Last response to my role explanation/understanding issue and I'll quit spamming the thread.
Huh.. that's not the answer I thought you would give.
I thought that since mcmc had just flipped Motion Detector, and you had clearly been aware of the details of his flip when we were talking, that you's say that that was where you'd got the idea that motion detector was what your power did.
When I got the role, I was more focused on the communication aspects than the "monitoring" parts.
When our QT opened, I immediately told you about the comms part of my role. I thought that was the most interesting part of what I can do. When Mcmc flipped, I looked up his role to try to understand what he did. I did the same with mine...although I used "monitor" in my search since that I was keyed into the description and not the title of the role, and I also looked up all of the modifying words from his role and mine. I asked about those and subsequent revealed ones in the thread, too, because they are often not explained on the internets. When you and I were talking about mcmc's role and the potential similarities to mine in our QT (m10) I called what I could do motion detection because I thought that was what a monitoring function that included finding out who someone I targeted had targeted meant and I was scared to ask that as a question for fear of revealing too much. I also thought that Mcmc was more powerful that I am because her modifiers didn't include "limited".
I see now that what I should have done, from the very start, was ask Space to help me understand my role. That would have been the best use of the QT. I thought I knew what I was saying, I was wrong. Because I was the one who created the neighborhood, I felt like I needed to disclose quite about how I could do that, so I did. Space didn't reveal nearly as much about her abilities as I did, so it felt like we were keeping things back so not the best environment for asking basic questions (although I still had my fair share of those.)
Both DatSwan and Joth have shared more about their abilities from the outset than in that initial conversation (no shade on Space...the game was further along so it seems less risky, I think) and have helped me understand what I do and how it can best be combined with what others do. I am 100% certain that I'd still think I was a limited watcher if this whole conversation had never happened and faust hadn't then changed my description to limited tracker.
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