Good enough for me. Unvote (in accordance with danielle).
I am confident she will post now that she is aware the game is up.. Airmax should be posting in the next hour or so as well. I texted him this morning to see if he knew the game was started, and he said he was aware of the game and that he would check it out after work. He should be getting on soon.
I still don't have any solid reads, though I do have some thoughts on the gameplay. Much of my thought processes are a bit back and forth on certain players.
Coal I am switching constantly between a scum read and a town read. Specifically I am trying to discern his personality from his game-play strategy. The part of his gameplay that slightly strikes me as scummy is the couple attempts he's made at pretending to reaction test. He said in post #63 he was attempting to "prod" me. I didn't get the feeling I was being prodded at all, unless he was referring to the part he said "let's see how long it takes TUF to suggest a mass claim", which was too non-sensical to take seriously. So his town read on me based on what I felt like was a very weak reaction test, seems a bit convoluted. Convoluted doesn't necessarily always mean scum, I've seen many a town make convoluted arguments for their reads just to not be suspected for not "doing enough". Where I town read him is because he admitted to lying about not reading the OP. If he really is town, and not wanting to get caught up in a pointless argument that would just delay town this was the best course of action. Based on my remembrance of playing mafia with Coal I feel like he is more likely to double down and defend the lie ad nauseum. His motivation for honsety and not derailing the game seemed pro town. I may be investing too much credit to this, but I really really got strong town vibes from this action. So I am leaning more town than not, and I am attributing some of the minor scum tells I have on his as some of his personality quirks for now. Lastly he earlier said he didn't care much about DP1, and wouldn't start really trying until DP2, but seems pretty peeved with the inactivity, which demonstrates he does think there is value to be gained from DP1. Not sure what to make of this change of direction, I don't think it's a scum tell in and of itself though.
Zaradi- Trying to decide on him as well. His aggressive early inquisition (while mostly pointless and mostly self explanatory from what I've seen) seems like a genuine interest to provoke activity, which is pro town. But his line of questioning in both my case, and Oromagi's case doesn't seem to go anywhere, or demonstrate what he specifically thinks is scummy in either case. I'd say it feels a bit convoluted, but again, I am not in his head. Maybe he had a thought and the answers just satisfied that line of inquiry and he didn't feel the need to further the questioning.
Oro- His activity so far is an improvement from what I've seen in other games. His behavior seems indicative of his town play, he seems genuinely interested in scum hunting. I can't remember if I have seen him play scum over the last year though, and I think I haven't or I would remember. His post 72 was definitely a coded claim, which he does in every game. Not even gonna attempt to decipher it, because in the past when I've tried I've been wrong.
Sui and Objectivity have been pretty agreeable, I haven't seen anything that sticks out as scummy, which is kind of scummy by itself but I'm not gonna get in my head about that yet.
Not sure what to think of ragnar. I will post more in a bit, I'm at work and there is an annoying beeping going off because the fire alarm company is working on the alarm, and It's giving me a headache and I am losing focus. Be back soon.
