Roshar has done a few things that have pinged me a bit:
- seeming overreaction to clumsy's including her in the list of people he'd consider lynching (which was IIRC basically half the board), notably at
1242and later
- making sure we know that she's taking responsibility for the Clumsy lynch, see
1346,
1347,
1386
- possibly buddying/chainsaw defending of me, notably at
1086,
1175 (although I think her points were entirely reasonable)
- a bit of an over-emphasis on the mechanics side of the neighbor discussion wrt Nos
Those things seem on the surface wolfy... but they're also pretty solidly in range of relatively new town. I'm reminded of a quote about my play (I was town) in my first game...
http://www.playdiplomacy.com/forum/view ... us#p860884
Oh, ok. I misunderstood. Not lying, just really, really, disliked Greg so much that he considered total absence better than the posts Greg offered when he returned. That's some pretty serious hostility. Only town gets that self-righteous
There's a certain "HOW DARE YOU" aspect of Roshar's interaction with Clumsy EOD1. For someone really experienced, I'd be really suspicious. For a newer player, whose town meta seems to be aggressive play... much less so. Ditto the "I'm taking responsibility for clumsy lynch and making sure you guys know it".
The more I look at this, the more I think that Roshar is simply talking about whatever the hell she wants to talk about at any given moment, as opposed to it being strategic in some way. Overall more of a newish town than a newish scum feel to her ISO and behavior. Newish scum tend not to be this open and aggressive (or at least not that I've seen).
As far Lowell's specific allegation...
In post 1339, Lowell wrote: In post 1337, Roshar wrote:And excuse me if I'm not extremely confident in my scum reads. Not everyone plays the game like you do, Lowell. Excuse me if I like to get fresh input on the main wagon (esp after Clumsy had new posts). What is the point of asking players already on the wagon for their recent feedback? Their vote already is on Clumsy. The only logical reason is to see if they've changed their opinions after Clumsy's recent posting. So how the hell is this pushing the Clumsy wagon?
Nice try, but no. It's not that you wanted "fresh input." If you had, you would have asked someone who hadn't already weighed in. You asked me specifically because you
already knew
my view on clumsy and wanted me to be my typical bombastic self and move the wagon forward so you wouldn't have to.
Relating to Roshar's
In post 1089, Roshar wrote:In terms of Clumsy's actual content, I don't feel better about it. It's more him feeling bad about being a liability. That parts kinda getting to me. B/c that would be the correct town response to being falsely accused as town. But shouldn't there be some anger and bitterness too? Like 'Screw you guys, I hope it hurts when I flip town?'
Now, on to the actual content. I don't like how his read on me changed. Reading something the first time and thinking it's town, then going back and thinking it's scummy, is a thing. But vice-versa, reading something and finding it scummy the first time, then upon a reread thinking it's town, is just never a thing that has occurred to me. Which makes me think his read on me the first time was empty and going with the flow of things.
He gives lukewarm reads without backing them up and easily retracts them. His read on froot has changed as well, and it's almost making me feel like he gave his original town read on Froot just to appease us.
But his tone is making me hesitate.
Input anyone? Mhs, Apf, replacements maybe?
What do you think Lowell?
I guess I can't completely disregard the possibility that Lowell is correct... but given that she's asking a pretty wide range of people, AND in the context of what comes across as a legit "I really don't know" moment, I struggle to see it as any kind of solid piece of evidence against her. See also
In post 1152, Roshar wrote:Indeed.
@
Nosferatu,
(mhs and APF too if you can) what's your read on Max and him advocating Huntress for the lynch in
1077 (her only post with game content at the time of the scum read was
971 and Jeanne's
857 and
863) and then his subsequent vote on her a couple pages later? Last I remember you were giving Jake a town read (and he gave you a town read as well). I should add Max found Jeane suspicious in
939.
Just realized his post
1077 he didn't bother voting for either lynch candidates. Much conviction.
Back to this.
VOTE: Maxous
@Max, what happened to your APF scum read in
937? (I'm calling it a scum read ofc, b/c you advocated his lynch earlier).
Guys, deadline is nearing, let's reach common ground on this.
where again she's asking around for other opinions. Again, not completely out of wolf range... but it seems a lot more like a towny perspective showing doubt, and just as importantly, trying to draw people into the conversation. Getting more people involved in issues of importance is a pretty pro-town way of doing things IMO. So yeah, I've got a pretty solid town lead on her right now. I will actively oppose her lynch unless a really strong case is presented.
PS Next I'll probably look into Max. Likely tonight or tomorrow.