Open 843 - Divide & Conquer - Game Over!

[Kuriyama]

First!

[Kuriyama]

VOTE: Puppy

[Kuriyama]

I think if we eliminate Puppy we just win today

[Kuriyama]

If i was scum would i be yelling how we should eliminate in our group to instant win?

don't answer that. i know the answer is yes

Your enthusiasm for "mech" feels faked.

[Kuriyama]

So you think I'm mafia who brought you in large group to attack you directly and tunnel you immediately off the bat?

[Kuriyama]

So you think I'm mafia who brought you in large group to attack you directly and tunnel you immediately off the bat?

actually i think ur town. so now im gonna stop talking to u.
Goodbye

[Kuriyama]

my gut caught this too, but i think it's lying to me. i just dont really see why scum would post it.

to try to get townread?

[Kuriyama]

IV is town

[Kuriyama]

IV is town

what the fuck

you said you were town?

[Kuriyama]

okay kuriyama town

i figured this out way before u. catch up

how unpleasant

[Kuriyama]

Oh shit if that’s all we have to do I’m town too

I guess MC Esther has to be scum in the 3 group then

[Kuriyama]

Oh shit if that’s all we have to do I’m town too

I guess MC Esther has to be scum in the 3 group then

I said this page 1.
Get on my level punk

It's easy when you can just look in your role pm to see who scum is

[Kuriyama]

What do you think about Dunny?

[Kuriyama]

Is he your designated misyeet?

[Kuriyama]

i get that killing the scum in the group of 6 is autowin but i feel it's just so unlikely

it's not

that

unlikely

[Kuriyama]

norwee played this game 2 before and didn't even correct my wrong assumption on 2 player hoods...smh

I actually have a very hard time believing Norwee didn't tell you anything about how to play this setup in your hydra chat.

[Kuriyama]

yeah ur right. he told me everything, then i told him "okay i will go play dumb"

so what did you two talk about?

[Kuriyama]

what r u the fbi?
U got to subpoenna our private conversations if u want the fully juicy discussions.
I can't give out our secret list of rankings of players by attractiveness

How unpleasant.

[Kuriyama]

I assume the two of you talked about something prior to game start?

It's weird that he didn't discuss his past experiences with this setup with you and you would enter the game seemingly completely confused about how hoods work and whether eliminating a scum in the large group wins the game.

[Kuriyama]

Like I think a fairly reasonable thing for norwee to say to you if you were town is "I won the first running of this setup as town when we eliminated scum in large group d1 and we lost the second running of this setup as town when we eliminated scum in small group d1, so we should aim for large group to go for that d1 win"

Which makes your entry into today feel kind of weird and intentionally oblivious to me. So you're saying he didn't say that to you, and I'm asking you, what did he say to you?

I'm asking now because he's probably asleep right now.

[Kuriyama]

Perhaps I expect too much of Norwee.

[Kuriyama]

I find it more concerning tbh that norwee didn't think to tell you about his past experiences as town in this setup.
One explanation would be that he finally rolled scum in this setup, hence he didn't think his past town experiences would really be applicable or useful.

[Kuriyama]

I'm not going to belabor this point much longer since I guess it is not out of the realm of possibility that I simply have too high of an expectation for norwee's behavior/play and I will re-adjust and wipe this clean.

[Kuriyama]

could you paraphrase this conversation?

[Kuriyama]

I don't think Norwee would troll you about this but I'll take your word for it for now.

[Kuriyama]

Hello, I am Lukewarm.

Hi Lukewarm,

do you have any thoughts about who is town/scum in the Large Hood?

[Kuriyama]

what do you like about dwlee?

[Kuriyama]

Hope you feel better soon!

[Kuriyama]

What thoughts do you have about the game so far that aren't about trolling your hydra partner?

[Kuriyama]

Can you put some names there?

[Kuriyama]

Let's say you townread me/prism.

Why is Dwlee out of your POE for large pool?

