So, first off, it's night-time. If you're gonna get lynched, it's not for another 72 hours. Here's what you gotta do in order to A) not get lynched and B) help town.'
First, we know you're not gonna get shot tonight (unless you're blue) so we don't need to worry about that.
Imagine you're looking at someone and they're super scummy. You plan to spend the next 72 hours trying to lynch them. Well, if they just argue with you, yeah, okay, maybe that would convince you. But what would convince you MORE? Well, if they found scum on their own!
What I recommend you do is just go completely quiet between now and daybreak. Take a look at everyone's filter. Try to find the scum. If you get lynched, they'll see you're a townie, and read your cases, knowing they were honest! So do some serious research. Make a post that says something like this:
1. I'm making this post before daybreak, just in case I get shot (unlikely).
2. I think X is scum. (include long analysis of X, and why they're scum).
3. I get that you think I'm scummy, and I see that Y and Z have made cases against me. I'll do my best to address them here.
4. I think we can agree that even though I might be a bit scummy, my stuff makes sense from a town PoV, and X's stuff is clearly scum.
Basically, the only way to save yourself and make this next 72 hours helpful, is to find scum. If you can find scum, town will lynch scum instead of you. No matter how strong the case against you seems to be, it's false-- you're town. There's a real scum player out there, and if you find him and make a case against him, it will be stronger than the case against you, because he has scumslips, actions that only make sense from the scum perspective, etc.
It's a lot of work, but it can be worth it.
and worse case scenario, if they lynch you, they'll be "oh she was town! well now her case sounds better, let's talk about that" and catch the scum tomorrow.
whatever you do, don't let town waste a whole day not talking about anything and silently sheeping you. Fight hard, and find scum. Force scum to come out of their shells and argue, to produce evidence for you and others to find.
-Blazinghand
Original Message From suki:
Hey blazinghand, just selected your name randomly out of the coaches in the OP for Mafia XVII.
Due to bad reads and bad luck I've gotten myself in a situation where I am pretty sure I am gonna get mislynched. The best analysts we have are both pretty sure I'm scum.
I'm at a loss for what to do because I don't have any good reads. The last remaining mafia seems to have gone for a really aggressive bussing strategy to gain crazy townie cred, and I have no good reads on anyone.
My question is, is there anything I can do to help town at all? Since I have pretty much no credibility at this point maybe I should just stay quiet until the end? I really don't know T__T;;
Thank you,
suki
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