RE: The Wander Island Incident - Day Two: Cold Dawn [18/21]
08-29-2018, 07:10 AM
I've done a couple of reads of the thread now and have discovered a few things! One: I'm actually really bad at this game now, I am figuring little out; two: I am also bad at using forums and missed a message in my quicktopic so actually I DID have a mechanical thing happen to me last night and it is that my entire room was super-cleaned around me in my sleep so I have some questions for what Justice Watch did to me in the small hours; and three: I should clarify that my preference not to lynch day 1 is not mechanically-reasoned (I know it's numerically bad for the town!), I just prefer not to take someone out of the game before they can play it at all. I only reiterate the last point because some of the weird feelings I have are informed by anti-lynch preferences. Here are some thoughts I have on people:
Coldblooded: Cb's been pretty active, especially day 1, but has repeatedly put pressure and suspicion on people for things that seemed kind of insignificant to me. My dislike of the reasoning makes lean scum, but I actually think that's a misread on my part and puts them high on my list of people I'd like copped rather than killed to determine alignment. Lots of interaction with BlazerC that reads as non-aligned to me.
Robust Laser: Hasn't said much, hasn't had much content in the little they've said. Gently floated no lynch day one which combined with general low-impact posting has me suspicious.
Not The Author: Actually might have a negative content-per-word-count ratio by now which is actually kind of impressive! The vague whiff of a powerclaim combined with every post they've made essentially saying nothing or justifying saying nothing strikes me as Not Great; they go on to find both BlazerC's and awkwardcarapace's play productive then also vote for ac while hedging it in a worry that they'll regret it. Asks me and Sai and TehPilot to read one another while also implying it's not productive because we're all lurking. What actually is your deal this game, buddy?
Sai: Everything Sai has said has seemed like a reasonable statement from someone who plays the game very differently from me, while also not being persuasive or focused enough to make me feel very good about it. Light townread that is indistinguishable in practice from competently-played scum from an experienced mafioso. The only thing that actually stands out to me at all is Pharmacy's flavor suggestion, but that seems in character enough from Pharmacy that I'd believe it wasn't actually trying to defend a lurking mafia ally.
TehPilot: Meh? Literally the only time TP has appeared in my notes of things that people did that I felt was worth writing down was laying out a case against lynching lurkers and gently suspicioning Numbers, Airey, Schazer, and Robust Laser for shitposting. Most of my attention has been elsewhere in this game, and I don't feel much about what they've said yet.
Seedy: Reasonable if laconic townplay without much to back it up or ballsy enough opinions to strike me as notable. Literally the only reason I feel any way at all about them is because they keep putting pressure on people I'm mechanically confident are town, which doesn't make me suspicious so much as uncomfortable and makes me want to watch more closely.
BlazerC: I keep going back and forth on BlazerC tbh. A lot of their arguments have fallen flat for me but a lot of that can be fairly chalked up to misunderstandings or differences of opinion, and the fact they're as active and conducive to discussion as they are is good, so I'm conflicted. Since this is mafia, the way I'd like this conflict cleared up is by killing one or preferably both of BlazerC and awkwardcarapace within the near future. I'm going to vote: BlazerC because
awkwardcarapace: Being the other person I most want lynched today, I'm cool with their death as well, and in fact I had originally planned to vote for them, but... This last page, as has been said, feels TOO scummy to be scummy. They and BlazerC are about even as far as I care, but their defense has just felt "inexperienced, panicked town" enough to me that I'm okay with them being next after BlazerC. If the choice was between them and nobody though I'd pick them!
Numbers: Play that flags my attention but also is super new so iunno. Several other people have said this and one thing I noted as suspicious when rereading was when people, primarily Pharmacy, just repeated other people's opinions so perhaps it is I who is the mafia.
Granolaman: Not very helpful for a townolaman.
Acionyx: Is there any chance that you're an... investigative reporter at all?
Coldblooded: Cb's been pretty active, especially day 1, but has repeatedly put pressure and suspicion on people for things that seemed kind of insignificant to me. My dislike of the reasoning makes lean scum, but I actually think that's a misread on my part and puts them high on my list of people I'd like copped rather than killed to determine alignment. Lots of interaction with BlazerC that reads as non-aligned to me.
Robust Laser: Hasn't said much, hasn't had much content in the little they've said. Gently floated no lynch day one which combined with general low-impact posting has me suspicious.
Not The Author: Actually might have a negative content-per-word-count ratio by now which is actually kind of impressive! The vague whiff of a powerclaim combined with every post they've made essentially saying nothing or justifying saying nothing strikes me as Not Great; they go on to find both BlazerC's and awkwardcarapace's play productive then also vote for ac while hedging it in a worry that they'll regret it. Asks me and Sai and TehPilot to read one another while also implying it's not productive because we're all lurking. What actually is your deal this game, buddy?
Sai: Everything Sai has said has seemed like a reasonable statement from someone who plays the game very differently from me, while also not being persuasive or focused enough to make me feel very good about it. Light townread that is indistinguishable in practice from competently-played scum from an experienced mafioso. The only thing that actually stands out to me at all is Pharmacy's flavor suggestion, but that seems in character enough from Pharmacy that I'd believe it wasn't actually trying to defend a lurking mafia ally.
TehPilot: Meh? Literally the only time TP has appeared in my notes of things that people did that I felt was worth writing down was laying out a case against lynching lurkers and gently suspicioning Numbers, Airey, Schazer, and Robust Laser for shitposting. Most of my attention has been elsewhere in this game, and I don't feel much about what they've said yet.
Seedy: Reasonable if laconic townplay without much to back it up or ballsy enough opinions to strike me as notable. Literally the only reason I feel any way at all about them is because they keep putting pressure on people I'm mechanically confident are town, which doesn't make me suspicious so much as uncomfortable and makes me want to watch more closely.
BlazerC: I keep going back and forth on BlazerC tbh. A lot of their arguments have fallen flat for me but a lot of that can be fairly chalked up to misunderstandings or differences of opinion, and the fact they're as active and conducive to discussion as they are is good, so I'm conflicted. Since this is mafia, the way I'd like this conflict cleared up is by killing one or preferably both of BlazerC and awkwardcarapace within the near future. I'm going to vote: BlazerC because
awkwardcarapace: Being the other person I most want lynched today, I'm cool with their death as well, and in fact I had originally planned to vote for them, but... This last page, as has been said, feels TOO scummy to be scummy. They and BlazerC are about even as far as I care, but their defense has just felt "inexperienced, panicked town" enough to me that I'm okay with them being next after BlazerC. If the choice was between them and nobody though I'd pick them!
Numbers: Play that flags my attention but also is super new so iunno. Several other people have said this and one thing I noted as suspicious when rereading was when people, primarily Pharmacy, just repeated other people's opinions so perhaps it is I who is the mafia.
Granolaman: Not very helpful for a townolaman.
Acionyx: Is there any chance that you're an... investigative reporter at all?