I've been busy, so I'm not as active as I'd like (this is usually my active time), please forgive me. I know you missed my brilliant observations. Hey, I've not always been able to articulate it, but I've been right a lot so far. Maybe because I'm watching how people are playing THIS game, not basing my observations solely off of what I've seen other people do in past games, since that's surely a terrible way to play (in more than one way).

I don't understand the point of the massclaim. I mean, I know what you all say it's for, but it seems like whatever you all think you're going to gain from it would be mitigated by how much it gives the mafia. Isn't our biggest advantage that the mafia lacks knowledge? If they knew what you all want them to know with this claim business, would Johnson have died via night-kill? I don't think this tells the town as much as it tells the mafia. If the town votes to do it, I'll do it, but note that I think it's stupid.

Is this massclaim thing something that normally happens or something? Does it work? I don't have an opinion one way or another on who should go first, because I don't know how this is going to tell me anything since I can't trust anyone.

To be clear, I'm against doing this, but I'm not abstaining. If I had a better role, though, I would, as should anyone left who has something worth keeping from the mafia.

Who instigated this, because it sure seems like a big ol' waste of time, and I just don't get why a town would want to waste time at this point. The mafia are reeling, keep them on their toes.

As far as who I think is mafia, I'm not really sure. I was right about Statham, and Johnson, but of who's left, there's a lot of equally scummy-seeming nonsense and possibly-scummy inactivity going on.

Question first, though: Would mafia still be lurking at this point in the game?

I don't know if this is true or not, but I would think that blooming late might be a marker for mafia, though knowing this, mafia should never behave that way. i.e. Diesel is either mafia or dumb in the way he lurked then came on strong late.

I really hope Jackson's not mafia. If he is...I would hope there's not somebody playing with us who's THAT GOOD. If he's mafia and we don't lynch him, it'll be so embarrassing.

In other words I'm sticking to the Jackson's pro-town idea for pride's sake.

Uma seems to be working for the town. I haven't analyzed all of her votes, but I don't remember anything outright scummy in anything she did. Her attitude's a little hard to deal with sometimes, but so was Weaver's and look what happened there. The only thing that bothers me about Uma is her weird 1 time daykill role. I know there's been a lot of claiming of weird-ass roles in this game, but have any of them actually been confirmed? Pretty standard stuff flipping on the dead, right? Yet I don't think that one thing is enough to paint her scummy.

Cage is either really drunk or mafia acting drunk in order to excuse potentially scummy posts.

I agree that one of the late-comers is probably mafia, but I don't know that any of them have given enough to the thread to really work with. I can't tell if Jackson really thinks Stallone is scummy or is just messing around or is laying some elaborate trap or is (the best ever) scum trying to (gently) get attention off of Ford (that's who came in with Stallone, yeah?).