(i could make it look nicer but my head hurts pretty badly right now. also i used gb's icon for battle mage because SOMEONE doesn't have an icon here...)
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this isn't a surprising take but staarling feels tonally good, and even if i think part of it is due to being new and thus feeling like, ~innocent~ due to lack of experience, there's not really a sense that she's trying to push things one way or another to serve like, a mafia purpose. there's an effort to interact and sort people that feels natural, and i don't have any logical reason to suspect staarling right now.
the ONE caveat i have about having staar as town for the rest of the game is that there is part of me that worries that she's playing up this sort of... innocent persona? the only things that pinged me regarding this are
437 and
441 where like, in an upside-down world where staar is scum she's doing these little pushes but then backing off of them when pressured back and trying to appear like she is just Trying Her Best, Please She Is Naive And Innocent about it all. this is a conspiracy theory that i am almost positive will look really silly postgame but not mentioning it would feel wrong.
i am going to be very sad if datisi is scum. there's a nonzero chance, but i want to hope that my gut is right and that it's minute; a lot of his frustration, especially with iv, feels like it's real and i also think it's real in a towny way in the sense that he seems pissed off that he's being pushed for (what he perceives as) shitty reasons.
i don't think i actually have any experience playing with datisi so i'm a bit unsure if this is more like his town or scum game but like... his pushing doesn't seem unreasonable to me. the things that he wanted from iv seem Fine and i still don't understand how it became that much of a clusterfuck but like... dunno. feels like town for... now. hopefully forever!
not too much to judge this slot on seeing as it's a frankenstein of two people, but i thought that gb seemed... fine? for not having played with him before. (and i think ico asked me about the case made on gb and i did see it but i also just... disagreed with it as it were). battle mage has come in though and soothed me a bit regarding the slot, mostly. some little part of me worries if he's trying to placate ico with a townread to get him to back off but... nyeeh. maybe. not my first pick.
i am going to be real trying to read over this slot's many posts make my eyes glaze over a little bit. also i realized i actually have played with ico before and i think i accidentally hammered them. that game sucked! anyways. lot of posts, looking over them as closely as i can get my brain to do right now i'm leaning townier than when i made this chart off of what i remembered about this game. our reads seem at odds somewhat but i don't feel... like it's a bad thing, as in "oh this is scum and i should definitely be pushing this right now" it's more of like... meh... okay i guess we're disagreeing? i should probably like. poke at ico more for reads or s/t.
is not active terribly much, but uh. it looks like a decent amount of this slot revolves around shelly and that is... hard to parse because i don't know why, and clearly mini interacted with some other people but it feels like a lot of it ties back to shelly and i guess it could be some weird pocketing but it feels strange to look at. mini is decidedly in null-world, but like. i guess this could be a result of shelly being the most active at the start and mini having to post less lately. still strange, would vote it if it were the only choice but i'd be pissy about it.
seems to be a bit disconnected from this game currently but uh. null leaning slightly scum, very slight, not my first pick to vote either. still feels like town to me but after being pushed for a while and disappearing pretty heavily i have to go ???. like, is he trying to skate away from pressure now? saying that he'd offer us some content and then failing to deliver on it is not a great feeling. :/ but it feels like it's too... overtly lurky, if that makes sense. like please come back and post gypyx so i can feel towny energy from you.
this Feels Like A Shelly Scum Game. her energy, the way that she like... comes and goes on reads, pushes them and prods them, i definitely feel like some of this is bias but also it doesn't feel good either when i read over her posts. like, having an agenda isn't a bad thing, but the way that she goes about things so often feels opportunistic. dunno. i need to read a shelly towngame to see if this feeling lets up and i am just being a little insane but man.
i'm coming around a little bit to shelly town, uh, there are a few things that i can nod at but that push on datisi doesn't feel good faith. like, it's boiling it down to bare elements that feel like they're listed out to frame datisi as scummy, and i think some of this is influenced by my read on datisi too. the insistence on me being town is like, yeah it's accurate on the one hand lol (one day i'll put effort into playing as scu) but on the other there's something about it nagging at me, like shelly keeps pushing that I Am Town and i'm supposed to like... dunno. go along with it? because she can read me? this could be paranoia but uh. yeah.
645 652 and
655 pinged me and i think it might also be because i've come around to scumreading iv and like... this is a weird way to deflect off of iv and put more pressure on dats. i do like and dislike
661 honestly because it feels like an earnest evaluation of things but also just like... ugh. there are so many odd things from shelly this game that i can't figure out. trusting my gut is probably the right thing to do but it's also poisoned from all the games we have played together thus far.
uh, i'm looking at this wagon and i'm looking at my townreads and i'm just slowly nodding to myself because i've not seen iv like this. iv feels like... there's an element of irriation i've eluded to and i don't get why. it feels far too ramped up in those posts with datisi, and it feels so.... petty, i guess? like there are certain things iv gets caught up on that i don't get,
674 is one of them like... "but honestly still weird that you're pushing a one sentence catchup post where i say two townreads" this sort of weird shading does NOT sit right with me at all. it's these sort of lines/vibe that fills up iv's posts.
"and also, I have a hard time believing you think I, of all people in this game, am scum for "not wanting to go against anyone". Am i being lazy this game? yeah, i am, is that scum indicative for me, maybe. and I really should stop responding to your walls and iso some other players but like... idk we keep getting into discussions and i currently feel the least good about you anyway." equally in this same post is just. not good. at all. it's this sort of aloof "yeah i'm lazy yeah i shouldn't yeah yeah yeah" and i strongly dislike it. going through iv's iso i could find more evidence of this but like, it doesn't feel like a good use of time currently.
