"guak was lurking and sat a vote on me D1 so yes he could also be scum, and vecna has been weird about protecting me so he could also be scum, everyone could be scum"

Espi quite: "everyone could be scum".

Great.

Ground Zero.

Wjessop you have been grilling me for about an hour and a half now, and yoyo just started, I am one person. Give me time to respond in a meaningful manner, I am answering your questions while you are not answering mine.

EXACTLY. GROUND ZERO. WE ARE 6 VS 3. MANIAC AND JEFF AND I ARE THE MOST LIKELY VOTE TARGETS TODAY. I FEEL ATTACKED AND AS IF I WERE BEING SET UP, IF I AM BEING SET UP IT IS BECAUSE OF THE 3 OF YOU, IF I AM NOT BEING SETUP MANIAC IS MAFIA AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE. WILL YOU PLEASE STOP GUNNING FOR ME BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALREADY SCUM READ ME, FIND MY TEAM IF I AM ON ONE AND BE PREPARED TO FIND A TEAM OF 3 WHEN I TURN UP DEAD AND TOWN.

Like that?

What questions do you want me to answer?
You haven't asked me any, you're too busy trying to save yourself.

Wow.

Espi, you are saying that if Maniac isn't scum, than you will be able to link someone that you are 90% sure is town with 2 other people. You realize how ridiculous that sounds right?

I have been trying to get you to stop being such a fucking idiot and to stop tunneling on me. If you can't even fucking read my posts to see my questions you don't deserve me pointing them out. I am tired of this wjessop. I am trying to be calm and present a case for you, but you keep coming after me again and again and again. I can only take so much of this man. Do you want me to just leave, because that is what I really want to do right now. Just get a replacement for me and quit. I can't stand how you are treating me right now, and this is just a game.

Lmfao I cannot stop laughing right now,

@yoyo I don't know man, I really don't know. I was thinking clearly and calmly a bit ago and now I am not. I need a break, hell if I smoked or drank I would be doing that right now. This is stressing me out.

It probably is rediculous but for some reason I thought that. Maybe it is best that I get lynched so I don't come up with any stupid shit when I try hard for once.

@wjessop if I was scum right now, don't you think I would be voting for you in reaction to your attacking me?

"@wjessop if I was scum right now, don't you think I would be voting for you in reaction to your attacking me?"

No. Of course not.

That would be completely lame. It's called OMGUS = OhMyGodYouSuck, voting for someone 'cos they voted for you.

@yoyo I am glad you are enjoying this.

@wj I have been here for about 2 hours now responding to you. It is late and I am tired. Explain how I should be acting any differently.

My bad dude, the last thing I want you to do is feel unwelcome playing. Take a break, I'm tired anyway. We can pick this up tomorrow.

*steps back into the game*

Now answer the fucking question you cretin!!!

Espi, for all I know you're not upset at all, and you're just pulling out every story device you can to make us believe you.

But that *does* feel like tunneling to me.

I still think a lot of the things you've said and done in this game are scum-indicative.

I'm willing to let you go for now though.

Alright. Look. I am trying really hard to stay calm and not storm away. I did that before and that was not only poor play of me but it was stupid. I ignored you for several hours yesterday wj.

Want me to be honest right now? I think I mentioned it somewhere before EOD yesterday but I can't be bothered to find it out.

Honestly, I don't care if this gets out, because it will anyway and I don't want this following me into M15.

I have been exaggerating my behavior. Playing up my scummy aspects as much as I could after M11. I didn't even have to try hard, apparently just being me with some slight emphasis is very scummy. Hell, I have been mentioning M11 so much just so that I could be compared to the clueless and talkative townie that I was in that game. I started cussing more in Live games just so that I would have an excuse to do so in here. I have been acting especially scummy and uncertain and whatever the fuck else I have been doing just so I would appear to be Espi and wouldn't get NKed on night 1 for appearing to be playing differently, as I was in M13. I have been trying to bait people into voting for me. I was able to clear ghug and bo, mostly, because they recognized that. I thought I was able to town clear Yoyo too. ND I knew would tunnel on me and he would likely only do that if he was town, you I didn't expect. I have been greatly annoyed with you for going after me so hard and yes I think that is you playing poorly, but I thought that scum would just watch people vote for me and that would be who I should target. Let people think I am scummy, make myself into an easy lynch and then boom, at the very end I come out guns blazing and we win, simple as that. My plan obviously hasn't worked.

When I melted down earlier, part of it was because you were going after me so hard when I didn't expect it, and part of it was because I thought you and ND would lose the game for us. It was exaggerated. 2 hours ago I was completely calm, now I still am somewhat calm but this is grating at me.

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TLDR

Everything I have done has been me being natural, but exaggerated for effect. If I was somewhat confused I would act fully confused, if I was annoyed I would act enraged. I did this thinking some town would bite on the easy lynch, some town would town-read me and mafia would sit back and add in every now and then, but they wouldn't actively participate.

