ALRIGHTY, let's fucking do this.
Waiting for
@Cole to share what he learned, then I will vote and share my first two suspicions for wolfiness
our beloved shortkut wants his hand held. I will oblige.
for obvious reasons, I was assuming the wolves would have killed tonight, without that, we're pretty much still at square 0. theres not a ton of information to glean from this, but there's still some analysis we can do, I probably won't go QUITE as in depth, just because... well really I'm kinda clueless this time, but i'm gonna do my best here.
the wolves no killing is a huge gamble. it could backfire hugely by giving the civis an extra day, and the types of people that would do something like this is probably pretty limited.
on the one side, it could be considered a big brain move, and would need to have been done by someone very experienced in wolf/mafia games. I wont lie, I don't remember everyone that ever played wolf and mafia back in the day, so I can only narrow this down so much.
myself, shortkut, Zell, canadaguy, Ants! are the names that jump out at me that had played a lot of the game and I could see attempting something like this. (Vash was in a couple games I think, self admits to being "bad" at the game, but also said he totally would have done this, so he could easily go on this list.) these players would know the risk vs reward potential of this strategy, and all/most could probably talk themselves out of any danger that it crops up.
then theres th e other side. it could be considered a bit of a stupid move, and would have been done by someone very INexperienced in these types of games. maybe they genuinely couldn't decide who would cause the least suspicion if they were killed and rather than risk it, they decided to just no kill and see where the day goes.
names I dont remember as being big parts of wolf games that might be more inexperienced: God, Fools, Holly and Warp. I don't know any of them well enough to gauge whether or not they're good players or just enjoying the fun.
again, I am being perfectly blunt, there is NOT as much information to glean this time as I had hoped there would be, because I was anticipating a kill.
I'm actually not sure how to proceed. I don't think we can abstain again (either via rules or just because its not wise for the civis to no vote a second day in a row), the game has to be broken open. but I almost WANT to abstain again just because I still hate the idea of making a completely random or arbitrary vote and risk lynching a civi (same exact issue as yesterday.)
my gut says this was strategy, and not indecision. I lean towards one of the experienced players being able to pull this off, and not one of the inexperienced ones. if we are literally not allowed to abstain again, and/or I had a gun to my head, I would pick from that list.
@shortkut is about to post and say its definitely something I would have done. it is. I wish I had come up with it. hes going to assert he was right yesterday, and we should've forced a lynch to get the game moving in the right direction, and that this night proves that. because now we're still no where different than yesterday. he'll assert that I am a wolf and no killed in an effort to cause this exact chaos. but alternatively, shortkut could have also done exactly the same thing to "prove his own point", because now he gets to come in and say "told you fuckers we should've killed someone".
I don't know what to do here. I am still steadfast in my opinion from day 1, random arbitrary voting is stupid. todays day phase should have had one less civi to choose from, and at least *SOME* information gained from who the wolves chose to kill. but they did not do that, and i feel like we're still at square 0. abstaining a second day would almost certainly be unwise, the wolves will have too much opportunity and chance to sew seeds for the rest of the game. but I still hate the idea of arbitrary voting, the odds haven't changed at all, and we have even less information than I was anticipating having today.
I don't know... hopefully we can all talk this out.
No matter who says it
i knew there was something important i forgot to do
