I didn't promise receipts. I indicated I could provide them if needed. So here they are.
I believe this is the first game where Cabd did neighborhood shenanigans.
On Day 3 of this game, Sixty, the famed Tierce/Vi hydra used their when-dead ability to create a neighborhood with a living player on Syryana and my hydra, Rift Adrift. The neighborhood lasted until the end of Day 3. And Rift died on Night 3.
On Day 4, Cabd's hydra, MC Maraca, claimed an entirely fictional neighborhood with dead-Sixty and made various claims about what he was learning from them via the nonexistent seance neighborhood. I don't think anyone alive questioned the existence of that hood. Cabd was lying through his teeth as town. Something he did several times in that game: faking an inno on Rift on Day 3 when we were the default elim for the day, the fictional hood, and finally by fake-claiming 3rd Party survivor in ELO, offering to give scum the co-win, and getting the final scumplayer to claim scum. This game was the shape of things to come for Cabd. Gambiting as town, faking results, and abusing the very concept of neighborhoods.
The Xenologue Mini gave Morph the Cat, my hydra with Cabd more than one opportunity to abuse more than one neighborhood as scum. Cabd got right to work: We neighborized Purpkin (Bork/Mara hydra) on day 1 and Cabd set about influencing their concept of the gamestate AND trying to shape their night actions in a role madness uPick game. We nightkilled Oil Tycoons (Nacho/Syryana). They DIDN'T DIE! Our biggest threat didn't die until the end of Day 2. AND THEN, they neighborized us and gave us an extra vote on Day 3. Many of the players knew Nacho well enough to ask him questions, have us convey the answers, and be able to tell if we were making shit up or not being completely up front with his answers.
My job was to be as town as I could possibly be in the neighborhood so that Nacho's answers conveyed implicit trust in us (which was a tall assignment for me). Cabd's job was to influence their concept of the game such that they were suspicious of the right townies to advance the scum wincon into eventual MELO. Mission accomplished.
walked into a club, Cabd's hydra with Malakittens, KanyeKnowsBest, and Selkies (my hydra) were the scum team in this game, and we were up against a really strong town. All the scum players were joats and one of the abilities we had was to neighborize another player. The way the game was constructed, We would flip with only the joat abilities that we used. My hydra was by far the weakest one, so as a team we decided that I wouldn't neighborize anyone, so as not to cast suspicions on the hoods that the stronger scum would form. Kanye neighborized LLD and Cabd's hydra neighborized (gasp) penguin_alien, who was a mason with Kazekirimaru. He was so convincingly town in that hood that PA was willing to claim he was a third mason. And she died before getting the chance to correct the record. PA intimated there was a third mason
here. and
here and then in
this post revealed that the "third mason" was Cabd's hydra. That was a helluva game.
------ Here ends the era of the Quicktopic Hoods------
In this game, neighborhoods were a big feature of the design. On Night 1, town-Flavor Leaf created a neighborhood with town-Cabd, and they set about gamesolving. Before the hood closed at the end of Night 1, they worked out a detailed code for communicated night action results and which of their plans they would execute on Day 2. And then a cop crumb happened. They seamlessly gambited to bury the crumb and fake claim a guilty on the same player. That worked beautifully in all respects.
On Night 3 Flavor Leaf once again targeted Cabd (he commuted Cabd and crashed any neighborhoods Cabd was in), and Bell targeted Cabd to form a neighborhood with all three of them. More deep plotting commenced. Cabd was able to use his Amnesiac Cop ability thanks to Bell targeting him, and Bell received the cop results. And of those three, scum chose to eliminate Flavor Leaf, resulting in the best possible outcome for that neighborhood if one of them had to die.
Tenet: too many game threads to link and this one is in recent memory
Cabd's hydra with Cephrir, Dandelion Wine (truly a scum hydra to fear) had access to two neighborhoods in this game. On Night 1 in the
Purple Room, he completely snowed Deacon Blues (my hydra with Bork) and Nacho and Tammy's hydra, Imperium. The
second neighborhood was a creation by Dunnstral, who neighborized Dandelion Wine on Night 1 and my hydra on Night 2. Bork and I eventually threw off the misty glamour and saw through Dandelion Wine but it was far, far, too late to change that games crushing outcome of a perfect scum win. As well as the neighborhood play in this game, Cabd used the scum discord to organize his team, crumbs and tells, and maintain top notch morale throughout the game. Sadly, only glimpses of this Discord are publicly available, but what I've seen scares me. Scum Discords are too stronk in the hands of scum players of Cabd's and LLD's caliber.
In this game, Cabd was both a neighborizor and a neighborizee. After a three hour Day 1 that resulted in the blindingly fast elimination of a scum player, he nieighborized another scum player on Night 1. From their conversations, he confirmed his suspicion that they were scum, and through some socially-engineered Q&A, got the scum player to unknowingly reveal their partner via their reads list. The scum team was killing him that night, and their conversation was more unguarded than prudent beause they didn't intend him to see the light of Day 2.
Enter the second neighborhood: Pooky compulsively created a neighborhood with Cabd that also had the effect of loverizing them. Cabd was able to share the info that came to light in his hood with scum, but oh my...this info would surely be lost to town. Right?
Wrong. As well as compulsively creating a lover-neighborhood with Cabd, pooky's role allowed him to create a neighborhood with a living player on the day of his death, but at the cost of a delayed flip. Pooky neighborized Annie Edison (notscience and The Bulge hydra), and Cabd's information from his neighborhood with scum made it into the Day 2 game thread. I think town would have won this game based on their day play, but those two neighborhoods and Cabd's virtuoso ability to use them was a decisive factor in the game ending on Day 3.
Other MS players probably have their own tales, both triumphant and crushed, to tell about Cabd and neighborhoods. These are the ones that stand to me, and demonstrate he's basically unmatched at taking advantage of neighboorhoods as all alignments.
Regarding Quicktopic Sniper vs QT Sniper. Syr pointed out to me today that QT Sniper also catches Cabd's avatars. He's used Medea avatars almost exclusively since joining MS, and as Syr puts it, "quicktopic reference AND sly aside to the fact he always has some cutesy anime girl as his avatar"
