressed. Or a(nother) subtle fishing attempt.
LOL, I've been scum reading you since day 1. Remember my terrible end-of-day wagon changing vote?

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Leonard03: [...] So, my reasoning, if this occurs to adalia so quickly, why didn't he offer himself up to start with? I came to the conclusion that he was in fact, not vanilla. This is actually the reason I chose to vote mchack today, I was pretty sure adalia was not vanilla, but there was a chance he was a mason, a chance I did not want to risk taking. As I'm sure is obvious, I didn't think mchack could be a mason. Since it's clear they can't both be masons, and I doubt adalia is vanilla, we have my vote.
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HypersomniacLive: [emphasis added]

I don't know if adaliabooks is town or scum Today, but if he is scum, he's not w/w with you, and I don't mean that as you being town; I've been scum-reading you since Yesterday, and I can go into why.

Regarding the reasoning you provide here, and the part I highlighted, I'd like to refer everyone to your reply-post #805 to adaliabooks from earlier Today, which was before mchack claimed Mason (post #823), something you're basing your reasoning on, and I quote [emphasis added]:

I'd vote you as well, if people are up for it.
Actually, wagons I'd vote for are: adaliabooks, mchack, HSL, and trentonlf if need be.
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HypersomniacLive: Is this how not wanting to risk lynching a Mason looks like?
There's no way we'd win the game with another no-lynch. In which case, I'd vote for adaliabooks. Yes, I'd lynch someone I thought could possibly be a mason rather than no-lynch.

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HypersomniacLive: You certainly didn't seem worried, and try now to use mchack claim to prove that adaliabooks is scum.
How exactly? And I'm not "proving" anything. This is mafia, things aren't proven until the end of the game. I was giving my reasons, something I'd think you'd be happy about considering you keep badgering me about not giving enough...

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HypersomniacLive: But not until you tried your best to get at least hints about one or both of the hidden Masons, if not out them; it's not the first time you've done it, though I'll give you that you've made a somewhat decent effort to be subtle about it.
I have a feeling this is a bait, so I'm not going to respond.

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HypersomniacLive: Impressive improvement of your memory.
Earlier in the game someone gave me a hard time about this, so I actually went to the admin thread and manually checked.

Man HSL, you are just not sitting right with me. Your arguments all seem just a little... reaching to me, than a town HSL would.
Vote: HypersomniacLive
I see Bookwyrm is gathering a decent following, and I will vote for him if push comes to shove. But I think there's a better chance of hitting scum with HSL.
Looks like everyone but Gogtrial has been through here, I haven't incurred 6 votes yet, and I've given the time I said I would give.

Hunter was not a mason.

Assume Mchack is a mason.

Mchack has stated that Leonard is not his partner.

Mchack has stated that Adalia, HSL, and I are all not his partners.

Mchack has basically confirmed Krypsyn is not a mason.
Additionally, on Day 1 Krypsyn placed the vote that put Mchack at L-2, and left him at L-1 for awhile. Krypsyn was already out of his "follow the biggest wagon" voting phase, and he placed that vote knowing what it would do to the wagon.

ZFR put Mchack at L-1, at least partially in response to my call for people to vote (Post 601). I don't think I need to clarify why a mason would not do this to a fellow mason.

Once Dedo placed his D1 vote on Mchack, that vote was never moved. While I could see an early vote as distancing, Mchack went to L-1 and the vote stayed. I don't see mason Dedo doing this. Dedo could have come up with something, anything, to pull that vote off; if nothing else, he could have pulled it "so we don't accidently lynch", but he did not. Dedo was there when ZFR made the L-1 vote; he actually commented on ZFR's vote (Post 607). Dedo confirmed his continued willingness to lynch Mchack in Post 666.

So that leaves Flub, Trent, and Sage. Sage was pretty close to a null on Day 1 due to her extend absences. I'm personally leaning toward Flub and Trent being the other two masons, but I could see Sage being it instead of Trent. The biggest oddity I have about Trent being a mason is that it leads me to a logic loop that feels similar to the statement "This statement is a lie"; there are a few things he said near the end of Day 1 that make me stumble at the idea. I was watching for clues to indicate whether Gogtrial is the mason, but I didn't see any.

