Having done a look through a thread again, there's something else that bugs me.
As others stated, I'd really like to see some more activity from Roden.
His only posts so far leave me a little.. unsure?
This might be a bit of a stretch, but tossing my thoughts out there.
Hmm...TricMagic
I agree with Blu that we shouldn't come to a consensus on the Vig target if one exists. Web usually gives scum abilities that counter mass PR claims and action organizing.
This by itself is fine, but I haven't seen Roden poke Tric.. at all. For the first person on that wagon, all he does is..
Got a reason for that Roden?
Your Jack vote felt safe, like you were aiming for someone who's reaction would be the most predictable. Do you find him suspicious?
Explain himself. Which, alright, but no shots back?
His next post;
Maybe it would be a good idea for the newer players to put some votes down so that we can get an idea of where their heads are at.
This, adding to his last post;
Game state is pretty dead, it feels like a lot of people are too apprehensive to make a serious push somewhere. I'm hoping Oliver shows up soon and makes an impact.
Also I'm not trying to mechanically solve because that just isn't a good idea today. Day 2 claims will likely help us lock down scum since we'll have more information to work with.
Makes me feels like he's avoiding too much towntalk.
I wanna see more activity - complaining about a dead game doesn't fix it. Participating in it does. I don't particularly see a reason why you wouldn't want to add to the discussion.
I kind of feel this.
Roden has also been sitting on the TricMagic vote without further material, refinement, or elaboration and I think that's contributing to the feeling of low engagement I get from him.
ultra instinct TricMagic
I don't think I've ever seen this out of TricMagic before and I'm not sure what to make of it.
I think TricMagic generally gets underestimated so I could see him doing something like this as scum but this doesn't feel like scum TricMagic to me.
Yeah TricMagic is making the boldest statements in the game so far. I don't see him being scum here, especially compared to my cult game where he very tactically avoided drawing attention to himself.
The issue is thus, Jack hasn't actually put himself out there, given reads and hard questions to those he's voting. It's not pressure if you don't ask pointed questions to the one you are voting for, when they don't have any votes on them at the moment. And as Jim noticed, no nonsense, just mechanical advice. Helpful to newbies, but uh... That doesn't help us to give a read on you more directly, hence why I had to use a post with mechanical advice in the first place for this argument, it's the only possible slipup you've made, whether you are town or scum. Which is itself odd.
I'm finding your argument against EuchreJack difficult to track. I'll reread the thread tomorrow but if you could help me out in seeing your point that would help.
That said, either Roden of Blue is scumteamed with you. So I'd be fine voting either.
What about these two make you think they're teamed up with EuchreJack?
@Blue: Responding as best as I can to this post (because the formatting seems hard to just respond by quoting), isn't is possible that Tric is frustrated because he got an ability with some horrible downside, or that Tric might be a Night 1 vigilante and frantically trying to figure out who to shoot?
Fucking what
I really want to know how you came around to thinking this was even a possibility but I'm used to seeing complete nonsense coming from you and trying to get a satisfactory explanation out of you has been so difficult in the past that whenever I see you post nonsense I just let it go and chalk it up to normal EuchreJack nonsense because it's not worth it to pick at you every time you don't make sense since I'd be spending the entire game asking you questions about pretty much every single post you make.
But gosh does this sure feel like on-brand EuchreJack flavor.
While I agree that Cop and Doc, if they exist, should shut the fuck up, perhaps there are roles are ok to discuss?
Off the top of my head, I'll add Roleblocker, Jailkeeper, and Bulletproof to that list of DO NOT DISCUSS.
Tric's already hinted at Inventor, and the word Vigilante has been batted around. Who do you think should get the Inventor's stuff, if one exists? Who should the Vigilante shoot, if one exists?
Honestly I don't think discussing roles during Day 1 is really all that big of a deal. Scum have to claim and/or fakeclaim on Day 1 and have to live with what they claim, and then the scumteam has to navigate the night game knowing what all the claimed town roles are and also the anxiety about whether there's some secret trump card the town hasn't claimed that's going to screw them over.
If the setup were less role heavy I'd agree.
BluarianKnight: Seems townie, but too good at playing scum. Plus, it has been a while since I've been in a game with Blue, so I'm a bit rusty at reading them.
too good at playing scum.
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Here's where I'm at:
BluarianKnight - lean slightly town
EuchreJack - lean town due to on-brand EuchreJack nonsense
Knightwing64 - lean town due to effort
Lidku - town from previous read about being completely lost about the game type
Maximum Spin - kind of quiet; hasn't voted anybody yet
Oliverz144 - a complete mystery and not making it easy to figure him out
Roden - less quiet than Maximum Spin but has been sitting on the TricMagic vote
TricMagic - town due to making the strongest statements regarding players in the game so far.
By how I've enumerated my reads my vote should go somewhere between Maximum Spin, Roden, and Oliverz144, but
Roden squatting on the TricMagic vote is giving me the most misgivings so he gets the vote here.
Roden, how are your reads shaping up going into the final stretch of Day 1? Is TricMagic the player you want to lynch today?