Wryly

"Lynch off the ground" sounds, just, absolutely terrible.

No one tell my lib friends, what happens in mafia stays in mafia ok

I agree, but it was just me and REF on him and we were the only two around at that time. That means we needed 3 votes in a span of like 30 minutes. Kohai already had 2 votes. 2 plus 2 is 4 meaning we only needed one person to show up. I would’ve preferred Ceru, but logistically it wasn’t possible

Eh, fair points. After I unvoted Rex I got busy and was absentee for the final vote. If Shining hadn't come in I'm not sure we would've gotten a lynch off the ground.

The Dreamer flip also makes 0 sense if a Gravedigger is in the game and Ceru is telling the truth

Guess I'm having a brain fart -- how so?

"You are informed that someone’s role is a greater nuisance than they know."

Holy vague balls

It was him or Ceru. We needed to get a lynch off. And tbh, it was probably a good thing in hindsight, cause I would’ve relentlessly pursued a lynch on him after he claimed Dreamer

But at that point Kohai had said he could prove his role, while Ceru's was impossible to prove and not useful anyway.

I'll be more active than this when I'm done for the day, but Shining, Vader, Thoth, those would be my POE for now. I'd like at least softs from everyone today, of the three of us that softed last DP I'm the only one left.

Idk why we lynched Kohai last DP when he said he could prove his role today. Not that Dreamer is provable, exactly. But town didn't know he had Dreamer.

It's my animal magnetism

Well I guess he wants me to stay mum about the detes, but yep I can.

You said you could prove your role 🙂

Pretty sure he meant the question about who you want to pursue

Rex

Why the fuck are you doomering so soon?

A) I've been on a losing streak for 5 games straight and B) town's been sleepy this game

Nada.

I have this gloomy feeling town will lose this game as well and my win percentage will drop down below 20%.

Unvote

Sigh.

I get that, but why didn't he just claim Gravedigger at the beginning?

It's a fair question. He claims he wanted to hold out in hopes that if someone claimed Watcher or something he could back them up by claiming then, but eh. His claim would back up the existence of such a role regardless of when he made it.

Wake up, koalas

It's standard protocol to early claim Gravedigger or Miller; it's actually kind of scummy if you don't claim it immediately, as I understand it.

Reads:

Pie - Active, contributing to discussion, don't like that he hasn't softed but eh. Town pile for now.

Ceru - Either SOP'd or took a really big risk as scum. I don't want to lynch him just because we suck this DP. Town pile for now.

Luna - First to soft claim and suggest we each do a unique soft claim. Town pile for now.

Kohai - Null. Good amount of activity. Did soft claim a bit. Has flip-flopped on his reads but that's pretty normal for him.

Thoth, Rex, Vader - Only active in the beginning of the DP and silent now that it's waning. No soft claims. Unresponsive to @'s. Honestly I'm ready to just take a shot in the dark between them.

Shining - Hasn't posted much. No reads. Hasn't softed. I'll throw him in the POE as well.

Fair. Though Rex and Vader are usually quiet.

DELIBERATE

A deliberate strategy to make it impossible for me to tell when if they're sus or just busy, my soon-to-be-published paper in the Mafia Science Journal will soon show (The Science of Silence: Farming Busy Cred for Future Applications in Scum Cover, A Study -- keep an eye out)

I'm really glad we're concentrating our votes guys. We're really all lined up in military enfilade right now, we got 'em for sure.

I'd be happy with putting pressure on any of the inactives. For now I'm putting aside anyone who was willing to soft, which is a small pile, and looking at people who don't want to soft or are just being silent, which is too many people.

Rex, Vader, and Shining are succeeding at giving me not much behavioral info, so they'd be my POE for lack of anything better to go on. Thoth feels weird to me this DP as well, but it's just a vague vibe.

VTL Rex for inactivity and a pervasive aura of Slytherinity

I can just feel scum rubbing their little scummy hands together, tittering to one another that all they have to do is be quiet and bide their time, precious, yes.

Ceru’s claim can be tested tonight.

What's the point. If he's town it would show he visited the NK target and if he's scum it would show he visited the NK target.

I think we should be consistent with what we soft claim

Three of us have already made unique soft claims; adding another soft that we all participate in only narrows down who those three could possibly be while leaving the rest with a higher degree of anonymity. I'd like to hear what your proposal for the mass soft claim would be first.

Welp, if I was scum I would just sit back and lie low until Ceru is mislynched. Easy peasy.

Is there anyone you think best fits this profile? Anyone you think would be talking more than usual that's seeming to sit back right now?

In my experience, Rex and Vader are both sporadic posters in general, with periods of inactivity common. Thus difficult to pin down when their silences are scummy.

I can't remember if I've ever played a game with Shining.

Kohai and Pie are usually quite active and have been consistent with that this DP.

Thoth is usually an active player as well. He's been perhaps a bit less prolific than normal, but it's been a slow DP all around.

How do you know Ceru is a mislynch?

I don't, but I explained my reasoning for the guess in the original post you quoted.

Welp, if I was scum I would just sit back and lie low until Ceru is mislynched. Easy peasy. No one has tried to generate suspicion on anyone else, so either Ceru isn't scum, scum is willing to bus, or scum just haven't been very active, of which the first seems likeliest to me at the moment.

Lack of activity just aids scum, folks.