@PV - Both Cerb and I argue when we see bad reasoning. If someone is directing accusations at us, we respond to them as we view ignoring people's concerns as scummy (ergo why we're fairly sure there's scum on the early fast mastin wagon from today ... everyone ignored us asking for their reasoning). When I claimed, I pointed out that there is no downside to giving us a couple days where we are not playing defense the whole day to do our thing. If folks are paranoid or we haven't obvtowned by then, we can be lynched then. Given our history, I feel like it's reasonable to ask for that space, especially since we crumbed, claimed and haven't been counterclaimed or anything.
You don't seem to think or play like either Cerb or I, so it's fallacious to compare what you think when you get a certain role with what Cerb had to say. After the game you'll get our hydra pt and you'll see that he did indeed ask right away about our role for clarity. One of the things that bothers us both is when people assume they know exactly how the mod intends their role to function. I've watched games hinge on someone misunderstanding how their role worked. I've also seen someone be clever and ask questions about their role and then work out a way to magnify the effect of their role and make it way better than it would otherwise be (Most notably Mastin in SMITE who was basically a goo spreader who could alignment check anyone with goo. She figured out how to multiply the goo spreading AND set it up so that she could check someone's alignment without removing their goo so that they would keep spreading the goo. That made her role ridiculously OP and it's the primary reason I killed her when I did as she was on the verge of the point where the goo would go from a few people to basically everyone).
Don't have much more time to finish that thought, but I hope what I'm driving at is clear? It shouldn't be odd that Cerb asked and clarified our role. It should be odd and bad when people do NOT ensure they fully understand their role and look for how to maximize it.
I won't get to post again until super late tonight East Coast time. It will be more like early tomorrow morning. I'm not big on emotion mixed with mafia, because generally in my observation that just ends with people upset or worse, so generally anything people read as AtE from me isn't actually me intentionally doing AtE. This next thing is intentional AtE: Please take the time to reassess your assumptions and reconsider. If you guys pile on and just end the day all you will find out is that I honestly claimed. Even if we end up the lynch because {reasons}, there's so much more that could be done with today than just ending it to find out I was honest. I see no town motivation in ending the day early, but I'm pretty sure scum will be quite happy to have a day phase taken up exclusively talking about one person who happens to be BP, and then having that person lynched. The
last
thing scum want is town putting their minds to work and exploring the player list and asking questions of folks who have been keeping out of the way and doing their best not to draw attention and just let out lynch happen. Even if you reassess and you feel like the odds are we're scum for {whatever reasons}, it's
still
better to actually make use of the day to get more people talking and committing their thoughts and reads and positions. Even if we were scum, just ending the day without getting other things that need exploring actually explored some and getting people to commit content to the game is not optimal town play. It's not even close. Take into account the fact that I really was honest with my claim and just ending the day is way more useful to the scum team than for town. Hopefully not the last two cents I get to offer,
Drixx
