Open 796: Haunted Village Game Over

[Isis]

S_S is this person onsite who never votes until the end of the day and I always argue with him
I think it's more challenging for me to get the right read when I have a philosophy difference with somebody
I'll get there eventually
I won't count it against you so I'm back at undecided with you

[Noraa]

that is not how I am. the reads come when they come. I can force them along but then they end up being piles of garbage so I prefer to just wait til they naturally come rather than forcing some reads out. They never take til the end of the day tho.

[Random Canadian]

Oh hey, I've missed a bit!

I saw there were many hydras and that sounds funsies
so I came

Hey Noraa! Glad to see a friendly face replace in again.

Let me do some reading.

[Random Canadian]

The BM tunneling topic has been hammered a lot already but this post in particular caught my eye:

i do think this is a very different gameplan from taylor compared to her towngames, and very similar to her scumgame.

Can you expand on this BM? Taylor asked you to explain somethings about this in 252. You followed immediately by answering a few other people and talked about how you didn't get why people were defending her. I'm interested to see where you were trying to go on this. Since your first post where you talked about her having a scumtell, 242 was the first place it looked like you tried to make an argument beyond your tunnel of she's just scum.

[Noraa]

Oh hey, I've missed a bit!

I saw there were many hydras and that sounds funsies
so I came

Hey Noraa! Glad to see a friendly face replace in again.

Let me do some reading.

nice to see ya again. rip JKer Noraa from ancient arthropods who thought vanilla townie random was scum

[Random Canadian]

Isis and Noraa, have you 2 played together before?

[Random Canadian]

Oh hey, I've missed a bit!

I saw there were many hydras and that sounds funsies
so I came

Hey Noraa! Glad to see a friendly face replace in again.

Let me do some reading.

nice to see ya again. rip JKer Noraa from ancient arthropods who thought vanilla townie random was scum

It's not a problem now. You made some good plays that game that helped us get that win.

[Random Canadian]

Also, I want to take a look at the people on my wagon. I get why the wagon formed but it was a surprise to me to come back to it mainly because I just wasn't on between posts too much. Plus also mentioned he thought there might be scum on my wagon. This is mainly for me to look at tomorrow deeper because I need to get some sleep now.

Taylor: 9, 152, 276
Exorcists: 17, 128,
egotisi: 31
Isis: 173
MURDERCAT: 178

[Random Canadian]

One last thing, can someone explain who the other RC is? I kind of like the RC abbreviation but it sounds like someone already uses it here lol

[Tayl0r Swift]

Because it's only okay to bully friends that will know you're teasing.
If you bully random strangers it's mean.
That's why Kanna bullies me.

because kanna is mean?

[Tayl0r Swift]

One last thing, can someone explain who the other RC is? I kind of like the RC abbreviation but it sounds like someone already uses it here lol

radiant cowbells is one of the most infamous scummers.

[Exorcists]

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d̡͈͙́̍̓̍̅͢͢ͅ a̧͕̻̭̦̯̟͔͎̤͂̾̍̈̐͘ r̸̘͇̹̪̺̺̔̓̿̾͐̅̀̐̆ͅ ḵ̶̼̦͙͇̫̟͔̔͒͊̅̂̚͢͠ n̪̺̪̝̥̣̩̯̲̆̌̓͛̒͋̍͡ ȩ̷̧̱͕͈̫̠̠̹̅͆̃̌͑̿̚͜ ṣ̢̨̧̾̄̌̌̌͢ s̷̡̼̯͉͔̙̊͆̋̽͟͡
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Spoiler:

Does the spoilers make my posts unappealing to read? If so, I'll stop. Anyway, I'm caught up now. I quite like Battle Mage even though a lot of people don't feel the same way. He reads genuine, and I agree Taylor is suspicious for advocating setup spec -- specifically, advocating for others to setup spec while not doing any herself. If it is so easy, why do we have to openly discuss it?

itll take 2 seconds to go through and look at the possible options for town with 8 points, and then to look at which ones dont make sense given the scum roles.

(Thanks to egotisi for the highlighting tip. It's very convenient.) Also, guessing PRs isn't even helpful to town. There is only scum motivation in this for gauging reactions.

Xofelf is kind of scummy. I will also be okay going there. In particular, 113, 115, and 119 have no substance, yet appear to be contributing. Random was a null (not sure why everyone piled on) but I liked his latest posts.

