Newbie 2129 - Postgame

[CCGeek]

There seems to be just one of you

Prepare for trouble, make it double.
VOTE: brassherald

[CCGeek]

Also hi Geek, been a while.

Hi!

first post
VOTE: MagicalSteve
Halt! You're under arrest. Pull out your inventory and show me you don't have a gun!

VOTE: iavh
Gun rhymes with fun for a reason. Don't be a buzzkill!

Vig slip?

[CCGeek]

Hello everyone!

VOTE: iamveryhappy
before we cause a positivity overload

Says the person with a smiley face as a profile picture and three smilies in his first post

[CCGeek]

Inventory:
- A rubber duck enchanted to quack the answers to life's greatest mysteries.
- A spoon that turns any meal into spaghetti.
- An invisibility cloak for ants
- A jar of dragon sneezes. Very potent
- A map that leads to the exact location you just left.

>examine map
Taking a closer look at the map, the realization dawns upon you that what you are holding is not a map at all. It simply is a blank piece of parchment woven with a charm that makes it look like a chart of the locations of mysterious strangers over the Internet.

Dear MagicalSteve, I see you are living up to your name. Can you perhaps show us more of that magic and reveal who the mafia team is this game?

[CCGeek]

How are you all today

3-letter username acronym? Check.
Aesthetic(?) profile photo? Check.
LHF intro-post? Check.

Someone hold this man at wagonpoint, he seems to be a little too towny for it being this early into the game

[CCGeek]

wish lub and stp would exist

Exactly who and where are LockedUpBoy and SlowthePoke?

[CCGeek]

EBWOP: I take that back, I see stp on the PL, missed him before. Who and where is LockedUpBoy?

[CCGeek]

wat

bad joke/troll, however you put it

also quite sussy to believe that the "you're under the arrest" part was a cop soft.

agree on this

HC WW FBI AGENT
(wish holo were here fr)

frfr

[CCGeek]

I'll therefore be deciding this lim on how hard you make me laugh

Is dying of laughter an option for you?

[CCGeek]

At present, all I can say is: Brassherald and TheHoldSteady have made some impression on me already, I've played with Erinys before, and Clems is the reason I'm even in this game right now. Of the people who have spoken so far, I want to see Smileydude and Steve talk more because I have never played before with them and I need to get a grasp on their mannerisms. And of the two who haven't spoken; one is usually a lurky wildcard (KawaiiMikuStan) while the other is more grounded as both alignments (SlowthePoke).

[CCGeek]

not alianna stealing the pagetop

[CCGeek]

@Clems tragedy has befallen us

[CCGeek]

I do not follow the self-vote.

[CCGeek]

I hate how a lot of newbie game early Day 1s have this random person self-voting and it just cascades out of control from there, usually into a mislim.

P-Edit: RVS does not mean you should self-vote???

[CCGeek]

Hello LuB, very kind of you to join us. Kindly get a profile picture o7

[CCGeek]

Kawaii~! Anyway i hc vt uwu owo

oh shit oh fuck not the ps-fashioned day 1 first post VT hc that gets you tunnelled on asap on MS

[CCGeek]

ok no i actually like brassherald as the game has progressed, I want to see people look into this. VOTE: SmileyDude1

Agree that LuB's post about MagicalSteve being the town leader is apparently out of nowhere. Also people, this game so far is the reason you should never have multiple PS troll players in a single MS game.

SevenEyes, welcome! Give me the name of the person you like the most and the one you like the least right now, and we'll go from there.

[CCGeek]

Finally, content. I'll read carefully after I'm done with assignments and then post my thoughts.

[CCGeek]

Bro really thinks I take Mafia on PS seriously (I usually don't)

[CCGeek]

it was public knowledge I was VLA

I actually didn't know or notice a V/LA counter on your profile. Thank you for informing tho.

[CCGeek]

Not the first time I have been diagnosed with the fatal illness known as the "skill issue".

[CCGeek]

Hello people, I exist (probably), someone talk to me about the fact that we are halfway through day 1 and 2 people have non-existent ISOs.

[CCGeek]

Well, 3 people, actually. Include Brassherald in that list. I just revisited Brassherald and I'm really conflicted. While I give SevenEyes a pass for newbie awkwardness (which I shouldn't), Brassherald has this weird non-committal tone which I really don't like, but well gut reads can get me so far.

My impressions about MagicalSteve start from a negative intercept but now I definitely TR him for this day at least.

I will refrain from attempting to read LuB even remotely.

Is it weird that I find the brassherald-SmileyDude interaction slightly stiff?

