Our next post is both JeXs and Levi.
First is Leviathan, which is where our vote has been sitting since we left the Protean- wagon.
Leviathan has two REAL stances. Look over the rest of the game, and your takeaway will be those two stances. His push on a Protean scumread, and his CONSTANT insinuation that Dabuz must be scum.
Now, we have no
real issue with the Protean push. Maybe a little opportunistic, but honestly, no way to verify that without a scumflip, so let's just disregard that. The Protean push is okay. The comment about the timing of Protean's vote is legitimate, and a major part of what swayed Raz when we agreed to push Protean. That said, we still take an issue with his comment about mud-slinging, being a very weak and reachy point. However, that is not the meat of this case.
Our major issue lies with the DABUZ push, and the way the slot insinuates a relationship between Dabuz and Protean that there is absolutely no evidence of. Look at his Dabuz push. Read through the thread. If you can find ONE valid reason for him to be voting there, or constantly re-iterating how the slot needs to die, then please share it with us, because we must have missed it. There is just
nothing substantial here. No real reason for him to
be there. Except to bring pressure to a slot that has done nothing to deserve it, and to avoid committing to anything meaningful.
Now, look at this quote.
I think Protean is scum. I think if he is green, then Bunzy is most definitely scum. There is almost nothing that will change my mind on this meaning their flip is what I need to progress my reads. Flips require votes.
That set-up is
DISGUSTING. It puts Dabuz as both a fall-back AND a follow-up to Protean. If the Protean lynch fizzles out (which it did), he can go BACK to Dabuz (which he did). And if he lynches a Town Protean, he can IMMEDIATELY point back and run to Dabuz. There is absolutely no basis for this "If TownProtean, then ScumDabuz" relationship to exist.
So there you have it. We really don't like his Dabuz push, and the way he associates it with Protean. Maybe I could deal with it if he had given me anything else of value to look at. However, once his push on Protean fizzled out, he simply moved to being inconsequential, rather than pushing like he did (and like I would expect him to continue).
Next is Jexs.
Holy mother of god, this slot is defensive. Look at his most recent AtE. Look at his early game. Look at pretty much ANY phase. He's extremely defensive, or he straight up ignores it. The latter's not a bad strategy, I've employed it before as Town. But, I don't buy that he completely missed the meaning of Bardull's post when he went into the Totoro discussion.
Now, don't get me wrong. This does yell of newscum. But it COULD be newTown. So let's look at what he's DONE with his time. All of his reads are shallow, which doesn't really help us read a new player. But also note WHEN they come. He only responds when prompted, and attempts to garner elaboration result in Jexytron3000 analysis of what happened, not what the situation means.
Past that, I don't like his opening, or his most recent contributions to the game. In the beginning, his reaction as a new player to Zen's nonsensical pressure was a
slight town read. That blows my mind. And most recently, while I don't doubt that there is some IRL pressure, he uses AtE to excuse himself from posting more content. That raises red flags. So TL;DR, this player flips most of the newscum switches and probably most telling is that his play is incredibly
reactionary. I believe @
#HBC | Amidamaru
pointed out that his play was missing some active searching from his mini-mafia performance. Neither of us were in there, and would like to see some elaboration from Zen, but from what we gathered, he was not this
passive in the previous game.
These are our two leading suspects, and I would absolutely
ADORE some discussion on these 6 reads from the 4 players on our Town list.