He actually did slip that @ing me thing and I think at that point I realised Town me similar to GP would latch onto that and never let go in DP2 if we voted off Town dp1 unless watcher made things different.
I risked being caught by watcher just because I feel I can do CCs better without any slips, I process logic in an unusual way due to being on the autistic spectrum that literally lets me run through every single situation how I would if I was Town there, I realised this superpower or whatever it is during epicmafia days (dead site and I had different usernames there, not the point), I actually was crippled by it in a way.
I know you didn't ask for a backstory but you're getting a slight one. You see, since I am so thoroughly capable of processing bluffs vs lack of them constantly back and forth I naturally assume other players do this too and when I began mafia I was so terrible because I'd overthink obvious tells often, since I'd presume they wouldn't be what the mafia would really do there or that an obvious towntell was forced by a skilled mafia member. I soon realised how bad most are at it, I realised by dumbing down my reads and posts, my winrate went up but I still hadn't mastered towntelling myself.
So, the reason this is important is the way I process information in the game told me that I can only mentally push for a tunneling on Pie DP2 and make it 100% authentically match what Town me would do there as I can't see Town me ever letting go of that. Pie didn't know all this, I didn't go blablabla to Pie about this because he agreed the bus strat was optimal esp vs largely newer players to mafia here Austin and Joebob and since GP is probably buddying me and voting Pie off it works out anyway for me to carry if that lands.
When we 'decided' is a subjective thing because Pie didn't mind how I attacked him dp1 and we both agreed unless watcher forces a different path dp2 to make it me vs pie. Even then Pie would always vote me over the real watcher and that's also why I figured me getting caught is the healthier risk even though I was townier DP1. It would let Pie distance himself brilliantly but the way it turned out since we figured bodyguard was Austin as Joebob thought a nurse was in the game and I didn't feel I could beat Austin in Joebob's eyes and that dynamic meant the bussing between Pie and I gets deviated we both went with vanilla. I didn't post paragraphs like this in the chat, I am telling you all the reasoning behind it. It was basically an idea that during np1 we deadset ourselves on but during dp1 we already knew was just how it had to play out. I obviously didn't want to have to actually vote Pie DP1 and was really relieved 7k didn't towntell at all.