In post 1738, Ghostlin wrote:
In no particular order:
Town:
Muff, FTL, NS (duh), Des, Mastin, BnB,
thezmon (gut, mostly, but he's posted mostly town; worth mentioning I had Saki as a scum read, however)
Leaning Town, but not there yet:
Nacho: some of his later content dispells my earlier concerns, but not enough to show the utter commitment and town leadership he showed in Xeno 1. I won't say he's hedging his bets necessarily, but he's taking a something of a passive role.
Mac: Is difficult for me to read. I spent a lot of time in Xeno 1, Day 1 on the useless predicate Mac was scum, and he wasn't that game. He's playing similar enough that I'm comfortable he's probably not scum.
SoS: They go here after their reads post on the players I asked for. They were null (which I'll get to, I promise) but there's enough Town reasoning, even with my wariness of hydrae reading, I can float them here. Their posts have been sound, but have lacked a certain amount of -oomph-.
Null
: AJ: I'm not sure it's lack of posts of lack of him saying something useful, but AJ stays in this kind of dangerous spot. Nothing's he's said has struck me one way or another.
Nickthename: I'm agnostic about Nick. Everything I've read -sounds- Town, but I see other players don't like him, and like AJ, I'm not impressed.
Scum (with strength of read next to it; not in any order, however)
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TF (weak scum to null): Still giving them shit after that joke I like to call 'supporting Skull on the Mastin lynch without reading it's actual content.' That's probably the most glaring error, but it was almost akin to calling Skull Town without actually calling them Town. I'm also mildly suspicious they felt more ok when I called them out on it, and have been one of the most vocal critics of the Mastin wagon.
Venmar (weak/gut): Something about Venmar makes me uncomfortable. It might be the sheer eagerness of the Mastin wagon, it might be a few other unnameable factors, but I don't like him for town. At all. I concede, that out of the next three people I'm going to talk about, maybe one will be a voting concern.
TD (weak): Nothing's jumped out and bit and it usually does with TD's play after the early wagon this game, and the flail was bad. But it was still the kind of read you have early Day 1, so it's entirely possible I'm still being unfair. It was kind of like 'gee, thanks' when he joined the Skull wagon, you don't trust gifts from scum reads.
Andrius (weak): Yes, I do read Andrius as weak scum here. Something about his play seems off. He's not as...dedicated or playing it up as much as he was in Xenosaga, and he's not even really bothered to make even perfunctory excuses about his absence. The wagon's a little popular, tho', and there's likely to be one scum on it.
Mala (medium): Mala's too aggressive and has had direct fights with at least me over what stuff in her personal lexicon means after she's accused people of misconstruing her comments. Which leads me to believe, instead of a more muted, or a 'I don't care what you think', she cares VERY much what you think. After a point, calling people on direct misreps from you seems like you actually give a fuck what others think of you. I actually look for this 'tell' in certain arenas of play, and it seems Mala's a very...populist candidate.
RachMarie (medium): The only detraction I have from this wagon is it's very popular, and Day 1 wagons that are popular are almost always driven by scum in some way, shape, or form. This isn't the Rach from Harry Potter, her reads are weak and we had to take them out of a back hoe, and she seems badly off-target, as if she's subtly changed her play, is off target here. You know how people often accuse others of being too helpful? She's ringing the not helpful enough catergory. Also 'I always play this way' isn't a defense, it's a line of comedy.
Mutley/Skull (strong): Skull did nothing, asked inane questions and used them as jumping boards; acted in the laziest possible manner to Town an didn't release coherent reads. If that slot's not scum, then it's incredibly poor Town.
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