I do not know what my partner is doing currently. Their behaviour has not been particularly out of character for them as town, though I know that is harder to get across in costume. I cannot do much about getting nailed to the wall for things I have not said, so I am just going to try to do my own thing.
Submarine is very much projecting big time town now. Large reads lists, many interactions with different players. I will not worry about them unless they are still alive late game, or if their activity suddenly drops off on later days.
Beluga seems town thus far. They are posting reads, asking questions, and following up. Cannot ask for much more on Day 1. Also Beluga Whales are cute.
I like Inflatable Boat’s engagement style thus far. They are asking a lot of questions to different players. Scum can certainly ask a lot of questions too, but I personally find Inflatable’s questions are pertinent and poignant. I would find quotes but I am really running out of time here, sorry.
I liked that Galleon was active early and trying to make connections, no matter how trivial, but I do not love how Galleon has double, triple, and quadruple downed on voting and pushing for me despite the initial vote being seemingly a joke. They have used very strong language that invokes a greater severity than reality, such as “slimy”, and “super scummy”. They have stretched the truth to make their point:
Sudden switch on previously apparent read. “Good enough” they say, based mostly on post count.
Where did they get that from? Here is the post they were quoting for reference:
The italicized half is engaging with people about the game, and they have a high post count.
At most you can say it was a 50/50 based on the wording. Or, even better, they could have simply asked me. Instead they immediately jumped in and used this as fuel for their argument.
I do think it is scummy to dive deeply into a tunnel on Day 1, when little is known. It is easy to focus most of your attention on one player, with some asides about others, and look as though you are busy.
A damning accusation in a pairs game, but in fact, that was not the Mate speaking.
Multiple pairs said I was unclear so I posted with more clarity.
If game votes us out, please see to the people who switched slowly to being sus of Houseboat but desperately tried to revert to us. This doesn’t really include submarine since they’ve just been anti Bosun all game, but I’m not convinced they’re town either, lots of words doesn’t equal towniness. Not that I’ve reread/evaluated them, I focused on getting participation from less vocal accounts for day one, removing highly active players is not usually a good move.
Whale I have not iso’d so they’re a nonread currently, but I don’t off the top of my head remember their views like I can with other pairs.
Additionally, this is such a weird post. They had
1 vote on them as of this time, why are they worried about getting voted out?
I do think Galleon is scummy and I am willing to vote for them.
I am still not liking Kayak despite the increased volume in their posts.
I do not like this boohoo this is so hard woe is me post:
I’ve already shared that I struggle in costume games due to everyone basically being a “new” person to remember which makes it harder for me to keep clear in my head who has said what. I didn’t feel exposed without a vote - it’s not as if we were under pressure or had been a serious topic of conversation. I instead opted to put a vote down between two players that have been more under the spotlight, going for the one I’ve found to be more suspect.
Yes, it is hard for all of us. We have not done a game like this in this community before. This feels an excuse for other behaviour, perhaps to come, that they can lean on later.
Their vote on me felt opportunistic as my wagon was just taking off, even though this post:
Responding to a request on reads for Duck and Yacht:
I liked the thought process here, it shows an interest in trying to solve by being able to better read player pairs. It’s small, but early on I like the initiative. Idk that I fully agree with their appraisal of others during this discussion, but that’s not a big red flag or anything.
I don’t really disagree with their assessment here. Houseboat is currently feeling off to me from their posts so far. I’d entertain a vote there especially for extra pressure, because so far it doesn’t feel like there’s much in the way of defense for them either.
At this point I’d say Duck is a small town lean, enough that I probably wouldn’t consider voting there today.
Yacht is more interesting in that I think their posts feel a bit more “fluffy”. There’s content, but often it isn’t content that feels directly like it’s coming from a town mindset. There’s discussion, but not much in the way of firm stances imo. I’d say a light scum lean, would at least consider a vote here today as well. Honestly - would maybe be my preferred vote, though with the tie that’s down right now I’ll push to make things more interesting instead:
VOTE: Houseboat
Seems to be leaning more towards a vote towards Yacht than myself, but then votes me anyway. Also says Yacht is more interesting and also voting me is more interesting in the same post, so which was it? I appreciate they later changed their vote to Yacht, but only after being called out by Lifeboat in #372.
I do not like this interaction with Gondola. Why are they being antagonistic towards someone trying to get town to work together? You can say that Gondola is saying nice platitudes that anyone regardless of alignment could say, but why attack them for it? And then act dismissive about it later in response?
I dont really like this reasoning. There's only 13 slots. If something is scummy in a slot, pressure it. This feels like you laying the seeds to write off something that may be scummy.
That's cool, doesnt address anything I said.
No biggie, carry on.
This reads to me as a very “twitter waffles” type reaction.
Gondola’s post did not mention ignoring scum, but rather finding town. Yet ignoring scum is what Kayak got out of it.
I feel Kayak is scummy. I would also vote there.
Jet Ski has been mostly pleasant and around just often enough to be seen, but I have not seen a particularly town mindset from them thus far. They have been floating along and not making waves. I would say NAI so far but will keep an eye on there for later.
Houseboat ducking the thread after the supposed slip makes me think that’s scum. Think there’s enough votes there so I’m not going to move mine, but there’s enough smoke there where I want to see the flip
People do have to work, you know. I thought we were trying not to do this as a community anymore.
I believe Gondola has been mostly townie. They have been friendly and positive, asking questions and making reads. Obviously I do not like their vote, but it has more thought behind it than Galleon or Kayak’s votes for myself. I believe I may know who is behind one half of the Gondola, and if I am correct I do not really want to vote them Day 1 purely on principle. Unless of course they are making a total fool of themselves, which they are currently not.
Anybody who I have not mentioned here or previously is NAI to me.
I will vote Kayak now, as I can see at a stretch how Galleon could possibly still be overconfident, deeply tunneled town, whereas with Kayak I cannot find anything particularly town about them. Obviously I am not in a great position here so I am more than willing to self-pres and change my vote. I will not vote for my town reads.
Vote: Kayak
I would still like to ISO Yacht and Cruise Ship because I remember a few points about them in my head but it is not clear enough. However, I am running out of time here. I vaguely liked Cruise Ship and found Yacht to just be around.
