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Sorry it took this long!
I've been having trouble getting a read of Kyonna, FlatearthStan and Rincent, so I revisited the first,
Donna:
Early vote on CoolestSpot due to
meta reasons. Later on Kyanrute will get super interested in CoolestBeat, as I'll point out later, but I do think it's just a coincidence.
Then she openly answers her partner;
I am not sure, I guess it would depend. Sometimes I have the sense or feeling about someone and can be completely wrong, or other time I could be right and no one else feels the same XD.
Regarding the Stu debate of D1 she says it's
probably just Town vs Town. She wants to
hear more from Zippedpinhead, but feelt good about Fantomas.
She votes Pirate Bae (
#1456) without backing it up, but she later explains that she trusted her partner (
#1631). I can relate I guess. To note: unlike her partner, she maintained that vote, even when coming back at EoD after the soft claim. Maybe she didn't catch it? When reading this I also wanted to ask - if you don't mind
@empressdonna - how active is your partner chat? Do you feel like you're working in tandem with Kyanrute?
On D2 she posts a pretty big read list. After sticking with that Pirate Bae vote, this comment was... weird?;
Pirate Bae & Malus: Our claimed cops, whom green checked the tybro team. I believe in them and their claim.
Some players (like Natforce or S-Dubs) are hard to read to her and there's no hard read about any potential mafia player. Which I can - again - relate to.
Later on she goes through Terraforce's posts after Monkey asks her to, and ends with a "likely town" impression
here. Which I honestly agree with; Terraforce seems to be engaged and actively trying to solve the game.
Thoughts so far; town-lean.
Kyanrute:
A
couple questions about past Love Boats, then some more substance regarding voting along his partner. What stood out to me is;
I think your answer was the worst (but overall nothing but the slightest offence), since you seem to suggest that even after a chat you could end up disagreeing with your partner. Sure, possible, but I don't think it is likely. Surely if the pair chats a bit, they should be able to find some common ground and make their case better with the combined votes. I think your answer gives too much ground to the minority case and that's why it is bad.
(Bolded is mine)
Which makes a lot of sense to me... for now. Then he is
"busy reading Stu", only to move to
"look at the Doc". After reading Monkey, who argues that it's unlikely that mafia!Dr. Stu would out themselves in the early hours of the game,
Kyanrute thinks that it could happen nonetheless. But that doesn't lower his opinion of the pair. A bit later he also
calls out Monkey for her "Sorian fixation" and her defensive play thus far. I can't really agree with him here since defense is a logical stance to take in Dr. Stu's position at the time. Attacks could be discounted as desperate attempts to shift the focus of the conversation.
He also
calls out CoolestSpot for not focusing on the quiet players. This wouldn't normally warrant a mention, but he'll continue on CoolestBeat's case later.
Then he moves to another player;
Why is Yarr Bae so similar to her past appearances as a meanie. So similar. Surely she hasn't gone through everyone on the player list and cross-referenced them with her past experiences with the players in question and when she met a player she did hadn't played with before she went through the player's past games and gathered information about them. Surely she did not do that, but why does she then say she did so?
The bells, they ring loud.
This is before the soft claim, so he persists and actually votes for her in
#1345. This is basically based on the patented #feels from a past game in which Pirate Bae was mafia and her content looking like she was avoiding discussion. And so he
calls out the Tybro train and the
Katsune vote too due to it being based on activity. He doubles down on that later (
#1608).
But then he unvotes after the soft claim (
#1654),
moving to CoolestSpot, which he called out earlier. And then, to avoid a tie,
Katsune (which he doesn't really want to lunch).
This begs the question; if Kyanrute was so sure that some talking was enough to align votes with a partner, why did he admittedly cast a vote he didn't feel comfortable with if Donna maintained her vote on Pirate Bae? Funny thing is he
called out Vincent Alexander's vote for Pirate Bae for lacking any explanation, but Donna did the same a few posts above. Since I'm still leaning town on them, best guess is that the reduced timeframe since the soft claim left no time for coordination.
To be fair to them I found a later post referring to the subject;
I'm with Stu here, me and donna dropped the "she must be crumbing an investigative / cop / something" lines in our chat only about 30 mins to the clock. I don't think it is fair to assume that 1) everyone got the crumbs and 2) was convinced that they even mean anything. A possibility, not a certainty.
My favorite exhange of him is this though;
Just going to throw Reki and Xbro in the town pile. Xbro has been pretty absent, but Reki still threw out a huge, huge post to just read one pair. That's a ton of work and if Reki had a bunch of scummates to plan with I don't think they would have felt the need to do so much analysis.
Classic Kyaaa complains about grand scum plans post.
I dunno, is the current scum meta all about plans and whatnot. The last time I was scum it was all about bussing and headless chickens.
You were one of the few (the only maybe?) who doubted a big post could be too much effort for a mafia player. That makes it way easier, at least for me, to engage with you. For example, I'd like to ask why did you think that Xbro is
"hiding scum". That stood out to me as super weird, and I didn't ask then because you said it was just a gut read. But maybe you're ready to comment a bit more on this now?
Other D1 stuff: He had a
soft town read on Chugg. Also
town-reading both Brazil and Stantastic. And he likes FluxWaveZ's stuff so far too, even if he finds it
"slightly limited".
D2 starts with him getting worried about CoolestBeat (there's consistency here at least) getting town cred from a letter;
How does receiving a message make one town? It is also not about gaining anything by bringing up the letter, it is about not losing something by withholding it. The expected play is to tell if something weird happens, regardless of alignment.
Other D2 stuff (since I have no more comments on other D2 stuff);
he seems to think all the D1 trains were town, if I'm reading this correctly.
Thoughts so far; town too, just an uncoordinated duo at D1. I also like the way he refers to mafia as "meanies".