Open 6 - Nightless (Ended) - before 388

[Mr Stoofer]

Vote: IH

since he's about 4th on my "most trusted" list and we need to get this game moving.

[spectrumvoid]

Vote-count

Cephrir: 1 (IH)
IH: 1 (Thesp, VitaminR, Mr Stoofer)

4 to lynch.

[Cephrir]

Eveyone but me, Pooky, and IH is voting IH, and I was going to ask if anyone had any reason for me not to hammer, but I doubt Pooky will show up anytime soon.
IH is going after me too hard, methinks.

Vote: IH

[IH]

Since I've just been lynched.... please kill the frick out of Cephrir tomorrow. Thank you. Stoofer or Cephrir. If you lose this town.... = (

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

bah I say bah.

[spectrumvoid]

Welcome back Pooky.

Vote-count

IH: 4 (Thesp, VitaminR, Mr Stoofer, Cephrir)
Cephrir: 1 (IH)

The insomniac-tic town started daydreaming, lulled into a false sense of security... Everyone fell into a stupor, saying nothing, and daydreaming away...
Everything was seemingly all right with the world...
Then *BAM* Cephir drops a ==[ ] on top of IH's head, and IH dies instantly!
Everyone starts to buzz around. Finally, an unnamed and insignificant personage had the bright idea of looking through IH's pockets. An ID said he was a TOWNIE.

The town is mortified! With their scumdar on the alert now, and everyone present, DAY 8 begins.

[spectrumvoid]

Stoofer has posted in V/LA thread about LA.

[Thesp]

Pity, because I had him next in my train of thought.

[spectrumvoid]

Stoofer will be back Monday. Whoever is using this as an excuse not to post will get a big scolding from me on Tuesday.

[VitaminR]

Stoofer was spot on with his votes, but that is almost too perfect to be real.

I honestly don't know about Pooky.

Cephrir is the best candidate except for Ripley's need to include him as a suspect. That does count rather strongly, though.

I think it is either Pooky or Stoofer.

Re-reading, only Stoofer's Ripley seem truly out of place for scum. It was pretty unprompted.

I think I'd like to take out Pooky, Stoofer & me and then have Cephrir and Thesp be the last ones alive. Scum should be one of those two.

With that in mind:

Vote: Mr Stoofer

[Thesp]

Stoofer was spot on with his votes, but that is almost too perfect to be real.

I honestly don't know about Pooky.

Cephrir is the best candidate except for Ripley's need to include him as a suspect. That does count rather strongly, though.

I think it is either Pooky or Stoofer.

Re-reading, only Stoofer's Ripley seem truly out of place for scum. It was pretty unprompted.

I think I'd like to take out Pooky, Stoofer & me and then have Cephrir and Thesp be the last ones alive. Scum should be one of those two.

With that in mind:

Vote: Mr Stoofer

QFT. Massively.

Vote: MrStoofer.

[Cephrir]

I'm not so sure about Thesp being town, but I can definitely get behind a Stoofer lynch.

Vote: Mr Stoofer

[VitaminR]

That was quick. I hope that ends the game.

[Mr Stoofer]

Yeah it does. GG town.

[spectrumvoid]

Aaaand it's a lynch!

Mr. Stoofer gets dragged to the hanging rope. *insert rather anti-climatic drumroll here* He was scum!

That ends the game!

Townies/People alive: Thesp, VitaminR, Cephirir, Pooky.

Comments:
I must say I was rather disappointed with the activity in here, and I wasn't really sure what to do. I didn't like this setup, but it was an easy one to mod (it's my 1st.) I was also quite surprised at the way town went a-lynching.

Any suggestions on modding?

[Mr Stoofer]

FYI, I must be the first scum to get lynched for not voting for townies. And I had a good excuse in each case:

• Relyte
  : I kept asking for reasons - which were never properly articuklated by anyone, although it's fair to say he had done enough to desrve a lynch.
• Dead Rikimaru
  : this was a speed lynch which I missed due to illness (which I posted in the thread). And since I was the one that initiated the suspicion of Dead Rkimaru, that should have counted in my favour (in this bizarre world where it's scummy not to vote for townies).
• Patrick
  : ditto.
• IH
  : I voted for him!

Perhaps I'll nominate myself for the Title: "Too Perfect" if no-one else does.

[Mr Stoofer]

And thanks very much for modding spectrumvoid. You did a good job and I'd sign up for one of your games again. It's always difficult to know how much to prod and when to replace, but I think you got it about right.

[spectrumvoid]

I'll nominate you for it.

I must admit I consulted a few people like Zindaras to ask for advice over the pooky issue.

[Patrick]

Yay! Town wins, no thanks to me. Well played Thesp in particular.

[VitaminR]

Comments:
I must say I was rather disappointed with the activity in here, and I wasn't really sure what to do. I didn't like this setup, but it was an easy one to mod (it's my 1st.) I was also quite surprised at the way town went a-lynching.

Any suggestions on modding?

I think you did a great job modding and I'm truly sorry I contributed to your disappointment.

Stoofer, I think you played a great game. You weren't really lynched for not voting townies, though. Firstly, you were lynched fairly late. It was 7 townies to 1 scum at one point. Just from random lynches, the last scum was bound to come up at some point. Secondly, it was as much a process of deduction as it was hunting for scum. Thirdly, the fact that a player doesn't find the way you voted scum believable in retrospect isn't necessarily a sign that your play was too perfect, nor that voting more townies would have helped.

I do personally think, however, that your play was near perfect and that the loss was only really to due with losing all your scum buddies quite early.

[VitaminR]

Way to mess up "to do" and "due to."

[Mr Stoofer]

I'm not sure I played a great game.

I was responsible for killing off both jl2704 and Ripley. At the time I felt I had no choice but to do this. In retrospect I'm not so sure. When you are scum, the game is a lot less confusing, genuinely scummy posts always look scummy (because you know the author is scum) and connections are much clearer. All my scumbuddies' posts seemed to me to scream "I am scum"; and I thought that if I did not jump on them, someone else would. So I ended up leading the lynches of 2 out of 3 buddies. Could we have done better if I hadn't done that?

Anyway, I certainly felt lonely after day 4!

[VitaminR]

It is certainly ironic to think that the town's success early on in this game was largely due to your influence.

I don't think that is really true, though. jl2704 certainly screamed scum. Ripley perhaps not as much, but that was more due to the fact that you were the first one to notice his lack of voting and that would have come out anyway.

You could possibly argue that the speed with which it caused the game to be played made it more difficult to capitalise on town indecision (jl2704's lynch could have possibly been dragged out and the same goes for Ripley's) or that the speed of the first two lynches caught some of your scum buddies off guard (it certainly contributed to Ripley and Nightfall's lynches). It is a difficult thing to gauge, though. I do think all of them were fairly inevitable and your vote on its own does not make it impossible for them to avoid being lynched.

[Patrick]

I'd have bussed Nightfall. Not sure about Ripley though, maybe you could have tried to keep him around a while longer. Your voting record was great by then anyway, so being wrong about him might not have looked so bad; it might even have made your voting record seem more realistic for a pro town player.

[Mr Stoofer]

the speed of the first two lynches caught some of your scum buddies off guard (it certainly contributed to Ripley and Nightfall's lynches)

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