Henry Ogden

I want to give the host a little slap for sticking to the format so much, when all three remaining players have made their cases and cast their votes... but there are some other areas where I’m insisting he stick to the rules, so I guess it’s a very forgivable sin Final vote: Louisa See you all in 72 hours!

Just a public note for Captain Bob: lif Patrick is recruited scum, I’m gonna be permanently furious for this wasted month of my life.

Complain to my pirate-cellphone make, scumbag.

I spelled it out for you, and you voted for me anyway. Your choice, but you’ll look over this game and see how straight I was with you at every turn. I couldn’t have been more straight with you, even with you blabbing my role, not wanting to vote Geoffrey, with you not getting what a role-claim was. You were voting for Louisa day seven, and one of the reasons you changed your mind day eight was that I stupidly pushed against it. If she were town and I were scum, I would have voted for her day seven and locked it up. It’s as clear as that. She’s here because I mistakenly thought she was town, and you thought she was scum. You’re the horse, I’ve led you to the river, and shoved your face in it. If you don’t want to drink it, I can’t do any more. I kind of hope you are scum, to make that voted excusable. —— If Patrick doesn’t change his vote, Louisa: good job not losing or winning. Final Vote: Louisa

Oh, you wrote Jack, not Joseph. Wow, you got me. That was my dastardly plan, pinning you with PM’ing the name Jospeh, not Jack. If only Patrick believed that, I would have gotten a draw, not loss. Now my whole argument is rebutted! /sarcasm. If that’s your attack plan, keep it up, cuz that’s weak. May as well attack my syntax next go round. Oh, it sounds like you can’t envision a win. A townie would have totally approached it differently, saying something like, “If Patrick votes with me, it’ll be a win. If not, so be it.” But you’re not town, so it wouldn’t come out like that. You envision a stalemate. You’re reacting, not simply being town, like, say, the happy-go-lucky pirate Henry Ogden has. The win is Patrick lynches you. Hopefully, this quote is the nail in your coffin. Patrick, if you have any doubt, go read the last day of Belville Mafia. You’re the Tammo here. Some things are a little different, but it’s on your shoulders. Louisa is trying to play it cool, but that is a scum strategy (which she has now confronted won’t even get her the win). Sorry for the mic drop, them blabbering on, but why not turn this into some sort of mafia school for the kids at home

Read the rules, Scummo: It should be parity, but it’s not. Now go throw your hat on the ground and stomp on it, then grit your teeth and shake your fist at me. Unless the host cheats, town can’t lose Outnumber: to be greater in number than someone or something Last I heard, one is not greater than one.

Patrick, if you’re town, then...the game is broken so scum can’t win. Actually, if you’re scum, the game is broken, and scum can’t win I have reasons to think both you and Louisa are scum, but since you gave the evidence that got Geoffrey lynched, and many (now lynched) townies suspected Louisa, yeah, there were some weird blocks that didn’t add up. I just gave them no mind because A) I wasn’t privy to all that was going on in your PMs, so I just figured I didn’t know about it and didn’t think about it much. I told you early on, the info needed to go one way, and not once did I pry anything from you, though you blabbed my role (as Joseph let me know in PM before he died, and Louisa pointed to you as the one who shared). I relied on public info for most everything. And B) I was stubbornly tunnel-visioned about my call on her as town early on and C) if you were scum, you would have just thrown up your vote against me, the townie, since Louisa went ahead and did hers already. Anyway, if you are town and vote wrong, you are jailkeeper and jailkeep yourself forever so you can’t die at night, and this is a majority vote system, so nobody can get voted out. So the game goes on forever. Or Louisa is the other town, and she blocks you, and you can’t kill her, so the game goes on forever. Captain Bob explicitly stated in his rules that scum must outnumber town to win, and that a majority is needed to lynch, unless he cheats the game somehow, with some fake strongman role or rule tweaking that would force all players to call shenanigans on the game. Only one game was the last scum player given multiple night actions, that I recall, and though that scum lost, it was cheat, and was called out for it regardless (and that scum was our own captain Bob, coincidentally enough, if I remember correctly ). Scum should not have any actions on top of their night kill, that’s a cheat. So the options are, and this is my idea: 1) You’re town, you vote Louisa, town wins 2) You’re town, you vote me, it’s a draw 3) You’re scum, you vote me, it’s a draw I’ll take it either way. This game is not about winning or surviving, it’s about not letting those scummy bastards win. On your side, hopefully (if you’re town) it relieves some stress from this choice, and if you’re scum, I hope you’re throwing your hat on the ground and stomping on it angrily. I’d prefer the win. Vote: Louisa Louisa, your only hope of winning was to lynch Patrick, but then could you block and kill me at the same time? That would have been fun, a mafia with zero survivors. See you all in the conclusion

So what are you thinking, Patrick?

