Okay so this post is going to be long. Brace yourselves.
Piplup, I've honestly been pretty annoyed with your play for a lot of this game. You've gone to conclusions without ever showing reasoning in thread until just now, barely contributed in the thread unless tagged despite always viewing it, and have thus been pretty much impossible to work with on a team if you're a townie. Please please please just share your thoughts and say things whenever you are in the thread because it never hurts to do so and quite frankly, you are barely playing the game as is. There's a reason people have lynched you D1 out of policy and you need to contribute more to avoid that in the future. However, as I implied to Ephe Day 1, I think you're unfortunately in your town meta.
This game, Drac really hasn't pushed his ideas at all. There's something that's been so passive about him, throwing shade without sticking behind his words, and his posts on Day 2/3 have read like he knows I'm a townie but he's fabricating doubt rather than being legit about it, if that makes sense. That being said, I can't shake my gut feeling he's a townie.
Drac has a really good vote for TLS, especially because he just doesn't vote his teammates. But TLS voted Piplup in a way that made him a real wagon and that's also not a way scum treats their buddies. What's really got me here is the way TLS voted for Drac at the end of yesterday. That vote clearly had absolutely zero intent to lynch, since TLS would not get the vote off of him unless he actually defended himself. So what was the purpose of it? TLS wanted to buy his buddy some towncred. And what better way to do that than trying to exploit the associatives I'd relied upon so much that day and voting Drac to distance from him.
There's also the matter of the nightkills. Why was Jade killed over scattered? My original thought was scattered shading me at the end of Day 1 meant scum wanted him alive, but I think the much better answer is just that Jade was on the right track with his Drac vote and thus a larger threat to the scum. I also intentionally set up a dichotomy on D2 by playing up a Drac TR to see if scum Piplup might kill me in the night and leave scattered alive. But again, the player who scumread Drac more was the one killed in the night. The nightkills point much more to him than to Piplup.
Reading posts independently, I get more of a townread from Drac's and that tempts me to vote in his favor. But at the same time, all other dead townies had a worse read on Drac than they did on Piplup. I don't think I have enough confidence in my own personal reads to overrule three other people who all came to the same conclusion of Drac being scum.
And so at the end of the day, interactions, nightkills, metas, and listening to the rest of the town have led me to this vote. I'm so sorry if I'm wrong:
##VOTE: GM DracLord
@Ephemera @Jadethepokemontrainer @scattered mind This is for you. Best of luck.
