OPEN 649 — PICK YOUR POWER X/Y. EXPERIMENT OVER.

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VOTE: Chrimi

Salty that picking 1 actually worked.

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1. I'm pretty busy IRL right now, and this activity level is ridiculous, so I'm not going to seriously try to keep up until it slows down a little. Gutting on Troubador but not going to even try to justify it.

2. Setup analysis incoming, prepare to cover your eyes if you hate that sort of thing!

I confirmed with Bins that the mafia had the ability to communicate during the draft phase.

Generally speaking scum, like anyone else, would like to maximize their position in draft order, so it's unlikely that two scum would pick the same number. The vague WIFOM benefits of doing something unexpected just don't compare to the tangible benefits of having a powerful role or depriving the town of same.

Based on this, and looking at the draft order, we can provisionally conclude:

• At most one of {Dunnstral, gigabyteTroubadour} is scum.
  
• At most one of {Skelda, Charloux} is scum.
  
• At most one of {Ümläüt, pisskop} is scum.
  
• At most one of {Zachstralkita, cytheflyguy} is scum.
  
• At most one of {Vedith, Shadpowstep} is scum.

In my last PYP game when this was pointed out someone responded that focusing too much on this makes it easy to forget that singletons could also be scum, so we should just keep it in mind for when we actually get some scum flips.

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Dunn, I can vote you if Troubador flips scum if you want?

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VOTE: Vedith

Not buying the dumb tell.

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Maria looks awkward-awkward to me, not scum-awkward.

What makes you think she's scum specifically?

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You seem to have misunderstood.

@Killthestory

Explain your opportunistic-looking scumread.

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What do you think about Umlaut?

I'm leaning town on him but I'll have to ISO him to be sure.

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Anyone have meta with KTS? I'm taking a look at past games but secondhand meta isn't really as good.

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In my only other game with pisskop (PYP X/Y, oddly enough), I was thinking he was scum right up until my death. Not only was he town, he solved the game pretty much singlehandedly in five-player Lylo including identifying the mafia vengeful and making sure she was lynched last.

Up until that point he was pretty useless though (his top two suspects were a cop-cleared townie and a dead townie at one point, as I recall).

So... I guess I want to keep pisskop alive while disregarding everything he says.

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Trying to reread today, particularly regarding the major wagons, and hopefully post something substantial later on tonight.

Vedith said something else that pinged me since my vote but I can't remember what it was right now.

(I'm aware this is a pretty no-effort post but it's all I can muster right now.)

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...okay, just ISOed Vedith's recent posts and I think I may have hallucinated whatever it was. Still don't like the fake-looking dumbtell but don't have anything else to add to that, and I did like the manner of the brief questioning of Maria even though I think Maria is town.

UNVOTE: Vedith
VOTE: pisskop
He's making way more sense than he did when he was town.

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Too exhausted to reread tonight. I'll get it done tomorrow or else replace out.

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Too exhausted to reread tonight. I'll get it done tomorrow or else replace out.

Mod, please replace me out.

Sorry about that.