gladly
I think marci is someone who is conventionally quite easy to push or fake a scumread on, and I also have had a few games of experience with her as both alignments - she felt townie to me early so I thought she'd be a good slot to use as information to see who was gonna be reluctant to townread her or even explicitly scumread her. And if she continued to look town (which she has), would be good to take her out of the limpool immediately to narrow scum's options for slots to push.
Was mostly curious to see who would push back on me and why, wasn't looking for anything super specific in particular but I do think people who prickle at being forced into early townreads are worth examining
I actually did early today and found it inconclusive, here's my notes as I saved it as a draft:
the two I marked as "similar" gave me a generally vaguely similar vibe to their intro here, acknowledging a player from a past game but in a very shallow/weak way. They're right that they generally just pick a name and write a very short comment + a few were empty votes, but the main thing that overall made me less interested in the point was scum game RVS #2 where they voted Andante, that felt a bit more over-explainy than their first vote here. All in all I didn't think it was worth posting but it did make me slightly less pinged by the intro vote, which is another reason I switched over to Meuh
In post 429, ChaosOmega wrote:323 reads lame. You and Dwlee are the two leading wagons, and it looks like the point you're arguing is more active == more pro-town. It's like you're looking for easier lims to push through instead of looking for scum, especially with the swing onto Meuh in 407. Is the reason you haven't voted for HEM that you don't believe you can build a wagon on them?
You misunderstand me here, I'm not trying to argue that I should be townread at large or seen as pro-town, but rather trying to understand how HEM could be so confident I'm scum given the early stage of the game and for pushing on a slot I saw as not likely to be confidently townread by anybody at that point.
The reason I'm not voting HEM is a) because I hate that he tried to manipulate/goad me into voting him and I refuse to allow him to bully my vote that way on principle, and b) because even though I find HEM vaguely scummy, I also don't believe I'm super likely to be correct there. I absolutely do start with easier to pressure/sort players on D1, I believe people who tunnel themselves on the hard-to-read high-activity slots are often wildly wrong in doing so and it's best to use D1 lim on lurky slots that don't have any real remote reason to townread them. I explained this in more detail in
my last game I played and I stand by it here as well, it's far easier to imagine me just personality clashing/not liking HEM and being wrong than it is to find good quality reasons to townread a low activity slot that isn't yet even playing. Especially in Meuh's case as the town game marci linked did seem wildly different to her first posts in this game.
"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"
