Remus West wrote:Because of the day 1 happenings made it VERY likely Austin was going down anyway? Because by doing so you gain the trust of the village
So, before a single vote is cast, I decide "sorry bud, you're my teammate, but you're taking one for the team."
Remus West wrote:but
triggercut wrote:For the record: this game, I have no special ability other than a certain crafty-ness.
so are not worth the Wolves attention to kill at night?
Once again, in english? Are you wondering why I started off the game denying a role? Really? "Hey everyone, I haven't gotten a scan in yet, but I'm the Coroner!" (BTW, the reason I truly believed that Austin made a blunder by claiming two scans? When Chaos called for the wolves' day one kill, but I did nothing, I subconsciously put that into my head.)
Remus West wrote:
Let me ask you this though. If you are NOT a wolf, why would you not back off of Austin when he claimed to be the Seer? Why keep pushing for his death BEFORE Unagi countered his claim? Why would a normal villager do that? Why would the Coroner do that knowing only that Lassr was innocent and nothing more?
Let's go back to the analysis here.
When I re-read tru1cy's post noting that the wolf wagons were obviously not rolling on Austin, it caused me to put a huge burden of suspicion on the latter. At the time I *knew* that Lassr and tru1cy, 2 of the 4 with votes on Austin, were absoluely innocent. If Austin was innocent, pr0ner, and Unagi had to be wolves.
At this point, I put both Lassr and Austin side by side on some paper. Why did one guy sit at 4 votes for nearly three days, while another guy went from zero to six votes in 36 hours? The first conclusion I drew was that the Wolf Wagons clearly rolled Lassr over, and that there must be at least two wolves voting Lassr to the gallows. The second part was "who were the wolves?"
Now probabilities enter it. If Austin was innocent, then Unagi and pr0ner were wolves, and either one wolf or no wolves voted for Lassr. In that situation, I was left to try to accept the idea that 5 non-wolves and 1 wolf settled on Lassr absent any really hard evidence.
I found that to be extremely, extremely improbable.
Unagi moving from Austin to Lassr seemed like the least-likely (by far) move of a wolf. That left pr0ner as the only wolf voting for Austin.
It didn't add up. Austin should've collected 2 more votes at some point early on.
Searching for clues, I latched onto tru1cy's post one more time. He had accused Austin, but then stated that there were too many innocents in the group of him, Lassr, Unagi, and pr0ner. At that point I became convinced tru1cy was the Seer, and that he either scanned Austin and found him wolfy, or scanned one of the other three and found them innocent. In any event, everything was pointing at Austin (cast the first vote against our eventual lynchee, after he'd miraculously held onto life at 4 votes).
As Austin's denials became more and more preposterous, he claimed to be the seer.
Now look at pr0ner's reaction. It isn't one of bemused "haha, no I'm not"....it's one of surprise, shock, and honestly a little anger. As someone who has been misrepresented by a lying liar in this game, I can tell you that it's no fun. pr0ner's response seemed to be honest and exactly what I'd expect if the Seer was being spoofed, and at that point I figured our seer was tru1cy and accepted that in my head as a given. I believed pr0ner, not Austin, but I'll admit my resolve was wavering a bit until Unagi's post.
"It's my manner, sir. It looks insubordinate, but it isn't, really."