So. Here's what I've been thinking for the last few days, and I've just done a skim through the relevant players posts to see if I was correct.
Now, I may be reading too much into this, but I think there may be something to it.
First, we know flub was scum, and we know there are two more scum.
As previously mentioned, I've been looking at who might be that scum pair and it will be no surprise to find that I still think JMich is one half of that pair. But my candidate for the other half may be a little more surprising... I'm starting to think that towniest of townies cristi is actually scum.
What set me off was looking at those players who had called me out as scum (this is somewhat a weak argument to anyone else, as I doubt there is anyone other than me who knows that I'm town) as knowing I'm town there's a chance that some of those trying to call me scum might be scum themselves.
Now yogs and Bookwyrm (and Leonard, who I somehow missed off my list of people who found me scummy) have mentioned me as being scummy on and off all game, but JMich and cristi only did so after I called out yogs and Hyper questioned many of my arguments against yogs and I had already started looking like a possible lynch candidate.
Now is it coincidence that the two lurkiest and least involved players
both jump on me? Or is the connection that they are lurky and uninvolved because they are scum?
So I looked into it further, specifically at the interactions between those two and our confirmed scum, with some reasonably good results I think.
cristi - very little interaction with flub, mostly jokes and once asks him about why he felt Bookwyrm was scum day 1, until just before he is lynched when she makes some arguments and places the second last vote on him before he is lynched. In hindsight this does look like it might be a last ditch attempt for some town points by getting on her buddies wagon.
Very little interaction with JMich, once asked who he might vote for to avoid no-lynch. First real analysis of him or talk about him was
2 days ago where she called him a very shrewd player who could be town or scum.
Flub - Uses JMich somewhat in his targeting of Bookwyrm day 1 but doesn't address him directly much. Mentions that he finds [url=
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_forum_mafia_27_gameshow_showdown_the_game/post314]JMich very difficult to read[/url] and that his argument with yogs is just a town mistake
[url=
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_forum_mafia_27_gameshow_showdown_the_game/post628]Repeats that he is unable to read JMich.[/url]
Very little real interaction with with JMich or cristi, repeatedly lists cristi as being very town.
lists both [url=
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_forum_mafia_27_gameshow_showdown_the_game/post401]cristi and JMich as leaning town[/url].
Later moves
JMich to leaning scum, with no real reason why. This looks like it might be setting up WIFOM for later if required, not giving any clear read on a scum buddy.
JMich - Not much direct interaction with anyone other than yogsloth, so these results are slightly less surprising.
Lists cristi as possibly needing watching due to lack of posts. Some back and forth over cristi's question and whether it was answered, but otherwise not much interaction.
No interaction with flub at all beyond non game stuff.
So the question is, am I reading too much into this? Or do we think there might be something to it?
Whatever anyone else thinks, I'm going to start with:
Vote cristigale