Perfect Masquerade [Game Over]

[Gentleman 6]

I do think the line of questioning is useful because G3 has done a ton of active lurking and all their game related questioning has felt off and hasn't really made sense. I think that they are asking questions to look like they are being useful to town and solvey but that the questions aren't going anywhere.

[Gentleman 6]

G4, do you disagree with me that that is rather common phrasing?

[Gentleman 4]

I don't disagree with you that it is common phrasing, I just think by reading your posts this isn't gonna be useful area to go into because it doesn't actually observe the mindset of Link instead just seems like you are trying to win brownie points for being right about something.

[Gentleman 6]

What if that mindset is scum?

[Gentleman 4]

I fail to see how going into that questioning will yield a town or scum mindset tbh.

[Gentleman 4]

Just seems like your overreacting to some bad questioning from Link rn. Maybe you are right and he is scum, I just think its a bit too early to go pitbull if you know what I am saying Harry.

[Gentleman 4]

Who hasn't posted yet and who needs a nickname?

[Gentleman 6]

I wouldn't say that I'm going pitbulll at all.

I'm just... asking him to clarify his stance?

[Gentleman 4]

Lady 1 is Malala
Gent 5 is Izaya
Lady 8 is Kitten
Gent 7 is Winston
Lady 5 is Dawn

[Gentleman 4]

Spoiler: Full names and Nicknames

Gentleman 1
Gentleman 2 - Tom Riddle
Gentleman 3 - Link
Gentleman 4 - Rick
Gentleman 5 - Izaya
Gentleman 6 - Harry
Gentleman 7 - Winston
Gentleman 8

Lady 1 - Mala
Lady 2 - Zatanna
Lady 3 - Misty
Lady 4 - Carol
Lady 5 - Dawn
Lady 6
Lady 7 - Eureka
Lady 8 - Kitten
Lady 9 - Robin

This was important.

[Gentleman 4]

I only townread Harry and Robin.

Also tom riddle but that one is obvious.
I am trying to court miss misty. Who is making me wait an awfully long time.

The rest of you need to town it up, thank you. This has been an official message from president rick.

[Lady 4]

@L2: Because this strategy requires cooperation, it can't be left until later since people will probably start pairing badly which will lead to suicides. I appreciate you repeating them for me. I'm also getting distracted by interacting with people currently instead of rereading on a bigger screen.

@G2: yeah let's avoid suiciding. If you're a cassandra, show that off now with sorting out good pairings

Can you elaborate on this, how do you know that they had avatars early?

I scoped out all of the players because I was interested in what people were doing. You can still find profiles even if someone hasn't posted, using the member list. Lady 6 does not have an avatar.

This seems like a nothing question. I mean if you're interested in how to view their profiles sure, but sounded like you were trying to get a read off my method somehow.

This post is good enough for a weak townread from me for now.

@L2 It is entirely based on that one post you made. I'll go grab it so I can articulate why.

[Lady 3]

I have a confident meta townread on Gentleman 8 as well.

Gentleman 8 hasn't even posted.

was this ever addressed?

[Lady 3]

I only townread Harry and Robin.

Also tom riddle but that one is obvious.
I am trying to court miss misty. Who is making me wait an awfully long time.

The rest of you need to town it up, thank you. This has been an official message from president rick.

We can go dance in the moonlight after everyone checks into the dance! <3

[Gentleman 6]

I have a confident meta townread on Gentleman 8 as well.

Gentleman 8 hasn't even posted.

was this ever addressed?

Confident meta townread in an anon game...

[Gentleman 7]

Also when ppl start predance by screwing around and spontaneously making bad pairings it makes the game suck

Pls don't pair before the IC pairs

^Yes please.

WoW I really dont like the ladies

Really? I'm feeling better about a few of them, while I feel murkier about the men.

Oh god two slips already :/

Am I the last one to arrive? My thoughts so far are that consensus townreads are probably the way to go, then ideally we can form pairs from within that group first. That way we have a better chance of crowding out scum into non optimal pairings with each other and with town who are harder to identify. Better than if we tried to just pick scum out individually, or all decide on pairings individually.

I've skimmed the game on mobile but the text is too small for me to actually read people's usernames easily which is a bit of a problem. So while I reread can everyone please give a list of your strongest townreads? It helps to have them in a list instead of scattered across pages.

I like L9, G6 (P-edit, just saw that one post, I'll have to recheck), L5, and you. I'm in agreement with that strategy--especially since it seems like no one else cares to try and hold a "vote". G4, I'd appreciate it if you were to retract your invitation (can you do that?)

[Lady 3]

oh ur being a meme?

[Lady 4]

Fair. I probably wouldn't like me either, and I know it, and it's really gnawing at me. Something isn't gelling. I want to be engaging here. Like genuinely I do. But it's not working, apparently. Like it's apparent even to me that I'm trying to say something but I get passed right by, like a ghost. Maybe it's posting while working, here and there, while other people are managing to have actual back-and-forth conversations.

While scum would be, if anything, more likely to have this thought process, I feel they would be less likely to post it. This successfully came off as real for me. And yes, there is a risk to attempting this type of post for scum. Poorly executing it could torpedo them.

Oh, G4 also kind of lower bracket. Actually scratch that, I like him taking the offered mantle as Town leader. That's actually quite fine. Same with early offer. Actually even better. I saw the jokey pizza post and was wondering how long that shtick would take to play out. Moving fast on an offer was a strong Town move, like he stepped up to the plate and then actually delivered. Good choice of initial offer, too. L3 was in early but did and said little. G4's offer will offer some focus in a new direction.

I do actually like the broad strokes of the treanding-towards-consensus reads I'm seeing. I actually like all the active gentlemen fairly well, G3, G4, and G6 all Townleaning for me.

These would be some easily places to buck the trend without looking weird. Liked that that opportunity was passed on. Also, think taking note of G4's antics at all is positive, I was thinking along similar lines at one point though arrived at a NAI conclusion. My sole quibble is that townreading as many gentlemen as possible seems strong for a scum lady.

[Lady 4]

We have to have nicknames for people all these L2/G5 feels like I am playing a chess game

You all can call me Rick
Lady 7 is Eureka
Lady 3 is Misty
Lady 9 is Robin
Gentleman 6 is Harry

They need to be clearly connected to the avatars or they're counterproductive

[Gentleman 6]

It sort of ruins the masquerade when I have confident alt guesses on over half the list.

[Lady 4]

I fail to see how going into that questioning will yield a town or scum mindset tbh.

I have no idea what you're making these posts for, G4.

I can easily think of a way G3 could be coming from a scum mindset here.

[Lady 3]

It sort of ruins the masquerade when I have confident alt guesses on over half the list.

If I were scum here I'd pretend to play someone that people consider fairly easy to read and I doubt that scum are incompetent

[Lady 2]

Okay thanks L4, your thinking is starting to fit and make sense as a cohesive thing.

L7, you want a pseudo-vote, make one yourself. At the very least, if you think that type of vote is a good strategy, tell us which of the ladies you would like to see left out. Otherwise all I'm seeing is setup stuff from you, and it's like busy work. Talking about voting a lady to ditch but not doing it. Talking about basically the same IC-pairing approach that's been most favored. Talking about a pairing strategy L1 has focused most of her energy on. It's not getting much done.

And like hell should G4 retract his invite to L3 (not that I think he can legally?). Talk about muddying waters. L3 is being quite sensible about the invitation, too.

[Lady 4]

I have no idea who any of you are and I won't care until the game is over.

[Gentleman 6]

Lady Cuteness Hierarchy

9 = 8 > 3 = 7 > 4 > 1 > 2