[dissentowner]

On post #126 early in the game he posts this:

At this point in the game a lynch seems to always be a crapshoot. At this point I have more evidence leading me to who are passengers.
Dissentowner has been quite meek which makes me slightly suspicious.
GGG comes out very quickly pointing and accusing. Maybe too early IMO
Hockeyguy does as well however he is back to his old self gaming the game again heheh, so I feel fairly confident at this point that he is a true blue passenger.
Oling I don't know if its his name or his avatar that makes me leery of his intentions.
With that being said I think he's also a passenger.
Devo22 has not done much IMO
Peanut might be a rotten nut but it's a gut feeling.
Puxlut I dunno
ECF I dunno
Bizzaro to early for me to tell

Right now I have suspicions on Dissentowner, GGG, Peanut.

So he picks two strong players and a newbie. He claims I am being meek but I was being inquisitive about the rules. Then he claims GGG is suspicious to him for being aggressive which has always been GGG's MO but as the same time says you are playing aggressive as well but that makes you a passenger? Um ok. Looking at this post it seems to point that I should remove GGG from my suspect list except it is early so maybe he throws him out there knowing there is no basis for voting on him yet and it will cover suspicion later.

There may be one person right now who has been turned. If so that person is all alone.
By reading the rules that person does not know who Capt, 2IC, or Engineer are. The Telepathic ability the Alien scum have can only work at night AFAIK and in 30 words or less. The three primary alien scum will know who is turned, but the turned does not know who the three primary are.

I believe is a strong advantage for us at this time in the game.

So if there is a "turned" passenger they are by themselves without any direction or leadership.
I expect this person(if there is one) to lay low, feel things out. They are on an Island until they get another turned passenger.

So I am looking at people who have laid low at this point. I believe that person to be a "turned" passenger.
I feel the three primary alien scum would have more direction and planning since they can communicate with one another right now. In fact I think they might even try to be very active.

With that said I am going to vote for who I think has been feeling the game out a little to much. I think this person might be infected.

Vote: dissentowner

It could be possible that the person who has the spore did not get infected and is unknowing. But for know I will go with this theory.

Then he casts a vote for me knowing I have played in every CP mafia and made it to the end, he wants me out. His excuse is voting for a person laying low and feeling things out. I have 9 posts, Lego Man has 1. He also shows at the beginning of that post he knows exactly how the scum roles work very well.
At post #203 he posts this.

I'm hoping the timing of night 0 might have been different.
But if you are correct then we could have 4 players on the same page assuming that the capt could effectively communicate strategy in the 30 words.

Interesting(open) question if you were the Capt and had your choice of who to infect first.
Who would you choose?
A newb or a known strong player?

So lets go back to his first 3 suspects. He chooses two known strong players and a newbie. Now he is openly asking who everyone would we would infect first. By getting answers to that he gets an idea how others would play it and where not to direct the spore.
At this point I am becoming less suspicious of GGG and more of bizaro86 who in post #221 starts the charge against Activestick.
In post #235 he tries to use humour to alleviate any suspicion after Oling votes for him.

I don't think the smuggler has a chance to hide a player on night 0.
That's why I bring up that question.

BTW in the Mafia thread we prefer to address the spore as "The Salami"
My 2IC wanted to call it "The Pickle" but we got into all that Kosher vs Gerkin argument
Our InGinEar wanted to call it "The Buck" as in pass the buck. Sheesh InGinEars have no sense of haha.
I used my power of veto and we now will "slip the salami" to some poor unsuspecting passenger.

This is something scum would do to try and direct suspicion away.
Post #279 is interesting.

Hockeyguy is right that we need to be more active. Inactivity benefits scum.
So I am sharing my theory that the Captain would choose to infect a known strong player. My list in order of strength(subjective) my and some of my musings
My Top 4
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Hockeyguy15 -Winner of last game strong player posts a lot. Meta game master

Oling_Roachinen Winner of last game posts a lot as well as strong on the attack It would be wise to have him on your side rather than an adversary.

dissentowner Also a proven strong player and usually is one of the last ones standing

GGG Often goes on the attack and has the ability to get a following. A pitbull

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The remaining

East Coast Flame Past mafia scum experience

Lego Man Has experience in a few mafia games and yet seems strangely posting low

activeStick Wondering about this player I need a bigger body of work to formulate a more informed opinion

squiggs96 Did not like getting lynched last game and has something to prove.

GirlySports Past mafia scum experience good counterpuncher I feel she often tries to change the thread direction

bizaro86 Im having a tough time reading him

mrkajz44 I am starting to get more and more suspicious of him (just a gut feeling) I suspect him as Captain but I do not have anything but a feeling to back up my claim

Timbo often makes posts that get himself killed

devo22 I don't really have much to go on

Puxlut plays the confused card

SebC I dunno

Party Elephant Newb Possibly drew the scum card

Peanut Newb really not contributing much hiding or just overwhelmed?

So if I were the Captain this would be the order of players I would try to infect first.
I am making a big assumption that the Captain did not go with the ennie meanie minnie mow method.
For now it is all I have to work with and it is quite possible that one of those in my top 4 were given the spore but not infected. I looked for sublet changes in playing style and I felt and I still feel dissentowner is playing differently.

So here he claims if he were the Captain one of those top 4 he would send the spore to. 2 of the 4 are also players he was most suspicious of. So he targets me first for a lynch, keeps GGG on the suspicions list and hands the spore to Oling who is also on that list. Now he is hoping he gets me lynched and turns Oling who is probably the strongest player in the game and like he said, a guy you want on your side. So going back at this point I removed GGG from my suspect list and replaced him with bizaro86.
On post #293 HG15 votes for Activestick. Post #295 Timbo unvotes for me after getting no where up that tree and votes for Activestick, a guy as scum he knows is not and the ball is rolling that way. It makes him seem like he is voting with the group and he has already laid the groundwork on myself and he is still counting on changing Oling with the spore.
Post #305 is a vote count with Active stick leading the way with 4, 3 of those votes are from HG15, Timbo, and bizaro86.
I got to run out for a bit, will continue in a while.