Mini 2228: Isekai uPick - Endgame

[Cabd]

This is going to be a BEAST of a game.

Greetings, not-so-gentle-beings.

[Cabd]

It's like when you have such hype for a vacation that you end up with more endorphins for the leadup to it than the actual trip itself.

JJH was just doing us a solid.

[Cabd]

ffs @ my role

Trying to rush me down so that you can get a big neighborhood eh?

[Cabd]

You're too slow, GiF.

I've already got my page 1 townread.

It'smedotjaypag

[Cabd]

Logically it has to be me or luke then, since everyone else's content sucks

:/

My snoopy heart breaks.

[Cabd]

Some bars are higher than others.

That’s how they keep minors from drinking!

Lifehack: Platform Shoes.

They're great for dancing.

[Cabd]

Shaka, When the Walls Fell

Bell, when the read revealed.

[Cabd]

White, like the sky.

[Cabd]

Firebringer, when the Hydra was born.

[Cabd]

Firebringer, when the Hydra was born

?

[Cabd]

I'm gonna be confusing gif and unwnd avatars all game this is swell.

[Cabd]

I'm gonna be confusing gif and unwnd avatars all game this is swell.

I've pondered changing to my flavor since it doesn't indicate much

I think it matters a LOT more than you think it does, so I'd advise against that...

Also might technically break site rules about game info in non-game thread locations...

[Cabd]

Firebringer, when the Hydra was born.

careful with the caffeine there.

:~(

Never that easy, is it.

[Cabd]

But while you're here, Marci, do you have time to talk about our lord and savior Baja Blast?

[Cabd]

There's a red pill and a blue (ish shut up close enough) pill in front of you....

[Cabd]

CHOOSE CAREFULLY

[Cabd]

Ew anything but code red

Giffy confirmed scum or dum

Why not both~?

[Cabd]

I miss when everyone did the avatar that ffery and penguin and gif all had at once with the <> eyes...

[Cabd]

Something something gotta have green hair.

I don't know why, maybe it's the mood in the air, but I keep expecting to see Orci's posting.

[Cabd]

Hi giffy! Are you scum?

You're too slow, GiF.

I've already got my page 1 townread.

Found scum already.

VOTE: Kate Bishop

I'll bite, why is this scum?

So glad you asked.

The first post has nervous, awkward,

tee-hee-hee

vibes.

The second post drives home the case of the nerves because the joke makes no logical sense.

GiF is "too slow" to answer the question "are you scum" because

Ann Coulter

Kate Bishop already has her "page 1 townread." SO CRINGE. I know it's just jokey banter but the complete lack of continuum screams of guilty scum.

Interesting.

And just to check, you ARE stating this knowing that two separate heads of that hdyra made those posts?

[Cabd]

It most definitely wasn't, that was one notsci post and one fferypost, and i'd bet a significant amount of funds on it.

[Cabd]

Not that I blame people for not being able to pick tonal markers for ffery out of the ether as a snap judgement.

Only those who suffer her inside of a cat-shaped vehicle for a LONG time have that dubious honor.

[Cabd]

It most definitely wasn't, that was one notsci post and one fferypost, and i'd bet a significant amount of funds on it.

Explain.

22 was notsci
23 was fferyllt

[Cabd]

Or vice versa and I'm a dummy dummy who has a dumb face, but either way it wasn't both notsci or both ffery!

[Cabd]

Is it just me or did that avi changed the hair color to green

No idea what you're talking about dude.

We've ALWAYS been at war with eurasia.

[Cabd]

Anyways, no idea why you've got a bouncer set up at your dance course but whatever let me know when you want to invite me inside.

I already made the first steps.

[Cabd]

Reads coming tonight

p.edit: I am aware it is now Wednesday morning. I need to type a load of things up still so that they exist digitally, with the aim of that being asap

p.edit: Apologies as this has taken longer than I thought but I

will

have everything wrapped up by the end of the day and ready to go

p.edit: It's all there now, just giving some time for a once over and I expect reads to go out in the next 12 hours.

This is the other scum.

Nah. Dunn actually is my page 1 townread.

"Adorable" being a synonym for "townread" is yet another addition to the global morph-established lexicon conspiracy.

[Cabd]

You probably did but I'm not groking.

Sorry, Oxbellows didn't eat enough books today.

[Cabd]

I wasn’t! I felt dumb when she said what it was!

*sits on couch*

And how does that make you feel?

[Cabd]

intimate

Kinky. A girls' kinda in to that these days.

[Cabd]

I'm more hesitant than you due to a healthier respect for his scum game, but it was a strong showing opener, for sure.

That said, the REAL town-dunn shiny beacon is more post 122.

He better not be wearing white this game or I'll be sads.

[Cabd]

Jeez I really feel out of the loop to the point that I no longer know what I'm doing

You and unwnd can like, make a washed up grizzled vets club? Then you too can be a broken CO like Hachi or Sensei.

[Cabd]

Sometimes snap-townreads are the best ones, sure.

[Cabd]

It's literally a game where you get to be a new you. Discard the carcass of the old and dead Gif and be your own you!

[Cabd]

That'sthefuckingjokedotjaypag

[Cabd]

But yeah do with the info you now have as you will. Seeing how ffery reacts to little giblets in gravy is kind of the new dance meta.

[Cabd]

Marcistar is starting to worry me that we've got another ground hog day of tarot scenario going.... Is mountain dew really our shepherd twice in a row?

Literally either choice would have been fine.

P.S. DGB, what made you state that Marcistar is a koba alt?

[Cabd]

I know you know but do you know that I know that you know that I knew?

