You guys had one of the better scumchats I've seen in a Newbie game. You bounced a lot of ideas off each other. I think I'd enjoy being scum a lot more if I got to be scum with either of you.
You had a much deeper understanding of setups and strategy than most scumteams made up of newer players.
You lost because:
1) You didn't out or kill any PRs until night2.
2) Town started making themselves obvious.
I'll also point out that when I fake-hammered you Somnus, you recognized that it might not have been a valid vote (it wasn't, and I'd checked with our mod ahead of time to confirm). You could have townspewed there. It was a risk for me to give you that opportunity, but I thought it more likely you were unaware of that particular part of FA's ruleset and would tell the truth, than be aware of it and fake spew town.
Turtle, you were almost universally townread for
228. I was the only one who didn't like it and I never adequately explained why. Re-reading it now I still have a hard time pointing to exactly what I don't like about it, but I'll try. Basically you were asked "who looks scummy to you?" and your response was very very well put together. Too well put together. Marci just wants to know who is scummy to you and you give her a detailed post with links and very formal writing "Currently, I have him as a scum-lean." "He's in the null range for me, but I'd love to see a bit more thoughts even if they're basic and bare-boned." etc. It just didn't feel like how town reacts to that type of question at that stage of the game. I hate to say it appeared "try-hard" because I don't want to encourage laziness from town (hypocritical, I know), but it's a bit of that. It's also a bit off that the person asking for your scumreads is the person you end up voting, yet you spent a lot of time casing two other players in the same post. It would have been more natural to make a post voting her and explaining why and then just listing the other two players who you also scumleaned. Sorry for the long explanation. I might also have just been "right for the wrong reasons" here.
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Turtle, you'll be a formidable scum player when you interact live more often. You seemed largely absent from the ongoing discussions and then would drop in with a long well-thought out post. That works day1, but if town is finding each other you will get left out of that.
Somnus, your early day1 stuff was tonally very solid.
Overall an impressive effort from two newer players.
