Sorry for the delay. This post was meant to be posted around 6 hours ago, but I didn't had time to finish it.
First of all, guys, my ability is even night only. The upcoming night is Night 9 (odd), so no checks.
So, I actually sat and re-read everything from Day 5 onwards.
There are several things I didn't like about Yoshi's behaviour in general but I didn't had time to organize my thoughts. I am going to separate this small thesis on "Before Maxous lynch", "After Maxous lynch" and "After SirCakez lynch".
Before Maxous lynch (Day 5-)
What stroke me as odd about Yoshi's behaviour initially was the fact that he replaced in a rather stale game where we were desperate for a new point of view, yet he didn't attempt to provide that in the slightest.
He replaced in during Day 4; he said he was re-reading the game, but he quit doing so around page 20. Fair enough, it isn't weird for a replacement not to read a bazillion-pages-long game. After that, he did nothing of substance for the remainder of the day.
During early Day 5 however, before the mass replacements, there was this whole pitchfork thing going on against Narna. While I could see why Andrius or SirCakez or really anybody else that has played since the beginning (and saw Narna escaping the noose thrice) would grab the pitchfork and be frustrated after that weird kill-positive he gave on Shiro, I couldn't understand why Yoshi was so frustrated as to agree with things like "everybody who doesn't vote for Narna is scum". Just before the replacements happened, he toned down his rhetoric a bit and unvoted Narna.
After the replacements, he begins sheeping, starting by sheeping Mathblade and even Mathblade calls him out on that. He then attempts to sheep A50 against Mathblade. He then stays on a limbo kind of state and then he sheeps Ankamius against Mathblade.
Bottom line: He posted a lot without contributing at all, always hiding behind someone else's opinion. That was, however, before Day 6, and since I now don't believe that there was a scum team prior to Maxous's lynch, he couldn't have been scum at the time.
He also was the only player left that had neither claimed or hinted at his role.
After Maxous lynch (Day 6+)
Day 6 starts with the faction announcement.
Then, at some point during early Day 6, he claims that he is responsible for the no-kill night under the pressure of being lynched. I have two major problems with the way he claimed:
1) Why did he wait until L1/L2 to claim a now useless role? Why let the rest of town muddle into shit while he could claim right from the beginning and save everyone the time? Was the priest part of his role worth it?
2) Why was he so unsure whether he was responsible for the no-kill if he had a blanket-type ability as he claimed to have? What else could have happened that prevented the kill, save for Nahdia jailing someone and telling right away?
Before his claim, he was, for the first and last time, actively trying to contribute on his own. He seemed to want to lynch Mathblade and hoped that some of those more sceptical about Mathblade and his hostile takeover around would follow suit. However, as the day progressed, he seemed to fall more and more again into safe sheeping territory (he no longer was in danger of being lynched), culminating to the fact that he apparently had no problem lynching creeps, a compromise lynch if I have ever seen one.
Even so, this was probably his best day. He actually tried to take initiative. This was quite different from the blind sheeping of Pre Maxous lynch.
Day 7 begins and he starts sheeping and pushing for the Mathblade/Giovanni scumteam as soon as CFJ announces that he will actually expand on why I am scum. Then he generally sheeps CFJ and JaeReed, hiding behind them. He momentarily unvotes SirCakez, voting Math and then me, and then votes SirCakez again.
After SirCakez lynch (Day 8+)
Day 8, after SirCakez is lynched, he drops all pretenses, wears his best lambswool jacket and just sheeps A50 and Jaereed to oblivion. Many of his posts that day was "I agree with this" "I agree with him/it/them" while generally letting A50, JR and/or Ankamius take the blunt of the Mathblade lynch. I also feel that a lot of his previous snarkiness has just vanished. It seems like he has become more careful, all of a sudden.
Day 9, Ankamius said it best and I have nothing to add.
So, to summarise:
1) Yoshi's demeanor changed for a brief amount of time after Maxous's lynch, before conveniently reverting back to his old sheeping self when it was no longer necessary to take initiative.
2) Same thing as 1) happened after SirCakez's lynch, although it was a change of a different kind. More subtle, definitely.
3) His role was unclaimed as of the culting night. Why is this important?
Amongst their proven ranks, town had:
a) A Bulletproof
b) A Psychologist
c) A Jailkeeper
d) A Motion Detector
Yet Maxous goes and cults the Inventor? My point is that Maxous probably didn't pick his cult based on the power of roles, but on survivability, as I have said before. A new replacement and unclaimed role would have had good chances of survival, along an inventor who would be useless after he gives his inventions away. In this case, Yoshi immediately "discharging" his healing effect actually makes a lot of sense. By forgoing a kill, the cult actually creates a pretty good alibi for one of it's members. If what I say about survivability is true (if Maxous was as concerned about survivability as much as I think he might have been), then maybe there are no two scum left but one, as he had to take into account the fact that the cult could be on a numerical disadvantage.
This last point makes sense from a balancing point of view, in my opinion, as well. Maxous was extremely difficult to find and lynch and we only managed to do so thanks to a very extraordinary string of events. It could make sense that his cult faction would be easier to get.
4) PoE. Currently there are 5 players alive, excluding me: JaeReed, Almost50 and Ankamius are on the "no" list. I gave some thought regarding Ankamius before this day started. He only seems to fit third party if he is not town, and even if he was, he would be the most ineffective third party I have ever seen. Maxous, the other "third party" was a force of nature, roleblocking, ascetic, faction-pooping juggernaut, while supposed third party Ankamius is basically a murderous version of a pokemon; if he gets enough hammers he evolves and can kill people and that is unless he doesn't get singled out and get himself lynched in the process, all the while being a miller and then hated.
That leaves us with Gideon, Ally of Zendikar and that Green Lizard from Mario.
While Gideon is a caricature of a character and Elspeth was better at representing the traits of white mana, I find it hard to believe that Ankamius, supposedly an all around good player, could make a case as bad as this against me as scum in such critical a moment.
So that leaves us with Yoshi.
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I might have missed something, but that is the gist of it. Honestly, there is no way that I am gonna read 150+ pages of content again.
Anyway, I hope the textwall actually sparks some discussion.
My vote is in essence on Yoshi. However, no-lynch is also a viable option, so I withhold my actual vote until we reach a consensus.
