So, all votes and the reasons for them, from yesterday: (I'm doing known innocents too, just for the record)
1.
Durelin for
Mänwe
For a little extreme day1-chatting, "his bragging of his fisherman wisdom is getting to me" and she says she has nothing better to go on.
2.
Rikae for
Mänwe
"Because there is something slightly forced, or fabricated, about the actual content of his posts" , underlines that there was a "lack of any other leads at the moment".
3.
Mänwe for
Nogrod
No reasoning in the actual vote post. Has previously suspected him for numerous reasons - at least for "alluding to the absence of others", for picking Glirdan so early, for not answering Mänwe's and Rune's points/questions and because suspecting a wolvish co-operation of Noggie, Roa, SPM and Kitanna.
4.
Thinlómien for
Rikae
For a weird early vote and an unreasonable case, emphasises too that there's not very much to go on yet.
5.
Garin for
Nogrod
Because he didn't want to vote his other suspects (Mith and Rikae) and because Nogrod might prove a dangerous werefaithful.
6.
Garin retracts from
Nogrod and votes for
Rikae
Is confused. Because voting Nogrod was in fact against his instinct and "because you shouldn't take votes lightly".
7.
Brinniel for
Rikae
Says she's going with her gut and because Rikae "only posted once, and within that post, made a hasty vote with little reason to back it up...".
8.
TGWBS for
Garin
Says he must either be a faithful or the cobbler, because of his weird vote and vote switch.
9.
Roa_Aoife for
SPM
Because of everything she had stated before and because she thinks it's suspicious for Sauce to consider Nogrod's behaviour unusual since in her opinion he's just normal. The previous states suspicions are Sauce trying to make Nog look more aggressive than he actually is, Sauce being eager to form a bond with Mänwe, Sauce comparing his own reasonableness with Nogrod's unreasonableness, Sauce's "too good at directing his wording to point one way, when he's actually meaning something else", Sauce has Rikae as a "back-lynchee" and Roa doesn't like Sauce's cases against Noggie overall.
10.
Kitanna for
Garin
"His vote for Nogrod seemed odd. He had a case going against Rikae, but decided not to vote for her because it could be viewed as a safe vote. -- I'm confused by his actions and am somewhat alarmed by them."
11.
Rune for
Garin
Does not want to spread the vote (would have preferred voting Legate), and says that Garin's more suspicious than Mänwe. Previously has said that his voting post (the vote for Nogrod) is contradictory and that he's odd.
12.
SPM for
Rikae
"Rikae's seeming enthusiasm for promoting the (then) gathering Manwe bandwaggon looks the more suspicious to me." Also finds her explanation about time problems unconvincing and her vote placement suspicious.
13.
Hookbill for
Mänwe
Because he has no better suspect and Mänwe acts oddly, admits that this might be retaliatory suspicion.
14.
Holbytlass for
Garin
There was nothing else than the vote in her post (and as she's a known dead innocent I'm too lazy to reskim through the thread to find out if she suspected him before or not, and if yes, why).
15.
Lalaith for
Holbytlass
Because she thinks Holby's a cobbler sending signals to the werefaithfuls.
16.
Durelin retrcats from
Rikae and votes for
Mänwe
Obviously because of Rikae's revelation. Has had somewhat vague suspicions about him before.
17.
Roa retracts from
SPM and changes to
Garin
Again, because of the seer-thing. Garin was her other main suspect (alongside with SPM), mainly because of his "weird display before he left" meaning the vote-switch, I assume.
18.
Legate for
Mänwe
States no reasons in his vote post, has previously suspected him for accusing out of nothing and being harsh/ruthless and mixing Roa with Nogrod.
19.
Mithalwen for
Lalaith
"Because Rikae seems safe." Has expressed suspicion of Lalaith's first post and has sais that unlike usually, Lalaith does not seem fine to her.
20.
Nogrod for
Mänwe
Thinks he might be the cobbler. Voting to assure Rikae's safe (or so I assume).
21.
Lalaith retracts from
Holby and votes
Mänwe
To assure that Rikae's safe. Is not very inclined to suspect Mänwe in general.
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Well, that took almost an hour and I'm not sure if I'm any wiser.
Not my method, it seems.
Lalaith's second vote has been criticised, and I don't see why. It seems everybody was a bit confused about the vote counts late yesterday and every good servant of Annatar would try to assure that the high priest's safe.
I don't know precisely why, but
Brinn's vote makes me slightly uneasy. It's somehow too clean and fitting... and bandwagonish... but I don't know. I'm trying to puzzle if I would have still voted
Rikae at that phase of the day, or would I have had some better suspect... I don't know... But if it's a possibility that I'd still had voted
Rikae, should I exonerate
Brinn's vote?
I understand
Rune did not want to spread the vote, but... Why didn't he build a solid case against
Legate and try to convert others to his side rather than give up his only serious suspicion not to spread the vote?
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I'll be back in a few hours, then I can be around for about an hour (or a bit less) and then I have to vote and go.