This is the post that made me change my mind on whether Starling was PI or scum. Without this post I would not have suspected her. She would be town in my mind. Yet her point is not about posts but about content. The content she has provided has been centered around me mostly. She only seems to appear when she is the subject of conversation which is scummy in and of itself.
Starling, on 08 December 2012 - 03:29 AM, said:
Right, caught up and I have lots of notes, so in the interest of continuing the trend I'll put out thoughts for each player.
Starting with Tatts: his play is still bothering me. He's "convinced" me and Gnaw are inno, because of how little we've been posting. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't think the amount a player posts has any relevance to what role they have. I do tend to low post, every game I'm in, and that doesn't change whether I'm town or scum. The only time I've ever tried to up my post count is when I've played faction leader, and even that tends to trickle off as the game progresses. Tatt's conviction has my skin crawling, it feels too much like fake-symping to me, and he has mentioned it a couple of times. I also think it's interesting that Venge was jumped on for mentioning that he was playing RI this game, but it went completely unnoticed when Tatts did it. His reaction to the Azath reveal is also telling, he seems to find it more credible than I would expect, particularly since Azath wasn't NKed. This could also explain why his fake symping is so blatant, as he is trying to deflect from his symping of Azath.
Azath's reveal and subsequent survival are also problematic. In particular, it was very convenient that he found GH, who was NKed. As other people have said, there were several others who were being pointed out over the course of the game, and lots of connections being speculated about. GH had no fingers pointing at him, and he appeared to have no connections to other players, so a find on him, based on meta-reasoning, is an odd choice. In addition, beyond the first glance his find on Gnaw seems odd as well. Sure, at the beginning of the day Gnaw seemed like a good choice for a find, for that wonky vote he put down and his defence of it. But by the end of the day, with the vote swing, there were several people I would have chosen for a find over Gnaw; Tatts, HO and Shin at the top of the list, and we know Azath was around at the end because he hammered.
Shin has built a few cases, responded constructively to my poking and generally been fairly helpful. His play has put him out there more than I would expect of scum, so for now he is lower on my list of scum suspects. His thoughts on why Azath wasn't NKed are plausible.
Bubba has been playing mostly under the radar. He has been connected at various times with Shin, Venge, EM, Tatts, Khell and Blend. His comment that Tatts was trying to get him lynched is a somewhat valid point, and I like his case on Azath.
I don't have much to say about Khell. Defends himself when connected to anyone else, but has no interest in building cases on anyone.
Blend has been connected by GH to Azath and Khell, and by Shin to Tatts. He emphasises how scummy he found Venge; "Venge pulls the scummy shit he did", "Venge was certainly acting a bunch more scummy", although he can only find one quote to back up his claims, and the majority of the lynch was based around Venge playing "too nice". It feels like scum trying to justify his vote. He accuses me of symping Tatts, for my case on him earlier, which would be a seriously stupid move for me, if I was a symp. He spends a lot of time attempting to devalue Tatts' case against him, and trying to direct attention elsewhere.
I also have very little on Gnaw. His tactic of low-posting is rather irritating, but his having come out and announced that it was his tactic seems to lend credence to the idea that he is RI experimenting, I also agree with his statement that now could be a good time for scum to take the lead, much in the way that GH is so good at doing.
I have no notes at all on HO. Nothing.
So the underlined part made me step back and hesitate.
The part about Bubba is interesting because she says he is connected to many people just as a symp should be. She leaves HO out. She gives her opinion on Blend as well. Is there a conclusion?