[Day/Night Game] Trouble on the Citadel - round "LE Part 2: Why Cerberus Is Right For You"

Good morning folks. I've had a rather disturbed sleep owing to severe storms and waking up in the middle of the night thinking I'd heard an almighty crash that might indicate my roof had blown off. Turned out I must have been dreaming because after blurrily touring the house and peering down in the direction of my new barn, it seemed that everything was okay. Still I think the brain is working enough to give my take on the events of the previous day in the Citadel.

Day One was declared and Tittus almost instantly voted for me. I have to admit this seemed too fast to be a simple random vote so it seemed it must derive from Tittus' role. From my perspective this wouldn't make sense if he was Liara since he would know I am innocent so it was more probable to me that he was Diana and the RG targeted me. Whether he was a good or evil Diana it wouldn't make much difference as he would have to vote for me but an evil Diana would not only want to get me voted off but try and identify other innocents as well. Last round I stated that Diana was a liability even if she is on the side of the heroes so I'd rather vote for her than someone else since invariably we have more chance of voting off an innocent than a spy the first day and it might as well be Diana. As you will see if you check the posts, the only reason I voted for Tittus was that he targeted me. Since Moonae had also rather quickly jumped in and voted for me too, I joked that maybe this was retaliation for my efforts over on Skyhold where I had voted for them and though I did not know it at the time it turned out they were both spies. I was instantly suspicious of Moonae for jumping in so quickly on Tittus' vote since even if Tittus was not a spy Diana, Moonae might well be one wanting to get me eliminated and trying to start a bandwagon.

Then Adonniel started to question the vote. This would be an equally logical reaction whether she was good or evil. To anyone other than me Tittus' action might be that of Diana or Liara. If the former then it is just bad luck on my part, if the latter then it would suggest that Tittus had investigated me the first night. Naturally a good person wants to know if they should be joining the bandwagon, whilst a spy is actually trying to ascertain which role Tittus is because they would want to get Liara out of the way but wouldn't care less if Diana stays. So it is not a spy defending me but a spy trying to get information for their own cause.

This is where all the confusion starts. Initially Tittus says I was just a totally random vote to cause mayhem. Incidentally Moonae claims the same. I never really bought this explanation and started to wonder if in fact Tittus was evil Liara, so had investigated me the first night in order to get me voted off because they knew I couldn't harm them in doing so. When pressed further by Adonniel the really weird stuff starts happening. Tittus claims that I may not be his final vote (seemingly confirming it was just random) and suggests a deal with me to vote for someone else before asking if Adonniel will vote with him if he targets someone.

At this point everyone starts to question his actions with good reason. If Tittus had investigated me and found me to be evil, why would he suggest changing his vote or asking me to do a deal? I knew I was innocent but other people might still be thinking of voting for me, so I decided to call his bluff, pointed out I had only voted for him as retaliation for his vote on me and asked where he suggested I re-direct my vote. Nothing was forthcoming. I was asked to wait. I gave a mental shrug and went to bed.

When I came back the following morning (UK time) I discovered that not much more had happened in the way of voting but something seemed to be developing between Tittus and Adonniel. I was concerned that I was still ahead on the voting, albeit by just one vote, but it only needed one other person to vote for me and that might just about clinch it since people were so reluctant to commit themselves and Tittus was giving off mixed messages about who he might be, so I decided to risk a little hint. As time progressed the conflict between Tittus and Adonniel seemed to intensify and it seemed to me that it was more likely that if Tittus was good Liara he had investigated Adonniel in the night, found her to be evil but was trying to use that knowledge to gain more information about who to vote for so he wouldn't have to vote for her. Instead he wanted to vote off someone else but encourage the idea that Adonniel should be removed in the night. That would suggest a role that was dangerous to vote off in the day. Of course, it could equally be that Tittus was evil Liara, had investigated Adonniel in the night and wanted her shot rather than voted off for exactly the same reason.

Then Tittus changed his vote from me to Adonniel. This made me even more confused. I could understand why he changed from me if he was now convinced I was innocent but not why he would change it to Adonniel if he had been reluctant to target her in the first place because he knew who she was. I was not the only person to find this behaviour strange and everyone else seemed to be following Adonniel's lead and voting for Tittus. Clearly they could not all be spies so if other good people thought Tittus was suspicious why should I withdraw my vote at that point? So I didn't.

Then we discovered that Tittus was Liara, although at this point we still didn't know if good or evil Liara. Adonniel seemed to be very worried about being shot and suggested that I was the more suspicious person because Tittus had voted for me first, implying that if anyone should be shot it should be me. It could have been the panicked response of an innocent person but I'm inclined to think it was actually a spy trying to get Garrus to waste his shot on an innocent. I think most people were agreed that until we knew for definite if Liara was good or evil that Garrus should wait for more information before using up his ability and this is in fact what he did, suggesting that at least Garrus is good.

I hope that analysis has been helpful. I would only add that since Miranda would appear to have used up her protection last night, the number of roles that can protect from Cerberus is depleting and so we need to be careful not to let the spies manipulate us into voting them off.