"And, of course, because I personally know I am innocent, that makes my process-of-elimination decision making much easier. During the night, I can prove my innocence with possibly the one person who could directly verify that I am able to do what I said I did--that is, target a player. All of my other indicators are... indirect. This is finally something that I can provide more reliable information over." He smirked, but there seemed to be some relief in it this time. Not that he'd admit it.
[[I... don't know if you could actually verify anything with Altair that way? All he can tell you is that your action succeeded, not who you targeted, or even that you
targeted anyone at all. I spent most of page 38 of the thread interrogating him on the details of his role and determined that even if he'd checked
me, who has no night action, he'd still get a "Success" reading, providing nobody roleblocked me and prevented me from doing nothing
my way.
Now, some extra thoughts about the things Alexander's strengthening may have done, if he's innocent and telling us the truth.
He strenghthened Wes last night. Which is giving me this terrifying paranoia that what if
actually Wes is somehow the mafia don, and
that's why Dave died like that, and it was intended to be a regular mafia kill otherwise? But I still really doubt Wes is mafia! His roleclaim was so genuine and fumbling and has so many details in it (Reluctant! Like Dave!) that I completely believe that has to be his role, and if that's his role in the mafia, surely the one with a power that only appears after a
delay like that would be the
last one to inherit the don power?
And also, if Wes is mafia, then according to my logicpost, Alexander basically has to be mafia with him, and so why would he risk incriminating his partner by
saying he strengthened him, on the night of an obvious strongman kill?
aaaaaaa, end conclusion, stop being paranoid, me, Wes is almost definitely still innocent. I am going to kick myself so hard if it turns out I was wrong to believe in him in the end here but
right to suspect him earlier on in the game. negrek why are you doing this to us
Other thought: Alexander strengthened Lexx on night 0. Lexx had no idea of this. He vouched that Dave wasn't rolestopped - obviously because his inspection on Dave went through - and therefore guessed Jesse must have just been blocked. But given the then-unknown strengthening on Lexx, it's possible Dave
was in fact rolestopped after all, rather than Jesse having been roleblocked. I... do not know if this fact actually matters to anything (it's not like it could have been Nefari doing the rolestopping that early), but I just wanted to throw that out there.
Oh, also, I meant to reply to a thing Altair said about his role yesterday but never got around to it. Not that I know whether this actually means anything significant either.
[[Okay, one more question (I think), and then I'll stop spamming the thread with so many short posts: Why did you check Miyako last night? Lusamine was probably random on N0, Mewtwo makes sense after Day 1, Arctozolt is obvious, but why her? She hadn't claimed anything.]]
[[Lusamine's death flavour (bright light, scorch mark). It correlates to Miyako's character, who had a Persona that specialised in Fire/Light/Holy magic (as well as her being present within the flavour), it gave the impression that she might've been the Vig and I wanted to see if the Mafia caught onto it. Obviously, they did as she was blocked N3.]]
See, the thing is... I extremely doubt that Miyako was the vig. There is significant evidence that she
wasn't.
Not from the flavour - maybe that could have been her Persona, sure - but from everything
she said that day,
about the flavour. She seemed to genuinely believe the scorch mark must have meant arsonist flavour, arguing for it in a way that... honestly didn't entirely logically hold up, because Negrek would not have changed the flavour from ripples to scorch mark just because nobody picked up on it the day before (and also two arsonist kills that quickly weren't mechanically possible). If she
knew it was actually her own vig flavour, she wouldn't have tried to argue that.
Maybe she did that to try and deliberately throw of the scent of
her being the vig, but there'd be no
need for that. Everyone was already pretty sure it was a vig and had no idea who (and I'd thrown out that maybe it was Jesse. I still think it was Jesse. Scorch mark!). And I feel Miyako's posting style was too straightforward and earnest for her to have even
thought of that sort of galaxy-brain deception tactic, pretending to be wrong in such a genuinely fumbling way to hide information
as town. (Also I feel like she's inexperienced enough that she may have just come straight out and claimed when Alexander rather hastily asked the vig to do so at the start of the day.)
Plus, she mentioned offhandedly on Day 2 that her night action that night - implying she'd
used one - had had no relevance to the Lexx and Rascal's deaths, so she felt no need to bring it up. If she was a vig, that doesn't fit, because either she did nothing that night, or one of those kills was actually her (but clearly not, because no scorch mark).
So, I find it a liiiittle bit strange that both Altair and the mafia apparently separately had this obviously-incorrect-to-me vig-Miyako idea, to have blocked her/checked if she was blocked? But then again,
apparently I'm the only person who ever gave a damn and paid any real attention to Miyako's actual
posts and her way of thinking, so maybe it's not so unreasonable that multiple other people would only look at the flavour and jump to conclusions from that. I dunno.
(Now I'm getting paranoid that maybe Altair could be mafia!Checker and Alexander be town!Strengthener and my whole assumption about how they must both be on the same side could be wrong, aaaaaaaaaaaaa, stop second guessing things, me)]]
