Okay, so almost all of my hunches were wrong; I'll get to that later---
But for now, I have news. Good news, I think.
So I've wanted to claim/have been willing to claim if anyone asked since Day 1 but I've held off until now, and since Unusual wanted the rest of us to claim today, I think its a good time as any, especially with what happened last night.
I will officially claim as the town's Positional Tracker. I am willing to answer any questions you have about what my role is or what I've done or my reasoning or whatever. But I am literally just a tracker, who tracks people... probably with like, a ship's radar or something (would space ships use some form of radar?....); anyways... yes, I am a tracker. That's what I meant when I said I was a "vanilla" role because--- I at least consider a tracker vanilla compared to like, I guess hipman's role as Executive Officer, which was definitely more of a themed role, since we're on a military ship in space.
ANYWAYS---
For the news, I tracked
Arelic last night, and they visited myuser. Thus, I think it's safe to assume Arelic is scum and killed Myuser.
Unfortunately that doesn't help explain Unusual's death, so I can't explain that. Sorry.
So that's it for my news. I am willing to answer any and all questions you may have.
However, as I have sort of been waiting to claim for quite awhile now, I do have some responses already ready to give you to some potential questions you may or may not already have after reading my claim and my news (that I've thought of anyways, if you have more questions feel free to ask) but here are some responses to some questions I'm certain will crop up.
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For the first order of business,
here is a list of all the people whom I have tracked the past few days:
Night 1 - Ender
Night 2 - K1ng
Night 3 - Myuser
Night 4 - Arelic
Now let me walk you through my thought process, and why I decided to track these players over the course of this game.
Personally, I've never quite viewed Trackers/Watchers that... useful honestly, at least not in the early game, since it's such a random chance that your target actually does something, and even then since you don't have any information your investigation doesn't have any context until much later in the game after other people claim, or some players die, or something people give powerrole results.
I've mostly seen them be used as ways of confirming if a player is telling the truth in the late game; but that's personally just my view of it.
That's why I initially picked both Ender and K1ng on my first two nights, since I had no idea who to track, and I didn't think it would be that useful initially (as I don't think I've ever played as a tracker/watcher-esq role before... If I did I dont remember it).
>Ender visited no one.
Thus I assume he is either a vanilla townie, or a vanilla mafia, since as far as I can tell, those would be the only roles so far that would not allow a visit at night. I lean toward believing he is a townie personally, though that's mostly because I have nothing else to go off of.
My visits to K1ng and Myuser was when I started having hunches as to thinking I was on the trail of a potential killing role, like a Serial Killer, or Mafia, and tried to focus in on who I actually tracked at night, unlike what I did with ender.
>K1ng visited Foggy; and Myuser visited Infected.
Honestly, I thought both of them were potentially scum... at least until K1ng turned out to be the doctor, and then Myuser visiting Infected, who turned out to be Mafia+it sort of supported Myuser's claim yesterday; that he visited Infected that night.
I originally thought it was K1ng because he visited Foggy, a potentially powerful townie role, and K1ng also mentioned being surprised the doctor didn't protect HK that night, who died, and thus I originally suspected K1ng was surprised Foggy was protected that night, thus negating his kill.
But I also wondered if that instead meant K1ng was a protective role, like the doctor, which is why I didn't want to act on it rashly.
Plus, I had another hunch, that being myuser, whom I wanted to confirm with my ability the next night.
Myuser I thought could have been a killing role because I just feel like a game without an SK or some kind of third-party killer wouldn't be a real mafia game, and I felt like HK dying at the hands of Weak, our vigilante-esq role, just didn't add up; I've mentioned this in my previous posts.
And since on Night 1, hipman was the only one to die, and the next night we had 2 deaths, and myuser claimed to have been roleblocked, I thought it could've meant he was blocked from killing.
...Of course, as I now see, both of those hunches were completely off base and wrong based on what transpired.
