That case was....well....descriptive more than anything. It was a gut read case backed up by nothing to note. A few things:
The Case On 2.7, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lynch*
[entrance stuff]
Something to get him on the board. Precisely. This whole reread stuff is what alerted me. Because there's nothing there, or to be more precise, there's just enough to pass as townie. From someone who had been away for the first two or three days you'd expect a fresh perspective on things, but e just comes in and comments on stuff everyone's been talking about, says stuff pretty close to what everyone's been saying etc. The two people he comments on the most here are silver and Ampharos, ie the two main "wagons" at that time.
Yeah, when you do a reread you comment on the things that are happening. You know, like wagons. I didn't go through and comment on every single post, just what I thought was important.
reads (no particular order)
Town
silverspawn
RR
iguana
yuma
hydrad
meh
witherweaver
Teproc
EgorK
Awaclus
Haddock
scummier
Ampharos
faust
And he tops it off with a reads post that basically looks like the average of everyone's read at the time. We say all the time scum wants to blend in : these posts blend in so much they're basically transparent.
Ok. Here is the vote count shortly after my reads list.
Vote Count 1.7:
iguanaiguana (2): ss, Hydrad
silverspawn (2): WW, RR
Witherweaver (1): Awaclus
Ampharos (2): faust, 2.7
faust (1): Ampharos
EgorK (2): Haddock, iguana
RR (1): EgorK
Hydrad (2): Teproc, yuma
6 people (you know, half the people who are not me) are voting for people in my "town" section. 2 people (excluding myself) are voting for people in my "scum" section. Totally trying to blend in with everyone.
There's very little after that, before :
vote: Awaclus
Exactly where I'd expect scum to be w/ regards to yuma during his absence, especially if yuma is town. He knows yuma is not very likely to be lynched here, but he will probably flip relatively early, so he can capitalize by arguing scum is jumping on the "easy" yuma mislynch. Attacking Awaclus is also never an unpopular position, so there.
This I do agree with to some extent. Scum had three options when approaching yuma (assuming yuma is town).
1. Try to push that lynch through
2. Defend him as town then get cred when he flips
3. Ignore the situation
So the question is what is scum more likely to do? Only two people (WW and myself) really did too much defending of yuma. We can just look at the wagon for who tried to push the lynch. Then everyone else is ignore. Now, not all scum are going to do the same think (I would assume), but which is most likely? I would argue that mildly defending without saying too much (WW's position) is much scummier than my position. But I would argue that scum also had at least a representative on option #1. My argument is that Awaclus is that rep. I think the way he jumped on is just like scum would do. However, why maintain the scum read? Here you go:
The wagon dissipated quickly after yuma came back. Awaclus maintains his read. Why? Because he is scum. When yuma eventually flips, he is able to maintain the constancy of his read and that he was just town who read the situation wrong. I mean, not even that, he can defend it basically on principle saying that yuma was playing against his wincon (which I disagree with). Basically, Awaclus' vote is a policy vote. Nothing more to it. Someone "played against their wincon" therefore they are scum. Policy. I think that is scummy.
Back to vote: ampharos
After Awaclus doesn't pan out as a wagon, but Ampharos still has one.
Scums sure like the yuma lynch. Although the faust vote seems like town who isn't appreciative of yuma's current approach to the game.
"People voting yuma are scum, except for this guy who's not a realistic day 1 lynch"
Uh....sure? I mean, I posted what I thought. From the people on yuma's wagon I thought faust read the most townie.
Aka "Look at all this work I'm doing ! Aren't I so townie ?"
The game was slowing down. Maybe it was just an off day for posting. But you can check my history. I do these types of posts. I think they are useful to gain a metric of how the game is moving along. I think they are neutral posts and since you are reading me to find evidence as scum, you found it.
Let's do this thing.
Vote: Awaclus
And finally, there's his voting pattern.
#625 : Votes Ampharos (2)
#819: Votes Awaclus (2)
#920: Votes Ampharos (4)
#1244 : Votes Awaclus (4)
Tunneling is a nice position for scum on day 1, because you're less conspicuous. Granted he's expanded his tunneling to "all players starting with an A", but still, voting for only two people is not the sign of a super productive townie. It also helps that Ampharos has consistently been among the top "wagons" all game and Awaclus is always going to be seen as a potential lynch by most people.
TL;DR : 2.7 has been blending, trying very hard to appear as a productive townie while in reality only commenting on stuff everyone else had already commented on and focusing on popular lynch targets. The only time he didn't go with the flow was on yuma, because that wagon had very little chance of actually resulting in a lynch, and he just had to reap the town points and strike the easy targets.
TL;DR (meta edition) : 2.7 is doing a version of what I do when I'm scum.
* No reason, I just watched Strangelove recently. It's pretty great.
Ok, so you have me as scum for
1. My vote pattern
2. Blending in
1. Looking at my voting it doesn't look pretty. I am never starting a wagon, just following on behind. Jumping between my scum reads to try to get a lynch. And you say I am scummy for not voting a larger pattern? Maybe that is because I missed RVS. Is that what you use RVS for? To increase your vote footprint so you aren't caught on a day voting for only one person? That part makes no sense to me.
But really, I do look really opportunistic voting on the wagons. I just really don't (or didn't) have a preference as to who I wanted to lynch. I am pretty set on Awaclus now after going back over your comments and writing my little "Why Awaclus is Scum" thing in the middle of this. But sure.
2. This part is totally false. As you noticed, my reads were not on line with a majority of town when I posted them. I have been sticking out for sure in my defense of yuma and defense of him shooting. I brought town back to Ampharos after everyone had basically left that wagon for dead. I don't see this "blending in" happening a whole lot.
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