OK guys, sorry about the delay. I'm getting swamped at work, so it's been a bit of a challenge to put this together. Now that I've got the big reread out of the way, I'll be able to keep up much better.
I'm going to list my top scum right now. Obviously these guys can't all be scum, but the first four are where I'm going to be focusing my attention for now. I've left off my two least likely scum, but I'm not confident about anyone yet to actually try and prevent a lynch.
Scum List:
White: Knowing Gorgon is scum puts White at the top of my list. Gorgon clearly places White as town, mentioning it on two separate occasions. In his scum list post, he even goes so far back to comment on Theo’s early posts, but he completely ignored Orlowskis’s scummy behavior from that time. It’s also interesting to note what Skruffs mentioned about White asking Choco what he felt about Gorgon. Choco Attack omitted Gorgon from his scum list and White seemed to be the only one who picked up on it… Oddly enough, this is the first game where I didn’t have that scummy feeling from White. He just looks like scum from the evidence, not really his behaviour.
Some Strange Flea: Cicero had made some very good points about SSF (I liked
216) and I was hoping for his lynch as I read along. The strategic lurking didn’t bother me too much, but the opportunistic vote on AlyG was the start. Gorgon came out of nowhere at one point to defend SSF, but later on SSF showed up as scum in Gorgon’s list. Out of that scum list, SSF is the only one I could see Gorgon trying to bus. Looking at Gorgon’s interactions with SSF is also somewhat telling. At one point Gorgon chooses to “let SSF off the hook” and then turns around in that same post to ask BM what he thought about Cicero. He also liked to throw around a lot of OMGUS and never really appears to be scum hunting. I really doubt that White and SSF could both be scum. My preference is to lynch White.
Pwayne: This guy is totally lurking in plain sight. Early game gave me a good town feeling, but that started to sour as the day progressed. Posts
456/457 gave some ramblings and then he didn’t really come to any conclusions but listed the top five lurkers as his suspects. This quote stuck out to me - “Gorgon- Despite the slipup when he thought guppy was lynched, I find myself thinking town.” Then he appears in
568 to make a case against SSF and one on Guppy, but then states that Guppy is likely town? I haven’t seen any sign of him hunting scum, instead he seems to enjoy pursuing the lurkers under the guise of hunting scum.
Theopor_COD: I’ve really gone back and forth on Theo. I really didn’t like his change in direction in the lurker hunt. He defended SSF’s lurking and thought it would be better to after Choco and Daedalus (town) instead. He also is the only person that appeared on the early Professor Guppy wagon that I am considering as likely scum (those other three above didn’t). Gorgon did proclaim Theo as town, even going back to an early post to try and support his conclusion. He was on the AlyG wagon and then in post
378 he chose to go after the easy target Professor Guppy (how did this guy not get lynched yesterday?)
Some cautions about my scum list. Obviously all the scum aren’t in this group. Oddly enough, each of these guys were on the AlyG (confirmed town) wagon – with cicero. I cannot fathom a case where all of the scum are on that wagon, so I’m guessing I’ve got no more than two of the four above are scum.
Maybe/Maybe Not:
Skruffs: Well, Guppy was pretty scummy and in looking back at his early wagon, the known scum stayed away at first. Self voting is a slightly scummy tell, but he was new, so I discount it. The Guppy wagon was so close, yet fell apart before it got to a claim. Rather surprising that Guppy’s wagon never resurfaced when many people still mentioned Guppy’s scumminess throughout the day. Skruffs looks pretty bad in his post
738. He definitely should no better than to try and setup a D2 lynch and it doesn’t seem like his normal play. Side note – if Theo’s town, then I’m pretty certain that Skruffs would be scum.
Shaka!!: His case on BM in post
232 seemed to come from nowhere. It’s hard to gauge, since BM is often targeted by both town and scum, but given his persistence with the case I’m leaning toward scummy. Gorgon however, in post
275 makes me feel that Shaka!! Is more likely to be town. Shaka mentions in
362 that Gorgon is the most pro-town player in the game. I would like an explanation of that. Gorgon also points out twice that Shaka!! is town
Vote: White
