@BB: Espi's uselessness is not alignment indicative. It is still possible that he is scum, but his lynch yields the least information if he flips town. TrPrado, yourself and even me are far better lynches because they yield more information either way. For this reason, mafia view Espi as an optimal lynch target for today, and that is why I think Espi should live another day.

DAY ONE OFFICIAL VOTE COUNT 6.0:

Balki Bartokomous (4): guak, ND, Espi, Bo_sox48
Espi (3): phil_a_s, Balki Bartokomous, DeathLlama9
guak (3): Lucland, americaslacker, Trprado
TrPrado (2): Jeff Kuta, SaladinSmith

No Vote: Yoyoyozo

Currently Balki Bartokomous is set to be lynched. The day ends in 10 minutes.

I am holding on Balki.

The thing that worries me now is if BB forces a tie by switching to Espi. That would be even worse than a mislynch.

I mean BB forces a tie by switching to guak.

I can switch to Balki just ahead of deadline, and also he'd have to switch to guak, but yeah.

@DL: his behavior is only scummy if BB flips town, something that I find quite unlikely. On that same note, he is obviously town because everyone wants him dead except me who simply didn't care about him until I noticed everybody wanted him dead except me

@guak, your going to have explain your criteria for yielding useful information. My criteria is someone who has been commented a lot by a lot of people. As seeing someone flip (either way) may change the way we think about the people who have commented on that person. Another way to analyze is through the comments that the person who flipped made. But that may be more WIFOM and harder to deduce, maybe not.

Anyway, through that lens, I think Espi makes a lot of sense, as I said earlier. There has been a ton of discussion on Espi. Lots of people have taken solid positions on him, that will be put under the microscope if he flips town (not least of whom me).

If you are really so suspicious of me, lynch Espi. If he flips town, then you'll have some real ammunition to start to build a case against me.

If everyone else wants him dead, then 79% of us are quite the hypocrites, aren't they

I will nto force a tie by switching to guak.

I actually think that's a useful point. Guak, why would you think that lynching Espi would yield no information, if you think I'm mafia and he's town? Wouldn't lynching Espi, and seeing him come up town, by a great place to start a real case against me?

Answer this please.

Come on guys, we can still get Espi dead!

Where is everybody?

@Balki: it wouldn't be better than lynching you. I think lynching you skips the waste of a town lynch. And because Espi has been so widely scumread, the guilt would be evenly spread out amongst most of his accusers

I would but I agree with Jeff that a tie is worse than a mislynch.

Okay, well, I put my thoughts on the page already, and I stand by them.

My scum reads are Espi, TrPrado, and Yoyo.

Hell, if someone switches to Espi now, I would probably kneejerk vote Balki.

While if you flip town(doubt it will happen) then Espi's bandwagon vote becomes significantly more suspicious than the rest of the voters

Somebody strengthen the vote now to avoid a tie please

It's already suspicious guak.

Guys, Balki's aside-from-slip-day-one has been absurdly towny, and without knowing the site meta or really the game his slip is explainable, PLUS he's great under pressure. Get useless, information-full Espi please

DAY 1 HAS ENDED.

DO NOT POST UNTIL I DO

It's 6...

Shit. It's too late. Balki did not deserve to be lynched but ##VOTE BALKI.

You guys suck

##VOTE Espi

Of I'm not too late

Ah, too late. Never mind.

What the fuck Saladin?

@BB: lynches that yield more information are those that were more controversial. If everyone is agreeing, there is not much info there

Guys stop posting

D1 Official Final Vote Count
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Balki Bartokomous (4): guak, ND, Espi, Bo_sox48
Espi (3): phil_a_s, Balki Bartokomous, DeathLlama9
guak (3): Lucland, americaslacker, Trprado
TrPrado (2): Jeff Kuta, SaladinSmith

No Vote: Yoyoyozo
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Everything is quiet at the headquarters of Section 9.

Too quiet. Where’s Balki Bartokomous? He’s not making his normal wisecracks on down days like this

The security monitors of the artificial intelligence laboratory begin to alarm. Paying them no heed, Balki Bartokomouscontinues plugging in strange objects to the think-tank droid terminals. Everyone shouts at him to stop. However he won’t. He can’t. To Balki Bartokomousit looks like he’s playing a retro arcade game, to Balki Bartokomousno one is shouting. To Balki Bartokomous, the breaker programs being uploaded into a highly sensitive part of Section 9’s research facility is nothing more than a Pacman high score.

He has to be stopped. By any means necessary. The other members of section 9 swoop in and knock him off his feet.

To Balki Bartokomous, Section 9 headquarters is now being invaded by aliens, aliens he must kill in self-defense. However he’s no match for the rest of Section 9.

It ends poorly for Balki Bartokomous, who’s cyberbrain cannot be fully salvaged.

Upon examination of the neural micromachines in his cyberbrain, it was found that , Balki Bartokomous, a regular loyal member of Section 9 (VT), had merely been ghost hacked and was not the cyber-hacker-terrorist you were looking for.

Night 1 has begun. You have 24 hours until the night ends.