So, the good news is I did a reread and came away with the conviction that there's a fairly decent chance that e and awaclus are both scum
Both awaclus and e have a lot of posts D1 and D2 that are low-content; joke posts and posts talking about the duels and the setup, with very little posts giving actual reads in between. Both voted early on datswan, yet were involved in very little of the following discussion
There's also very little interaction between the two of them throughout the game (until today obviously), with the exception of an
interesting exchange at the start of D2
What struck me is that
1) It seems too immediately aware of the implications of the kill. e's post assumes awaclus's reasoning behind the vote, and that assumption goes unchallenged. It has the feeling of being a staged interaction to me
2) When the duel goes through, e lands on a glooble vote anyway, when he was willing to vote awaclus for voting there before
Awaclus:
The thread that most interested me on a reread is awaclus's interactions with mix and his subsuquent pushing of glooble. Awaclus's first post of the game is a (presumably RVS)
vote for mix. He has quite a few posts after this that are pretty much contentless as far as reads or votes go. Then, he
revotes for mix after mix votes him, with pretty flimsy reasoning. His
position is that revealing duel votes is bad and something that scum would want, but at this point almost every player except him has expressed at least a willingness to claim their votes, and awaclus gives no reason to single out mix as particularly scummy
Then, on D2, awaclus pushes glooble. As summed up nicely by debate
here, awaclus has a lot to say about how mix's reads in relation to glooble's scumminess (which he then
disclaims without providing any alternative reasoning). Given that mix was
scumreading awaclus, there's a reasonable scum narrative that awaclus is trying to deflect attention away from that aspect of the NK while pushing a fairly achievable mislynch
e:
A lot of e's posts have a feeling to me of being a sort of performative, “look at me, I'm so unconcerned and towny” vibe. Has a lot of posts that seem to be more about making an effort to appear active than actually pushing any sort of cases.
Multiple DAMAs, claims to have voted for two duels that included himself. There isn't a strong thread like the awaclus-mix-glooble thing because he never seems particularly concerned about pushing anyone's lynch, only jumping on wagons after they've already been started
At the end of the day, I would happily vote for either of them, which I know is kind of a cop out, but I honestly think we may have hit the jackpot in a scum vs. scum duel
Our IC is on awaclus, so all other things being equal, I'm going to follow him there
vote: awaclusL-1