Guys, I'm in the middle of my exams, just finished the first one today. I agree I haven't been much active lately, but that is purely due to the inactivity of the thread in general. Seriously, there wasn't anything to discuss, or rather, anyone to discuss with.
The last day period saw the Ollie role-claim, and the lynch of Hedger. Hedger had an argument, which somehow made sense to me, because I'm not the one who believes in anyone's role-claim straightforward. Seeing there was no support for me, I decided to unlynch him, because I was going to sleep, and knew I wouldn't get the time to log onto PC for another 24 hours.
I prefer not to get into hasty lynches, because they invariably hurt the town, and I knew there would be people who don't understand the concept of a hammer vote, because we were playing with quite a few newbies. So I wanted more discussion to understand the game further. Remember, discussion about the person in pressure can lead to clues about his fellow members as well.
For the records, my role is of a
Lie-detector, I can send a quote from the thread to ask if it's true or not, but I'm sure I'm getting skewed results. I sent the same quote twice to receive 2 different results. That is why I haven't talked about it at all, because that just makes me a vanilla townie effectively.
I'm quoting a couple of the posts from the last page, hopefully I've answered them all.
I am honestly surprised about the lack of activity here.
Noone is making any effort to take this forward. This greatly pains me.
Okay so here is my assessment so far:
Abhas - Null read (looks townie, but then he pulled out of the lynch of hedger during times of confusion)
I beg to differ a bit, you say 'in times of confusion'. I don't think there was any confusion at that point. Everyone was lynching Hedger, Hedger came up with his defense, I felt it was a valid defense unless someone claimed otherwise, and simply unlynched him. The confusion (was there any really?) started after a few posts later. And that is when I decided to put pressure on Aditya to post because I was clearly frustrated by the lack of activity.
Abhas has provided a lot of discussion earlier in the thread, but recently hasn't contributed much at all. As ARay said, he didn't vote Hedger which you would expect most townies to do. He also brought up the 'mafia aren't as active in the thread' point, while being very active himself, possibly as a disguise. His last post also seems like one where he is trying to act like a townie.
A couple of things I'd like to add here.
1. In hindsight, it's really easy to say that I did not vote, while most of the townies are expected to vote. Just consider, if hedger was a townie, would all the people voting had been mafia?
You can't be sure about the role-claims made by people. Hedger made a false claim, what if it was the other way round? I knew I was roleblocked, and felt it was a valid claim, coupled with the fact, that my role's pretty much a semi-cop, so I thought the possibility of another cop was slim.
Also, if we go by that logic, User was the most insistent person for the lynch of BKB, while I was defending him. What do you have to say about all those who voted for him? I was quite sure he was a townie, and did not vote for that reason. At that time no-one really knew if he was mafia or town. It was the same case with the Hedger lynch. Though, I believed at first that the claim was genuine, but after hedger's defense, it surely raised a doubt or two in my mind.
2. I did not bring up the 'mafia aren't as active in the thread' point. I said if a person is not contributing to the discussions, a reason could be that he's mafia. There is a difference in the 2 things.
