SIR Disease Mafia - Game Over!

[Hoctac]

Hi, I just arrived and noticed there's a lot of tension in the room! It must be due to the new virus going around that has us all worried. Understandable.

I think we should sit back, relax, and no lynch today. Let's all talk about our favourite plagues and bond over discussing previous historical pandemics, shall we? The Black Death was incredible, I wish I could've been there to witness it. It's stuff like this which make me wish I was born ~700 years ago.

VOTE: No Lynch

[Hoctac]

The Fire Alchemist was a lot cooler than this new guy you have, Alchemist. My townread is slipping.

[Hoctac]

I really dont get the fascination most people on this website have with anime and anime avatars

Like, so many people

What anime is your avatar from? It looks like it could be a good watch.

[Hoctac]

I really dont get the fascination most people on this website have with anime and anime avatars

Like, so many people

What anime is your avatar from? It looks like it could be a good watch.

I would be more intrigued to find out from what is *your* avatar from.

Wait, what, you're actually a player in this game??? I wasn't trying to vote you. I am a pacifist.

UNVOTE: No lynch

[Hoctac]

SOMEONE give me an avatar. I crave for the colours.

[Hoctac]

I know there's been some rumours going around but I DO NOT have the plague. In fact, I could help cure it using machines with many wires and cords. Also, I recently upgraded my system from floppy discs to SSDs, so I'm in good shape to house many patients.

[Hoctac]

I have a mechanical innocent on Miss Lynch. She's locktown; trust me on this.

[Hoctac]

I'm quick on the draw. I'm not a gunsmith though - just in case there was any confusion.

[Hoctac]

VOTE: No lynch

His name and avatar stir a wave of anger deep within me to boiling.

VOTE: No lynch

I can follow my IC under the pretense of this being a vote for pacifism. This is good.

[Hoctac]

Wait.

I'm probably ok w/ vote Hoctac TBH.

VOTE: No łynch

Fixing my votes.

BETRAYAL

[Hoctac]

Wait.

I'm probably ok w/ vote Hoctac TBH.

VOTE: No łynch

Fixing my votes.

BETRAYAL

You've tried twice already to vote for no one and I'm not ok with that.

for the extent of the game that you agree to not lynch no one, i will not vote you(barring lylo)

deal?

VOTE: No łynch

Deal. All you had to do was ask, really.

[Hoctac]

I have an early townbloc of [Miss Lynch, No Lynch].

[Hoctac]

how do you do it Hoctac?

Do what, Elements?

[Hoctac]

get people to either not vote you or town read you for random reasons

They can feel my townie soul emanating through my words. I'm sure that's it.

[Hoctac]

I have an early townbloc of [Miss Lynch, No Lynch].

This is the template for a good vanilla townie's town block. You never want to mislynch or no lynch as town.

This is

exactly

what I meant. Good job on mind-melding with me there, IC.

[Hoctac]

reserved - for later

(This is your Undercover Cop, reporting in)

[Hoctac]

I'm not an alt. I am Hoctac.

[Hoctac]

What was your Moment of Brilliance, Saudade?

[Hoctac]

I don't buy it. Down to policy lynch all liars.

VOTE: Saudade

I am a pacifist though, and will remove my vote before the hammer.

[Hoctac]

Probably around 85%? Give or take 85%.

[Hoctac]

Could we just have bricks instead of walls actually?

[Hoctac]

I take pride in each and every one.

[Hoctac]

It's scum vs town vs ~a secret faction that will be revealed later~

[Hoctac]

VOTE: Vecna

Fine, I never liked people with anime avatars anyway. It's manipulative.

[Hoctac]

Just follow my lead, Mastina. It'll be mostly be jokes and japes until I turn on serious mode and power solve the game in 5 posts. I'm saving that for Day 7 though.

[Hoctac]

VOTE: EspeciallyTheLies

She's kind of like a person trying to skydive from the roof of a two-storey Pizza Hut Restuarant. It's technically possible, but it's probably scum-motivated since she's trespassing - due to Pizza Hut being closed during quarantine.

[Hoctac]

This type of trying hard is the good type of trying hard though

Eh.

Tho speaking of tryharding, how's a page two readslist sound to ya?

