Claim time, since there seems to be a fair amount of curiosity going on about my rolepowers: I'm Jean, and I've never watched Darker than Black so I have no idea who that is, but a quick google search told me that I'm unimportant. Okay. Anyway, I can switch the votes of two players around at any time with the command
##Switch, with the stipulation being that my next post must be arranged into a block with a minimum of at least 25 unique words. If you want an example of this, look under my D2 wall, because it's right in front of you. Other than that, my role is pretty uninteresting, as the only real upsides to it that I've seen are that I can break ties and force lurkers into voting. I could also in theory force town to lynch whoever I want for the rest of the game by voting, switching with another player, changing my vote and then repeating, but that would make the game a crapshoot and probably isn't worth it, so I have no intent of doing so.
... Okay, so yeah. There's no way Hele is surviving the day, not much to say about him that has not yet already been covered. While I do understand the case on him and would be surprised if anybody was willing to give him a pass after the way late D2 turned out, what
does irritate me is the possibility of people using him as a way to avoid talking about anything other than the obvious case. Hourai, Schezo and UK in particular both need to speak up about players they think are scum who aren't Helepolis. Still, I'm probably going to switch to Hele by the end of the day since he's pretty much just Serela's obvbuddy right now. But as is, I'd rather focus on some other players, such as...
##Vote PXrdj's player slot has an interesting history with scum!Serela on D2. While he
does start up the day with a vote on Serela, the vote simply seems like a pressure vote to convince Serela to answer UK's question, which is something that could easily be thrown away. And indeed, his weak vote on Serela is thrown away at the first chance he gets, as in when
a Schezo case becomes a likely possibility. Now, it is true that we do not have Schezo's flip yet, but I find it incredibly likely that Schezo was a townie being pushed as the counterwagon to Serela's lynch, since he was the other possible lurker lynch on D2. As a result, I do not like rdj's vote on Schezo, for it looks like a wagon hop attempting to drive the pressure away from his buddy. It did, after all, shift the wagons from 2 Schezo, 2 Serela to 3 Schezo, 1 Serela when people such as
Dormio and
UK were beginning to contemplate going after the latter.
Now, let's skip a bit later into the day. rdj has been replaced, and Serela is close to being a lost cause for scum - even though the wagons are tied, Dormio's vote is still sitting on Zakeri, and Dormio has
already stated that he dislikes Serela and thinks
Schezo has begun to look better. It is fairly evident that he would have chosen to break the tie in a manner that would have lynched Serela at the end of the day, and the likelihood of this must have been rather intimidating for scum. PX's first action as a replacement is to put Serela to L-1 with
a rather weak case, which comes off entirely as something you'd see from a scum who has just decided to give up their buddy. Not only was rdj's poor D1 something that scum would have wanted to salvage through townie cred (ie, being on a wagon), but the laziness involved makes the possibility of a forced case intended as a bus seem a lot more likely. Alongside this, PX's vote on Serela also made self-hammering a possible option for PX's hypothetical buddy, which would have allowed scum to eliminate their nightkill from the discussion as soon as possible while also preventing myself from getting a vote out in the D2 discussion.
A few hours later, Dormio shifts his vote and the possibility of Bardiche being a counterwagon comes along, PX is quick to
move off of scum!Serela and on to Bard, even though if he really did think Bardiche was scum he could have easily shifted his vote
before Dormio's vote arrived, and PX's vote-shifting post does not imply that Bardiche's then-recent post was what caused Bardiche to become a better lynch than Serela in PX's eyes. Also of note is PX sealing off Bardiche's vote, which would have suddenly made Serela much more difficult to lynch at the time. Given that Bardiche has flipped town, this is quite a major issue in PX's record. Even though rdj and PX had been voting scum!Serela a lot during D2, I do not believe that their desire really was to see Serela lynched, considering how easily they were swayed to change their vote off of him at times.
tl;dr rdpx are scum who couldn't make up their mind on whether or not Serela was worth bussing, so they clung on to the possibility of Serela escaping as long as possible and both attempted to jump to another possible townie wagon before giving it up.
Amusingly enough, rdj was also responsible for the vote that turned capt. h into a potential wagon on D1, which could have been scum scouting for easy lynch targets.
Something else I found notable about D2 is UK's choice of pursuing lurker!Yono over lurkscum!Serela at first when Yono was the easier target, but completely dropping it when somebody less likely to get lynched over newbie play replaced in. I suppose this means more to me since I know my own (and by extent, Yono's) alignment, and I certainly wouldn't interesting in lynching her over people like PX and Hele, but it's still rather intriguing.
I'll take another look into Dormio and Hourai some time in the future, but I don't think they're very interesting at this point compared to the other suspects. This post is large enough as is, anyway. In hindsight, Dormio actually seems a bit more like a townie with tunnel vision on Zakeri, though he definitely needs to chill out.
I'm not sure if I explained my PX case particularly well, so feel free to nudge me about it if there are questions. I think the tl;dr version sums up what I find scummy about him in an adequate manner, though.
