Team Big Ben Saber

Verelios

Were-elios
Welcome to the prestigious Saber and their Master, your majesty knows no bounds. Lay your blade down for the night and rest well in this safe haven.
 

Ty4on

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I’ll try to not be the most obvious target, I can be that sometimes both for town and scum.

I’m thinking of some strategies too, but we can discuss that when we’re both here.
 

Ty4on

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Player list for reference

EvilChameleon
FateShirou
Randomless
Weemadarthur
SephiZack
HPSauce
LaunchpadMcQ
MrHedin
Stantastic
Ephidel
Nin
Aeleus
Stuart444
Zippedpinhead
Vincent Alexander
FluxWaveZ
Lone_Prodigy
AllThingsPurple
Yappadappadu
BoJack Horseman
Hobohodo
Leo
Z-Beat
Oliver James
Terraforce
SkyOdin
Pandora012

Zem
Ty4on
 

Ty4on

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There are a lot of players I’ve never played with and some I’ve played with, but not sure how they’ll be playing so I won’t be using much player meta.

I will be trying to “read” you too in the thread to try to hide that we’re lovers, but I’m not sure how much that matters. What I need to hide the most is that I’m a master and my death will kill you.
 

Zem

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Hello hello

Yeah need to make it look like I'm the master but not sure how we do that or even if it's worth it when we can't reveal our partners anyway.

Otherwise just take each day as it comes.

The main problem for me is I don't understand the format. Is it 7 masters and 7 servants, 14 total, or 14 masters and 14 servants for 28 total with scum in those pairings? And what's with the two team thing? And the holy grail I have no clue about either.
 

Ty4on

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Yeah need to make it look like I'm the master but not sure how we do that or even if it's worth it when we can't reveal our partners anyway.
I think that’s too much effort. Best thing is to not be obvious so if I’m pressured stay cool since it could get obvious if you hard defend me.
The main problem for me is I don't understand the format. Is it 7 masters and 7 servants, 14 total, or 14 masters and 14 servants for 28 total with scum in those pairings? And what's with the two team thing? And the holy grail I have no clue about either.
I’ll try to use some math and reading to figure it out. I think that 29th player is either some mafia member or a neutral.
My plan for D1 is to start with mechanics discussion where we can all discuss it. Since it’s quite heavy in mechanics and a bit bastard I think it’ll really benefit town to know what is going on (mafia are always one step ahead there).
 

Ty4on

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Oh, if it is anything like the first game then the mafia can be mixed with other townies in lover pairs. So from your point of view I could be mafia.

In the first game only one of the lover pairs was mafia-mafia.
 

Zem

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Yeah my plan right now is not to defend you (I don't expect you to be under any pressure for the first few days at least) and to not ignore you. I expect a lot of pairs will just ignore each other in reads and stuff. Basically try to not make it as obvious as possible so that scum can't kill us 2 for 1 without getting lucky.

But the main thing is to just go with the flow of the game and change tactics if needed.
 

Ty4on

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I’ll just find all the mafia, list them in a post with a “kill these if I die” and be immortal :imp:

Probably not, but I try that in every game :D
 

Ty4on

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Something interesting about the old game is who were mafia. It was a smaller game so only 18 players with 4 mafia, but they were 1 mafia lover pair (master and servant) and two mixed town and mafia pairs where the master was mafia.

I kinda wanna assume at least one mafia is a servant here since we probably have more of them, but it wouldn’t surprise me if most mafia were masters so they could kill their partner at night.

The mixed mafia-town pairs seems to be the main thing making the old game bastard so I assume the same thing here, but most pairs are probably town-town.
 

Zem

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how many mafia in total, around 6 in this game? I'd expect at least one mafia-mafia pair, 3-4 Master (Mafia), 1-2 Servant (Mafia). Agree that there'll be more Masters as mafia otherwise it's really hard for them. Was there neutrals in the last game? I'd expect those to be masters if so.