That is to say, that message wasn't for you, it was for the peanut gallery, aka the pour souls that have to sort the both of us mutts.

[Cabd]

Oh also, I think it's time to talk about the elepahnt-shaped rule in the room?

[Cabd]

And no, it's not rule 34 you perverts.

[Cabd]

Even Tammy would hear the town paean at this point.

Also, the only oddity I see isn't exactly elephant sized?

Paradoxially... it's a Prime number one.

[Cabd]

DAMN IT LUKE I HAD A MATHEMATICALLY CORRECT PUN AND OLD GAME REFERENCE AND YOU JUST TOSSED SUTBLETY INTO THE FIREPLACE

[Cabd]

Even Tammy would hear the town paean at this point.

Setting aside the usual obligatory paranoia... yeah, perhaps this is the game where the band gets back together and we get to Xenoblade on some fools.

[Cabd]

My money is on a paradox-prime like afterlife RIFTSIXIAN DUMP OF HOPE AND PUPPIES.

For reasons mostly being that it would be swell.

[Cabd]

I keep getting Xeno series and Tales series mixed up.

You and well-meaning relatives shopping for Christmas presents everywhere.

[Cabd]

Oh that’s what we’re going to do today? We’re going to massclaim?

PLZ no if there's anyone running a tenet-scum-discord bingo board they're rubbing their hands together in glee.

[Cabd]

Marcistar is starting to worry me that we've got another ground hog day of tarot scenario going.... Is mountain dew really our shepherd twice in a row?

Literally either choice would have been fine.

wait.. i was meant to respond to the image? i thought u were just sending it to show us what ur drinking today

You were asked to pick a pill, lass.

You know, from the famous meme? From The Matrix?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill

[Cabd]

... ive never watched the matrix..

Damn now I feel old as shit.

Uh, do yourself a favor and rent it.

[Cabd]

Do you have any reads yet?

[Cabd]

Do you have any reads yet?

not really yet, do u?

You're clearly not reading my posts if you gotta ask this!

I've stated two, and hinted two more!

[Cabd]

{Dunn, Firebringer}
{Kate Bishop, DGB}
{the rest of you fucks}

[Cabd]

Firebringer is in this game?

He's my strongest townread!

[Cabd]

Firebringer is in this game?

He's my strongest townread!

I’m confused now I don’t see him in the player list.
I’m going to assume that there is some sort of hidden reference or I’m just tripping.

Maybe it was the other head?

[Cabd]

I <3 katniss but am equally as confused

Katniss is more town this game than you can ever hope to be, noob.

[Cabd]

You will literally never be on that level this game.

[Cabd]

Ffery, you remember that moment in cephgame where it was just a bunch of townies shooting the shit? I'm kind of getting dejavu.

[Cabd]

Hi Notsci, I'm the thing that tolls.

[Cabd]

:-/ damn and you were hella looking forward to this game too. I am sorry. Taking that at face value, I don't see this being a fun lolgambit.

[Cabd]

{Dunn, Firebringer}
{Kate Bishop, DGB}
{the rest of you fucks}

GiF isn't in our leftovers.

No objection to the DGB choice eh?

[Cabd]

...Fuck. I know the mod didn't know the implications and hasn't read the novels but FUCK that's a rough ass draw for such an important character.

[Cabd]

My mistake madam

Cabd do you always put the cart before the horse?

And the mouth before the foot.

Not sure you realize the extreme distress secondhand I'm seeing here, but it's her story to explain.

[Cabd]

My comment was not meant for that, rather something else

ELI5K

[Cabd]

I'm not sure why you are already sorting this early, unless you're really excited about something

I have feelings and thoughts but nothing that has left my drafts, mostly

I am excited. This is a game with flavor I love to hate to love and that is directly impacting my willingness to throw caution to the wind. I'm a little soured about the screwover tho.

Plus, haver you SEEN what happens when I hold myself back and let paranoia and self doubt clog me up?

It ends with a random ass peta alt styling on me while I tunnel Town Pooky to death.

[Cabd]

Par for the course, unwnd. Par for the course. In this playerlist, there's plenty of night one kill options.

Burn brightly and leave a smoking hot corpse.

[Cabd]

Do you think the exhaustive mix or light and heat you're emitting could get someone speedwagoned?

Do you want to try it? I wouldn't test your faith as scum here

Nobody has Cakez'd yet. I'll let you, and the thread, know. Loudly. Repeatedly. Mockingly. Annoyingly.

[Cabd]

Do you think the exhaustive mix or light and heat you're emitting could get someone speedwagoned?

Do you want to try it? I wouldn't test your faith as scum here

Nobody has Cakez'd yet. I'll let you, and the thread, know. Loudly. Repeatedly. Mockingly. Annoyingly.

Nobody has Cakez'd but I sorta think someone is ManWithNoNameing.

Spill your tea, then, old man.

Because i'm about to honorguard Lady Katria's opinion to the stars.

[Cabd]

Do you think the exhaustive mix or light and heat you're emitting could get someone speedwagoned?

Do you want to try it? I wouldn't test your faith as scum here

Nobody has Cakez'd yet. I'll let you, and the thread, know. Loudly. Repeatedly. Mockingly. Annoyingly.

Not true. Toog scum.

Yeha I ignored pedits when posting.

[Cabd]

I bet my life and the next one on Luke/Marci having scum.

You think?


Like tarot 4.0, 2.0?

[Cabd]

You may have my sword. Although I don't want the line of questioning between unwnd and the lukeistar duo go undanced.

[Cabd]

Unwnd... time to break out the sad tombone avatar tierlist chart?

[Cabd]

Imagine making a general crumb instead of some super meta abstract art bullshit in this playerlist lmfao.

