I've been doing some more reading and have developed two theories. One points at Mess, the other one points at Khell. But they're pretty much mutually exclusive.
Mess theory:
I stumbled upon it by accident, when I was reading Bubba in isolation. Look at the way Khell's train picks up steam. He gets 3 votes within 3 minutes. It takes him from carrying Blend's joke vote to actually becoming a serious lynch candidate. if you go back to that moment, only after it happens Blend starts being more serious about Khell's lynch.
This is how it played out:
Bubba, on 20 February 2017 - 05:35 PM, said:
Khellendros, on 20 February 2017 - 05:29 PM, said:
Blend, on 20 February 2017 - 05:25 PM, said:
Khellendros, on 20 February 2017 - 05:20 PM, said:
Which just proves what a standup, useful guy I am to have around.
See, now he's trying to butter you up. He's using alternative facts to make you believe what he wants you to believe. Don't fall for his tricks! Lynch Khell!
I hope you all see how the push to lynch me is a huge propaganda campaign from the fake and false media. They're pushing story after story and post after post at you with their own personal agendas.
These so-called townies are lying to you. It's terrible. But we know the truth, don't we? They're not on your side! They're just looking to take your jobs and your lives and line their own pockets.
Sad.
Hmmm.... a day one slip Kell?
remove vote
vote Kell
I'm off to work. have fun everybody
Messremb, on 20 February 2017 - 05:38 PM, said:
Khellendros, on 20 February 2017 - 05:36 PM, said:
If we told you you'd know what not to do again...
Vote Khell
JPK, on 20 February 2017 - 05:38 PM, said:
Yeah, the "so-called slip" seals the deal for me.
Vote Khell
(skipped Khell's answers for readability, they're irrelevant for now)
It seems like Bubba genuinely thinks he caught Khell red-handed. Mess jumps on this immediately with a vote - even though shortly before he accused Khell of trying to divert attention to JPK, he only laid his vote when he could put it on top of someone else's. Then a minute later JPK comes around which would be suspicious if he hasn't flipped RI (there is non-zero chance he was a symp, but we won't know that so I'm not considering it).
Such a quick build-up leads me to think there is a killer among these three. Bubba looks genuine, Mess looks scummy, and JPK looks dead. Not a hard choice.
He has also started building a case against me - and I pointed a finger at him before as a potential vote and called him out for fearmongering. Not surprised.
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Khell theory:
I haven't really seen anything scummy about Khell's game in D1. The slip thing was overblown. But he looks much spookier in D2. I have already commented on the backpedalling from his JPK case. Khell claims he said that we should lynch him if JPK flips town because he was sure we were going to lynch him anyway. And I actually believe that part. He posted this just after getting these 3 rapid votes quoted above that put him at L-3:
Khellendros, on 20 February 2017 - 05:46 PM, said:
How about this. Lynch my target, whose scum CF will indicate I am town. If he's not scum (and he will be) then lynch me, I won't even fight it or nothing.
It's a win-win.
Let's assume that Khell is a Killer.
Now, had Khell been lynched and flipped scum, I am pretty sure we would have taken that post as a ploy to VPI himself backfiring in Khell's
face and lynched JPK immeditaely, wasting a day. That's as much as Khell could have been hoping for being sure he's about to get lynched. He admits himself that he started reversing his stance when JPK self-voted. That sealed Kitsu's fate, so Khell knew he was not going to get lynched. So he had to backpedal quickly from that ridiculous statement.
And then there is the theory that killers were on separate trains. It does look sensible, but Khell is pushing a little too hard:
Khellendros, on 21 February 2017 - 11:10 PM, said:
To answer your question Bubba, let's take a look at the final tallies:
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It is Day 1. 7 hours 3 minutes remaining
Players still alive: (JPK, Nom, Ment, Tatts, Khell, HD, Blend, Ando, Messremb, SiergieJ, Mac, Bubba)12 players alive.
7 votes to lynch, 6 to go night.
4 votes Khell (Blend, Bubba, Messremb, HD)
7 votes JPK (Khell, Mac, Nom, Ment, Ando, Tatts, JPK)
1 vote Blend (SiergieJ)
Players not voted: ()
JPK has been lynched. He was RI.
Now resolving night.
The fantastic thing is that everybody voted. Everybody had an opinion, or at least pretended that they did. Now, what are we thinking re scum numbers? Presumably, more than one.
I would reckon that scum would board separate trains when it's as close as it was. And they don't care about no lynch at this stage because it just means another day of no one looking at them, so they won't feel any pressure to both add to the lynching train.
Taking off JPK and Tatts, the trains are very similarly weighted, 4 and 5 (I am discounting Siergiej for the moment).
So we have Blend, Bubba, Mess, HD - which one is scummiest?
And we have Mac, Nom, Ment, Ando (and me, if you're not me) - which one is scummiest?
I would start with analysing the JPK train voters, because I think that there is a greater likelihood of multiple scum there, on the successful train, rather than on my train...but as I said, my personal suspicion is that they're split.
Khellendros, on 22 February 2017 - 09:58 AM, said:
Messremb, on 22 February 2017 - 09:10 AM, said:
Khellendros, on 21 February 2017 - 11:10 PM, said:
The fantastic thing is that everybody voted. Everybody had an opinion, or at least pretended that they did. Now, what are we thinking re scum numbers? Presumably, more than one.
You did read the M&P bit of the signups, Khell? So if it is 1 then that is highly imbalanced. 12 players so 2 killers 1 symp for 4-1 or 2 killers 2 symps for 3-1.
Well exactly. What about that contradicts anything I've said? I think there are multiple scum, which seems obvious, and my personal belief is that there is at least one on each major train.
That gives us two nice smaller groups to go through. Other people might feel different, but I feel confident in eliminating some people as potential suspects (for now), which makes the groups even smaller. For example, Blend from the "Khell group".
Khellendros, on 22 February 2017 - 05:32 PM, said:
Macros, on 22 February 2017 - 05:04 PM, said:
4 votes Khell (Blend, Bubba, Messremb, HD)
7 votes JPK (Khell, Nom, Ment, Ando)
lets assume for a second there is a killer on each train.
on one side we have two super high posters and two players without a lot to go on.
on the other, the Khell, and 3 players without a lot to go on.
I just don't see Blend/ mess as killers unless they've gone balls to the wall. I suppose it's possible
going to look at bubba.hd in iso first
then the other 4
Agreed on this though, i.e. discounting Blend and Mess for now - as killers anyway.
Of course, the killer on each train was my idea originally, so perhaps not surprising that I agree
It just feels like Khell had a vested interest in convincing us the Killers were on separate trains. This makes perfect sense if he was a Killer and knew for a fact that his partner was on the JPK train as well. That would, of course, rule out Mess.
I need to do more reading before I cast my vote, right now it's between these two. I feel like there is more to the case on Khell, but I also think Mess' CF will tell us more - if he flips town, there are only 2 people left from Khell train from D1.
Now for a short break, but I'm around.