I guess it falls to me to make decisions on Deo! For what it's worth, he is a little silly sometimes because he is an actual tiny baby that requires protection at all times!! But I am not sure what to make of him in this game!!! I agree his speculation seems different but I am unsure if this is specifically his way of trying to correct his whole "Deo is invisible and no one notices him" scthick that got brought up in multiple games where he's voted on for being quiet (including literary mafia) or if he's trying to make himself seem more town!!!! I do want him to explain his list, though!!!!! I have an inkling Angel might be on there because she said she was going to be afk for most of today!!!!!!!
re: inactives - I agree with Five that people being inactive and generally not speculating is extremely detrimental to town as a whole! We do not have the luxury of role powers to help us stun or investigate or kill inactives!! I agree that they are more often than not town because usually mafia attempts to be active-ish to some degree to avoid unnecessary policy lynches on their team, and I used to be the ultimate bleeding heart with inactives!!! But given how half the game hasn't voted yet and it's an hour and a half to rollover, inactives hurt the town because we need that speculation and that voting to generate ideas on who the mafia might be!!!! So I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place because I do want to keep my pressure vote on Aeiou!!!!!! But I also don't want to split the votes!!!!!!! I may swap to Jeanne for the sake of lynching an inactive player, but the ratio... !!!!!!!!!
Also! re: Blaire being on a mafia team!! I fucked up and meant to say "Blaire is part of a mafia team where they have a plan to make her not the lynch!!!!" Life is hard when you have to split up your posts!!!!!