I just read through freedom again. I'm going to break the rules and defend freedom now in hopes of shifting the tide to imopen instead.
Mostly by looking at player associations, I'd think. I can definitely see where this is a harder game, both for the town and the mafias. The mafias each have a harder victory condition, since they must get the other team killed as well as seven townies, and pretty much can't afford to lose a man, since it makes winning much harder. It is also harder for town, since the scum will be scum hunting as well and we only have 1 power role.
This is freedom's fourth post, early in the game. I consider the bolded a minor town slip (there are 9 townies in this game, not 7).
Naked votes CM
which I didn't like at the time, but
his follow-up explanation (to Wraith) isn't bad.
Wraith, we seem to be in disagreement, probably because one of us is reading the situation completely incorrectly. Let's try to clear things up.
Snipped from a larger post. Pretty... defensive? That's not the right word, but you know what I mean.
Still don't like the mindset of
this post...
Caught some flak for caring about his own towniness, for example:
this post. The thing I'd forgotten
is that freedom cared a lot about this as town too (in DTR mafia). Most townies don't care much about their image, but some do. freedom is proven to be one of those, making this line or argument null for him in particular.
Now, him and imopen buddying/defending each other (a series of posts). Read through this again with the mindset that they are not scum buddies (something I'm 100% convinced of). imopen still comes off poorly, but freedom doesn't feel as much like scum buddying town. If imopen's not freedom's scum buddy, this is not incriminating.
Pretty sure
this is a townie post. Scum don't tend to leave loose ends when responding to accusations (unless they don't plan on following up, which freedom did).
freedom's case on zemanjaski is for the most part
honest, logical and complete. His conviction is there. There is no twisting of Z's posts. No omission of town posts. The only thing I still find odd is that he says he can't see the two-sided nature to Z in this game, when the beginning of his case started with him calling Z town. All in all though, this case feels like a townie wrote it.
Then, yeah,
the probably-fake town slip. Thing is, if you come to the conclusion that it's probably fake (I think it is), that doesn't necessarily make freedom scum based on what I said earlier. freedom, as town, wants to be considered town.
freedom goes on to give up. However,
despite giving up, he has continued to be involved. I don't think imopen can make the same claim (he only gets involved to defend himself), which just strengthens my scum read on him.
So, all in all freedom might be scum, but I think it's more
likely that he's town. I'd give him a slightly-better-than-null 75% chance at this point. Can we lynch imopen now?