Nero Cain

Miss Lynch

Auro

Vecna
Tchill13
momo
5G Tower
Hoctac
Jake the Wolfie
Odelschwanck
Allan90
No łynch
Saudade

davesaz
Alchemist21
Elements
Flavor Leaf
50 Judge Powers


farside22

EspeciallyTheLies

Approximately. (As per 49.)

I'm

NULL

?!

[Hoctac]

That's more like it. Please continue.

[Hoctac]

It's why I'm as good as they say I am. I take every game 100% seriously, no matter what type it is. You need to do that if you want to maintain a 80% winrate.

[Hoctac]

Note to self, Hoctac is extremely not self aware.

What you trying to say, Flovor Lof?

[Hoctac]

Note to self, Hoctac is extremely not self aware.

What you trying to say, Flovor Lof?

Pretty sure i said exactly what i meant to say. I’m not very subtle

What brought you to that conclusion though? You don't want to get in a 1v1 with me; no one has ever survived on the other side.

[Hoctac]

Hasn't Hoctac been obvtown so far?

[Hoctac]

Nero Cain is either town or scum here. I'm leaning towards it being one or the other.

[Hoctac]

You're surely the same person as No łynch.

I trust 5G Tower with my life. Only until 6G is a thing though.

[Hoctac]

I'm down to policy lynch if we really have to. I hate these players that sit around doing nothing but shitpost. It REALLY gets on my nerves sometimes.

In fact, let's actually do this: VOTE: Tchill

[Hoctac]

ETL is pretty scummy with some of her takes, like the over the top one on Quick just now. Happy to lynch her whenever.

Tchill has momentum though and I've always wanted to sit on the front row of a bus before, so I'm staying on board just in case we get more passengers.

[Hoctac]

I trust Saudade, 5G, Jake, and Enter with my life. If you have a cop guilty on one of these, mostly likely they're a Miller and you shouldn't out. Saudade is probably the Miller.

[Hoctac]

We could policy lynch ETL for being too angry. It doesn't feel like she's having fun so we could help her with that.

[Hoctac]

Look, I can explain alright. Someone PMed me; I had no choice.

[Hoctac]

hoctac will more than likely never make a contribution that impacts the game.

Wrong. My solving power is actually unparalleled on this site. As I mentioned before, I like to take it easy at the start of the game.

Day 1, I have no information or flips to work with, so I'll be in cruise control, observing in the background.

Day 2, it's still pretty early and 99% of players will claim to have "reads" and "feelings" when in reality they might as well consult a random number generator for their reads which would probably be just as if not more accurate.

Day 3, there's been a few flips by now. I could maybe make one weak read, MAX two. We're getting somewhere.

Day 4, I might be able to make my first scumread. This depends on whether I'm a cop with a guilty though. If not, I'll probably have a townread at this point.

.
.
.

Day 7, now THIS is where the fun begins. At this point the game will be cracked wide open for me with all the info. While most players will be scrambling to find some dumb solves that they think hold any ground, I'll hard ANALYSE and BREAK OPEN the thread, and come up with a scumsolve in a matter of days. I'm not kidding, this WILL happen if I'm alive on Day 7. I have a proven track record, and scum would be idiots to leave me alive until then.

[Hoctac]

...can someone give me a new avatar? This one spooks me.

[Hoctac]

...can someone give me a new avatar? This one spooks me.

PLEASE

I'll even give some serious reads if you help me out

[Hoctac]

Okay, I feel a lot better. No thanks to any of you though. I thought I had some kind of bond with some of the players here... but apparently not.

[Hoctac]

VOTE: EspeciallyTheLies

I wasn't kidding, Tchill; I don't know what Auro is on about. I will solve this game given enough information, and that is a fact.

[Hoctac]

Serious read®:

I actually think ETL is scum. A lot of her takes are forced and over the top, and she expresses unnatural overconfidence at times.

That will be my

1

Serious Read™ for this day phase. Sheep it to victory if you're sensible; I've never been wrong about a Day 1 Serious Read© before.

[Hoctac]

Sorry, I am all out of Serious Reads™ for today. I would like to consult my associate,

Mastina

, to cite some examples for me (436, 964 to get you started).

[Hoctac]

I townread the current gamestate.