[Cabd]

Who is cabd voting?

Nobody yet, but in spirit my sword is already with LLD.

[Cabd]

And by "John the Baptist" I mean "The Scumteam"

[Cabd]

Her taste in soda and fast food aside, Marci's a cool lass.

[Cabd]

Or the groan-worth cabd-ism:

"Self esteem is for everyone, especially you!"

[Cabd]

VOTE: Toog


I think I'm into the crackers stage with the unwnd-luke back and forth.

[Cabd]

"Bitch eating crackers"?

http://abbythompsontherapy.com/2017/10/ ... -syndrome/

[Cabd]

Wow we get to kill scum AND I get to be lazy and outsource the fire and brimstone to somebody channeling the pure righteous anger of a favorite character done dirty.

Niceu.

[Cabd]

Wow we get to kill scum AND I get to be lazy and outsource the fire and brimstone to somebody channeling the pure righteous anger of a favorite character done dirty.

Niceu.

Maybe if I'm good enough at town this game scum will be forced to use my brainwashed effect to kill myself, and we can have everything fit together.

That would be so incredibly flavor appropriate, I'm kind of hoping that the interaction is allowed and they are forced to, yes.

[Cabd]

Wow we get to kill scum AND I get to be lazy and outsource the fire and brimstone to somebody channeling the pure righteous anger of a favorite character done dirty.

Niceu.

speaking of crackers.

Oh?

Does my tounge in cheek make you grate?

[Cabd]

Assume I missed it in the noise and requote/point?

[Cabd]

Assume I missed it in the noise and requote/point?

here.

Oh lol for the record I got zero of that and I feel I should confess that I've seen about twenty minutes of all star trek video content ever produced in the universe in total.

[Cabd]

(notsci is pretty scary but I’m ffery and I’m nice )

POLONIUM TEA RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN

SHE HAS A TEA SERVING CANDY VAN

[Cabd]

(also we test Manatee's claim by having her vote early then vote somewhere else to show that voting elsewhere does NOT move the second vote as claimed, aye?)

[Cabd]

Assume I missed it in the noise and requote/point?

here.

Oh lol for the record I got zero of that and I feel I should confess that I've seen about twenty minutes of all star trek video content ever produced in the universe in total.

I am disappoint. Most of it isn't even star trek.

notsci was sure you'd get that.

In my defense I'm at work rn. And not thinking mroe than surface level jokes at your expense. I'll dig in and effort-lens it tonight.

[Cabd]

(also we test Manatee's claim by having her vote early then vote somewhere else to show that voting elsewhere does NOT move the second vote as claimed, aye?)

maybe not

Why not?

[Cabd]

There's a thing SSK used to do in nearly every game we both played if at all possible.

I'm not gonna fucking prod dodge lol. </cheek>

[Cabd]

There's a thing SSK used to do in nearly every game we both played if at all possible.

I'm not gonna fucking prod dodge lol. </cheek>

When you have your dancing shoes on, lmk.

I mean I'm at work but I feel like the game has sort of sorted itself.

[Cabd]

if the target of my second vote isnt the lim for the day they die. if they are i get a vig shot at night

This is COMPELTELY different to your original claim WTAF

[Cabd]

There's a thing SSK used to do in nearly every game we both played if at all possible.

I'm not gonna fucking prod dodge lol. </cheek>

When you have your dancing shoes on, lmk.

I mean I'm at work but I feel like the game has sort of sorted itself.

This isn't about sorting, but ok.

Okay, then talk about your feelings. I'm clearly not understanding what it is you're getting at :~(

[Cabd]

I'm supposed to buy that you are essentially a double-day-elim generator indefinitely while alive?

[Cabd]

Like at face value, every single day we get to have two elims with your claim.

[Cabd]

Are you a forester, then?

Te he he troubadour meme here.

[Cabd]

But yeah uh, your snap reaction to the manatee claim because on paper I am fucking alarm bells blaring that this is a thing that exists as claimed.

[Cabd]

I mean I've said my piece and I am stuck in traffic driving home but yeah I was really hoping that people would talk?

[Cabd]

Look what the heck are you smoking an ungated vig in a 13 player setup is absolutely fucking insanity levels of strong. Like arguably stronger than whatever the heck Bork's role was and illicit.

[Cabd]

Can we like, ACTUALLY talk about that marcistar read though, Luke?

I got the exact opposite impression from her replies to unwnd, they sort of reminded me of my first large theme.

What data do you have that makes you feel otherwise?

[Cabd]

If I townread this now I'm admitting to being too lazy for this game
marcistar

This, but unironically. Explain?

[Cabd]

Can we like, ACTUALLY talk about that marcistar read though, Luke?

I got the exact opposite impression from her replies to unwnd, they sort of reminded me of my first large theme.

What data do you have that makes you feel otherwise?

This is an open invite to the room btw.

[Cabd]

Can we like, ACTUALLY talk about that marcistar read though, Luke?

I got the exact opposite impression from her replies to unwnd, they sort of reminded me of my first large theme.

What data do you have that makes you feel otherwise?

This is an open invite to the room btw.

we aren't synced but I think we're both at about a low tier town.

The DGB tier?

[Cabd]

If i was in f3 with Luke and Marci, i'd vote Luke thrice right now. But i'm not.

[Cabd]

If i was in f3 with Luke and Marci, i'd vote Luke thrice right now. But i'm not.

get out of my head.

Nu-uh it's comfy in here.

I'm subleasing space and making great rent premiums.

[Cabd]

Also pretty sure EVERYONE in this game is "conformable" in some way? Feels like that kind of game.

Smalltown vibes, a bit.

