Okay. Now that everyone's here, Let me tell you why I find this situation funny. I'm going to start with a slight -Rosen accusation here but my real motive for this post is to explain why I didn't shoot Day 2. So like, I'm going now:
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At the beginning of this game, I made a prediction. I predicted that my social solves would be really high, but my mechanical knowledge (or lack there of) would be the thing that screwed me over. Why I am mentioning this?
Because I basically had the reads I had now back in Day 2
. But then Night 3 came along (the Night that basically signaled the start of Night mechanical play), and I got lost in the sauce. Example? My Day 2 scum!team in my notes as of 1 / 2 / 2024 was Atoms, Wiadi, Rosen, and Hugh. I read Atoms because of his general inactivity, and everyone here should know why I voted for Hugh. Why -Rosen and Wiadi, though? Because I did
not like how convenient and easily performed the Variable vote was. In-fact, I can name the exact series of posts that ticked me off:
They were Posts
#1125,
#1157,
#1776, and some others (mentioning them later because I'm 100% going to get feedback for this). Why?
You'd have to have been there to have felt the impact of #1125. What was so impactful about it? It was the fact that -Rosen
immediately took the side of Wiadi and voted for Nanimani because of it. There wasn't any hesitation, no questioning, no attempt to see her side. And then -Rosen took that opportunity to make not one, but
two ISOs clearing Wiadi. And then, pushing it a little bit into the future, -Rosen decides to drop the Byzantine cheerlead / delay idea the moment it starts to implicate Wiadi in any way, shape or form, and then immediately takes Wiadi's version of events regarding the cheerlead situation when it came to that in his Post
#3148, despite the fact that both parties had no way to determine the truthfulness of either event at the time (With -Rosen basically saying this exact same thing at the bottom of his Post
#3042)
I'm not a vet, so I don't know. But I think that this is a link.
Now maybe saving this up for Day 6 and waiting until everyone got together for it might've been a bit over-dramatic. But everyone's asking me why I didn't shoot Day 2. And, after dropping that I scum!read both -Rosen and Wiadi Day 2, there must be a lot of questions as to why I never took the shot. So I wanted to answer that now,
after -Rosen justified a continuing an ISO on me because I... was misleading the town into believing that there were four scum total instead of five scum total. Still a wild opener, that one.
And, really, the answer to that question is simple, as it is embarrassing. I hesitated. I saw that Ori, at the end of Day 2, Town-Read Wiadi for the Variable hunt, and then when combined with the results of the Variable hunt (that being Variable flipping Red), I decided not to shoot. I was new to both the game and the community, and I basically reasoned to myself that I was just seeing things. Very easy conclusion to come to when everyone else walked on by.
In hindsight, I probably should've of shot someone on the LHFA to speed things up but whatever.
Evidence? My Post
#1431, and my Post
#1588. For the former, I didn't want to name any names at that point because I wasn't lying when I said that I didn't have any
hard evidence as to why I thought them suspicious. I also would've A) been pretty easily defeated, and would've been prevented from reasonably following up my points with more evidence later, and B) with everyone else town-reading them at the time, I didn't want to be the odd one out and be called out for it. Especially when Ori said pretty stringently that she wouldn't except any scum!reads from everyone but two people towards Wiadi scum!reads. So. Yikes.
As for the latter post? Notice that little bit at the end there that says, "I don't like how convenient this vote is." And the reason
why I said that was because of what I said earlier; the Variable hunt felt too
easy to me at the time, and too
convenient for several parties if it ended up being the prime wagon.
Now I know what's going to happen next. Wiadi is going to burst into the thread, and point at the reads list I made for her in my Post
#2789. Several things about that. One. I was scum!reading Shalmoa / YP the most at the time, with Walker second. I pushed any other reads I had at that moment to the back burner, because I didn't want to fight against several people at once. Two. I mentioned that the Variable vote seemed natural because I basically gas-light myself into believing that after I considered the Shalmoa / YP push to be more accurate and other town-members said so. I essentially went back into the thread, and, instead of looking at the context (Funny note that Variable town!read -Rosen so easily despite being manipulated by him the last game), looked at the exact wording of the content in question and basically fell for it. It didn't help that
because of my reads at the time, it was easier to believe.
And then the second question is going to be, "Why did you push for Shalmoa, then?" Literally nothing I'm going to say here is going to convince -Rosen and Wiadi for obvious reasons, but the very simple reason was that I got
distracted. Shal popping into the thread like a gopher to declare his innocence so flamboyantly threw me off, to say the absolute least, and with everyone else town-reading my suspects at the time (I didn't want to stick out from the crowd as a newbie) I took the bait. Combined with him surviving Night 4 with a lot of details going amiss, (you can literally just follow my thought process on him from Day 4 onwards, the fact that we
still don't know what happened on Night 3 backs me up here) I stuck myself into a hole and flew off in a completely inaccurate direction. It didn't help that he didn't answer a lot of the questions I had in my walls.
As to my claim? Literally. And I am not joking when I say this. I was so convinced that Shal and -Rosen were scum that I got a plan stuck in my head about how I was going to lynch Shal and then vig -Rosen that night. At the time, nobody knew if the roleblockers / action-delayers were definitively scum-shaded, so it sounded like a good idea. I just needed to convince the town that I was right, and I knew that doing so required me to hard-claim my role to gain town-trust. Suffice to say, I was wrong about Shal, and I'm literally never doing a gambit like that ever again.
Oh! And thirdly! I was still scum-reading -Rosen by Day 4 because of something that Nani said, which basically came down to "Wiadi started the push, but -Rosen just jumped onto it." So that made me think about a world in which Wiadi wasn't scum but -Rosen was. And because I was scum!reading Shalmoa at the time and nobody else seemed shady... Well, I bumped off the former off of my list and added the latter onto it.
I'm going to ask that my town friends here
@Young Pyromancer,
@ComiTurtle, and
@A Bunch Of Atoms to ask me a bunch of questions about this before EoD, but suffice to say that if -Rosen's right about there being five scum, then a -Rosen, Wiadi, Hugh Team seems the most likely. I can be here until the end of time so let me just follow up by saying:
Now onto more 1v1ing.