TR: TheHoldSteady > MagicalSteve
TL: Iavh,
Null: LuB > SmileyDude > SevenEyes > Erinys
SL(?): brassherald
SR: None so far

[CCGeek]

(Assuming you're talking about Seven,Brass and HPE. Correct me if i'm wrong)

Oh, yes, I was. I didn't realize I hadn't mentioned that

[CCGeek]

Hello people, I exist (probably), someone talk to me about the fact that we are halfway through day 1 and 2 people have non-existent ISOs.

I've got a 13 hour road trip today so I won't have time, but give me until tomorrow and I'll reread closely and do an ISO

Will be much appreciated when you do o7
I have a whole lot of work that piled up on me last second so my activity will be going down slightly, but still expect to see content out of me.

[CCGeek]

wat

bad joke/troll, however you put it

also quite sussy to believe that the "you're under the arrest" part was a cop soft.

agree on this

HC WW FBI AGENT
(wish holo were here fr)

frfr

Calling Magic Steve suspect for a cop claim joke. IAVH said it first. CCGeek seconded it. I’m calling a foul there.

VOTE: CCGeek

My reaction to that information: Mission successful

[CCGeek]

Okay but actual question, how do we proceed from here?

[CCGeek]

I believe that should be E-2?

[CCGeek]

In conclusion, seven should just talk to us, that's enough to generate content

[CCGeek]

E-1 btw, if I'm not tripping. ANYONE WHO WANTS TO VOTE BRASSHERALD NEXT

MUST DECLARE INTENT TO HAMMER

[CCGeek]

NGL hammer just makes the game losing for scum, so unvote isn't really a good play, especially since I've taken the precaution of declaring E-1 and announcing that everyone should announce intent to hammer first, but it doesn't really I guess, pressure is still on Brassherald.

[CCGeek]

lub go catch up rfn

[CCGeek]

ccg scum, not seeing any beyond-surface-level thread interactions

Hi, yes, sorry for the inactivity/lack of content, life not favouring me currently.

NGL hammer just makes the game losing for scum, so unvote isn't really a good play, especially since I've taken the precaution of declaring E-1 and announcing that everyone should announce intent to hammer first, but it doesn't really I guess, pressure is still on Brassherald.

how so?

Math, no? You're outnumbered, 1 in 5? Can be overwhelming for newbie scum to play, too. Overall, in this 9p setup, scum QHing day 1 gives the town a pretty good advantage. Not that it's unwinnable for scum, but it doesn't do them any favours, certainly.

[CCGeek]

I'm sitting down with the game rn, rereading from page 1

Welcome, Leek!

[CCGeek]

first page, it's just fluff, RVS votes may be of note because of distancing

[CCGeek]

I personally feel the initial Clems-Steve interaction about the cop claim was just joke-posting but Clems choosing to push with this leaves a slightly bad taste in my mouth:

also quite sussy to believe that the "you're under the arrest" part was a cop soft.

*rolls eyes*

Lets face it, that soft was too obvious
would I immediately spew pr team to scum.? nah

[CCGeek]

Rest of page 2 and page 3 is just non-existent stuff

[CCGeek]

iavh beleives it's scummy that I joked about "post 1 cop claim"

Actually, no. Clems believed that it was scummy that you apparently believed the cop "claim". Looking back, there was no indication from your end that you actually believed the cop claim, so... either a miscommunication or one of you two is scum.

[CCGeek]

HPE townreading Steve at this point is interesting. That makes sense only if HPE dismissed the cop disagreement as fluff, and if it really townread shallow reads.

[CCGeek]

I cannot parse this part of the Clems-Steve exchange:

bro do you not understand outing cop is a serious thing, fortunately I wasn't cop
but if I were cop scum would have a higher chance of winning with me gone no?

Oh I understand perfectly
- Did anyone truly believe you were/are a PR based off your post #1? No
- Did anyone truly believe you were/are a PR based off my post #1? No

I trust given your extreme concern on the subject, you’ll stop even jokingly pretending to be a cop.. bro?

[CCGeek]

Also at this point LuB basically follows HPE's path but takes it a notch further, which is completely uncalled for. Very odd, but also PS player brain, therefore I cannot understand how to interpret this either

[CCGeek]

I actually don't dislike page5 brassherald

[CCGeek]

what's Clems and LuB

Clems is IAVH; LuB is your predecessor KawaiiMikuStan; if you'd paid a little closer attention you would've seen them being referred to by said names in this game, also KawaiiMikuStan had the name LuB in her signature.

[CCGeek]

*his signature

why did I brainfart

[CCGeek]

I can also pretend to troll and set up a goofy ahh gambit and you'll unsuspectingly fall into it.

exactly what are you trying to do by saying that

[CCGeek]

isn't LuB's brassherald vote an OMGUS

[CCGeek]

So far MagicalSteve seems to be the town leader

Also, this feels like an attempt at pocketing.

