Open 431 - Sword Swallowing - Game Over

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*potato potato potato potato*

SUDDENLY
A POTATO FALLS FROM THE SKY

*potato potato potato potato*

"YOU ARE ALL NOT WORTHY OF MY PRESENCE! BOW DOWN BEFORE ME AND MY MIGHTY POTATONESS!"

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Everyone bows but one person.
VOTE: Amrun

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DOWN WITH POTATOES!

BURN THE HERETIC!

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I see nothing to discuss yet.
Patience, young grasshopper.

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I think the best player in this group is between Amrun, Scigatt and myself, considering we have the most experience (I've actually been playing for probably two years now, since I started offsite).
Regardless that's a stupid plan, unless Amrun and Scigatt are scum, which would actually be kinda funny :V

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Post.

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I'm a comedian :3

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I claim scum.
My partner is saulres.

Discuss.

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LOL.
That was such an obvious joke claim.
As if you would have taken it seriously.

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That isn't playing against my wincon.
It's a joke claim, you shouldn't even take it seriously.

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Well the action itself wasn't pro-town, but it wasn't meant to be. It was supposed to make discussion and get people to post, and that's exactly what it did. Therefore the result is pro-town.

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In other words I'm actually playing to my wincon if you actually look close enough.

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It's only towards me if you direct it towards me. I made the joke claim to get people to post and discuss things instead of lazing around and doing nothing. I got us completely out of the RVS. If this isn't pro-town then I don't know what is.

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I wanna ask this.
Would you have reacted differently if I had done this in my first post?
What about if I had done it on a day other than Day 1?

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Until you can actually look at the motivation for my action or tell me why I would have done it as scum, I don't really know why I should bother arguing this with you.

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So you'd rather policy lynch me, knowing full well I could be town, just because I joke claimed scum

with the mod

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Are you fucking serious?

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VOTE: Thomas
Yep, great case.

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Your case on me is that I'm a policy lynch and apparently my posts suck.
This is hardly an OMGUS.

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If you think I'm actually scum, stop pussying out and just fucking vote me.

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Yep, nice way to discredit everything else I've said to you.

I clearly telegraphed a vote on you, stop trying to make it sound like it came out of the blue.

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Also instead of using buzzwords, why don't you actually be useful and answer my questions?

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So you'd rather policy lynch me, knowing full well I could be town, just because I joke claimed scum

with the mod

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Are you fucking serious?

If this isn't a lead up to a vote I have no fucking idea what the hell is.

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Also instead of using buzzwords, why don't you actually be useful and answer my questions?

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See, unlike you my vote is actually justified.
My case on you is that you would rather aim for policy lynches to waste the towns lynches instead of actually hunting for scum and trying to lynch scum.
You also have continued to not answer my questions even after I've pushed them multiple times.

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"Your posts suck" won't cut it either.
I have substance behind my attacks on you, you have nothing that actually makes me scummy.

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I never actually used it as a defence.
I just said that what I did is actually pro-town.

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You guys must seriously suck at mafia if you have to resort to policy lynches instead of finding scum. Or maybe you're just both scum.

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Nothing says I am scum either.
You still haven't given a proper reason for calling me scum.

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I wanted to see people's reactions to the joke claim, and then try and make discussion based on that.

No, I'm expecting him to fucking vote me regardless of what I'm at. If he really thinks I'm scum, he wouldn't be afraid to put me at L-1.

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Amrun is town yay.

I'm with Amrun on this too, I'm betting it's a Siv/Shadow scumteam.
The quickhammer from Shadow was terribad because D1 had only been like 2 days long, plus I felt like he was trying to egg us on without getting too involved in the discussion.
Siv is just my gut scumread.
VOTE: TheShadow

@Amrun: What exactly is your read on me?

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Also, in case anyone asks. I was getting the impression that Shadow was egging us on because he entertained the notion of a policy lynch without giving an opinion on my alignment individually. It looked like he wanted to support Thomas and indirectly attack me without getting in our way.

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Why did it?
I just asked, since what you posted appeared to imply you thought I was town, and so the lack of a direct mention of your read on me was kinda odd.

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I see the Shadow browsing this forum.
Get in here and post :P

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I'm always concerned with how towny I am.
I love being the townyobvtown.

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Okay, TheShadow's annoyance seems like genuine townie annoyance to me. Plus the paragraph directed to the mod is a rather good towntell as spitfarvle pointed out.
UNVOTE:

PoE leaves Scigatt/Siv/spitfarvle.
Siv I've already mentioned is my gut scum read.
Spitfarvle's last post was really bad, considering he attacked TheShadow only to call him town in his next sentence. Which to me seems like pointless content.
I think Scigatt is the towniest out of all of them.

Is everyone alright with me hammering, or do you guys want more discussion first?

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Amrun, what is your read on spitfarvle?

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Re: the quickhammer. It is my style to drop a hammer like that on someone I feel is scummy even before a claim. If they're null to me I'll declare intent and allow for claim first.

wut
plz don't do that anymore in future games


Will respond to other stuff once *insert thing here* happens (shouldn't be too long).

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But I seriously did not expect anybody to hammer.

Please tell me you aren't serious.

Well, yes. Okay. At first shadow was mostly a policy lynch. Looking back at it, he's scum.

Lol backtrack.

Anyway, I don't think shadow is scum, because of erm,
People agree it's between me and shadow
I'm town, and if he was scum then he'd know my townishness and my lynch would result in his lynch.

I'm glad you don't trust this. This reads like serious reaching to me.

