Eloh
D1 - 4th vote for Sloonei - gut vote for off replying tone (pushes Sloonei at 4 vs. Ninja at 3)
D2 - 4th vote for MM (brings him at a tie with Golden)
D3 - only vote for MP - no reasoning whatsoever (leaves DH and espers tied)
D4 - 4th vote for ika - unsportsmanship (breaks tie between ika and Cookie, ika now at 4)
Sloonei - the infamous D1 "Something's scummy about you, I can feel it" - "I re-read and I what I thought was scummy 'bout you" - "Sloonei is bad the way he responded to me"; N2 - claims not to be Sloonei's teammate for the LD
espers - claims she'd vote espers out of MP's list, despite not finding her bad
ika - critical of him as soon as he steps in and adopts idgaf mentality
The "pros" (arguable, because it's at the heart of a heavy bussing theory as well)
-- her votes for confirmed Mafia members
The cons
-- her gameplay; just enjoy re-reading
her EoD3 waltzing if you don't believe how terrible it is
Read: Well, there is definitely merit. I think her game epitomizes the weighing of votes vs. posts in analyzing, because, for both of her votes helping catch two baddies (so, purely theoretically, looking damn good), her gameplay almost nukes the favorable stat. If she is civ, MP's case on her is proof of how easily you can cook her on her gameplay. To everyone who reads her votes good and finds it sufficing, here's my idea on why that's not entirely so: I'm still very skeptical about her Sloonei vote; it was switcheroo-esque in reasoning and it was done when the heat on Sloonei was clearly at critical point. Leaning "slightly bussing read" on this one. The vote on ika was just as late, without much reasoning in the past for espers. Should seal the deal, right? (apart from creating the most original speculation so far in my mafia playing: would a baddie buss his entire team?) Well, there's also the fact that she was actually the first to be appalled by ika's behaviour, which later everyone basically found it fishy. This makes for awkward Mafia scenario; either 1) ika came in, realized he subbed for a baddie, didn't enjoy the thought or his odds, announced Elo that he's bombing the thread and Elo acted accordingly; 2) ika adopted the bombing method and Elo was quick to react to it to look as best as possible. They're probably variations to the only thing that could have happened, in light of ika's crazy demeanore, but No. 2 definitely sounds weirder to sound true, in light of Eloh's thread reactions. Idk her outright attitude towards ika makes this vote slightly better.
But it's still far from proof that her voting record is solid, except for those who are really obstinate to focus on voting alone (which I don't recommend, but acknowledge it can be a habit); further proof of her voting record not being everything is how she wasted her D3 vote when, given the DH-espers tie, she felt
better about DH and had considered voting espers (even if simply picking a name from MP's list of suspects and nothing else), yet wasted her vote. This can easily speak towards protecting espers at that time, by at least not sealing his fate. So that's two out of three in terms of votes that don't necessarily make things better.
Long read got long. I can't get past the gameplay, for which I feel she is a candidate for the last Inmate, or for Moloch (her jumpiness and opportunism as a tactic, however questionable, to detach from any serious voting and be indifferent to victims) and that's a 2/3 hopeful incentive to see her lynched. There is, however, that ika interaction and a few times where I can almost read a composed Eloh making decent thoughts. As I've explained above, I am not exonerating her based on votes and would like perhaps more clarification from those who do, gut based or not.
on you, but nonetheless I appreciate that you understand my POV.
) and focus on Eloh/MP. I'm failing at my own practice.
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