[Hoctac]

TOWN

Auro

Quick
Vecna
Dave
Miss Lynch
Nero
Alchemist
Farside

NULL
Creature
Jake
50
Elements
Flavor leaf

PL
5G
Voted
Saudade

SCUM
Mastina
Hoctac?
Ari?
Tchill

1. Creature - ??? BIT SUS

2. Auro - ????

3. Hoctac - SUS

4. 5G Tower - PL
5. Jake the Wolfie - PL
6. Aristophanes - ???
7. Quick - TOWN
8. Vecna - TOWN
9. Voted - ????
10. Alchemist21 - ????
11. Elements - ???
12. Flavor Leaf - ????
13. farside22 - LOOKS TOWN
14. davesaz - LOOKS TOWN
15. EspeciallyTheLies - OBVTOWN

16. 50 Judge Powers - SUS

17. mastina - SUS

18. Miss Lynch - TOWN
19. Nero Cain - TOWN?
20. Tchill13 - TOWN
21. Saudade - ????

bye.

Scumreads in second post are one big OMGUS. Also, note how Auro went from top townread to ??? with no explanation.

We've hit the motherlode

[Hoctac]

what about Dragon's day

[Hoctac]

I love the fact im practically dead middle on mastina's read list. The middle is where you want to be.

Vecna
Miss lynch
ETL

Auro
dave
farside
mastina

creature
Suadade

if youre not listed i dont feel youve made enough impact / i need to sort you.

Don't you dare put me as null

I'll rolecop you

[Hoctac]

ok.

so listen up. when i flip town, please look at the people who pushed me with poor cases and made up bullshit. LEARN FROM THIS.

VOTE: ETL

sheesh thats early for a self defeatist attitude.

It’s not defeatist. It’s helpful for town to see me flip. There are enough people talking about me that lynching me will yield high info. I’m not getting anything done being active so I can be useful dead.

No offense, but I don't think you're the type of player who would be happy to die "for the good of the town" and to "help further town's wincon". You seem to fit a different archetype that's I'm not going to describe.

The scumread

strengthens

.

[Hoctac]

ok.

so listen up. when i flip town, please look at the people who pushed me with poor cases and made up bullshit. LEARN FROM THIS.

VOTE: ETL

VOTE: Nero

More Scummy than ETL I would say.

no. Stop this. Get your vote back on me gdi. We are going to get at least ONE THING accomplished today.

Votecount 1.38

EspeciallyTheLies(4)

~ mastina(65), Hoctac(51), EspeciallyTheLies(250), Nero Cain(148)

Vecna(2)

~ Alchemist21(32), Voted(45)

50 Judge Powers(2)

~ Vecna(138), Auro(160)

Quick(1)

~ 50 Judge Powers(44)

mastina(1)

~ davesaz(72)

Hoctac(1)

~ Elements(23)

Flavor Leaf(1)

~ Saudade(71)

Creature(1)

~ Tchill13(88)

Alchemist21(1)

~ farside22(64)

5G Tower(1)

~ Quick(307)


Not Voting (6): Creature(31), 5G Tower(13), Jake the Wolfie(6), Aristophanes(11), Flavor Leaf(24), Miss Lynch(78)

With 21 alive it takes 11 to lynch.

MissLynch, now is your opportunity.

I need 7 more votes to make this happen. Quick, put your vote back please. Stop being hardheaded. This is the highest reward option. With 50, that makes 7 votes, only 3 left. Come on people. If you are actually interested in moving this town forward with real info, this is the best way.

If you are town then sacrificing yourself seems kinda dumb, no? Chance this is just

ate

so ppl town read u for it.

omg no. It’s not dumb at all. How are you not getting this? How would lynching anyone else be more beneficial?? My value as VT is in my death.

Plenty of people willing to say I’m terrible and I must be scum and not willing to actually lynch me wtf

This is why I'll never stop scumreading this slot. Simultaneously thinking there's too many "lurksack" and "policy lynch" slots while also pushing a lynch onto yourself (who you know is town) is a perspective I will never understand coming from town.

Death Star. Engage.

[Hoctac]

I love you too!

[Hoctac]

TBF, I think mastina pretty regularly overrates herself.

TBF everyone here does. Mastina has more reason to than most.

Not me. I'm as good as I say I am. Never been wrong about a Serious Read before.

