Don’t be hard in Tric, for some reason people have a tendency to assume people on male on the internet. I actually got super embarrassed one time because I had called someone a dude but they were a girl and everybody knew that but me. Super embarrassing
This has come up in every game that I've played with Tric in the past year. Misgendering a person over and over and over and over is a form of sex-based harassment. It's easy to say "it doesn't matter" when you aren't the target.
Let's think about the setup for a moment:
The cult leader has an incentive to have strong players that aren't themselves "checked" (hammered) and "cleared."
The game will be a lot easier for them once they have an ally, and ADDITIONALLY there is a lot of WIFOM potential in recruiting a person who wasn't cleared.
Town has some incentive to "clear" strong players D1, but not as powerful an incentive as they do hunting to stop Cult. In this game, clearing is most valuable if there's a behavioral guarantee the next day that the alignment hasn't changed. Thus clearing a strong player is perhaps more dangerous to town than clearing a weaker one.
Similarly, strong players who know they're town will want to townhunt in the weaker players D1 and have one of the two other strong players "cleared" if they can't give good enough behavioral analysis to actually catch scum. This will probably result in a 3-way gridlock in terms of good D1 picks between me, Webby, and ... Roden?
What would I do if I were cult leader? Well, I'd want to guarantee that attention goes somewhere else. There's little cost to me to confirming someone unreadable, is there? So my D1 priority should be clearing someone whose alignment changes can't be read.
I'd want to hold onto two juicy picks for later... and maybe I'd pretend that I wanted to be recruited.
Since there's only one bad guy right now, I don't think there's much we can do to solve. [...] So, I think unless we can meta someone as the bad guy, the votes today should go to one of Web/Vector/myself. I don't mind being the first elim, but if it isn't me then I'd prefer Vector. I'd only vote Web if I was confident that he's the Cult Leader, as it would be extremely dangerous for town to miselim him and make him a recruit target otherwise.
Roden, today is our best chance to end the game with one vote. If cult recruits, then there's at least a day of lead time before we get another opportunity like this. You should be working extra hard to hunt today instead of being wishy-washy: letting others scumhunt for you and saying we can't solve because there's only one target.
If nothing else, you should be working harder to produce data we can use tomorrow.
Webadict, you've made a mistake, which is as follows:
Personally, checking me results in my hoping that I get Culted.
This doesn't make sense because being checked, if you are town, doesn't make you less likely to win the game as town. The most that any townie can do to you is verify your identity again. Don't you think?
Personally, Knightwing and Euchre already look Town, so I've removed them for now. TricMagic looks a little suspicious, but I'll take Euchre's word on them, if they say they're clear (which wouldn't particularly surprise me.) Roden looks a medium suspicious, and I don't really think I can explain why. Something feels off about the way they're phrasing things, that feels inceptive. Also, they've appeared to already cleared Euchre, Knight, and Tric before they've asked me to do so, but that also puts more faith in me than should be deserved, as I'm the hardest to read.
Webby, Roden left Tric to you and you're leaving Tric to Euchre... so which is it?
Dig deeper into the underlined sentence, please. You and I both know that you know how to hunt and this isn't townhunting.
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