[Cabd]

This is going to be a BEAST of a game.

Greetings, not-so-gentle-beings.

ffs @ my role

Trying to rush me down so that you can get a big neighborhood eh?

You're too slow, GiF.

I've already got my page 1 townread.

It'smedotjaypag

Logically it has to be me or luke then, since everyone else's content sucks

:/

My snoopy heart breaks.

It most definitely wasn't, that was one notsci post and one fferypost, and i'd bet a significant amount of funds on it.

Or vice versa and I'm a dummy dummy who has a dumb face, but either way it wasn't both notsci or both ffery!

Urg, first attempt failed, though not for great reasons.

Cabd's early interactions range from neutral to light positive, and their DGB/Kate Bishop interactions read like a townie approaching it. So I have good town vibes.

However, the fact he knows me and gets why I (and Niamh) might be sad/upset that our Role PM turned out so miserable, the symapthy there also rang town... which is an issue. I'm going to have a hard time ever feeling comfortable town reading him strongly with that on the resume as one of the main things.

So I need to drop it and space backwards towards other things. I'll see how Cabd takes my reads in the morning, maybe I'll find more town nuggets from him.

But for the moment, Cabd is not strong town the way I am looking for (but he does look town).

This is the least "lazy" and most accurate take on my play so far, yeah.

WRT bolder, yeah, in the last game the people MOST pushing ITT sympathy were scum taking advantage of you, namely CephTD and Notsci. It's not a good reason to town read me, there are plenty of other better ones that will become apparent over time!

[Cabd]

It's... interesting(?) that this reaction hasn't received scrutiny similar to Toogeloo's 235.

It's also interesting you were the only one to notice this, when I kinda of went out of my way to make obvious parallels!

[Cabd]

I may or may not have been raw/tilted when reacting to manatee's post due to the bastard game that shall not be named.

[Cabd]

I agree upon reflection that it's best used as a during the day doublelim for the time being.

[Cabd]

I just had some unholy tinfoil theory

Those are THE BEST KIND

[Cabd]

Speaking of Cabd, in 633 you reference your reaction to ManateeGal as being a reaction test, right? Were you expecting anyone in particular to react a certain way, or was it geared towards getting a reaction from anyone in particular?

yes and no!

Everything I do, I try to extract max value out of. I did try to shape my objections similar to what had hit the thread re: LLD's role but they were also genuinely my thoughts at the time, in that I struggle to see how this setup will be set up around what is effectively double day. Generally speaking, I try to ascribe to mods that they won't make a single player or role have so much agency that it denies others theirs completely, but that would be the case here if Manatee and LLD are both town.

[Cabd]

You were 3p and my heart was torn in two

I mean I had a sign out on the curb stating this!

[Cabd]

Oh my.

Kate?

[Cabd]

LLD CAN I PLEASE VOTE MARCISTAR

the sky has opened up and told me this is a sign..
why r u so excited to vote me?

Cute flat lass? Fluffy?

[Cabd]

Sure, shoot.

[Cabd]

Cabd, with his eyes and ears open.

[Cabd]

It's definitely becoming a larger problem. I noticed is mostly with bell in the last game, but "You aren't allowed to scum read me lol and it's a pox on your house if you do" is completely against the idea of the game of mafia. People get to live inside their heads and know their role PMs but like, you can't expect everyone to have that luxury.

Being wrong is a thing that happens. By definition, a LOT in a game like this.

At the risk of making your hair stand on end for what is explicitly a blatant buddying attempt: Wanna just be in thread neighbors for a while? I for one am open to hearing about your take on fferysci. As the game that shall not be named showed, my reads aren't ALWAYS xenoblade tier perfect. Maybe I'm missing something major that you're seeing.

[Cabd]

devil's bargain

In fairness, last time this happened was the Unwnd Large?

[Cabd]

Cabd was saying there was scum between Luke and Marci

I don't recall saying this actually?

[Cabd]

Which of you played in yggdrassil?

[Cabd]

Okay yeah so it wasn't you, but she did something similar in a game not too long ago!

viewtopic.php?p=12793780#p12793780

[Cabd]

(she was scum and I was town so it made me laugh when you used the term devil's bargain)

[Cabd]

I see. Do you want to continue?

I offered knowing this!

[Cabd]

Spoiler: The Hood PT for LLD and Cabd, no Kates allowed

So yeah, I totally get where you're coming from WRT the high strung how dare yous. It cost us the game, somewhat, in that one I refuse to acknowledge, because Bell was soooooo smug about being town and having a notsci town tell that he got completely ridden over by a tiny bit of effort to leave the scum range from notsci.

I did like the reaction to some nuggets of knowledge I handed out to ffery. I feel like her townbinning me "for now" is a over-correction to how terribly ~bastardgamegrrrhere~ went and that it will probably mean-revert to a happy medium. In some ways the early and eager townbinning of me WOULD be alarming if not for that context.

They are not "out of ranges" by any means. And being smug about their current body of work is not warranted. I have gotten the feeling the smugness is more that they feel they can be smug about their ability to get more townread over time, though.

[Cabd]

Spoiler: The Hood PT for LLD and Cabd, no Kates allowed

So yeah, I totally get where you're coming from WRT the high strung how dare yous. It cost us the game, somewhat, in that one I refuse to acknowledge, because Bell was soooooo smug about being town and having a notsci town tell that he got completely ridden over by a tiny bit of effort to leave the scum range from notsci.

I did like the reaction to some nuggets of knowledge I handed out to ffery. I feel like her townbinning me "for now" is a over-correction to how terribly ~bastardgamegrrrhere~ went and that it will probably mean-revert to a happy medium. In some ways the early and eager townbinning of me WOULD be alarming if not for that context.

