Okay, so, I should read e first:
First RVS vote is on Gkrieg:
Well there is no WW to vote for so I guess
vote: e. Clear partner interactions there
False. LAL. Vote: gkrieg
And Gkrieg voted for him.
Early posts are replies to not-too-relevant things. Then votes Seprix:
vote: Seprix
A few more posts that don't really have content, such as:
Babe, why are you yelling about a waffle? Waffles are delicious.
waffles are delicious indeed. but are they a towns food of choice?
Yes. The more I play the more I think hedging and waffling comes from town.
Then this, not sure if it's a joke or not:
you should reconsider your faust read. pretty sure that guy is some sort of evil overlord with a whole mafia team serving him.
I could get behind that case
I mean it sounds like a joke but I remember it being quoted (mistakenly?) as a reason for something.
sorry...been really slack here. I still like my seprix vote.
This is true. 570 posts in and no content and one vote. This is classically scummy, but I don't think it's really e's style of scum. Though I've been thinking he's scum in all his recent town games, so what do I know.
Okay, a real post:
Just reread through the thread, and there is a lot there.
RR seems like his classic self, which means he will reveal himself as scum on D3 (if he is scum). So let's leave him be for now.
Melisandre seems like a pretty confident player, and has been posting all sorts of stuff, and it has read pretty honest to me. Town for now
liopoil has a lynch brewing in the future for him if he keeps up with the odd posts and 'traps' and such. Does he really do that as scum? not so sure.
fontisian and Jan are both new with melisandre, and although they haven't been as active, they still exist. I am fine keeping it that way on D1.
gkrieg is still voting me from rvs despite making cases and rereading people and finding them scummy, so....vote: gkrieg
silverspawn has some big posts and has some cool things down. Scummy stuff not really.
I voted for Seprix earlier, and maybe that is just because his current play style makes me think scum. Which, could be right or could be wrong. Either way, gkrieg is a better place to vote right now. He is totally just sitting on a vote to look important and not be sitting at "not voting" status
Hydrad is so very Hydrad. We can lynch him and RR together on D3 when they both breakdown and claim scum for real
I think Awaclus is very provocative, which can be frustrating...but also good. He gets useful reactions out of people.
ADK does ADK stuff. He could be town, but I think gkrieg is the better option right now.
Reggie is cool. Let's not lynch him
Haddock is over-sensitized to any time that I remotely call him scummy. Half the time it isn't even real. I mean, like last game in lylo where I totally found him scummy for everything because I had to. This half...might actually be a real scum read.
Ichi is town. Because I said so.
Teproc is scum. Because you should reconsider your faust read. pretty sure that guy is some sort of evil overlord with a whole mafia team serving him.
I could get behind that case
But we should lynch his minion gkrieg first.
PPE:2
Right, so this is why that joke quote was confusing. The "Teproc is scum, because" <joke quote about the mod>. Not sure if this is confusion or just a posting mistake. So, doesn't say a lot here but I couldn't say much more at this point in the game. Votes Gkrieg, that's probably the most interesting. Well, he does go out of his way to mention how much he wants to lynch Gkrieg.. he says "Gkrieg is a better lynch" while discussing other votes, even reiterates his case against Gkrieg while talking about Seprix. That could betray a bussing mindset. His reasoning for lynching Gkrieg is that Gkrieg voted e for RVS and left his vote there. So what are the wagons like here?
This is right after Teproc starts a case against Lio. Lio has four votes maybe. Gkrieg just had Ichi, but Ichi had unvoted. So scum!e can either get on the Lio wagon or start something else. Well, if e is scum here, Lio is more likely town, because why start an alternate wagon to your partner with your other partner? If Lio is scum, e is more likely town by the same reasoning. If Lio is town, then this is just distancing for scum!e for exactly this kind of future reread. Of note is that it's a very safe vote on Gkrieg with no real case.
Okay, e doesn't say anything about this growing Lio wagon, he's gone for a bit and:
will work on some focused rereads here shortly (after a league match). starting with people with the biggest wagons and working my way down.
So now on Lio:
So. Liopoil. Opens the game with a bit of fun. The scumslip argument....'next person to vote reggie' thing...we should make more dominion references...yeah. These are all liopoil getting into the game, getting comfortable. Finding his groove. Nothing wrong with that. I actually like the general flow and ease with which he posts these. Would have to be very contrived for scum!liopoil to be doing, and it doesn't look like that at all.
