Anomandaris, on 23 May 2012 - 09:50 PM, said:
Ampelas, on 23 May 2012 - 12:01 PM, said:
Anomandaris, on 23 May 2012 - 11:33 AM, said:
MOs include:
-Shelly was onto something and/or someone
-Shelly was way off base, and thus the WIFOM over her speculations would hinder town
-killing Shelly would point us to someone who voiced annonyance with her
-killing Shelly was a reaction to her irritating behavior
-it was meta-kill meant to pick off Khells, not Shelly
-it was a random kill from a provisional list made before any real content was seated in thread
Personally, I'm leaning toward an MO having to do with how annoying Shelly was. Being cagey and being mafia, I am going to actually start looking into people who were not annoyed at Shelly, thinking that the killers would distance themselves from their kill. I believe this is counterintuitive, hence the long winded analysis.
I want to say it's because they found Shelly annoying. I can't count the number of times I've wished I was scum so that I could kill off that annoying player
I'm not exactly sure where you are going with this list. Shelly was really only interested in lynching TS, who then got lynched. There were many people voicing annoyance with her behaviour. In fact, I think I was the only person who found it rather amusing Any other possibility you listed really doesn't tell us much about who had it in for Shelly. Personally I think you are more likely right with your first statement; Shelly was killed off because she was decidedly innocent.
I also am not really sure what you mean by the final bit of your post. if it is counterintuitive why are you doing it?
So, I was really just checking in to see the night result before heading to bed. Guess I'll see the answers to this and so much more in the morning
Have you ever been scum (or are you scum now...)? Killers play a game of waiting. They have to survive a certain number of nights and they win, esp in a game without healers, guards, or finders. Barring any tomfoolery (namely people not getting their act together) there will be one lynch per day, and one kill by night. Simple math for complex numbers. Fourth day is D-day, with 4 town and 2 scum at WCS.
This is a very basic M&P, and I'm not sure how you reason that scum would want to kill off a distraction.
As for TS, I would remind you that I started seriously looking at TS before Shelly. So not everyone was Shelly's sheep on that train, contrary to what you describe.
And the red highlighted phrase is also very careless. To the paired killers, everyone is decidedly innocent. They can talk to each other and they know they don't have a symp. Therefore, there is no "better" kill for them outside of looking for the best manner to screw over towns' ability to function.
Finally, the counterintuitive part of my post is what other people have already pointed out: I am looking at people who looked disinterested in the night kill target. Instead of looking at who nudged in favor of lynching Shelly (like a lot of the current suspects listed), I'm looking for those who knew Shelly would die over night or even those who realized a little too late that Shelly would have been nice to keep around to screw us on day 2. Either way, I don't think our killers were trying to steer a shelly lynch yesterday. Shelly was doing find allllll by herself.
First off, you are right about the sentence that you highlighted. I didn't think that one through. Although it occurs to me now that because Shelly looked so inno and had started to drop the RP she was looking less likely as a lynch target. Perhaps the killers wanted to deprive us of a player who we were sure was innocent.
Secondly, the only time I played scum myself and my partner lost miserably in very short order...
I have no idea where you got that I was suggesting people were being sheep in following Shelly. I personally thought the TS lynch was the best possible lynch for day one, and would have voted for him had I the chance.
I still don't understand fully the logic behind looking for people who were disinterested in Shelly. Scum have to fit in, because doing anything else will be suspicious. As has been shown by the emphasis on those of us who did not find Shelly annoying.