Cuttooth wrote:So the thing that "changed the game" didn't actually change much at all.
Ironically, no. We got very lucky with the bluff. It's why it was suggested. It was felt we needed tangible results, so we pinned our hopes on nailing a bluehat through this false hacking. I was grimacing at the time, when reading how everyone totally feel behind the evidence against Red. I thought we'd got it totally wrong, as she seemed pissed that we'd wasted a hacking. As I've said, I pushed for the false hacking to be against Sykes. It would have came out as a lie even then, as the EAS couldn't be hacked.
That was probably as big a turning point as Sykes-gate, as it made anything a dead RFM said, almost cast iron proof. The crone only really helped us dead members, as we got to learn who was a seered RFM, who the remaining Zeni was and that Drawlight and White Rabbit had special roles.
RE: my list, again. Stu will support the fact that my suspects list was massively long at first. It had as many RFMs as it did BHs, if not many more regular players on it. When it came to disclosing it to the deceased many days later, I just got rid of players who were already dead, to make the whole thing look more accurate.
Sykes, as I've said, I almost had a vendetta against you by the end. I'd convinced myself of your guilt days earlier, and just brainwashed myself into believing it was all watertight. I basically thought you'd commited the classic bluehat tactic of being in the thread regularly, and at all of the major times (lynching, mayoral votes, BH deaths). I thought those posting constantly, or eternally theorising, were just over excited RFMs. I was urgently trying to move away from these people and all the ___-gates. You were the "Mr Nice" in the thread, not suggesting anything groundbreaking, nor making any real friends or enemies. You couldn't be tied to any group of people implictly, out in the thread itself. You were careful, but a little too careful in my eyes, as if you were playing it safe and not crossing too many wires. You always had something to say, but nothing that people could see as sticking you to a certain train of thought or group of people. You weren't anti-pxyl, you weren't pro-Bork or Bladeforce. You had nothing, but in the same way, you had everything. If I was playing it as a BH, I'd probably be doing the same thing.
Totally vague, I know, but I my pursuit of an "out there" suspect led me to you.