Post #154523
December 13, 2020, 06:19:25 PM
I guess I'll just try to briefly summarize some thoughts I had. Read through d1 and was quoting stuff to reply to as I read it so I'll likely forget quite a bit of the stuff I was gonna say without the quotes.
Laurentus looked town from d1. There were a couple of iffy things I quoted (mainly remember the thing about cop checking Hapi, which directing actions like that is meh) but for the most part I think he looked more town than scum. He had a lot of good analytical posts, was pushing people to vote, and like I said before it came across as more confident Laur than worried scum Laur. He also made a good point about the eod wagons looking (I believe he called it) vanity wagons, which is exactly what they were.
Vro actually did come out of d1 looking not too great too me. He did have some points in his back and forth with Laurentus, but overall I felt more scum vibes from him. Suffice to say that if one of Vro/Laurentus flips scum the other is very unlikely to be aligned with them. I found his post asking Sapphiron what he thought of Laurentus so early a little odd, but it's a little hard to tell for sure not knowing relationships/how people play here. His post responding to Laur asking what Vro himself thought of Laur felt safe to me and the wording didn't feel as town. The vote on Gerrick seemed an easy one for scum to throw on a townie without much reasoning behind it. But his vote for Daws looked even worse. I believe it also broke the tie. (Side note - can anyone tell me what happens in the even of a tied vote here?)
Hapi made some very obvious references to Aragorn, which is interesting and I'll have to see if anyone responded in any way to that d2. But Laur brought up the point that I was thinking when reading that which was that it would be a bold play if she's scum. There is without a doubt someone who is Aragorn in this game so it would be easily "counterclaimed".
The new players from another forum (sorry forgot the forum name) were really suspicious to me until I found out they were all from a different place. No lynching d1 is almost always bad since it gives you no info to build off of. Day interactions are more important than night actions. You need to force mafia to show their hand by making them vote and then analyzing that.
Sapphiron had me a bit suspicious. His read on Laur was that "Laur is Laur" and then said there's not really much to work on the first day phase. Which seems like an excuse to sit back and let town lynch themselves.
Wintermoot had a post that was pretty good (I think I had a couple of issues with it but the overall idea was decent). He was speculating on pairings based on interactions. He ended up voting Sapph out of it. The reasoning wasn't the most sound, but I also felt a bit suspicious of Sapph.
There were maybe one or two posts of Wischland's that I liked...until he jumped in to vote Daws out of nowhere and said he would explain (but didn't before eod, so if he has I haven't gotten to it).
Doc had a couple of good posts to me at the beginning. I especially liked that he gave the new people benefit of the doubt instead of throwing more suspicion on them like would be simple for scum to do to try to get easy lynches.
Hard to remember what I thought of everyone without having to reread and requote everything but these were what sticks out in my mind the most.
Simple d1 reads list.
Town Lean
Laurentus
Doc
Hapi
Turtle
Wintermoot
Scum Lean
Vro
Sapph
Wischland (Gonna put him here because I did really like his first replies to Laur giving his analysis on the game, but I also really hated that Daws vote at the end so he's like both scum and not scum til I get more info)
Neutral/Everyone Else
BraveSirRobin
Eastern New England
Flying Eagles
Gerrick
HumanSanity
ogunbiyi6422
The Greenlandic North
Wille-Harlia