bittersweet said:
I have arrived. Town, we must batten down the hatches and eliminate the scum. @Yoho I nominate myself to be the leader.
Why did you tag Yoho? What's your read on the guy?
An interesting pick-up. I also pay attention to when players ping each other seemingly at random and question what their motives in doing so might be, so this is a +1 from me.
bittersweet said:
I feel like we should give some people a chance to play before we start offing random people.
I don't like this post because it follows Alexis' vote on Naomi, and I don't understand why he went at Naomi's rescue that fast.
I feel that Shuijing is pointing out here that bittersweet is attempting to white-knight Naomi. I'll need to re-read the interaction again but I do recall thinking at the time that bittersweet's post was a very reasonable* stance to take at that point.
*reasonable does not always mean town. Reasonable takes are often easy for scum to make in order to appear pro-town.
Finished page 2. My reads are :
Alexis is town.
Naomi is neutral.
Buttersweat is leaning scum.
I'm not sure on bittersweet yet, I'll need to read their ISO later, but I can at least see the train of thought that led Shui to this conclusion.
What do you think about his reads? Because we don't judge a book at it's cover here.
A very reasonable* stance to take. I would've preferred it if Shui offered up some thoughts on my reads at this point so that I'd have something to judge him by, but I think that the slight paranoia is warranted.
*reasonable in this instance is more likely +town because it pertains to a read of a specific player and not just generic "offing people early is bad" macro read. I hope that makes sense.
I can't believe this a true argument.
Now, this one could go either way for me. Town-Shui being worried that a wall-posting replacement may be pocketing his fellow towns... or scum-Shui worried that a wall-posting replacement is being widely town-read for an entry post.
I'll reserve judgment for now. I will point out, however, that I too thought Flowers' town-read of me came very easily based off a single post. Either that or the bar for scum-sub entry posts is extremely low here.
(on a veeery slightly positive note, does scum-Shui see me picking up suspicion and votes from Naomi and Alex, and just completely ignore me? Or does scum-Shui use that momentum to get more suspicion on me going. Not sure either way, and I think if I was to say 'no' I might be conf-biasing myself a little bit into *wanting* Shui to be town to reduce my PoE at this stage)
Naomi said:
juliet more relaxed open as town, why i locked her town.
Just from an entrance post you can feel they're relaxed. Not saying what you're telling me here is not true, but I hope Juliet will look "relaxed" across the pages, or I'll have to take the conclusion they're scummy from your pov if she doesn't look so.
This questioning is consistent with Shui's expressed skepticism of "easy" town-reads. There is paranoia here that I don't think is feigned, and I believe this interaction shows Shui is unpaired with both Naomi and Juliet.
@Pot Goblin This is where I'm up to on Shuijing's ISO so far. I welcome your thoughts and any continuation you might be able to provide.
I have to go to work soon so I'll finish up when I return.