Open 878: Scarfolk Council | The End

[Umlaut]

Vote Count 1.7

On the subject of strange visitors to Scarfolk, in October, 1974, there was a spate of cases involving parents being supplanted by eerie impostors. The frauds looked uncannily like their real counterparts and only children could spot the subtle differences.

For a time, affected children found a gritty substance in their school milk. At first poison was suspected but it turned out to be sand from a beach hundreds of miles away.

Despite police investigations none of the impostors were ever positively identified and there was a growing belief in the community that they might not even be human.

The impostors vanished as inexplicably as they had arrived and the children’s real bewildered parents were found wandering on the very same beach from which the sand had originated. They had no idea how they got there, how long they had been away, or what had happened during their absence.

This leaflet/flyer was distributed in comic books, at schools, and in toy shops.

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Enchant (3):

Cephrir, sheepsaysmeep, implosion

Andante (2):

Menalque, Aisa

GuerillaWoo (2):

Cat Scratch Fever, Enchant

Alianna (1):

Dunnstral

Cat Scratch Fever (1):

skitter30

Not voting (4):

Andante, Alianna, Invisibility, GuerillaWoo

With 13 alive, it takes 7 to launch.

Deadline:

(expired on 2023-06-03 21:40:00)

Notes:

• Alianna is on V/LA through Wednesday 5/31.

[Menalque]

Andante (3): skitter30, Menalque, Invisibility

this wagon composition is wild..

I think the wagon comp is great, that's partially why i like it

Skitt, why did you say the wagon comp was great here?

B/c it's me + vizzy (who i townread p strongly) and i didnt hate that u were on it.

Where did i feel weird?

no, this is where you felt weird and now I feel better about it

I thought I was included in the wagon comp being great vs just not hating me joining and I didn't think I'd done anything yet that would make you read me as strong town enough for you to be like, actively happy with me being there

I knew you were reading viz as town already so that made sense

[Menalque]

VOTE: woo

[Menalque]

man it's so hard to get into games when nobody is ever live with me

[sheepsaysmeep]

hi

[sheepsaysmeep]

can u talk about skitter mild townlean because ive been iffy on that slot

[sheepsaysmeep]

and Woo vote

[Menalque]

oh wow there's a person here

skitter is, imo, a player who is easier to read as time goes on and generally the best approach is to treat her with good faith and to see where she's trying to steer the game -- if you're working with her and you land on town a couple of days in a row there is a good shout she's scum. this has been my default mode to approach her for I think years(?) now, but despite that I've been making slightly more effort to actually read her instead of just townbinning her until D3

for the slight lean town it's that I like that she voted Andy when she did and for the reasons she did

and I like that she thinks viz town because I also think viz town

I feel like we're maybe not mind melding yet, but on the same page, and that's enough for her to be a townlean

[Menalque]

and Woo vote

that's easy: was calling the Andy wagon good but not joining, unvoted enchant!slot because of the rep out/in when that doesn't have any effect on the alignment of the slot itself

[Invisibility]

I don't feel like much has changed. I'm gonna give Enchant a shot though.

UNVOTE:

why did you just unvote here rather than vote someone else?

[sheepsaysmeep]

ok I mildly agree about woo lol

not just the fact that he unvoted, but like his overall popin was just pretty bad. 2 posts but no will to do anything because the pressure on him has eased

"I don't feel like much has changed" when meaningful stuff happened is +wolf

[Menalque]

sheep could you give me an overall reads list?

[skitter30]

I don't think woo is particularly scum here tbh

[skitter30]

Andante (3): skitter30, Menalque, Invisibility

this wagon composition is wild..

I think the wagon comp is great, that's partially why i like it

Skitt, why did you say the wagon comp was great here?

B/c it's me + vizzy (who i townread p strongly) and i didnt hate that u were on it.

Where did i feel weird?

no, this is where you felt weird and now I feel better about it

I thought I was included in the wagon comp being great vs just not hating me joining and I didn't think I'd done anything yet that would make you read me as strong town enough for you to be like, actively happy with me being there

I knew you were reading viz as town already so that made sense

Ok thanks, this makes sense

[skitter30]

VOTE: woo

Honestly, this vote is kinda strange and pinged me - why do u think this is the best vote at this time

[Menalque]

Andy wagon is dying, I don't think enchant wagon is productive atm, woo is the third and I don't have reasons to think town plus after looking at ISO there are reasons he could be scum

[sheepsaysmeep]

sheep could you give me an overall reads list?

I dont rly like these

sheep
implosion, andante
alianna, invisibility trending up
cephrir
menalque/Dunnstral
aisa/skitter/maybe woo
dr-enchant

[skitter30]

Why do u not think enchant is productive rn ?

[sheepsaysmeep]

CSF is missing from like prob the second/third tier

[implosion]

and Woo vote

that's easy: was calling the Andy wagon good but not joining, unvoted enchant!slot because of the rep out/in when that doesn't have any effect on the alignment of the slot itself

I feel like unvoting when there's a replacement is a pretty normal thing to do? I mean I don't disagree that I'd rather the vote have stayed (though for me it's because it's the wagon I want to push) but like, people unvote to see what the replacement's gonna do like, all the time.

[Menalque]

sheep could you give me an overall reads list?

I dont rly like these

sheep
implosion, andante
alianna, invisibility trending up
cephrir
menalque/Dunnstral
aisa/skitter/maybe woo
dr-enchant

why don't you like them? that's not rly game relevant but I'm curious

game wise, why is ceph where he is? also why is andante near the top, is it play, PR claim, or something else?

Why do u not think enchant is productive rn ?

you have experience with enchant right? I think wagoning enchant is similar to wagoning N_M -- often a good idea, but unlikely to lead to anything very telling from him

like: if enchant is scum, cool, partners might bus or might just stall out plus I'm not likely to get anything from him. if enchant is town, cool, scum might back the wagon or they might let it stall out because they want to keep him around as a later game lim instead of burning the lim D1

this is not me shitting on enchant but again, similar to N_M, he's limbait and regardless of alignment I don't think the wagons on him are likely to be that productive or to spur other people into having interesting reactions or to do things that are revealing of alignment whereas a wagon elsewhere is more likely to lead to those things imo

[Menalque]

and Woo vote

that's easy: was calling the Andy wagon good but not joining, unvoted enchant!slot because of the rep out/in when that doesn't have any effect on the alignment of the slot itself

I feel like unvoting when there's a replacement is a pretty normal thing to do? I mean I don't disagree that I'd rather the vote have stayed (though for me it's because it's the wagon I want to push) but like, people unvote to see what the replacement's gonna do like, all the time.

I mean yes but also no? I think that's more often when someone is voting a slot for inactivity/lurking and there's a rep vs when you actually SR the slot -- or alternatively if you're worried about the lim going through but drew wagon was like e-3 so that wouldn't have been a concern

[Enchant]

Don't worry i already prepared fakeclaim for e-1

[Aisa]

man it's so hard to get into games when nobody is ever live with me

I'm curious where this came from. The game has been going for 6 days and you have been V/LA for like half of this time.
(If you're town I'm sure your feelings are valid!! But it's like :hmm: how did you come to the conclusion that nobody is ever online at your same time)

No I haven't looked back at Andante yet yes that's next on my list

[implosion]

Enchant has now been here 24 hours without giving a single statement of any import whatsoever.

This isn't what Enchant town rep-in looks like. Here is the canonical Enchant town rep-in. He immediately starts talking about the game, giving thoughts on game-relevant stuff, is easy to read almost immediately off this.