Ice, you do realize this sounds kind of funny? 'Everyone not responsible for lynching Chas, defend yourselves....' But as I can see where you're going with it, I'll explain.
On Day 1, I was the first to question Judge's early vote on blueiz. Early random votes on Day 1 don't bother me, as they frequently lead to discussion. While Judge's vote for blue wasn't entirely random, it didn't bother me all that much. It was a little strange, but, whatever. The main reason that I questioned her vote was to get a reaction. As I mentioned in another post, I noticed when Judge plays scum and gets a little pressure on her, she uses 'LMAO' a lot. If you don't believe it, refer to the past games....you'll see. Her first post, she started out w/ LMAO....I figure I'd pressure her a little and see what happened. Unfortunately, LG had also apparently noticed Judge's scumtell in previous games, and blurted it out early on Day 1...so that kind of put an end to my plan.
At any rate, I noticed when I posted, that Chas had just posted that he was also suspicious of blue, so I asked him if they (he and judge) were teammates.... well, it was off to the races at that point. Everyone started jumping into the pool (whether they ended up voting him or not) accusing Chas....but seriously, what was so odd about Charlie saying that rb may have tweaked the assignments and given blue a mafia role?
I try not to guess how the game mod may have assigned the roles, but others do...Charlie was not alone in doing so. Lots of other folks were in semi-agreement that role assigment may have been tweaked. So this didn't make Charlie seem any more scummy to me than anyone else.
After everyone started mentioning Charlie's name, he got spooked and brought up his untimely death plan. While I disagreed with his plan, it didn't necessarily seem like a mafia move to me.... the plan wasn't good for the town, as if Chas was innocent and died an untimely death there was no guarantee that we'd lynch a mafium that night anyway. Ultimately we could have lost 3 townies that night. But, I understood where Chas was coming from....he knew that he was innocent, so he promised to kill himself in order to free up the townies to look elsewhere for the real mafia. Once again, I don't agree with his plan, but I understood it.
Now folks were saying that his plan was anti-town, and in a big-picture sense, it was, because we could have lost 3 townies in one night. But it wasn't malicious anti-town. Had Chas been mafia and agreed to kill himself to avoid a lynch, he would have HAD TO FOLLOW THROUGH, otherwise he would have been lynched the very next day....NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. This might make sense for the mafia to do if they only needed one more day for a win, but it was Day 1. This made no sense as a mafia plan. Chas didn't seem any more guilty to me than anyone else.
As to your earlier question as to why I didn't try harder to 'save' him, I basically start everyone in the game at 'neutral.' Based on posts, people then move up the scale toward townie, or down toward mafia. While Charlie never moved down on my scale toward mafia, he never moved up toward townie either....he was still at neutral. So Chas didn't seem innocent to me, he just seemed neutral/not guilty. He still COULD be mafia as far as far as I knew. The thing that seemed really odd though is that the train on Charlie was one of the biggest I've seen (not just votes, but in accusations as well). I would have been a little surprised had Chas ended up mafia upon lynching....not shocked, though.