Now for the last living player ISO-
SLOONEI:
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This is his first substantive post of the game, which troubles me. He was pretty chatty early but it was a lot of fluff. Maybe this is Sloonei hitting his stride not quite halfway through the day phase. It just seems like there was a lot of useless chatter before this. I don't disagree with his mindset on Jack at the time though.
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Here he questions nutella on why she thinks Jack's posts on DF are not a good look.
He proceeds to vote for Long Con because he only has one post and it happens to be bland. Twelve hours later, Sloonei drops
this with no explanation. When asked for an explanation, her replies with
this. I'll have to see where this its into the larger narrative of Day 1, but it's a striking shift in perception. If adverbs are the devil, then Sloonei is possessed. He then
votes for Epi for his vote on Jack. But Epi gives no justification for his vote on Jack and Slooeni doesn't prod him for one. The equation feels incomplete.
-Five hours later,
he votes for Tony (which is where his vote stays) with no explanation.
Jack asked Slooeni why he voted for Tony and gets no response.
Sloonei asks sabie what she thinks of me and Tony. It isn't until
hours later that he lays more details on Tony out. By then there's momentum building on Tony. He makes sure to mention that another player called Tony out on something and then goes into a wordy explanation. His Tony-Dom bit seems hollow to me as well.
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Here, Sloonei takes a stance against lynching Jack or nutella, leaving Tony as the most viable option of the people with votes at the time. After a soft positive plug for Michelle, he says he doesn't have strong feelings about anyone else. He intends to leave his vote on Tony and hopes that Tony and others can elaborate and elucidate everyone else to provide a sense of direction in the final hours.
-I think it's also the work of an opportunistic baddie to
re-interpret the intent of a civvie that you spared from the lynch only to kill him at night to make yourself seem reasonable in hindsight. On my re-read I intend to determine if anyone thought Jack was pushing for a DF lynch. I just thought he was out of bounds for broadcasting to everyone that DF can't be trusted before DF even got into the game. That's also how I thought others viewed it.
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Interesting about-face on Michelle after giving her a soft plug earlier.
And I'm going to stop here because I want to get to that re-read. I don't think Sloonei is super-sleuthing like I think I remember him. With Jack out of the way, Sloonei is one to dominate the discussion. I was worried that Jack was trying to make the game run through him. I'm concerned that Sloonei may be looking to do the same thing.