[Hoctac]

How dare you. I've never rolled scum before but I'd probably find it really easy.

The only difference from being town is that you're told who scum is (everyone who's town), and you just have to scumhunt any of them. It must be liberating to have your wincon laid out so clearly for you like that actually.

[Hoctac]

I have a strong nullread on Alchemist.

[Hoctac]

Although, if he switched his avatar back to Roy Mustang, I'd probably locktown him.

[Hoctac]

Everyone who votes ETL will get their very own personal fruit from me during the night.

[Hoctac]

As a token of gratitude to any friends willing to help lynch a scom.

[Hoctac]

Fine, I can take away your fruit privileges if you really insist, Quick.

[Hoctac]

hoctac, I have a very important question for you. Depending on your answer I may vote you.


What type of fruit will I get tonight?

A mango.

[Hoctac]

I fuck off for a couple of days to mess with some respiratory systems and I feel like I missed a lot...did I?

hey, can we lynch this if it looks like Town's chances at a win are pretty good?

No, I have mechanical reasons to think 5G is town.

[Hoctac]

yeah pinky promise

you can lynch me if i'm lying

[Hoctac]

I have a read on Quick. I won't out what it is however unless I hit L-7.

[Hoctac]

Classic Quick.

[Hoctac]

3 more votes and I'll out my read.

[Hoctac]

Oh, good call, Almo.

I hard scumread Jake, 5G, Saudade, and Miss Lynch. Would quicklynch them in a heartbeat, but only tomorrow.

[Hoctac]

Maybe I should actually read about what these infect mechanics are people keep mentioning

[Hoctac]

Oh, mafia are cultists lol

If I'm not recruited tomorrow, I'm lynching all my scumreads. That's your first and final warning, scum. And remember: I've never been wrong about a scumread before.

[Hoctac]

I rate Voted's joke. He's been added to the townbloc.

[Hoctac]

Why are we still on Day 1? More votes on ETL please. We could be on Day 3 by now with optimal lynches.

[Hoctac]

ETL flipping town would tell me nothing, because I agree with everyone scumreading her, and I am tOwN.

[Hoctac]

I just reread my role PM and realised I'm town???

I've been playing based on the assumption I was scum all this time£"%Tpijgk

[Hoctac]

reserved - table for 2

[Hoctac]

Does someone have a trustworthy read on Vecna?

He's obsessed with anime, as evidenced by his avatar.

[Hoctac]

reserved - one copy of Return of The King

[Hoctac]

place down a vote

i dare you

[Hoctac]

@Flavor Leaf

; is this your scum game?

[Hoctac]

There we go, we'll know soon enough.

[Hoctac]

I didn't realise there was a space sheep anime

[Hoctac]

%_%

why would you do this to me, keep your weird anime obsessions to yourself pls, Vecna

[Hoctac]

What does QFT mean?

[Hoctac]

Should probably vote ETL so we can end the day then.

[Hoctac]

Should probably vote ETL so we can end the day then.

QFT

[Hoctac]

Up for lynching Ari?

[Hoctac]

Thanks! I feel so loved and appreciated.

[Hoctac]

reserved - Chinese takeaway

[Hoctac]

reserved - 3 tickets for The Room

[Hoctac]

A DECLARATION OF WAR

VOTE: Aristophanes

I have found a member of the C̷̡̯̯͉̪̜̭̦̮h̲̤̞͉̲̹̭̞o͘҉͔̳̮̣̻̥r̗̱̖͞à̧̖̹̼̫͖̞̰̥̤͞z͎͇̠̖͈̩͜ͅo҉̥͇̺̬̪̬̹s̙̫͙̥̱̣̜͎͘͞͡ ͏̤̭͉̠̜͇̫̭͜C̡̳͞͞u̥̜̲͖l̶̰̫̥̩̹t͕̘͙̪̯̪͚ͅ.

=_=

He will

PERISH

.

[Hoctac]

A DECLARATION OF WAR

VOTE: Aristophanes

I have found a member of the C̷̡̯̯͉̪̜̭̦̮h̲̤̞͉̲̹̭̞o͘҉͔̳̮̣̻̥r̗̱̖͞à̧̖̹̼̫͖̞̰̥̤͞z͎͇̠̖͈̩͜ͅo҉̥͇̺̬̪̬̹s̙̫͙̥̱̣̜͎͘͞͡ ͏̤̭͉̠̜͇̫̭͜C̡̳͞͞u̥̜̲͖l̶̰̫̥̩̹t͕̘͙̪̯̪͚ͅ.

