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Originally Posted by Macalaure
All of the above.  |
So, really, you don't want my attention at all. Looks to me like the case against me is picked, and at this stage I'm unlikely to dissuade it.
However, since I can't refuse a chance to argue, let's have a go at it anyway:
1.
Alona defended me.
Heh. Well, I haven't really got a defence for that, though it definitely depends on the assumption that she was enough of a newbie-wolf that she would be as obvious as to assist another wolf on the Day when she should have known full well (assuming the other wolves had the sense to tell her, even if she didn't already have it figured out) that she might die. It could be--less likely, I'll grant--that she's trying to cast a shadow on me.
More likely, knowing I was innocent (that is, knowing I wasn't a wolf), she assisted me out of the goodness of her heart without thinking that this might have any consequences. Surely I'm not the only one who picked up that
Alona liked people liking her?
2. My apparent lack of attack on
Alona yesterday.
First of all, you're right, I guess, putting things that way that it's a textbook case of "Wolf A votes for dying Wolf B to look good"--but doesn't it occur to you that it's
too much of a textbook case? If you didn't suspect me, would it look that obvious? Or would it look
too obvious?
Granted, that may not sound like much of an argument on my part, but I've definitely been around long enough to know how a wolf tries to look good voting for another wolf, and I'd also like to think I'd be better than that--that I'd have just enough of a trace of obtrusiveness that I'd be moderately suspicious, though never quite suspicious enough to lynch. It seems here that it's the other way around! I'm just a touch too smooth, so I'm definitely suspicious enough to lynch.
In terms of your specific charges that I a.) offer no substantive criticisms of
Alona, b.) offer lots of alternatives, and c.) couldn't have seen the
Morm-waggon coming...
a.) This would be pretty much in keeping with my general philosophical sense of "nothing is certain." It's also fair to note that, as with toDay, I was mostly active towards the end of the Day, by which time the arguments had been offered (my pre-bedtime posts were admittedly insubstantial due to the late hour), and, anyway, it's not like
Alona left enough behind on Days 1 and 2 (having a tendency towards fluff posts) that there was likely a lot more I could have gleaned than what was already being said.
b.) Alternative offering is what you do when you're not
certain of someone's guilt--and when you're an angsty philosopher player of this game. It comes from trying to look at things from every angle.
Granted, I'm not doing that today. Rise or fall, I'm tying myself to the
Morm-waggon. He has that effect of me (
Nog can too--glad he's not here!). I'm well aware that if he dies and is innocent, I'm going to look more lupine or ursine than the Big Bad Wolf. So I'm really, really, hoping he's guilty!
c.) I couldn't have known, yes, that a
Morm-waggon was coming, but when I voted,
Alona was merely in the lead, not certainly doomed. Indeed, the
Sally-waggon seemed to have a lot of potential (and if she was a Cobbler, you'll agree I'd have looked as good as with a wolf), and
Rikae and
Morm were getting mentions, as my memory goes. If I were a wolf, it would make more sense to have waited longer on my vote.
Naturally, of course, anything I've said will only confirm you more in your suspicion...