Day end being at 1am could be trouble if either of us are up for a vote, I'll usually be up but not always, and day start there's no way I'll be up for that but that one doesn't matter. Will be interesting if more scum are NA then is that an advantage? :pikathink: Probably.
 

Ty4on

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6-7 mafia maybe, 25% is quite common.

If we can push the vote a bit earlier we can have some more clear vote wagons so you know what’s viable to vote for. It’s not gonna be super productive for the game if all of the voting happens in the last hour.
 

Zem

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EC doesn't lie, that's his whole thing and its worked for him as town and Mafia so far, so I knew he'd flip that way.

I think faddy comes out of that looking bad even if Vincent is town with his vote since Mafia would want to get rid of the tracker asap and her just jumped on it and will think of an excuse during the night. The other votes on EC will depend on the Vincent flip. Natiko and Fluxwaves are two others I think could be mafia.
 

Ty4on

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A lot of masters in the old game could give their servants extra shots, but I can’t do that
 

Zem

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I thought we were a team. I'm a 1 shot vigilante, from the way others were talking day one it feels like there's quite a few of us. So I'm tempted to take my shot early tomorrow.
 

Ty4on

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Example from a role PM:
1 Motivate - Use the command Motivate and your servant will get one more shot the next night.
I don’t have that ;_;

I thought we were a team. I'm a 1 shot vigilante, from the way others were talking day one it feels like there's quite a few of us. So I'm tempted to take my shot early tomorrow.
I guess it’s for balancing purposes. Are you day vigilante?
 

Ty4on

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Imma have to look over day and more closely since there should be clues. I really wish I had better VA reads, but I think voting VA is slightly town regardless of alignment.
 

Zem

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Yep

Right now my targets are:

Terraforce - kind of trying to bully easy targets and is close to stepping over the line

Wavez - something like that, on mobile so can't check the name. I think he's quite dodgy and has very little posts, so taking him out has two benefits potentially

VA - another dodgy one and gives us some additional info day two
 

Ty4on

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I think going for someone who’s a target is more useful for town, but I also don’t really read VA scum
 

Ty4on

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Like if Terra or Wee flip town we learn very little

If VA flips town we know the flip was TvT and can probably find some scum among the lurking people who know it’s an unimportant vote.
 

Zem

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I'm sure terra is town but that kill would be very enjoyable and remove a complete drag from the game.

Ace attorney guy or VA are the more sensible kills of course
 

Ty4on

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Updated and sorted by posts:
  1. LaunchpadMcQ
  2. AllThingsPurple
  3. Natiko
  4. Weemadarthur
  5. Terraforce
  6. MrHedin
  7. FateShirou
  8. Aeleus
  9. SkyOdin
  10. Leo
  11. Ephidel
  12. Stantastic
  13. Pandora012
  14. SephiZack
  15. Randomless
  16. HPSauce
  17. Faddy
  18. Hobohodo
  19. Vincent Alexander
  20. Z-Beat
  21. Oliver James
  22. malus
  23. Zippedpinhead
  24. Reki
  25. FluxWaveZ
  26. A Wild Ambulance Appears
28. Zem
29. Ty4on
 

Ty4on

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uhm, 27 28 for us lol

put the numbers to make sure I had the right amount since the vote thing includes replaced players
 

Zem

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Z Beat is another potential target, odd posts, not going to get anything from him probably
 

Ty4on

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A lot of scum is playing town by making reads etc so Z Beat not even doing that is almost townie

That also made EC townie in a way ._.
 

Ty4on

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F1 time now, but I should go over the game anew since I have a very diffuse read of the game.

I tried to go over the lowest posters and find the scummiest, but not much stuck out so I’m clearly reading something wrong. There wasn’t a lot of obvious lurking so I think scum are within the active players.
 

Ty4on

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I thought we were a team. I'm a 1 shot vigilante, from the way others were talking day one it feels like there's quite a few of us. So I'm tempted to take my shot early tomorrow.
Do you write the command in the thread? If we hit scum that could help "prove" you're town.
 