I’m pretty tired of this, luckily it’s the last day. Patrick has to be town, unless he was recruited... which should be expressly stated up front before signing up. So Louisa, who lots of people have relentlessly accused, and I’ve stubbornly been sticking up for... and I haven’t been night killed since the scum have known I was PGO from the moment I told her... and there were some wonky blocks made... I don’t know that Timothy was scum, he could have hammered Jack’s lynch on day seven. I wonder if Patrick could be scum, after all, I had to convince him to lynch Geoffrey... but he was so sincerely naive about the jailkeeper being a counter-claim to Louisa’s blocker. All said, despite some solid play early on, I clearly messed up by sharing my role with the ‘town block’. I’m waiting to see what Patrick has to say.

Again with this, "I didn't trust Louisa!" nonsense. Same nonsense Geoffrey used as a defense when he 'tracked' Patrick. Do we need another 24 hours? Vote: end the day early

Vote: Jack Alden I’m town, apparently Joseph is cleared town. That means if Louisa were scum (which I doubt anyway) and Jack were a mislynch, the other scum would have hammered it home yesterday. They didn’t, and Jack, as a lynch target yesterday, was certainly no killer’s victim last night, though he was blocked. However you cut it, he’s the scummiest looking thing on this book. You’re disloyal Jack! How could you lie to us all like that, your pirate brothers in arms?

Patrick, you’re going to be the decider today. Are you going to give Louisa, who you’ve been working with and sharing information with for five game days, the benefit of the doubt?

The only two you trust as town are you and Patrick? Wow, you're getting lynched today.

Well, it looks like scum had an ineffective night

Unforeseen circumstances AKA a big pile of pancakes

I think town can win even with a no-lynch, assuming Louisa is town. One of the four townies die, and any way you cut it, thanks to this split vote, we should be able to figure out the scum from there.

So it’s Timothy and Jack who are, with Patrick being the townie all turned upside down. Louisa was town as of day three. Barty and Geoffrey tried to lynch her before her claim. They had to drop it after. If she was recruited or something after that, well, that’s the only way she’s not town. (If that’s the case, I don’t particularly care if we lose, since we should know up front if that’s the sort of pirate ship we signed up for) But I doubt she was. Me and her on a vote, joined by Joseph. If scum want to save their own, they need to push the lynch elsewhere, which would be by following Patrick’s vote. The only other scenario I can see with her being scum is this: the scum knows for a fact that the town has no blocker. Louisa tells Barty and Geoffrey to vote for her, then she’ll publicly claim blocker, and they’ll have to vote elsewhere. She’ll get some town credit, which gets her to day seven. It’s unlikely, but possible. Things against that idea are a) she was happy to lynch Barty over Timothy (and would she have accused Timothy in the first place if he were fellow scum?) b) she hasn’t worked hard to keep things going with me in PM. When I’ve been scum, I do a lot more monitoring of townies in PM. c) it’s just such a weird gambit to make on day three when you haven’t lost a player. @Patrick, you’re the decider here. Do you really think Louisa is the top target today?

Unvote: Joseph Vote: Jack

The rest of you lazy bums should get in on this. Vote early. You can change your votes if you think you should. Being lazy makes it all the harder for real town to make judgements.

Why Jack? This is why I went with Joseph. Though there’s an argument that as the contacted/investigated Godfather, he could steer future investigations toward innocent townies like myself. Hmm. I need to mull this over.

You guys need to wake up! Too much grog. vote: Joseph

I think it’s between Jack and Joseph. The investigator got town results, but one of them has a fair chance to be the Godfather. For me, I’ve said all along, we can’t just rely on results. Personally, I suggested to Patrick and he told me he had thought the same about jailing himself, but Geoffrey targeted him that third night. If I were scum, it wouldn’t have gone down that way. I was hardline about lynching Barty and Geoffrey. No question they had to be lynched. I felt pretty strong about Malcolm too, unfortunately. On top of that, I was investigated. So that’s my townie claim. The mason thing is meaningless to me. I can easily visualize a scum ploy where they say, “Let’s be bold, make a mason claim. We have a janitor role, so they won’t find out one of us is scum.” Being blocked is meaningless to me too, since night kills get passed around like Bob’s mother. You were blocked? You weren’t the killer that night. Easy explanation. i need to go back through the first few days to see what Jack and Joseph were saying (and Timothy for good measure), luckily we have a long time to make a decision.

Joseph, what alibi do you have besides the mason thing?

This is pretty bad. I still have some trust in Louisa after her early claim, but I have no clue where to go from here. The scum janitoring Malcolm did cause a bit of a mess.