In post 2135, DVa wrote:@Nancy, since you wanted explanations, here's where I am rn:
Townie
Kokichi Oma -- I've read Kokichi's town games, and this looks like his town game
Dunnstral -- I didn't correctly sort him in BoR and don't have confidence in my read. RC insists he's town; I thought opening with a reads list was unusual. At this point there's other people that are scummier. (Very much wish I'd pushed back on RC flipping his read on Dunn and danced here instead at this point)
Brian Skies -- Most of my read here was based on
which struck me as a ballsy gambit if scum
he could be townier tho
ChibiBear -- Fine with this being newgreen until I see a Gamma flip, at which point I go back to:
In post 563, ChibiBear wrote:Gamma - Feels like he's posted a fair but but hasn't said much, definitely keeping an eye on him.
which did not, at the time, strike me as a genuine reaction to Gamma's slot based on what had been posted until that point
Malakittens -- There's been so little new content here for a while that I'm worried game will stall with her alive forever, and she's with Cakez who seems scummy. 'acceptable losses for a cakez flip'? that's kinda cold but kinda how I see it
Princess Celestia --
While I don't townread Maria, I thought this particular attack on Maria was kinda weird at the time--I can see the POV a bit more now
Firebringer -- I don't know how to sort this slot even after having glanced through two of his other games. A little concerned since my last "poe null-->town" ended up flipping scum tho
MariaR --
In post 286, MariaR wrote:So I believe fire when he says he forgot how many scum were in this game.
Maria hates me for coming back to this again but this post pinged me really hard. We've talked about this post so I wouldn't bring it up except it's still on my mind
In post 1981, MariaR wrote:I don't think your reads will have more influence in your death as you think they will. Will some people respect them and maybe use them for reasoning to some extent? Sure scum will if scum is in that pairing and town might too.
Frankly I just don't know *what* Maria was trying to accomplish with this post and so it bothers me
SirCakez --
In post 349, SirCakez wrote:LLD's sort of taking command looked town to me. I don't think she takes that tone as scum from my (admitedly vague) meta recollections.
didn't like this then, don't like it now
also never liked his suspicions of Karmeleon
Gamma Emerald --
didn't like him going after Karmeleon here
shortaru --
In post 272, shortaru wrote:RadiantCowbells - duh
Gamma Emerald - I think town?
Dunnstral - scummy
Karmeleon - scummy
MariaR - towny, would dance
DVa - scummy, doesn't feel like genuine posting
Moment - towny, would dance
Sakura Hana - towny would dance (but alas, she has her sights elsewhere)
Firebringer - I can't get a read on this... everything in me screams scum, but wtf would scum be so blatant for?
Lady Lambdadelta - scummy
Putting aside the read on me which I didn't like, what really bothered me was why Gamma would be a leantown based on his posts, why karmy would be scummy, and *how he decided* LLD was scummy. In retrospect this read list almost looks too accurate based on the evidence that was available at the time.
He also was trying to play up being new green in points such as this:
In post 482, shortaru wrote:Still learning the ropes in forum Mafia. Been churning through the wiki to get a handle on strategy, action resolution, and power roles (oh dear God the power roles!)
scummy
with all that, Gamma/Fire and Cakez/Mala both seem like, as pairings, the best places to look for a flip today to me
at this point it's quite obvious shortaru was a manipulative little fucker. I don't know that makes him 100% lockscum but he roleplayed the newbie card way too hard and had some wild fucking reads, so unfortunately Nancy, I think there's a solid chance you replaced into a scum slot at this point