open 914: the coalition

[Black]

the deadline will be at least 72 hours after the last replacement fills

Oh thank you

[implosion]

i find i am remarkably bad at actively caring about games that have things like multiple slots absent

HURT: All in the meantime

[schadd_]

Spoiler:

View of the

lararium

from the portico in the "House of the Prince of Naples", Pompeii.

Photo:

Luigi Spina

vote count 1.7 !

coalition votes:

ceejayvinoya:

ceejayvinoya, implosion, Umlaut, Black, Moros

Tsawwassen:

Black, Moros, Tsawwassen, implosion, ceejayvinoya

Moros:

Tsawwassen, implosion, Black, Moros, Aventurine

Umlaut:

Umlaut, Tsawwassen, implosion, Black, Moros

May:

Black, May, Moros, implosion, Tsawwassen

tired person:

Tsawwassen, Aventurine, Black, May, tired person

Black:

implosion, Black, Moros, Aventurine, Umlaut

Aventurine:

Aventurine, Black, implosion, Moros

implosion:

(none proposed)

execution votes:

(these have no effect until after the coalition phase is over, but i'll keep track of them)

not voting (9):

tired person, Black, Aventurine, ceejayvinoya, Moros, May, Tsawwassen, implosion, Umlaut

with 9 alive, it takes 5 of the same vote to propose a coalition. the coalition phase deadline is currently paused

moderateur notes

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[schadd_]

prodding tired person & aventurine

[schadd_]

the worst replaces ceejayvinoya

[the worst]

hey y'all how're we doing?

[schadd_]

experience replaces umlaut

[Moros]

hey y'all how're we doing?

tenderly light the lips, and the shadow's golden
near the sunken eyes. here the night has sparked
this brilliant likeness — and from the dark night
only just one thing — the eyes — are growing dark.

[schadd_]

the coalition phase deadline will now be in (expired on 2024-05-10 01:59:34)

[implosion]

hey y'all how're we doing?

scum post

[experience]

hi implo and ducky!

[experience]

and everyone else!

[experience]

HURT: all

[implosion]

hello; i want your slot to be town because it would make me feel smarter, so please do that. thanks.

[tired person]

ftr i slightly scumread implosion and umlaut and undecided about moros. i will make my cases later today.

I will note that I think me + Umlaut is like, a *wildly* unviable scum pairing in this game, if that is the implication (which it doesn't have to be). I think I would basically never play this setup in the manner of be scum -> get somewhat townread -> call my scumbuddy super duper hard town out of nowhere and advocate a coalition core including both of us. Having exactly 1 scum on coalition is ideal for scum and in one of my recent coalition games I sort of went out of my way to not have to advocate for including both of us.

oh i definitely don't think you are the scum team, i just think either of you independently have a slightly higher chance to be scum than the others.

also, sorry for disappearing. something unexpected came up in real life, but i should be able to post as normal again.

[tired person]

Reading back on tired person's ISO, it wasn't as scummy as I originally thought, so I might've given him less credit than he deserves.

But his approach felt a little blunt to me for someone who replaced in - I expected to see a "settling in" period from him, but that element was missing. So I felt like he was coming in with a more informed view on the gamestate than anticipated.

I'm not ready to call that slot town though for the fuzzy logic of townreading Black because she wants to be townread and townreading May for the opposite.

if it helps. the reason i had this approach is that i always read games i replace into before replacing in.

[tired person]

regarding the logic with may and black, it's all context dependant and personality dependant. the way that black wanted to be townread felt towny, while the way may didn't care about being townread also felt towny. bc they have different personalities and contexts.

[tired person]

Mostly by tone. I get a sense of clarity reading his posts; the opposite of what I normally associate with scum posting with no substance.

I also it's pretty hard to fake this tone as scum and would be surprised if he is capable of it

you might have a point. i usually try to avoid reading people by tone, because i am pretty bad at it. would you consider yourself good at reading people by tone? how confident are you in that read?

[tired person]

hey y'all how're we doing?

scum post

why?

[tired person]

tas there's something which doesn't really add up for me. in posts 414 and 420 you seemed to be happy with a coalition that included umlaut, implosion, black, moros and aventurine. you also townread want to include yourself and ceejay. does that mean you think the scum team is exactly myself and may?

however i still townread tas because the pivot to include ceejay over umlaut doesn't feel scum motivated and doesn't really make sense for scum to do.

[Tsawwassen]

the worst replaces ceejayvinoya

experience replaces umlaut

This is the worst experience ever.

[Tsawwassen]

regarding the logic with may and black, it's all context dependant and personality dependant. the way that black wanted to be townread felt towny, while the way may didn't care about being townread also felt towny. bc they have different personalities and contexts.

You are much more than what you seem. I think I need to evaluate you differently

[Tsawwassen]

tas there's something which doesn't really add up for me. in posts 414 and 420 you seemed to be happy with a coalition that included umlaut, implosion, black, moros and aventurine. you also townread want to include yourself and ceejay. does that mean you think the scum team is exactly myself and may?

What doesn't add up?

[tired person]

ftr i slightly scumread implosion and umlaut and undecided about moros. i will make my cases later today.

as to this, perhaps cases is too generous a description. i will simply give my thoughts:

moros i would say has a towny tone, but as i try to avoid relying on tone it becomes null. i really don't feel anything it has said gave me much of an impression of what its alignment might be, as weird as it may sound.
implosion i also felt was very towny in real time reading his posts, but in reading his iso i feel a lot of his antics are sort of geared toward making a preformance of having a towny mindset rather than actually coming from a towny mindset. i cannot put a finger on it but the post that alerted me to it was 327. another thing that i take issue with is the fact that he seems completely content with his reads in a way that town often aren't. i'd expect him to show at least some degree of paranoia toward his townreads or curiosity toward the alignment of his nullreads, which i'm just not seeing.
umlaut i forgot why i was even scumreading. he also feels very null to me on review of his iso.

[tired person]

tas there's something which doesn't really add up for me. in posts 414 and 420 you seemed to be happy with a coalition that included umlaut, implosion, black, moros and aventurine. you also townread want to include yourself and ceejay. does that mean you think the scum team is exactly myself and may?

What doesn't add up?

well aside from knowing that i'm town, do you feel me and may make sense as a scum team?