Salmon Meerkat

Is "melon" supposed to rhyme with "felon"? And how so? "Meelon?" Fehlon? It's a shame that we lost a Lightweaver... would have been useful later on.

I'm not sure what to say that hasn't been said. Dingo's death was disappointing, and if he had just spoken up, then it would have been avoided. I guess we'll see what happens in the morning.

So this is the new vote count. (My edits are strikethrough and underlined) To make this more simple, this is all that really needs to be known. Dingo (5): Falcon, Chameleon, Dragonfly, Beagle, Crocodile Swan (4): Gecko, Meerkat, Axolotl, Zebra As the vote stands, it is highly likely that either Dingo or Swan will be lynched. With only a vote separating them, vote manipulation is a key factor. (Underline mine) This sums up the Dingo lynch, and is probably why Beagle and Crocodile added their votes to it. Between Swan and Dingo, I do not have a true preference. As Dragonfly said, the Swan lynch did generate discussion. The Dingo lynch also served the same purpose, (providing a different lynch candidate to Gecko, more active, and generated discussion). Dingo has not been a truly inactive player, but is just active enough to not be classified as inactive, as Dragonfly explained. Both lynches have achieved the goals I set out earlier. To prevent more vote manip, Swan, Dingo.

Not that the argument was wrong, rather that it didn't mean anything. It was fluff, a filler, an illusion of size. And I wasn't lying, because I truly did feel like it was a little confusing. You miss the true reason why I brought such a forward argument. I feel that someone, should be lynched today. There are 30 of us, quite a lot, and quite difficult to keep track of all at once. I didn't see much reason in lynching Gecko, who wouldn't give us much information, so I wanted to present the village with another candidate. It was up to the village to determine how they felt about that.

That is true. Other variables will contribute to the chance of lynching an Elim. However, most discussion analysis becomes more effective over time, as evidence is tested against confirmed alignments. Thus, at D1, most discussion analysis yields are near zero.

I understand that bit. Really, I wanted another point to express to make my argument seem more valid. Thank you. Again, about the RP, I was trying to find something to shift suspicion towards you to make my argument seem more valid. As for your other points, those are valid. You and I seem to have different opinions about the lynch, which is okay. However, the ever more pressing question is who to lynch. And your statistics are faulty. If there are 30 players, and we assume 6 Elims, there is only a 20% chance that we lynch an Elim. If we use your scenario, 6 lynch candidates, how can we be sure that there are even any Elims in that group? If we have a group of all villagers, then there is a 0% chance of lynching an Elim. But we have no idea what the alignments are in the group, so we can draw any conclusions yet. And I'm apologetic because I'm sympathetic. I try to be an honorable player. I see an immediate problem with the 3-way tie for two votes right now. If a vote were to be taken off Gecko, we'd be at four different players tied for the lynch. Those indecisive will enjoy such an outcome, since all candidates will have an equal chance of death. I do think we should have a lynch today, because with 30 players, we need to start narrowing down the possibilities.

My thinking with D1 lynches is always that it gives us information. We need to start somewhere, as a village, and work ourselves from there. As to what the lynch actually is, we have Penguin (as a counterlynch to Gecko), and Gecko. Now, I don't see much reason to go for Penguin (haven't seen much of them yet) other than inactivity, but if you saw Seonid's discourse in the previous LG and Orlok's big speech on inactivity in the signups, Inactivity will be accounted for. I'm sure our faithful GMs have implemented multiple inactivity filters that will solve Penguin. Thus, lynching Penguin is useless and redundant. As for Gecko, it "explained" itself, but in vague pinkish terms. Please, please, provide a bit more than that, even if you are simply admitting it was a poke vote, or a random vote. Thus, Gecko is, I feel, a distraction implemented by itself and its own ambiguity. It provides so little information that literally everything about it is nonalignment indicative, and to lynch it would provide no stable leads. Thus, in the face of two poor lynches, I feel we must take a new route. It might be a little late for such a U-turn, but I think we need to force discussion in a new direction. Coral Swan. In all seriousness, not just your uncanny similarity to pink in hue, I feel that you should be a new target for the lynch. Please realize that I have no information about you, garnered from previous cycles, or anything. My main drive for this is to bring forward a more probable lynch candidate for D1. To begin my claim, I will begin with your vote on Ivory Dragonfly, which you cast in RP. Two things are strange about this. First, is your suspicion of Ivory. You provided no evidence for this, despite the fact that Ivory had been one of the more active participants in discussion, giving you ample information to sift through to give reason to your vote. It also raises the question of why you wanted to lynch an active player anyways, and a new one at that. You only said that you didn't want to lynch an inactive. I feel that if you chose to push a lynch on an active player over an inactive one, you should provide more evidence. Second, is your RP itself. You've established an RP base for yourself, but little else. This is not to say that I despise RP, in fact I find it fun and creative. But RP should be moderated with game discussion and contribution. Another habit you seem to have acquired is inserting ingame information into your RP, making it tedious and confusing what your actual meaning is. That might not be a proper lynching platform, but it is a little distracting. @Coral Swan I understand that no SE player wants to be lynched D1, but it is a critical part of the game. Indeed, this game revolves around Death. If I did not feel this was best for the village overall, I would not have been so forward in pushing for your lynch. A good day to you too.

I respect your proper taste in hue. Pardon me, I do not wish to offend a fellow non-pink. However, I do have concern towards Taupe Gecko, for selling suspicious auto insurance and actually tipping the vote towards the Octopus. However, until I will refrain from further action for it to show its true colors.

Hello, and no, it is not pink, it is salmon. There is a significant difference, and if you claim otherwise, I, along with my salmon brethren, will feast on your corpse. I would try to discern who is who based on their RP, but now that there is about a handful of RPers, and I feel it would be illegal to reveal someone's true identity in thread, I will refrain from trying. So in this game, there are bad-guys and good-guys. Bad-guys are bad, and cannot tell "pink" from "salmon". Good-guys, on the other hand, have exquisite taste and know the difference from pink (ugh) and Salmon. Luckily, there are no pink animals among us. It would make the game too easy: bad-guys are obviously pink. While I am on my fashionable soapbox (because only things that go well with salmon matter in my life), I will say that @Fuchsia Ostrich needs to remove its vote from me. It is looking very pink right now... for that matter, Coral Swan and Magenta Albatross are pinkish as well. Now, don't take that as offense, my fellow animalings. Only Ostrich has displayed true pink behavior...