They are not "out of ranges" by any means. And being smug about their current body of work is not warranted. I have gotten the feeling the smugness is more that they feel they can be smug about their ability to get more townread over time, though.

Spoiler:

This tracks for me, and as I've mentioned I've just got no interest in pursuing them today, not at the moment at least.

As I brought up though, I felt them daring me to vote them was partially that arrogant confidence and partially them knowing that if I did it would derail the push all together. It feels like every time I look at them I can see scum motivation in the actions that is saddled beside arrogant confidence in their ability to be read as town.

If I approach in good faith, I feel like I have to find them scum. Because the only way I find them town is if I approach in bad faith and start assuming they're being like this for the reasons you've described. It's part of what bothers me, because I'd like to stay in good faith?

Spoiler: Moar

But first, more blatant emotional processing stuff....

I literally fist pumped when I saw the mechanical part of your claim in that it makes you town but then I put two and two together about your literal favorite isekeai character and it was a chain reaction of the grin dropping from my face into horror when I realized the implications. Generally speaking people pick who they pick in a upick game to have their favorite character done justice. I can't speak for the mod himself as I don't live in his head, but I'm SPECULATING that no research was done besides watching the first few episodes of the anime where Katria shows up. <end>

Right now, you still want Toog to die a death, yes? What do you make of WhemeStar's reaction to Marci's posting, and do you want to talk more about marci herself? She might be an important read this game for several reasons.

[Cabd]

KATEEEEEEEEEEEE your nugget just grew into an entire bag of Kirkland ready to eat frozen meals.

[Cabd]

Spoiler: The Hood PT for LLD and Cabd, no Kates allowed

So yeah, I totally get where you're coming from WRT the high strung how dare yous. It cost us the game, somewhat, in that one I refuse to acknowledge, because Bell was soooooo smug about being town and having a notsci town tell that he got completely ridden over by a tiny bit of effort to leave the scum range from notsci.

I did like the reaction to some nuggets of knowledge I handed out to ffery. I feel like her townbinning me "for now" is a over-correction to how terribly ~bastardgamegrrrhere~ went and that it will probably mean-revert to a happy medium. In some ways the early and eager townbinning of me WOULD be alarming if not for that context.

They are not "out of ranges" by any means. And being smug about their current body of work is not warranted. I have gotten the feeling the smugness is more that they feel they can be smug about their ability to get more townread over time, though.

Spoiler:

This tracks for me, and as I've mentioned I've just got no interest in pursuing them today, not at the moment at least.

As I brought up though, I felt them daring me to vote them was partially that arrogant confidence and partially them knowing that if I did it would derail the push all together. It feels like every time I look at them I can see scum motivation in the actions that is saddled beside arrogant confidence in their ability to be read as town.

If I approach in good faith, I feel like I have to find them scum. Because the only way I find them town is if I approach in bad faith and start assuming they're being like this for the reasons you've described. It's part of what bothers me, because I'd like to stay in good faith?

Spoiler: Moar

But first, more blatant emotional processing stuff....

I literally fist pumped when I saw the mechanical part of your claim in that it makes you town but then I put two and two together about your literal favorite isekeai character and it was a chain reaction of the grin dropping from my face into horror when I realized the implications. Generally speaking people pick who they pick in a upick game to have their favorite character done justice. I can't speak for the mod himself as I don't live in his head, but I'm SPECULATING that no research was done besides watching the first few episodes of the anime where Katria shows up. <end>

Right now, you still want Toog to die a death, yes? What do you make of WhemeStar's reaction to Marci's posting, and do you want to talk more about marci herself? She might be an important read this game for several reasons.

Spoiler:

I want Toog to full claim and not this half claim garbage, or die. Toog is sufficiently suspicious that this "i have a confirmable role" nonsense is worrying.

What I think it might mean is Toog has a rolecop. Which I don't think it particularly town. Infact I have a hard time thinking of a "confirmable" role that is indeed townie for Toog in this perspective. But especially the half claim that was done was very bad.

I think Wheme's zeal is kind of weird, but I think explicitly asking me if they can vote Marci codes town for me. I just think it's a very realistic trajectory for them.

Marci... Talk to me about Marci because this intimidation factor has me concerned people might read it as scum when it's an easy person to kill, but I don't have a strong town read there by any means.

Also, yes. It's a lot more than just a shame about our role but we're trying not to make JJH feel too bad about it.

Spoiler: MOAR of MOAR

In general I think this game should be played like it's smalltown, as I mentioned earlier, because EVERY role is confirm-able in some way is the feeling I've gotten. I think unwnd mentioned this as well about treating it like all vanilla.

Setting aside Toog, I think that Marci is one of my strongest townreads here, and I didn't expect that but sometimes RNJESUS comes at you fast, just like life. As for why, up until this afternoon, I'd have said because she is nervous but trying her best anyways and not crumpling like a wet cardboard sheet that was first soaked in cat urine. You were not in Tarot, but like.... I caught scum-her and we speed-limmed her in the first two hours of day one, before half the game thread even got to check in and make a single post.

Now? Now I've got that reason AND more that I don't want to get into yet.... although I believe the Kate Bishop slot will know and see what I saw WRT my softs. And how we go from here is going to be important.

I actually expect that the Kate folks will want to square reads lists somewhat soon, in some ways I'm shocked that mine wasn't demanded before theirs was freely given.

[Cabd]

Spoiler: The Hood PT for LLD and Cabd, no Kates allowed

So yeah, I totally get where you're coming from WRT the high strung how dare yous. It cost us the game, somewhat, in that one I refuse to acknowledge, because Bell was soooooo smug about being town and having a notsci town tell that he got completely ridden over by a tiny bit of effort to leave the scum range from notsci.

