Okay well...here we go
I hadn't been elim for a longggg while so wanted to try it out. It turns out that despite my bloodthristyness, I am terrible at being an elim. I was only able to stay alive because bodyhops were avaliable to me, and I did rely heavily on them. I don't know if I would fare better in a different game, but I just don't do well coming up with fake information unless I have a large (like 5 hour large) block of time where I can just do analysis. That's where my long post when I was weasel came from, but my voicing was different from them which I think also got me caught in both cases? Being elim was fun, but I'm starting to see where Kas is coming from with his village=life ideas.
Things were going pretty good, with me getting Weasel's protect and then Vulture's vote manip. But partway through the game I got quite sick, and my activity tanked. I felt pretty bad for scorp when they were left alone in the thread, as normally I would have at least given them fake analysis so they weren't just alone in the thread trying to solve a game that nobody else seemed to be playing.
Even though I do suck at being elim, I apparently can pocket succesfully. I managed to pocket Mat and turn his suspicion mostly away from me for the majority of the turn, which allowed us to hammer onto him last minute :P.
Also, hammers. Early on, we were able to do them simply because village just wasn't all there, and was split on decisions. We would then just hop on last minute and place our votes. Later on, even when people were there, we had gotten the vote manip from hopping so we were able to hammer anyway.
Sorry for killing everyone's PMs, I just couldn't resist trolling people, and had too much time on my hands. :P.
Thoughts on distro now
The fact that I started without a role def made us want me to hop right away from the start of the game, so I was free to do whatever I wanted so long as I didn't get lynched because I would hop and hopefully get a role. I think that the fact that all three of us had two hops might have been too much. We did end up only using three of the six, knowing we had more led us to deciding to go for more gambits.
We got insanely lucky on snatching two village vote manips.
Anyway I think that's all. Thanks Kel and El for the great game
And kel amazing writeups as always (i personally don't care if you don't get them done on time)
exp out