Okay, done reading K-Scope's posts.
1.)
He seemed to not want people to listen to Glork during Day Two (in the sense that he showed 'discomfort' when players such as Pablito – who turned out to be town – agreed with Glork). Glork was largely going after Pooky (which would then cause K-Scope to shift his 'suspicions' to people who agree
with Glork, since he probably didn't want to bring scrutiny on himself by opposing Glork directly
), which suggests K-Scope was willing to (indirectly) defend his partner(s).
2.)
I think Post 1044 could be fairly telling. I had directly forced him to give opinions on some of the more experienced players in the game who he had been ignoring / not talking about. His response were:
- LuckayLuck [Townie] 'undecided; he "looks good" but he's 'unconvinced'
- Glork [Townie] is 'undecided'
- MrBuddyLee [Townie] is leaning towards town (and note MBL was attacking Glork)
- Zindaras [Townie] is 'town for now'
This suggests that K-Scope was playing a very "hedge my bets"-type strategy; he doesn't want to step on any large toes this early in the game, although he does become more aggressive as the players dwindle, as I would expect scum to do as victory was probably closer to his grasp.
- 3.) He was very reluctant to talk about or express suspicion on spectrumvoid [Scum] in general throughout all of his posts, though he did vote for Pooky fairly early upon replacing in, and left it at that. His only votes which seemed 'serious' early on were on cb0x/Lowell [alive] and Pablito [Townie]. I would bet his 'serious' posts are indicative of scum trying to get a townsperson lynched. I will say that so far, K-Scope's comments on cb0x/Lowell bolster my thoughts that Lowell is probably town.
- 4.) He also went out of his way to say 'he is not convinced MoS is scum' in Post 1248;, when it seems most of his other statements have been along the lines of 'I'm not convinced so-and-so is
town
'. This could easily be happenstance of the manner in which questions were posed to him, though.
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However, I will note that this seems to be a response to Glork's
case on MoS, Post 1282 which suggests that K-Scope's main objective at this point in time was to undermine Glork. Seeing as Pooky was dead at this time, if he is indirectly defending somebody here it is most likely to be one of MoS (the person he wanted "smited") or possibly Nightson (now Toaster Strudel).
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Sidenote: He does use the same terminology when talking of me in Post 1318, though. It is noted in this post that he is propounding a very similar view of Fritz ("Fritz is just being Fritz") instead of taking a firmer stance on him – I can understand the position coming from a townsperson (obviously) but now that he's come up scum it might mean he was simply trying to avoid talking about Fritz in the first place (in the same manner he avoided talking about spectrumvoid).
- 5.) He goes after Dead Rikimaru/Smashy almost his whole Kingship. Hmm. I will have to read through Day Four again, because this is
awfully
reminiscent of how he treated Yosarian2 on Day Seven – and it seems K-Scope's main 'strategy' (if I can call it that) was to 'set up' lynches for later, by subtly keeping his doors open ("I'm unconvinced") and then kicking people when they were down, as evidenced by his attack on DR-King, his attack on Zindie-King and his current attack on Yos2-King/me. He never really let go of his mnowax2 vote when DR/Smashy was replaced – reminiscent of his early Pablito vote (which he meekly dropped once Thesp replaced in, I have noticed).
- 6.) Keeping with tradition, when K-Scope analyzed Yos2 when I gave everybody assignments, he says Yos2 "leans towards scum", and he hedges his bets with "mixed feelings" about
me
. As soon as I misexecuted, he jumped on me, and immediately took up the "Yos2 + PJ" chant (see Point #5 above). His interactions with Yos2 from yesterday does not
look like a scum being bused by his partner – it looks like scum trying to stir trouble and then realizing he slipped up, so he tries to gloss over things by being as vague as possible.
- 7.) Overall, it appears that K-Scope had a particular order of calling for executions. The general pattern seems to be:
K-Scope's general pattern wrote:1.) Go
most
strongly after a townsperson (Pablito, and perhaps cb0x/Lowell and perhaps mnowax2).
2.) Leave doors open to attack/defend other townspeople as the situation warrants by making vague comments about 'suspicions'
3.) Keep a few 'non-lynch' votes on periodically, most likely to inflate the vote count on certain players without having to actually "push" on them.
4.) Try to be vague when talking about scum-partners
5.) Attack people who are attacking his scum-partners (as evidenced by attacking people who agreed with Glork-King when he went after Pooky, and he attacked Zindaras-King when he was going after spectrumvoid. This could also mean that when he attacked Yos-King, it was because Yos was on-track to execute some other scum-partner, but since Yos started by putting five people on his LoE it's hard to tell who K-Scope might have been trying to distract Yos away from).
His "non-lynch" votes have mostly been mnowax2 and Fritzler – he doesn't really "push" for them per se, but rather seems to go through the motions of saying, "yeah, you ought to execute these people". This could either be for 'soft' distancing or for trying to fluff a bandwagon so it looks more substantial.
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Overall, my reread of K-Scope has brought me to think the following of other players:
More Likely to be Town than Before
cb0x/Lowell (early attack target)
mnowax2 (late attack target)
Yos2 (attack target on final day; interaction do not look fake)
More Likely to be Scum than Before
MoS
Fritzler
Toaster Strudel
No Big Connections One Way or the Other
ThAdmiral
Cavane
RafK
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Of course, as I noted before, K-Scope tried to largely not talk about either Pooky or spectrumvoid, so the people without connections could in fact be more appropriate to be within the "more likely to be scum" category. Point #2, however, shows that not talking about somebody unless asked directly does not mean they are scum with K-Scope, so I won't make a firm conclusion on that.
After my reread, I will re
vote: Fritzler
. The person I am most interested in doing a reread on is MoS, at the moment – I shouldn't be forgetting that he has a knack for surviving very late into games as scum, though I obviously don't that in itself is a reason to suspect him.
