1.)
As I stated early in the game, I was keeping my Townreads (DCLXVI and Huntress) close to my chest, which is how I think one ought to play early in a mountainous game. Having Townreads only to have them nightkilled because there is a general consensus that a certain player is Town does us no good (and I in fact specifically asked players to specifically stop calling me Town for similar reasons). The fact that I thought DCLXVI was Town resonates through my treatment of DCLXVI over the course of the game, as well as my critical eye towards players who were attacking DCLXVI. I may not have been very open with my Huntress Townread (and there likely isn't much evidence of it in my posts, since I probably felt very little desire to defend her as she was rarely attacked), but that does not change the fact that I
know I had a Townread on her on Days One and Two.The fact that I cannot easily describe why I think DCLXVI is not really a point against me. There are certainly plenty of reasons one might attack DCLXVI; to be blunt, his posts are not very good on the whole. He nevertheless
reads
like he is posting from a Town mindse. As I have tried to explain before, his indignation / bold words / exaggerations of others' play -- while highly annoying -- do not seem to me to be done with a scum motive. His attack on LlamaFluff in particular reads as Town because he has pursued it so heavily despite it not gaining much traction, and despite the fact that I think his case is very overstated, I can (on some level at least) understand what led him to his frame of mind.2.)
Please explain to me how my wanting
to talk about the nightkills when you agree
they are odd is a point against me? If they are odd, it is presumably for a reason. I think in general scum vastly prefer having nightkills ignored and often suggest it is "WIFOM" to analyze them. But from experience I know that nightkills are often rather indicative of who is scum, and often make a good deal of sense in hindsight. So if it possible to instead use foresight, I would prefer to do it. In this case my own efforts were not very fruitful, which is why I have been urging others to look into them to see if they can connect the dots.3.)
I don't understand your point about my meta discussion with mikeburnfire. My first point was indeed that it has been many years since Simon Mafia. My second point was that even I assumed
his meta read on me was accurate and applicable, he claimed I was scummy in this
game because my play was completely different than a past game I was scum
in. So either way you look at it (whether you accept meta arguments or you don't), mikeburnfire's argument against me did not make sense.4.)
And finally, I am a realistic player. When you voted for DCLXVI in LyLo, that was pretty much a giant flag saying "after DCLXVI crossvotes me, the rest of you will have no choice but to choose between us because every vote is not for either of us increases the chances of a Townsperson being quicklynched." It is not like I have never been in an endgame before -- they almost always devolve to two players voting each other and then one of them being lynched.I, however, was not very pleased with the crossvote situation. The chances that the two of you are both Town are too high in my mind for comfort. And so when Jake from State Farm essentially came into the game 100% sure DCLXVI was scum before actually reading most of the living players in the game, I was more than happy to push the game into a direction, and potentially defuse the obvious impending crossvote dichotomy.
I am rather confident based on the game that DCLXVI has been a continual contender for being mislynched (i.e., lynchbait), and this would likely be a prevalent topic of discussion amongst the scumteam. And so having somebody (Jake from the State Farm) replacing in and immediately attacking the most likely mislynch without even fully reading suggests a very particular agenda. Hence my vote.
