Academy of Elemental Magic [Concluded]

[TinCow]

If you can follow why I'm right when I'm right maybe we won't always be on opposite sides of an argument?

Hey, I was with you this entire game right up until you decided that what is essentially a guilty detective result shouldn't be followed up with a lynching. I understand your gut feeling, but a guilty result is a guilty result. There is only one way to play that and that is to lynch the target. If anything, it's an even easier decision in this game when we will instantly know if the decision was right or wrong. Being right is to our advantage because is eliminates a scum. Being wrong is to our advantage because it clearly uncovers some skullduggery of some sort. The only thing that isn't to our advantage at this point is ignoring the lynch and letting the situation fester.

[White_eyes:D]

But seriously, did you ever scan a headmaster before this? I personally believe that they flip "Special" in there corruption score.

Regardless, I VERY suspicious of the Air Colleges motive's by how ATPG is acting. (It's like he knows that the result is going to be an innocent townie and is trying to redirect blame)

[Ferret]

Being right is to our advantage because is eliminates a scum. Being wrong is to our advantage because it clearly uncovers some skullduggery of some sort. The only thing that isn't to our advantage at this point is ignoring the lynch and letting the situation fester.

Exactly how I feel.

Regardless, I VERY suspicious of the Air Colleges motive's by how ATPG is acting. (It's like he knows that the result is going to be an innocent townie and is trying to redirect blame)

What would the aeromancers have to gain by lynching the head of the water college? Especially as if it turns out he's innocent it could make ATPG look suspicious. If they wanted to get rid of the water college they'd be better off doing so at night. But there is no reason for them to want to get rid of the water college anyway, if they were going for the partisan win they'd be far better off going after the geodudes.

[White_eyes:D]

Because I know edse is going to flip townie and then we have lost the only person in the college who had "confirmed innocent" status.

Regardless, this is a huge insult that they didn't just night-kill edse instead of making me question the other members loyalty's.

[NinjaCow64]

Unvote; Vote: edse

NO, JOHN, NO!!!

Sometimes the rational thing is the wrong thing.

In Hitman's Gambit I convinced people to lynch the detective simply because I claimed first and I had no motive to lie if I was scum, because I would die next. As a SK, I lose.

Rational doesn't mean correct. I was lying, the detective died, town lost. I had no reason to expect to win, I was lying because it was FUN.

In That Creeping Darkness I claimed detective and said I had a guilty result, just because town was running around like chickens with their heads cut off and they needed leadership. Absent a detective claim there wasn't going to be any. And that's how CDF's cult went down, and me a vanilla townie got murdered for, what most people rationally assumed, being a detective.

Here's something else that's rational. The rules say we can scan a scumbag and they can hide their corruption score. Not only that, there are items in the game. At least one of which, was an item of corruption.

So I have two different things that I rationally KNOW are true, because we've seen them before, which indicate a false level of corruption.

And I am being handed a detective item, and being told who to scan.

Now I did my job and faithfully reported the results. But listening to edse, he's giving off all the signs one gives off of being a framed townie.

If experience, and intuition, and gut, and all those sorts of things that make us not automatons means anything, then those things are telling me, we're deliberately being messed with.

• If he were that guilty, he should be able to hide it better.

According to the rules. I should be scanning people and finding relatively low corruption levels and they're guilty. These corruption scans shouldn't be able to tell us that much at this point, really.

• If he were guilty, why does he have absolutely no explanation for his corruption score?

He could fake one if he was guilty. Not having an alibi tells me he never had to think of one, because... um... he never expected to be caught with maximum corruption? Maybe because he's not corrupt at all?

• Why didn't he at least lie about having a corrupt item? Grab at any straws? I fed him a straw to grasp at and he didn't grasp at it.

What scum on his deathbed isn't going to at least TRY TO LIE TO ME???


Call me irrational. Go ahead. But rational thinking is all inside the box. And I prefer to think of myself as someone who can think his way out of a cardboard box.

Tell me exactly what is wrong with doubting this.

He's going to be lynched anyway. And rationally, guess who gets lynched after him if he flips innocent?

Now why would I be trying to stop his lynch here, if I'm scum?

All your rational thinking is going to get you in a world of hurt.

You know Pizza, your post is complete WIFOM. I could get drunk reading that, that's how much wine is in that post. Seriously.

I know my position is completely biased, but still. I really can't imagine a world where the scum haven't infiltrated the Colleges. Especially the giant Water College, which seemed to invite every single bloody person in the town. And Pizza you are acting weird. Townie weird, I give you that, but still weird. There is something very fishy about this barrel and edse is at the bottom of it, I just know it. So we must kill him. FOR FIRE!!!

[Chaotix]

NO, JOHN, NO!!!



You know Pizza, your post is complete WIFOM. I could get drunk reading that, that's how much wine is in that post. Seriously.

I know my position is completely biased, but still. I really can't imagine a world where the scum haven't infiltrated the Colleges. Especially the giant Water College, which seemed to invite every single bloody person in the town. And Pizza you are acting weird. Townie weird, I give you that, but still weird. There is something very fishy about this barrel and edse is at the bottom of it, I just know it. So we must kill him. FOR FIRE!!!

Hey we don't have that many people!

There are like 15 players left and we have 5. That is one third in a town composed of three colleges. Maybe you guys just under-recruited.

Also I am generally in agreement with TinCow on this. If we don't lynch edse, that is unfortunately always going to be hanging over us at every lynch. We're not going to know what is up with the scan result unless he is actually dead - otherwise we can just guess and speculate. I don't want to lynch my headmaster, but a guilty result is a guilty result.