Okay. Here goes:
I'm mafia. Not only am I mafia, but I'm Fire mafia. Why do I reveal this? Cuz shiz I'm getting incapped cuz god knows Xonar isn't, might as well take somebody down from the other maf while I can. I am MUCH more in favor of town winning than the other mafia, and that's because I feel that if THEY win and I lose, then wtf man... Now, I revealed myself as Fire for another reason on top of that... Kuz is CONFIRM'D TOWN after this post. You ready? Fire mafia targeted Hipster N0, and Ice mafia targeted Kuz N0. So unless you want to believe that Kuz is my scummate, which none of you do because it's not true, he is CONFIRM'D TOWN. Anyway, back to the case against Ryker. Kuz' case against Ryker absolutely holds merit, in that Ryker did what he needed to do in order to gain town points, and disappeared afterward. IT IS NOT A TOWN TELL THAT HE SCUM HUNTED AND PINNED SCUM. He caught me in the scum tell of hating on his scum hunting, he is absolutely correct, and after the game ends you can see where I s*** bricks when he said that. But after he (correctly) scumhunted, he faded into the coasting game, before AND after his V/LA. The fact of the matter is, he's done NOTHING this game except drill on me and Kuz. His suspicion of KevM is totally empty, and probably because it's an easy person to place suspicion on, with him being a popular scum candidate. And his lolread on Circus, the inactive? SHIZ, what the eff is that? His post have been nothing but tunneling me and Kuz, while using that to get by throughout all of the game. If you let him live through toDay, don't. LYNCH HIM. As far as his scummate goes, I wouldn't be surprised if it were any of Circus, Raziek or even maybe even Xonar (but that's probz a reach), and I will make sure I use all of the time I have toDay to work with some of my town reads in order to get this through. BUT WE'RE LYNCHING RYKER.
Yea. Get mindf***ed.
Starting here in the interest of saving time. Suffice it to say, I agree with what Gorf has said here. More on this later.
Yeah, but on the subject,
J, do you think Rajam is capable of faking his constant "catch-up" status?
Innocuous question at the time, but in the context of the situation, I just found this interesting to point out.
I don't want to be cleared. : /
Same deal here.
Swiss, be my guiding light.
Looks like you've got a bad case of Lightning Ryker.
Lemme pull up his scummate. Only up to #155 though so gimme time.
Huh.
I'll believe that but allow me to read.
Gorf/Kev - Fire.
Ryker/??? - Lightning.
Brosuke Town
July Town
Raj meh
Was this very early on?
Raj scum
What were Circus' results again? I must keep forgetting.
DH town
Is Joey Dooms?
Slipped July's early game - Kuz didn't like - null her.
BRB power nap
Between these two posts Swiss had it. Ryker/??? as lightning, then Raj as scum, causing Ryker/Rajam.
Also, really greasy vote on ryker by raj. The attack is at some times nonsensical (the whole TvS j and ryker thing), and some things are plainly reaching (town point points). I can seem him as being scumbudds with ryker.
DH WAS RIGHT.
Sold on Rajamscum. Computer is deadish. J looks far worse than ryker to me through all this.
I'm pointing this particular post out because I was one of the first to express suspicion on Rajscum, and this was during the RykervJ conflict. From a scum perspective, what reason would I have to draw attention to my scummate when we entered the day in the context of JvRyker?
Ooooooooooooooor my case could remain that you have no case.
You're backing out of it after promising it for days. I've even asked for the cliff notes in just a list of reasons and you couldn't even provide that. I maintain that you have no case Past a smear campaign. Otherwise, you would've posted it by now.
Lynch him.
Pointing this out because this is essentially the essence of how EVERYTHING Ryker has done this game has gone, with the exception of Gorf. He's playing passive, coasting, defensive.
Yeah, it's meta, but EVERY game I've ever been in with Ryker, he's been aggressive as Town for the entirety of the time he's alive. (Except MMX I suppose, but that Hydra was hella lazy) Look at Ragnarok or most of the scum games he's played. Scum Ryker sits on his heels and relies on his "invulnerability" to lynching.
J, make a bet with me. If I flip town, I get to pick your custom title for a month. If I flip scum, you get my title and avatar for a month. I will also change my sig to "J's Baby Girl" until I get an artist who will put it with an appropriate signature image. It will stay that way until March.
Pointing this out for J for post-game.
Well what do I get when I flip town?
Also I don't have a custom title because I haven't been a premium member in a long while. ^^"
Man if this is you and me going against each other in a TvT debate. I'm going to cry so much. T.T
But you have to be scum....you just have to.....
Rajam/Raz hold one scum in between them. Kanty/Soupa are not scum. Xonar, if he is scum, deserves to win IMO. Swiss is clear. I'm town. You must be scum.
*I have a list of qualms that'll be posted shortly*
While outdated, I want to draw attention to the sentiments within the end of this.
