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[GeneralHankerchief]

What you have to recognize is that khaan and I were just trolling around at the start of the game. We weren't necessarily taking things seriously, we were just goofing around and having fun. Obviously we wanted town to win, because we're both competitive people who will take any and every opportunity to stomp on some fools who think they can beat us at Mafia, but scumhunting wasn't at the forefront quite yet.

You also need to realize that khaan and I are going to be a package deal in 99% of all situations. We talk on Steamchat nearly every day and have done so for many years now. Are we usually this blatant about it? No. But screw it, this was a small game, it was both of our first games in a while, and we were going to make the most of it.

But then a couple things happened. First of all, we were both left alive. I don't know about khaan, but I know that one of my usual flaws is that when I'm nightkilled, my activity drops way off, sometimes completely. Secondly, we were both under suspicion for what we perceived to be bad, illogical, disproven cases against us. khaan and I will sometimes, especially to each other, take the facade that we don't care, that we're above it all, but the truth is that we care immensely and deeply. We're fiercely protective of our reputations, and even more than that, fiercely protective of what we perceive to be the prevailing wisdom of the greater metagame which we worked for so long and so hard at to help shape.

So when we saw and see bad reasoning thrown around like it's gospel, we reacted. When said bad reasoning was used against us and actually picked up steam, we closed ranks. In the words that I've used to him several times now, the tiger was poked.

I wasn't fully locked in at the start of the game, but I definitely am now (I'm also drunk but that's its own separate issue). I think our goal, even more so than sniffing out scum and stringing them up to a tree, is to re-establish what we perceive to be the natural order of things. And that's bad logic being thrown back in its place, and even more so, the town going out on a limb and taking actual risks to kill the mafia. That's why I've been hounding you in the game as well as my big analysis post for being such a golden-boy townie figure, because by-the-bookness isn't enough in vanilla games. Not at the endgame, not with everything on the line.