As a question Imp, which is more likely to be scum. EP, Crystal, Toony, or Jack?
If one isn't scummy to you, please give an explanation as to why?
Sure. Full reads, which include those 4.
EP: Solid pro-town play. Reasonable thinking and responses, especially D2 on. Not one single response or choice made past D2 that looks anti-town to me in the slightest. I will be carefully rereading D1 play for everyone before D3 ends, unless it ends really early.
CM: Pretty solid CM-typical play. Not obviously anti-town. A bit questionable, I don't always 'get' CM's reasons even when CM is doing their best for town and highly active. But believably town CM here.
Toony: I hardly know what to say. Not obviously anti-town. Most of my deep concerns about Toons are actually reflections of my concerns about NJW, which don't exist unless NJW is anti-town teamed with Toons. I'd love to go back to saying 'Toons is town'. He's my most emotionally-biased-towards player in play. Extremely reasonable mechanical play, could be pro-town. I know he's busy in the other chats too, and while I have concerns reading his in-thread posts (mostly because 'egads, but NJW....') however reading the shared private chats, that's town-Toony to me. Would like more scumhunting, but I suspect Toons has the hardest and most stressful situation in the game, and isn't even getting the 'Imp and Toons know Imp and Toons are both town' support from me I really, really wish I could give him, oh that hurts. So Toons gets some slack, and I count my bias about wanting him alive as long as reasonable.
EJ: Interesting. Has a strong survival focus
and threatens harm to town if harmed, probably knowingly. Could be a EJ-tell for all I know. Going meta, this looks more like town EJ than SK-with-optional-town-wincon (Who really hurt town that game!!!!) but not really a close match to either. However, my huge red flags about anti-town focus are down; this is a EJ that is showing a drive to have an 'enjoyable-to-EJ' feud with Toons as his top priority. I'm not used to seeing this. I don't know how to read it. I didn't see
this in the Town-EJ game I was in, but I know my own play is probably more strongly affected by 'what is my role, what can I do now and in the future' than anything else that might affect me, so I try to lean towards that reasoning for EJ; FBYOR EJ D1 couldn't lord power over Toons; EJ D2+ in this game oh boy can, and loves it... subtle, but threaten it and EJ is
intense and guarding it. Looks like town poo, but could be scum hiding behind a reasonable pile of town poo. But what about that scumhunting? Where is it?
Tric: Huh. Very protective of NJW, and probably not a anti-town partner of NJW, given the flips we've seen (Low chance, not no chance). Has a known day ability, and I'm suspicious of a day-acting potential gain of Max's apparently missing
Sketch #2. The claim of no abilities to use (Except airsoft now) seems... surprising. Still, it's D3, we'd potentially have had 6 elims by now, plus any night kills. Maybe unlike me, GOAT JOAT, who asked for entire continents of fluff, maybe Tric asked for a barrel of whoop-rear and got that and only that, and 'mission accomplished' so... dunno. Like how you scumhunt though. You care and are trying, and that's towards town Tric.
NJW: Either town MVP or playing the long con super well as of D3. I have no meta of NJW, especially not with a role like this one, which surely is not a normal role. If I die at night I think we should look into 'how did NJW allow this?' otherwise... let the games continue, and I hope NJW is pro-town (which means town or can win with, I call town 'pro-town' too).
FoU: Can of worms. Something's wrong here. They're getting used very heavily, or they're scum. I like them, I like the mechanical outcomes I know for sure came from them, and that means nothing. NJW, I have reason to believe chose to target me N2. N1, FoU benefited me greatly in more than one way - it's random, and revealing it was me that was helped, might help scum. Scary stuff. Very scary stuff, that I can read as innocent NAI or coordinated and clearly working with MS D2 to find that dup target - based on the
absence of that Sketch #2.