Day 3 becomes even more damning. OL starts with an apology, but just in case we were being to notice his lack of value, he throws this out:
Okral Lom, on 03 April 2014 - 02:01 PM, said:
Sorry about yesterday. RL was Hectic. Hopefully I will have a bit more time today. The day has started off better anyway. I haven't bothered to read up yet. I will try to do that as I go through the day. But I was thinking about the game and about Tappers wording in the OP and how GL's CF came up Henchman rather then scum. So I went back and read back over the OP and noticed this little gem.
Path-Shaper, on 31 March 2014 - 01:23 PM, said:
It is now the 31st of March, 2019.
Hong Kong. A field team is set to take out Hau Fat, a very persuasive Triad kingpin who controls half of the politicians in the city. The Ming Mastermind, as the tabloids call him. Opium, murder, stock fraud, human trafficking.
Let the games Beijing. Begin, I mean.
From what little I have read everyone is looking people that GL was signaling. I think that we are looking in the wrong place. The words Mastermind remind me of a Godfather role. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Godfather role it is much like a reverse symp role. The leader knows his underlines but they don't know him. I think that we should be looking for people who were signaling GL not people GL was signaling. I was wrong work is crazy right now. It has taken me over an hour to put this together. I will try to read up through out the day.
Godfather role. The day hasn't let go of this concept and it opened up an entirely new way of trying to evaluate interactions, particularly with GL. But I harken back to our old, often forgotten adage: he who smelt it dealt it. People talk about what they know and it is an amazingly powerful way to catch scum in M&Ps or roled players in faction games. My take: what if OL is trying to get the attention of his mastermind. I mean, he could be also telling his other henchmen to look back through his posts, but I am leaning toward the sending out feelers approach. This post was his mistake in my opinion (especially in context of his game).
After dropping such a doozy of a theory, he returns to prodding and accusing, clarifying that he has no idea who do go after, but not really trying that hard to find the mastermind.
Okral Lom, on 03 April 2014 - 08:31 PM, said:
So I haven't been able to read up that much today. How much time is left in the day? I am only at my desk for another 45 minutes. Unfortunately I don't really have enough of a feel for anyone to drop a vote right now. The one thing I am wondering is not so much town having a vote blocking ability but why Bek felt the need to use it today. That seems to me like a pretty powerful ability to have at the end of the game.
Okral Lom, on 03 April 2014 - 09:06 PM, said:
Kessobahn, on 03 April 2014 - 08:51 PM, said:
Bek, can you use it again?
Why would you think that he could use it again? I assume that if someone can use something more then once then they are scum.
And again, a little too much kissing up, not unusual for town, but much like his victory lap around GL's lynch. Put it into context.
Okral Lom, on 04 April 2014 - 02:13 PM, said:
Rikkter, on 04 April 2014 - 07:49 AM, said:
"The time is not yet right!"
There we go, 31 hours or so left. Now those people who have time, damned well sit down and build good cases.
As I said, I'm not around much at all but now may have some time tomorrow - time we now have depending on how PS handles a non-timing out day over weekend.
edit:corrected colour tags
Smart move.
Interestingly, OL is really starting to put out in terms of solid posts towards the end of today (I guess coinciding with increased scrutiny). But he still plays both sides of the accusations, supporting and tearing into BO, feeding the Denul debate, etc. In the end though, he comes down on the fence, not voting, not standing on a case, but rather pot-shotting from the side.
Okral Lom, on 04 April 2014 - 02:27 PM, said:
Bek Okhan, on 03 April 2014 - 11:06 PM, said:
*excessive quotage snip*
It was clear they'd be told. I wanted to see how they'd treat it. Revealing a vote block wasn't a problem. we'd have all sat trying to figure it out and examine Eloth ask questions, basically whats happening to me. what screwed the pooch was your highlighting my worries scum had a similar power and the last vote may get intercepted as I believe scum could do. I did not say it though, till after you'd voted as I had no plan to use my vote block. only after Korabas built a case on Eloth did I think maybe Eloth was flying under the radar and needed that pressure.
In my mind a vote block on a gray player encouraged the group to pressure that player. if there was a slip up to be made they'd need to be worried.
A vote block for town is unusual/ how would you use it end game? blocking a vote on a train just makes the train look scummier. And it would be revisited.
If you were at the end of the game and you were pretty sure that there was two scum left and you wanted to make sure that they couldn't get someone to vote with them and then hammer. You could block the vote on one of the players. Thus preventing that probable scum from being able to hammer a inadvertent town vote. See last game for an example.
In my mind that is as powerful as tool at the end of game as a guard can be. But hey that might just be me. Of course the issue with holding on to it and not using it right away is that you might die and not use it. I do have a little bit of an issue with you thinking that you had an action that could be used more then once. Since it was pretty carefully stated in the OP and was a topic of conversation in regards to how town posting strategy for day 1 and 2. It strikes me as very slopping reading time after time.
Okral Lom, on 04 April 2014 - 02:57 PM, said:
Denul, on 04 April 2014 - 02:34 PM, said:
BUt that wouldn't actually do anything! It would just make it go to Night and then the killers would kill and the game would end the exact same way. It's a useless ability for a town player to have, as far as I can tell. Perhaps I'll eat my words when I get to SH and see what else is actually going on, but I just don't see a vote block being a town ability.
That being said, my level 5 ability has given me information that makes me believe that one of either you or Bek are scum, and my money's on Bek, specially if he has, as he has said, a vote blocking ability.
Did you see the end of the last game at all? There was 3 town all of whom though that there was a pretty good chance that the other were town. Then there were two scum who were seen by all 3 as being scummy. One of the town voted for another and then the second scum came on and hammered. With a vote block in town hands one of those scum would have for sure been denied the ability to vote. Thus leaving the voting amount at 3 town and 1 scum. Thus preventing a quick scum game. Seems pretty straight forward to me. You would only go to night if the town were stupid enough to vote for night or to let the day time out.
Okral Lom, on 04 April 2014 - 03:00 PM, said:
Denul, on 04 April 2014 - 02:34 PM, said:
That being said, my level 5 ability has given me information that makes me believe that one of either you or Bek are scum, and my money's on Bek, specially if he has, as he has said, a vote blocking ability.
That is kind of funny as Bek is going after you pretty hard for being tied to GL. I am still trying to get a feel for the thread. There have been a lot of scummy comments tossed out and about. It is tough to tie them into a cohesive pattern.