The failed attack on Sepuku was also a very fortunate turn of event; he had been granted the eldrich staff for one-time protection, but the villains did not attempt to kill him again. I must congratulate Sepuku for playing a central part in getting some sort of overview over this game by a terrific use of his ability.
Indeed.
He was one of the three pillars of the innocent win, the others being civplayah (for bringing down the Destructionists almost single-handed) and oyzar (who did a brilliant job of compiling all the information gathered behind the scenes).
I couldn't say which of them was most important to the win, but Sepuku certainly deserves a large slice of the credit for showing such nerve and sound judgement.
Winston's ability screwed the Preservers, and Winston couldn't be killed without first killing Oyzar, so these two people were probably two of their biggest threats.
Actually, my ability didn't do much for the innocent team:
First Night said:
Chandrasekhar seems to sleeping through the night without any disturbances or actions.
So Chand was able to kill (via ZPV) without my spotting it. Under different circumstances, this might have made me into a false prophet, clearing Chand of a killing he was actually responsible for.
Second Night said:
KingMorgan seems to be fast asleep the entire night.
Third Night said:
Oyzar does nothing this night.
That oyzar wasn't sleeping did make me rather suspicious of him, though later on it helped to support his (truthful) ability claim.
Fourth Night said:
Frozen In Ice sleeps the entire night.
Another villain scanned, another blank result.
Fifth Night said:
Hell_Hound seems to be performing some sort of scan of TheForestAuro. He does nothing else this night.
At last a positive hit.
I came straight out and asked HH what he'd found out about TFA, and we then shared our respective scan results (his being a whole lot more useful than mine). Since oyzar already knew both sides of the story, however, there wasn't much added benefit to the innocent cause.
Sixth Night said:
As you foresaw, KingMorgan does nothing tonight.
There was some poor communication here, resulting in civplayah and myself both scanning KM at the same time. Clearly, my scan was the less useful of the two.
ps. Note the nice touch by DE. I originally came up with the idea of claiming to see the future to provide an explanation if I survived an attack - I could say my ability was to forsee, and thus avoid, my own death (so keeping my true role a secret).
Seventh Night said:
Oyzar poisoned Backwards Logic with the Tear of Agares. He also recieved a Mithril Longsword from Frozen In Ice.
Worried about the possibility of a second assassin, oyzar had tried to blackmail both BL and Frozen into giving up their weapons. When we last spoke, he told me that Frozen had agreed, while BL was holding out, and we concurred that BL should die if he didn't concede.
Initially, I sent the order to scan Frozen, who was the only serious suspect remaining in my tower. But in the end I decided to watch oyzar instead, mainly just to keep my paranoia about him in check.
In the event, it didn't matter which I chose: either way, I would've seen Frozen give up his sword, and thus would be hesitant about trying to have him lynched. After talking to TFA (who most certainly did not pick Frozen at random - and I have the IM logs to prove it!), I made a half-hearted attempt to get Hell_Hound to accuse Frozen as well.
Had I not seen the mithril longsword change hands, Frozen would most likely have faced the mob, which would have been a shame, since he did a great job of pretending to be innocent - it was only process of elimination that put him in the firing line.
then i got blasted cos i was acting weird.
(Chand's game itself was built somewhat along those lines, and though the innocents won*, it was grueling.)
