I liked that Cephrir seems self-confident enough to say what’s on his mind in
#387 and his frustration at not being properly understood (loved “I don't have an angle every time I post or speak” in particular).
I usually think out of the blue posts like
#416 are way more likely to come from town. Scum, even experienced ones, tend to be way more concerned with following a narrative and making sure their reads are consistent/backed up with reasons and tend to ignore the little things that make townies town: introspection, personal investment in accuracy, etc. I think this post comes from the mindset of a town player who genuinely wants to do better and be right about stuff and from what I remember of Cephrir-scum, he doesn’t really put as much effort into faking this kind of thing as scum. He also even has the stream-of-consciousness style of posting sometimes, like when he states his townread on AP in
#1368, which shows he’s posting his unfiltered thoughts in the thread.
Cephrir doesn’t seem like he’s paying all that much attention or is truly engaged with the game, which I believe is a towntell for him (see: posts like
#419). I also really liked the I-don’t-give-a-fuck reaction to Mara’s hardcore push on him starting in
#739, I think he would have been more likely to go the appeasement route.
The waffling starting at
#1646 around the Marquis/pie stuff also seems really genuine to me given his low opinion of his scum game and that he preferred lynching GM “early” over both of them due to that indecision. Also, I believe Ceph was basically the “swing vote” on the GM wagon because he had the opportunity to switch onto pie when she was the counter (and she was “counterclaimed”) but he ended up not doing so. Given his posts about pie, it would have been really easy for him to stick onto that wagon and not have to worry about losing cred.
I think he takes way too long to state some townreads (as in, by name, not just “I have some townreads”) but that seems to be a product of the struggling rather than the scumming. Oh, and there's also the interaction stuff I mentioned earlier (still think
#814 points very strongly towards him being town).
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