Ok, I just reread the thread and not a whole lot stood out to me as making one person especially scummy over anyone else. A lot of interactions, a lot of claims, but nothing that I could really feel good about building an amazing case around.
So, right now, we are at this crazy point in the game where we have votes on 8 different people. 8 people. That is a lot. We need to consolidate and create some wagons before we let this day slip away without too much useful information.
That being said, PoE:
First, I don't want to lynch anyone who has claimed things (or myself):
2.71828.....Hydrad
chairsEgorK
Ichimaru Gin
Witherweaver
silverspawnashersky
hockeysemlanA Drowned KernelAwaclus
Lekkit
Delirious Deleuzemail-miExcept, you know, ADK's "full claim" is that now he is basically no longer a PR.
Here's the full claim, and now it might make more sense why I was willing to shoot randomly at the last second: I am Angel. I am a 1-shot Dayvig, but if I'm successfully protected from being killed at night, then I lose the Dayvig and it becomes a Vampire controlled Night Kill. Using it day one seemed like the best way from preventing scum from getting an extra kill, though it's unfortunate that it didn't work out.
I find that very suspect. He really gets nothing else out of his PR except a 1-shot DayVig that could have turned into a scum kill? Seriously? I am putting him back on the list:
Hydrad
EgorK
Ichimaru Gin
Witherweaver
ashersky
A Drowned Kernel
Awaclus
Lekkit
Still a big list. Lekkit hasn't played in a while, and so far has been fairly normal for what I remember from him, lets cross him off.
Now, who do we have left
Hydrad - His initial thoughts on flavor claiming I think aren't the best. I mean,
all he says is that he doesn't care. So his thoughts aren't bad in that I disagree with him, they are bad in that I can't disagree with him. Non-committal, hedgy. His thoughts on the dayvig are interesting. He
starts against it, but then changes his mind and
is for it. I usually think developing opinions and openly sharing your thoughts is a town characteristic, but I am not sold here. His reasoning for being against it is that "scum can manipulate town" better D1. Then he changes his mind because it will give us a "more meaningful D1." That feels a lot like arguing for a D1 no-lynch because "we usually lynch town" but then realizing that the townie position is actually that we should lynch, even if we miss and hit town. Thus the flip-flop. The next strike against him is when he
asks chairs if he should flavor claim if he feels like chairs is town. It just feels very martyr-ish to me. "Hey guys, I can take the bullet to help out chairs here. No, really, its no problem, I think he is town." I mean, that might be an exaggeration (ok, it is an exaggeration), but I don't get warm fuzzies there.
EgorK - Hasn't posted too much, but that is normal. He doesn't feel off to me, so I am fine just letting things develop with him. He does need to finish those reads tomorrow like he said. (edit: after going through IG and looking at IG's case on him, I am leaning on the scummy side of null)
Ichimaru Gin - I kind of like his stance on flavor claiming. Or rather, I don't like it, but I don't think scum would endorse the stance he takes. The whole
"I know nothing about flavor, let's do it" stance.
He then has a whole lot to say about Delirious Deleuze. He even gives chairs
a D1 pass for voting DD. But in the end he comes around and
loses his scumread on DD. Ichi has fights with people, happens. I didn't see anything too scummy about it from his angle. He then
switches up and
goes after EgorK a bit, which is where he is right now. Not lynching IG today. He fights, has arguments, and its all good. What he is doing though is finding people who he thinks are scum and pursues them until they are lynched or he is (or he changes his mind). I think it is extremely townie that he switched off DD
before DD claimed masons with hockey. And now he is on EgorK. I think this is town!IG scumhunting. Maybe not my style of scumhunting, but I don't think he is scummy for it.
Witherweaver - He has commented on almost everything. But that is really all I get from him. Comments. Doubts scum!ADK
would make his claim. Claiming is
more townie than scummy. Encourages people to
post more despite votes (I totally agree with him here, btw). Ash "
sounds like town." Doesn't think chairs is scummy
for asking what people think about claiming. Generic
anti-lurker post (with a prod).
"Scummy and null. sweet." Makes a friendly post to encourage chairs
not to share any additional info about his role. So yeah. A whole lot of comments. But really, I think this is just D1 WW staying active and participating. Nothing scummy about what he posted. But nothing especially townie. I did think his
developing read on DD was a townie post. And his
reads post is a useful one. I mean, I wouldn't be sad if he got lynched, but don't think I will endorse it right now.
ashersky - He is
more in favor of,
and talks more
about, the vig shot than
anyone else. I mean,
that is his biggest push early, to make sure the shot happens. He has also been
consistently against mail-mi. I loved his little
"dark trench coat and a bowler hat" post. And I mean, he actually builds a
decent D1 case around him. He also
has a reads post, and another post with
more random info. Nothing too special. I don't get any scum vibes from Ashersky's play at this point.
A Drowned Kernel - Ok. So we all know about ADK. The day-vig. I know I said I was crossing off people who claimed, but I just really, really don't like his
"fullclaim." I mean, is that it? He is very careful to keep us happy by
making a show of including us in the process and everything, then goes out and shoots the person he wanted to. His
comments on flavor claiming feel a bit off to me as well. Especially the "presumably scum has fakeclaims" part feels forced. He
defends DD a bit, which is fine. I forget who made the point, but his flavor claim as Angel does seem hard to fake, but I don't know enough bout flavor to just write someone off because of a flavor name. Basically, all the good feelings I used to have about ADK are gone, replaced by icky, gooey feelings that everything is not as he says it is.
Awaclus - The currently most popular wagon. He is
anti-claiming and
was pro-vigging. Not very active early. Then he got himself in trouble
with this post. The Post He Refused To Share His Thoughts. He follows it up with
another post explaining why he doesn't feel the need to share his thoughts. Then an extremely
meta-aware post. I mean, this post almost sounds like he is
making fun of his meta. He also
briefly mentions how much EgorK lurks. I don't know. I don't buy scum!awaclus doing this. He feels genuine to me. I mean, would I lynch him if we needed to? Yes. Do I think we need to right now? no.