I made it through page 4 in my comprehensive read through, then ISOed DArby as he was giving me the worst vibes up til then. Then I saw he only had 2 other posts I hadn't seen yet, and suddenly I know why some of you are pairing him with me (who has 4 posts counting this one)
To put some meat on my DArby read besides just his low post count, his
50 and
66 particularly struck me. He tried to throw some confusion into what I thought was a pretty logical observation about Luke + Ari not being S/S. And in 66, the appeal to scum not swapping him was weird and felt like he was trying to towntell or townspew or something.
(I don't actually know what "townspew" means and how it's different from "towntell" if at all)
Other bad vibes:
Toogeloo
Aristeia
I quickly skimmed their ISOs too. I think they both look better past page 4, but it's hard to tell without full context.
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As for my thoughts on the location makeups.
My first instinct is that I'd like to put two strong TRs with a SR at the Gate, then try to stack two scum together in a different location. If we are right about those reads, scum will only be able to break up the Gate if we fail to stack scum elsewhere. And at that point, scum is forced to confirm one of the two strong TRs, and the three of them take out the strong SR from there.
Those of you saying DArby and myself should go together, what location would you like us in? I assume this is based on SRing both of us. So I'm actually not opposed to that if no one likes my Gate idea. I think putting me with DArby with a 3rd person (preferably another SR I think) will force something interesting and valuable to happen with the swap tonight. I don't know if that's better to happen in the Gate or the Wall though. Feels like a hard win to get if you put us in the Wall, but maybe lowering the odds of a win there is worth it to raise the odds of a win in the other two.
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I'd like to say I'll read past page 4, but I don't know if I can promise that lol. So from this point on I might just keep up with new posts and look back as it makes sense.