I spent a long time last night looking through ISOs of everyone in the game and taking note of what each person thinks of each other person. But it was late and I was tired so I waited till today to share my observations with the rest of you.
Here is my current read on each player (in alphabetical order):
AKR:
I have to say from the very start I have found AKR to be the most annoying of all the players. But I know that being annoying doesn't make you scum. My observations are that he has said something negative about almost every other player already, and has at some point seriously suspected 5 players (GT, Cove, Kleed, Robo, vrtra). This can be interpreted to mean two different things. Either he is scum and he's trying really hard to point fingers at everyone else to keep suspicion off of himself, or he's town and is desperately trying to find scum tells from everyone. My current gut feeling is that he is probably just a confused townie.
Cove:
There seems to be some conflicting ideas between the more experienced players in this game over how voting should work on D1. Cove has been pushing people to vote from early on, even if they have no solid evidence. Robo on the other hand advocates gathering "real" evidence against someone before voting. This being my first game ever I can't say from experience which method is better for town on Day 1, but I'm hoping someone else can build on this and tell me if they think Cove's method is more of a town tell or scum tell. His interactions with others have included strong suspicion and voting against GT, as well as FOS's on AKR and AQUA (now Tidher). He hasn't really said much to indicate his opinion on the other 5 players. I am not counting his RVS vote against Robo. He could go either way in my mind, and I'd really like some other opinions on his pushing for votes.
GroupThink:
Robo had it right when he said this guy is naturally scummy. He has not posted very many times, and every brief post makes you like him less. But I suppose just because I don't like him doesn't mean he is scum. His interactions with others have mostly been fluff. He doesn't seem to like Cove, accusing him of overreacting and calling him a hypocrite. He recently voted for me without giving any real explanation and has yet to respond to my request for clarification. Aside from that he hasn't said enough about anyone to gauge his opinions on them. If he is town, he's not doing a very good job of contributing to the discussion or helping to determine who is scum. I would really like him to stop responding in one-sentence blips and start giving real reasons for his responses. I definitely have my eye on him, but not going to call him scum just yet.
kindred:
She hasn't been particularly active in the discussion but I think it is because she is like me and doesn't know quite what to make of anyone yet. She leans towards suspicion of GT and Kleed, seems supportive of Robo's efforts to lead the discussion, says she thinks Tidher is town based on his first posts, and (maybe kinda sorta) seems to defend some of AKR and Cove's actions. Based on her minor support and/or defense of four different players, my feeling is that she is probably town.
Kleedrac:
The only person that Kleed has really pointed any fingers at has been Cove. He dropped a number of RVS votes in the beginning, but they were all just joke votes. He argued with AKR, but the argument was defensive and he didn't accuse AKR of acting scummy. His FOS and then Vote against Cove was based on Cove's "trying too hard." He has said next-to-nothing about the other 6 players in the game so its hard to get a read on what he thinks of them. He doesn't feel scummy to me but I also have no real reason to think he is town. Could go either way.
Robo:
I liked Robo's posts a lot until he got into a big mudslinging contest with AKR. Out of all of those long quoted posts back and forth between the two of them I didn't get any insight into whether either of them were scum, I mostly couldn't stop thinking "When are they going to give this up?" Robo likes to build a case against someone before voting them, I understand that and I'd really like to be able to do that too but I'm having trouble coming up with anything real to use against someone. His case against AKR seemed mostly to be that he thinks AKR is annoying and talks too much and needs to shut up. Whether or not this is a valid scum tell I don't really know, I don't have enough experience. But Robo hasn't had a single negative thing to say about anyone else in the game. He also defends GT (who happens to be rather scummy-feeling to me) and calls him the most town focused player in the game. Robo is either a townie who is secretly gathering lots of wonderful data about everyone and is going to tell us more about what he thinks of them later...or he is scum and he has singled out AKR as the townie who annoys him the most and is trying to get us to lynch him so he doesn't have to deal with him anymore. What do you guys think?
Tidher (formerly AQUA):
This is a bit weird because whatever this role is has been played by two very different players. AQUA felt scummy, Tidher feels more like town but hasn't been around very long and is now going to be gone for a few days. Tidher suspected Kleed but retracted his vote when Kleed defended himself. Other than that he has been neutral towards everyone else. I am going to wait until we hear more from Tidher to make any real analysis of him.
vrtra:
He has also been busy with school so has not posted too much. He voted against me for acting like newbie scum then retracted (probably because he realized I am just newbie period). More recently he voted for AKR based on his posting style and arguments. He says he thinks Kleedrac comes across as town. Hasn't said much about the other 5 players but I suspect he will when he is through with exams. My gut feeling is that vrtra is town. He seems genuinely concerned about making good arguments and finding scum. I also like his posting style. But this opinion could certainly change when he starts talking more in the future.
So in summary...I still think anyone could be scum at this point. I am leaning towards town on AKR, kindred, and vrtra. I am leaning towards scum on GT. Everyone else I am sitting on or near the fence about.
I hope that is enough talking to satisfy you all. If I get called scum for "trying too hard" now or anything of the like, I'm not going to be very happy. As you can see I don't have strong cases for or against anyone which is why I'm not voting, but I do have thoughts and opinions on each person and I am actively trying to put the pieces together even when I'm not posting.
By the way, can we get an updated vote count? I haven't seen one in awhile.
