##Vote: Shadoweh 
(Time to play to Shadoweh's scum meta of me!!!)
~The Pesco Kill~
Contrary to her statement in #511, I would be fully unsurprised by Shadoweh NKing Pesco N1. Shadoweh can play the logic game but she plays it less than, say, huh what or myself. She plays more of a feeling game, which can actually prey on the logic game if done well enough (as the logic game is abusable by opponents to a degree). Pesco, however, is the hardest player on MotK to bullshit. If there was anyone in this game that would catch onto Scum Shadoweh antics it would be him. Taking him out and playing the remaining players like violins was/is a very viable Scum Shadoweh strategy, given her playstyle and the playstyles of the remaining players allowed for it.
~"Curiosities"/Affinity case~
This part of Shadoweh's Serela-based assessment of why Omba was likely town is worth highlighting:
Omba is doing something really -silly-. Not scummy, silly. This is not how he talks about someone he knows is scum. This is how you talk about some townie who is doing a really funny thing you're watching.
Shadoweh has now not once but twice highlighted something and called it a "curiosity". In both cases it appears to be highlighted in an attempt to cast a negative light on the player in question and in both cases I don't see the argument. Seems very much like how Scum Shadoweh might talk about a townie who is doing a really funny thing.
The first "curiosity" was Affinity voting PX because PX said Affinity didn't try pushing the Omba lynch. I had no problem with Affinity's countervote here because I thought Affinity did more pushing of Omba than anything else on Day 1, and being attacked with a garbage cases is a legitimate reason for a countervote. Painting the vote as OMGUS was downright wrong. The next part criticized Affinity for not explaining why he wasn't voting Omba to begin with, with is an unfair criticism because Omba was at L-2 at the time so it should have been obvious why Affinity wasn't voting him. Then the switch off of PX to BT is brought up and said to "make no sense", which I agreed with at the time but ultimately didn't decide was scummy because I couldn't find the scum motivation behind it either. There's basically mention of why it's scummy, though, only that it makes no sense. There's a couple of questions tacked on that don't imply Affinity's actions are scummy by themselves. The addition to the Affinity case is effectively that he's being weird and therefore he's scummy.
The second curiosity just happened about ten posts ago and I think anyone that read my explanation of the blue (or even stopped to consider why the colorings would even matter that much) can see how well it fits the criteria of "some townie who is doing a really funny thing you're watching".
But speaking of the Affinity case, it's worth pointing out that it didn't appear to be very strong to begin with and she needed to be reminded Affinity existed before she even cast the vote (one would think a townie that had brutalized Serela would have spent some part of the night rereading how the wagons shook down and finding a reasonable suspect to open Day 2 with). She also doesn't push him at all the entire day until #443, which barely counts anyway. The entire Affinity "case" was Shadoweh coasting on D1 cred instead of trying to scumhunt.
~Serela The Ponymobile Except Not Serelly?~
This turned out to be less of a point than I originally imagined since my reread of the stuff surrounding it didn't match what I remembered, but it is worth noting that Shadoweh calls Serela the scum pony more than once (once D1, once D2) but still spends all of Day 2 looking at people that he avoided and/or people that avoided him. Not earth-shattering, but still an incongruity I wouldn't expect from a townie thought process. I'd have figured Town Shadoweh with a Serelapony mentality would have gone into Day 2 at least with a mind to also inspect the Serela wagon for weaker votes that could have been busses, if not investigating such things overnight. Especially given the first reference to Serelapony, in #207, unironically includes "scum are the best at catching other scum". (How true a sentiment, should Shadoweh flip scum.)
~Other Things~
I've noticed Shadoweh say a couple things that, like the whole "curiosities" bit, seem more oriented to convey a sense of negativity toward their target than actually argue the ideas. Examples:
You must have missed me and Kilga saying that a counterclaim, if it existed, was not worth revealing.
I'm not arguing that they should. If I didn't think he was faking I wouldn't still be pushing for his lynch. It doesn't make sense from the point of view of someone who could claim and be ~*~Confirmed Town~*~ that they'd be so worried about people not believing them. I also have no reason to trust that you and Kilga are acting in town's best interests.
Bolding mine. What is the purpose of this? If Pesco and I had simply said "A counterclaim is not worth revealing" and left it at that, then yes, the bolded is applicable. When we (or at least I) explained
why it was not worth revealing, though? Town doesn't handwave "why"s on the grounds that the source(s) is/are not 100% reliable, it addresses what's wrong with the reasoning, which Shadoweh did not do here.
In reference to the Omba cases:
It seems like he's being used as a scapegoat for everyone's rage at opposing the scumwagon.
I've already brought this up in regards to my case, but it equally did not apply to huh what's case, at the very least. (Go back and reread #341 and find the part of his case that's based on "rage at opposing the scumwagon".) It's a needless blanket dismissal of all the Omba cases based on the construction of some of them (the argument could easily be made that it did apply to IHNN's vote and NNR's vote).
And just from today:
The idea that I would have found Pesco scary enough to kill Day 1 is insulting. >_>
I've already gone over why Scum Shadoweh killing Pesco N1 is a very possible course of action. This response to the idea when it was first proposed is designed to dissuade the idea on emotion more than on logic.
There is also the end of Day 2 stuff, where I honestly don't think Shadoweh seriously believes someone would receive town credit for hammering scum after the scum posted their fake claiming strategy and was probably arguing the point just to rile me up and disrupt the logic game further after the Omba case I felt really strongly about blew up so spectacularly (see earlier references to how the feelings came can abuse the logic game - this is one of those instances).
tl;dr there is no tl;dr to this case because it's a fuckton of little things, sorry. It is now past my bedtime so I will have to address the things that were addressed at me on Day 2 tomorrow (sorry!). Want to give town maximum time to digest all this.
