In post 1021, Lie Ren wrote:Could you go into why you think your alignment becomes clearer the further along the game gets?
Because I post more, simply put.
I have more than one towngame; I have more than one scumgame. I have some things which in one towngame can appear in a different scumgame, and vice versa, but by and large, the multitude of my towngames are just vastly different on a fundamental level than the multitude of my scumgames.
And the more I post, the more it becomes obvious, because legit just see the flowchart for the trends there. Scumastina is just calm, cool, collected, manipulative, but also stunted, stilted, forced, due to being orderly, due to being precise. Every move is calculated, every post carefully written, I take the time to word things to perfection, cover every angle, cover everything, I am exactly where I need to be to accomplish the goals I set out to achieve, which are usually more or less along the lines of letting the town eat itself alive while setting my scumbuddies up for success. I let the town fight town, and give the town no useful information for if I were to flip scum. Minimalistic effort, minimalistic posting, because the less I give the town, the more they are guessing; I'm not going to spoonfeed them the optimal play, I'm not going to take control, I'll stay out of the spotlight, I'll stay in the background, in the shadows, not really taking center stage because if people aren't looking too hard at me then I have the freedom to just survive.
Whereas as town, I am usually emotional (this game I'm not, this game is a bit lifeless I admit but like, extenuating circumstances there because past the initial excitement of feeling the game was solve, there's just the boredom of waiting for people to get to where I am at), chaotic, random, scattered, disorganized, but I flow naturally, there's just an energy which I exude, where in spite of not being precise, I can still string together some good reasoning, good logic, where people can follow how I get from point A to point B well enough, but because I'm mastina there's still plenty which people struggle to see the leap in, but they can see that I MADE the leap and that the leap made sense to me, even if they don't follow the exact line, they can tell that to me there WAS a line.
And I just. Generally. I have that energy, that
presence
to me. I radiate my firmness, my conviction, my stubbornness, and yes, my arrogance, in the delusions of grandeur, that confidence I have in feeling the ~energy~ of feeling I am legit onto something and trying to convince people that I know what I am talking about. It's just something that over a longer period of time, becomes more and more obvious and even though it manifests differently in different towngames (this one has the aforementioned extenuating circumstances where I quickly became a little bit bored once things felt instantly solved and I don't feel a strong need to push people to follow me because I feel like they're on their way to it on their own anyway), it's always there eventually, given enough time.
Plus, regardless of my alignment, I have a certain level of smugness. Cheeky scumfuckery as scumastina, but a smugness of knowing I am town and often knowing things others don't when I'm town.
There's some better term than 'dead-mentally' but I am dead mentally enough to not be able to even remember what that term is) to do so.