I'm having a bit of trouble finding the time (when the site will cooperate and let me go back and look things up in any sort of efficient way) to get the post I want in so this will do for now.
My top three choices for lynches today at this time, in order are charlatan, xRECKONERx, PorkchopExpress. I'd also be willing to consider Ojanen or Sando and to a much lesser extent Albert B. Rampage or Vi if it was a choice between one of them and a no lynch. I still have no interest in lynching any of Amished, Debonair Danny DiPietro, SerialClergyman or VP Baltar today.
I don't really understand how this PorkchopExpress wagon got going. Albert B. Rampage pushing for something is probably a good sign if anything; he's managed to create a second wagon out of very little and he's forcing people to take sides in a way that they weren't really forced to with the charlatan vs. Debonair Danny DiPietro or whatever else might have been competing wagons previously. Saying that he was trying to derail the charlatan wagon doesn't take into account how long that wagon was there as a serious contender. I also don't have any reason to like what PorkchopExpress is doing so I'm not going to argue against people joining his wagon even though it's not my plan to do so myself. What I really don't like though is xRECKONERx's reaction to the wagon.
For some reason, even though his top three scum suspects in
Post 432 were charlatan, PorkchopExpress and Debonair Danny DiPietro he didn't get around to voting for any of them. At the time there was a 5 vote wagon on charlatan, a 2 vote wagon on Debonair Danny DiPietro and no one at all on PorkchopExpress. When Albert B. Rampage starts the PorkchopExpress wagon he jumps on immediately and sounds excited about a starting wagon. Later we learn that charlatan and PorkchopExpress (and one assumes Debonair Danny DiPietro) were all about equally scummy in his eyes (
Post 483) and then just recently that he apparently has different preferences for their lynches (
Post 529.) It just doesn't fit.
If you've got three people you suspect equally why on Earth would you as town ignore the two that already have wagons going on them and wait till someone else starts a wagon on the third to join that. Even if you had a strong preference for the lynch for that third player (despite thinking the others were equally scummy) why not say that sooner and start the wagon yourself? Town with those top three suspects would have had really no compelling reason I can think of not to vote for either charlatan or Debonair Danny DiPietro (I might be able to come up with a reason for one of them but certainly not both) when they'd finished with their suspicions.
When you add that to Amished's tell (I'm not sold on it but I've thought about it some and I think I'm willing to use it as corroberative evidence), and how xRECKONERx doesn't seem to be settled on exactly what it was that made him give charlatan a town read in the first place (the story already seems to have changed) I'm finding him fairly scummy. I'm leaving my vote on charlatan at this point as I don't care for how he reacted in our exchange but if I thought that an xRECKONERx lynch were feasible today I would be completely willing to be a part of it as of now.
-Zorblag R`Lyeh