[[I'm sorry Yellow, I don't mean for any of this to be an attack against you. I'll explain all of my reasoning here, no RP, complete transparency. I haven't been ignoring you, and I do have reasons. Here they are.
I am voting for you today because of the way I think the game has played out thus far. Right now there are six players remaining. One Town, three Alien, and two unconfirmed players. I am grouping you in with unconfirmed because your role is the one I am least familiar with. My original buddy, Equi, shared their role PM with me, and based on what I knew from that, and also how the rest of the game has been played, I believe Inke, Bench, and Sind are indeed all Aliens of some kind. Bench has a modifier, Sind and Inke do not.
However, that doesn't mean I completely trust them, either. The only problem is, there is nothing I can do about it. Per all of the role PMs about Aliens, they all have an alternate win-condition wherein if they are voted out
after being shot once, they will go berserk and end the game, resulting in a Town loss. I want to avoid that.
So I devised the end game strategy around the remaining non-Alien players: you and Fuze. Based on my understanding of the role PM Village Victory condition, there is a Mafia aligned player still in the game. I don't believe a Third Party player is considered Mafia aligned, as Equi (and other Alien's) role PM listed them as follows:
You are a Satellite Alien! Your alignment is Third-party, but you will win if Town wins.
It specifically states Alien is considered a Third-Party
alignment. Not Mafia. I doubt if there is a Third Party hostile, they are considered Mafia aligned, either. Full disclosure, despite Inke's (also) Towny play, I am paranoid that they may have some kind of killing power as a Third Party. Their win-con is most likely not aligned with *either* Town or Mafia, like a SK but granted the OSBP protection of an Alien, so Town-flavored play is expected. Two things stood out to me about their play. 1: bussing hard for a town lynch on the first day. With all of the information still so uncertain it felt scummy to try to push a vote that day. And 2: no hesitation on their part to agree with me (and you) to vote for Fuze despite faulty logic that Fuze as a Third-Party killer was most likely while also having you be Innocent (which based on my interpretation of the role PM info, is impossible). But as stated earlier, there is nothing I can do about it. They've been shot once, and I cannot risk voting them out and ending the game with a loss.
Which brings me to my strategy and reason for voting for you. Between you and Fuze, at least one of you is guilty as the last Mafia-aligned player. I (hopefully) have figured right that even if I guess wrong on the first person to vote out, there will still be a Town majority to vote the second person out on the following day. So, it comes down to who to vote first.
Personally, I would be Not Very Happy:tm: if Fuze is Mafia aligned and has skirted under the radar the whole game because of inactivity. Because I have been able to interact with you during this game, I have things to consider when making my decision. I suspected Bench's "only able to message bad guys" ability early on, along with Equi, after Bench revealed "he was too scared to try messaging". With his role as "Troll Alien" I can only wonder about your own role, which does seem redundant, but potentially misleading on purpose. To either cause a mislynch and raise the chance of an Alien "bad ending" or cause you to suspect other players, specifically Bench, for replying to your message. Either that, or you are being untruthful about some part of your rolePM and I have no way of knowing because I am unfamiliar with your role (from which you already hid Fuze as your buddy, which you did explain why though it feels flimsy to me, given your suspicions of him. I would have expected you to throw Fuze under the bus wholeheartedly)
Also it's true I was surprised that for my own suggestion that you were suspect #2 on my read list you did not react the same way as when Sind voted for you (which I am also being truthful, at the time it was a coinflip for me on who to vote first, you or Fuze.) That reaction from you, intentional or not, did read as scummy per the way I've seen other cornered mafia players play, see Phan in the last mafia game. Because of that, I am choosing to vote for you first.
If I am wrong, I accept full blame, and I hope my mental gymnastics were right and it won't matter in the long run, with the remaining players able to vote out Fuze the following night.
Please, it's nothing personal, and I realize this game is stressful and being accused of anything is never fun. I truly do believe this is Town's best chance to win, it doesn't make me enjoy saying these things.
Inke, Sind, Bench, if any of you have some kind of crazy OP Alien murdering powers and have achieved a position in which it's impossible for Town to vote you out, thus basically securing you a victory, congrats, GG, that's impressive play. Fuze, if you're reading this and you are Mafia, pick an Alien to shoot tonight and maybe we can at least prevent the Third-Party killer from winning.]]