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ScareChan posted...

Give us your thoughts and impressions of playiing Dels. how do you think you played, did you feel these guys were pretty good? Give us some details

Essentially, I blinded them with activity.

I posted a lot and wrote really huge paragraphs and just did my best to seem earnest. They all town read on me on day 1 and included me in the top tier of many reads lists. (Along with the other two "best" townies, the ones that ended up winning the #1 and #2 tie spots)

My downfall came from trying to save one of my scummates. We had a really really bad scummate, she was kind of dead weight, but I didn't realize it soon enough. So the lynch on day 1 came down to her and someone else. She was lurking most of the day, then she came in and posted a big rant about how she has a life, she was at work for 16 hours so she couldn't post, and she complained about all the votes on her... and then she specifically complained about my vote on her and called me out for wagoning her. (I actually didn't have a vote on her) She started piling on votes after that.

Anyway, the other person being wagoned was also pretty scummy and I had called him scummy earlier in the day, so I decided to vote him, because being down a scum member on day 1 in this setup is just awful, I felt I kind of had to save her. (My other scummate bussed her, was the first vote on her, and then this same scummate was also the first one to call me scummy and bussed me as well)

But the problem is the two wagons were constantly equal, 3 to 3, then 4 to 3, then 4 to 4, 5 to 4, 5 to 5. Etc. So anyone who votes for the townie there ended up looking bad, because they voted at crucial junctures to save the scum. Someone proposed the equivalent of a "board 8 special" at some point near the end, so I joined it because... fun. But it left me as being the one person who voted for a) the lynched townie and b) the person that got specialed but never c) the scum. So it was a pretty bad miscalculation on my part. I joined the special because I figured it's not something scum would do (I had no actual motivation for it since it only increased the chance of the scum being lynched, since I moved my vote off the townie, and because scum would know they'd look bad for hopping around) but the reverse psychology didn't actually work, they just thought "switching your vote is scummy, scum would do that".

The bad scummate got lynched the next day. The only person she directed any suspicion at all of day 2? Me. She kept insisting I voted her and started the wagon on her, even when I never did, because she was really intent to "distance" herself from me. Then she disappeared for about 36 hours of the day and showed back up in the last 15 minutes and voted me. It was... unfortunate. Everyone saw through it and thought it was clearly distancing.

At this point, half the game had voted for her lynch on day 1, so there were only a handful of people who didn't, and I was one of them. All the people who didn't vote her on day 1 went into the "process of elimination" pool, and like I said, I stood out a bit more because I voted TWO people on day 1 that weren't scum, and never voted for her. (A clear mistake on my part - I still think saving her was the right call, we'd be totally screwed down one scum already on day 1, but I shouldn't have hopped to another wagon because "scum wouldn't do that", they didn't really have that thought process, and it just meant I voted two townies instead of scum.)

As soon as she got lynched on day 2, I had EVERY person in the game calling me scum on day 3. But luckily, we had a really inactive newbie player that no one liked, so they all lynched him instead.

Then day 4 started and people reevaluated their reads (they were sure this newbie guy was scum) and I got away from the spotlight again for a bit.

To be continued...