(Well, in this short pop up window I type the post in, it looks like this might be another giant. I will make sure to split my future posts to make them easier to read.)

And after the first bout of nervousness/excitement ... comes the disillusionment. I kind of expected that. It usually ends like this.

Sorry for those two messy all-over-the-place-posts. If it's any consolation, they hurt my eyes too. I honestly thought I saw scum slipping up (or preparing the ground for bragging should they win: "All of you can read it right there and you didn't notice a thing") while trying to poke potential targets for Night Kill.

Thank you to those replying to them. While reading your replies, I realized the most glaring error in my line of thought. Want to know? Read at your own (mental health) risk:

Since I already took a detour into the tinfoil section, here's one more, just for laughs:
I should have voted trentonlf, after all yogsloth can't control how people respond to his posts. So while he was doing his thing trentonlf took the opportunity to make him look suspicous and ...


get a good laugh for the overeager newbie falling into his trap. Good one. Is Day 1 really that boring to resolve to these kind of tactics for entertainment? I mean this question: Is Day 1 usually boring?
So yeah
unvote yogsloth.

I have a lot of catching up to do, so I searched for the replies/questions to me first to get the answers/replies out right away: (Sorry, I'm not quoting, I need to sleep sometime.)

@Carradice, @JoeSapphire: Thanks for making the effort to make sense of it.
@trentonlf, @yogsloth, @Pooka: That was a good one. Didn't expect to get a reason to laugh in this thread.
@RWarehall: Thanks for not laughing (or at least not admitting to it). Wait a second ... are you trying to pocket me? If you want this to work you better be prepared to fake an undying love for tinfoil.
@Agent: Pick whichever one you want. Right know being FlockeSchnee and not being FlockeSchnee has me confused. I'll answer to both and not be offended by either.

I probably missed pings to me. I will address those as I find them during catch up. But there is the question of voting.

For me (right now) It's a tie between Lifthrasil and Microfish_1. (I still have to read a lot of posts, I'm only at post 235 now, even though I skimmed through the following once.)
Microfish doesn't look like an option, if there is to be a lynch.
The alternative could be ConsulCaesar. But I'm not sure about that being a good idea.
agentcarr16 isn't on my list at ths point in time.

For now:
vote Lifthrasil

@Lift: I don't see whatever you see with agentcarr16. All I see is you picking him at the start for what was probably a joke, baking off grudgingly and then jumping on him again for a post that looks like "lets poke and gauge reactions" to me. Did I miss the headline for "from now on only super serious votes"?
Furthermore you seem to have been paying zero attention to anyone else for real. Either that or you made the "ultimate evil move" yourself by stating this in post 435: "What's also interesting is, that in spite of an expressed strong conviction on Flocke's part, that yogs and trent are non-town, he doesn't vote either."
That's either a blatant lie or you aren't paying attention. I voted yogsloth some days ago, then I found the secret code (*a bout of laughter rolls over the Quidditch field*) and that proved him as mafia/or other hostile to me.)
I also stated in my last post that I would only be able to catch up again today.

For everyone who must know: I'm not allowed to use internet for private stuff at work and I would get fired if I got caught using it or diddling with my phone (that doesn't even have internet, because that's what I have a computer for, yes, I'm _that_ weird), with six people in a small room nothing ever really goes unnoticed.

I will continue catching up now. I don't have to work tomorrow, so there should be no issue changing vote in time.

Unvotus Caesar

Votus Microfish

Well my preference is obvious, but I would support a Microfish wagon to avoid no-lynch.

Votus Conputatio

agent 5 - RWarehall, Lift, SirPrimalform, Joe, Micro
Lift 3 - agent, ConsulCaesar, FlockeShnee
Microfish 3 - trent, Pooka, yogsloth
ConsulCaesar 2 - joppo, Carradice

No-lynch 1 - GameRager

Everyone else - 0
Not voting -

14 players remaining - it takes 8 to lynch.

Agent is closest at L-3

When you see a vote count, please check that your name is against the right person. Let me know if it isn't.

Roughly 22 hrs remaining.

Unvotus ConsulCaesar

Votus Microfish

(Might votus for ConsulCaesar if it helps avoiding a no-lunch).

@joppo, @Flocke, any second option?

Anyone on @agent's bandwagon besides SPF?

Everyone else who still did not mentioned a second option in order to avoid a no-lynch?

We can make this fly.

Vote Count 

agent 5 - RWarehall, Lift, SirPrimalform, Joe, Micro 
Microfish 4 - trent, Pooka, yogsloth, Carradice
Lift 3 - agent, ConsulCaesar, FlockeShnee 
ConsulCaesar 1 - joppo

No-lynch 1 - GameRager 

Everyone else - 0 
Not voting - 

14 players remaining - it takes 8 to lynch. 

Agent is closest at L-3 

When you see a vote count, please check that your name is against the right person. Let me know if it isn't.

20.30 hrs

Um, I actually got a HUGE FEAST at the end. :D

So does this bring agent to L-3? If it did I might throw in a vote once done replying.

Me too....I am somewhat indecisive in general sometimes and it's hard to figure some people out this game.

