The Dude, on 30 April 2013 - 11:10 PM, said:
Great game by D'rek. Your organization was amazing and for the size of the game, for there to be this few mistakes... well major kudos to you!
I think if you ran this same game, with the same people, in the same roles 100 times, I would be hard pressed to win even 1-2 more times. So many things had to go right:
1. I was outed early and the reload happened. Saved my ass. Funny thing is I think he just wanted to get a lover convo going with me and didn't suspect serial killer... bad luck there.
2. Lio not revealing all my actions immediately.
3. Barghast (brujah) defending me on thread. I still don't know what that was all about. His single act of backing me on thread bought me at least 4-5 more days. Even had ppl convinced I wasn't the SK!
4. Obdi/Ghennen volunteering to be silenced and Fener doing it. I wouldn't have won if this didn't happen. I was going to be lynched the next day, I had to talk my way out of it with the recruiter fake reveal. If I had been silenced, there is no way I could have weaseled my way out of a lynch that day and I would have been on to alt#2 with everyone knowing who I was and not enough defense to win.
5. Kesso deciding to guard others. Though I still may have one if he kept guarding me, it would have been much much more unlikely.
6. I had an extra alt at the end to absorb DKT's 4th alt. I did not see that 4th alt coming.
I dunno. It was beyond obvious that you were the SK as soon as HDD outted you as Sylar. I figured defending you might make you not want to kill me. I also felt overwhelmed against scum. I misread of course, how strong they were. We'd already lynched and killed 3 or so scum that were initially town, so I figured recruiting was rampant.
Then we had Steve the Tyrant on the field against us, as well as The Dreadfather. Mostly, I didn't know for sure who anyone on my team was. It felt very bleak. I hoped that you would basically do exactly what you did - realize town, at least me and a few others, were willing to help keep you alive so you could take out the more powerful scum, and help make the end game you vs a few townies, who you had to realize were better to be up against at the end, than powerful scum. I didn't really think we would be able to kill you in the end, and didn't want to waste time trying to do so while town got picked to pieces. I figured losing to just you in the end was better than to an entire team of scum. Especially Goodkind. I'd hated it had they been the ones to beat us.
And finally, I figured we might still get lucky against you somehow. I realize this thinking was indeed as stupid as the entire SH bench told us in every other post, but at the time it felt right. I'm happy with the final results as much as I can as the losing team. We were able to get every last Goodkind and Meyern dead, even if it cost us our lives. So yeah, I'm quite pleased.
The only thing I'd add is that I never felt you were manipulating us or fooling us. At least me, anyway. I thought you realized we were pretty much taking our chances on you wiping out all the scum at our own expense, and settling for at least being the last faction standing. Anyway, hell of a game. You still had to make good decisions and play well, which you did. I wasn't sure if you were Trull, dkt, or Dude, but I didn't mind you winning. If it had been Khell or Tats I would have never even thought about it.
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