=_=

He will

PERISH

.

QFT

[Hoctac]

Psst 5G, did you get that telegram I sent you?

[Hoctac]

Wanna hear something silly?

Go on

[Hoctac]

Ari's playing to his scum meta and he tried to buddy like 5 people in his 7 posts.

[Hoctac]

Players Aristophanes successfully pocketed: [No lynch, Miss Lynch, 5G, Quick, farside]

Tbf, he is a very friendly/lovable guy.

[Hoctac]

Never, but I just metaed him because I don't mind putting in hard work for my mafia wins.

[Hoctac]

then why are people voting ari?

Those 5 aren't.

[Hoctac]

No Lynch and Miss Lynch are players!?!? Lmfao

Also kudos to 5g towers! That shit's funny

This should be...interesting!

IRL I'm working not quarantining, fyi, so if my activity seems low that's a heads upa s to why

Have I missed anything good?

Elements has blatantly lied to me twice since I have been here.

In less than a page???
That was Quick!

Srsly tho not cool!

OMG FARSIDE!!!

It's been so long! How are you!? =D

OMG FARSIDE!!!

It's been so long! How are you!? =D

Hi ari!
Its nice to see you. Please tell me your town and sane.

Absolutely! Well, is Sanity is question? That's interesting. Or like IRL? Because literally nothing has changed for me really lol

I hope you are doing well <3

[Hoctac]

Is here an obvtown whos reads I can sheep during the first few day of this game?

Me!

You should vote Aristophanes.

[Hoctac]

Aristophanes is clearly scum. We get a good wagon going on scum and out come these dumb counterwagons on Voted and Quick. With really bad logic too.
Voted voted for the first person who asked him to sheep them.
Quick has been doing this all game, why suddenly notice and vote it now?

I'm telling you why, because Ari is scum and he needs to be saved.

I've never seen more obvious resistance in my life. Vote Aristophanes please.

[Hoctac]

Okay, Aristophanes is clearly town.

VOTE: EspeciallyTheLies

[Hoctac]

Okay, Aristophanes is clearly town.

VOTE: EspeciallyTheLies

you've been town locked hoctac

what do you want as a reward

I would like one ascii art animal please

[Hoctac]

oh no it's hideous let me try again

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You were already locktown, Miss Lynch; you're just showing off now

[Hoctac]

ETL feels like newbscum

[Hoctac]

Oh wait, let me try this

[Hoctac]

Auro is obvtown

[Hoctac]

Why is no one at L-1 yet?

Everyone on the ETL wagon is conftown.

[Hoctac]

VOTE: Tchill

[Hoctac]

Dave is scum?

[Hoctac]

Tchill's read on ETL might've been TMI, he seemed a little too confident throughout yesterday. Also, he seems a little too

chill

, and happy to watch from the background. I've played with scum!him before btw, so has Elements, we should be experts.

[Hoctac]

Dave is scum?

Well what’s your read on Dave?

Can't remember.

[Hoctac]

Why is no one at L-1 yet?

Everyone on the ETL wagon is conftown.

How even do you figure!? XD

I have a wagon-cop-check. The ETL wagon returned and innocent.

[Hoctac]

*an innocent

[Hoctac]

You should change your avatar if you're turning over a new leaf, TSE.

[Hoctac]

Hmm, I checked back through your ISO and you did at least try to push Quick as an alternative. I think Quick is loltown though.

[Hoctac]

What's scummy about my read on you, Tchill?

[Hoctac]

The way you talked about her with such certainty she was town alarms me, that's the case. Although, it might be your overconfidence in your own ability that gives you that kind of tone.

[Hoctac]

lul you're right

[Hoctac]

VOTE: Flavor Leaf

[Hoctac]

Early scumreads on Auro

Nice scumclaim, buddy

Nice buddy, scumclaim

[Hoctac]

*skip to page 114

[Hoctac]

reserved - later this month

[Hoctac]

I'm pretty sure Tchill was gloating at ETL flipping town rather than scum, give he'd been calling it for the entire day phase. How is that a scumslip?