Just Flub declaring he isn't a mason with Mchack would be enough for me to vote Mchack for being scum; if any two of those three claim they aren't mason with Mchack, then I'll happily take an Mchack lynch (and I'd be surprised if the rest of you don't).

Who are the two people who made plays that others (me included) labeled as not coming from a mason? Flub and Trent. Perfect bait for a failed conversion, and Day chat makes for excellent planning and coordination. HSL: This goes back to my comment in Post 913; I genuinely wouldn't have expected such a play from either of them in those circumstances, as I said in Day 1. Flub just rode it out, which is no surprise from Flub, while Trent made some misdirecting statements ("Oh, I'm a mason now?").

I think Hunter was original scum. He wasn't paired with any of the main wagons, and I suspect he wasn't paired with any of the players who think in a more wily fashion (I don't mean that as an insult, simply that some of us think in more loops than others). I'm guessing the Mutants talked about things, and decided that the claims from Flub or Trent were believable enough (and believed enough) to try and recruit one of those two players; WIFOM can take care of keeping the recruit alive, especially considering there is one player (Mchack) strongly advocating against lynching either of them, and the fact that with two of people at such obvious risk we can't hit both so even a coin flip between them (if it came to that) would still keep the new recruit alive.

I'm guessing that the Cyborgs took a look at the two obvious recruit choices and thought "Nah, too obvious. Lets go elsewhere". Unbeknowst to them, they are now dodging most of the masons, and if they look outside the main wagons then they are also dodging the other mason. The recruitment odds just don't get much better on N1 than only 2 bombs in 7 slots. That means the cyborgs include someone from ZFR, Leonard, Dedo, Krypsyn, and me.

IF Mchack is lying:
I'm pretty sure he's on the Cyborg team. If he (as the most active and most exposed to lynch) claims to be a mason, then that may draw out the real masons. As you can see, if Adalia and Leonard aren't cyborgs, then the options for who IS a mason have already been narrowed down, and they're probably going to be narrowed much further before the Day is done. It only risks one (replaceable!) member of the Cyborg team to drastically reduce the possibility of trying to convert a bomb, and it might even get a mason lynched if things go well. This also means Mchack is probably an original scum, since I don't think his play has changed overly much; he is probably the one to use his conversion shot, though. Lastly, I don't really see a solo Mchack making this play and risking a team wipe from a counter claim.

IMHBAO, having one man from the 3 man squad claim mason is a decent play. They have a spare, they only risk one person (and an uncountered claim makes that player VERY hard to lynch), and that person can use their conversion shot before claiming. There are lots and lots of upsides without much downside.


Time for my conclusions.
-I'm going to act as though Mchack is telling the truth, and that two conversions were attempted on N1.
-If you believe Mchack is what he claims to be, then don't lynch Mchack, Flub, Trent, or Gogtrial and you'll be sure not to hit a mason. One of those can't be a mason, but we can sort that out later (probably). That leaves HSL, Adalia, ZFR, Leonard, Dedo, Krypsyn, and I (7 players).
-I'm guessing there are 3 masons, 4 vanilla town, 3 cyborgs, and 1 mutant in the game. Alternatively, there might be 2 cyborgs and 2 mutants (or even 2 cyborgs and 1 mutant), but that means the cyborgs threw a NK at Hunter.
-As far as the remaining Mutant is concerned, there are likely 3 bombs in those 7 non-mason slots for recruiting, and moving one player from the mason category over to the non-mason category results in at least 3 bombs in 8 players. Since a number of those non-masons are already decent lynch prospects, the mutant is in a really tight spot as far as recruiting is concerned. They also can't afford to let the Cyborgs go unchallenged for too long, or the cyborgs will be able to easily finish the mutant team. The mutant will know one player is definitely not vanilla; this may help them NK if Hunter happened to target a Cyborg, or it might be a waste if Hunter targeted a mason. All of this taken together means I'm not really concerned about the mutant scum right now; they can be dealt with later if necessary.
-The cyborgs would know whether they killed Hunter, and they can take a very good guess on whether Mchack is telling the truth.