Zem

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I have to PM it looks like but I don't have a problem owning up to the shot even if it ends up hitting town
 

Zem

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I won't be around for day start and I guess neither will you, so once I get up I'll have a read of the thread and see what happened. Then make a decision if it's worth shooting someone or holding off for now.
 

Ty4on

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I think the best choice is probably still someone who’s consensus vote. Say VA becomes a big wagon early on and is shot, we kinda skip D2 and head straight into D3 without a night kill and get a bit of vote analysis. Might wanna get him to claim first though hmm
 

Zem

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Yeah, just don't want to waste 48 hours of back and forth over "is VA town or Mafia" and VA being voted out anyway because that's pretty boring and an easy place for Mafia to hide. If it goes that way I'll probably just shoot so we can move on haha. Otherwise just see how it goes I suppose.

And yeah not at all sold on Fate being town yet, that claim feels like something he could have got from MGS Mafia and an attempt to keep people from investigating. It could also just be a scum role. If he's prodding a lot of people he's probably town, at least that's what he did in MGS.
 

Ty4on

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Tentatively putting Fate as aggressive town. Feels a bit much and he seems interested in game stuff.
 

Zem

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Yeah I tried to shoot VA last night and obviously Aeleus ruined that, in fact I might have killed Aeleus if the doctor did protect him from the mafia kill but I take no responsibility for that. I had to say I was a day vigilante just in case you're mafia and would try and block me. But that's my shot gone now so I'm practically a vanilla.
 

Zem

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And I've just seen that flip haha My god, the swerve from VA is the most dodgy thing I think I've ever seen in these games so far.
 

Ty4on

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Yeah I tried to shoot VA last night and obviously Aeleus ruined that, in fact I might have killed Aeleus if the doctor did protect him from the mafia kill but I take no responsibility for that. I had to say I was a day vigilante just in case you're mafia and would try and block me. But that's my shot gone now so I'm practically a vanilla.
I could redirect your night action so I thought something was off lol
That’s why I asked if you had to do it in thread
And I've just seen that flip haha My god, the swerve from VA is the most dodgy thing I think I've ever seen in these games so far.
I should’ve tried to save Z-Beat aaaaaaaaaa
I felt townie vibes from that slot and tried to amplify it by talking to them, but just couldn’t.
 

Ty4on

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Coloring in the voters:
Red stayed on same wagon (lead or VA counter)
Blue was on VA D1, lead D2
Green was on lead D1, VA counter D2
White was elsewhere

VA D1
SkyOdin - #503
Ephidel - #831
HPSauce - #970
MrHedin - #1,029
Zem - #1,038
FateShirou - #1,040
Hobohodo - #1,043

VA D2
Ephidel - #1,167
Zem - #1,465
A Wild Ambulance Appears - #1,642
Ty4on - #1,832
MrHedin - #1,863
FluxWaveZ - #1,866
LaunchpadMcQ - #1,898 #1,919
SephiZack - #1,900
Z-Beat - #1,913

Relatively small overlap from D1, let’s look at counter:

D1
Stantastic - #516
Terraforce - #867
Ty4on - #965
Leo - #969
LaunchpadMcQ - #971
Reki - #996
Faddy - #1,034
Vincent Alexander - #1,041

D2

AllThingsPurple - #1,568
FateShirou - #1,773
Natiko - #1,777
Hobohodo - #1,786
Pandora012 - #1,830
SkyOdin - #1,852
Randomless - #1,860
Stantastic - #1,876
Vincent Alexander - #1,885
Faddy - #1,916
Reki - #1,917
LaunchpadMcQ - #1,919

It’s kinda interesting to see that the core of VA voters isn’t that big and kinda noteworthy to see that chunk of voters coming in late on the lead wagon both days.
 

