Micro 1089: the coalition, again [game over]

[Infinity 324]

actually it's time to convince myself hellbooks is scum

the first reason is that I can really easily imagine her going muahaha post game after I misvote

maybe the plan was to bus skitt the whole time. it's still a bit hard to imagine skitt just going "yep that sounds great" especially when people are going to wonder why hellbooks is alive afterwards. but people didn't wonder that and maybe that wouldn't be too hard to predict

if I really stretch I could see the "idk who scum is but I know it's skitt!!" as informed

[Infinity 324]

sorry hellbooks if I'm ignoring all the other reads you did have

[hellbooks]

its funny and probably mostly accurate how you seem to have deduced that its easier to get me to talk about personal facts about myself than the game. i like indie pop. what comes to mind are japanese breakfast and 500 korean indie artists (i guess japanese breakfast is also korean but i meant to distinguish like artists who sing in korean i guess) (although i guess there was that voicemail from her mother in psychopomp title track) its hard to dsintingshish between pop and rock a lot of the time

my avatar f=comes from a show that ive been liking a lot where retired and pro athletes from other sports come together to form an amateur soccer team. this is a shot of two of them getting a little cuddly with each other in a romantic paired picture. i guess they're also kind of alluding to their height difference as well.

[hellbooks]

fire as your lawyer i advise you to remain silent for the time being because if you start making a point infinity might be like "ok well you saying that as soon as i start to consider hellbooks scum is literally so opportunistic"

[Infinity 324]

hm I wonder how I could have deduced that

unfortunately I'm not very good at talking about out of game stuff

i like be sweet by Japanese breakfast. I've been listening to chappell roan and Annie dirusso and stuff like that lately

[Infinity 324]

fire as your lawyer i advise you to remain silent for the time being because if you start making a point infinity might be like "ok well you saying that as soon as i start to consider hellbooks scum is literally so opportunistic"

>_> is that what I sound like

[hellbooks]

be sweet to me baabyy

[hellbooks]

>_> is that what I sound like

no im just trying to turn the two of you against each other, muahaha and all

[Infinity 324]

hellbooks are you good at scum

[fireisredsir]

good morning im here to ignore the counsel of my lawyer

[hellbooks]

i wonder if me saying "maybe fire is town here" after fire expressed a bunch of uncertainty about me is motivating infinity to do the same
i guess thats a cause and effect that doesnt actually exist so i dont think infinity would actually consciously think that
well it would only be rational for town to want to earnestly consider both people and maybe infinity was procrastinating on that a little bit but was always going to get around to it (read: "it's time to convince myself...")

[fireisredsir]

im pretty sure hellbooks in her current self hasn't ever had to play scum

[Infinity 324]

yeah it's the last thing you said

maybe another reason is that skitt is really good at scum and would know to leave false associatives cause she knew she would get limmed early on.

idk I feel like that happened mostly a result of really good shea play and was difficult to predict

ohh maybe part of the reason skitt was wringing her hands is because she wanted to find a 5th coal member she could push a mislim on? wouldn't she just push for someone in particular though? ugh

[Infinity 324]

im pretty sure hellbooks in her current self hasn't ever had to play scum

ahaha that is beautiful

[fireisredsir]

maybe the plan was to bus skitt the whole time. it's still a bit hard to imagine skitt just going "yep that sounds great" especially when people are going to wonder why hellbooks is alive afterwards. but people didn't wonder that and maybe that wouldn't be too hard to predict

if I really stretch I could see the "idk who scum is but I know it's skitt!!" as informed

i don't think hellbooks even if town would take much offense to me saying that her read and laser (occam's laser was so good thats a top 3 one liner in this game) on skitter had very little influence on anyone else's read and on the gamestate as a whole

nothing about it seems very unbelievable as a bus because she didn't actually do anything to try to get a coalition without skitter in it and she didn't really try to get skitter eliminated either

so i think of all the reasons to potentially discount hellbooks as scum (which i think there are several) this one barely even makes an impact for me

[Infinity 324]

I guess I just feel like skitt would have more of a plan than...well letting hellbooks bus her and coast on the cred

[fireisredsir]

i would be willing to bet that wasn't the plan but like what are you gonna do

[hellbooks]

hellbooks are you good at scum

um..... probably mediumly good. yea. i dont think people would pass me by on the street and go "oh thats a good scum player right there" but that could just be from me not playing enough games

im bad at scumhunting but good at being likable which definitely means id be more useful to a scumteam than a townteam (probably even as town, see my last two town losses). but also probably not that good at dodging the lim. or maybe i am good at it idk

i guess if youre asking about my scumrange, i would consider myself to have the emotional fortitude to be able to make any one of the messed up and silly posts ive made this game as scum (which i think you are doing) although i guess i probably have some random limitations

my most recent scum game would be about a year and a half ago which was infernal affairs by spooky the magical scare where everyone kind of complimented me and ruffled my hair and told me how good i was afterwards. i maintain that that one was kind of a lot of mechanics luck and willingness to do stupid things that let me stumble into the win. also i was traitor which is like a fake mafia. i think i played that one a little straighter and seriouser (didnt rly have a lot of friends in that one so i was like Normal-Presenting)

[fireisredsir]

i guess this isn't so useful to you but fmpov ive basically ruled out all possible worlds where skitter had a grand plan besides "leave a bunch of false associatives and hope town yeets town" bc either it's hellbooks or it was bulge/brass

so like idk i know she didn't. and i know she didn't have a lot of time for the game

[Infinity 324]

i walk up to site admin "um.... sorry.... can i have access to maflesbian for a second.... sorry... i just want to check if the colors for a post im gonna make are readable on it"
the mods turn to look towards the wings where the mafiascum lesbian advisory group is whispering amongst themselves, a few of them cast disgusted glances in my direction. overwhelmed by this frosty reception i turn tail and flee without even waiting for a verdict, ears drooping in dejection

<3

[hellbooks]

kudos to infinity for reminding me of a thought session where i was thinking about firetown and scumbrass, i respect the hustle

[fireisredsir]

i missed the traitor one due to no scum pt i guess ill read that, although traitor play is kinda different

[hellbooks]

POOKY you are running out of cliips FAST!!! save your vote counts dear, you only have 6 left!!!!!

me doing a classic job of engaging the moderator on their vote count flavor

[fireisredsir]

should we just elim brassherald now so we don't all get snowed by poppy

oops

[hellbooks]

scumping