You know, having a neighbor with someone I townread is a great thing because I get to tell somebody how I’m actually feeling without having to hide it from everyone because I don’t want the interaction to be tampered.
Since we’re dealing (dealt?) with Cabd-scum, I’ve been trying to think outside of the box of sort to speak. We know Cabd’s known for pulling some wildest shit, after all. What does he want us to think?
If we assume that Cabd-Enchant chain explosion is planned, why would he do that? Cabd wanted fery gone ASAP, this much is obvious. But what caused Enchant to follow suit immediately after and kill the IC in intermission? Normal assumption is “kill confirmed town and have the deepscum wrap up the game.” After all, Cabd wasn’t doing jack and Enchant’s playstyle is generally hated by people so they were probably not going to survive long anyway. But I think that’s too easy.
Cabd insta leave is clearly a part of some sort of gambit. It was big enough of a gambit that Enchant followed suit, basically removing half of their team on the spot. Would he really pull something that could be easily guessed by town? What if I think outside of the box? What if he planned all this just so that have town implode with a paranoia on strong town so that their not-so-strong scum mates have a chance to survive after the dust settles? Basically, a desperation gambit.
To test this out-of-the-box thoughts, I’m going to see if I can think of a reason that makes sense for them to do so. So from here on out, I’ll be writing things as I think. Basically, answering bunch of my own self-questions. I do this sometimes (not a lot of times because it’s all effort and I’m lazy) and frankly it’s fun.
Normally, I think if a scumteam is Cabd-Enchant-kindaweakscum1-kindaweakscum2, I’d think Cabd would be in carry position normally. But why would he instead opt for a sac position in this team? Maybe because too occupied by his rl tragedy? I still think he had no choice but to choose fery to pair because him not pairing with fery would look sus af (well at least to me anyway). So maybe he decided to instaboom while providing zero info to get fery off the game before she solves the game. People going after fery took her focus away from solving the game so had a good reason to boom fery away before she figures out his kindaweakscumbuddies. If he was going to leave instantly anyway, he couldn’t have cared less about trying to look town, and he couldn’t have cared less about interrupting fery when she was being distracted fending off scumread on her. Man, thinking about that still gets my blood boil. I knew he was up to something when he was just flat out not doing anything, but I felt like I just couldn’t do anything about it myself and hope that others come around to give her space when it wasn’t even an elim phase yet because if I started intervening I know I’d start whiteknighting the hell out of her and that would definitely cause Cabd to insta leave because less of her fighting off scumreads = more time for her to start solving. Like it was obvious to me in a bit that fery just started the game on wrong foot. Maybe Cabd was planning to leave regardless, but that just makes me feel even worse because that just means that I let people throw rocks at fery and I just sat and watched and did nothing about it for no fucking reason. But in the end, what happened is what happened, I guess. Cabd insta left. And Enchant followed suit. Why did Enchant leave immediately? If it was to cut off discussion, then they could’ve chosen a weaker scum. After all, decent amount of people were not scumreading Enchant. (And yes Bell, I’m going to mention that one post again because you outed my retrospectly hilariously wrong rh9 scumcase) Heck,
I
also preferred Enchant getting a pair over Lavar, although that was because Enchant’s solves looked pretty good based on the games I’ve seen with them. Would it be because they knew they weren’t living to endgame anyway? Maybe they saw something in FIR’s reads? Idk I guess I’ll visit that venue tomorrow. Maybe Enchant was the weakest link. Or maybe they simply thought that they would cut the discussion time short. I think if we don’t remove all the scum by second dance deadline we just straight up lose? I have no idea how Enchant operates so it’s hard for me to guess his reasoning. Why did they leave our pair alive and went for IC? Maybe just killed IC, cos IC. But imo rh9 would be very mislimable for scum and easier to save him til later to mislim (cos paired with IC). At least that’s what I would have done if I was scum. I can see scum not killing LLD-FB pair because they were talking about leaving the game before endgame, but I honestly can’t fathom (probably due to ego idk) that they went for killing rh9 over me or Bell. Is it because we’re on a hilariously wrong track? Maybe I’m just salty because they chose to nightkill rh9 (even with pairing with IC) over me or Bell. Anyway where was I? Right, out of the box. I think they just killed IC for the sake of removing the confirmed town. Or I guess they were scared of Ydra solving the game. Idk how good Ydra is for I never really played a game with her before, but I think I saw someone mentioning that so either way I guess the nightkill was, in the end, a fearkill of a good player being IC. Now that leaves a very important topic. I might be biased because unlike the people out there, I townread LLD. Based on little of what I know about LLD, I would think that if she was scum she would’ve bussed Enchant and Cabd even harder. I just don’t see her not going after Cabd very vocally and instead choosing to do the opposite as scum? Like, it should be a clear cut scumread that she would know that is flipping scum. Why not bus him to oblivion? Same with Enchant. I think if LLD is scum, I don’t think she would let Enchant just leave like that. She would also bus them to oblivion and grab all the credit. Overall, I think if LLD is scum, then the scumteam kinda actively worked against each other. Also, the mindmeld. I guess my LLD townread is what made me do this out of the box scenario in the first place. You know, I was doing this for a fun exercise, but for some reason this only ended up mellowing me. I guess I’m gonna read what I wrote tomorrow when my mind is clearer and see what I wrote is some sort of mastinapost or if it actually makes sense to me. If it ends up being bad, then at least I did tell you that this PT is now a meme PT.
