I'm not following your logic. It seems much more likely that Stephen went, "Hm, I'll suggest hypocop because I have something to share," and then, a few days later, decided "Eh, I'll come clean, because finding scum on Day One is a Big Deal."
Well it's been a week, not a few days, and explain the logic on this one. Assume he is the cop and nabbed me. 8 player game, he now knows there is a cult with two players, it's been commented on even by then that we're 5-2 LyLo doomed to lose if we don't lynch right today, even if he didn't already think of it which he certainly did... why bother suggesting HC? There is literally no way he could envision the day ending with out him RCing and pointing the finger at me, so he doesn't need a HCT and he merely draws my attention by suggesting it then HCing me guilty. Let's forewarn the game's most notorious schemer that I'm the cop for no possible advantage? Improbable.
It does help though if you want to establish a sort of mental hook up to the idea that you're a cop when your code makes no mention of it. I mean, I don't expect you to just believe me, heck, Stephen could be telling the truth, he could be psycho or I could be infected or he could be the cop and telling the truth about that but infected himself. My point is his strategy here was not very logical at best, and suspicious at worst. Put yourself in his alleged shoes and ask how you would have proceeded? Is there any chance at all you wouldn't have included your role in your code as cop? That having done that, and in this apparent LyLo, you'd bother suggesting Hypocop?
Look, why haven't we Hypocopped of late? Answer, two fold, one our games have been small enough we've been RCing pretty much consistently on Day 2, no point, and we've gotten into the habit of coding our roles, so nobody needs a HC as a partial verification of their role later... 'No, I'm the real X, here's my Day 1 coded RC as proof'. There's no need for a HC, certainly not right out the gate a few hours after the day started prior to any other remark, it screams 'I want to HC' which rather defeats the purpose.
As for you "baiting" him... I'm the one who asked if anything happened to anyone last night.
Yeah, and look at my reply to your post... I'm pretty sure that is the 'bait' Stephen's referring to, though until you said that I thought he replied to me, indexing and tab overs on these long chains can get a bit confusing and I was baiting him so...
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Mafia Day 2 - Early Expansion
02/07/2012 09:18:28 AM
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Also we might want to decode in whole or part
02/07/2012 12:53:30 PM
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Not in favor right now
02/07/2012 04:20:17 PM
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Hypocopping?
02/07/2012 03:42:46 PM
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Sure, why not. It's not like it would hurt us even if we gain nothing. *NM*
02/07/2012 04:40:23 PM
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Hah, I forgot about hypocopping. Sure, let's do it, I'll make a seperate post. *NM*
02/07/2012 06:04:03 PM
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So, what should we do? *NM*
04/07/2012 04:00:50 PM
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Some next steps
04/07/2012 07:46:00 PM
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About exposing the doc...
05/07/2012 05:07:14 AM
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I have a stimpack as well.
05/07/2012 12:48:16 PM
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Actually I do
05/07/2012 03:02:30 PM
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So, did anyone have anything happen to them last night? *NM*
06/07/2012 08:06:30 PM
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Well, someone probably got a message saying 'You are now Zerg'...
07/07/2012 12:10:36 AM
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I suppose I'll share what happened to me last night.
07/07/2012 07:59:43 PM
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Let me probe on that one real quick
07/07/2012 08:46:45 PM
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Yes, it is specific.
07/07/2012 09:10:39 PM
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Re: Yes, it is specific.
07/07/2012 10:10:13 PM
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It was in my original role message. *NM*
07/07/2012 10:41:11 PM
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Oh well, I'll take the bait.
08/07/2012 01:33:28 AM
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EBWOP: Oh well, I'll take the bait.
08/07/2012 01:34:22 AM
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I actually kind of expected that
08/07/2012 01:38:48 AM
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Could hear a pindrop in here...
08/07/2012 06:31:22 AM
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Yeah, I went to bed just after posting that.
08/07/2012 11:47:01 AM
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Well I've got to say your encryption is, uh, vague
08/07/2012 06:58:13 PM
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...wait, what?
08/07/2012 11:38:20 PM
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Re: ...wait, what?
09/07/2012 12:24:45 AM
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Seems pretty straight forward. Vote: Isaac *NM*
09/07/2012 12:11:03 AM
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Hmm wait...
09/07/2012 01:49:23 AM
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The Casy name thing is in the message I got from FT.
09/07/2012 10:20:49 AM
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I am not voting at this time.
09/07/2012 06:47:18 PM
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This has none of my fingerprints on it, something is clearly up and it literally can't be my doing
09/07/2012 08:59:45 PM
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Vote: Stephen
09/07/2012 11:59:46 PM
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You mean the whole thing where I have been brutally honest and told you everything.
10/07/2012 12:12:06 AM
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No, I mean the totally useless bogus encryption. *NM*
10/07/2012 12:26:26 AM
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Useless and bogus?
10/07/2012 02:04:40 PM
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The main complaint is that your code doesn't contain any role information- HOWEVER
10/07/2012 03:01:45 PM
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Isaac- you said you have a stimpack that doesn't protect against infestation?
10/07/2012 04:40:18 AM
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Not explicitly, that's why I was fishing with Ranagrande
10/07/2012 05:15:47 AM
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Oh, I see....
10/07/2012 07:10:13 AM
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Vote: Isaac (again)
10/07/2012 03:03:04 PM
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Vote: Stephen, but FOS: Beet, what heck?
10/07/2012 06:58:10 PM
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Unvote. Didn't you claim different symptoms than everyone else, though?
10/07/2012 09:18:38 PM
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Specifically I claimed a symptom that wasn't explcitly listed as one in my RM
10/07/2012 11:01:57 PM
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