You just said that you were willing to let me go, for now. This is me being honest and saying something that I recognize will be read once more as completely scummy, but also completely me for once this game. Take from it as a scum-slip or as town-slip. I can't keep fighting you wjessop, I just can't. I am not voting for you or Yoyo although I am not giving up the possibility that you are scum either.

Now, I am too amped up to go to sleep, but I need a break. I am going to go watch some Netflix. If you want to talk calmly about this without pointing fingers I will be more than happy to, just please stop going after me for just a bit. I likely won't be around much this weekend, you can get me lynched then when I can't defend myself.

Acting angry and annoyed got me annoyed :(

Wow.

This post from Espi fully justifies everything I've said about his weird behaviour and strange out-of-character posting all game.

He now admits to the contrivance.

As you can all see from this very long, beautifully written account, Espi is not the dumb townie he's been trying to portray himself as.

He knows he's been caught out on this and can't keep up the act any more?
"Take from it as a scum-slip or as town-slip. I can't keep fighting you wjessop, I just can't."

I do mean it WJ, I only slightly exxagerated my behavior. after ND died and I wasn't the NK I see no point to do it any longer.

I knew it.

Thank you for vindicating me. I wondered how long you'd keep the charade up.

wjessop, you just read that in less than 3 minutes, and didn't even really bother to contemplate what it meant. You also jumped into saying that you knew it. Atleast think about what I am saying instead of immediately judging it.

@Espi: Rally a Jeff Kuta lynch -- he's one of your top scum reads -- and you keep saying you want to lynch a candidate based on consensus.

Jeff is the consensus vote.

I honestly don't know why I typed my 'rest' comment. My early buddy-ness was my just being my normal friendly self. My acting scummy as much as I could prior to the game was a backup plan in case I needed it. After 'slipping' I thought it best to see if my plan would work so I changed my behavior more. So far it has only made things worse and I do not intent to do it again next game. Is there any other action of mind you would like for me to clearly explain since I now stand a man revealed?

Every compliment i have made, I meant. Every suspicious thing I have mentioned is something I actually found suspicious. I am not as good at describing things as I would like, and I am often misunderstood so that as well was really me.

Maniac is ghugs vote and I should have continued in on him yesterday, if I had I or him might be dead and not ND, who we really could have used a read from. ND dying hurt me. He would have read me likely and found that I was town, then he would have been the N2 NK and I wouldn't be a lynch target, instead we could have focused in on who the mafia are.

2 dead town have stated that Jeff is a bad lynch, so unless you are saying that they are wrong and that Jeff helped to kill them knowing that they would clear him, and knowing that he was the main D2 lynch target (which, considering Jeff had his vote on me all day yesterday and ghug only town read him prior to being NKed and ND only red herringed him just prior to being lynched, makes no sense) I still think Jeff is the second best lynch. If he has more of a chance to die then Maniac I will vote for him.

@wj thank you, it is must easier actually being fully truthful. Had you not gone after me, I likely wouldn't have been able to do this.

Wjessop. Helping scum deal with their scumminess.

Changing minds, saving lives.

wj do you really want me to go for the easy vote on Jeff? Want me to switch right now and get you to switch back on him? I can do it very easily, hell we could almost get a unanimous vote on him, and then we find out that ghug was likely right and now it is 4 town to 3 mafia and we lose. But alright, I will give your way a chance.

##VOTE Jeff Kuta

You are voting for him, Maniac I think was voting for him, DL wanted him dead yesterday so he will likely vote for him, Vecna will go with the popular vote, I am voting for him, bo should vote for him, yoyo can be convinced to vote for him, I have no idea what guak will do but probably sit on an easy vote, and then we have 7 or 8 votes against him while he continues to vote for me. Then we gain no information from his death. IF he somehow ends up scum you target me D3 and we lose since he has posted so damn little and we have nothing based around him to go off of, if he ends up as town then we hope that ghug and I and everyone else that voted for Maniac yesterday were right and that we are going in the right direction, but we still have no idea who his teammates are.

Now, will you please read my post just above this and tell me if I am right or not about what is likely to happen.

Ohh, forgot something. If Jeff is scum it will be 5-2 tonight and likely bo or guak or someone that can change votes is killed and I once more am left alive as a scum target so that they win by making it 2-2 EON3. If Jeff is Town it will be 4-2 tonight and once again, likely bo or guak or someone that can change votes that will be killed and I am still a suspect. If bo is killed my yoyo/bo/wjessop possibility is crushed and I will have to go for a Maniac/Jeff/guak or Vecna connection as the lurkers. If guak is killed I will have to suspect yoyo/bo/wjessop as being the active scum trying to guide this entire thing.

Please tell me that I am making sense right now.

@wjessop … why did you expect ghug would die and why did you feel the need to say so?

@guak … wake up, it's D2, your hibernation period is over.

@Yoyo … please respond to me. Also, what is the purpose of arbitrary percentages? Explain how you got those numbers.

@Maniac … You straight up lied in your reads. Explain yourself. ##VOTE Maniac