I want others opinions on this, but since we're apparently in a position where we lose this night phase, why wouldn't we force everyone to be as open as possible?
I'd suggest with this strategy that we create and ordered list where people need to role claim, because wild claiming outside of a given order is likely to result in scum gaining quality fake-claiming positioning. If we force individuals to respond in an order they are in a more dicey position and less likely to have more room for making a mistake in such claims.
You are strong enough to have been able to see just how obviously connected Nictis and Evenstar were, and pushed them at the beginning of last phase, in ways that gave you safe distance from both lynches, you've been away most end of day phases which is somewhat convenient for scum because they are not in any hard spaces (Though very very easily can just be the way that things fall scheduling wise. Especially with the subject of midterms)
The funny react is because this is 100% how I'd expect scum to respond, with instantly trying to discredit their attacker for being scum and "being on the Absum lynch." I was very clearly preferring your lynch over Absum, and I just had a stronger town read in Happerry. This is blatant scum discrediting and only makes my read of you stronger.
'blatant scum discrediting' I'm sorry that I tried to defend myself? If you noticed, I didn't vote for you. I'm not convinced you're scum even if you're convinced the other way around. The whole point of that end bit was that hey, self-preservation is a thing and I feel that your push on me is self-preservation.
To answer your actual points though, I'm not sure strength is the word when Evenstar asked Nictis's opinion multiple times day 1 and sheeped their vote without even asking why. For a player like Eva to do that they need to be pretty certain Nictis on Nictis's alignment - which Day 1 means either Eva is scum or that they're in a mason together.
Admittedly, I didn't consider them being in a mason as an option because I was already scum leaning Eva. That's definitely my bad. But recognizing that Eva knew something about Nictis at this point - I don't see how that's alignment indicative.
Yes, I pushed Nictis for a small period of time. This was my preconceptions coloring my view, admittedly. I was pretty much locked into thinking Eva was scum, and so when Nictis started behaving like he knew what Eva was as well my theory that Eva was scum and sheeping a town Nictis was mostly eliminated. As I believed Eva was scum, that left Nictis being her scum buddy. I wasn't sure of it, but since Nictis was so highly regarded in the town at that point I wanted to at least raise the point. So, I put a vote on him early on to ask for some explanation... And then I got none, and so I took it off. I was trying to pressure, badly, not start a lynch train.
After that the whole reveal happened and I realized I'd fucked up by ignoring the mason option
As to why I've been away? Yeah, you nailed it on the head. Day ends at 9. I have an 8 o'clock class, and am the type of extra who sits in the front row. That means that at most I'm able to phone post, and normally can't really post at all. The only time that wasn't the case was Fall Break, but, well, getting drunk with my friends outweighed being here at the time, sorry. 🤷♂️
In Post Edit: So malicious funny. Tbh, it hurt a bit? You're one of the people who I think is really good at this game, and so when you funnied the post I felt like an idiot. With that said I get that it wasn't intentionally malicious, just a spur of the moment feeling, and so I forgive you. I'm not the type to hold grudges, especially over something that wasn't even truly meant.
In Post Edit 2: Absum is dead town
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