I’ll start with the nulls and move to the more confident reads. The less confident ones I’ll give teasers on and put the deep dives into other posts.
Austin + Moozer - Null for not having posted. I’ve read some buzz about Austin showing up online (double checked- he was online yesterday) but idgaf. I have a decent level of faith that both will show up and give something to go off of eventually. I guess, now that I type it out, we can think about if there’s an incentive to show up and say something (even something like “hi I’m busy”) brief when you pop online from Austin’s POV.
NOTE: Decided I should expand the double check to Moozer as well. He was also online yesterday.
If I start to townread just about everyone else it will no longer be null- I generally don’t assume the scum strategy is to do nothing and win, but if I start to think the more active players are all town, I’ll have to conclude this is one of those games where scum decided they were gonna be a bunch of Luigis.
Savant - Solid town. Way too much effort to be scum, tbh. It’s a near-obsessive level. I’m not bothered. I think his reads come across as honest, since he’s scouring details that I wouldn’t even care about. I think it leads him to overanalyze a few points, but that’s a sign of towniness.
Whiteflame - Lean town. Honestly as I was typing this up I was more confident then a lean. But right now, there’s not as much to go off of as I thought.
With regards to his interaction with Mikal, I hard townread that. It’s completely natural for him to react that way, and he did tell Mikal to fuck off (which is said to be a town tell, and I agree)- albeit in a much more polite Whiteflame-y way. The reads look natural so nothing sticks up. I guess the thing is, I thought there was more to go off of. Now that I’ve fully read through everything, meh. He still looks fine.
Although I do wonder how the presence of a safe fake claim for scum would change his scum gameplay. Even then, why soft? Cause now he’d have basically used up their fake claim by softing, when he couldve just saved everything about it for the worst case scenario.
Wylted - Hard scum. He came in and posted some fluff, and then some filler content about theme. Theme analysis isn’t inherently scummy, but it didn’t seem relevant to what was going on. It looked like posting for the sake of posting.
I did have an earlier theory about what he could be doing as scum specifically that my mind jumped to- an idea that he’s seeing if he can get away with claiming his real character. I like his speculation on certain players characters. The only time I’ve seen him do it as town is when he’s criticizing someone for being obvious asf with their softclaim- but I don’t think this is one of those cases. Not only does this look like a cheap imitation of some of his normal town behavior, it aligns with my theory that he’s trying to see if claiming his character is safe.
Although that makes me wonder if Whiteflame did just use up scum’s fake claim.
Downgrading Whiteflame to slight town.