Zem

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and kinda noteworthy to see that chunk of voters coming in late on the lead wagon both days.

it really is, good work, post that in the thread when it opens up again
 

Ty4on

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Z-Beat (5 votes)
AllThingsPurple - #1,568
FateShirou - #1,773
Natiko - #1,777
Hobohodo - #1,786
Pandora012 - #1,830

AllThingsPurple
(4 votes)
Leo - #1,580
Randomless - #1,606
Hobohodo - #1,634 #1,786
Z-Beat - #1,740
MrHedin - #1,818

Vincent Alexander
(4 votes)
Ephidel - #1,167
Zem - #1,465
A Wild Ambulance Appears - #1,642
Ty4on - #1,832

Ty4on
(3 votes)
Zippedpinhead - #1,534
Vincent Alexander - #1,554
Reki - #1,720

Leo
(3 votes)
Terraforce - #1,117
Weemadarthur - #1,692
Faddy - #1,701
FateShirou - #1,709 #1,773
This is less than a half hour away and was noteworthy to me. I was thinking if Z-Beat is scum WTF is the scum team doing with all of these disorganized wagons lol

So since we know Z the more interesting question is what they do if any of the other wagons are scum. The lack of a clear wagon def fuels the notion scum aren’t actively pushing a line.
 

Ty4on

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Off wagon colored for availability:
Terraforce
Weemadarthur

Leo (-34 minutes claimed)
malus (~6 hours)
Zippedpinhead (~4 hours)

HPSauce
Oliver James (replaced)
 

Zem

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Hmmmm I do wonder if you only have a redirect for me now
 

Ty4on

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I have that plus my role

I asked if you would be notified if I tried to redirect you, but wasn’t told. Guess I could try lol
 

Zem

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What's your role?

There's nothing left to redirect, I used my 1 shot already so unless you can give me another one that's me done
 

Ty4on

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If somehow you are both still alive at the end of the game, then you can win still… but only if 1. Town wins. 2. Your team (the Mages’ Association) win the greater holy grail war.
Karna seems to be not mafia from this since they can be alive when town wins :eyes:
 

Zem

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I have no idea, I don't even know what Fate is. There's nothing in my role or previous roles about being devine.

Maybe Devine = town
not devine = mafia
no result = neutral
 

Ty4on

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What's your role?
I’ll go through your posts and see if I trust you enough, I just wanna be a bit more sure :S
I have no idea, I don't even know what Fate is. There's nothing in my role or previous roles about being devine.

Maybe Devine = town
not devine = mafia
no result = neutral
No result is if he’s blocked or targeted someone untargetable I’m pretty sure
Give me a bullet and I will shoot him
I can’t give extra shots ;_;
Only redirect
 

Ty4on

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lots of interactions to read though :eyes:

still sucks to not know launchie’s alignment, but mafia might be kinda iffed by it
 

Ty4on

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I wanted to ask Launch for more names in case Malus claimed important role so I he could tell me more town low hanging fruits
DIwd6jGUIAAIhLz
 

Zem

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I think Launch is neutral at best, would be surprised if he was scum but I'd still happily kill him just to take that chance out and also so we can move on. VA, Fate and maybe Ephi I feel are scum.
 

Ty4on

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VA and Launch have some cromulent interactions with Launch saving him in a way.

I guess Fate helped the Z Beat wagon take off??? But he’s probably not W/W with ATP
 

Zem

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Not gonna lie, I skip over a lot of the posts when I catch up so I don't even know who started what train without looking it up. This game is 99% feels only.
 

Ty4on

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Not gonna lie, I skip over a lot of the posts when I catch up so I don't even know who started what train without looking it up. This game is 99% feels only.
Realtime interactions goat so that’s fine
 

Zem

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What's your role then? I don't even care if you're neutral tbh.
 

Ty4on

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Need a few more reads to mature. Don't worry I'm town lol

I think Launch might be town :thisisfine:
 

Zem

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My town list would be: Launch, Stan, Leo

Very exhaustive as you can see. No one's really looked townie.

I have a feeling Terra is the master for Launch the way they were posting yesterday and none of it making sense.

My scum list would be: Terra, VA, potentially Fate and Ephi and I don't feel good about Randomless or Recki.