The board does that sometimes....if your posts makes a new page, sometimes the board eats that new page and then it shows up later on(page and post).
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I see that....I just say it whenever I see someone even say anuything that seems like one contemplating being in the game, as I don't want to see good players go or for the game to come to a halt due to a new replacement being needed......I worry too much, essentially.

Maybe you're right....which is why if agent gets close to lynch I hope he drops the "act" and claims...if even a bit to avoid town!agent being lynched. And if he isn't lynched, then I hope he gets looked into by any potential cop/etc PR during the night phase.
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So agent is at L-3 then....ok then:

Votus Agent
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Now @Agent....maybe you want to make a case for yourself before anyone else votes?

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Agreed, which is why I just voted for agent....even if he gets lynched/flips town we can analyze the wagon as others have stated before.

Note that I would prefer we investigate him, or for him to claim/possibly avoid lynch and then get investigated.

I agree he made a good recent post, but he still made a bunch of suspicious ones before that....also why are you trying to push people off the agent wagon when(as of this post you made) he was only at L-3? Why not wait until L-2 to ask such of the other players?

Fair enough....I have slight suspicions at least 1 scum might be hiding among the less active players, so you might be right that we should discuss them more.

Um, our goal as town is to lynch scum....even if we love their posts. ;)

We should do so with some not posting much and so close to deadline? Really? Maybe this would've been a good idea a few IRL days back, but now imo it's more time for action than words....though I still want to hear from some people(especially agent, now that I got him to L-2 with my vote above).
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*Done to Post 442...will do a bit more as soon as I read/reply*
(@Op: The line right before this line is not a vote)

Vote Count

agent 6 - RWarehall, Lift, SirPrimalform, Joe, Micro, GameRaget
Microfish 4 - trent, Pooka, yogsloth, Carradice
Lift 3 - agent, ConsulCaesar, FlockeShnee
ConsulCaesar 1 - joppo

Everyone else - 0
Not voting -

14 players remaining - it takes 8 to lynch.

Agent is closest at L-2

When you see a vote count, please check that your name is against the right person. Let me know if it isn't.

19 hrs left

By my reads - no.

I have trent, pooka, and carradice all on the town side of the ledger.

Never said he was being treated unfairly, let me help you with the definition of persnickety: “placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details”. So if agent is lynched and flips Town like I think he will I will place waaaay too much emphasis on trivial things, ie make mountains out of molehills just to be persnickety.

Ah, Joe thinks trent and Pooka are both scum

I might need to revisit that early Joe Town read

not today though

That's a ridiculous request. You just told me that I have to come up with a completely original and unnoticed-up-to-now reason to vote for one of 7 particular players based on Day 1 posts alone.

Reasonable.

Well, that escalated quickly.

For the third time, ???

I'm Lee Jordan from Gryffindor. I'm a Town One-Shot Neighbouriser. Not a particularly powerful role, but a confirmable one.

I've got trent and yogs pretty solidly Town. Carradice I'm leaning Town. Pooka is the only one I don't have much of a read on, but I haven't reread him yet.


I'm willing to lynch Microfish, though he isn't my top choice. I didn't like his no-lynch vote early in the Day and I read him as fishing in post 226. Also, he's pushed several times for chain lynching myself and then Lift, which isn't a particularly great idea. Lift should be lynched on his own merits, not just because he tunneled on me.


Will be back on before deadline.

Eh, mostly that I have never been utterly convinced through any of my games until this one just how bad a D1 NL can be. My gut inclination would be to still almost advocate for it if there was nobody who looked scummy. I know intellectually that a D1-NL is wrong, but I have yet to convince my heart/gut/instinct that this is bad.

I am trying to unlearn this, but it is a case of "Logic vs Instinct" and I need to remind myself--or be reminded, as was the case toDay--as to why I go with logic in this case.

Er, what? I don't recall this, but don't have time to look it up. The ONLY reason I hesitated on Caesar is that it is his first day playing on GOG, and as this courtesy was extended to me in my first game, I am extending it to him (and you) as well.
I honestly do not see my one question as having been fishing as I was not asking for an answer to the second half of my question--I specifically said so in that same question! My next post I made it even clearer that I was not asking for an answer, as somehow some folks thought I was asking for an answer to the second half.
As to the first half, I still do not see--as no one has explained to me that I've seen--why a yes/no answer to the first half ("is your name from the HP-universe") is bad. I see that everyone thought it was bad, and so dropped it, but I never saw anything specifically addressing that bit which explained why it was bad.
Plenty of people condemned me for the second half, despite my stating "no one is going to give me an answer" when I asked the question and later (6 times now?) stating my thinking by saying that was acknowledgement that no thinking or experienced mafia player would answer this aloud. Even was in part a trap for those who weren't thinking, and nobody fell in. Repeating: for the umpteenth time, I was not asking for an answer, but for people to answer this to themselves and to keep this in mind in case of a claim.

Concerning the platitude that "we can't be sure of anyone" there was a discussion (I think you took part in it yourself) about townclearing people and how sometimes this is done without sufficient proof to the detriment of town. Yet it bears repeating and my comment was merely a reminder of this and an acknowledgement that I fall into this trap myself.

Unfortunately, IRL calls and I cannot read any further than this. I hope to be back within 4 hours, but am promising nada.