Meant to post this earlier, this is our reasoning behind the Hydra lynch, and us going through posts to see if this reasoning is legit; it is even now.
First off, it'd be good to explain why we felt DatHydra was town initially, and our thought process throughout the wagon.
It initially started with the Soupamario discussion between me and gheb. Me and rPSI's thoughts were that Soup was a detriment, and because of that he should be the play until proven otherwise (i.e. until someone who actually looked like a candidate for scum was to arise). A lot of players at this time were null-reads, whether due to inactivity, or due to only talking about game technicalities (smarboy and Gheb come to mind here).
I'm taking the time to re-read here to see if we feel the need to jump back on this wagon
And then,
this post comes into light, a legitimate comment towards scum hunting. This is good, and with nothing but null it leads DatHydra to look town.
Gheb begins to push DH only because he's skimming (for the most part) nothing more. RF joins in with no real reason (yet), and Soupamario joins as well (i still to this day think this is merely a sheep of Gheb).
Gheb here comments that his information was -not- null at all, and however was town in generating discussion. I'd like to disagree, only because game mechanics don't suddenly make a person come out as scummy, actual conversation does. Anyways, Gheb gives his reason for his vote on DH showing that his vote was a legitimate one. DH was skimming, calling his (gheb's) information worthless, and continuing on to attack Soup's points against him.
DH then comments that he strongly feels Soup is town, and that he wants his hard stances on whether Gheb is town and he is scum.
At this point, I feel that Soup no longer has a purpose in being talked to, at least not extensively. His reasonings are not 'scummy' apparently, and just conversing with him and no one else, would be dodging scum-hunting while looking active.
@ 159 - He commented that he doesn't want this back and forth conversation happening anymore, because it shuts out other players; this is a good point, and at this point he's still looking good actually.
Kuz towards Soup said:
Does that bother you? Do you think my wagon had enough substance to warrant more votes? Why are you so adverse to JTB attention?
If he still thinks Soup is town, what does this question mean to push?
His next post is more about Soup
Soup's protip of the day: When noobscum apologizes, their actions should be let go.
I am in no way calling JTB noobscum. Or maybe I am, I have completely forgotten by now.
This is him calling JTB out as potentially noob scum. Which arises the question again, If soup was town, why would he have a connection with scum? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Case in point. Lots of info to read, harder to jump in.
This post is on Hida now, he feels that Hida's opener actually proves his point, and isn't something to reach as scummy (at least for now)
......
did you just claim scum?
Probably a joke, because he didn't push this whatsoever, but more conversation on soup.
So let me get this straight. After Gheb and Falcon joined my wagon, the thought that went through your head was not "let me join too because I have an overwhelming scum read on kuz" but rather it was "if I join now, while others are bandwagoning, maybe people won't call me scum."
Yeah.
What does -any- of this matter if he's Town in his eyes? This still is the problem that's perplexing me

. He's completely dropped gheb, to an extent dropped JTB during this page, and is still only discussing back and forth on Soup
Nice quick edit.
1. You obviously have never been in RVS before.
2. You obviously don't know the history between Roxy and myself
3. Or maybe I am not voting you because I am not convinced you're scum yet. In fact, as I said before, i had a town read on you. But oh wait, I must have three ulterior motives for not voting you. Lets analyze why I am not voting you and then come to the conclusion that I have a PR.
No comment on my 'buddying' on him yet. Now at this point he says he 'had' a town read on Soup, that means he potentially feels Soup is scum at this point apparently. This gives what he's been saying before a good bit a merit (or does it? I dunno, at first he said he was town and that he shoudl relax on his posting, perhaps he was doing it to look good to soup? That's me reaching a bit is it? Let's look for more apparently things; let's continue.)
At this point GHeb comes in with a pair of aviators and an explosion behind his back and writes a huge blurb about a good deal of stuff, pushing an FoS in my direction. Dathydra agrees, saying
Agreed. Specially that part about him not finding Soup scummy, but still vehemently supporting his lynch. Regardless, you seem to have a pretty good list of valid reasoning for voting RoxPSI, yet your vote continues to remain on me. Am I still scummier than RoxyPSI, despite all that reasoning?
