Might as well respond just to explain things on my part.
Ver-go-a-go-go said:
Oh, I definitely believe you about that, trust me. But I already addressed why I think your “pioneering” ways on Fig were particularly strange in light of you wasting the entire day before that messing around with conflicting role-claims. If you had this “conversational” attitude for the entire game, I’d be more inclined to believe you. But you still sat on your hands all day yesterday, doing hardly a thing to help us determine whether Deku or Keith was mafia before everything went down. Your, shall I say, contradictory attitude from day to day, just sticks out like a sore thumb, I’m afraid.
Like I've said quite a few times now, me getting involved with Keith and DekuNut had no benefit for myself whatsoever. I knew what I wanted to do, which was draw attention to myself, getting involved in that debate would have done nothing for me on that front. It's not really a contradictory attitude, so what, I can't play different for one day? It seems like you're holding me down on this one day because it's abnormal to my playstyle. Thing is, this is the problem for me now, I'm stuck to this one playstyle because anything that I do differently people will automatically default it to being
suspicious, when in reality I'm just trying out something different - in this case I wanted to protect the Cop. Did I go about it the best way possible? Maybe not necessarily, but it was the safest possible way.
Ver-go-a-go-go said:
First off, it’s a ridiculous assumption to “put myself in your shoes” when the entire premise of that depends on me actually believing that you got Mandy as a role. Second of all, this doesn’t address, at all, what I find to be just a terrible strategy to draw attention away from the cop. What rule says Mandy has the be the cop, exactly? Is it just because “tracker” is kind of like “cop” to you? Again, this is a ridiculous assumption on the part of the rest of us, something that I’m not willing to take on face-value because of other factors, like the ridiculousness of your yesterday strategy in the first place, that should be taken into account.
I don't see why you can't put yourself in my shoes; it's not that hard (whether you believe me or not). Honestly it's quite pointless discussing this as you obviously don't trust me, so I'll explain at the end of the game. Hopefully you'll get a better insight as to
why is softclaimed Mandy.
Ver-go-a-go-go said:
I’d be willing to accept it as a simple mistake, as we all make them. But the fact remains that this was AFTER your claim of Mandy, so….. Was it really just THAT big of a screw-up on your part? That you thought claiming Mandy wasn’t enough, so you, for some reason, decided to claim what could very well be the lover pair, like, just a few posts later? And you’re expecting me to believe that you of all people screwed that up when your intention was as noble as saving our cop? I’m not a man that believes in coincidence too easily, and coupled with everything else, this whole thing just stinks, I’m sorry.
It wasn't a mistake so to say, but more of an over complication on my own part. I was too busy thinking about Mafia focusing on me. I'd made it very clear I wanted the Cop to lie low and I made it my main prospect. Me claiming Mandy seemed too obvious and I thought Mafia would seem right through me - why would I softclaim Cop when I just told the Cop to lie low? I was trying to claim Cop but while not being too obvious. In hindsight my second soft claim was a bad move. It's hard for me to really justify why I did this as your have to literally be in my mind at the time.
Ver-go-a-go-go said:
No, no, you misunderstand me. I don’t think this is another slip-up on your part because of your past playstyles. To the contrary, your style is very much the same no matter whose side you’re on, which makes you a very good player. No, my issue is, once again, the timing. I addressed this in the first paragraph in response to you, but I will reiterate; when the post that Fig made, your entire basis for your original vote, happened on the previous day, why not bring this forward at all? You could have, if this was such a strong issue to you, at least put some kind of FOS on him, or at LEAST presented an opposing lynch option when pretty much nothing was there against Keith. But it’s not just that either, it’s the fact, again, that yesterday was a fairly useless day for you. Again, as I said originally, it seems like the mafia being in a very powerful position right now attempting to control the conversation, in comparison to yesterday when they didn’t have to thanks to the Keith bandwagon.
Hmm. I couldn't have voted for Fig the day previous; that would be contradictory of my entire main suspicion I had around him for today. Ok I'll explain:
My main thing with Fig was that I found it awfully convenient that he told the Cop to lie low on Day Three and then the next night the Cop dies. I put two and two together and now I had a possible lead - a Mafia Role Cop could have investigated Alit the night previous, so now it makes sense that Fig would say this if he was scum. Though now it looks like the Role Cop investigated Alit on the
same night that they killed Fig, which pretty much clears up my suspicion on Fig. Anyway, my whole reason for voting him was the product of what happened
after the Day you're talking about.
Ver-go-a-go-go said:
Ah, this is convenient indeed. So what you’re telling me is this – you suspend your mafia hunting skills ENTIRELY for one day, just because you’re hoping the mafia kills you. I’m sorry man, but this contradicts every single thing you’ve said to me. If your priority is to always aid town through activity, why on earth stop? If you were fake-claiming cop, why not take it further when some incredibly in-depth analysis on whether or not Keith is mafia. Come on dude, you know playing as mafia as well as I do; target the active members, and target the experienced member. If you truly, really wanted the mafia to kill you….. Act like a hardcore townie. But you didn’t do that. And, again, I think it’s because you were content with just letting that play out because it meant the lynch of a townie no matter what, regardless of your input. This response has only strengthened my resolve on this matter, the more I think about it.
Yeah but the thing was that I had no idea if either Keith or DekuNut were Town or Mafia - I didn't want to put myself at jeopardy of getting lynched as that would be counterproductive to my actual cause. See I'm not sure if you were active the day previous, but I lead Town to lynch Violet because we literally had nothing else to go for, so naturally I was in a few people's sights. I'm a firm believer that when I'm scum hunting, I should be doing just that,
hunting, me getting involved purely for the sake of looking "Pro Town" wouldn't have worked out and more likely it would have came off as fake, which is exactly why I don't get involved. I knew people were on edge and the slightest missed step would likely result in a lynch - I was very wary of that, so I had no business in getting involved. Also, I honestly had nothing good to say either, I thought that discussion was pointless and I didn't see either as particularly scummy.
Ver-go-a-go-go said:
There you go, with the assumptions once more – no one said that Mandy has to be a character in this game. Look at the member names we have so far – the vast, vast majority of them feature members who are active in ZD mafia games. Mine is the same. It’s entirely, ENTIRELY possible that Mandy, as someone who has not been active in a game to my knowledge since I returned late last year, was not a role in favor of someone else. Therefor, it would, indeed, be easy to pull off a claim of a name that doesn’t exist, and a role that you can cleverly hide behind the guise of “not getting results”. The Tracker has a variety of forms that it can take, and flavors that can be added. If anything, it’s EASIER to pull off a fake-claim of it because of this. You claim something that could easily be slightly different to another’s role, or hell, even a direct duplicate (I’ve seen pairs before). An inactive player may have it, or people may have glossed over your claim in the first place. This by no means gives you a free pass in any event, and should you not be lynched tonight, I’ll be keeping a close eye out if I’m still alive tomorrow.
I literally have nothing to say in response here. I hope Heroine has changed you mind, but I can't make you belive me, lol.
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I'm willing to Unvote and start a new day so to say, are you guys with me?