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I gave you credit for being very good. Some people were throwing dumbness around in thread willy-nilly. In contrast, you were very controlled. But I didn’t know a single player’s history, I hadn’t followed or played a game in 10 years. I was just going on this game’s playing, what I could see.

Very good Duvors. I had figured Kotz was buttering me up in PM, playing an S-tier game. I figured Duvors had to be loyal if he started the lynch on Trekkie. I also had a hard time thinking town had a blocker in a six person game, when it was as likely to hinder town as to help. I wasn’t planning to vote, but Spaceman was absent, so I figured it was better than a no lynch day. Guess not. Sorry Kotz! You tried, but WIFOM got the better of me. If I take some reflection there, I should have figured town was more likely to reach out to me than scum. I was pretty much playing as a no-PM game up to that point though, and didn’t overly reflect. I had a jog, came back, saw that Spaceman hadn’t logged in for days, and placed the vote. This also had me unsure what Kotz results would be regardless. As a host, I never gave scum two abilities, but I let them choose which they’d like to use. But I know on EB, hosts have made scum kills unblockable at the end to make it “fair” so I still wasn’t convinced by Kotz’ logic. Duvors explanation snowed me ultimately. i figured the ghost voting was a necessity of the lower player base. It worked in towns advantage in that Tariq somewhat vouched for me by not voting for me, but against us with my vote. The question was, how would Spaceman have voted if he’d shown up

Vote: Michael "Navigator" Cassidy (KotZ)

Sure would have been nice if Cassidy hadn't passed out halfway through the day. His two cents are important!

At this point, since there has been no counterclaim, only a dummie or a scummie would claim I’m lying. That’s a fact you can jot down in your notebook for the future. Good luck trying to muddy the discussion further with your nonsense, ——— If the Pirates have a blocker, which seems unlikely with only six folk, Neville seems a fair target.

Hammond’s response leaves me confident he’s scum. A true pirate would know their death means the end of the game, and be desperate to turn the ship around. In contrast, Hammond barely registers it, and has taken his vote off me while still implying I’m scum. Trying not to panic, when a true pirate would be panicking! If Hammond is scum, and we still have a chance to win, I likely won’t last the night. Nobody can protect me, and I would be confirmed Pirate (happily being second to lynch Hammond after initially calling him out this morning, and being virtually confirmed as the doctor due to no counterclaim… our deceased shipmate Blake, an angel of a man if ever there were one, has voted Hammond; he’d have voted me had he been the doctor). Prescott as well will likely be town for starting the Hammond vote, and may also be the victim tonight. I’m not considering myself dead just yet. I’ll be able to vote tomorrow even if deceased, but will have no more info than you folk. But my suspicions lean to Neville. He is third to vote for Hammond, but rats often abandon a sinking ship. He likely saw how the wind was blowing. This is all based on the assumption we’re right about Hammond. If not, all this is moot

I applaud your absolute confidence and conviction despite being completetely wrong, and in fact, have evidence to the contrary. So far, we have only two facts: Blake was loyal, and I have claimed doctor. Everything else is conjecture. I must imagine such an unearned confidence in your ideas does wonders for your self-esteem in your pirate life, whenever you bumble into yet another error. Rather, illuminate for me what you would gain by me telling who I targeted? I didn't target Blake. If I targeted Hammond, what would you make of that? If I targeted Cassidy, what would you make of that? How about Prescott or yourself? What would you learn in any of those scenarios? In fact, I initially targeted myself, then a random choice when that was rejected. So there's your answer, I targeted myself. Analyse that, Einstein.

Neville still wants to vote out the doctor. Who I protected is irrelevant to the discussion. Pretty clear where he stands. Neville and Hammond are the likely scum. Well, it probably is do or die with this vote. No vote is equal to losing for the Pirates.

In light of the fact that Hammond has indeed unvoted previously, and furthermore was seen here following the conversation after me helping him unvote, I have no choice but to believe he is flummoxed and consulting his scummate on how to proceed at the moment. (Real life sometimes gets in the way, I have left my window open on my browser for the day and may appear "here" when I'm actually not, but Hammond was here and active. Then he was merely "here", and when he would be expected to participate, he didn't) Unvote: Paul "Eagle" Prescott -- Duvors Vote: James "One-Leg” Hammond (Trekkie99) The other principle I remember so clearly is that when the loyal pirates squabble among themselves, the scum sit it out and laugh their asses off. Again, this is why they tend to be quiet, so they are left out of the fray and below the radar.

Case one against Prescott: Prescott doesn't want to unvote the doctor. Case two against Prescott: Prescott says I said Cassidy was likely guilty, which I didn't. I said the suspicion goes to Cassidy. If you wanted to ask why for clarification, you could have: scum sometimes think a poor Pirate might assume the people voting for a revealed townie are scummy, even though day one voting is blind. That is far from "likely guilty." Case three against Prescott: And then says I declared Cassidy above suspicion, which I also didn't say. I said scum was more likely in the other group. And of course, I already acknowledged today that Cassidy could be scum. Case four against Prescott: in his first utterance today, he seemed to support the notion I was exonerated! Until I pointed things back at him, at which point he become sure I was scum. You've done a horrible job making a case for me, and then further done a horrible job unvoting when you learned I was the doctor. You are by far the scummiest, and that's all based on your public actions. More votes for Prescott! Dude is scumming up the thread.

Well, if this be the last day, I’ll let you know I am the doctor, and I was blocked last night. I proudly proclaim it, because there won’t be a counter-claim, except by a Redcoat giving themselves away. It’s funny, in these situations, so many people assume active Pirates who put there ideas out there are scummy. Better to say nothing and give others nothing to play with, I suppose. I’m going to use this as the telltale quote, along with ‘exonerate’. I never said we were exonerated, and again, I never stated my being a Pirate was an acknowledged fact except for myself, which was true. I do in fact know my place. All loyal pirates had a 2 in 5 chance, assuming there are two Redcoats. Scum love to manipulate words, which you yourself have done twice with me now. Vote: Paul "Eagle" Prescott -- Duvors Cassidy could well be scum too. A split no-vote will serve the scum as well as a misvote at this point. Bottom line, I’m the doctor, you three have misvoted.

I’m fluctuating between Neville and Prescott. Neville has been supremely unhelpful, just offering “that be scummy’ type comments, and proposing not to secure a lynch day one. Prescott used that word ‘exonerate’, which was simply wrong. Scum have been known to sidle up to known pirates in order to hide in their shadow. While I dislike Neville, Prescott is the one on paper that seems scummier.

Whatever you say. "A rush" in a situation where we literally have about two days left if Pirates are unsuccessful. Combined with your desire not to vote anyone off day one (wasting votes) which I already called out day one, you're my top suspect today. I wouldn't say "exonerate". Just that I know I'm a pirate, Cannonball was too. That has me leaning toward Cassidy as one as well. You folk will have to make your own judgment as well.

Well, that is an interesting choice. Ultimately I ended up voting with Cannonball, for Cassidy. In my books, that somewhat clears Cassidy. The Redcoats have but a day or two to get their dastardly scummy deeds accomplished, and their kill should elicit debate in what it means. To me, it means the quick suspicion goes on Cassidy, but I think it’s more likely the scum weren’t involved in that half the group at all (me Duncan, Cannonball, or Cassidy).