[Kuriyama]

Ok why is your partner focusing on Dunn/STD ~?

Did he talk about his dwlee read at all?

[Kuriyama]

FWIW I am looking forward to the next chapter of Captain Slade & Doctor Zhiv

I think it's an absolute shame that you are not contributing to our romantic space opera as you are by far the most talented writer in the room.

[Kuriyama]

Ok why is your partner focusing on Dunn/STD ~?

Did he talk about his dwlee read at all?

How would i know what he's doing, i'm not his mom.
Do you have questions for me or do you just want to talk to Fire?

- Norwee

I'm somewhat assuming he talks to you about the game and your hydra chat is all memes.

[Kuriyama]

I'm somewhat assuming he talks to you about the game and your hydra chat is

not

all memes. (Yes I know I have unreasonable expectations)

[Kuriyama]

my urge to kill you keeps going up as I talk to you so I should probably stop doing that.

[Kuriyama]

Now i want to talk to you.

- Norwee

How unpleasant

[Kuriyama]

I think Dragons is town because he is spending more time writing space romance than actually playing the game.

[Kuriyama]

how did you get to dwlee town?

[Kuriyama]

my urge to kill you keeps going up as I talk to you so I should probably stop doing that.

i like how u have same feelings for my hydra partner as me

I actually find you quite charming and clever

[Kuriyama]

I would be so disappointed if Dunnstral was scum and decided to ghost this game

[Kuriyama]

Why is dwlee town to you?

[Kuriyama]

are you going to do anything?

[Kuriyama]

my reads in beta rn are IV-town 80/20 Todoraki/Esther scumsplit

[Kuriyama]

Reminder to myself to say something (not an attack dw) to Kuriyama tomorrow

you can attack me it's fine.

[Kuriyama]

my reads in beta rn are IV-town 80/20 Todoraki/Esther scumsplit

I should probably explain.

I feel like this is much more likely to be IV's town game than his scum game but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that this is his scum game. I'd be very surprised though.

I like Todo scum over Esther scum because I feel Notty would be a lot more aggressive in small hood if he were town here as the lane of attack is wide open to him and he's just not here?

I am unfamiliar with Esther's main or her meta.

[Kuriyama]

I think perhaps you are mistaking me for someone else?

I am not a sensitive flower that will wither and die if you begin attacking me. I am all too happy to receive your criticism and remarks - you don't need to practice restraint.

[Kuriyama]

I can be your Sona if you want to be the ADC.

[Kuriyama]

I will not be here today. I just got my first acceptance into law school.

I do not have words to express. I am overwhelmed. I have worked towards this every day for over two years, with nothing else in mind. So much of why I have kept playing, and why I play so intensely, was tied to this.

Thanks to everyone that has put up with me the last two years.

Congratulations!

[Kuriyama]

Luke: I said that looking at the playerlist, I would put myself into the large hood unless my partner was exactly Dunn or Prism.

Why Dunnstral?

I was thinking nobody would ever put Dunnstral in as large hood scum because he's so limbaity and not even playing?..

[Kuriyama]

Puppy why should I vote Dunn

It feels weird to me that you have a town-read on IV but you aren't trying to push for Esther elim - she is at E-2 currently.

[Kuriyama]

are u mariar

alt-hunting is rude and unpleasant

[Kuriyama]

[Kuriyama]

ok who do you want to kill in the large hood?

[Kuriyama]

This feels like shitty scum theatre to me

[Kuriyama]

hmm that came out harsher than I intended.

I will amend that statement.

This feels like fairly boring scum theatre to me.

[Kuriyama]

How unpleasant

[Kuriyama]

He is saying the scum team is Puppy/Todo and he needs to do something to throw me off the scent.

[Kuriyama]

I am very tempted to put you at E-1 because this continued baiting seems entirely pointless if you're actually town here.

[Kuriyama]

I'll be honest I've spent more brainpower on writing the romance story than trying to figure out whether Todo is town.