-I know I'm town, so I'm not voting for me.
-Adalia and HSL aren't mutants, or they would have died for the failed conversion instead of Hunter.
-HSL feels like town to me. I'm not sure about Adalia, but I'm willing to look elsewhere for the moment.
-ZFR's continued appeals toward the experience of others and his focus on wanting to hunt for the last Mutant raise my hackles. I think he's a cyborg.
-Leonard's posting has felt off suspicious throughout the game. He could be a mutant or a cyborg; I could see a team of Leonard + Hunter deciding to go for the conversion on Flub or Trent.
-Dedo's posting has also left me uneasy. There isn't anything I can specifically point at, though.
-In his first game back, poor Krypsyn might well have rolled scum yet again(!), and to add insult to injury, it would be in a cult game. From his perspective, that is probably a yuck and a double yuck. I could easily see scum!Krypsyn making the connection about playing Follow The Masons on D1. This could go either way, and he's also a solid recruitment choice.

-There isn't enough evidence for or against Gogtrial for me to really sort her anywhere.

So there I am. My lynch preferences are on ZFR, Dedo, or Leonard, with a preference against HSL.
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adaliabooks: What exactly don't you like?
Do you doubt mchack's claim? Or have issue with the quick wagons?

Or something else entirely?
At the moment mchack's claim is the only thing I think is something I can trust. I think. I don't like the episode with Leonard and it's resolution left me confused. The comes Bookwyrm who just announces that he is going to name all masons because that's going to help us. What is there to like?


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Bookwyrm627: I've narrowed down the two "hidden" Masons to three possible players and I can't read people for squat, so I know the rest of you can figure it out too. If they deny being masons with Mchack, then we can nail Mchack to the wall for being scum and the real masons stay hidden.
So even in your "I've got it all figured" scenario there is some uncertainty. And don't you think spilling info on three people to confirm/condemn one is a bit too much? I said I believe 1 to 1 is OK since it should provide enough context to figure out who is telling the truth and who isn't, but only if someone was going to come out and challenge mchack's claim on their own. Everything more than this will likely destroy whatever mystery there is left and from then on it's a race on who will be able to pick the opponents faster. Town can remove one scum at most and that will never change - if everything gets revealed with certainty we are going to lose in the long run for sure (it might not be even that long depending on how things go).

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Bookwyrm627: Or you can just accept that I think a bunch of scum are in ZFR, Leonard, and you (Dedo).
Sure I can accept it, even though I know you're 1/3 wrong and I also believe ZFR was Town yesterday. Leonard, I agree, is suspect.


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HypersomniacLive: I don't quite follow why you framed your question this way. Assuming the hidden Masons remain hidden, how will it help Town if he is a real Mason with two other non-mchack Mason buddies?
If mchack is lying and the real masons who are Wyrm and 2 others were letting him play his hand, but Wyrm suddenly decided that it has been going on for too long and he wants to shut it down by counter-claiming (that's what I was referring to when I wrote non-mchack buddies - that Wyrm knows for a fact mchack is lying) I don't see how comparing notes on who is a mason is anything but damaging.


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Bookwyrm627: That's (effectively?) four votes. Two more will kill a townie and save me some writing.
I think they were three at the time of the quoted post and are currently four.


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Leonard03: Then you sure better be having a heck of a lot of fun this game. Dang, I don't know if I should believe you or not. I've mistaken the town enthusiasm of adalia as scum before.
He convinced you that easy?
I don't have much time (on a family festivity right now) so I'll keep it short and won't answer everything in detail...

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adaliabooks: Vote Bookwyrm
I find it not funny that you just "forget" to unvote at this stage... (you are still voting leonard!)

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mchack: please do vote for him, town. I know I am and will not likely move the vote again.
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Bookwyrm627: I've seen active pinballs that were more stationary than your vote.
I've made it clear from the start who I'm willing to vote for (adalia, you and hsl) leonard has been the only exception to that, which I found unfortunate myself but he rather forced it on himself
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Bookwyrm627: If Mchack is a mason, then they're already out.

If Mchack is not a mason, then those who are supposedly aligned with him can deny being a mason with him (even if they are a mason with someone else), and as far as I'm concerned that would be proof that he's scum.

