That post felt like a last will and testament.
Well it makes sense now. Zack watched both of his teammates crumble before his eyes early on, and tried to persuade us from lynching BigTin with his
statistical analysis which concluded that by voting randomly, we were extremely unlikely to lynch two mafia in a row.
His summary post at the
end which I thought read like a last will and testament is Zack's swan song. The reason why it gave me the impression he thought he was going to die soon could be because if BigTin gets lynched, he's completely and utterly boned. And I don't mean "boned", I mean a word that I cannot repeat here due to CFC censorship.
That's the desperation I felt, but I misconstrued it to mean that he thought he was going to get murdered and that's why he wanted to share his final analysis with everyone. That being said, why would Zack think he's about to get
murdered? Others I mentioned like Diana and JoanK are never going to get lynched, therefore they're almost a necessity to be murdered soon. Zack on the other hand has no exonerating evidence, and several folks have pointed fingers at him. Why murder Zack?
My realization here is that the play you've just witnessed this round was the game being on the line for one team: the mafia team. They cannot afford to lose BigTin and NinjaCow so early, and since Zack wasn't looking nearly pro-town enough, he gave an heroic effort at looking supertownie this round while also sparing BigTin, or attempting to. It was the only way he and BigTin would survive the next dozen or so rounds.
Go for BSmith, he said, but if not, how about these half dozen others? Surely we would never need to revisit the BigTin issue after BSmith flipped.
Anyway. If you're on a mafia team of 3-4, and you just lost member 1 and are about to lose member 2 on round three, do you just sit back and say nothing, or do you try to influence the results? Do you bus your partner early, or late, or not at all?
For me, I don't think it's worth it to bus your partner here, because that leaves you no tactical options later. You have to gamble that the town mislynches. The remainder of the game is just going to be hell for you by yourself.
Bussing late only makes you look worse, but some folks still try it when all else fails.
So my conclusion is that someone tried to raise a big stink about changing the results. Maybe not the biggest stink, but at least a stink. The folks who really tried to influence this lynch were:
1) Askthepizzaguy- guilty of that much, it's a fair cop.
2) Zack, for everything and
this especially.
3) General Olaf, with this
post. Thing is, he was trying to influence the lynch toward killing BigTin first and then working from there. Hardly scummy of him.
4) choxorn, who had multiple posts and multiple observations during the round, and a vote flip-flop about halfway through, and then again
later.
5) Kennigit, bucking the wagon with a big case post
here.
6) landlubber whose presence was felt constantly and he had vote
switches.
7) BSmith, whose influence was felt all round, trying to get us to lynch the correct suspect. Hardly scummy of him.
So, that's:
- Askthepizzaguy
- Zack
- landlubber
- Kennigit
- choxorn
No one else really tried to influence the lynch or change its course. And I'd like to give a nice shout-out to Joecoolyo for keeping his cool and not giving a flying turkey neck about the outcome, which generally removes him from my suspicions.
Of these, choxorn seems cleanest, though he's got a little bit of dirt on him when compared to his earlier immaculate appearance.
Kennigit didn't overdo it, and it felt natural to me. I'm willing to explore that one at a later time.
Landlubber does feel off. If Zack is innocent then I would look here, yes.
But really, it was
me and Zack trying desperately to change the outcome of this vote. So I will take the punishment I am about to receive, and simply ask that the same punishment extends to Zack, and I believe that will be game unless the mafia are four in number. If double-lynches are possible in this game, I'd recommend using one tomorrow against myself and Jebediah Obediah Zack-ariah Jebediah Springfield over there. It will either end the game or answer all of your questions. If Skwinky won't allow it to happen,
I'll go first kill Zack, because I'm freaking innocent.
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