Note
: I took some notes as I was reading through the game. These are mostly just my impressions of what went on so far. I don't expect y'all to read them if you're not inclined to. I put them up to give anyone who is interested more insight as to how I coming into the game. tl;dr = mothrax, Nacho, Sudo, and Xine are all good wagons to start today based on different ideas. Jack and eldarad are solid town reads.
Spoiler: Game Notes
I read the game during the night and have a few opinions over what to do next. A few positions I should get out of the way in regards to both Jack's claim and yesterday's lynch. Jack is probably one of the few people with the balls to make a claim the way he did. I wouldn't have done that. If Jack would've asked me whether or not he should do it, I probably would've told him not to do it. That said, I think it was a worthwhile start to the game, and my read only verified this. Jack has seemingly done more than anyone else here to keep the game as a whole going and keep everyone on their toes. In regards to lynching Snake, I thought it was, for the most part, a pro-town thing to do.
Luckily I'm replacing into a fairly blank slate. I should hope everyone has essentially a neutral read on this slot given the lack of substance. Let me get started with a quick jump into who I think is town. As I've already mentioned, Jack is seemingly on top of this game like no one else. I've been impressed with eldarad's posting. I think that should tip a point or two in his favor. Nacho's not given him the same credit that I am, but a majority of his reads do coincide with mine. Yos was actually going to be recognized as well, but instead I'd say either Glork or LMP is probably heading up the third spot.
That's the boring stuff though. Who are the scum? Based mostly on posting, I've come to the conclusion that I could go in three directions:
mothrax - The best and most promising direction is towards mothrax. With a whopping ten posts in this game, a large percentage of them are spent defending himself from sticking his neck out for seemingly no reason. Although he's had very little impact on the game as a whole, he feels the need to jump on Haylen in post 300 completely out of the blue. Prior to this, he seemed content in playing under the radar. CJ's flip may have affected this read somewhat, but it doesn't change the fact that as soon as Jack raised an eyebrow, mothrax definitely panicked a bit. He's been very quiet on his suspicions and reads, opting instead of follow others and popular wagons. I do not get a good vibe from him at all. If there's one player I had to place money on as scum, it would be mothrax.
Nacho - A second player who deserves just as much attention is, unfortunately, Nacho. I say unfortunately because I like Nacho and feel bad that he had to replace into Azazel's slot. From the word go, Azazel puts his foot in his mouth with post 84. He cuts his own vote off at the knees for no reason by saying that he's voting purely for reactions (which generally means, "I don't take ownership of my votes, please don't look at me too hard"). In post 117 he starts throwing out the WIFOM, paranoia, and and false dilemmas at LMP with little justification. If I could sum up Azazel's play with one word, it would be overreaction.
Sudo & Xine - A third route we could go would be more of a pure lurker route. All these players have been inactive, but Xine and Sudo have really taken the cake this game. Sudo has talked about one person this entire game: Jack. He has a total of four posts, all of them, except his confirmation post, are complaining about Jack in some way. He actually asks Jack to elaborate on a post, but he never follows up on it. Strange given that Jack is seemingly the only player Sudo has noticed this game. The problem with Xine is the same although it looks a little different in the onset. She clearly has more posts (still a low ten total), but there's just very little analysis in them. I completely agree with her Azazel vote, but as Jack and Vas point out, it's completely out of place and awkward. Her last four posts were basically just quoting someone else. Neither of these players have shown enough interest in hunting scum for my taste.
Vote: mothrax