I assume Natiko got a "devine" scan on Launch but in this game I have no idea what that'll mean. He then backed off after the Launch claim because he realised the scan didn't mean what he thought it did. So my question to the thread would be "what would a devine scan tell us if anything, about Launch?" because I have no idea.
 

Zem

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Actually scratch Terra off my scum list. I just remembered why I thought VA was scum so much yesterday and it was because of his posts about town role revealing being bad even when they were about to die and it all felt fake. Then Terra was calling him out so doesn't make sense Terra would be scum in that scenario where I heavily read VA as being scum. Could be two teammates trying to distance but for not want to focus on VA.
 

Ty4on

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Actually scratch Terra off my scum list. I just remembered why I thought VA was scum so much yesterday and it was because of his posts about town role revealing being bad even when they were about to die and it all felt fake. Then Terra was calling him out so doesn't make sense Terra would be scum in that scenario where I heavily read VA as being scum. Could be two teammates trying to distance but for not want to focus on VA.
I would be careful making too many associative read with no flips. VA being town would break this.
 

Zem

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I think at least one of them is scum (so both should be on my list actually). I'm more confident in VA, but wouldn't rule out Terra either. I don't think this is two scum trying to distance. One flipping town doesn't mean the other is automatically scum, it just means my read on that person was wrong.

Right now I would have it VA -> Terra in priority. Terra's argument makes way more sense than VA's as well. VA feels more like he's forcing a frustrated townie with the role reveals but it doesn't feel sincere. Feels very performative.

I'm certain there's scum in some of the quiet ones especially as their posts don't feel especially townie, I'd group them like this from most to least scummy groups:

- VA

- Terra, Reki, Pandora, Random, Hobo

- Ephi, Fate

I dunno how I feel on you. I think you could be in trouble at some point soon because people are coming at you and it's not something I completely disagree with right now, but I wouldn't have you in the above groups.
 

Ty4on

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Coloring in the votes:

VA D1
SkyOdin
Ephidel
HPSauce
MrHedin
Zem

FateShirou
Hobohodo

MrHedin I assume is not scum. SkyOdin and Hobo have both posted stuff I like, Hobo iirc feels unpartnered. Ephi maybe a bit too weak of a read, but feels thoughtful.
So HP and Fate stick out here.

EC D1
Stantastic
Terraforce
Ty4on
Leo

LaunchpadMcQ
Reki
Faddy

Vincent Alexander

This is more interesting than I thought, bizarre none of these have flipped lol. Reki did an attempt at EoD 2 to interact with me which I townread because it felt like genuine attempt at reading me, though it is kinda light I guess. Did not feel like an agenda to make me look bad. Faddy is a lighter read, but my impressions have just been good, but he has contributed very little.

VA D2
Ephidel
Zem
A Wild Ambulance Appears
Ty4on
MrHedin

FluxWaveZ
SephiZack
Z-Beat


Hmmmmmmmm. Ambulance is light on content, but it all looks fine to me.
A Wild Ambulance Appears said:
I'm assuming you meant D3 at the end there? I do think Ty's performance on D2 plays a significant factor. Just taking a quick look through his posts, I feel he's added more contributions than a lot of other players this game (myself included).
This is a natural sounding read where he could've easily faked a scum read or something.
He had very few posts D3, but he was always focused on killing Launch which is quite townie since scum probably knew something was up.

Z-Beat D2
AllThingsPurple
FateShirou
Natiko
Hobohodo
Pandora01
SkyOdin

Randomless
Stantastic
Vincent Alexander
Faddy
Reki
LaunchpadMcQ


Random has decent content, I haven't read it closely lately, but I seem to remember feeling ok about it. Pandora seems to actually be evolving their reads which I like.
 

Ty4on

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Off wagon on D2:
Terraforce
Weemadarthur
Leo
malus
Zippedpinhead
HPSauce
Blargonaut

Blarg is not impossible to read, he can be quite a good town once you look through to his reads and seems to be interacting fine enough from what I could see. Wee is same read as D1, very abrasive (though much less so lately).
Zipped was very tunnely in Fate 1 so he could be playing a similar town game here.
 

