The whole joking around about him possibly being the vig (he's in a good mood it seems), him questioning why a vig claim is even important to seem pro-town (scum counterclaiming would be dumb and a vig claim doesn't really hurt scum much), and him not being nearly as self deprecating as I would expect. Even earlier in the game he wasn't acting how I expected him to, though I wrote it off as him being a little more experienced. In hindsight it seems like the times he was second guessing himself could've been just an act.
Gotta reread and check votes and such tomorrow.
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Let me break my thought process of 18 hours ago down for you. First off, I was in a great mood yesterday, best mood in several weeks to be honest. I got the start time of D4 wrong, so I checked the forum for no particular reason and lo and behold, the day was starting earlier than I expected. Oh look! Two deaths that aren't me, I get to keep playing! Also two town. Also two people I'd accused. Normally, I probably would've deprecated more. But my start of the day was different than yours because you showed up knowing the roles of the dead town. I did not, and had to ask schadd, so I had more important business to take care of than to console myself on an awful game thusly far. Kept a post shorter than I normally would in order to get the request in before schadd went to bed. He answers, and I get excited because the day becomes much easier. Knock on wood. That's as good a place to springboard the day from as any. Even though apparently nobody else wants to claim right now. I like ICs and I like good direction. I get the Space argument, I can live with waiting on the rest of the claiming. But it's better the vig claim too soon than they claim too late.
What is suspicious, I grant you, is that I didn't acknowledge the fact that I'm still alive somehow. The reason for that is simple: I meant to. Then I forgot. On that note: I don't know why I'm still alive. But if Andrew's town, it's working.
Not self-deprecating: I'm already extremely deprecating. But I think my first game is different in 2 ways. First, jitters. I was TERRIFIED all game long that I'd blow it. After I managed to embarrass myself severely 3 posts in, it was a sign that I needed to check my ego and accept that I was going to have a brutal time figuring stuff out. There ended up being some truth to that, and some nottruth. Second reason: Time. First game was summer, I could afford to get invested and really want to win. But I mentioned yesterday that everyone was starting to get apathetic, myself included. We managed like 5 pages or 2.5 schaddpages worth of content between 8 people and 8 days. I simply have not had the time to comb through days over and over again, and therefore, I guess I don't feel as awful when I hit the fan. But this is the day that's going to be different.
Questioning why a vig claim is important: I don't even understand this at all. I'm not questioning a vig claim, I'm saying a vig should claim. I did not say scum counterclaiming vig is stupid of them. It would actually be a smart move because the alternative is 3 potential scum teams, not 4. And I really don't care about me giving scum ideas: they're smart, they could've done the math themselves. And a vig claim does hurt scum. A lot. Where are you getting this from?
@Town!Andrew: I know I cannot pull off a good scum. It would be an absolute disaster. Maybe I underestimate myself. Probably am. But I can't imagine myself making fake reads, can't imagine myself behaving towards teammates with the appropriate attitude, and can't imagine myself not getting lynched by day 2 at the latest. You clearly have some doubts that I'm scum. That right there should tell you all you need to know. If you're 99% sure I'm scum, then I'm town.
(Confession time: Remember my first post when I said I was coming up with Skummy Skumpy posts beforehand that felt genuine as town to me? Those last 3 sentences were one of them. Turns out I did a good job with it, because it is a geuine sentiment.)
^And this is so not normal town!Skumpy.
What's not normal is me being accused after Day 1. Or at least an accusation that I'm worried will have drastic consequences. But there's a 50/50 you're scum and I don't need to worry that much.
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