Alright, I'm not interested in fighting this out with RM anymore at this point. You guys are the ones who will decide this, and I'll try to condense my thoughts down to one post.
The more I keep looking back through the previous two DPs, the more I'm finding I dismissed offhand as "normal" for RM.
He dragged out his claim in DP1, using the opportunity to push for as many character claims as possible and push for other investigative roles to CC him. I wasn't going to CC him and paint a target on my back. Earth made the same choice. This was just straight up anti-town since it was all based on a misconstrued theme split anyway, which itself was built on the premise that Luna had given him information that none of the rest of us had. Still, I could respect that if he had just explained himself up front and full-claimed, but instead he dragged things out and when he made his claim, he said Justice. That's a peculiar claim in any instance and impossible to verify.
Since then, he has spent the vast majority of DP2 saying that there is absolutely no way that there is a Cop and a Justice. He paints these two as though they directly CC each other, but noted himself that a Justice is unaffected by lawyering, framing or a Godfather, and that's not to mention how different the two of them work in general. When that argument wasn't getting traction, he suddenly became aware that the Justice role was called a Parity Cop in some games and has been harping on that ever since.
RM has also been all over the place, often contradicting himself and the basic facts in an attempt to find "scum slips." On the previous page alone, he's repeatedly accused me of having suddenly forgotten about his claimed Justice result, despite my having mentioned it directly in several posts. He has now pointed several times to my first post in this DP where I mistakenly put the count at 5-2, despite his initially failing to notice that Pie was already dead during the NP to the point that he cast his first VTL against him. He completely ignores every theme split that contradicts his vision of who must be scum in this game while touting his own on the basis that he's the one with the "airtight logic," simultaneously accepting that BJJ must be in this game and excluding it from his own theme split analyses. He keeps pushing different versions of who must be the strongman and/or ninja and/or roleblocker on arbitrary bases, and pushes the false claim that there will be any uncertainty in the next DP if I'm still alive, since I have outright said that everyone should vote for me if I'm still alive when we get there. I'll be the first.
As far as I'm concerned, RM is the obvious choice, but part of that comes from knowing what my PM says, having strong reason to believe that there are not 3 investigative roles in this game, and strongly townreading Earth. We all agree that Earth is town, regardless of whether we buy RM's results. Much as I don't want to make it a me or him situation, that's what it has become, with the sole other option being the VTNL. I'm still fine with that because there is at least some chance that we'll be able to narrow down the options for who his scum partner is, if not in this NP than the next, on the basis of PoE alone. My vote's staying there for now because I think it's the smartest move we can make at the moment. Still, if you guys decide to lynch me here and now, I'll hammer and end this. There's only so much I can say and we've been going for long enough already that I'm not going to drag this out any further.
