Ari is still lurking instead of being here. The engagement is just way too consistent with what I would expect from scum who knows that there's no point in trying to fight against this because he can't win the long-game.
Also think townAri probably replaces out by now.
There's also that I think his presence in the game has been pretty wooden the last little while:
Aristophanes wrote:In theory I suppose I could, however this is not how I ay as scum.
When I'm scum I play in fear. I don't comment in the thread because things are working and I kniw I'll screw it up. When things aren't working I assume its hopeless and rhus also don't post. I can't fake reads for shit and I don't rib with people because it all sounds fake! That's why, as scum, my most active time is RVS. Because nobody is playing an alignment yet really and I can have some fun before fear and death settle in!
Compare that with my play here. I have been sparse, but providing content when I can, including reads and pokes at people for more. I have been ribbing with people and having some fun. It's simply and unfakably my town game!
Also, I never choose scum here.
Stuff like this.. it's kind of hard to articulate but I just don't really believe that he genuinely feels this? Like, the last sentence should feel way more incredulous.
I really feel like townAri is like "how in the world do you guys think that I would pick scum here
" vs what we're getting here. It just doesn't really line up with my expectation of him as a person?
Like, I don't feel like he thinks that we should know better than this, which is a quality that I feel would be oozing from him in his responses to getting pushed here.
He had the really wonky townread on Mulch for a single post which didn't really make any sense.
He literally followed up to tell me to stop voting for Mulch because he made a single post that he thought was town.
There hasn't been a single other player this game that he's done anything like that with.
Gamma was following along closely enough to notice me mentioning him, but he has no reads/input on the game itself.
There hasn't been any significant/real effort to try to find who scum is at any point.
I have some reason to doubt every other player as scum, but the only thing I have for Ari is that I don't understand why he would choose to suffer through a scumgame in team mafia. There's nothing contained within the context of the game itself.
If I'm wrong about him then I think it either has to be implosion or Firebringer.
And beyond that I just struggle to imagine anyone else being scum here.