With Splinter flipping Scum not only am I confident in my reads again but it does give us a good starting point to look at other people.
For now I'm going back and re-reading everything knowing that Splinter is confirmed Scum and looking at the interactions there. More specifically, I'm looking at the past Days with an eye on Splinter and how he interacted with Stanley, Kalor, and El Topo.
Going to also split this into parts based on which Day phase I'm looking at to make this easier to keep track of.
Day 1
Early Day 1 is, well, early Day 1. Not much to note there interactions-wise.
blarg is being blarg, surprise surprise. Dragonz made a supposed scumtell but im not sold on it. Splinters maybe going overboard on it but eh, what else ya gonna do?
plinko looked fun, shame i missed it.
how are you?
First instance is when I ask Stan with a opening/prod vote what he thinks of the current festivities of Day 1.
Overall it's rather hand-wavey and doesn't really say anything one way or another.
Assuming Blarg flips scum, Stan and Kawl are next on my list.
Also WAMD is still scum and how the hell is that slip being ignored?? From Blarg especially: you spent the entirety of Danny Phantom accusing Flush for a slip far less blatant than WAMD's
Oh right, teammate, of course, nevermind
Splinter has a fun habit of creating train tracks around people and setting up chain lynches.
Interesting thing to note here is Splinter knew Blarg was Town, so the two people he threw under the bus here wouldn't have been in his crosshairs later on since Blarg would never flip Scum. Kawl ended up being Town, not sure if I could say the same about Stan.
that? really?
thinking that thats in defense of blarg is a pretty big stretch.
both parts of it speak much more as a warning to keeping an open mind when trying to draw meaning from blargs actions.
and yeah, pretty sure kawl hasn't posted since.
My complaint was specifically that it was subtle rather than openly defensive. It's why I think he's more likely to be scum than you are.
But yes, it's not much, just the next lead I intend to follow
After WAMD, who btw is still scum
And the first true interaction between the folks I mentioned above.
For context, Splinter brings up 'evidence' suggesting that Kawl is protecting Blarg because they are both Scum. Stan calls it out and they have this quick little discussion here.
Honestly I don't lean either way on this conversation ( as opposed to some later on ) but for the sake of cataloging Splinter's interactions it's going here.
It's the first day. We simply don't have a lot to work with. Blarg is a reasonable lynch, because he has been behaving erratically, but on the other hand, it is Blarg.
I could understand a lack of attacking, it's all this defending of other people that weirds me out.
People are coming in, shooting down theories for nothing, then leaving without providing an alternative. We get nowhere playing like that.
Lots of "I don't think WAMD is scum", not enough "because ______" or "but ______ sure is"
Fair enough. I'd also add that I have an idea (that doesn't seem too unreasonable to me) on what the item does and/or how Blarg is involved.
Cool
Who do you think is scum?
And now, Topo/Splinter.
Splinter laments that LP called voting for Blarg to be Scummy and wonders why everyone is being so defensive and not aggressive. Topo comes in and gives his thoughts and they both go back and forth for a bit, ending with Topo claiming a vote on Melon ( which i don't think he ever explained?? at least not yet in my reread ).
This whole conversation felt...odd. Safe? Reserved? I can't quite put my finger on it.
Topo you don't have a vote down?
Could be prodding a teammate to get a vote in?
I said I wouldn't vote for Blarg and so I won't. If I had to choose between WAMD and Blarg, I would (right now) choose WAMD, but I don't want to give anyone a chance to cause a tie.
VOTE: melonrabbit
END DAY 1
(fake edit)
For some reason this interaction I didn't have marked when going through and finding quotes. So this will not be in order like the others are but hey, what can you do?
(Back to work and mobile)
The longer this goes on the more consistent Blarg is too me as a town read. The strategy he employed might have a dishonest one but I think there is some merit to it. Town sometimes had to lie for the longer-term benefit of the town. Over this discussion has given me a few reads.
Kark is so far leaning town to me.
I also think CM and Cornbro's drive-by comments on bidding last night without any sufficient follow up or mention was a little strange.
LP was inactive but his latest posts have been pretty solid and reads town.
Star has been coasting a lot and has so far been hesitate to give a real opinion on anyone.
Dusk's overall behavior has been rather scummy.
Splinter, I'm a lot less sure of you than when the day started.
Vote: *Splinter
Normality has resumed
Joking aside, is there a question attached to that vote? Anything specific you're "less sure" about that I can respond to?
Can you also be more specific on your town read of Blarg? He's been consistent in his belligerence but his recent posts were (in my opinion) increasingly desperate attempt to disparage me.
The rest of your reads I more or less agree on. Kark as town; I'd extend the drive by accusation to Kawl, I think he and CornBro haven't posted at all since claiming; Sketch is more of a null because she kind of plays like that and she hasnt posted enough yet for a better read; Dusk is scummy, but I also think he's right about Blarg so overall I townread him.
LP I must have missed, will look back for his posts.
Mainly your honing on Blarg from moment one. I understand you don't like his strategy but I'm not sure tunneling in on him to such a degree as been helpful.
Having said that, I know you play, at times, somewhat agressively as town. I think you've been fairly consistent in backing up your opinion although I don't agree with you on Blarg.
Also I was interested in seeing what others would do if I voted for you.
unvote
Hmm, interesting.
I'm not quite sure what to make of this. As far as gambits go you probably could have left it in the oven a little longer.
Still, I do like gambits, and haven't seen a melongambit before, so benefit of the doubt for now.
So this is what actually got Melon back on the radar for me when I reread Day 1. Originally I was not going to focus on her at all and instead look at simply Topo/Stan/Kalor. But read this conversation again, this time fully knowing Splinter is Scum.
I've called this conversation out before as feeling
really odd but now with the context of Splinter's alignment this feels downright Scummy to me. Scum!Melon comes in to throw some shade on a teammate and then backs out
really early from it because she was unsure how to keep it going. We also get the first kind thing Splinter has really said about anyone on Day 1 and it's towards some sort of gambit Melon is playing at. Not to mention that Melon goes from not seeing Splinter's point of view on Dragonz early day 1 to being on board completely towards the end.
Thoughts so far:
Remember how I said I was looking at how Splinter interacted with everyone? Notice a surprising lack of Kalor quotes here? Yeah, that's because they never talk or interacted once throughout Day 1. Unless I missed something they did not reference one another
at all. And let me tell you, Splinter lashed out at nearly everyone on Day 1 to get them to talk but Kalor is never brought up.
If Topo is Scum I don't think Melon is and the same goes for the reverse of that. I'm thinking it might be one or the other.
Stan feels weird. Feels like he sits on the sidelines and his brief interaction with Splinter doesn't leave me feeling great. My most 'null' read of the four.
Expect day 2 soon-ish. I want to have some lunch first. :x