Rampage Out of Space

[Csargo]

pzelda, did Lewwyn know you had a power?

[hollowkatt]

I'm just popping in to let y'all know I will be indisposed for some hours as usual, meaning I will be unable to defend myself. I fully plan to participate, defend, and attack at a much higher level than before given that I've actually caught up through the entire thread.

I can quickly offer that in terms of my vote yesterday, though I was more heavily scum-reading GG, I recognized that (due to my own fault entirely) I hadn't read through the thread as I should have and I was looking at a wagon with my top town-read, a slightly derp-cleared player I respect, and another player I town-read vs a wagon with my top scum-read, a null read, and a slight town read. The wisest choice was obvious.

If you could give a run down of the living today that'd be awesome

[hollowkatt]

oh my god, you suck!!!!!

How did my vote disappear?

vote: Hollowkatt
It's hard to OMGUS vote without the vote.

I just assumed the first post came with a vote :D

serious time though: Who's wolfy and why?

[hollowkatt]

I'm surely off on a flight of fancy here, but...

I feel like it could actually be that both Lewwyn and pzelda are scum and Gnome is the sk.

That's not unpossible

[Winston Hughes]

The rainbow vortex probs not a woof power?

In terms of flavour, I'd say it makes slightly more sense as a scum power than a town one (them being the weird bionic monstrosities here).

In terms of mechanics, my thought was that the scum can't kill the sk directly - they have to get it chopped - and that the vortex could be used to prevent the sk from killing one of them (as well as shutting down any town powers in the process).

But it is true that that kind of power would more usually be a townie thing.

[Garden Gnome]

Does Gnome kill Tim if SK?

If I were the SK, I would kill anyone I want without concern for my victim's alignment.
So much fun.
but I'm just town here.

[Winston Hughes]

Does Gnome kill Tim if SK?

No idea.

I've done no research around this at all, and am quite probably talking bollocks.

[Garden Gnome]

I just assumed the first post came with a vote :D

serious time though: Who's wolfy and why?

I'm starting to think Lewyyn. Seems to have a TMI factor.

[Garden Gnome]

vote: Lewwyn

[Winston Hughes]

vote: no lim

[Dolby]

Lewwyn and Zelda, what are the highlights and lowlights of neighbor chat, insofar as you're allowed to talk about it, if at all?

[Dolby]

Lewwyn and Zelda, what are the highlights and lowlights of neighbor chat, insofar as you're allowed to talk about it, if at all?

also, was neighbor chat open at nights and did you guys use it?

[Winston Hughes]

I'm starting to think Lewyyn. Seems to have a TMI factor.

I have a hint of this too, but it relates to you being the sk...

[Winston Hughes]

Just to wrap another length of tinfoil around my already bulging head, what if lew/zelda/tim had actually checked gnome as sk on n1...

[Csargo]

Just to wrap another length of tinfoil around my already bulging head, what if lew/zelda/tim had actually checked gnome as sk on n1...

[Csargo]

I'm thinking real hard, and have no idea how you're coming to these conclusions WH.

[Csargo]

I'm starting to think Lewyyn. Seems to have a TMI factor.

What gives you TMI vibes?

[Winston Hughes]

I'm thinking real hard, and have no idea how you're coming to these conclusions WH.

I hate being cleared. It does strange things to my mind.

[Csargo]

Why isn't pzelda sitting on GG yesterday?

[Winston Hughes]

Why isn't pzelda sitting on GG yesterday?

You mean if I'm somehow right about all of this?

I guess because after Gnome flipped sk, it would put both of them in the tmi firing line. I had a feeling Gnome was getting chopped yesterday, and was a little surprised when the wagon didn't pick up steam. If they were reading the game the same way I was, it would make sense that the scum didn't push any harder in that direction.

As for why they'd then go ahead and do it today, I'd guess because they figure that otherwise Gnome is whacking Lew tonight, and so they really need him to go down here.

To be clear, though, while I think this theory is disturbingly plausible, I'm nowhere near convincing even myself that it's really the most likely scenario.

Which is why I'm still keen to hear what others think about it.

[Winston Hughes]

Good morning fellow space citizens!

Page 1 - It looks like there's a wolf in csargo/rask. Dolby feels good. Borg guts town for fake derping.
Page 2 - I guess both wolves and towns posted on the page, but nothing decisive.
Page 3 - Lewwyn's choice of posts to respond to is noteworthy, but too light to be alignment indicative. Csargo being more active than usual is mildly unsettling.

Overall, not much to talk about yet. HK and Csargo could be waffles together, if Rask town, but that's a nasty association I got here. HK's approach to this game feels slightly diferent than the last time, but my alignment was different back then and It was easy to see towniness in his posts.
Rask feels really hyped for this game despite claiming light disappointment about his role. I haven't decided if it's a good look yet.
C4 posted enough for me to notice them, but that's all I can say about their posts with certainty.
Tim not flooding the gates with posts probably should be a villa lean, but it would be a meh meta lean.

Villa leans: Dolby, Borg
Scum potential: Rask, Csargo, HK

Confidence says scumzelda tucks scumLewwyn and Tim in the indeterminate zone to avoid the dangers of both association and chop momentum.

Paranoia says zelda is too careful to place both scumbuddies in the same start-of-the-last-line position when formatting those paragraphs.

[Winston Hughes]

As it stands, I wouldn't chop either pzelda or Lewwyn today.

[Winston Hughes]

If Gnome is chopped and flips town, the theory would look less plausible.

If Gnome is chopped and flips SK, the theory would look more plausible.

If Gnome is chopped and flips scum, Lewwyn is definitely not scum and zelda probably isn't.

[Winston Hughes]

We need an alternative to Gnome, though.

Due diligence and all.

[Winston Hughes]

Lewwyn's posting style is so townie.

If he's scum, it's been a work of art.

The fact I'm still entertaining the idea of him being scum is a mark of the highest respect.

[Winston Hughes]

Ibn-Khaldun's iso looks better than I expected.

There's very little to work with, but what there is seems natural and lacking in any perceptible agenda other than finding scum.

[hollowkatt]

Confidence says scumzelda tucks scumLewwyn and Tim in the indeterminate zone to avoid the dangers of both association and chop momentum.

Paranoia says zelda is too careful to place both scumbuddies in the same start-of-the-last-line position when formatting those paragraphs.

The last time I was a wolf my only reads list contained all town and all my buddies were in the "everyone else can be POE" pile. It cost town the game b/c they assumed I ruled of 3 them.

[Winston Hughes]

Panda could be anything, but less likely scum than town or sk.

On iso, the impression is of someone feeling their way into the game.

With Tim as scumbuddy, I feel like panda would have been a bit more confident.

[Winston Hughes]

The last time I was a wolf my only reads list contained all town and all my buddies were in the "everyone else can be POE" pile. It cost town the game b/c they assumed I ruled of 3 them.

What is the rule of three, btw?

I heard of it before and assumed it was some kind of pseudo-scientific bollocks like wagonomics, but never bothered to learn what it actually means.

[Winston Hughes]

nanook's doing a new type of twtbw i've not seen before

posting nothing of significance whilst giving clear signals of total self-awareness

i can't call this necessarily townie, but i have to respect the purity inherent in the effort