RE: Murder By The Book - Day 2: The Invisible Man
03-29-2014, 03:42 AM
(03-28-2014, 04:44 PM)Truegreen Wrote: »I can see little reason to reveal such a thing at least in such detail.
It's good not to let your opinion of me be affected by other people's descriptions of my typical play. However, I think I did say the reason I revealed my action despite little other tangible gain: if I hadn't, it would be a reasonable assumption that cyber95 was town. Mafia rarely dies night one, and all-but-never is janitored night one, so the victim would almost certainly be town (or at least not-mafia). This assumption would inform people's suspicions and beliefs, since much of scumhunting is seeing how people interacted and what the revealed alignments implies about the nature and meaning of those interactions. Had cyber NOT been janitored, I wouldn't have said anything, but I figured it was a bigger danger to the town to make faulty assumptions about who's who based on a belief that cyber was town than to reveal my hand and inform the scum of why their kill bounced last night.
That said, introducing doubt into one's own statements is often a pretty scummy thing to do (look how reasonable I'm being! Look how I don't tie myself to any one interpretation or definite course of events!), but... I just can't stop doing it. I almost listed like five reasons I might not want to reveal my flavor, two of which involved me being mafia. I... I have a problem.