H’okay, let’s get down to business here.
Whenever there's some kind of suspicion on me, I usually end up digging myself a deeper and deeper hole whenever I open my figurative mouth, so I'm gonna try to refrain from doing that here.
I'm speaking up now partially because I'm probably screwed if I don't and partially because HOLY FUCK WE NEED TO MAKE A DECISION HERE. I'm always a proponent of lynching on Day 1 since it gives us concrete knowledge of two roles by the second day. Right now, though, we're kind of nowhere.
As far as I can tell, the current count is:
Zircom - 2 (Jeroth, Chicken)
TC - 2 (FD, Zircom)
Chicken - 2 (Tag, Anatron)
Null - 2 (Easy, Tirin)
Maretocks - 1 (TC)
Jeroth - 1 (Maretocks)
That's a lot of indecisiveness for being barely more than a day from the deadline. Only Zircom, TC, Null, and myself have more than one person, so unless the game shifts monumentally in the next day, I'm going to assume one of those players is going down or no one at all. Right off the bat I'm gonna unlynch Zircom. I still find him kind of suspicious, but there are other, more suspicious people around.
Just gonna give a breakdown of every other player and why they are or aren't suspicious to me:
Tirin - Tirin starts off immediately by lynching Null with no reason given. That's kind of weird, but I don't find it super suspicious(although, strangely enough, Null ended up lynching Jeroth for OMGUS rather than Tirin, who was the first person to lynch him for no reason). He quickly switches to me, now with some form of joking justification. Later, he gets drunk and switches to Easy, then to TC. He makes his first non-joke lynch on Zircom, making a slightly questionable statement about lynching TC in the process. It doesn't seem too suspicious to me, though. More like standard Tirin fare. The bandwagon comes for Zircom and Tirin jumps off, finding other, more suspicious people more worth his time. He eventually settles on Null, which is where he is right now. I don't see anything super scummy about Tirin's actions at this point.
Firedemon - FD starts out by jumping on the not-yet bandwagon of TC. This is Firedemon, so that's to be expected. Since then, he has not changed his lynch and has added nothing to the conversation except to reaffirm his TC lynch and to cast suspicion on the person who would theoretically hammer TC. I have to say, FD going off the map like he has is a pretty suspicious, but based on his early posting I think it might just be outside circumstances rather than a concerted effort. He's a little scummy, but there are bigger fish to fry.
Easy - Easy summed up his own activity pretty well in his masterpost above. A lot of people are saying he's been too quiet and too jokey, but those don't ring as particularly valid to me. He hasn't been as talkative as he could be, but he has given reasons for that, and he has added a lot to the discussion regardless. I don't find Easy very suspicious at all for now.
TC - TC starts off by lynching Firedemon. Again, to be expected. In response to this, I inadvertently start a bandwagon that almost kills him(oops). While this is going on, TC switches his vote to Jeroth for a really stupid reason that I wouldn't have questioned in the joke lynch stage but which seems to be enough for TC to warrant a place on his susometer. I'unno. TC then makes some nifty RP posts that kind of turn into a vague roleclaim, but more in a jokey sense than a serious one, so I'm gonna let that slide. At this point, TC realizes he's about to die for a really stupid reason and makes everyone aware of this. The TC bandwagon falls apart in favor of a Zircom bandwagon. Now TC wants to slow that bandwagon down as well until he can hear from Zircom and Maretocks. Good on him. After hearing from Zircom, he switches his lynch to Maretocks, where it remains to this day. Which is kind of weird, since Maretocks is so low on his susometer. Eh, whatever, it's a pseudoscience anyway. I don't find TC super suspicious. His suspicion of Firedemon seems a bit hasty to me, but again, that's to be expected.
Jeroth - Jeroth goes after Null first, "for having a special name". He then hops onto the Zircom bandwagon fairly early on, and he remains there even now. Actually, I didn't realize until going back through the thread how little Jeroth has said. He's only made three posts, and one was a joke lynch. I don't think his contributions have been significant or insignificant enough to really convince me either way which side he's on.
Anatron - Anatron starts off with a joke lynch in the middle of the Drunk Tirin saga, which is perfectly fine for that stage of the game. Then he disappears for some time and comes back with a post that makes me immediately suspicious of him. I'll admit, it might have been a gut reaction to him lynching me, but I agree that my actions could easily have been read as suspicious. What got me, I think, was his immediate jump to the defense of Maretocks, justifying it with things like "the lurking wasn't too heavy" and "Jeroth passed him over in the OP". What the hell does that even mean? Actually, I think that post is the only reason I'm suspicious of both Anatron and Maretocks. Anatron doesn't really do anything super suspicious after that post, aside from briefly switching to a joke vote less than two days from the time limit, but that doesn't last very long, so eh.
Tag - I'm getting tired of writing big blocks of text about each person, so I'll just say that Tag doesn't seem suspicious to me. He's remained mostly jokey throughout the game, but I don't find that super scummy coming from him.
Maretocks - Maretocks is absolutely silent for days, then shows up, makes two joke lynches in quick succession, and promptly disappears again. You could argue this is just him being inactive and not being very invested in the game, which is perfectly valid, but it's also not enough to so easily dismiss him as many people seem to be doing. Maretocks certainly isn't my number one most suspicious person, but I wouldn't let him off so easily.
Null - There's nothing I can say here that wasn't already covered in Easy's masterpost above, and Null's response to said post is the icing on the cake. Probably the most suspicious player this round and one of the people with two lynch votes to boot.
Zircom - While I find Zircom's actions in the TC bandwagon suspicious, I think what he did can just as easily be chalked up to hopping on a bandwagon without realizing how close to a lynch it was. I myself went and did the exact same thing shortly after. So again, I might keep looking at Zircom funny, but I think there's definitely better options. Or at least a better option.
In conclusion, FoS Anatron, FoS Maretocks, lynch Null.
God, I spent like two hours writing this stupid post.
