My reads at the moment:
1. Bronx-Man - He was the first vote on QuantumBro, latching on him quite early Day 1. That gives me town vibes of him, although he was completely absent during the vote on QB escalating, so its not impossible for a scum to simply not notice what happened. But after that Bronx has been coasting pretty badly. During Day 2 he didnt really post anything, other than having a small feud with Pop, where he came off somewhat defensive. On Day 3, he started defensive again, and later voting Flame. Today he has been mostly riding on Flame being scum, although his stance seems to have softened a bit.
So for the last few days Bronx has been mostly either coasting, or tunneling on Flame. Thats somewhat suspicious, mostly because I think Flame is town. However, I feel like this is pretty consistent on how Bronx has been playing town in the past games. Being somewhat defensive, and having aggressive tone on his posts. So right now I would town-read him, due to that and his day 1 vote. But I really hope that Bronx would actually start to give out some proper reads about other flames not called Flame. He even said that only read I have is on Ty4on. The game is at day 4, tunneling on one player could end up having disastrous consequences (See: Nin in wedding mafia).
3. CCS The top poster of the game right now. However, lot of the posts from him are pretty much him coasting for the most part, or saying I dont know what Im doing, please dont suspect me (yes I know you stopped saying that). It just feels like CCS is mostly making some light comments on what other people are saying, or complaining about people being quiet. In other words, not much original contributions, but thats something lot of people are guilty of in this game. One of the more visible statements he took was Day 1 and the idea of no lynch, which I usually see as scum move to suggest. But it was his first day, so Im not so sure if its really alignment indicative. He also voted on Flame yesterday, and then switched the vote on CornBurrito at the end of the day. The tone of the thread had changed towards Corn vote being the most likely end result, so the vote change wasnt a surprise. However, what bothered me was this post today:
First up guys, I want to apologise for my last minute fuck up. I second guessed myself, I panicked a bit, I switched my vote to Corn and now we've lost another town. I am truly, deeply sorry for that.
Whats with this super apologetic-tone? It reminds me of lot of scum being somehow super apologetic in their posts about their play during the game. This really rubbed me the wrong way.
Lot of this can be pointed out as CCS simply being a new player, and nervous. But its Day 4 now, and we cant ignore players simply by that. CCS right now feels scummy to me.
7. Crab I think that Crab has been pretty consistent with his posts. At the start there wasnt that many posts from him, but I think he has definitely taken bit more of a town leader position since then, along with Ty4on. The reaction post Crab had when QB was starting to get lynched felt very genuine to me:
That fact I've started a wagon after being townread by a few people is making me very nervous all of a sudden. I wish QB was actually here to respond/claim. :/
Since then Crab has mostly posted very long posts, with lot of detail. This is consistent to his past games, both town and scum. But when I think of scum Crab, I think of Harry Potter Mafia, where his tone was very aggressive, almost as if he was trying to keep that town leader position to himself no matter what. Here Crab seems lot more relaxed, and not so panicky. That difference makes me read him as town.
9. Evilisk replaced with acohrs Evillisk was acting weirdly during Day 1. He was being very apologetic during it, reversing his stances every time someone made some disagreeing comments on them. That struck me as scum being scared, but it is possible it was just new player trying their best not to get lynched, the first game stress and all that. Still, its noteworthy, and made me feel uneasy about him. During D2 there was nothing about Evillisk, but since he got replaced afterwards, not much can be said for sure about that.
Acohrs has been pretty much the opposite of Evillisk. He has been pretty loud, and very energetic, to they say the least. There is a considerable amout of fluff/filler posts in there, though. He, like Sawneeks below, also asks about Coppa about the weird feeling. Its possible he is scum/neutral trying to prod on if poison went through, if we assume poison is real power in this game. The prod isnt as obvious as it is in Sawneeks case, though.
In general, Acohrs feels somewhat close to CCS, but with some key differences. Acohrs posts seem somewhat more genuine in their enthusiasm, and there are some visible contributions and questions that dont seem as apparent with CCS. However, today Acohrs has been been more worrying. The start of today with Acohrs posting multiple posts about being super worried on Coppa getting killed just feel
hollow and fake to me. And then theres that thing Flame mentioned as well.
Those things push Acohrs more to scum read for me, especially since I felt also bad about Evillisk. I do feel better about him, than about CCS or Kryptik.
10. Flame_AC Flame is by far the most silent player in this game, although some of it seems to be due to IRL reasons. Very short posts, although fluff is on minimum. That Haly vote was very weird, but my stance on it stays the same: I dont think scum Flame would have voted on Haly, or if he did, his teammates would have quickly pushed him to change it. I think scum Flame would have checked at least if his vote would have claimed a power role, especially since Flame had a considerable number of votes by the time of that Haly vote. Today he has been more active, a trend that I hope continues. This makes me town read Flame, although its not a 100% lock. I think there are lot more people who are more likely to be scum, though.
