~Sorry, I was busy, late fridays and weekends are busy days for me cause girlfriend reasons :v
Pls also explain town hunting shenaningas
It's unusual, to be sure, but it's basically working out who
isn't scum as a supplement to typical play. Since our game runs team sizes roughly half-and-half, it could be useful, though not
nearly as much as a complicated setup with role abilities. The glaring downside to pure-conjecture town-hunting is how prone it could be to WIFOM (the wine-in-front-of-me argument, which can best be explained here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_eZmEiyTo0). Some examples of this certainly includes my town-leaning read on roo, which could go either of three ways:
- roo is scum and actually did neglect to read up on how his scum team worked, which would be embarrassing and unlikely, but possible
- roo is town and didn't read the OP, which is somewhat more acceptable and the likeliest outcome
- roo is clever scum and planted the mistaken answer knowing fully well that he was incorrect and hoping someone would pick up on that (which would be super-cool, but I seriously doubt it)
...and why I haven't approached
origamiscienceguy (who has stayed out of our spat) about what he felt about being implicated as scum through you, or why he's quiet about it. Either:
- origamiscienceguy is scum and wisely stayed out of it so he wouldn't appear to be jumping to your aid, or
- origamiscienceguy is town and has absolutely no reason to jump to your aid.
Obviously I wouldn't use my town-leaning read on roo as any sort of argument for or against him being scum (because that's WIFOM), but for the purpose of a reads list it was worth mentioning. It's too weak to scratch him off my scumlist, though, so I can't exactly call this town-hunting. Now, if roo had done something similar again, it would cement the read further and I would be more sure, but just by explaining this in painstaking detail, I may have just given the scumteam ideas and spoiled this meta altogether (at least for now).