Okay, here goes nothin'.
I said somewhere long about day one or two that wasting time down the "who can read" rabbithole that Argon's shenanigans had created was a bad idea.
I cleared Gamez, for my own senses, when he outed himself as the letter writer to end the confusion about the letter as best he could. That clear was accepted by a lot of people, and guaranteed that no wolf wanted to take Gamez into LYLO and eventually got him NKed.
And here we are at LYLO with literacy being a key element in the decision making, even after it has been a perpetual cause of chaos from day one on. How does that happen?
I got a letter, and went on my own literacy rampage. G1K was worried about the possibility that the letter really was a clue and admitted that he could read to get his hands on it before we knew that letters were meaningless drivel pumped by Gamez. Now, a townie may very well want a clue containing letter, so that at the time seemed like a sensible play.
Then two things happen. I make a mistake in saying MJ can read, and it occurs to G1K that admitting he could read may have been a mistake because one letter writer plus one reader for each side actually makes sense. Note that MJ never corrects my mistake, and neither does G1K, who had actually cared enough about the literacy question to suggest that "the wolves have their own literate." No clearing up confusion by reminding everyone that he had indeed mentioned being literate until long after the confusion was getting stale...and was about to get MJ lynched.
Now all of a sudden we have "oh, yeah, that was me that was literate" and "how did you know I was literate in the first place" and the confusion goes on. Which reader should we lynch? I dunno, lynch someone else and we'll figure it out later...maybe there's two town literates (Visor was one)...or maybe we shoulda just lynched them both and called it a good job.
Then we lynch MJ and find out that he wasn't literate at all. G1K should have been immediately spot lynched, and there is only one reason that he wasn't, and that he still hasn't been. Pzelda pops out of the woodwork and says "oh, yeah, by the way I can read."
And the beat goes on.
If we lynch in the literates, the "other literate" is cleared, so long as it is G1K that is lynched. Pzelda just has to glib out of having not been NKed for being the towniest....some sort of WIFOM play, I assume.
If we don't lynch in the literates, we lose.
Pzelda did the single wolfiest thing in the entire game, he claimed literate to keep us from lynching G1K on the spot. And he almost got away with it.