**** dammit J, but Rajam/Raz can be a scum team and I die if you aren't scum (and vice versa I guess).
Vote Raz
His 180 from me to you is worse than Rajam. I was afraid of his flip with his awkward connection to me.
****, ****, ****, shiiiiiiiiiiit. There goes my shot at lynching you today even if I change my mind. AT LEAST one scum lies in Raz/Rajam. Then J. Haven't done the math. If we lose there, coasting Soup wins his second F&L.
This is the worst part. Ryker's jump from J to me was extremely opportunistic. Consider the motivation behind it for Rykerscum. In the battle of JvRyker the outcome looked uncertain. Ryker knew my computer was broken. He knew I wouldn't be able to substantially defend myself.
In this situation, though, Rajam would have been a far easier out than me if Ryker was Town and seeking survival. Brosuke and I had both already expressed suspicion on him, and there was a good chance J would follow. A Rajam lynch would have been an easy out, but he didn't want to sacrifice his scummy if he could have me instead.
I would have to read the game again before considering Kantrip. Replace my name with J and you have my picks. The problem is just how ****ing cookie cutter the possible teams are. With so much dumb and null, hitting one scum doesn't clear anyone unless J is scum and I get cleared, but if he flips town, suddenly all the heat in the world is on me and the Raj/Raz team never stops being plausible. Throwing Kantrip into the mix means that we run out of lynches before we have a clear win.
Setting me up at this point.
Yeah sorry about that. I was far more busy than I intended.
Read the last 4 pages, Unvote Vote Raj
Pretty much agree with Xonar. Err'ing on my Ryker read, placing Raz as town.
Rajscum over Raz.
Ryker scum over J. Early game Ryker very scummy more townie now, but he could be tailoring his posts for me.
DH town, sure I called whoever replaced July town.
THANK YOU SWISS.
If Soup isn't Town I'll eat my hat. I want to hear input from kantrip on all this, though.
I need to stop doubting myself on this. Kantrip needs to stop making every slot he plays look scummy.
Ryker v. Raz is infinitely better. I maintain that Raz is more likely to flip scum though.
End of **** I quoted
Ok, all that's really left that I want to talk about briefly is the incapping pre-DH's death.
Day 1
Fire - HipSam
Lightning - Kuz
Day 2
Fire - Brosuke
Lightning - Gorf
<Swiss replaces in>
Day 3
Circus NK'd.
Day 4
Swiss NK'd.
Day 5
DH NK'd.
Consider the motivation for the NKs under both scenarios.
As Lightning, why would I incap Kuz? Yes, you could argue salt from Majora's Mask, but Kuz is also an extremely frequent opponent of Ryker. End result, this one doesn't really lean either way. Though, if I was afraid of Ryker so much, why wouldn't I incap him on Night 0?
Night 1 is plainly obvious as a Ryker choice. He pinned Gorf as scum on Day 1, so he incapped him that night when nobody was really leaning his way. Put up against the Brosuke incap by Fire it was an extremely easy kill. If someone can give motive for me to incap Gorf over everyone else, I'd like to hear it.
Night 2 was Circus. Completely Null.
Night 3 - Swiss. Given that Swiss came into the game completely suspecting Ryker/Raj, why would I ever choose to kill him? Yes, Rajam being suspected would be a problem, but Swiss had me as Town. I could easily have killed Brosuke at this point. Killing Swiss from my perspective doesn't make sense.
Ryker hydras with Swiss all the time. They know each other extremely well. Swiss is therefore an extremely strong threat to Ryker.
Night 4 - DH. Not touching this one.
Looking at all this, and knowing how I interact with Ryker, why would I spend so much time dancing around him instead of just killing him and getting him out of the way? Why would I willingly put myself in a MyLo situation I didn't think I could win?
<Meta Interlude>
I'm going to talk about my own play for a moment.
I enjoy this game most when I draw scum or a PR. VT is the bane of my entertainment. I didn't play the game for the first day and a half, essentially. What does that tell you?
Look at Majora's Mask, which was the last time I drew scum. I was super involved from D1 all the way through. I didn't coast, I manipulated from the sidelines. My play this game is my Town meta, not my scum meta. We already know I'm not a Town PR because of the open setup. I drew VT, and didn't get interested until Brosuke pulled me into it.
Finally, let's look at today.
I went into today looking at a no lynch as an alternative. Given that I have to cause I mislynch REGARDLESS, why would I choose such a course of action? It doesn't benefit me as scum. I believe this should read as short-sighted Town, but that's obviously a biased perspective.
Look at Ryker's play today. He's done as he's done all game. Sitting on his laurels, waiting for me to take his bait and get pissed and lose my head. He's done nothing but bludgeon me with "you're scum, you're scum".
This isn't Town Ryker. This is Scum Ryker.
Vote: Ryker.