Hunter stated
my theory:
to avoid suspicion, samlen en duffie began questioning jolt. Then one of them "silenced" jolt so he couldnt defend himself from this questioning so people bandwagoned with samlen and duffie.
unvote
But, if they were questioning Jolt, why would either of them "silence" Jolt? They both had (in my opinion) decent arguments against Jolt.
The last thing you want to do is "silence" him, because it just allows Jolt to do what he just did, try to throw the suspicion back on them because of the poem post. I feel both Notty and Duffie, if they even had this "silence" power, are veteran players enough not to do such a silly move especially if it only lasts "a real day."
And can I just say Jolt being "silenced" for a day makes no sense.
I would be more inclined to believe Jolt if he didn't talk for the rest of the in-game Mafia day, because such powers have existed in the past.
Take TBD for example where I was the Devilish-Businessman. I had the power to force X players to vote how I wanted them to vote, by simply telling the host what I wanted them to do.
This lasted the entire day. They could not do anything to prevent it.
In an IRC/epicmafia setting I can see how a "real-life timed" power may be able to work if such a role existed.
In a forum setting? Where we all have vastly differing timezones and can't view the thread at certain hours and people post at widely differing times?
In a setting where it's incredibly difficult to be precise with "real-life" timed roles like Jolt is claiming? Where Priz may not even had read the thing and sent a PM about it to Jolt? (as I believe Ooglie has mentioned before?)
I honestly don't see at all how anyone is buying this.
It's literally a cop-out. It makes no sense and still doesn't explain WHY he even posted the strange poem in the first place (I still don't see how that was explained)
If it's involved in the "silencing" that was supposedly done why would a poem need to be even posted in the first place?
And isn't it strangely coincidental that the person who wrote that poem just so happened to have the exact same first name as Notty claims to have?
The content of the poem doesn't matter until we know the context of the poem.
And as far as I can tell, the poem has no context, and this is all a big charade.
I wanted to give Jolt the benefit of the doubt. I don't think I can anymore after his explanation.
Vote Jolteon