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That thing was literally nothing.
I just was too distracted to pay complete attention to everything I had just read at the time.
And then I forgot about the game, until TheShadow posted.
At which point I made the post after him.

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Sure, now that I have the physical capability to do so for the first time all day.

The whole thing regarding your "joke" claim I admit was not handled well by me. You're lucky we have a newbie mod. Most games, claiming scum with someone even as a joke would be an instant modkill.

This was why his post was a town post other than the mod request. It read like genuine annoyance to me.

His stance on quickhammers is not scummy, it's just really, really bad.

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TheShadow doesn't really need a prod for another two hours.

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Can you give them unofficial prods?

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Spitfarvle's last post was really bad, considering he attacked TheShadow only to call him town in his next sentence. Which to me seems like pointless content.

Just calling it how I see it.

I didn't get that impression at all. What I saw was you setting yourself up for a sudden read change on him later.

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I think shadow could well be just a lazy town newbie. He could very well be scum, but meh...

Actually, that sort of quickhammer would be lazy scum, and he has obviously been lazy.

Oh god, kill it now :P

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It's like you aren't even trying anymore :/

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:/

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I'm really confident in TheShadow being town, and I'm confident in spitfarvle being scum. Which means (to me at least) the last scum is one of Xalxe/Scigatt, though I don't know which :P
VOTE: spitfarvle

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Actually no, I won't vote just yet.
UNVOTE:

FoS: spitfarvle

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Okay, TheShadow's annoyance seems like genuine townie annoyance to me. Plus the paragraph directed to the mod is a rather good towntell as spitfarvle pointed out.

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@Mod: Can you PLEASE not hide the flips behind spoiler text? The device I'm using to read the thread 99% of the time has no means of text selection, meaning I can't read what it says. I did not know until a few minutes ago that Thomas flipped town and was the nightkill.

This one.

Whether or not a scumread said it it doesn't make it any less valid. I don't believe TheShadow faked the tell either.

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Because if he were scum, he would have already known the alignment of Thomas.

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I don't believe TheShadow faked the tell either.

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Unless spitfarvle flips scum, I'm going to continue to think of it as a towntell. If spitfarvle flips scum then it gives the possibility of TheShadow doing it for towncred and spitfarvle pointing it out to make it more known.

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Again, I am still confident that spitfarvle is scum, but for now at least, I'm confident in TheShadow being town.

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UNVOTE RIGHT THE FUCK NOW UNLESS YOU ENJOY QUICKHAMMERS PLEASE

This.
This.
Like seriously, so much this.
I don't wanna lose this game.
Unvote right now.

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I just reread Scigatt's latest post and I don't like how he has 3 different suspects.

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Okay, either TheShadow is scum, or spitfarvle is. I really don't see them being scum together anymore.

My town read between the two is still on TheShadow, plus the unwillingness to unvote now makes me think he's really bad town.

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The manner in which you did it though, makes me think you could be setting yourself up to jump on ay of them later.

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So wait, who do you think is more likely to be scum, me or spitfarvle?

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I see you online :P

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A large part of my case on split was inactivity and lack of content. I'll wait and see what funky has to say.

It's LYLO and that's seriously the best you can do?

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No, not exactly.
TheShadow's vote could have been on scum, which would have meant scum wouldn't have quickhammered.

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That's better.

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Also, I'd like to note that I'm feeling a bit unwell lately. I think I can play thorough it here, though, and I wouldn't want to put someone new in at this stage of the game.

I hope you get well soon.

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Damnit, funkybike is being towny, and is making me second guess my town read on TheShadow :P

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It's probably TheShadow and Scigatt.

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Yeah TheShadow is probably our best lynch right now. Everyone seems to be convinced that he's the last scum, and his desperate attempt at appealing to fear on the post above makes me think he's scum that has just given up.
I would vote right now, but I'd rather wait to see what IceGuy has to say first.
(postan from school)

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I think the lack of discussion means everyone's made their decision and is just waiting for someone to make the first move.
VOTE: TheShadow
If nobody's going to man up and vote him, I guess I will. I'm sick of waiting any longer. I want a scum lynch now.

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Oh look, as soon as I lay a vote down, his buddy enters the thread :P

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No point in waiting now anyway, just vote :P

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Vote your buddy. He's going to get lynched anyway :P

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Or maybe I'm implying we should both vote funkybike1 in our next post and quickhammer for teh winz

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VOTE: funkybike1

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Yay.

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I was nervous you weren't going to be around. The delay between my vote and yours made my heart pound at 50km/h.

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Which is you know, why we wait for someone else to vote beforehand :P

I did say we should only keep up the act until a quickhammer opportunity occurs :P

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Lol.
This is my second scum win IIRC.
At least this time I didn't get my buddy lynched D1 :V
Also you did make a post lol.

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Lol.
You're the only town in LYLO who actually suspected me.

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Ooohhh, what was my scumslip?

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Oh Shadow, I'm so flattered~
This was actually a really great game for me, though I felt like I was getting away with too much. Had IceGuy been in the game longer, I probably would have been suspected by more people. It was great we cut it short then.
When you make a two-person quickhammer in LYLO, the scumteam is rather obvious by then. The "Postgame" discussion wasn't really that long anyway.
The reason I wasn't on Siv's wagon then was because I was waiting till the town was ready for a hammer. I was just expressing my want for his death at that time. It's something I would do as town or scum.

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Wow, you sound really butthurt.
Scum did play well, since we were not really suspected by anyone.

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No, my point is that we were town reads for basically everyone. Not that we were suspected but weren't pursued because there were scummier people.