Alright, this REALLY needs to be addressed. EVERYONE needs to look at this. This is big and largely why I believe--no, I KNOW Ryker is scum. He is now my strongest scum read next to Raziek, who is second. T-block is third.
J, I am NOT claiming before Bardull and for good reason.
This is problem number one. Ryker had no
real reasoning to want me to claim before him at this time. There's no explanation. Nein. Nada. Zip. Zop. This is the first red flag that made me begin to see our dear fellow in a different light. I didn't understand why he wanted the claim order in this way, and why he wanted me to claim before him. It didn't make any sense at first. It really came right out of left field. Then comes problem number two...
Is that so? My, my, that's news to me. Last time I checked, I was going to get to do my big reveal. I thought it was gonna be all cool and ****. You know, especially since I you and I met up last night. I guess we're at an impasse. Not going to get anywhere with this. Guess we move forward.
I claim Jake and I have an investigative result on Bardull. That is all I am claiming at the moment. Bardull claims now.
Once Ryker realizes that he isn't going to get a claim out of me before he claims, he claims Jake, and he claims an investigative result on me. Here's where problem #2 comes in.
Why? What was this all for? There's still no explanation why he so direly wanted me to claim first. I had already retracted, and yet he was so worried. It made no sense! But wait, there's something else that doesn't make sense:
Actually, I'll just claim while I'm ahead of myself.
I'm Jake The Dog, Good Watcher. I watched Swords last night.
GG.
Problem number 2 is...oh, that's interesting, I already claimed Jake The Dog, so why did RYKER claim JAKE?
This isn't a question that can be answered right away. I'll get back to it later on.
What's more important is that everyone understands that what Ryker tried to do
was not a gambit. Here's why:
I AM Jake The Dog, after all. I had ALREADY claimed Jake at the very start of the Day. So, here's a big question all of you need to ask yourselves: "what was the point of his post then if it wasn't a gambit?"
I wanted him to feel pressure to claim where he had been so we had it on record. Hard to do with a tracker and an inventor outed. No reason not to try though.
Didn't remember he claimed a character. Still don't remember him claiming a character.
You're smart, but my intellectual capacity for perceiving through mankind's greatest weavers of deception is FLAWLESS. I'm good. Scary good. Boogie man good. You enter the ring with me, and you die a painful, painful, painful death.
This was anything but clever; I saw through it pretty easily. ^_^
Alright, silly self ego stroking and teasing aside, Ryker claims JAKE. Why? This is the biggest discrepancy in his play; he could have claimed Cinnamon Bun. What was his intent for doing this? Why didn't he claim Cinnamon Bun before when he was trying to "gambit" me? This is the big **** up that seals his fate.
Why claim Jake? What is the intent? Why not claim Cinnamon Bun?
Remember, Ryker stated that he "did not remember my character claim."
So, again, I ask the question:
What's the difference between Cinnamon Bun and Jake?
I'll tell you.
From Ryker's point of view, there is no difference. He "didn't remember" my claim.
Yet, for some reason, he claimed Jake anyway, when that wasn't even his role.
...
Strange, isn't it?
Here's what really happened:
The likelihood that I was actually Watcher even after I retracted was
high. Really high. Way too high, and for three reasons:
Reason 1: Claiming Watcher as a VT is very risky and extremely bold. In this set up, Watcher was a likely role, but no one had claimed it yet or CC'd except for me.
Reason 2: I "knew" that T-Block was the vote manipulator, and I also stated on D2 "inb4 nabe flips vote manipulator vampire *****." This information suggested that I was very likely a PR since I was "too lucky to have made the right guesses."
Reason 3: I wifom'd like CRAZY before the mass claim.
Now, lets assume Ryker is
Scum for a moment.
If I really did "watch" Swords, then Ryker and his potential scum mate (if he had one, which he probably does) were
****ed. The likelihood of this happening was simply way too high for Ryker; getting caught in a VT claim during mass claim, and then getting claimed guilty by me as un CC'd watcher, was
too likely to happen because of the reasons I stated above. So the first thing he does is...
"I want BarDulL to claim before me, and I have a good reason."
Ryker suspected that I was still gambit'ing by "retracting" my claim. He believed that I was trying to put Scum into a false sense of security prior to a mass claim. Then, once he claimed VT, my gambit would snap shut, and scum would lose, so he continued to try and get me to claim first. However, I wouldn't let up no matter how much pressure was on me.
Once Ryker realized that there was no way he was going to get me to claim before him, he suspected the worst: "BarDulL is the Watcher! He's waiting for me to claim VT, and then he's going to have me lynched!"
Knowing this, Ryker took a pre-emptive approach to the problem: he claimed
Jake with an investigative result on me.
But why?
In the event that I was
actually Jake, Good Watcher, it would be my claim against his in a battle of CCs.
Jake is the stronger claim against Cinnamon Bun; a Cinnamon Bun claim with an investigative role doesn't weigh up to a Jake claim in terms of flavor. It would also make me more suspicious if Ryker claimed Jake.
However, the chance that I claimed VT was still there, so he decided to handle this problem by crumbing "I'm Lying." In the event that I claimed VT, Ryker would use his crumb to
back out of the investigative claim if this actually happened, and make himself seem like he was baiting or gambiting me.
But we know that it wasn't a bait or gambit; I had already claimed Jake. If Ryker was trying to gambit or bait me, then he would have used the Cinnamon Bun claim.
Everything fits into place.
Which leaves me at my final point: is there a TOWN explanation for Ryker's actions? Does it make ANY sense at ALL to do what he did if he was actually Town? Remember, he DID NOT REMEMBER THAT I HAD CLAIMED JAKE, and he HAD NOT PUSHED ON ME BEFORE. Why claim Jake when he wasn't actually Jake then? Why go to such lengths to gambit me or bait me, let alone have me claim first? How does it make
any sense as Town?
...
GG Ryker.
