Thanks Blarg, I hate double-posting and saved this draft earlier.
I'm Alex, the Tracker. With the help of the old Dusty I can track players at night, unlimited shots. I've been writing this post as stuff happened, that's why it's a bit too long. My apologies.
Got nothing but "No results" until last night, which is frustrating in a game with the kind of roles we've seen flip so far.
Donna tracked LP on N1, VA was my N2 target. A couple of things to clarify here;
Why VA? He was softing a PR in anything but subtle terms, you surely noticed posts like;
I'm going to further add: LP can definitely wait a day. I'd strongly suggest we don't vote there today.
What intrigued me was that he was talking about LP, the same player Donna targeted N1, but also giving some space to back off his stance;
I have my reasons for not wanting to vote LP today, though they may prove unfounded. We'll see what the farm looks like tomorrow after the sun rises.
So the question was, is this a gambit? Is he baiting the NK to die instead of logical targets like the Lovers? At first I just acknowledged the comment, but after going back and forth on this, finally decided that VA has played enough to know that doing that as, let's say, Vanilla, could waste important resources like protection from a Doctor. So I wanted to know what this all was about, and I put other targets in my "Investigate" preference so none - if I remember right - of the players that participated in that round put VA in there, which could have resulted in him abstaining from using whatever power he could potentially have. Put him in the Protect space just in case mafiosi caught that stuff and targeted him.
So yeah, curiosity. What about N3? Tracked Z-Beat mostly because of the "Haven't received a thing." dilemma. The Switcher could probably explain at least one night, but two was a bit too much. The caveat here was that he could be a Commuter or something like that, but I still wanted to take the risk.
Didn't go for Stan because after the re-read I noticed the overuse of "Neighbors" and thought he was breadcrumbing a Neighborhood. Quite different to what it actually was, huh. It's a NAI role but it was something that could be confirmed in the future and, more importantly, didn't move.
In the fourth night my target was Razmos. This one was tricky, since my top suspect was actually Mao. But after a re-read of the day I had the impression that Mao was suspected by most and as such;
a) Wouldn't execute the kill for fear of being investigated.
b) Would be probably lunched at D5.
And so instead of going for - unlikely to happen that night - evidence against him, I got a bit greedy and tried to get ahead and get something for the Razmos case after that super weird EoD. No results, which was a bit demoralizing to be honest, an influenced the tone of my first post the next day. That's why I left it at "
it was noteworthy in my opinion." and one of the reasons as to why I voted Mao instead.
N5 was the Aeleus/nin night. I had looked through their posts a bit earlier in the day to better understand where did all these votes come from last phase, but what made me confident in picking them was actually the voting history. It's not really good, as I pointed out at the start of the phase, and I thought it could help to solve that case if I found anything there. Disappointment once again.
I'd been speculating that the mafia team had 4 members, and as such nin could potentially be the last one alive. If that was the case, he needed to execute the NK by himself, and investigating could net us a red check. "No Results" would be a town-confirmation if my speculation was right, with only one caveat that I mentioned in my other pre-typed post 15 minutes later; an eventual Ninja, which would make a lot of sense as a counter to a Tracker.
And so I didn't vote nin straight away. But TP theorized that Natiko could explain Z-Beat not receiving anything N1, and after checking Nat's stances it made sense. I trusted wee from earlier in the game - and they were kind of claiming - and Chuggs' changing stance on Maol wasn't enough for a case considering I couldn't see him bussing in that scenario. So nin was my vote.
N6 I picked TP. With the PoE closing in it was necessary to reconsider stuff and two things from D6 caught my attention;
- The push for someone who later claimed to be a Doctor. I thought maybe mafia had a Rolecop and identified wee N5, maybe they recently caught the breadcrumbs - that I never even saw - which explained the D6 case.
- The off-wagon vote. TP started the day here;
Here are my current scum leans. Working on priority:
- wee
- Donna/Reki
- Razmos/Zeke
- Blarg
- Z-Beat
And a few posts later goes:
Idk man, that is the weirdest day end of the entire game. Even counting the turbos.
Add on top of it that Z-Beat never received anything from Malus and Blarg....
VOTE: Z-Beat
And so the last candidate of his list suddenly is more suspicious than the first, someone he pushed for really hard. Not a good look.
But not only did I get no results, by the time I could check the day start he was the flip and I didn't even have time to post before EoD. I'll have surely ranted about this by the time this claim is posted.
I was more than a bit upset after that phase - although, truth be told, I'd have probably voted Z-Beat too, LP's vote analysis was that good - but N7 was key. The pool of players was small enough to have way better odds at actually getting an interesting result with a simple PoE. Stan is mod-confirmed and I didn't think Chuggs would bus a teammate when they're two down. I agreed with some of the earlier comments doubting that Razmos would go as far as to bus Kalor and Verelios in his first game in a while, so we're left with Blarg and wee.
Of the two, Blarg has at least a confirmed claim and as I defended many days ago, I didn't think it makes sense design-wise for him to be a mafiosi. So I went for wee, remembering TP telling me that
they may be playing the long game.
No results. Bummer.
That's why I didn't push wee on D8, and suspected Blarg a bit more. As I said, at some point you have to re-think your stances on people with the pool being so small.
N8 was my last shot. wee didn't call me out and I mostly trusted them after that last result, even considering the chance of a Ninja. And so the last target after Chuggs' flip had to be Blarg.
He visited wee last night.
Then again there was no kill too so I'm totally lost on what to think here. This is literally the most useless I've been to town with a PR, I'm disappointed in myself and I just want this all to end.
Basically, if Blarg is mafia I don't know. If wee is mafia, they have to be a Ninja/have some sort of untrackable shots.
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Ok, one of my first posts after the rush of my close-to-EoD catch up;
To be honest I had a lot of trouble deciding on the first. Rather than a strong case I settled on Stan due to his lack of... "presence", dunno how to describe it. Almost too subdued so far, and his distrust for Blarg looks a bit too much like when he wanted to kill Sparks after a Lover claim recently. Could you comment a bit on this, Stan?
Keeping in mind that the odds of any given lunch being mVm shouldn't be super high, investigating LP could be a good way to give last EoD a closure. Especially considering he seems to be arguing about looking for mafia outside of his train, knowing if that argument comes from a town place would help me a bit with that and other players.
Right behind him goes Mao, if only to shed more light on some interactions, even if Blarg is practically confirmed in my eyes.
It sounded ok before posting but after a while I thought it was a bit too obvious and I panicked for a second thinking that I messed up for no reason. But some people suspected Donna/me, so the baddies wouldn't NK me, right? Well, I telegraphed the results just in case;
D7 I couldn't even post, and D8 you were all suspecting me and I wanted to avoid the NK, as explained, so I didn't breadcrumb.
