Open 651 HighHopes Hydra PT (Ranger + Killthestory)

[lilith2013]

You may talk here.

[Ranger]

Welp.

We're town in a ridiculously scum-sided setup. :/

[Killthestory]

it's all good.

Ranger, here's what I want us to do. I want us to have as much fun as we can this game. You said that you don't normally do as well in Hydras. It's because you aren't enjoying yourself as much. You're trying too hard to be better than what you normally are.

So, let's not focus on catching scum or appearing town, let's just fucking go for it. I'm gonna meme around at the speed of sound, and I'm gonna enjoy it.

[Ranger]

Me just having fun translates to me blindly posting readslists and not bothering with anything more (except maybe responding to something with a joke), that cool with you?

[Killthestory]

Whatever works lmao.

Like I said, and I'm not here to dictate, let's just have fun and play.

[HighHopes]

I'll go ahead and start posting a lot. You can post as little or as much as you need to. It doesn't bother me. :^)

[Ranger]

You were supposed to be posting so I didn't have to!

Ah, well.

I'm preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty sure Vedith is the traitor (he traitor-signaled pretty hard), kyndy is obvscum, and both heads of Heebe Inc seem like scum, so I'm pretty sure that's where we want to push.

[Ranger]

I need you to hold down the fort for me for the next few days.
Real-life emergency means I'll be V/LA for a while, potentially without access. (Hopefully I'll have it, but I don't know right now.)

[HighHopes]

Also, I want to roleblock Vedith.

I know, Vedith's a claimed goon cop.
So, Vedith if town would get a result and we would be sabotaging him.

I suspect he is fakeclaiming though, and he would not know to claim No Result.
So, roleblocking him would be a test: he claims No Result, he passes. He claims something else, he's confscum.

[Killthestory]

Alrighty, I'm just gonna push a bunch of people and see what happens lmao.

I'll play the activity for right now until you're good. Good luck with whatever you have to do

[Killthestory]

Down with RBing Vedith.

Kyndy isn't very much obvscum to me. Sounds like a very awkward newbie, someone I'd probably play with on the ToS forums.

Hebee is obvscum to me. Both Beeboy and Hebi are extremely passive with their entrance and general lack of activity. Hebi, I'd expect it from, but they're even more passive than usual. Like, they didn't do anything notable whatsoever. Beeboy is usually pretty aggressive, and the fact that he called everyone null is hella sus.

Light is pretty much scum. NJwhatever is town for me, not sure why you scumread them.

[Ranger]

Eh.
You have light as scum and NJAC as scum, I have both as nullscum, so close enough.

You can switch your vote to Hebee if you'd like since we both agree there.

[HighHopes]

[HighHopes]

Hey Ranger, did you like me quickhammering? I thought that was pretty funny.

[Killthestory]

I want to see if I can copy your posting style and convince the players I'm you.

[HighHopes]

By the way, I was half-lying in-thread:
If Vedith's a goon, the risk of three goons means we get ambitious: block kyndy.
If Vedith's a power role, we block Lycanfire. I don't think this will actually block scum, mind you. However, I think it would be valuable, to clear Lycanfire from being scum.

If, as I suspect, Vedith is a traitor, then I've no intention to leaving things to chance. That's my backup plan, if I can't actually analyze players' posting in full, particularly, Vedith's.
Instead, I'll...go do that, and submit an informed roleblock. Probably on Hebee, possibly on kyndy, but I haven't ruled out Bastion or Raskolnikov. (I don't think they're scum, but I haven't committed myself to that stance.) I want to cross that bridge when we come to it though.

I also want to give away as little as possible of my reads, but that's where you come in handy: since *I* will be handling the night actions, what *you* say doesn't contribute that much. So, go nuts. Go crazy. Post what you will, anything except for something that is an exact mirror of my thoughts, and let the scum think that we're going some place we aren't.

[Killthestory]

ranger you just gave me my dream job

[Ranger]

Well.
I'm reporting Vedith for that, by the way.

This setup's already scumsided enough.
If he misread his result (I actually doubt this), that's one thing.
But then, knowing he's town, he immediately hammers as soon as he's at L-1, as if scum, and cuts the day short.

[Killthestory]

I'll keep us alive for tomorrow, but you're gonna have to do the heavy thinking.

[Ranger]

We're getting nightkilled; only way we survive is if we block the kill.

On that note:
kyndy101
Lycanfire
superbowl9
Hebee Inc
Raskolnikov
ironstove
Sir Bastion

These are the players to sort.
I don't think ironstove's slot is scum, nor do I think superbowl is scum.

That leaves:
{kyndy, Lycanfire, HeBee Inc, Raskolnikov, Sir Bastion}.

Two of those players are town; the others are scum.
Now, regardless of kyndy's alignment, kyndy will not perform the kill.
That leaves me a one in four chance. I've momentarily selected Raskolnikov.
Given the heavy suspicion on HeBee, and our callout on Lycanfire, I think both are less likely to make the kill, but it's not as strong as my belief about kyndy.

So, what I'm mostly thinking is: the person making the nightkill is going to either be Raskolnikov, or Sir Bastion...assuming they're even scum. Which I haven't figured out yet.

[Killthestory]

Maybe scum tries to push for our lynch tomorrow, so we aren't necessarily dying if they're ballsy enough.

[Ranger]

NJAC [7] superbowl9, SoraAdvent, Hebee Inc, light_ganski, Sir Bastion, kyndy101, HighHopes
Hebee Inc [3] Raskolnikov, Vedith, NJAC

If Hebee Inc is scum, then {Sir Bastion, kyndy} are their scumbuddies.
Regardless, this tells me there's gonna be at least 1-2 scum within {Hebee, Sir Bastion, kyndy}.

[Ranger]

For the moment, switched the block to Sir Bastion.
The way he was encouraging the 1v1 between Vedith and us looks suspiciously like scum who knows we're both town. He wanted us lynched, knowing we were probably telling the truth and could be a threat to him; he's also PR-hunted the whole game, picking up on light before anyone else and also on Vedith.

[Killthestory]

Bastion felt off, but I didn't say shit. Yeah, I'd like him dead.

Hebee is scum alongside him. Kyndy could be scum, but I found them towniest of the three.

[Ranger]

542 is really, really icky from Raskolnikov, and the whole "OMG Ranger is awesome!!!" comes across as forced as well, so it really is a question of whether to block Raskolnikov or Sir Bastion right now. I don't know if they're both scum or if it's only one of them as scum, but the only way for them to both be town is if the scumteam is {Hebee, kyndy, Lycanfire}.

So, the important question is:
If both are scum, which does the kill?
If only one of them is scum, which is it?