WW21 - The Professor Is Dead [game thread]

[novice]

Lewwyn

[Serdoa]

Gazglum

[zakalwe]

Ryan

[novice]

Rats.

Did Scruffy have any special abilities, Azza?

Abilities won't be revealed on death, only alignment.

Oh.

Rereading the thread, my initial thoughts on where the 0.5 votes come from feel confirmed, but I don't want to speculate about people's roles during nighttime.

Not seeing dead players' roles sucks on many levels. Scum can claim any role they want in the endgame, we don't get to admire Azza's setup, and we have nothing to talk about. Frankly I don't like our chances in a nine player game with no meta to speculate on.

Anyway, as the bold text indicates, the initial letters of my first ten posts spell TIEBREAKER - my role.

Who's next?

[novice]

Alignments and Roles were randomly assigned to characters, who were in turn randomly assigned to the players.

Even if this is true, there are protown and antitown ways to use a role.

[Serdoa]

Vanilla.

[Gazglum]

Vanilla.

I don't understand what that means, Serdoa.

Novice, when Q was getting heat for suggesting a claim, why did you put your vote on him even though it was only a few hours after you'd written this post:

Is your avatar a character claim Novice?

It is. More fun that way. Besides, with just 9 players I don't think we can muck around much. None of Ichabod's lamented day 1 unlynchables, and we should also consider a mass claim.

Just because he said "something" instead of "someone" called Scruffy? Reason to hang?

Then when heat turned on Zak, your only contribution was this:

Kind of agree with Q in that Zak has a slight "look at me I'm scumhunting" vibe, actually.

Unofficial tally with 2.5 hours remaining

zakalwe (4) - Gazglum, Lewwyn, Ryan, Q
Q (3) - novice, Serdoa, zakalwe
Gazglum (1) - Mattimeo
Serdoa (1) - Jkaen

But you still keep your vote on Q? Which was the difference between Q and Zak hanging? And then tiebreak vote in Zak's favour? Why?

Regardless of Zak's alignment, I don't like the inconsistency here, Novice.

[Serdoa]

I don't agree Gazglum, but I'll let novice answer himself. Because I am interested in the answer nonetheless. Anyhow, you are probably really hunting scum, at least that feeling that novice contradicted himself was something I had too after he revealed that he had his tiebreaker-vote. I was certain he had attacked zak and wondered why he still decided to vote for Q. But on rereading I couldn't find him attacking zak for real.

So: Ryan

Partly to put some pressure on, partly because I really don't like what he's done so far.

[Serdoa]

Oh, and vanilla of course means that I am a vanilla villager = villager without a role.

[novice]

Novice, when Q was getting heat for suggesting a claim, why did you put your vote on him even though it was only a few hours after you'd written this post:

It is [a character claim]. More fun that way. Besides, with just 9 players I don't think we can muck around much. None of Ichabod's lamented day 1 unlynchables, and we should also consider a mass claim.

Just because he said "something" instead of "someone" called Scruffy? Reason to hang?

I'm not sure I understand. Like you say yourself, I voted Q for calling his character "something" instead of "someone". I wasn't giving Q heat for suggesting a [mass] claim, I was giving him heat for the way he claimed his own character. One of the reasons I want people to claim is we can catch on to (admittedly a red herring in this case) clues like that.

Then when heat turned on Zak, your only contribution was this:

Kind of agree with Q in that Zak has a slight "look at me I'm scumhunting" vibe, actually.

Unofficial tally with 2.5 hours remaining

zakalwe (4) - Gazglum, Lewwyn, Ryan, Q
Q (3) - novice, Serdoa, zakalwe
Gazglum (1) - Mattimeo
Serdoa (1) - Jkaen

But you still keep your vote on Q? Which was the difference between Q and Zak hanging? And then tiebreak vote in Zak's favour? Why?

Comparing Q and Zak was comparing apples and oranges, the cases against them were of different natures, so I'm not sure what the inconsistency is. I found both slightly scummy but felt the case on Q had more substance. I was planning to do a final reevaluation after that post btw, but time ran away from me.

As for the tiebreaking vote, that's a passive ability. I couldn't very well unvote Q just to not break the tie?

I'm keeping my vote on Lewwyn. I don't like how he felt that both Q and Zak were scummy as hell, personally I felt we had very little to go on yesterday. As scum Lewwyn is always careful to act with conviction.