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Originally Posted by Fleeing Coward
Day 6: Freshmeat woke up and by pure luck as far as I can tell picked evnafets and Szilard as kill targets. Had he picked anyone but Evnafets, we would probably have just gone along with it and just tried to recruit him that night as originally planned.
Evnafets decided to go for an open attack on Freshmeat's credibility and I decided to join in after he decided to target me when his kill the emperor plan failed.
Saw the plan wasn't working with about 12 hours left, decided on a last ditch effort to change his mind and save the game for us via MSN. Pointed out that evnafets was the one that foiled his plan to get Szilard killed and was unlikely to be rebel because of that but didn't push to much harder least he gets suspicious on why I was defending him so much. Spent the rest of the conversation just defending myself while trying to get an idea of who his other suspects.
Started praying after the conversation. Fortunately, he decided to change targets, went along with it initially but had always intended to change back Gwyn ap nud at the end for the peasent kill.
I voted for evnafets for several reasons. First of all, Shadow said he was suspicious of evnafets and - wouldn't you know it - if it wasn't for a last-minute kill-change, he would've been killed. That seemed a bit fishy to me, but was probably a coincidence after all.
I found it strange that after about 5-6 days, evnafets was still alive, and doing so little to help us out. Since he'd make for a good alpha pick, there was a good possibility that he was a rebel (this later turned out to be a coincidence as well, as the alpha didn't even pick his roles this game).
What interested me was actually that he voted for easyname so late on day 2. It's the precise move evnafets would have made (in my opinion) if both he and easyname were rebels. Combined with the entire easyname/FC thing on day 1, an FC/evnafets/easyname rebel coalition was a certain possibility.
Since I had no scry at the time and I definitely needed a rebel target, I chose evnafets. I only found out later on that that was a horrible move.
You see, I was suspicious of Zar Peter for quite some time. That's the only reason why I openly told him on MSN that I was the Heir - just to let the rebels know who I was. Knowing that, it'd seem probable that the rebels would gladly sacrifice one of their own and go along with my plan.
To my utter surprise, I ran into a lot of resistance. FC joined in later on and refused to point at evnafets at any single moment. The same held true in reverse, even though there's no way they couldn't at least have a hint of suspicion towards eachother. I definitely knew these two weren't masons, so that only could mean they were rebels, as per my first guesstimation.
I was pondering on what to do next (I definitely couldn't keep on pointing at Szilard because the need to kill an additional rebel was too high), when FC contacted me on MSN. Since I was assuming that he was a rebel anyway, I paid close attention to who he was protecting and why. His comments regarding evnafets seemed interesting enough to me that I realized that evnafets might actually be the rebel leader. From that point on, there was no way I could keep on pointing at him. If I got the rebel leader killed, I'd just get killed on the night thereafter and I'd lose.
I *could* have engaged in a guessing game on the subsequent night involving the baner's protection until my coronation, but that was a bit too risky to my liking.
However, I definitely wanted to send the rebels a signal, so I wanted to get another important rebel role lynched. The rebel spy, to be more precise. Thanks to my conversation with FC (where he pointed out that Ranna would be a good pick for a rebel spy because she could slip under the radar), I decided to follow up on precisely that suggestion and get her killed. Turns out that yes, she was the rebel spy.
When the votes didn't change fast enough and Gwyn got lynched instead, I then honestly thought the game was lost for a moment, but threw the 'evnafets is probably a loyalist peasant' comment out there just in case. If there was still hope for me left (later on it turned out that yes, there was) it would be
essential for evnafets to survive until night 9.
This became especially risky when PGCoD suggested killing evnafets on day 8, but, fortunately enough, I managed to talk him out of that plan.