T-I-G CIV: Spambot Apocalypse (Game Thread)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Morsul the Dark

Shasta's sig...

I didn't even notice part of it was Boro's... typical; Morsul fail all around on that one.

True, actually, not as much fail. Quite interesting, in fact. I was typically blindly dismissing that as banter, but... might it have some relevance? Such as, a signal? (To expected Wolves? Assuming there would be two?) And then in the light of this, the interesting dicussion that took place prior to that, namely,

(start of the game, a few people post)

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

I am a wolf.

Her first post - aka, "I am a Cobbler" (messing around)?

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

If we can believe the narrations, there's a TomBot and a LucyBot, meaning there's two bad guys. However, we have a fair amount of people, so I wonder if we couldn't expect three? I'm inclined to think, with eleven people, three baddies might be a bit harsh (they'd only have to survive two lynches), so I'm going to operate, at least for now, on the assumption that we have two baddies.

Shasta mentioned two baddies... He did not really get much involved with G55 from his side, but maybe G55 as Hacker just might have thought him to be one, or just tested, anyway, and assumed that there would be two later, if Shasta were one of them, and telling the truth? (Though why would he? Anyway, this is not relevant, this is just to illustrate G55 if she were a Hacker's mind processes for her to come to the conclusion below.)

Originally Posted by Boromir88

I'd rather we have wolves. Spambots are nasty business. Years I've spent honing my wolf lynching skills, only to now have spammers. How do you even begin finding the bots?

Now actually I could see it as Wolf-reply to Hacker, in this light.

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

go to this site its great for finding bots the best out there completely free I used to be for flip-flopping. Now I'm against it if he's innocent his famous clairvoyant powers must be taking the week off. Meanwhile, the Night-kills have been awfully effective only 2.99 if you buy today

So, then this could be the Hacker testing the water for two assumed Wolves? (Quoting the sigs of two she thinks might be WWs, so as to let them know, or perhaps seek confirmation?)

But this really seems to me like such a wild theory (and really such a wild progress from the Hacker and Wolves, or at least one Wolf, if Boro was so) that I would not have believed it just from scratch.

Anyway, all of this is pure mind exercise until G55 actually comes back. Personally, even though all the above really looks suspicious, I would suggest following with what G55 says. I am most curious whom she is going to name as innocents, most of all.

EDIT: x-ed since my last

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

So, then this could be the Hacker testing the water for two assumed Wolves? (Quoting the sigs of two she thinks might be WWs, so as to let them know, or perhaps seek confirmation?)

To be honest, you're giving this post waaay too much thought, although I like the discussion as it can lead to clues. Boro's sig was completely random. Shasta's was there because it mentioned clairvoyant powers.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

I am most curious whom she is going to name as innocents, most of all.

Morsul, obviously. He was my first dream. Hence just about everything I've said. If you go back to, like, my first "real" post, I even hint at him. I'll quote it once I'm finished reading. I was hoping he was hinting back in a post a bit later, but then realized it's too subtle so probably isn't a hint. If you want to look for it in the meantime, feel free. I thought it would be obvious enough for people analyzing my posts post-mortem.

[Morsul the Dark]

Actually I picked up on the sig thing page one worked from that went for Rune day one because I knew The Shasta thing wouldn't pan out well, which it seems wasn't bad.

I'm fairly certain if Shasta was a bot I would have been night killed avoiding saying who gave me the clue made it seem like I was seer(something I hadn't really thought out.)