Right, well, here we go.
I'm obviously for a lynch, as I almost always am, but in this game we have better chances of lynching a scum right off the bat than in most games so that just adds to it. Anyone who supports a no lynch or is inbetween either hasn't thought things through or is a mafia that doesn't want to hurt their chances. "But there's no evidence" is a dumb reason not to lynch because lynching will give us more to go on later on, plus, let's be honest, how many times have any of you actually seen a game won because everyone followed the cop?
I will not lynch randomly.
Cults are interesting to me in this game. Ltin has said that conversion doesn't actually change win condition or role powers, so that really makes me ask, what's their point, then? If the cultists are still playing for the town or the mafia, respectively, then the cult leaders are massively underpowered, which makes me think we've misunderstood something or Ltin is hiding something. I'll go ahead and guess that the way they're explained at the moment, they're not gonna be a major threat, but I'll reserve the right to be suspicious nonetheless.
Anyway. My suspicions, gut feelings, random thoughts, etc.
Samlen might be a cult leader. The fact that he thought about eliminating one of the cults early on is what caught my attention:
In most normal games, i'd say lynching day 1 has more risks than benefits, but we got two opposing cults as well as a mafia and I'm honestly not sure if we should care about said cults or not. They don't seem to actually affect us getting rid of the mafia and winning, but they might tear apart the town trying to kill each other. If we do care about them, then we have a chance to completely eliminate one today and therefore spare us their infighting. I love me some no-lynching on day 1 but 2/16 chance to get rid of an entire not-exactly-pro-town faction might be worth taking.
I mean, it's possible that he's (justifiably) concerned about cults (one of the more chaotic and destructive factions in mafia games in general) as a townie should, but something about his thought process just rubbed me the wrong way. Feels kinda like he's trying to downplay the cult threat while at the same time wanting to completely eliminate one of them today (as he himself says). If I was the leader of either cult, those are the two things I would want to do.
Another thing is that he's fine with a random lynch.
If you want a lynch, would you lynch someone at random if no one particularly scummy emerged?
About as good of odds for a random lynch as we're gonna get, so why not.
A cult leader wouldn't have any problems with a random lynch, since they're not in a team with anyone, at least not at the moment.
More suspicious of Inf though, at least for now. While you guys have been voting him for lulz and while I agree, he deserves to be lynched for the lulz, there might be some actual merit in lynching him, too.
I don't really like the way he's agreeing with people.
I'm for a lynch today given the circumstances, like Sam said we could potentially get rid of an entire faction straight away, and let's be honest, with my <o> vibe readings we can get one easy!!!!
mean to be honest I have a bit weird vibes from HK too. Not gonna vote him yet or anything since I'd like to get a feel for where everyone's at before I make a vote but just saying, he is acting in a way that is poking out at me and I'm not quite sure why yet, and it's obviously very early days so this feeling could vanish soon, who knows!
Sam is another person who is slightly making me suspicious but not enough for me to mention until someone else did and reminded me about it I guess
I can't think of anyone else who I'm suspicious of right now. Just very tiny suspicions on HK and sam, vibe-based and probably wrong because I do not feel at all comfortable with my reads yet, they're very thin like cobwebs y'know what I'm sayin'
Especially relevant bit bolded.
It's the classic mafia behaviour here, agreeing with the current majority opinion, pointing fingers at others while making sure that he can point to someone else starting the suspicion if it turns out they were town after all. Plus, the way he's trying to lead the town or at least be active and such looks like an attempt at some easy town cred, which I'm not sure I like either.
Given the fact that I don't really have any strong suspicions on anyone, I'll go ahead and place my vote.
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