Ty4on

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I guess that means my preliminary team is like:
  • AllThingsPurple
  • Vincent Alexander
  • FateShirou
  • Terraforce
 

Ty4on

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This is why I'm so slow to townreading you even tho you've been reasonably townie because I'm so unsure of my own reads lol
 

Zem

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Looks like we have similar'ish reads. I could get on board an ATP vote even though I have no feelings one way or another on him simply because I've seen quite a few people scum read him and some town read him, so seeing that flip would be interesting and might give us something. I still think a VA flip is the best, gives us more info than anyone else right now I think.
 

Ty4on

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I haven’t gone through ATP yet, but I haven’t remembered anything townie (I had with like launch and natiko), his wagon didn’t take off and he made that scummy entry.
 

Ty4on

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Skimming over the beginning of the game again and it is kinda interesting. When ATP gets going he seems to really struggle to produce content and just replies to random fluff.
Ael got pretty fast into scumreading Terra for his opening.
Been a busy day and these start times really throw my shit posting rhythm.

I don't think anything launch has said or done isn't outside the scope of his scum game so I'm still a bit iffy there.

I still feel a bit off about fate, though I couldn't really tell you why without quotation marks and I know z-beat doesn't like that.

Speaking of z beat biased maybe but I'm not a fan of his contribution so far.

The person I feel best about is wee. I've like her prodding and she seems as engaged as you can be on a day 1

Ty is being a bit of feather ruffler but I'm getting mgs vibes where he was town doing his own thing and got crucified for it.

So I dunno, I don't feel great about anyone, but no one is pinging my radar yet either.

Keeping an eye on launch, last game showed scum launch is happy to take on a prominent role in discussions, keeping an eye on fate. The slightest of slight town reads on wee.

I'll hopefully be more active tomorrow.
If there is something scummy about ATP it's how self-conscious he is. After having had some pretty lackluster shitposting he makes this which is very aware of the fact he hasn't produced much content.
The motivation for this post is clearly to "post content" with some reads forced out which town does do too, but it is noteworthy he isn't able to organically get a read yet.
 

Ty4on

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Note to self: Get a good summary of Aeleus reads, possibly one of the strongest towns on D1 and clearly not holding back.
 

Zem

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I actually think that's a big problem with me. 3am starts means by the time I've caught up people have basically said what I've wanted to say then it just looks like parroting, tricky situation. Like tomorrow I want to bring up the Launch scans and ask what "Devine" could mean but I bet someone does that first then I'm struggling for stuff to actually talk about. I could re-read previous days and stuff but I don't want to do that right now, at least not until we get one scum.
 

Ty4on

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  1. LaunchpadMcQ 10
  2. AllThingsPurple
  3. Natiko 1
  4. Weemadarthur 2
  5. Terraforce 1
  6. MrHedin 6
  7. FateShirou 3
  8. Aeleus
  9. SkyOdin
  10. Leo 2
  11. Ephidel 1
  12. Stantastic 1
  13. Pandora012
  14. SephiZack
  15. Randomless 2
  16. HPSauce 1
  17. Faddy
  18. Hobohodo 3
  19. Vincent Alexander 2
  20. Z-Beat 1
  21. Oliver James
  22. EvilChameleon 1
  23. malus
  24. Zippedpinhead 1
  25. Reki
  26. FluxWaveZ
  27. A Wild Ambulance Appears
  28. Zem
  29. Ty4on 2
It's just how many times he talked to someone either mentioning or responding.
Didn't learn much except he didn't interact with Fate much, but threw a ton of shade and voted there. Could see that being planned since Fate kinda ignored him too.
 

Ty4on

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Terra was really focused on you early on lol

Feels a bit emptier than ATP early on
 

Zem

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Terra was really weird early on. Kept going for what I think he thought were easy targets, me, new players, players who haven't played for a while. I said it night one but I actually thought he was close to stepping over the line with some of his posts and that's why I just replied to his questions with a question because I have no time for that attitude.
 
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