So hey, let's talk about why Miya is classic lurkscum.
Miya #83The amount of "you are suspicious" paragraphs thrown out here without any real clear priorities here are incredibly disconcerting in hindsight. Considering the way Miya's D1 activity levels panned out, I think that this was the action of lurkscum attempting to test the waters - when she returned, she would be able to observe how D1 had panned out, and pick a target that meshed well with the current status of the day while looking suspicious. Voting an unlikely target (me) gave her the ability to not look like a blatant wagon jumper early in the day, making it significantly more difficult for players to pin anything on her first serious post. I feel that Miya was basically using her #83 to coast by until her next post. People tend not to LALu on D1, so the only charge that could be used to bring attention to her would not actually earn her any votes.
Miya #244More blatant setting up. Due to the nature of her #83 she was pretty much free to pick and choose which of the easy targets she mentioned earlier that she could jump on to, and she went for the two wagons with the most support at the time. One's wagon had two votes plus slight support from UK, who had previously claimed that One's flip would assist her even though she backed off of his wagon, while Just's wagon had two votes plus support from me. Both of these wagons had obvious enough cases that they were likely to gain more voters as well. The whole post was basically Miya cheering on the two wagons with the most promise of taking off while neglecting the case on her "#1 scum" (me), which makes me wonder if Miya ever truly had me as her main case in the first place. Due to the massively tied nature of that point in the day, there was
still time to push her case on me and possibly open the other players' eyes up to it if it were reasonable, but she chose to give in and attack the wagons instead while neglecting to push her case on me. Playing town requires you to actually convince players that you're right about who you think is scum, and Miya made no effort to actually do this. I think that the case on me was an illusion coming from scum!Miya due to the lack of conviction she had. It was only an excuse for her to avoid looking like she was wagon jumping early in the day, and also to later attempt to hang me in a claim conflict.
Miya #291. Oh boy.
I'm not going to mince words here. This post is
absolutely terrible giving the circumstances of the day, and the fact that she later tried to actually claim townie cred over it because Just flipped third party is ridiculous. It also continues the trend started in post #244 of Miya failing to actually push for her preferred lynches like a townie would and instead giving into the largest wagons, which fits in quite well with scum's agenda. Indeed, scum doesn't care which players get lynched earlygame so long as the lynched players are not them. They have no real reason to care about their "main cases" beyond attempting to look townie. On D1, Miya acted as if she was lazy scum avoiding pushing her cases because she knew she could just get away with setting up hops to the big wagons and letting town do her work for her.
Aside from this, the way that Miya essentially forced Just to be the the day's lynch while people were discussing other options and
she herself was considering other players as scum is awful. I would not be particularly surprised if she was covering for a member of the scum team who was being pushed as an alternate option to Just at that point. Given that Miya said she'd be back for deadline, she doesn't even have the excuse that it was her last chance to get a serious vote out before deadline.
Miya #341I'm pretty sure that just about everybody has attacked Miya's failure to actually
vote me in this post at this point, but nobody has actually thought about why scum!Miya would actually do so, so allow me to take a crack at it.
My theory is that
scum!Miya wanted leeway in case my night action was easily provable. Scum knew that I ended up targeting UK last night, either through a hijacker or tracker, but they had no way of knowing what my night action actually
did. If it was proven that my action was not the nightkill, then not only would scum!Miya be incapable of attacking me over this for the rest of the day, but I would probably end up becoming cleared, since scum tend not to target the players who are getting nightkilled. I think that Miya realized this and her scum nature caused her to leave her vote blank, since she knew I was town and that this was a very real possibility anyway.
While we're on the subject of this post, I think her misguided attempt to claim some townie cred was likely so she could look better if the Miya/Iffrita spat did indeed happen and the other townies bought into it. The timing there looks pretty bad to me.
Everything after her initial accusation is just blatant lurkscum play. She's putting off her posts for as long as possible watching me trip over myself and letting town clean up for her. There's no real pro-active scumhunting or pressure against me, she's just relying on the rest of the players doing her dirty work for her without actually having to get too involved in the scuffle. Seriously,
look at this post. Almost all the points are parroted off of other players or inaccurate due to misrepping or hyperbole. She is not even pushing an actual case on me beyond ~ROLE SHENANIGANS~ anymore, which is a very easy way for scum to get players lynched without actually having to play the game and scumhunt to look town. Her actual case on me was ditched when she gave in to delicious wagonhops even though she could have attempted to push it further.
Really, Miya in general is basically an excellent example of scum deciding to lurk everything out while letting town do all the work for her. She uses her rare posts to set up room for late-day wagon jumps after town trips over itself and makes the actual cases. Not only is this scummy behavior, but it's also pretty much one of the
most effective ways to play scum, and it bugs me to no end that everybody is letting her get away with it. If you don't believe me, then just look at the way this entire day has played out. How much of it is Miya pushing for her fabled ~SCUM IFFRITA LYNCH~, and how much of it is Miya sitting back while other players pile on me over derp mistakes I made, allowing her to get away with not actually doing anything? Also, her smarmy attitude is really annoying and makes me want to take QUALITY parenting lessons from Rosa. So yeah, Miya needs to be sentenced to death today.
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@Neo Deporela: uh, why are you voting me again? Of
course I'm going to end up being more reactive while Miya acts more proactive, those are our roles in the current situation. If I had suspicious role information on Miya, then she would have likely been the reactive one instead. Furthermore, I disagree that Miya has ever truly been as "proactive" as you say - she failed to actually vote me in her opening post, and after she voted me her only posts were responding to my attacks on
her before she dropped off the face of the earth again The rest of your content looks pretty solid compared to Oldepore's, but your stance on the Miya/Iffrita scuffle seems rather flimsy to me.
@UK: I had considered a tracker, but then I assumed that the tracker would have been told my initial intent of targeting Moonin and that I was redirected. A watcher would have seen the person who actually did the nightkill, so a cop was the only real possibility I could think of barring a complete oddball role. Except I guess Bard doesn't use trackers that way.
@Orwen: It said Demon Navarus in the flavor, obviously. I said UK because it made the post easier to type, and also decreases my chances of the mod thinking I'm getting too close to modkill territory. They're the exact same person anyway, I'm not sure why you're looking into this. Also, I want to shank you for the amount of "Iffrita would be town if it wasn't for role shenanigans" you're posting, because
role shenanigans are not a replacement for scumhunting. Augh.
My alternate picks for scum right now are Depore, whose D1 was basically a goldmine of scum intent as old!Depore basically followed the collective of opinion of the overall town on who to lynch, and Mala, who used the prodding from other players about her opinions to slowly increase her amount of end-of-D1 wagon jumps before popping out of activity altogether and hopping on the Just wagon despite not even having an opinion on Just before she was asked to.
