I've felt good about townreading Bella for a while. It's hard to explain why beyond vibes, but I'll try.
It feels clearest when she has a recent post. Her contributions are often small, but recently they've always felt natural and like what I would expect to come from town who is solving. For example, today she said:
In post 2242, Bellaphant wrote:
Play wise it's shadow or outer, buddy equity it's sky or Aisa. We shouldn't lim out of those four I think
I like this because it mirrors how I've felt today - I've been a bit indecisive and changed my mind a few times.
Bella's also been a bit more passive in this game than the scumgames of hers I've seen. Compared to previous games, her posting here has more stream-of-consciousness-y posts. It feels less like she's pushing anything or making an effort to be townread.
Also here are a few posts by T3 and Black that feel unpaired to me
In post 402, Bellaphant wrote:
They give me super mixed vibes? Their beginning posts were quite bad, I agreed with some of the middle, specifically about aisa, and then the lurker vote was horrible.
In post 402, Bellaphant wrote:
They give me super mixed vibes? Their beginning posts were quite bad, I agreed with some of the middle, specifically about aisa, and then the lurker vote was horrible.
Also, I was going to make a joke about our lovely cohesive VC but dann beat me
I don't like this. Why not vote for me here over someone you have mixed feelings over?
The answer is literally in what you quoted? Y
Sorry if I'm missing it but I'm not seeing where you explained why you would want to vote Kurtpika over me. You said you don't townread me and you think I'm sus. It feels unnatural of you to not put pressure on me here and instead join the bigger wagon
"Is it bad to already have a tr" indicates to me that Bella has a degree of self-consciousness and feels the need to ask permission from the thread to express her thoughts.
In post 42, T3 wrote:
Let me put it this way: In a vacuum, statements like “Is it bad to have a tr this early” are >rand scummy. Obviously there are factors that may affect said vacuum, but as a general rule, your statement is more likely to come from scum. Also, I’d be willing to bet that the townread you, if town, have, isn’t particularly deep and is just a general meta/viberead. I
could
but I guess I didn’t really feel the need to. Does that make sense?
I know everyone in this game already has their pet reason to townread Skygazer but here's mine:
Spoiler:
In post 1169, Titus wrote:
I'd bet my bottom dollar on T3 or Kurtapika being scum.
Sure, it's possible that scum got unlucky with an attack but there's several people who just aren't scum. The doctor can't heal Dann, AF, and Bella, not to mention myself but maybe I'm not that obvtown.
Scum wouldn't send their lurky member, K, to handle the kill as he'd be more likely to be jailed.
It's peeking through wifom a bit but I'd bet it's T3 and K here.
are you scumreading me now? your reasoning yesterday was just survivalism, so is that still the case? or did something change?
Your case yesterday was incredibly bad faith and same today
what is bad faith about it
Let me put it this way: I was 'salty' but you haven't differentiated my tone between "annoyed town" and "annoyed town." I was pretty annoyed that my strongest townread had just claimed scum and I dislike how you're construing my annoyance to mean that I'm scum, when there is an alternative, equally likely explanation.
i mean the severity of the reaction plays into it for me too. i feel like when i'm wrong i just go "oh whoops" and move on quickly because a W is a W. i think your reaction seems more appropriate as a "my team is in a really bad spot" reaction over a "i misread someone." i understand that town can get annoyed, but your annoyance here does not look town.
i also think that you think that i'm just the easiest counterwagon to push through, which is why you tossed out a blanket statement like "bad faith" rather than any actual points. you were open about the fact that you weren't scumreading me yesterday, and today the only thing tangible you've had against me was that you don't like my arguments against you because you think i should be reading your annoyance differently. so you're giving not-solving/defeated-scum vibes to me.
In post 1277, Skygazer wrote:
okay. i'm 1v1ing T3. pretend i have a cop guilty on him or something. if he flips town then we can kill me tomorrow. but he won't flip town, i'm like 99% confident at this point (and i'm usually right when i'm this confident)
When Titus started hinting that she was the JK with a soft guilty on T3 near the start of day 2, Skygazer immediately doubled down on their T3 scumread and started pushing T3 really strongly.
If they were scum they could have pretended to not notice Titus's crumbing. Even if they were scum who did not want to ignore the crumbing, they didn't have to go as far as to make posts such as 1266 to back up Titus's push. They also didn't know at this point if Titus would out herself as JK.
tbh I don't think this is a 100% towntell. Definitely cool scumplay if it came from scum though
