Ahhh I came back and it was all over. Well, I knew it was game over when we couldn't lynch Prims. I was in such a rush at the time, if I had thought about it, I would have seen that Conq not-voting, even to get a shot off (as his story claimed) was a bad idea, because there was allegedly some kind of hijack in play. Too bad.
About my game-end-misdeclare: This was actually fake.
When I read the situation at first, I actually thought "Oh wow the game had ended." I'd never seen a mid-game wincondition before. It took a few seconds for me to realise the game was still going on. And then I thought, there's a tiny window where other people will think the same thing, until enough people who know better have posted. So I thought, I could post anything, but I've only got about five minutes.
In hindsight I should have claimed something creative; maybe something that made me unlynchable for whatever reason to cover up my one weakness ^__~ But my main objective at that time was to get people to believe I was town. I felt that by removing me from the list of scum suspects, the town would have an easier time tracking down the real villians. Basically, I wanted to reduce the complexity for others a tiny bit.
I figured that this gambit would only ever work in my first game in the forum, and here it was, right in front of me. I played the idiot card and everybody bought it. I'm just so sad that I wasn't really scum, because it would have been really sweet.
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Night 1 I roleblocked Serela. I figured that with the lynching of Raikaria I suspected Conqueror, Shadoweh, and Serela. I saw most heat on Shadoweh and Conqueror, and I assumed that if there was a town vig, their shots would be going the way of those first two. Therefore, I roleblocked Serela, as I believed him to be not related to the pushing of Raikaria, and more likely to be town. I actually covered Serela thinking that he was town, not trying to stop him from hitting anybody.
Night 2 I roleblocked NekoNekoRex. I had originally sent in a roleblock on Conqueror, but I decided that I was being bias in my reads towards him because I wanted him to be scum. I had an initial scum read on him for his random vote of a newby in day 1, and then his role on Raikaria's death. However I felt that I was allowing myself to strengthen a case based purely on my feeling instead of cold hard logic. I eventually covered NNR because I felt that he was going below radar.
When there was no deaths, I wasn't sure what it meant. I wanted to say "of course NNR couldn't make a hit" but I had to check with PX. I wasn't told when my self-dig manouver had gone off, so I had no way of knowing if I had been hit. Eventually, Dan's comments seeing about 'who I had tried to bury last night' made me think that my bury on NNR had succeeded. In fact it hadn't. So then I figured that NNR had been either hit or been attacking - after he was 'outed' by Prisms and voted with the non-town block, I decided he was scum.
Night 3 I had to go to work. I would liked to have stayed and read more about what VHaltz and Conq were saying. Maybe I would have made a better decision. I would never have covered IHNN but I maybe have blocked Conqueror. However I knew I wouldn't be back for 12 hours. It wouldn't be right to stall the game so long just for my account. Therefore I went with my initial feeling and oops the next day I was dead.
If I could have done anything differently...
I would have lynched Dan. That's about the main feeling I have about now.
Anyway, it was a good game. I'm looking forward to the next one. Thanks for running it, PX
