OK, I've found something that has made me change my mind.
I decided to look at Peanutbutta's posts from the last game, to check if they matched up with Silanah's. And lo and behold, what did I find but that his style actually matches up better with Korvalain's! Here is a sample of a few posts from the Mexican standoff game (Peanutbutta was Kessobahn):
Kessobahn, on Apr 15 2009, 05:43 PM, said:
tough-break
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very small chance they are working together (hostage/gang leader know each other maybe based on scene description?), so with only 11 real votes left in the pool, we need to dump 7 on one of them or put 8 on someone else to ensure a lynch...
but Meanas has a point that we may not want to rush lynches because nights are probably going to be good for the bounty hunter as it is
Kessobahn, on Apr 15 2009, 07:21 PM, said:
i see Serc and 4 others lurking and i am lonely
Kessobahn, on Apr 15 2009, 08:13 PM, said:
Serc, on Apr 15 2009, 08:05 PM, said:
Ok, I missed tthat point. I thought you said he would avoid any train. Which, Emurlahn, if you think about it, he would pretty much avoid ALL successful trains, due to us mostly all having to agree on a lynch prior to the vote.
what about a 7-6 vote split? this means we have to lynch vote Rashan or Tellan, which seems rough because they are hit because 'lol didn't fully read rules' but it also means we'll have the killer narrowed down to basically one-of-six or seven people.
(he votes with train, votes split 6-6-1 nobody is lynched but we know he is in the majority group of seven; alternatively votes split 7-5-1, lynch is successful, and we know he's in the minority group of six) that's cutting the number of suspects in half each night, not counting any other stuff obviously
Kessobahn, on Apr 15 2009, 08:19 PM, said:
yeah good point, just pick and lynch and see what happens at vote 7
You will notice that in all these posts, there is no punctuation at the end. This is a pattern that crops up very often in Peanutbutta's posting.
Now let's look at some Korvalain posts from before last night:
Korvalain, on Apr 18 2009, 04:29 PM, said:
Just stepping in to get a bit caught up before I head off to work
D'riss, on Apr 18 2009, 10:02 AM, said:
Having gone over the stuff I've missed, the first thing that struck me as odd was Korvalain following Korlat and then immediately removing again. Set off some rather loud alarm bells in my head. The only thing that makes me pause is that it's so blatant a symp clue...but the case on Liosan was a nothing case, as far as I can tell, no way an inno would look at it and think it was worth following.
Okay, I thought I explained this earlier, but I'll do it again. Korlat's case, in the order that s/he presented it, at the time, seemed like a fair case and we didn't have anything else to go on at the time. There were 7 or so people on at the time, I figured why not join into the train and get the discussion going (generally a single vote on someone gets far less attention and discussion then 2 or more). But since in the next 5 minutes no one said a word and 4 people left the thread, I spent the time going back and looking over the posts more in-depth. In context and in order, they faired a lot better and I didn't think the case was so strong anymore, nor did I want that vote which I was no longer confident of hanging around for the following 8 hours while I slept, so I removed it.
And of course, now that people have been on and discussed Lio's case better, the poorness of the case on him is now blatantly apparent
(Note penultimate paragraph)
Korvalain, on Apr 18 2009, 02:52 AM, said:
Korlat, on Apr 17 2009, 09:41 PM, said:
Did you steer the conversation just so you could post that picture?
Nope. Actually I just spoke random stuff in a stream of word jumblebumbledeeness. And when it ended with zombie pac man and no one said anything, I thought, why not go get a picture? Google being my midnight lover, I found one and then went ot he Inn to find the denotivator generator and made the captions myself!
Silanah, on Apr 17 2009, 09:45 PM, said:
Fener, on Apr 17 2009, 09:42 PM, said:
Why does Hood's Path keep showing up and then leaves without posting anything?
I've seen this probably 4-5 times now since the game started, FYI. We all know that there are frequent lurkers playing this game and maybe Hood's Path is just forgetting to LOG IN ANONYMOUSLY, but the simple fact that we KNOW he's lurking is what makes is so disconcerting.
I think HP is not saying much because he is new (I *think* this, not stating, mods note don't ban me plz) and afraid that he will say something he thinks is very innocent and fine adn we will psychoanalyze it and lynch him in a matter of minutes. Not that that would happen, but it's a trypical thing to be afraid of when you start out and all
Sry we skare you HP! We not rly goin eet you!
Korvalain, on Apr 17 2009, 07:28 PM, said:
Meanas, on Apr 17 2009, 07:22 PM, said:
Fener, on Apr 17 2009, 08:13 PM, said:
So I admit to being a Masquerade noob.
I thought Anarchs, Carmilla, and Baali were clan names. Am I mistaken?
No, they're faction names. Clans are sortof what vampire 'race' you come from, whereas faction describes your political allegiance and view on how vampires should act. So like the gangrel are beast-affinitied vampires (clan) but could belong to the camarilla or anarchs type of thing.
And thus we don't have names... our names are our alt-names
Korvalain, on Apr 17 2009, 07:20 PM, said:
Fener, on Apr 17 2009, 07:13 PM, said:
So I admit to being a Masquerade noob.
I thought Anarchs, Carmilla, and Baali were clan names. Am I mistaken?
Yeah, I think you are mistaken. Sab and Carm seem like vampire "nations", with Anarch a little monastary in the empty land in between (so like a mini-nation), while Baali are some sort of underground black magic cult (not in the mafia sense!) that nobody likes and operate underground either in the nations or outside of 'em
Clan is like bloodlines or something. The ones in the OP were Giovani, Tremere and Tzimizce - apparently mages. Maybe meanas can tell us if clans are exlusive to a certain nation or if they cross borders. The clans have specialties and of course pertain to certain abilities, so if someone had a "Fireball" day ability they'd be one of those 3 mage clans, etc etc
edit: X-post and I'm totally wrong. Haven't gotten that far in Meanas' assigned readings yet!
As you can see, there is a similar lack of punctuation at the end of paragraphs. And yet when I look through Silanah's posts, I find nothing of the sort. Plus, some of the confusion Korvalain displayed (didn't know the IGMEOY acronym, voted and then quickly removed on Liosan's case, etc.) matches up well with him being a new player.
I'll put the analysis of Korvalain since the lynch in a new post, because I'm going to have too many quotes otherwise. But in the meantime, I will switch my vote.
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