Then he jumps right into the game with some good input and a vote. There is nothing scummy about this at all. In fact, I find it quite townie.
Continuing on we get a bunch of other posts....none of them scummy. Basically, shame on you guys for thinking liopoil is scum. Totally town.
This starts out sounding townie by e, good points on Lio's posting. Ends a little too confident in his read.
ADK:
ADK - I like his analysis on a lot of things. Like, for example, in these posts:
How am I doing what I'm describing? Seprix voted for melisandre for having "contrived reads" because it's "too early". I'm saying that that's nonsense, and also suspicious because it's an easy position to take, so I'm voting for him.
I don't like the votes on Seprix. I disagree with his stance but it looks to me like he's earnestly trying to scumhunt.
I've landed as town on Melisandre, just because I think town is much more likely to do the reaction-fishing "gotcha" thing. Also probably town on Jan, I might sheep him on liopoil.
Mmm I need to be less literal. I think on average town waffles more than scum, scum tries to look super certain of their reads.
Overall, I think ADK is making a good effort to scumhunt. He doesn't glare town to me like liopoil does, but I think he is definitely on the townier side.
On Jan:
Jan - the first half of all his posts were like 100% questions. All he did. Ask questions and make jokes. Then he continued on and began posting more, questions disappeared, analysis began.
Town points for all the town reads he has given. I like the analysis. A solid null-town read just because I don't know him that well. We have better lynches
Doubles down on Gkrieg:
gkrieg's game has consisted entirely of the following two things:
I like the read/post/etc by X person
I don't like the read/post/etc by Y person
So yeah, a lot of 'input' by gkrieg but nothing that is difficult for him. Just going off whatever other people say. I am happy keeping my vote here.
This is kind of similar to what I think I remember seeing when reading Gkrieg.. much more reactive than proactive. Interesting that he doesn't actually post any quotes on this 'reread' (i.e., he doesn't actually need to read partner!Gkrieg), but he didn't for Jan also.
Seprix:
Seprix. He has that early vote on Melisandre because of the RVS reads post. I mean, it is a nice little vote that he has decent enough reason for and defends it well. Very protective of his vote, which could go either way. I know I like to vote with a case and defend it well as scum or town. I think really the one thing that we can learn from it is that Melisandre and Seprix are not scum together. One might be, or the other....but not both. Basically, if you are going to vote for your partner you don't mistakenly vote for Jan. You vote for your partner.
I am fairly null on Seprix right now. He has been around and had some fun interactions, nothing super townie or scummy so far. I think he lands slightly on the scummy side of null though.
Well I guess he stopped quoting at all. Does this 'player X and Y must share/not share alignments' thing that I don't like. Why isn't whatever made you want to vote Seprix earlier compelling now?
Votes Hydrad:
I like Jan's post there. I don't like his conclusion. I do agree that hydrad needs some pressure.
vote: hydrad
Well, scum!e would have spent almost all the day voting for his partners. I don't like the qualification/explanation on the vote though. It's not really much pressure if you say 'hey I'm trying to pressure you'.
Then reconsiders:
I like Jan's post there. I don't like his conclusion. I do agree that hydrad needs some pressure.
vote: hydrad
nevermind. I actually read Jan's post. Two can play this game:
Jan - very little posts. has made the effort to give 1 post with content on everyone one way or another.
His reads in itself don't rock my world. gives passes to half of the game without giving a read on them.
Reads are either lose meta jibsor just nothing, not a lot of depths to anything. Let me summarize his reads in my own words just to showcase this :
1. liopoil - null
2. gkrieg13 - IF ADK is scum then they might be partners. IF ADK is town then he feels town. So......null then
3. fontisian - null
4. silverspawn - talks a lot....doesn't give any reads....kind of feels null/scum?