I also have a secret scumread I'm going to hold close to my chest for now.

VOTE: Tayl0r Swift

—Alice

[Jewel Barons]

i found this a bit surprising, at this point i was feeling like i had like one and a half weak townread (exorcists and maaaybe murdercat) with a whole buncha people either being null or south of null (RanCan for stuff, BM with the questionable push, and xof/norwee feeling active-lurky)

Can you explain what you mean by active-lurky?

[Jewel Barons]

^ - Norwee

[Jewel Barons]

@Brassherald
VC soon?

- Norwee

[egotisi]

oh no, everyone is spamming, i'll fall behind in postcount with my wallposts D:
maybe i'll stop later i'll see

i can already tell this game is going to be hard work.

that's cool, do you mind answering/elaborating on top of 146?

you say u dont want to spectate then continue to spectate

Are you calling him scummy?

Isis are you town? I feel like your tone is a bit different this game but I really need you to sort Noraa for me

is there history between you/isis/noraa? and talk about your tonal read on isis?

With regard to 146 and 173, why are we being townread?
—Alice

tone + interest in solving the game that didn't feel fake/forced

i like isis for town atm, 211 is what i was thinking at the time

@cobra kai, do you mind getting an avatar? i'm gonna keep mixing up you and BM otherwise, and i don't think i can talk him into getting one

@plus i was going somewhere with bottom of 183, can you pls answer

why would ignoring a shitpost be AI? its lame but its not AI.

i like getting townread and worry about the dumbest shit

my mind is an enigma

bottom of pg 10, gonna grab breakfast, be back in a bit

-tisi

[egotisi]

i think we've already learnt quite a lot. an unusually high number of people defending taylor without grounds.

who is actually defending taylor here? like is "not instavoting taylor the second BM asks for it" = "defending taylor"?

murdercat climbing up my reads with 268/269

hmm
isis, why are 279/280 towny to you? like they read like null-to-maaaaybe-nullscum posts to me

i found this a bit surprising, at this point i was feeling like i had like one and a half weak townread (exorcists and maaaybe murdercat) with a whole buncha people either being null or south of null (RanCan for stuff, BM with the questionable push, and xof/norwee feeling active-lurky)

Can you explain what you mean by active-lurky?

active lurking is like, posting meaningless post to appear to be contributing
both your and xof's posts neatly fit into that
like up to that point you were what, making an excuse why you won't post much because logging in is difficult, voting the mod, and joking about clint eastwood

is that all you wanna say after 7 pages? do you have any reads?

-tisi

[Dunnstral]

yeah I believe in hiding townreads occasionally, just not as a default.
I don't know how I feel about the idea of lying about townreads just to mess with the nightkill strategy, but I guess there's some never say never I just haven't delved into before. I fakeclaimed my role as town for the first time this year or last year.

I say if they want to hide their townreads let them

[Jewel Barons]

Immediately paranoid of Noraa.

- Norwee

[Dunnstral]

Hello Dunnstral, long time no see. I believe we played together back in 2016.

Yes, I remember playing in a game with you

I’m townreading Noraa, Taylor, +joyed, datisi hydra, and leaning that way on murdercat. For scum, I’m thinking xofelf and maybe battle mage.

I’ve played my fair share of games, but I want to change some things stylistically and am giving them a test drive.

bad reads from cobra kai

when i flip town, for goodness sake elim her lol

this scumpings

Not really for me but I don't care for his attitude

[Dunnstral]

I usually tend to believe in keeping my vote on the things that seem scummiest instead of voting in clumps for pressure.

Noraa keeps treating Battle Mage like she knows he's town and seems like she's trying hard to look protown.

He can easily play this way as town or scum (BM)

I don't think it's bad for Noraa to be assuming BM is town

[Dunnstral]

I usually tend to believe in keeping my vote on the things that seem scummiest instead of voting in clumps for pressure.

Noraa keeps treating Battle Mage like she knows he's town and seems like she's trying hard to look protown.

He can easily play this way as town or scum (BM)

I don't think it's bad for Noraa to be assuming BM is town

[Jewel Barons]

BM makes aggressive pushes as both alignments i think.

- Norwee

[MURDERCAT]

is there history between you/isis/noraa? and talk about your tonal read on isis?

Isis and I are basically best friends, we played together in open 795. I can't talk about my game history with Noraa due to site rules.

[MURDERCAT]

More when I'm at my computer