Oh, wait a second. Damn, this gets more complicated with every passing minute. Snerk claims to have blocked Autolycus that night as well, doesn't he?
What? I've never blocked Auto.Oh, wait a second. Damn, this gets more complicated with every passing minute. Snerk claims to have blocked Autolycus that night as well, doesn't he?
What? I've never blocked Auto.
You blocked Autolycus the night you were attacked, right? If so, that means he can't have been injured, and so was free to make a kill last night. Since it also means he can only be scum if there are two left, that clears him.
Now I look at it, though, there is a slight inconsistency here. When announcing your block on Newyn, you said you lose your block the night after blocking a magic user, and also pointed out that Awnshegh had used black lightening to kill his victims. Having blocked Newyn, then, it would seem you ought to have lost your block the following night.
Snerk then roleblocks Winston Hughes. This ties up Snerk and prevents Winston from killing. Why don't you roleblock him? Because he's first estate, if I block a fellow first-estater I will lose the block for night 7. You'll remember in my initial claim of roleblocker I claim I lose the block if I block a spellcaster. That was a bit of a misdirection on my part - the above is the truth.
Nah, it's Snerk, Legato, or Snerk/Legato.
And that makes this the essential question for us: did Snerk tell the truth about what the Gilded mask does when broken? If so, lynching Legato should secure us the win, regardless of which of the three possibilities is true. If not, all bets are off.
I say we lynch Legato.
Firstly, Snerk is obviously scum.
Actually, the Gilded Mask break plus him showing up as a spellcaster makes me wonder if my scan might have failed to penetrate a cover role.
If there's only one scum left, we've probably won no matter what.
If there's two scum left, then the question is why they didn't kill last night. A mis-lynch loses for us in this case, while no lynch puts everything on preventing a kill tonight.
What happens if we switch to putting out a network of support votes? If I switch to support: Winston, BL supports Snerk, and Winston accuses Snerk, we're at zero (or less) all the way around (assuming the gilded mask doesn't cancel support votes), and BL can shift his vote to counter any late-day votes, even if Snerk used the mask to pre-cancel BL's vote on him. If everyone stays put, the only way this results in a lynch is if Snerk used the gilded mask on BL, and the gilded mask also prevents support votes, and in that case Snerk lied, so I'm fine with him dying.
Thoughts? I'll be back on a little before the deadline.
Me using the gilded mask as self-preservation would be a horrible idea as mask uses are revealed by GM in write-ups.
I don't think we can lock this down 100%, but I'm looking at the wider case for Autolycus/Snerk, at it's pretty weak in comparison to Legato/Snerk.
His D2 vote on Newyn looks good, as he could quite plausibly have gone Takhisis or spaceman instead.
Snerk's D3 vote for him also looks good, as it made him the counter wagon to Coyosis, needing only BL to move his vote to put Auto's head in the noose.
I don't like the support vote idea. Given the stakes, and the potential for manipulation, I think we need all town votes on one target.
Legato's continued evidence is troubling though. It's like he's been silenced - or, quite plausibly, is pretending to have been silenced. On this point, I can say that, afaik, silencing abilities - and others which force posting restrictions - are fairly common over at GitP, whereas they're extremely rare over here.
Looking back at Legato's ability claim, he's pretty clear that he'll die if attacked, not just carry on appearing to be alive whilst being unable to post. I'd say it would be very harsh on him indeed if his role description was that misleading.
Wait, what?
Bolding mine. Why would you be scared of manipulation? If everyone's more or less at zero, sure someone would have to stick their neck out to force a lynch. However, what's more troubling for me is your insistence of piling up on Legato.
The bolding is mine to highlight some wordage I don't like. Who's we? The scum? The town? Why the town designation later? Why not: we just need all of the votes on one target? This screams slip-up to me.
I just think he's not here. You're hinting at yet another ability someone would have, then have to target Legato with it. A) It's a scum ability, and B) I'd be targeted instead. Let's extrapolate this further: if this ability exists, who has it? Why are you confusing the matter?
Furthermore, you're asking me to lynch Legato who I blocked last night. He could not have stolen the mask and therefore cannot have it. The only way for him to now have the mask is if you think items can be transferred between players and there's no mention of that possibility anywhere in the rules.
Again, I'm not assuming any knowledge of what the scum have up their sleeves. I'm looking for the safest option given our lack of that knowledge. (1) Could you tell me why you think it so unlikely that they have got such a power, and (2) also how you think a solo scum can win here? I'm not feeling great about either of the assumptions you seem to be making there.
What if it was stolen in the afternoon? Visor said he wouldn't be told what it did until nightfall, so it doesn't seem crazy that the scum could have some way of retrieving it before then.