So I've pretty much been coasting through day 1 watching reactions, seeing who does what, the usual. Had a bit of fun on Darryl's behalf but hey, he stepped up and I always enjoy messing with anyone who wants to stand opposite me, it's all a good time. Here's my reads list and here's my thought on who to lynch.
StackpoleH- I'm giving Stack the benefit of the doubt as a newbie. She has not stepped up as much as I would have liked her too at all but she has done enough for a first day 1 performance. Although Nin called her logic shit in the one post that she threw out that was working through something, I think quite the opposite, she came to a solid conclusion that I didn't completely agree with but the logic was there. Null read for now, may be new scum but I'm not pursuing this today.
nin1000- nin has been trying to pretend to be here but has said a whole lot of nothing. As I mention above, it was odd that he called Stack out for shitty logic but if you look, nin has basically called everything shitty logic throughout day 1. Anytime a new theory has started to crop up, he's struck it down before it can find it's bearing. It's weird, it's a stifle to conversation and when he is not doing that, he is instead stifling the conversation with fluff and garbage. - Leaning Scum
Terrabyte20xx - Terra has been interesting, he has basically been here just enough to make an impression but not enough of one to mean anything. He made an odd play at the start to call himself out on not voting early like he usually does, UltraJay commented on this if I recall, Swamped may have as well, but it didn't really get much of a negative reaction otherwise. He made a point to pop into the thread and call us dumb during the debauchery moment and has now more recently come in with the easy Blarg vote. - Leaning scum
Darryl - Although he has been getting under my skin for real, he hasn't actually done anything scummy. I know he is chasing his tail if he thinks I am the right choice for a lynch but that doesn't actually make him bad. He has tried to garner discussion which hasn't been very fruitful and has tried to fool people "gambits" some of which I apparently ruined because they seemed like they would hurt more than help. Otherwise though, he is there, I could see a narrative where he is scum trying to paint me in a bad light but eh, I don't think it's there. - Leaning town
Sophia/Launch - Before Launch came in, Sophia had basically been easy town vibes, was helpful and engaged. Launch has since showed up and as I said a few posts back, has been taking the super easy route in voting for Blarg for being a "distraction." As I said, voting for a null read is worthless at this stage, we should be trying to discuss, not agreeing on a policy lynch, it gets us nowhere. Slight leaning town, mostly from a Sophia read as opposed to a Launch read.
UltraJay - I'll get it out of the way and say that I think UJ is scum this time. I'm not super confident but he has been hovering in the background a lot. There has been a lot of promises of posts to come but they seem to not pan out or not be as in depth as one would hope. Here's the kicker for me though, he votes for Xam as a prod and then
gives a scum read on him later. Which comes across as him trying to justify a vote that was just sitting out there to me. This reasoning came almost a full 20ish hours later (maybe a tad less) and while Xam did not really respond to the prod during that time, the information that UJ uses to justify Xam's scumminess came from before the actual vote. I think he found an easy target to land on and went back to find good justification for leaving that vote there all day.
Pop-O-Matic- Oh right, Pop is in this game, I honestly forgot. Did a quick little search and the extent of his involvement has been prodding inactives. I'll have to get used to the fact that Pop is just not a heavy poster and will disappear for real life days at a time. Consistent with past town play but then, not posting a lot is an easy guise to stand behind. - Null read
TL21xx - I did remember Tl21 was in this game but a lot like Pop, he has stuck mostly to the back, so much so that I can't remember any real opinions coming from him. And after a search, I now remember that terrible post about wanting to wait a day phase before putting out a reads list. I'm null reading him but a vote to the brink might just be what he needs to get into gear, that's what it took in night vale. - Null read
Seath - Trash posting like usual, I did vote on him for using as many excuses as he could find to not actually play and instead post fluff but really, there is no read to be had here yet. Again, consistent with past play, I'm just leaving it be for now. - Null read
StarSketch - Star has always been fairly reserved. I fault both her and TAP for the same thing, dismissing day 1 as a waste. The difference though is that I believe Star does it because she doesn't know how to handle day 1 and no information well. This is consistent with past play and if she is scum, I feel like it would be caught later. -Leaning town for now
Zipped - Zipped has been an odd case too (I see he was the one who actually commented on Terra's not vote, not UJ, too lazy to go up top and fix that though). He hasn't been engaged in the game at all. He has come in to post a theory here or there or poke out at something suspicious but it's all low hanging fruit from what I see. No real opinions of his own that are worth much. - Slight scum read closer to null read though
Hyperactivity - Hyper has been dismissing this whole day phase and has gone out of his way to always fall on the side of each argument. Look to the Darryl/Sorian fight to see what I mean. He made a mega post that basically berated both sides and sided with both sides. I originally commented that it was a good post but, that was the point, it looked good surface level but really was a whole lot of eh, whatever. I honestly see Hyper as scum as well. Has given himself plenty of excuses to be missing from the proceeding but still shows up with big posts that seem to look like he is paying a lot more attention than he lets on. - Leaning scum
Swamped - Swamped has been generally pro-town posting from what I have seen. Did a weird bandwagon at the beginning and then when it got pointed out gave the classic "oh, I was waiting for someone to notice! Here's why I did it" garbage but has been good about calling out things she finds suspicious but has been a bit exaggerating in calling me dramatic. I could believe that she was scum doing some weird dance to get on the side of a town Darryl but that's a bit far-fetched for my taste at the moment - Slight town read, close to null
TheAwesomePossum - Has been generally useless, 100% dismisses day 1 discussion as not worth his time and used the classic "people who prod are bullies" defense. Might be town, might be scum, I can't get a read on it for sure but definitely not helpful regardless. - Null read
Blargonaut - This is going to be a null read. I've accepted that Blarg won't be helpful until he has something to latch on to and this has been a slow day 1 so far. With that being said though, usually he gives a bit more to go off of and unless the phoenix down thing is a bigger hint than I'm expecting, this isn't usual Blarg play. I'm still waiting for scum Blarg to happen one day, he's going to be super inconsistent. This might be that time but I would rather wait a day phase or two - Null read, slight slight scum possibility only because being less engaged
Xamtheking - Originally, I thought he was obvious scum that was trying to lay back so as not to mess up his team's chances. I've seen backtracked on that just a bit because I thought he might be more toned down in his next showing after seeing the disappointment from his teammate's from werewolf. I'm also more sure of UJ being scum and at the moment, I think Xam would be town if UJ is scum (Xam's alignment would still be an unknown to me if UJ was town or a neutral). - Slight town vibe, close to null though.
Basically, UltraJay and Hyperactivity are my top two scum at the moment, followed by leaning scum on nin, Terra, and Zipped to a lesser extent. I would be fine voting out any of these today but I really want to push UltraJay, the vote for Xam feels very forced and the logic wasn't all there at all.
My null reads are also people that I would be willing to vote out as well except for Blarg. Blarg has proven to be valuable in the past and I'm not going to lose that utility over a lazy policy lynch. If I had to push a null read, I would actually go for TL21xx before any of the other, he needs motivation to play I think, this was an issue in Night Vale as well.
VOTE: UltraJay
Narrative or not Darryl, I hope you understand that it's all in the game, I'm not as blind as you seem to have been posting.