Hmmm, guess we're not in RVS anymore. Shame it was fun while it lasted.

VOTE: Kawaii

Actually yk lemme just put some pressure on this slot, yk? VOTE: [/Brassherald]

[CCGeek]

which is good enough for a page 5 read.

Also, can you kindly try to guess what motivated your predecessor to make said post?

[CCGeek]

above post was in response to 324

[CCGeek]

weird question

was a bad attempt at scumpair fishing /shrug

NAI reply, didn't go anywhere

[CCGeek]

I think that other slots such as myself (before today) and SevenEyes may have been more apt targets to press in this way though.

First the self-vote and now suggesting yourself as someone to look into... Weird.

This feels very forced

[CCGeek]

I think that other slots such as myself (before today) and SevenEyes may have been more apt targets to press in this way though.

First the self-vote and now suggesting yourself as someone to look into... Weird.

The former was my attempt at humor. As for the latter, how do you generally read self-criticism? Personally I want to say I'm of the opinion that it's fine (if i'm being honest I haven't been around here long enough to establish a baseline on these things yet) to point out flaws in my own play when they come up.

This is very stiff as well? The tone feels like a backpedal on confidence, I don't really understand how a town mindset posts this. What do the people think of this interaction?

[CCGeek]

also quite sussy to believe that the "you're under the arrest" part was a cop soft.

*rolls eyes*

Lets face it, that soft was too obvious
would I immediately spew pr team to scum.? nah

Take this exchange. It isn't actually 100% clear to me exactly what/who iavh is referring to as suss but the best I can figure is that iavh beleives it's scummy that I joked about "post 1 cop claim". OMGUS, maybe, but that seems really weird to me. No-one, especially not a rookie, is hunting for, or successfully, finding PR roles based off a jokey first post. Given I'm having to google acronyms from every other post it's possible I've misread the situation in which case I will happilly be corrected.

As for the rest of the thread, do I have genuinely useful town/scum reads? No, not really. There's nothing in the first four pages that jumps out to me as being very town or very scum.Three things of note in the thread so far for me though: Smiley's self post is.. weird.. even for RVS. And KawaiiMikuStan's posts just seem like a sort of deflection and iavh's overreaction to a joke.

This seems like a post town would make to me

Can you explain this?

[CCGeek]

The thermometer shows 102 now. I'll come back and talk about the rest of the game once this fever goes down.

[CCGeek]

Apologies I messed up the post tab and somehow linked to a 20-year-old poll. Still trying to figure out how this site's formatting works.

It's:

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[post]356[/post]

and not:

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[post]#356[/post]

On that note, I'm feeling slightly better today as of now, I'll return to the game depending on if I feel well enough.

[CCGeek]

If we're sharing limpools, with exactly how much I've skimmed; this is mine as of right now:
{MagicalSteve, Civil Scum, SzmarzLeek}
I really really dislike SzmarzLeek right now, feels like a surface-y slot that is attempting to pocket (also attempting to redirect the wagon, which is kind of Too Scummy to be Scum, which is why I'm only using it as a supplement to the read.)

My strong TRs are:
{The Bulge, TheHoldSteady}

Iavh eventually sorts himself IMO.

I don't feel strongly about Smiley, I'll have to read him more carefully.

Neutral on SevenEyes, I don't know how to deal with that inactive of a slot.

[CCGeek]

clems u mf why do u keep on getting nk'd n1 and flipping pr

[CCGeek]

I have a question for everyone, do you think scum tends to Townlean or Scumlean their PRRead during the day?

[CCGeek]

ok so i'm sick and have dm'd alianna to replace out

before that very rushed thoughts:
i expected clems to flip pr, albeit not doc, all his d1 nonsense was kind of telling to me more than it usually is, but am more surprised at whoever decided to kill the iavh slot.

i do not like smiley's case because i had been reading, and surely people could tell from my live read session that was cutshort by my fever; I'm pretty sure that's room enough for progression, you may disagree tho. also keep in mind that I never actually even voted for the lim, which partly was due to all this, but imo having steve in my limpool should not really equate scummy by itself.

i still HATE the szmarzleek slot that just feels weirdly coasty and pockety and IMHO shouldnot be trusted. him being the main resistance to steve does not prove anything because it's very easily fakeable as scum.

holdsteady is the one person i still believe is hard town in my eyes.

i also think bulge can make or break this game with proper decisions because it seems like he's the one town is gradually gravitating to as the leader. imo look at one of civil scum (by wagonomics) or szmarzleek first.

side thought, smiley+bulge team would probably mean disaster for town.

[CCGeek]

GGs THS! Deserved win!

[CCGeek]

THS come play with me and clems on backup6 that's on open rn and watch me townread u again d1, only 1 spot open rn