Ok that took a little longer than I originally thought, this is going to be a wall:
the only people I have had contact with before who are in this game now are RM (who I have replaced), Wisdom and NS. everyone else is new to me. In many ways this slowed down my reading as much of the latter part of D1 was a discussion on Meta.
so what have I got so far:
Chaos' early play only raised two questions in my notes and these point at
34 and
54. Basically post 34 the question that crossed my mind was, why is that indicative of scum, and post 54. Getting a scummy read off of the first two posts made by someone? Later on in D1 I have noted down that Chaos is pushing on a Singer vote. All of these add up to a very slight read of scummy bias on Chaos’ play, the slot was then replaced by Wisdom, so see my observations on this below.
Cats’ play began steady but then a few instances of sheeping others begins to creep in, The first is a sheep of my slot,
97, with a change of an RVS vote on Ray to a serious vote , while at the time of the post I would say it was warranted (see my comments on Ray below) it was IMO a blatant sheep of what RM has already said. This in itself is not a huge ringing bell, but then it happens again with a sheep of Wisdom near to the end of D1. This then is exasperated by PR fishing with regard to IV at
303 and
377. And I think one other occasion, but I cannot recall, as I did not note it down.
Evil Regals’ play began by giving me a null read, there is nothing there to be honest, in fact not much at all, maybe D2 will see more interaction, right now I am cautious of Evil but her actions later on in D1, see below concerning RM hammer, have convinced me to grant the benefit of the doubt
Arch Angel’s play began steady as well and my notes are minimal with a few question marks. Firstly and this is open to debate, She is suspicious of two townies who are now dead. Further she states she leans town on Evil? What is that based on? What content, of which there is little, would lead her to that read? After her initial suspicions of Singer and Guyett she later names Ray and Guyett as her scum suspects. She then is involved in the meta debate and maintains her opinion within that discussion.
IV, up until NS took over this was a major scum alert here in my eyes, little content and no real action in locating scum or even attempting to take part. IV/NS slot for now the slot remains near the top of my list as scum.
Ray’s play, I have read why early on people were concerned with his contribution, in particular those who have played with him before. What is notable is almost immediately after the third separate person had made such a comment he came on strong in the game. It is noticeable the differences in style and it is as if someone threw a switch, this concerns me though. Before I get to why I must say I partially agree with Ray regarding meta, I am adverse to looking at it but it does on occasion help, like in his play, what was said is correct, I get different reads. I would agree that it can be misleading for a few people who are able to change the way they play, but you cannot change the human element that makes us all who we are and this is what is used against us. Ray's change of style or expression is concerning me but for now I will hold my judgment on this in abeyance pending further development in game, I remain suspicious of Ray although in my notes at one point i actually write "Town ++", which means I got a town vibe on reading him in two separate posts, albeit those posts appear in the thread at the time there is the change is posting styles.
Wisdom’s play, replacing in late in the day on Day 1 and goes on the offensive quite quickly in particular in response to Singer and their discussion end of D1, what sticks out is the comment about seeing her dead D2. Is not a negative observation?, well it can be and it cannot be. On the one hand it could point to the fact why she died N1, but it could also say, “hey, lets set Wisdom up here and kill Singer”. Question is which is it. Again for now will hold committing to judging wisdom at this stage as later posts, in particular start of D2 do not raise any questions in my mind.
So they are my current thoughts/reads on players
There is also something else that needs to be covered. That is to do with the end of D1 votes. Looking at it RM was at L1 for a long time and there was no hammer,
136 does that say anything. Well the votes on her at that time were Guyett, Singer, Ray and Cats. Does that mean anything? Hypothesizing for a moment here Guyett and Singer are now confirmed town and dead, that would leave Ray and Cats on the Wagon who are unconfirmed. Looking at the activity during this time Chaos was absent and was prodded, Ray and Guyett were very active in the thread and ArchAngel makes an appearance but retains her vote on Ray and asks, “don’t Hammer yet. “ Evil appears in thread also and does not hammer in facts moves her vote to Guyett. IV also enters the thread and does not hammer placing a vote on Guyett. Archangel then reappears and moves her vote to Guyett thus placing him at L1. So does this say anything? What it does is maintain of suspicion on my part towards Ray and Cats, in particular Cats. Can it be said that by a process of elimination one or both is scum? Is it such a stretch of the imagination to suppose that all scum were not on the L1 wagon that my slot experienced towards the end of D1, I think not.
VOTE: ObsessedWithCats
I will continue to re read the thread and may well comment again on my current observations or any others I may pick up.