OK.
I think there's something going on with Hikari and Kingault. I also have a couple of problems with what they've done specifically.
When I voted Kingault for his terrible vote on CF7 around midphase, and Hikari responded at the end of his wall with a vote on me.
Here. The reason for the vote was:
Okay, so you vote Kingault for what I can understand are valid reasons, but your case on dan is just... No. And I don't think this game works on statistics.
Kingault's answer feels incredibly anti-town to me however, if you really are town then why is your answer basically amounting to "sure, whatever"?
I think Hikari's vote is worse than Kingault's for a couple of reasons, so that's why I challenged him on it twice and set a trap.
Part 1: I didn't make a case on Dan. I put a RVS vote out on Dan because I was frustrated with his apathetic performance last game and was happy to policy lynch him if nothing better came up. Dan put out a good first effort though so I was willing to shift my vote. I didn't exist in Hikari's analysis
until I voted for Kingault. Hikari even agreed that Kingault's answers are incredibly anti-town
yet still votes for me.
So, the initial reason for his vote was officially 'because my case on Dan was bad' and 'actually I agree with you'.
Hikari is aware their vote looks awful and feels compelled to post this shortly after, "Clarifying a bit more on my vote here: It feels like Sky Paladin is really grasping at straws here, plus the Kingault thing actually feels a bit opportunistic to me since people have been dismissing the CF7 wagon" At this stage, CF7 was at L-2 so this 'dismissing the CF7 wagon' bit is baloney. Actually, I was one of the people dismissing the CF7 wagon because I don't feel like there's really a case in there; however CF7's ACTUAL behavior is kind of anti-social so I'm not hard defending him like I was last game. So this is incorrect.
I then challenged Hikari for a
better explanation; "Kingault's post was bad, yes, but I also feel that you're way too opportunistic for immediately hopping on him." So now it's an opportunistic vote despite agreeing that King is totally scum for his post. Why won't Hikari vote for scum? Hikari also admits in this same post that he doesn't have any scum reads apart from Sky, necessarily excluding King.
I challenged a second time and Hikari
responds with the same basic point (opportunistic vote), but then adds "I'm not giving him a beginner pass however, mostly because I'm also a beginner and I'm trying my darnest". Except that you are giving him a beginner pass, aren't you? Then Hikari says, quite unprompted:
"Shadoweh > Serela > You"
Why were you voting for Sky_Paladin if you had higher scumread priorities? It sounds like there's a tactical reason behind not wanting to move your vote.
Anyway, so at this stage I felt Hikari isn't really voting me for the reasons they say. So I shifted my vote (Serela and Bardiche coincidentally provided a nice timing to look natural, thank you~) to see what would happen.
Sure enough,
Hikari's next post is him vote shifting off of me on to Shadoweh.
Now, you could make the argument that Hikari was thinking about vote hopping already, but I want to make the argument that Hikari countervoted me to protect his scumbuddy Kingault, and then when no wagon eventuated, needed to find a better place to vote park.
##vote KingaultKing voted CF7 so for this story to make any sense at all, CF7 is probably town, and Shadoweh/Serela are probably also town.
Well, this is my last post probably before phase end, so fingers crossed it's a good one.
