I was Gorf, Independent Serial Killing Thief.
Anyone who has modded me knows I generally send random PMs to the mod detailing my thoughts. I dunno why but i did it a huge amount this game, my role PM conversation with Bard has over 3 pages. Either way, because of that I have a journal of basically everything I did, so this is my explanation for what I did all game.
When I started I was aligned independent survivor and just a thief, and told someone had Walrus and I needed to find it. I really didn't want to just coast the whole game so I decided I would try to be pretty active and toe the line between scum and town, hoping to avoid both faction's kills. I started with a poison antidote, but didn't figure out it was the mafia NK until we all did, so unfortunately it turned out most of my decision making was really flawed, but whatever.
I just started out normally, but noticed halfway through day 1 that everyone who mentioned my slot said it was town, and no one seemed to think otherwise. I became paranoid; I had no idea which of the power players were scum, and I was worried if it was most of them I could be #2 on a scum NK if they were afraid their main target was going to be blocked. So I attempted to do a control burn by jumping onto J's slot here
unvote
vote: J
cause if he was town that right there would be pro-scum
I didn't see anyone going "uh...wtf" so I wanted to go further, and when I was confused about Gheb I decided to blow it up in the hopes of getting those "uh wtf maven?" posts to remove me from any factional NK. None of it was as clever as I thought, though, and even day 2 people were picking up on the J jump. I also didn't think about the fact all my stuff was happening at the end of the day phase, so I almost died.
Thankfully, though, Gheb decided at the last second to lynch Rosa, and then the mafia NK'd Gheb, who I assumed would have kept up the pressure on me, so ty for that. J's posts were confusing me. I don't want to get into this again since it's been addressed so much, but I was wondering about him, so I stole. I got the cloak, which I figured a great night 1 snag, and figured this meant he was likely scum. Further talking to J, I was dead certain, mainly because of his responses. None of it seemed addressed to me, it was addressed to everyone else. None of seemed meant to convince me he wasn't scum, it just seemed entirely based on stopping himself from being lynched. Far as I could tell that was basically a bingo.
But I didn't want to have responsibility for it, again due to not wanting night actions/kills against me, so I decided to try and push it but let someone else take up the mantle. Laundry did that and everything was great. I was going to get a big pro-town credit when J was lynched, and the mafia would just see my actions as that of a lucky tunnel and not be worried to NK me.
But then Laundry turned around and hammered Rake and my whole plan got ruined.
Night 2 I targeted Nicholas to try and get the gun, but I was roleblocked. I'm guessing that was Wots. This is why I insisted my "orange" or whatnot didn't work that night.
Day 3 was a real problem for me. I knew I couldn't just tunnel J again all day, I realized he had slipped off, but I had done almost nothing else, and now I was looking bad. A J tunnel would have been fine, if he had been lynched. Him not being lynched made people look at my push more, plus Laundry being replaced took away the other main force that was attacking him.
Then Wots claimed and I thought for a second I was dead right there, but came up with the role claim. It wasn't very well thought out, but I think I explained it well enough by suggesting it was meant to "get around censors" and "maybe a miller role". Far as I considered it, as long as I could fake the role I could create enough doubt to avoid death.
I'll also point out that I actually did know I wasn't lynched when I almost died with Kantrip, and I was really worried someone would figure that out. But I'm known for refusing to believe my mislynchs are ever my fault and insulting everyone, so I was hoping people would connect it.
Then I stole Fandangox's walrus, and it basically ruined everything. Before I was independent survivor, so all the scummy stuff didn't matter. All I had to do was make sure I was less scummy then the mafia, and survive them while not getting NK'd by them. When I became a serial killer, that whole plan no longer worked because I was definitely priority #1 after the mafia died.
So I killed Kary, who had recieved J's items. Unfortunately, J had an item that required me to post a picture of Kamina from Kenny Loggins or something, an item I vaguely remember him saying he had back in Day 1-2. I was really upset about that because I figured if I posted it people would pick up and realize I killed Kary. I stole the lockpick from Wots (allowing me to steal twice), and decided to just lie and claim it was an item check to try and get him lynched. I figured I'd just NK whoever the hammer was and no one would realize he didn't have the lockpick. When I figured the main danger had passed (aka he had gotten lynched), I posted the picture, but tried to hide it by making it out like it was a bragging triumph post. I was hoping it would hide under the cloud of douchiness.
But since it happened after the last vote it didn't count as being in the day phase, so I got a modvote. And I didn't receive any bullets either. Last night I chose to steal from Spak both times since I didn't know if he'd give items away and didn't want anyone else to know there was still an item thief.
So yeah
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Vote: Red Ryu