13. kryptikjoker He felt quite aggressive during day 1, and somewhat defensive, which was a bit worrying. However, he was not apologetic like Evillisk was, which made me feel better about him. However, after D1 Kryptik has considerably mellowed out, and has only posted few short posts. He jumped very lazily on the Kalor vote, just stating Case has been made for Kalor, really. He voted D3 on Flame, with at least a better justification that acohrs than CCS did, but it still wasnt much. Today he just tossed his vote again on Flame, and not much else. So there hasnt been much at all in terms of contributions from kryptik lately. Is he coasting, while watching town having a town vs town fight with corn vs flame? Its not unusual for scum players to just wait it out, laughing in the scum chat while not saying much at all in the game thread itself. Feels scummy to me.
14. Lord of Castamere Castamere has been one of the more quiet players in the game. He was also one of the people who made super-early read lists that always rub me the wrong way, mostly because the amount of material during super early-game is always so scarce, that those reads end up being nothing but a false contribution and clutter. On day 2 he claimed Vigilante, and that he had tried to shoot Haly. The claim sounded genuine, so I didnt see reason to doubt it. His reasoning to shoot Haly were also justified, and his confusion why Haly was still alive seemed real, although I seriously doubt the benefits of claiming, as discussed during Day 2.
After the claim though, Castamere has went extremely silent. He posted just three posts during day 3, all of them very short, and bringing in not much contribution. Is he trying to blend in, coasting with his claim as his aide?
Today the possibility of a poisoner has arisen. If poisoner is a real role, that would mean there would be a normal scum faction kill, claimed multi-shot vigilante and a poisoner, most likely either scum power or a neutral one (why would town player poison coppa?). This is a 17 player game, so I really dont see the idea of 3 killing powers feasible, even if poisoner was heavily limited. The only way this could work in my mind is if Castamere was actually the poisoner, changing the amount of killing powers from three to just two.
But that idea doesnt seem to fit with how he claimed. I cant see a poisoner, either scum or neutral, benefitting from this. Scum poisoner would bring lot of unnecessary attention, and doubt to himself if scum never ended up killing him during night. Neutral poisoner would risk getting to the kill list of Scum (obviously scum would want to kill a claimed power role). It would be extremely risky play, from either scum or neutral side.
So I dont think Castamere is that. He reads town to me, although the coasting and just how quiet he has been is worrying. Ill agree with Crab that it would be good to hear what he did last night.
15. Not replaced with Ty4on Not was more or less non-entity. Short posts, mostly filler. Not much to say, although its possible he was a scum who was scared of posting, thats not unusual scum thing.
Ty replaced him, and has been mostly like himself in his town games. Taking a close town leadership position like Crab, contributing to the game and asking people helpful questions. This would push me to town read him, but some things worry me a little. He has been very
flip floppy with his votes, changing it a lot. He did explain his vote changes, but it still seems little worrysome. If Flame would flip scum (which I seriously doubt, since I town read him), Tys vote changes at the end of yesterday would look bit odder too.
The second point is more of a gut thing but yesterday Ty pointed out quite visibly he played scum in Danny Phantom. This is fine, but it also rang a little like Hey look how I played scum before, I totally dont play like that now, so town read me. Scum did that consistently in my old forum, so this point jumped at me.
Still, Tys play has been mostly like himself in past town games, but these points of worry put him as a null read for me.
17. Sawneeks Sawneeks is playing very consistently to her past games. She is posting a lot, making contributions to the game, asking people the right questions and being generally quite helpful. Thats consistent to how she was in her past games
town and scum. Its always pretty difficult to actually get a read on her, since she plays like this as both town and scum (for recent examples, Price is Right as town, Pokémon as scum). What Ty4on pointed out about her on prodding on the PM Coppa received, yet then dropping the talking point stone cold, is worrying. If scum does have a poisoner/there is a neutral poisoner (still seems somewhat unlikely, but its possible), then Sawneeks might have been scum/neutral trying to prod on Coppa, finding out if the poison had worked on him or not. Still, her reaction to Ty4on accusing her felt like genuine frustration from a townie, not a scum response. Still
it pushes her to a scum-ish read for me, assuming the poison really exists. I wouldnt mind seeing her lynched, although I do think CCS and Kryptik being out-right unhelpful is even more worry-some.
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TL;DR
Town Read
Lord of Castamere, Crab
Town-ish read
Bronx-Man, Flame_AC
Null Read
Ty4on
Scum-ish Read
Sawneeks, Acohrs
Scum Read
CCS, Kryptikjoker
Right now I get my strongest scum reads from CCS and Kryptikjoker, but Sawneeks and Acohrs are also quite worrying figures to me. Right now Ill put my vote on
VOTE: Kryptikjoker
Because he has been the much more quiet of the two (him and CCS), and quiet scummy blender/coaster is even more worrying that a loud one.