I'm copying this for later, because I remember something DH said that contradicted with this.
here it is, in his dialogue with Gheb
I never said I agreed with all your points, mostly the one about voting Soup despite thinking he is town, and just wanting to get him gone because of him being a detriment in lylo.
Am I reading this wrong? Or is he disagreeing with me voting Soup despite thinking he's town? I remember this bugged me before, because I felt "If all of those reasons are false in your eyes, why even FoS?"
His next post is contentless; no really, it's contentless and he admits it; null imo.
His next post shows that I felt he was tunneling on Soup, and he responds to my question about JTB, who is someone he thought was scummy. He said that was scummy still, and that while he had a strong defence, lacked input during the day; there are a lot of people who lacked input to the day, or at least lacked any form of scumhunting towards the day. Why didn't DH push into JTB this whole time instead of pushing towards Soup? Well, he did say that he 'had' that town read, so maybe he still thinks he's scum to an extent? We'll see..
I’m feeling a bit better about JTB. He hasn’t brought anything particularly new to the table, but he seems sincere in his post. I'll need to re-evaluate this later on, but I'm satisfied for now.
here he retracts his statement on JTB, the only person he had a scum read (openly on). At this point that'd leave that he indirectly is still unsure of Soup's alignment. His reasons for feeling better about JTB border along the lines of say, how I feel about Hida if you really think about it. He didn't like him because he had no input, and while he still had no input later in the day, he felt better about him because of his sincerity and dropped him. Only difference was I was okay because Hida was making an attempt of pinning scum, JTB was not.
Continuing on.
His vote remained on me, I saw that as pressure. My intent was not to push a Soup lynch, but to clear my name. When Soup unvoted us, we no longer pressured him.
This is the main problem. He only hounded Soup to clear his name, why would hounding soup do any justice when Gheb was the one with the main problem? His view of Soup was slowly dwindling into a lynch, however never was said as such, now that he admits that he still feels soup is town, it gives all of his conversation thus far no merit; he has not been scumhunting granted his constant conversing throughout the past few days.
I didn't vote Soup. You reading this game at all?
Soup's posts were obvtown, but they were also noobtown. He constantly attacked me with weak points, and so I argued them down aggressively. The intent was not to get a lynch on Soup, but to break down his argument.
With no vote from us, and consequently no tunneling your case falls flat
No, his case did NOT fall flat, you were on Soup all day, feeling that he was town, and never pulling away to actually scum hunt thus far.
Gheb posts this.
DatHydra, buddying is a bit of a vague term because we all kind of have our own definition on when it becomes "buddying". I don't feel like anybody has been buddying me; as for you I feel buddyish vibes coming from RoxPSI [answering questions pointed towards you before you did] and Tandora but that could be just my general impression of your social "my SWF husbando" interaction. More concerned with Rox based on that but my read on him depends a lot on your alignment so I can't really do much with it atm.
So DH's flip helps lead into me? Then why are you (at this moment) not pushing his lynch anymore? Doesn't that help give a read on me and is beneficial to town and scumhunting? You feel I'm buddying DH, however you don't even at this moment know if he's town. What if he's scum (which he is from my *roxy* point of view). Would a townie buddy someone who flips scum? That doesn't make sense, would scum buddy scum? That doesn't make sense either.
I was unsure if RoxPSI was simply agreeing with my points earlier, or buddying. It's not something to actively pursue at the moment I feel, but something to consider.
Shows uncertainty in if i'm buddying, but now that the seat's hot, it's suddenly "RoxPSI's buddying and is 100% scum" please.
At this point, he pulls away from everyone and hounds onto Hida, which is a good choice considering his flawed logic about RF's posts. There's nothing wrong with this fmpov.
After this, he (read: Kuz) is gone traveling and seikend is waiting on it, and so the wagon upon DH begins.
Everything from here on you can read and see quite easily, so i don't feel the need to reiterate it.
I still want to openly advocate pushing RR for activity, Glyph as well, but I feel our best lynch for today is still DH.
unvote
Vote : DatHydra
-Roxy
