The Adventurer looks at the longbowmen, first confused, then genuinely puzzled...
"Uhh...
"First, I guess let's look at the facts:
"Yes, you wanted the sword and Sprig bandwagoned you for it. During this bandwagoning period you sent out a swarm of PMs to various people claiming a few things. One, you had no abilities, and two you had a strength of 4."
"First, I was attacked last night. Fortunately I was able to avoid being killed."
"So the next night you claim to be attacked. Okay, now, either 1) You had protection from someone else, or 2) You can protect yourself with some sort of ability. Now, as far as we know there's only been one bodyguard, and that was Autolycus who I should point out in an apparent brain-fart gave up practically the entire Illian team. Now there's a lie in here somewhere. Either 1) you can protect yourself without the sword (since Sprig had it this night) 2) Autolycus protected you (or someone else who hasn't come forward yet) or 3) You weren't attacked at all despite your continued claims of it."
"I'm willing to follow your judgement Autolycus, as for the sword. Yeah, I would like it. To protect myself.
"But with Sprig's death it's obvious the sword did him no good. He claimed to be able to increase its power
here (like yourself I might add). Now while I was not in close contact with Sprig, I have no reason to believe he was lying about this ability. Perhaps someone who was can shed some light on it further."
As for myself, clearly I am not a killer nor a traitor. Voting history should make that obvious. An Illian then? Well no, or else I would have gone with the whole Autolycus is 'innocent' bandwagon.
"Here's where it gets a little more fishy. Now obviously you stole the sword from me, which would appear to be your ability. Meaning you can't protect yourself at night, since having
both of those abilities at least to me would be a tad overpowered. So here's what I think happened. Since Autolycus was in fact an Illian, instead of protecting choxorn or whoever he was 'supposed' to, the Illian team gambled and hoped the traitors wouldn't target whoever Autolycus was supposed to protect. As long as the protectee didn't get killed at night, realistically there would be no way for the team of protectees to know that Autolycus was in fact protecting them at all. Which frees up Autolycus to continue to protect someone on the Illian side - you.
"Now when Autolycus goofed at some point and apparently revealed at least Frozen (and it appears rhawn as well), he suddenly became a liability. I mean, how could you trust him after he revealed half of your team? Your vote against Frozen was hardly one of the first votes (7th overall), so once it became obvious he was dying you voted for him to distance yourself from the rest of the team. And staying with the whole "Auto is a liability theme," you couldn't risk leaving him around and possibly revealing you to buy himself another day, so voting to kill him made you look some more innocent and saved you from being exposed as well."
I apologize but I could not take the risk of trusting Backwards Logic and ask for the sword.
"At least you got one thing right. After stacking lie upon lie, there's no way I was handing the sword over to you. And I should point out to you and any other people lacking any skill in casual observation: you're a
longbowmen, and you claim to be able to double your strength with a
sword?! On top of surviving apparent attempts on your life? While stealing items? Which one is it?
Now you understand my reasons, as for Khazaar's wish of a better target:
There were four people protecting Autolycus; Choxorn, Love, Autolycus and Stuck in Pi.
Sprig knew, the morning of day 3, do you not remember his actions?
"Yea, apparently he accused Stuck in Pi to make him talk. I should also point out somewhere along the way judging by the flask vote, Sprig and Stuck in Pi grew to trust each other, since Sprig according to Stuck in Pi asked that the flask be sent to him. Since choxorn and company didn't refute this (in fact helped vote the flask to him), I can only assume this is true. With your admission of choxorn's scan being correct (since you did admit to stealing the sword), Love's innocence, Sprig's innocence and trust of Stuck in Pi, I can only deduct that whole contingent is on our side (well, not
your side). The fact that you're trying to pick it apart is suspicious at best.
"So I conclude you are an Illian, perhaps the last one even.
"Oh yea, I forgot something...
Nictel.