I did like the reaction to some nuggets of knowledge I handed out to ffery. I feel like her townbinning me "for now" is a over-correction to how terribly ~bastardgamegrrrhere~ went and that it will probably mean-revert to a happy medium. In some ways the early and eager townbinning of me WOULD be alarming if not for that context.

They are not "out of ranges" by any means. And being smug about their current body of work is not warranted. I have gotten the feeling the smugness is more that they feel they can be smug about their ability to get more townread over time, though.

Spoiler:

This tracks for me, and as I've mentioned I've just got no interest in pursuing them today, not at the moment at least.

As I brought up though, I felt them daring me to vote them was partially that arrogant confidence and partially them knowing that if I did it would derail the push all together. It feels like every time I look at them I can see scum motivation in the actions that is saddled beside arrogant confidence in their ability to be read as town.

If I approach in good faith, I feel like I have to find them scum. Because the only way I find them town is if I approach in bad faith and start assuming they're being like this for the reasons you've described. It's part of what bothers me, because I'd like to stay in good faith?

Spoiler: Moar

But first, more blatant emotional processing stuff....

I literally fist pumped when I saw the mechanical part of your claim in that it makes you town but then I put two and two together about your literal favorite isekeai character and it was a chain reaction of the grin dropping from my face into horror when I realized the implications. Generally speaking people pick who they pick in a upick game to have their favorite character done justice. I can't speak for the mod himself as I don't live in his head, but I'm SPECULATING that no research was done besides watching the first few episodes of the anime where Katria shows up. <end>

Right now, you still want Toog to die a death, yes? What do you make of WhemeStar's reaction to Marci's posting, and do you want to talk more about marci herself? She might be an important read this game for several reasons.

Spoiler:

I want Toog to full claim and not this half claim garbage, or die. Toog is sufficiently suspicious that this "i have a confirmable role" nonsense is worrying.

What I think it might mean is Toog has a rolecop. Which I don't think it particularly town. Infact I have a hard time thinking of a "confirmable" role that is indeed townie for Toog in this perspective. But especially the half claim that was done was very bad.

I think Wheme's zeal is kind of weird, but I think explicitly asking me if they can vote Marci codes town for me. I just think it's a very realistic trajectory for them.

Marci... Talk to me about Marci because this intimidation factor has me concerned people might read it as scum when it's an easy person to kill, but I don't have a strong town read there by any means.

Also, yes. It's a lot more than just a shame about our role but we're trying not to make JJH feel too bad about it.

Spoiler: MOAR of MOAR

In general I think this game should be played like it's smalltown, as I mentioned earlier, because EVERY role is confirm-able in some way is the feeling I've gotten. I think unwnd mentioned this as well about treating it like all vanilla.

Setting aside Toog, I think that Marci is one of my strongest townreads here, and I didn't expect that but sometimes RNJESUS comes at you fast, just like life. As for why, up until this afternoon, I'd have said because she is nervous but trying her best anyways and not crumpling like a wet cardboard sheet that was first soaked in cat urine. You were not in Tarot, but like.... I caught scum-her and we speed-limmed her in the first two hours of day one, before half the game thread even got to check in and make a single post.

Now? Now I've got that reason AND more that I don't want to get into yet.... although I believe the Kate Bishop slot will know and see what I saw WRT my softs. And how we go from here is going to be important.

I actually expect that the Kate folks will want to square reads lists somewhat soon, in some ways I'm shocked that mine wasn't demanded before theirs was freely given.

That confident?

Spoiler:

If it is what I think it is? More so than my read of anyone else, even you.

[Cabd]

That's a lot to read into a maybe, Cabd.

I've only had this read for five minutes.

But if anything ever happened to her, I'd kill everyone in this room, and then myself.

[Cabd]

Do you like, want to talk about it? Or is this one of those twilight zone twist endings where it's me all along?

[Cabd]

Cool, we can apply a "bucket" tag and move on, then.

It's actually food tell time.

Potato lemon logs and burgers!

[Cabd]

That's just how games are now Toog

Geriatric style would be nice but mod doesn't agree so I'm gonna keep it rolling

What is geriatric style? I feel I should be the designated trendsetter for this.

Geriatric_Ruleset

[Cabd]

painbringer

Only transitively, much MUCH more white.

[Cabd]

Yes.

And no reply is expected given you'd have to cross the no touchie picket line and you're not a scab, are you?

[Cabd]

The unseen sarcasm tags are the deadliest.

[Cabd]

Interested in hearing your objections to the "have manatee do second elim with public consensus" plan?

[Cabd]

Cabd seems like other stuff is occupying his mental gamespace right now.

Yes, but no?

I think it's pretty settled that my suspicions were correct and firebringer lives among us in my top townread slot.

[Cabd]

Interested in hearing your objections to the "have manatee do second elim with public consensus" plan?

Was I correct to take away from our short convo last night that you don't have questions for me about how I've approached the game and you in particular?

I think my observations were valid about the postmortem but if you feel they're not you are welcome to engage on that aspect of things.

[Cabd]

I'm fine with co-signing Dunn's plan

[Cabd]

Cabd was saying there was scum between Luke and Marci

I don't recall saying this actually?

This appears to have been lost to the ether.

[Cabd]

I have not meta'd toog.

I don't think a meta-ing of toog is really required for the alarm saxons to ring out here, and recent games have demonstrated that if anything, I didn't do enough to force my reads down throats even when I was less sure of them, as they were correct. And that I have a weakness for stuff like what cephtd pulled.

