OK, so I want to study the PV and GreyICE/Shamrock wagons. When I replaced in, neither player had any votes on them.
Since then (looking only at vote changes involving PV/Shamrock; the Elmo/me wagon is also interesting but I'm a bit busy so I'll wait until later before looking at it): Mehdi CFJ->Shamrock
1597
Me: nobody->GreyIce
1613 (corrected to Shamrock in
1617)
Tammy: nobody->Shamrock (attempted in
1654, tags fixed in
1656)
Tazaro: nobody->Shamrock
1661
greygnarl: nobody->PeregrineV
1702
Tazaro: Shamrock->PeregrineV
1703
the bois: nobody->PeregrineV
1712
What's alarming me, really, is the speed at which the PV wagon has built up. When I replaced in, most people were voting for my slot; since then, people have been looking for other wagons, which is reasonable. The Shamrock wagon, I started it, and with my weak townread on Mehdi I'm pretty sure it's a town-driven wagon. That doesn't necessarily mean it's correct, of course; but it does mean that I'm pretty sure there isn't anything sinister going on with it. And it's been growing the sort of way that, in my experience, midgame wagons normally do; they grow slowly, as more people become convinced.
The PV wagon, on the other hand, confuses me. Three votes in the space of 11 posts, two of those consecutive. And the reasoning? greygnarl thinks he's trying to deflect attention, Tazaro claims meta on him, SPB likes the wagon. That's not a midgame wagon, that's the kind of stuff you get in RVS.
Mathematically it's unlikely that all three of those votes are scum, but I wouldn't be surprised if two were. Regardless of PV's alignment, someone's contriving the wagon to happen IMO, whether that's trying to distract from the Shamrock wagon, trying to push a mislynch, or trying to get in early on a bus. (Bussing seems a bit unlikely to me, btw, not based on the content of the votes but purely based on the timing, so my read on PV is somewhat shaky at the moment.)
Oh, also, if Peregrine
is
town, Shamrock is probably scum, or there'd be no need to derail that wagon.