In post 1000, Morality wrote:You’ve been town read a lot. Exactly. And Tchill while going down told town to go over you. That was distancing.
Why is what Tchill says going down even worth discussing? This is like, the WIFOMiest thing you could bring against me. You can do better.
Here's what I have to offer:
TW I've been townreading the whole game and if he's scum I will buy a hat and eat it.
Morality might have hard bussed his partners and go through lots of legwork to take control of the rest of the game, but I doubt it. It's too risky. I'm annoyed at his cocksuredness and what looks to be a confirmation bias he has against me now, but I'm not certain there's scum motivation behind it. Not anywhere near enough to be lynch-worthy today or even tomorrow.
I scumread Una early on until he finally showed up and did something useful. I've never been totally convinced, tbh, because a lot of his catch-up posts were pretty hefty walls that ended up looking like a lot of busy-work with a few substantial reads that he highlighted to make it clear that's what he wanted us to focus on (and not the other stuff, like the Tchill vote on Performer). Also, it seems noteworthy that Una was voting Tchill D1 but not D2. If he was 'soul-reading' Tchill so hard why hesitate on D2? But, if scum, that would have been an easy opportunity to bus given that he'd laid the foundation for it, so I don't think Una is a great scum candidate today or tomorrow.
Dunn is another I had an early scumlean on. Apparently I just don't know how to read him?
I still don't get why all three scum would be on his wagon, please explain it to me like I'm an idiot.
Also, I don't necessarily think Dunn is cleared just because Performer puts him at L-1 with a few days before deadline. Tchill was the next best wagon, and Performer had been brought up as a possible lynch, so Performer could very easily have decided to go with a bus D1 to earn some credit.
Koki, literally no idea. The tunneling on Profii really irked me but I had a hard time reading it as scum motivated. I felt pretty good about Koki being an easy lynch and Performer taking the bait, but that would make Koki an easy bus, too. Upon ISO, still have literally no idea. Today, I shared his sentiment that SIV was the obvious lynch today and so have probably been blinded, but Koki was super sure about profii too, so... not helpful. I'm really not sure Koki has tried to be helpful all game. For another example, he says to ignore Morality altogether. From my POV, his reads are not totally correct but that does not make them useless. This sounds a bit like Koki trying to undermine Morality's reads, push the easy Siv lynch, and continue from there.
On that note, I've been all over with SIV. Still not sure what to think. Sometimes I hard scumread him, and sometimes I get where he's coming from as a newer player. This is a true null slot for me right now.
I agree that Ruby's tracking claim will work itself out, but I'm still generally inclined to believe it. It just doesn't seem like scum!Ruby really
needed
to fake claim like that so early when doing so puts the spotlight on them to the end. I'm guessing tracker is probably an obvious fakeclaim, though? Please advise.
That leaves Azurit. She's a good candidate based on vote counts, but also looking at ISOs. Azurit focuses mostly D1 on Koki and Dunn, while doing some soft defending of Tchill (342) before eventually voting him without reasoning (468). This was still D1 though, and imo there was no real danger of Tchill getting lynched then. When the opportunity arises, she switches to Dunn (again without giving any reasoning--523)
D2-D3, Azurit focuses mostly on Ruby, but then leaves Ruby off of her reads list (827). (Aside: Morality reads this list as town because it is too 'political,' which is bonkers because 1.
what is she actually pushing here
? TW is at the top purely by POE and Ruby doesn't figure in the list even though she was pursuing them earlier, and 2. what makes you think, at this stage of the game with the disadvantage the last scum has, that they're going to try to just coast to the end sheeping the same reads as everyone else? Scum have to be a little political to survive, no?)
Pedit: TW and Dunn that's actually a good idea. Instead of waiting for the claim to work itself out later we work it out now.