[Hoctac]

TSE is scum unless he changes his avatar.

VOTE: TSE

[Hoctac]

Can I really trust you though, Oogle Boogle? I'll claim infected if you really promise you can cure me.

TSE feels scummy. Why are you softing so much, TSE?

[Hoctac]

Okay fine, I'm infected. CUre me tonight pls

[Hoctac]

Can I really trust you though, Oogle Boogle? I'll claim infected if you really promise you can cure me.

TSE feels scummy. Why are you softing so much, TSE?

So to clarify.
It’s my soft that makes me feel scummy to you correct?
If not, please elaborate.

Your questioning + the softing

Why are you softing?

[Hoctac]

u think ur so funny hectic

Was this addressed at me?

[Hoctac]

Thanks! I already knew you were VT because I rolecopped you last night btw

[Hoctac]

uh oh

[Hoctac]

Mastina might be scum for thinking Ari is scum.

[Hoctac]

Actually, her shameless self-meta was towny.

I'm gonna be mad if most of the scum are in the lurker/memeslots which I refuse to vote.

[Hoctac]

Pretty sure TSE is just a ETL alt anyway

[Hoctac]

Jake the Wolfie - Kill it
5G - Kill it

Saudade - I am a murderer at this point.

This is my townbloc though :O

[Hoctac]

TSE, got any reads yet? And don't you dare get the WHEEL in

[Hoctac]

Good night!

[Hoctac]

I'm pretty sure someone mentioned they could heal infected earlier?

[Hoctac]

I'm pretty sure someone mentioned they could heal infected earlier?

If you are infected, how does getting cured help you defeat town?

Since if you're cured, your alignment becomes town again. And town are obviously going to win this game because they have the likes of me, Jake the Wolfie, 5G, and Saudade on their side.

[Hoctac]

Jake's either trolling or he worded the question differently in a way which the mod couldn't answer.

[Hoctac]

I'm pretty sure someone mentioned they could heal infected earlier?

If you are infected, how does getting cured help you defeat town?

Since if you're cured, your alignment becomes town again. And town are obviously going to win this game because they have the likes of me, Jake the Wolfie, 5G, and Saudade on their side.

Changing your alignment to the winning faction doesn't help your faction win.

It's more of a morale boost.

[Hoctac]

D :

why me?

[Hoctac]

VOTE: Alchemist

[Hoctac]

I'd feel bad lynching Saudade because he's in the townbloc but tbh he might be scum

[Hoctac]

VOTE: Saudade

Fine. If Saudade is scum, my townreads on 5G and Jake will strengthen tenfold.

[Hoctac]

Quick, lynch Saudade before skitter can replace in and save his slot!

I agree with the assessment on Creature.

[Hoctac]

Loving the wall posts btw. Keep them coming and I might even make a couple.

[Hoctac]

In fact, here's a teaser:

[Hoctac]

This is why you're in the townbloc, Voted.

[Hoctac]

Meat is one of the best ways to survive in

SCUM

. In order to cook it and eat it, you need to kill it first. Our

SCUM Hunting Guide

will be looking at the easiest way that you can catch some prey and prevent yourself from starving to death.

Our

SCUM Hunting Guide

is your go-to guide on how to find and kill the plethora of animals that are found in the game so that you are able to consume them.

SCUM Hunting

You need to be as effective as you possibly can be since the game gives you a very low amount of ammo and you need to be able to conserve it so that you are able to fend off human players.

This is done by ensuring that you are as close to the animal as you can be before you fire off your first shot. This will give you the absolute maximum chance of success and will save your ammo at the same time.

Track Animals

It is important that you know how integral tracking is to SCUM. Tracking can be used to both save your life as well as chase and hunt down animals. Learn to notice the footprints that different animals leave.

Eventually, you will have an awareness skill good enough to easily spot them from a far and then chase down the animal.

Remember that animals also make a lot of noise when they are moving so keep your headphones on when playing the game and listen intently to the sounds that your prey makes.

Lastly, you can try to follow a blood trail that certain animals will leave behind. The good thing about blood trails is that they are easy to track and have a very high rate of success in finding an animal if the player is skilled enough.