[Kuriyama]

i do agree that todoroki looks kinda like scum who had assumed we'd yeet from 6 first and is now going "oh shit this really wasnt the plan" (im actually not sure anyone's explicitly framed it this way but i think someone hinted at it). i dont really understand prism's "practically a scumclaim" that he saw in todoroki's post, i think this mightve been an exaggeration?

im not really on-board with the consensus innocentvillager townread -- mostly because he very clearly doesnt believe the solve he's pushing. i think he's town because he looks townier than todoroki and only one of them is scum; but no i very much dont think there's any "yeah these posts have to come from town" in his iso.

People think we're scum and posts like this exist, lmao

Like I hate this post because it feels like something scum says about a townie writing a horribly scummy post.

I think if you're town you just vote for her and pound the table on her being mafia? I really don't understand the hesitation here. I acknowledge I could just be horribly wrong and tunneled here. I hope smarter people than me will shake me out of it. I will sleep on it. This game needs more Notty/Lukewarm/Dunnstral/Dwlee.

[Kuriyama]

It's not e1 it's e2.

Prism is not calling you scum.

You should catch up on the game IV, it is not so long.

[Kuriyama]

Okay, actually getting ready to leave to go to my sisters. I am just kind of assuming that I will be dead by the time I get back to the game.

So final notes before the sweet song plays:

Dunn - Dunn has absolutely ghosted this game, which does make me want to call Dunn town... But, I have actively had a conversation with Dunn about this trend (I made a whole ass dunn spread sheet tracking his day 1 activity vs his alignment, across a LOT of games. Was VERY accurate (like 90% accuracy) pretty sure that being scum gets Dunn invested in games. So I WANT to call him town, but since I actively told him about this table, it feels like he might do it on purpose at some point. This is a paranoia thought, but this is the only reason I am not actually town binning him right now.

Puppy - I will eat my hat if they flip scum. Probably never kill them.

StD - Notty was town reading StD based off the of the comments about his activity in the large hood, feels like a weird way to read him, so I just ignored that. but his unvote on us just now seems town motivated. No reason to unvote there as scum - this wagon was in no way tied to him.

Prism - I am retracting my town read on her. Almost like a BoP thig really. Probably should never make it to Elo.

Everything else feels like it was pretty well covered before.

And I had been doing so well :/

ok so who do you want to kill in the large group?

[Kuriyama]

A lot of the things you claim to be scummy, quite frankly just aren’t.
And it’s irritating to see you try to be the big voice of reason when you don’t really seem to know what it is you are talking about.

- Norwee

I am aware that I am often wrong.

[Kuriyama]

I love the idea of Kuriyama just watching me be aggressively wrong and sipping tea while watching me piledrive the game into the ground.

P-Edit: I hate that you only NOW commented on that lmao, after presumably watching the whole time

I didn't have time to catch up until now. I really should be working instead.

[Kuriyama]

VOTE: Todoraki

this is e-1

[Kuriyama]

Happy Birthday Luke!

[Kuriyama]

fairly sure we are going small hood tomm

do you still strongly prefer Esther?

[Kuriyama]

everyone shows up after a hammer falls

makes sense

[Kuriyama]

pretty sure we kill small hood if Luke flips town because we want to avoid the 5p elo

[Kuriyama]

twilight parties are the best part of playing mafia

[Kuriyama]

part of me says oh no oh no oh no

but the other part says let's just enjoy the ride

[Kuriyama]

Congrats Prism & InnocentVillager - Thank you for the thrilling game. I had fun and more than a few laughs.

Thanks for modding Pavowski; the flavor was excellent.

Sorry we couldn't finish our space opera together Fen; in some ways I think it is for the best to let them write their own love story.

Sorry again for the terrible death-tunnel Luke/Notty ~ I should probably work on my re-evaluation skills.

[Kuriyama]

I had the most fun memeing with Fire tbh.

same

he is a qt