Alright, I've finished my read through. Here are some cursory thoughts on each lover pair basically going off of what I gathered from a single read. I'd like to go into more depth but I realize that the deadline is actually really close, so I'll just get this out there for now.
armlx - kloud1516
Goatrevolt - Empking
Adel - Mana_ku
Citizen Karne - StrangerCoug
Jahudo - OpposedForce (Jenethron)
Farside22 - Caboose
Jahudo - OpposedForce
Jahudo has struck me as very pro-town thus far. He seems to be a voice of reason and willing to analyze things objectively. OpposedForce is someone I'm relatively 50/50 on, but I thought he defended himself well from Llama's early attacks, and I mentioned that him not realizing the game was nightless was a slight town tell and I stick by that. For that I lean town on him.
Verdict - Town
armlx - kloud1516
armlx has been aggressively pushing at Jebus/Adel the entirety of the game. I haven't found his aggression in this manner terribly scummy except that he seems to weakly address or brush aside arguments about who would be scum with Adel/Mana_Ku. Since those arguments are a strong point, and a huge reason to suggest that Adel is town, I find it scummy that he is brushing them aside or not really taking them into much account. Kloud I feel has acted fairly pro-town thus far, and seems willingly to objectively/logically consider arguments which gives me a mixed review of this team.
Verdict - Somewhat scummy
Adel - Mana_ku
I found Adel's manner of defense immediately after replacing to be poor, basically by strawmanning many of the arguments against her and brushing aside others as people merely attacking new players, without acknowledging that being new doesn't prohibit someone from being scum. However, the argument that no single group makes sense as scum with Adel/Mana_Ku is very strong and makes it seem pretty clear that Adel/Mana are town.
Verdict - Town
Farside22 - Caboose
Both of these players have done much of what I've done this game, and that is not post a whole lot and promise rereads that simply haven't happened. It would be intensely hypocritical for me to attack them for that, and I don't see it as a selling point either way. Farside's play earlier in the game struck me as townie. She asked some good questions (the nightless one, for example) that spoke of a townie mindset. Caboose has been relatively nonexistant and I simply don't have a read on him.
Verdict - Neutral
Citizen Karne - StrangerCoug
Citizen Karne has been an even stronger proponent of the Adel lynch but has been less vocal about it than armlx. I think Jahudo's assessment that he's been very sure of himself is true, but I hardly consider that to be a strong alignment tell. I see him pushing the lynch, but don't recall his precise reasons for being on the wagon, which strikes me as pretty scummy. StrangerCoug hasn't really impacted me one way or another.
verdict - Fairly Scummy
I'll address some things I found addressed to me or about me:
Adel wrote:5. Your claimed lover [refering to myself] is serving as an echo chamber for reciting the points made against me and Jebus, but he has not voted for me. Pushing a wagon without committing to it is scummy.
Wrong. I didn't commit to it because I wanted to see a vote count. Very soon afterwards, you mentioned the "who is scum with me if I'm scum" point, which caused me to no longer want to vote you. The "Echo chamber" point is also completely baseless and false, as I provided completely original reasons for finding you suspicious. If anything, others agreed with my reasoning.
Caboose wrote:Also, why is GoatRevolt keeping his joke vote on me nearing the end of D1?
I thought I had unvoted that.
Unvote
Jahudo wrote:That is interesting. Judging by his recent posts, 3 of the last 5 have been to say his catching up to the game. He FoS Adel as his top suspect back in post 238 but claimed not to know the vote count.
What's your implication? My not knowing the vote count is consistent with me keeping my random vote on, because if I had seen it, I would have realized I was still voting.
Jahudo wrote:
Goat meanwhile has been oddly distant from scum hunting, at least that's how it feels recognizing that he's only placed one FoS so far. He's spent part of the day doing math about the random lynch idea, and one post saying Adel is strawmanning the pre-game chat as absurd. It does feel strange how little he's trail blazed on his own to make a point or question somebody.
I've been oddly distant from basically anything this game. I popped in to say I found Adel most suspicious, and then retracted that after Adel mentioned the "what other group is scum with me point." Other than that, I haven't contributed much since early in the day. Do you consider my inactivity/lurking as scummy? If so, how do you feel about Farside/Caboose, who have likewise been fairly absent from the game?
Let me know if there is anything else I missed you want me to address.
I'm also going to
Vote Citizen Karne
FoS Armlx
Both of those groups contain one scummier player (armlx, CK) and one player who hasn't really struck me as scummy (kloud, SC). At the moment I simply find Citizen Karne's strong wagon push but lack of clear reasons why to be scummier. I realize that I'm pushing a target near deadline who isn't very suspected at all, but I think there is enough time (especially with 4 votes being the current lead) to change things around. I also think it's possible that these two groups are scum with each other, but since they could just as easily be scum with Caboose/farside or less-likely Jahudo/Jenethron I'd rather stick to lynching the scummiest group.