Finally, I decided to visit Arelic, mostly because I thought I could leave the more obvious choices of players who were talked about on the previous day to the more powerful townies, like Unusual as the cop, or myuser who could see if someone was a vanilla role or not. (at least, I assumed myuser's role means vanilla in regards to if its not a thematic role, like hip or Foggy--- though I may have a different interpretation of "vanilla" at this point in time), or even Foggy with any potential tracking/watching claims, since iirc Foggy said those were some of the things he could do.
I also didn't fully trust Arelic, since again, no one's really bothered to be suspicious of them after they confirmed Foggy's investigation into Notty, and I thought that was kind of silly.
Plus it was either that or Web, and I think someone said Web was town so I went with Arelic.
>Arelic visited Myuser, which was my result
And that's how I got to the current state of affairs.
And that's about the gist of what I was thinking when I made those choices.
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Now onto probably more obvious questions like, "Why didn't you CC Notty, Jkang on Day 1?"
Well, multiple reasons, actually.
For starters, I'll say I was thinking about it. In fact, I even said I was willing to claim that day in my post on voting Notty:
Okay I'm just making this all convoluted: I would say my role is vanilla, so it is possible, yes.
I can easily claim if you would like me to show what I mean; although I don't necessarily see a reason to do so at this point in time, though some might disagree in the future.
But ultimately, I saw no reason.
Yes, I would CC Notty, but at that point, all I would've been doing was revealing who I was to potential threats, because at that point Notty already had tons of arguments against her; the most obvious being Foggy's investigation and Arelic's confirmation that Notty was scum, and on top of that, we had HK who kept saying they could confirm that Notty was lying, and we can safely assume that would be true because if HK did visit Notty, she would've been roleblocked. Thus, I saw no reason to add another argument to the pile. It would've been unnecessary.
Some people may disagree with that logic, like I mentioned in that quote, but I still think it was the right choice.
Another reason was because I thought if I had CC'd Notty, it would have caused unnecessary suspicion on myself. Why?--- Well, if I were apart of the Mafia, it would have been such an obvious bus. A fake tracker claiming, and then immediately the real one shows up to counterclaim and thus get into the town's good graces? It seems like such an obvious ploy that the mafia would do; in fact I think Myuser even mentions the possibility of bussing in one of this posts during that day, just to add on to that fact.
I didn't want that idea to muck down the arguments against Notty already being presented; it would've taken away from that, and may have put the focus on me instead, and I didn't want the town to make a mislynch if I was deemed suspicious enough for the chopping block.
...Now that I've typed that out it does sound a bit scummy, but it's the truth of how I felt at the time and I'm sticking to it, since I feel it was sound reasoning.
I've.. actually wanted to claim since Day 2 as well but I just either forgot, didn't have enough time, or didn't feel like it was useful to claim.
Like, I actually wanted to claim in Me, Foggy's, Webs, and Notme's chat back when we all had General Quarters and all of us officers were grouped together.
I even said, along the lines of:
"I have an idea, but I'm going to wait until all of us have said something."
@Foggy or @Web can confirm I said this in our night chat; it was literally the last thing I said.
I wanted to claim in that chat because I trusted Foggy, and thought with such a powerful town role in the chat I could generally trust Web and Notme too--- sorta. At least trust in helping coordinate with tracking ability or to point out who might be suspicious enough to track, anyways, since again, I had no idea what to do as tracker since it's not a role I usually see be used to great affect.
...Of course I was kind of busy at the time and thus didn't get a chance to claim, and since the night was going on for quite a few days at that point iirc, I didn't want to let it go for longer and be the last person to submit an action so I decided against it.
Yada yada yada, and here we are, with me claiming here and now, with my results and my suspicions.
I know there were more potential questions I'm certain I'm going to get asked but I think I've written too much of a wall already, I'll just leave any more questions for you guys to ask, and I'll respond to them later.
I will most likely be voting for Arelic today unless something new comes up, but I'll hold off for now so in case I am mistaken or someone has more information, it doesn't result in a sudden bandwagon since I'm certain someone will have something to say first + it gives time for Arelic to defend themselves.
Etc. etc.
