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1. So you're saying Tom knew right away he wouldn't survive and planned to be thrown under the bus even though his role was as important as it was ? Instead of actually trying ? No, what I think is that Tom saw how chaotic the thread was ( me vs, Dolby, Toads vs. Ness & etc. ) and decided to take advantage to hide and then when people were like " we can't lynch inactives " it gave him even more reason to stay away because he could play it off like some uninterested Townie. So I definitely don't think he gave up right away, rather he tried to play inactive Town to keep people second-guessing. I think the former was him latching onto me in case he ever got lynched or died via Vigilantes. Can you explain why two mafia members would take side with each other that early in the game ? Literally hours within the start of the game ? Too obvious. That's a horrible move to make that early in the game, unless you are trying to plant a seed for people to look back on.
Mafia 2, why I needed to sacrifice Hikari was because I claimed Detective. I had to make it seem like I was able to catch a red if I inspected them. Technically I was busing him because they needed proof I was a Detective and I'm almost 100% sure someone had inspected Hikari so it was a trap anyways. I gave them the read they wanted to avoid getting caught as a fake Detective. Why claim Detective ? Because everyone roleclaimed back then and their roles were always leaked, so I was able to say " yup this person is this role he / she is not lying " to gain their confidence even more. The only reason people believed me was because I was confirming peoples' roles ( they roleclaimed to me in confidence - perfect for a DT ) and I passed their test on Hikari. SuperPenguin was a Vigilante in that game and also wanted to shoot Hikari. I had no choice at that moment but to side with Town and get him out. Its far different from this game, so you using it as an argument is very weak. This game I went out of my way to tackle Tom even though a) No one found me suspicious so I wasn't in any / much danger and b) Dolby was most likely going to get lynched over Tom ( the double voter was so confident he needed to be lynched that he placed his vote on him more than 10 hours in advance if I remember correctly - although it was also because he was on vacation I think ? ). People were literally saying they didn't want to lynch Tom as an inactive. There was no need for me to bus a teammate that early in this game either. He definitely could have been saved for a later lynch, were I on his team. I'm guessing you're going to say " oh but that makes you look even better now ". Actually it makes me look worse because a) people already had this notion that I like to bus teammates and b) I was one of the few that really felt Tom should be lynched so that would hurt me more if I were mafia, more than stay neutral with everyone else and lynch Tom in a more subtle way.
2. You're jumping on the other side of the fence too though ? Saying people who voted themselves " blah blah blah ". I self-voted because I did believe what Punchy was saying and if he was mafia it would obviously have to do some sort of damage to Town. By the time he was self-voting and being cooperative in his own death, people were saying it could be a reverse psychology tactic. Which did make sense too. You brought up my decision to vote for No Lynch. My decision to vote No Lynch was because I literally wanted there not to be a lynch to buy us more time since people were overly driven to lynch Trundle. The push didn't make enough sense and no blues claimed at that point so it was hard to trust everyone jumping on Trundle. Vanessa switched to No Lynch off of Kermits and at that point votes were getting split 4 different ways ( Kermits, Kammm, Trundle & No lynch ). I felt like everyone would be more okay joining a No Lynch movement versus a Kammm / Kermits lynch up against Trundle because it was the safest route to take instead of risking a mislynch. So the movement needed to be started.
3. Mislynch phase or not, no matter what, leaving seeds of doubts on a player works to your advantage because it will always be seen as a possible reverse psychology moment by everyone. So I could have been a mislynch for you no matter what state the game was in. Stop relying on saying " but how could we know and plan it out that blues would claim " because that's irrelevant. It didn't matter how many blues claimed because those seeds could still be useful in bringing me up towards the end as a potential lynch candidate whenever you guys wanted ( whether we were in the mislynch phase or not ). Funnily enough now you're using what Tom laid as a seed to be your argument against me. Who would have guessed ? The seeds of doubt ultimately led me to this position where everyone is questioning whether it was reverse psychology or not.