[Cabd]

Happy birthday, Diamond Sentinel.

May your fist unclench from the smoke filled chamber one day.

[Cabd]

Err, scumday, not birthday.

[Cabd]

This seems like a random thread for a happy scumday to Diamond Sentinel.

? You linked the scum PT with him in it and I noticed it was his scumday lol.

[Cabd]

If we want her to use the second option then the second vote should wait until the elim is decided.

IMO she should use her second vote on the wagon that is mostly decided (Toogeloo) and we figure out the second elimination with votes, rather than vice versa

I like this plan of using it on someone that is mostly decided upon and then doing another wagon the conventional way, but I dont know if Toogeloo is 'mostly decided' yet.

I also think Manatee shouldn't place it until close to the time the second wagon is decided, because if she places the first vote on town they may get demotivated and not help the rest of the day. Whereas if Manatee decided on Toogeloo now but didnt vote him, and he is town, he might still be so townie in solving for the second wagon that manatee could rethink using her vig-vote on him.

You have a solid knack for posting stuff that notsci and I hate.

Unpack this for me? I got the opposite impression, and while I'm not sure about the conclusion, I didn't mind the attempts to work out the theory?

[Cabd]

Just so we're entirely clear my stance is not about the survivalism. It's purely the response to the joke post feels forced.

NB4 scumteam has an achievement unlocked esque requirement to use the skull emojis.

[Cabd]

Sigh.

[Cabd]

ew

[Cabd]

What a.... lukewarm... response.

[Cabd]

Cabd do I have to get some alcohol in you first or can we do the tarot thing all over again

Something something have to sheep my birbgirl something something.

[Cabd]

Actually, Our Lady Katria's opinions on recent events would be quite welcome.

[Cabd]

Heads up, please. DGB is not using "she" pronouns. DGB is using "it" pronouns.

It matters!

[Cabd]

Cabd do I have to get some alcohol in you first or can we do the tarot thing all over again

Something something have to sheep my birbgirl something something.

I'm still kinda pissed that you chose violence.

Aaaand I appear to have lost the chain of thought here.

[Cabd]

Cabd do I have to get some alcohol in you first or can we do the tarot thing all over again

Something something have to sheep my birbgirl something something.

I'm still kinda pissed that you chose violence.

Aaaand I appear to have lost the chain of thought here.

This was a joke about pooky sheeping his cat.

[Cabd]

I too wished to murderify annie and pooky. And cephtd.

But setup said fuck you.

[Cabd]

Actually, Our Lady Katria's opinions on recent events would be quite welcome.

C'est quoi tu veux parler a propos?

Luke's re-entry, and thoughts of SSBM.

[Cabd]

try mediating the other night rather than nodding along

I think you're mistaken here.... But your feelings are your feelings.

[Cabd]

{Dunn.......Cabd, GIF}
{Rhiannon, DGB(?)} DGB feels right on this tier but it's not as solid other reads to this point
{Wheme, marci.......manatee} niggles about manatee's role, but eh
{Unwnd} true null
{Luke}
{ssbm, Toog(?)}

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This is synced, but my reads are awfully fluid.

Toog's in flux. I feel like he's doing AI stuff now, maybe? Most of his posts from that LLD sus onward haven't sat right. I have a feeling Nacho would tell me this is town toog, but I never totally nailed down what makes town toog town to Nacho.

Maybe ssbm is where I'll want to vote.

This was practically an eternity ago in mafia age.

[Cabd]

Cabd I don't think I can let you get away without a hard read on Kate today. Tracking your read on that slot and its evolution being natural will be important for reading you and for how to handle Kate.

~65-35 Town as of right now. Which is sufficient to day one pass, and re-eval based on how stuff goes, if I'm there to see the dust settle. If not, I left enough cookie crumbs in the trail.

[Cabd]

I am no Cabd-expert but

Early interactions he said he was just gonna set himself ablaze, but the smoke has cleared. Now what's next?

Thankfully, you won't ever need to worry about me this game. Not_Mafia has you covered assuming they do town stuff, like, at all.

[Cabd]

ive not been a fan of the kate bishop slot

Hmm, guess I'd better talk about WHY the 65 after all?

[Cabd]

Eh fuck it, what's an arms race without the willingness to advance it and let the other side find your unexploded ordinance to reverse engineer it.

I'll be home in like two hours to break it down.

[Cabd]

Cabd is being hush but whatver

If I were a dayvig with one shot, I'd probably have hipshot unwnd for the two-post reaction format to the dayguilty thing.

but this game is going to be won on consensus building and there's no "easy" three man scumteam. I don't want the Annie or Cephtd of this game getting away from me while I'm alive.

[Cabd]

LMFAO luke, not unwnd. I had replying to you on the mind.

[Cabd]

unwnd claimed a daycop guilty on you. Thoughts?

I think that never happened lol

If it did, then I assume its a gambit, because I had unwnd pegged for town before I left

I didn't murder the victim.

But If I did, here's how I did it.

[Cabd]

unwnd claimed a daycop guilty on you. Thoughts?

I think that never happened lol

If it did, then I assume its a gambit, because I had unwnd pegged for town before I left

I didn't murder the victim.

But If I did, here's how I did it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Did_It

[Cabd]

I might effort it! But not from work~!

[Cabd]

I limit myself to half a screen when working, side by side ISO doesn't work so well.

[Cabd]

Okay first of all I want you to know from the bottom of my heart we are never going to abbreviate your name as "Man". That... I think we both know how problematic and painful that would be.

^^^^^^^^^Echoing this x9trillion

[Cabd]

nobody

Nice shade, calling luke a nobody!

