So unless the lurkers or Primate want to talk about lynching inHim, I'm going to spend the next couple of days as if I won't be around day 2...spewing things that may not be clear to me now but might show up later if current trends continue.
I figure one scum was able to get a lot of posts in and really establish themselves as an active "contributing" player. Someone that tries to look like they are invested in scum and acting like a leader for people to rally behind on a wagon. I think that's inHim, some people think that's me, but in general I've seen scum try and get a trusted voice in a game that has plenty of lurkers and low contributors. Gamma and hohum are the highest posters but I think that is normal for them so you can't fault them for it blindly. If they were scum they'd just have an even easier time filling that role. UncertainKitten from
Objection! is one example that comes to mind from my recent games. She played this role to the extreme and I feel got caught for it by going after townies when they were still valuable pawns in her game. Basically each day she seemed to already knew who the best person to target would be, and tried to string along followers with the promise of a good result. A lot of focus was placed on getting the wagon up and getting people to acknowledge it. Questioning the player always looked like a secondary goal even if she did do that to an extent. I still think inHim's treatment of WLC looks this way.
There is probably a scum that is trying to stay as even-handed and safe as possible so they don't draw unwanted attention to themselves. It might be Equinox, Fluttershy or WLC for staying away from the Jahudo/inHim wagons. The latter two you could argue haven't posted enough to be playing the safe scum role, so maybe this player doesn't exist yet or at all. I just remember in recent memory, Kdub playing this role really well in
Cowboy Bebop remix and thinking back to games where scum win fairly easily its partly because no one gets a good handle on the safe scum. From my perspective I can already imagine scum eying my wagon and wondering if they will draw more attention by joining it late and being a part of a mislynch, or avoiding it and the standard tell of "x number of scum are always on a mislynch".
Don't worry about that unless I get lynched. Or until we know both inHim and my flips.
There is also a likelyhood of a lurker scum*. I saw Haschel Cedricson play this role really well:
Seinfeld Mafia. What I took from that performance is that its good to say "I like this, I don't like that, etc" but don't get involved in an issue that hasn't been explored or will not be explored without you. Join something where you can take a backseat and show off a little unique angle. In this case I am reluctant to think Espy would go against the more popular WLC wagon and try to get TheLonging back to being a popular wagon, unless WLC is scum that is. But even then I think that is an unwanted connection to a buddy for someone that realizes they are not active enough to be a leader. But so far I can still see Pinkie Pie or Fluttershy in this role. Mina looks like she wants to be active and more importantly appear active to others, but its hard to tell until she starts making conclusions that lead to votes and pressure.
*When I mean lurker, its likely they had a legitimate excused absence during the game but when they were supposed to be active or "catching up", they will exhibit a lackluster playstyle.
This doesn't mean there has to be one and only one from each group, but I've seen good examples recently so I think they are viables strategies for scum to take. It also helps in the case people go lurker hunting, the active leader scum can direct people around the lurker scum while the safe scum tries to ease any tension created between town and other scum (at least more so than they would ease tension between town vs. town).
