@Johnny Sooshi where you at?
Sorry, some personal life drama that out my partner at odds with my mother-in-law took up my evening after dinner.
I'm not gonna elaborate how it works.
Why are you hesitating to say you're not mafia?
"I swear I'm not scum guys, btw not gonna explain my mechanic"
Also, I'm town aligned fwiw
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Vote: Ex
I like Viral's current posts, they fit with what Viral tends to do as town (if I remember correctly). I particularly like his recent read on Kirino, as Kirino has seemed pretty non-committal.
I don't like that SMS drops off and then comes back and full claims this way. It lines up with his softs, but it still isn't a good look. No other takes from, just a brief rehash of what everyone knows coupled with his claim and appeal.
In the same vein
@Morbid Minish has disappeared as well and while I understand she's handling medical stuff, I haven't really liked many of her posts at all this game. Just super bland stuff imo.
Hey, it's odd that you expect people not to vote for Ex if they're scum reading him just because Ex might name claim and die at some point. If he's scum he likely won't. He'll find a reason not to. Just like bussing it's not a foregone conclusion regardless of his alignment. The logistics will have to be right for it to happen, if that's what he wants. And if he doesn't want to, then votes will have to flow anyway. So there's no point in telling people to put it off without a solid reason.
Listen, going back to this I find there's only a very small window where KJ became a front runner in the wagons that scum!Mikey could have jumped off without looking bad. This point is about mid 100's, as prior to that Mikey was the sole KJ vote. After that KJ becomes a competing wagon first with my "fake wagon" of redirected votes, then with Mikey himself. Once KJ's wagon got to a point where scum!Mikey jumping wouldn't have saved him, bussing becomes an optimal play at that point since KJ is dead with or without scum!Mikey's vote but leaving it where it is provides opportunity to gain town cred. Given that Mikey's original vote came during RVS and had a touch of RVS to it itself (Mikey stating that if KJ's action wasn't bolded he'd 100% take it as a joke but since it was he's only 50% taking it as a joke), it's easy enough to write off as not that serious of a read. Throw in that Oocoo's vote on KJ was mis-recorded as for Chevy in the latter mid 100's and that Chevy's was redirected to me and it's reasonable to suspect scum!Mikey could have simply missed his window to move his vote before it became more trouble than it was worth. This was a long process just to say I don't feel like it's out of the realm of possibility for Mikey to still be scum despite the KJ wagon.
In other news I feel a little better about Viral after rereading yesterday. End of Day Reki still makes me lean scum in general, although the buzzer shot on Mikey does not, as there's nothing to be gained by that vote (KJ would still be lynched even if that was counted).
This makes me want to town lean Numbers hard. It's a great analysis of play and something that I don't see scum doing this much. Scum win on misdirection, so they aren't trying to iso solve when a player should unvote since it likely poorly frames innocents too much. The only flaw I see is that Scum Reki implies town Mikey if we take the Twilight vote from yesterday into account. Inverse isn't necessarily true though.
Given the posts so far on what's been said the convo options I like are:
A convo between Ex and Min is good since it shows whether they meld. If they don't, betting one or the other is scum.
A convo between Viral and Mikey. They're already going at it, so this may decline in necessity, but it could be insightful.
A convo between Viral and Reki. Same as above, but Reki still hadn't posted quite enough for my liking and I think this is a good way to see what they'll say to each other.
