Re: TWG XLIX postgame (Wolves win)
Aww, I was really hoping if I pretended to mamimi I still trusted her, I would get to post this on the last day for an exciting last second win.
Guess I should have expected to get killed.
Aww, I was really hoping if I pretended to mamimi I still trusted her, I would get to post this on the last day for an exciting last second win.
Alright. I just had a full night's sleep, and in my dreams, someone stabbed me in the back...
This is getting ridiculous - absolutely anyone can see that mamimi has been siding with me for the entire game, and any half intelligible wolf would assume that she has some role and wolf her.
The fact is I had a very long conversation with mamimi, and had allowed myself to be swayed into making the general assumption that she was human. Many have made this mistake with me before, and as a wolf, I have owned entire games just because I had people entirely convinced that I was a human, merely because I had several hour long conversations with them without saying anything wolfish (HansSky is brutally aware of this.)
Something struck me as subtly odd of late with mamimi's third party messages, aside from the fact that mamimi has said very little to me since I've judged her motives as decidedly human, disappearing under the radar as any intelligible wolf in the clear would do. It seems to me that her use of her DBP as messenger is characteristic of a power role, subconsciously exerting itself. I am aware of her relationship with DBP, but what I notice is difference, it seems to be the presumptuous exertion and involvement stemming from having a power role, not a real-life relationship with the host.
It had been difficult to judge her behavior as anything but human considering she's done nothing lately but follow my command of voting for whatever person I've decided is likely a wolf, something every other bored human in this game has reverted to doing. Where I have to call the shots then, is looking in the past, when her game was not infallible. What gives me the most material was back when she began her half-hearted "gut feeling" voting for me on the second day. There's is nothing initially suspicious about phantom evading and poorly backed up votes - but it is in the follow-up, I believe, that her behavior is incriminating. It is not a knowledge that would be available to the general game, but comes from our conversations.
Whenever a wolf is trying to convince a human of their own humanity, the prescription is a dose of human strategy, a dose of lightheartedness, and a dose of returned suspicion for the person they are talking to. I believe she overdosed on the latter. I wolf's best strategy, as I've found many times, is to have a human which distrusts you believe that you distrust him, then fake slowly being convinced of his humanity and hope for the fallacious implication to occur in their minds, that they too are being convinced of the wolf's humanity.
As such, mamimi returned plenty of suspicion in our conversation, stating her lack of trust for me as someone had faked friendship with her in an earlier game and winded up being a wolf the entire time. Several times I had to reassure her that my humanity was not in question due to my being saved. She persisted sometimes, or quickly submitted to the logic at other times, and I attributed the lack of logic in her continued suspicion as a lack of strategic integrity on her part, but more and more, I don't think she is capable of that kind of opaque assumption. I believe she was still trying to reinforce her human image with a dose of returned suspicion - something that should not have happened at all, given the circumstances of my being guarded early on in the inactive game with no public knowledge of roles, and in a generation where players would have to be downright stupid to confess their roles without any proof of future logical inferences set up to catch a traitor.
It seems to me, therefore, that mamimi has played a delicate game behind the scenes with me to earn her ticket to the final 4 at a point in the game where I simply can't be sure whether there are 1 or 2 wolves left. It's time for a coup-de-gras, and the axe falls on x3Mamimi.
This is getting ridiculous - absolutely anyone can see that mamimi has been siding with me for the entire game, and any half intelligible wolf would assume that she has some role and wolf her.
The fact is I had a very long conversation with mamimi, and had allowed myself to be swayed into making the general assumption that she was human. Many have made this mistake with me before, and as a wolf, I have owned entire games just because I had people entirely convinced that I was a human, merely because I had several hour long conversations with them without saying anything wolfish (HansSky is brutally aware of this.)
Something struck me as subtly odd of late with mamimi's third party messages, aside from the fact that mamimi has said very little to me since I've judged her motives as decidedly human, disappearing under the radar as any intelligible wolf in the clear would do. It seems to me that her use of her DBP as messenger is characteristic of a power role, subconsciously exerting itself. I am aware of her relationship with DBP, but what I notice is difference, it seems to be the presumptuous exertion and involvement stemming from having a power role, not a real-life relationship with the host.
It had been difficult to judge her behavior as anything but human considering she's done nothing lately but follow my command of voting for whatever person I've decided is likely a wolf, something every other bored human in this game has reverted to doing. Where I have to call the shots then, is looking in the past, when her game was not infallible. What gives me the most material was back when she began her half-hearted "gut feeling" voting for me on the second day. There's is nothing initially suspicious about phantom evading and poorly backed up votes - but it is in the follow-up, I believe, that her behavior is incriminating. It is not a knowledge that would be available to the general game, but comes from our conversations.
Whenever a wolf is trying to convince a human of their own humanity, the prescription is a dose of human strategy, a dose of lightheartedness, and a dose of returned suspicion for the person they are talking to. I believe she overdosed on the latter. I wolf's best strategy, as I've found many times, is to have a human which distrusts you believe that you distrust him, then fake slowly being convinced of his humanity and hope for the fallacious implication to occur in their minds, that they too are being convinced of the wolf's humanity.
As such, mamimi returned plenty of suspicion in our conversation, stating her lack of trust for me as someone had faked friendship with her in an earlier game and winded up being a wolf the entire time. Several times I had to reassure her that my humanity was not in question due to my being saved. She persisted sometimes, or quickly submitted to the logic at other times, and I attributed the lack of logic in her continued suspicion as a lack of strategic integrity on her part, but more and more, I don't think she is capable of that kind of opaque assumption. I believe she was still trying to reinforce her human image with a dose of returned suspicion - something that should not have happened at all, given the circumstances of my being guarded early on in the inactive game with no public knowledge of roles, and in a generation where players would have to be downright stupid to confess their roles without any proof of future logical inferences set up to catch a traitor.
It seems to me, therefore, that mamimi has played a delicate game behind the scenes with me to earn her ticket to the final 4 at a point in the game where I simply can't be sure whether there are 1 or 2 wolves left. It's time for a coup-de-gras, and the axe falls on x3Mamimi.
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