Before we move on, remember that you can go into your ‘Focus Mode’ to have increased fidelity of sound and video in the game. This will allow you to listen for animals much more easily.

How to Hunt Animals

Although you may be able to kill some enemies using just a knife, it is best to find a rifle for long range and a shotgun for close range. Sneak up to the enemy and make sure that you do not make a lot of noise.

Animals usually have a threshold after which they are able to pick up sounds made by you. They also have a line of sight which is very easy to avoid.

Once you have managed to ensure that the animal is dead, go to the body and get the meat along with the skin. The skin of many large animals can be used to make yourself a jacket.

The meat will be used to feed you when you are hungry. You can look at How to Start Fire in SCUM for more information on how to adequately cook the meat.

[Hoctac]

This is why you're in the townbloc, Voted.

Hilarious.
If Mastina was really misled, it means that she is not mafia.

I was referring to your wall post, not the Mastina thing lol

[Hoctac]

Jake, could you ask the mod "Do infected people know they've been infected?" and report back to us?

[Hoctac]

Jake, could you ask the mod "

Do infected people know they've been infected?

" and report back to us?

Those exact words pls

[Hoctac]

Jake, Nadhia says you're allowed to copy paste the mod's response to the thread. Let's see it!!£$"

[Hoctac]

Hoctac throws a tennis ball at Jake, narrowly missing his right-hand index finger.

"Next one's not gonna miss, Jake."

[Hoctac]

Jake turns towards Hoctac, daggers in his eyes.

"Believe in the me that believes in you that believes in me believing you that believes me."

[Hoctac]

hoctac, why didn't i get a mango last night?

I think I got roleblocked. Scum couldn't allow my high brow mangoes entering the market.

[Hoctac]

I would never vote my bro Jake.

[Hoctac]

I'm still NULL, Alchemist? Lazy take.

[Hoctac]

VOTE: Creature

We should totally lynch this.

[Hoctac]

i'd lynch hoctac for not sending me fruit

Tonight tonight, I promise. No way would scum roleblock me again

[Hoctac]

pisskop usually rolls town.

[Hoctac]

Hey! Managed to find some time to put into this.

Spoiler: Another wall post

[Hoctac]

Hey, would you look at that, my scumread scumreads my other scumread. What to do at a moment like this?

[Hoctac]

You're a susp post.

[Hoctac]

VOTE: TrueSoulEnergy

[Hoctac]

communists: {jake, tse, a50, 5g}

socialists: {piss, hectic}

The Communist Manifesto

(February 1848)
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have
entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot,
French Radicals and German police-spies.
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in
power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism,
against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Two things result from this fact:
I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.
II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their
views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism
with a manifesto of the party itself.
To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the
following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and
Danish languages.

I. Bourgeois and Proletarians

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a
word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an
uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a
revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of
society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have
patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters,
journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.
The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done
away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression,
new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.
Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has
simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great
hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other – Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.
From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From
these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed.
The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising
bourgeoisie. The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the
colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to
commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the
revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.
The feudal system of industry, in which industrial production was monopolised by closed
guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets. The manufacturing
system took its place. The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing
bourgeois; division of labour between the different corporate guilds vanished in the face of
division of labour in each single workshop.
Meantime the markets kept ever growing, the demand ever rising. Even manufacturer no longer
sufficed. Thereupon, steam and machinery revolutionised industrial production. The place of
manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry; the place of the industrial bourgeois by
industrial millionaires, the leaders of the whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois.

[Hoctac]

Had that memorised.

[Hoctac]

Infected die start of the next night so we'd just be wasting our only ways of killing the original scum.

Quick, what does that even mean?

[Hoctac]

ok ok fine, let me clear myself:

Spoiler:

[Hoctac]

That should do the trick.

[Hoctac]

I just don't get why they won't listen to me. I've posted wall after wall but they all seem to fall on deaf ears. I'm tired of this game and you may as well just lynch me at this point if you're gonna ignore me.

[Hoctac]

What kind of slip are people talking about? That the infected stat dying the next night?? IF that's it, I see no slip. Scum can only kill the infected on N2 because there were no infections at the start of N1 is how I got it. If that's not the slip, can someone please point me to it?

