In post 224, Not the mafia wrote:In post 218, dybeck wrote:My working hypothesis is still that NottheMafia is scum. I don't buy the "too scummy to be scum" defence, particularly with new players.
At 6 or 7 votes, he looked in danger. His scumbuddies then had a choice of bussing him or trying to save him.
When Reinoe made several posts about his suspicions of me being scum, I looked for all the world like a potentially easy target for an alternative lynch. The Plagiarist, the only other choice, wasn't posting heavily and didn't look like he'd give the same level of strong reaction as I would. And then, out of nowhere, up pop alelina, Regal and Baezu to stir up a viable counterwagon. Regal hopped on and then hopped off when it appeared to be going nowhere, and Baezu is voting me despite subsequently apparently posting about a townread on me.
I think it's distinctly possible that NtM is not only scum, but scum with a power role worth saving. And I think it distinctly possible that one of Regal and Baezu is scum with him.
And if the scum do have power-roles, then three scum is more likely than four. And I still haven't forgotten Powerful Townie's statement about there being three scum.
Is it actually this easy?
You say that like it's a foregone conclusion that they are all my scumbuddies. In fact, it doesn't look that easy at all. Everything that you just said is nothing but speculation. Dybeck has spent the game probing random people concerning the tiniest of slip-ups. He made a big deal out of PT's claim of the amount of mafia in the game. He started my bangwagon simply because I "wasn't scumhunting." He tried to make reinoe's post restrictions seem important. Searching for lynch targets is a big part of the game, but Dybeck has been bringing up technicalities and speculation, then passing them off as evidence for lynching. One of the biggest goals as a mafioso should likely be to collapse the village on itself. Arousing suspicion for everyone in the group is a fantastic way to get the town to kill each other, and with the ways Dybeck has been painting everyone to be worse than they are, it's a possibility that this is his end goal.
Of course, some of this is me speculating, but it's still better reasoning than the random hypothesis you threw together.
I would imagine if he was mafia, he wouldn't be pushing slips or what not (driving conversations) but merely "observing" things and letting the comments fuel natural divisions.