5. Roadrunner7671 - town
6. Melisandre - town
7. Seprix - town
8. Hydrad - he needs to post more, wouldn't mind lynching
9. Awaclus - null
10. A Drowned Kernel - scum, but not voting because he is V/LA right now
11. J Reggie - town
12. Haddock - town
13. Ichimaru Gin - town?
14. 2.71828..... - scum because his reads list was awful and I am getting to the end of players and I have to find at least one person scummy
15. Jan - let's call myself scum. They don't seem to react negatively to that here.
16. Teproc - town lean
So he criticizes Jan's read list, and find's Jan scummy. Doesn't really explain why Jan's list is bad.. I guess the implied argument is that it feels constructed.
vote: Jan
yeah, I totally said I liked Jan's post and didn't really read it all that well. I saw he made a little case on me and kind of skimmed the rest. guilty as charged. But going back and really reading it was enlightening. I mean, he did the same thing that he called me scummy for.
And yeah, that null-town read I had earlier. Well, let's switch it to scummy. I mean, seriously, everything I called him town for I could also call him scum for. Nice how early reads can progress. All those questions to get a feel for the game before jumping in exactly where he was comfortable to insure he didn't slip up in an unfamiliar environment. How is that for twisting around what I said to make it sound scummy?
Lots of explanation for voting here.
So let's see how much i remember of this game :
1. liopoil
Unsure - poor reactions to the pressure. Poor reads so far. I dislike the fonti/lio thing.
Also, leave your vote there on liopoil. I mean, he is the biggest wagon and you helped start it. Have to try to keep those scum wagons viable as long as possible. The longer the idea of a liopoil lynch is on people's minds, the more likely it is to actually happen.
Probably just forgot to vote for me. Or for himself, for that matter. I mean, we are the only two real scum based on that reread. But now it will be OMGUS for you not for me, since I voted you first.
Kind of prods Jan a bit more.. makes e seem less scum here.
guys....RR just went crazy. I don't know what to do.
Have you met RR before?
Anyway, I don't see this coming from anything but town!RR. So yeah, you will live to D3. I will prepare.
I don't agree. Though, that one game e modded where RR was scum, e claimed to gain an understanding of scum!RR. He could have that in his mind here, as scum, to 'read' RR with confidence.
This resurgence of the liopoil wagon is interesting. I think Jan is a much better option than liopoil. I will be around on my phone all day to vote to get a lynch. Whatever we do, we need a lynch today.
Continues to push Jan, prefers him over Lio. Gkrieg and Seprix are forgotten. Actually I think if you're a scum busser here, you remember to throw in your partner. "I think Jan is a much better option than Lio.. could also do partner!Grkeig or mislynch!Seprix". This is less valid if Lio is scum.
So. Liopoil. Opens the game with a bit of fun. The scumslip argument....'next person to vote reggie' thing...we should make more dominion references...yeah. These are all liopoil getting into the game, getting comfortable. Finding his groove. Nothing wrong with that. I actually like the general flow and ease with which he posts these. Would have to be very contrived for scum!liopoil to be doing, and it doesn't look like that at all.
Then he jumps right into the game with some good input and a vote. There is nothing scummy about this at all. In fact, I find it quite townie.
Continuing on we get a bunch of other posts....none of them scummy. Basically, shame on you guys for thinking liopoil is scum. Totally town.
That being said, I find jan's unvote interesting. He doesn't immediately jump on the liopoil wagon (which makes sense from a self preservation perspective). But he doesn't close the door on it either. Doesn't want to be on a mislynch?
Are you remembering to pay tax to Ichi for all this 'intersting' usage?
Vote: seprix.
Jan isn't happening and I really am not feeling liopoil. Seprix is a good alternative wagon.
What happened to Gkrieg?
He tries to get more people on Seprix over Lio, ends up absent for the deadline and the Awaclus quicklynch.
So that's Day 1.
Scum points:
*Any bussing that occurs is when partners are very safe (no real threat of being lynched)
*Case against Gkreig is not very convincing, admits no case for the Hydrad vote
*Only votes Seprix, Gkreig, Jan, Hydrad throughout the day. Town tends to change opinions more (e even said this).
Town points:
*Makes a case against Jan when lots of other stuff is going on. Scum here could continue to just slide under-the-radar. It's also a bit of OMGUS (as Jan called e out for, well, flying under the radar and being scummy), and scum tends to be conscious of OMGUS and avoid it. Town is more likely to not really care. However, mitigated a bit by e initially thinking Jan was townie when he found e scummy. However, if you're scum you don't often backpedal and do a read reversal like that.