I found myself liking Mizzy's post 522 as it outlined pretty well the same kind of thinking that I had when ooba placed his vote on Niv. I'm bothered by the fact that Lowell had absolutely nothing negative to say about XReyoX here:
when I personally feel like XReyoX's late Day 1 play taints him a bit. I mentioned this previously in Post 445 and would have liked to pursue it further but then he replaced. And the fact that ooba entered the game and didn't even bother to comment on anything else related to the game besides citing his predecessor's argument against Sammich/Niv makes me think even more negatively about his play as well.Lowell, in post 420, wrote:XreyI just get straight townie tells from. No other reason. He pushes the conversation, varies his attacks, and just looks town to me.
Another thing I disliked was Lowell's comment here where he tries to cast some suspicion towards the people not voting:
If he had actually read the thread, he would have realized that of the people not voting at that time, two were still fairly new to the game and one was on the verge of being replaced while I was waiting for the input from the newcomers. Also, I believe Y mentioned this previously but LowellLowell wrote:Though in other news, I'm about to grow verrry suspicious of those still not voting. The fact that there are so many makes me think we may have it narrowed down to a scum and a non-scum and some teammates are waiting to see what happens.
has
been actively lurking and has seemed to be able to get away with under the cloud of suspicions that circled around both Near and Sammich throughout Day 1. It now seems rather convenient that he won't be available any time soon with the approaching deadline. I think a pretty good amount of information came out of Day 1 with respect to people's relationships with one another and in my opinion, a D2 hunt of both ooba and Lowell is important to town winning this game. I've also reread the arguments against Sammich/Niv, and I feel like my thoughts are back to where they were near the beginning of the game where I felt like the Sammich dice roll incident was blown up into epic proportions. Lying about a dice roll isn't scummy and the argument really shouldn't have progressed as far as it should have since it was pushed along for fairly dubious reasons. I also dislike how Lowell tried to factor Sammich's flaking into the general equation of his scumminess. The fact that he hasn't made any posts on MS since he last posted here correlates more with real life issues taking predominance to the issues related to this game. In short, I'm more distrustful of the Niv wagon because of ooba's vote and Lowell's added involvement with it and wouldn't be surprised if they are connected to Near.
I've outlined my Near suspicions previously and while I was interested in seeing him pursue his case against Sammich to see if there was something more to it, that wasn't allowed to happen, and I can only form my thoughts around what I've been given already. It's pretty interesting to see a game so equally divided between two suspects. I still think Near is scum for reasons I've previously cited before I unvoted and with the deadline approaching I feel comfortable placing him at L-1.
Vote: Near
