Here are the reasons why Cephrir is scum and why we are lynching him today:
1. He eggs on the suspicion of Xombie in
Post 1236 by encouraging my and FT's pushes there and way he questioned the Rach and Ooba townreads is geared toward instilling paranoia. He continues in
Post 1265 by quoting a random Xombie post with "this post blows" when the post in question wasn't all that bad and actually explained Xombie's entrance into the game.
2. The agreement with FT in
Post 1265 felt odd and as FT pointed out earlier, Ceph and FT had never been town together and the way he did it feels like trying to work himself into a townbloc because FT previously mentioned that he wanted Ceph to be town.
3. The mutual townreads from AP and Ceph based on Ceph commenting on the quality of AP's jokes in
Post 1265 and AP calling him town are super weak and the complete lack of paranoia doesn't feel genuine at all. This continues in
Post 1469 where he picks out perfectly null things from AP's posts and gives them unsubstantiated compliments ("This analysis is more than skin deep") and defending AP.
4. His scumread on Ankamius in
Post 1265 where he rails on him for not reading the game saying "
If only some brave hero could sweep in and vote this!
" and later comment on FT's Ank vote saying "
My knight in shining armor has arrived!
" all in the same post feels like a massive setup meant to manipulate FT as opposed to a genuine read. His actual read is ridiculously weak: Ank is scum for saying he'll read stuff but not actually reading. Which I think is equally likely to come from lazy town and lazy scum.
5. Ceph's townread on FT is unnatural to the extent that he goes to great lengths to shout down attacks on FT. Criticizing TiphaineDeath in
Post 1267 for "
buzzword scumhunting
" and defending FT doesn't match with Ceph claiming that he and FT see things so differently. If he did, he wouldn't have such a confidence in FT being town that he's willing to defend any and all attacks against FT. His push on Brantz in
Post 1345 when Brantz pushed against FT follows a similar vein as does his "
[your questions aren't unconnected], he is throwing shit
" to FT about TD.
6. His comment on Ffery's townread of Rach in
Post 1345 ("
You say this like you expect Rach to immediately back down and defer to you
") feels manipulative as hell as he's trying to psychologically goad Rach into disregarding Ffery's read and rebelling and does not at all match up with his evaluation of Ffery's abilties as having meta-prowess rising above all others. His "I
'm a person too. I have questions. You don't run FT
" in
Post 1403 to my asking FT about Ceph is in a similar vein of mischaracterizing interactions to divide the town.
7. The TiphaineDeath push overall has a very manipulative edge to it i.e. he wants FT to join him in leading a TD push. Examples include the quote in
Post 1345 where he quotes TD calling FT dumb, calls it belligerence, defends FT, and ends the post by voting TD.
8. Exaggerated reactions to PeregrineV in
Post 1459 ("
Who are you? What are you doing here? Where am I?
") is gimmicky and comical and sets up to potentially mislynch him when Ceph knows that PV lurks out the early days as town.
9. The fatalism in
Post 1719 feels premature as he hadn't made any effort yet to discuss my scumread on him with me nor had I actually posted a case yet which feels like he's manipulating how people perceive the incoming case. His complete lack of response or disagreement with my list of reads falls under a similar vein where he just discredits the entire wall as "words" even though it contains
absolutely nothing
about my read on him. Calling them "Serum and Steel flashbacks" makes no sense as I was scum there and he is all but certain I'm town here.
10.
Post 1230 - His "this post is too sweet..." feels like blatant sucking up to Nacho. He has before as scum sucked up to players in this way: compare to
this post. His
Post 1787 falls along the same line and his "
You're ffery. Your meta prowess rises above all other meta
" just feels gross and doesn't at all match up with his past experience playing with Ffery. The "
Ffery is doing a pretty solid job of talking me down for now
" feels more like appealing to Ffery to continue reconsidering her initial scumread on him.
11. Ceph's interaction with me also feels like mega-buddying at first when I said I wanted him to be town (his
Post 1230) but later on switches to discrediting my read after I've called him scum (giving AP a hug in
Post 1469 after AP tells me to shut up about Tales).
Literally everything that Ceph has done this game has been trying to twist the gamestate in his favor, appealing to town players he thinks he can manipulate, and there is nothing about his reads that feel as though it genuinely came from town. I expect votes to follow or reasons why not.
VOTE: Cephrir
