In my defence, I simply had limited time to read/post, had a gut feeling that thestick was a mislynch, therefore distrusted the stick voters and played accordingly. BTW, the reason I called novice a worthless heap of scum was simply because I was annoyed at his post that falsely claimed I had been voteparked on him when I had in fact moved to Catwalk.
Regarding the Mattimeo flash wagon, I read it as primarily a village move, triggered by Mattimeo's dubious justification for voting Tasunke. There might be opportunistic scum partners on there since it was easy to join the wagon with the reason "I agree Matt's analysis was suspicious", and I think the most likely move for these after Matt's claim is to flip to the thestick wagon. Either because 1a) Matt is town and scum would go "oh damn, he's confirmed town now so we can't lynch him" or 1b) Matt is scum and the mafia had to make a choice as to whom to give up. further, 2) any scum on Matt's wagon would be worried about being targetted after Stick flipped scum, and so bussing Thestick would be a way to try and recoup town cred if they didn't think an alternate wagon was viable at that stage.
That doesn't clear Sareln, but in my opinion Sareln is a cautious and unemotional player and trying to save a scum partner with a risky last minute vote when he had an excuse to lurk out the end-of-day would be out of character for him. I don't think we can read anything into thestick not moving his own vote to Bigger at the end of day. He was online to make a late claim, and he might have decided to just lurk around in case he had the chance to save himself at the end of day.
Serdoa reads pretty natural in the way he handled the Matt/stick situation, I think if he was scum trying to start an alternate bandwagon he wouldn't also encourage thestick's wagon at the same time - so I'd be more inclined to suspect Pind and TT from the group of Matt voters, and slightly more so on TT who took an uncharacteristically passive following role throughout pp25-29 on the wagon movements. Don't like Pind's subsequent hop to a 1 man vote on Mero either.
Regarding the Mattimeo flash wagon, I read it as primarily a village move, triggered by Mattimeo's dubious justification for voting Tasunke. There might be opportunistic scum partners on there since it was easy to join the wagon with the reason "I agree Matt's analysis was suspicious", and I think the most likely move for these after Matt's claim is to flip to the thestick wagon. Either because 1a) Matt is town and scum would go "oh damn, he's confirmed town now so we can't lynch him" or 1b) Matt is scum and the mafia had to make a choice as to whom to give up. further, 2) any scum on Matt's wagon would be worried about being targetted after Stick flipped scum, and so bussing Thestick would be a way to try and recoup town cred if they didn't think an alternate wagon was viable at that stage.
That doesn't clear Sareln, but in my opinion Sareln is a cautious and unemotional player and trying to save a scum partner with a risky last minute vote when he had an excuse to lurk out the end-of-day would be out of character for him. I don't think we can read anything into thestick not moving his own vote to Bigger at the end of day. He was online to make a late claim, and he might have decided to just lurk around in case he had the chance to save himself at the end of day.
Serdoa reads pretty natural in the way he handled the Matt/stick situation, I think if he was scum trying to start an alternate bandwagon he wouldn't also encourage thestick's wagon at the same time - so I'd be more inclined to suspect Pind and TT from the group of Matt voters, and slightly more so on TT who took an uncharacteristically passive following role throughout pp25-29 on the wagon movements. Don't like Pind's subsequent hop to a 1 man vote on Mero either.