Reviewing Chill's early comments/questions to decide whether there're scummy motives behind his posts, a case could also be made that Ice acted as Chill's helper... or vice versa. It's just hard to tell whether they are working together or if Chill took advantage of Ice's posts to suit his team's agenda.
That is why I think they chose him also. But Wiz is pretty good at picking out scum so its not a smart move IMO except that he has limited time. But that just means we need to push the envelope more for him and get players talking. It would be better for him to ask his own questions since he knows what answers he expects but every little bit should help.
Ice being ever-helpful, agrees with Chill in response to Chill's post and immediately distances himself from the (proposed) scum team's reason for selecting Wizard. Could be working together... still hoping to draw attention to me as Wizard's target without it leading back to either of them.
Wizard knows that I know better than anyone that he almost didn't play due to time limits and why. I almost didn't sign up either for the same reason. I just didn't say so in the sign up thread since Wizard already had. We've both missed several games because other stuff in real life has limited the free time we have to play.
Are you saying your team didn't care who was slinger and just picked a name out of a 10 gallon hat?
Here, Ice quoted FF saying the mafia may have picked Wizard at random.... a reasonable guess IMO from someone like FF who has good insight about players sometimes but is not real savvy on strategy. While Chill already quoted FF to make him look possibly scummy, Ice followed that by actually placing FF on the scum team for us.
As posting continued, Rich said he'd pick the best player first.
I would pick one of the best players first. It is the hardest shot with the worst odds. I would want to get the good players out of the way first.
Perhaps, this wasn't the direction Ice and/or Chill were hoping it would go when Chill proposed
his original question... "Anyone have a good track record of fooling him?"
That was tried last time and didn't work out to well till they were down to 1 and able to hide.
Since you answered with the term "I" are you admitting to being mafia?
Ice gave reason to negate speculation that could lead back to himself. He also turned the post against Rich.
hmph, if ur gonna make accusiations, at least have a valid reason. i didn't know he was short on time, so i didn't know why he would be chosen.
PS, i gotta go to bed, gonna be up at 5 tommorrow so ima need my sleep.
Later in thread, FF got grilled over going to bed early. I don't believe anyone paid attention to his preceding post to that telling Ice to have a valid reason when he accuses someone.
You got lucky. Does not mean it will happen again.
Okay I misunderstood the play. So now it makes more sense to me the question really should be is there anyone he has a good track record of reading?
Chill had been watching the thread and either didn't like the way it started going in different directions or he'd given his previous question further thought... or something. So he said he misunderstood something... (what?)... then Chill changed his question.
This is quite interesting if you reread those pages. Why would Chill change that question based on what had been posted?
-- FF guessing it was random and Ice reacting by saying FF was on the scum team? No, that doesn't relate to Chill's question at all...
-- Rich telling Ice he got lucky as the gunslinger in a previous game? That wouldn't be it since it has nothing to do with who has fooled Wizard before (Chill's question). Wizard wasn't playing yet when the first gunslinger game ran.
-- Between posts #24/25 where Chill asked
who has fooled Wizard before.... and Post #36 where he changed that question to
who Wizard has a good track record of reading.... what else had posted besides what I quoted already? Nothing other than Jspigs (post #29) disagreeing with FF that the gunslinger pick might be random. As that doesn't relate to Chill's original question, that wouldn't have prompted Chill to change the question either.
If someone on the mafia sees him as a threat it would make sense to put him up first. Day one always suck - your game being the exception Ice - so get him up when he has the least possible information to work with.
Here Chill expands the question to include anyone who may consider a Wizard threat to them.
So Wiz are there people you are good at reading that you think would want you out of the way sooner rather than later.
And here, after not getting the desired reaction from others Chill decided to question the gunslinger instead.... prompting Wizard to suggest likely targets he may shoot. Truly... this dialogue should be
the other way around.
You know, I have been trying to think about that. I do tend to get hit early lately. Try as I might I cannot remember the scum den posts from the games to figure that out.
The best I can remember are the most recent ones where LR and DD were wanting to get rid of me. Problem with that is, LR is the game mod and DD isn't playing.
As this post shows, Chill was successful at directing Wizard's gaze where he wanted it to go. It's up to us (and Wizard) now to decide whether Chill was sincerely asking questions to help reveal who the scum are for Wizard's benefit (and the town's best interest)... or was Chill leading Wizard around by the nose instead?