[Cabd]

Oh btw the quick and dirty Notsci-part-of-Kate read is, fucker knew he was about to win in bloodstained but didn't feel nervous here, like he'd be afraid of me nailing him while actually having any sort of thread control this time. And like the Gefjun Disturber in Code Geass... I highly suspect Annie wouldn't have had the time to devise countermeasures on the fly.

[Cabd]

Manatee's recent post is off

But i wouldn't categorize her as scun

if my own theories are right

You can't challenge her, she'll kill you.

I kind of found this post town, and DGB's self-deprecating (as opposed to my self-deficating) humor tends to be a towntell for it. But it's not a strong one, just a hipfire!

[Cabd]

self-deprecating

Although now we won't be able to see any vanilla cop joke tells.

[Cabd]

If I need to be blunt

I don't give a shit what Manatee says she is, she's not town in current dialogue

That was blunt indeed.

[Cabd]

I mean she's probably just on a call, it IS working hours for the USA.

[Cabd]

I kind of liked you in Xenoblade too tho!

Although I kept confusing you and l4pe.

[Cabd]

I mean she's probably just on a call, it IS working hours for the USA.

west coast time

BEST coast time.

[Cabd]

If there's one thing I admire about unwnd it's his willingness to say things out loud instead of leaving them assumed....

[Cabd]

Someone has to do it

My only regret is that I have but one vote to give to my country. Or something like that

[Cabd]

Honestly I didn’t think I would be keeping up with this game but ever since this started I have been coming on the site a lot more every day. Idk if it’s the game itself or the playerlist because i really like this playerlist so thanks everyone!

The true gift was each other all along.

Or as this stupid billboard that I have to pass every single day reads

The point of it all is helping each other through it all

Because that makes total sense and doesn't sound cringe as fuck

[Cabd]

Windstar probably would have been the kind of person to vote to murder Sir gentleman the 6th and that makes me sad

[Cabd]

Cabd ur so cringeee

Actually his best trait

By subconscious gives me a highlight reel of all of the stupid cringe crap I did your high and high school pretty much on a nightly basis while I'm trying to fall asleep so I'm going to have to hard disagree here

[Cabd]

I am driving way too fast to fix any of these typos so put your thinking hats on and figure it out as far as what I'm intending to say I guess

[Cabd]

I'm just waiting for the right game to break out the sarcastic approach to spam checklist meme to bring back the peak 2013 cringe

[Cabd]

I almost brought it out against the plan that Luke proposed and I'm really glad I didn't because it would have been major egg on my face

[Cabd]

terrifying

Did you place both of your votes on DGB or how exactly do we know that you're using your second vote?

[Cabd]

I want to make like the FDA and demand an audit trail

[Cabd]

If I put you on an alignment chart you would be Lawful Cringe now, Cabd

You know in modern times we call that fatherhood.

[Cabd]

Well that answers my question about if my message had gotten intercepted mid-carrier pigeon with a resounding no no it did not

[Cabd]

I just dad laughed at that and I'm not even there yet!

But has your wardrobe been taken over by cargo shorts yet?

[Cabd]

terrifying

Did you place both of your votes on DGB or how exactly do we know that you're using your second vote?

hurt tag

I believe DGB has an extremely famous quote about how I feel about the lack of a claim even with such obvious intent in the air in regards to the panda.

[Cabd]

We still don’t even know if ours got delivered!

Also, does anyone else notice that Luke took the word of someone in his null tier about his read in another

Because I did!

Most likely delayed in processing because I am using mimecast these days and it's a good product but boy is the processing delay for suspicious messages way too long.

Have you tried sending it in slightly planer text without an attachment?

[Cabd]

I still wear sweats and hoodies so thankfully no

There is at least five egg jokes here

[Cabd]

Apparently I'm very good at dishing and very terrible at taking then. Because I know what signals were directed at me but trying to parse them feels like I'm being asked to download a signal converter for the low cost of all of my brain cells

[Cabd]

terrifying

Did you place both of your votes on DGB or how exactly do we know that you're using your second vote?

hurt tag

I believe DGB has an extremely famous quote about how I feel about the lack of a claim even with such obvious intent in the air in regards to the panda.

im sorry cab i cannot understand this one. especially without the context of the mentioned quote

I believe it has said quote in its signature line.

But it goes something like this.

Quoting your role PM takes mirror seconds but fabricating a fake claim takes an eternity.

[Cabd]

Especially after both living scum in blood stained pulled the I refuse you can hate me for it but it's anti-town for me to jump into the wood chipper stuff call me Pharaoh because my heart has been hardened

[Cabd]

I'm pretty sure I know exactly which post from each of you I should be looking at it's just really hard apparently for me to actually translate it's okay I will keep working on it let's just drop it for now. I'll probably slap myself on the forehead and feel really dumb when I get it.

[Cabd]

Somewhere in a scum PT a third party to this conversation has a giant cork board full of red string and push pins trying to connect all the dots so I don't particularly feel like making the job any easier

[Cabd]

so you r skeptical that i did not claim the hurt tag as part of my role? or that i didnt respond immediately? im feeling pretty stupid rn,,,,,

I am saying that the continued refusal to do a full claim by toog should be taken as a near scum claim given how long it has gone on at this point

[Cabd]

This is complete and pure conjecture on my point No bannerino mods that JJH is not the kind of person to provide bork style ready to go fake claims

[Cabd]

Luke this is one of those things where you should really just drop it because it's going to fix itself later.

[Cabd]

I fully concur that I want to hear more from her That's just because I enjoy interacting with her as a person and I also kind of feel horribly about what happened in tarot not because it was the wrong move to make but because it denied her the ability to flail and squirm more.