Almo is right here about the "slip"

[Hoctac]

If people actually want to try and hit scum, we should be lynching TSE. His only "reads" so far have been OMGUSing everyone voting/suspecting him.

Also, all of his questions this game have been aimless and are never followed up on.

Thanks.

[Hoctac]

VOTE: TrueSoulEnergy

Could also be convinced to vote TSE.

[Hoctac]

)_)

Scum

really

don't want my luxury goods out on the market...

[Hoctac]

)_)

Scum

really

don't want my luxury goods out on the market...

what if your "fruit" is really the scum's infection mechanism and you targeted me but failed b/c Mastina had already vaccinated me?

Can you not out my infection crumb for the whole world to see please? I've been slowly targetting everyone who

gets it

and wants "fruit". You're up tonight.

[Hoctac]

How's it going

[Hoctac]

VOTE: pisskop

This guy maybe.

[Hoctac]

Who claimed a hood?

[Hoctac]

My townbloc is 5G, Voted, Nero. Jake was in there too but you guys brutally murdered him. Thing is, he did betray and vote me out of "survivalism", so I won't shed too many tears for him.

Saudade was momentarily in there too, but his "suspicion" on me for a joke attack on him seemed awfully defensive (this is way back now), and there have been new developments with posskop which make me sus of him.

[Hoctac]

Thanks! You're too kind to me, Quick.

[Hoctac]

[Hoctac]

Hey, TSE, why are you voting with your joint top scumread?

[Hoctac]

Should probably just lynch posskip at this point. If it's not him, then we lynch Gobsie tomorrow ez game

[Hoctac]

Oh, right. We were told no one was infected night 1. Does that imply they opted to no-infect or the infection failed?

[Hoctac]

Should probably just lynch posskip at this point. If it's not him, then we lynch Gobsie tomorrow ez game

setting u lynches looks pretty shitty m8y

That's not a thing

[Hoctac]

Huh, the rules don't say they have to decide between killing/infecting, so Blair was the infection target since no other infections?

[Hoctac]

Why aren't you defending yourself from the guilty, posskop.

[Hoctac]

Also, Blair crumbed she would visit Quick, and not posskip. And we know there was no infection last night which implies Blair died by being targeted by an infection.

VOTE: Gobsie

Am I missing something here?

[Hoctac]

Should probably just lynch posskip at this point. If it's not him, then we lynch Gobsie tomorrow ez game

setting u lynches looks pretty shitty m8y

Wait, why do you even say this if you're town and Gobsie could be faking a guilty on you lol

[Hoctac]

CONFUSION

[Hoctac]

UNVOTE: Gobs

fine, only because I love you

[Hoctac]

but then I still think that there being no new infection could mean that they just infected Blair and the "guilty" on Piss isn't really a guilty although he is doing next to nothing so I could see him flipping scum.

???

I have a guilty on me?

Should probably just lynch posskip at this point. If it's not him, then we lynch Gobsie tomorrow ez game

setting u lynches looks pretty shitty m8y

Gobsie could be faking a guilty on you

did gobs claim a guilty on me?

You didn't read back and check this yourself after everyone was talking about it?

[Hoctac]

Yikes, we're voting 5G? He's in the townbloc though.

[Hoctac]

I didn't realize Iw as coming back so close to EoD

I can vibe with a 5G lynch. Have they continued to be useless or is this based on actual content?

Lol

I'll intent, maybe tn iunno

Another town death, great job. I definitely believe posskip is the enemy here. Trying to use the hood to their scummy advantage. Don’t let that slip.

Noted.

I think if you were less gimmicky and played a little harder I'd be able to fight for you here, but alas my hands are somewhat tied.

Yeah, that's a hmM from me

[Hoctac]

Hey look, it's fire doggo.

[Hoctac]

VOTE: TrueSoulEnergy

Oh yeah, this was scum, wasn't it? You guys want to help me out? Don't make me steal all the PageTops.

[Hoctac]

Were*

Nahdia soooooo nahdia...here wolf wolfy.

VOTE: cheekyteeky

There was

1 second

between these posts. CONSPIRACY??

[Hoctac]

nahdia do u not know that CheekyTreeky in her natural state is to be scumread by like everyone

Can confirm. At least from a newbie game.

[Hoctac]

What's down

[Hoctac]

Was it a pokemon one?