All right, list of suspects time. Most of these reads don't take possible town/scum motives as much as they probably should. Reading into motivation definitely isn't my forte (
yet
), plus it's day 1.
Sando
Looks town to me. Given my mangled other reads, I'll stay away from WIFOM and just accept the rare easy read when it rolls around.
hiphop
I originally had a scum read on him, but in retrospect a lot of what he's said is so logically sound and pro-town (at face value) that he's too risky a day 1 lynch for my taste. Upon skimming his posts in isolation, he looks
generally
town. But still, ignoring the no-lynch plan until Charter joke-voted for him was something scum would be prone to do, especially if they're caught off guard by the an apparently game-breaking strategy. On the other hand, some (trivial) remarks he makes
feel
town (e.g., "A good reason I didn't think of, until I read crypto's post," "Same question goes for you"). Then there are the gutsy statements like "Muh- your last post is a scum tell," which I admit could be scum building a recklessly proactive town appearance . . . so, yeah. Ugh. I guess I'll WIFOM myself into a null read.
le Chat
Probably town. His opening posts looked good. I hope he doesn't get replaced.
RayFrost
I took Team Aether's confirmation stage eagerness to be a newbie town tell. He vanished from the entire site, not just this game, so we can't hold lurking against him.
But.
Rayfrost gets an
FOS of astronomical proportions
for making
fifty posts
in various other threads (a mini game, a newbie game, and large game, plus some General Discussion and Mish Mash threads) since making his crybaby "I'm in school; I don't have the time" post on Friday.
X_~
I guess I'll put my money on inexperienced town.
muh316
Don't know what to make of him. If someone put a gun to my head, I'd have to say town. Meta says he's a lurkaholic.
Staple
Scum number one.
Empking
Probably town. (Mostly useless.)
Kaiveran
Irritating lack of activity. Jury's out.
EtherealCookie
Reads scummy. Hard to tell, though. Only made one post that actually went on the offensive (his list of suspects). So, yeah, null read.
mask man
Probably town. But iso-31 is what lends a shadow of doubt. Way too much analysis. He should have told Pomegranate to screw off. Still, I'd say town.
bigmc109
Town, by virtue of being town. Also, he was scum in my last game, so if he's scum in this one too there's been a serious tear in the fabric of the universe.
SerialClergyman
Not as strong a scum read as before. In fact, I'm leaning town. (Shoot me if he turns out scum.)
charter
Difficult to get any read on whatsoever. He certainly makes pro-town decisions. Some posts strike me as town, intuitively, but other times he says things that leave me scratching my head. I'm inclined to be more wary of him because he has such a massive amount of experience on the site.
Pomegranate
Reads scummy. Lurked until I whipped out my cute little pocket wrench and started beating her over the skull with the hard metal side. Iso-4 still makes me dry-heave every time I look at it. Zero scum hunting accomplished. Her statement that she lurks and/or doesn't scum-hunt effectively on day 1 doesn't quite match up to the meta example I posted. The excuse she made in iso-10 is really bad. I can't put enough emphasis on it.
Really, really bad.
Then she bandwagons on Staple, and gets away with it. She deserves much more attention than Muh316 for that. Her interrogation of Mask Man was petty, and then she was happy to drop it upon his second attempt at explanation.
FOS.
Right.
Today's Special Lynch (in order)
Staple
Pomegranate
RayFrost
Subject to Rapid Change (in no order)
EtherealCookie
hiphop
SerialClergyman
Get Your Hands Out of Your ****ing Pants and Post (in no order)
Kaiveran
RayFrost