If his supposed allies neither confirm nor deny, then people can decide whether they think Mchack is lying and act accordingly. My plan goes into what (I think) we should do as a group to hit scum. I believe that my plan also allows us to talk much more openly about who is and is not aligned with whom, and the accusations and arguments can proceed as per a more normal game.

And if (generic) you disagree with any point of my logic, then you can point out where I'm wrong or you can just ignore it.

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HypersomniacLive: Given that you acknowledge your shortcoming, how confident are you about your list? Or is it (more) the result of PoE? Which in turn is based on what, how you read other people?
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Bookwyrm627: If Mchack is telling the truth, then I'm pretty certain I've got it right. It uses Mchack's own statements and then some simple POE that I'm very confident about.

After looking at the results of my list, I can see how several things fit together, and that helps inform who I think is probably which kind of scum.
Then why out the so clear masons when you are town yourself? Maybe some scum can read even less than you supposedly do, and this would only help them get their last conversion shots right tonight.

What I propose is this. Let's lynch bookwyrm and we can know by the flip whether what he said up until now is coming from scum or from town. if town, you can decide to lynch me tomorrow or have the other two masons back me up (which they will because likely there's no more conversion shots left then.) or I'll be nk anyway (hopefully by both teams which would make one of their shots useless) and then you'll see I am speaking true by my flip.

if he flips scum, then we know we are on the right track and get some more info by hopefully scum flips from getting their conversion shots wrong (because we haven't explicitly talked about who is mason but me) or they nk me which also helps town by confirming that I really am mason and you can go back through my posts and judge what I said from that perspective.

So really I don't see any reason why we should let bookwyrm continue with his plan and I do hope we finally get to lynch scum today. (I myself think the chances are very very good now, no town would want to discuss masons openly just before the lynch - last who tried was hunter)

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Leonard03: snip
Leonard. Can you please stay on topic. You can continue your discussion with hsl tomorrow. Now it's time to lynch scum.

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flubbucket: snip
flubbucket, MOAR VOTING, please!

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Bookwyrm627: snip
damnit. too late. Anyway I won't confirm or deny anything (no need to help scum tonight. We'll talk about it tomorrow). But after your flip we can go back to this post to sort it out with the full information available (after all masons claiming tomorrow if the other two agree)

I still say this was not a town thing to do D2 with two conversion shots left and two masons still in hiding and thereby you are scum and have to be lynched today.
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Bookwyrm627: -ZFR's continued appeals toward the experience of others and his focus on wanting to hunt for the last Mutant raise my hackles. I think he's a cyborg.

So there I am. My lynch preferences are on ZFR, Dedo, or Leonard, with a preference against HSL.
I'm town. My appeal towards experience of others (most of them were on D1) were genuine. And my hunt for Mutant was only because I thought it's easier. I did write that it's less rewarding, but easier, and I did ask which it's better to go for first.

I know it's just my word for it.

At this moment I believe mchack (if only because 3 hackers would have done something about it by now, plus it is consistent with his voting D1 and D2). I also had trent as another hacker (because of: his original claim was specifically that he was not scum and not that he was townie; mchack's mention of theatrics between masons; trent refused to lynch mchack on D1, and his "I'm not a mason later"). When trent voted for Leonard, I was even more convinced he's a hacker too and so followed suit.

Unless real hackers or someone else convinces me mchack is lying (I'm now almost sure he isn't), I'll assume he's hacker and will be following a him. Though personally now, I find adalia suspicious, especially after Leonard removed his vote from him.

TO be honest after your post, I'm less suspicious of you; it gave you lots of townie points in my opinion. But I did say too that those with townie points I find suspicious. Would you have made this post if you were a cyborg? I think you might have. Maybe even its intention was to give pointers to your cyborg friends before your lynch. But if you're townie, then I apologize.

My lynch preferences are the original mchack accusees + Leonard.
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mchack: But after your flip we can go back to this post to sort it out with the full information available (after all masons claiming tomorrow if the other two agree)
Do you still think Wyrm is scum after he put his cards on the table?
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mchack: But after your flip we can go back to this post to sort it out with the full information available (after all masons claiming tomorrow if the other two agree)
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dedoporno: Do you still think Wyrm is scum after he put his cards on the table?
I see mchack made his post while I was typing.

Same question from me. Do you still think Wyrm is scum?